do you all have any standards. I am making new rules and going to hand them to each client and have them initial one that I will keep. If my clients don't come in but every 8 weeks I won't have a business! I really haven't had this happen before. She wanted me to just evaluate how many lashes she has. I don't want to do the counting/charging thing. I don't have the patients for that! My prices are cheap 2 weeks/$20 and 3 weeks/$50 I think I am going to say after 5 weeks $100 since I don't see many of my clients being able to go over that 5 without losing over 50% of their lashes.

What do you all think????

Check out my webpage to see the wording, you are welcome to use it if you like on printed material or if you have your own website. I also go over this with clients when I show them how to care for their lashes.

Sometime if a client is sick or has a family emergency and I know she is not trying to sc--w me; I will do a fill; but I spend an extra 30 minutes and charge $90. Then have them come in again in two weeks for a catch up fill...then back to the three week schedule.

Let's put it this way: you want the clients who value you; give the energy vampires the boot! Who needs them, make room for the good girls. :-)

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Marcia W.
Marcia Walden Studio
www.MarciaWaldenSkinCare.com

I give all my new clients my scheduling fees at their first appt, I also have it posted in my lobby.

Scroll down a bit to see my fees:
http://www.skincarebykarol.com/eyelash_ext.php

Does the time you specify for the appointment include taping up, discussing any problems or changes and taking off any lashes that need it, or is that just the amount of time you spend actually adding lashes?

It includes all of it.
Assessing the damage, cleaning, taping up, removing, reapplying, drying.

I move fairly quickly and my clients know that they need to show up on time and be clean, and if they have to go get clean....then that cuts into their lashing time.

It's all about time...they are paying for my time & services.

It took me a few years to be able to get to this point where I can get clients in and out quickly. I also think that working with the faster drying adhesive helps out quite a bit.
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skincarebykarol com

How much time do you allocate for a fill?

Thanks

2 week fills are 45min (I block 1 hour in my appt book)
3 week fills are 1 hr (I block out 1.5 hrs)
4 week fills are 1.5hr (I block out same time cuz I'm pretty fast or I use my ejector button as Marcia states - ha!).

Thanks Marcia for the compliments!