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: Anything you want to know? JUST ASK HERE! : You will never find a more knowledgeable group of people willing to : help you promptly and freely. : Take a LONG evening off and read every last post in the forum : archives. You will be amazed at what's back there that will help you! : In the US henna outside of the most expensive cities is something like : $35 an hour, or $1 an inch. Put your prices at something comparable : to a good nail parlor job. : Small shop secrets? : Great henna music at all times! (Some people here are absolute : specialists in wonderful world beat music ... I'm not one of them, : but I'm sure people can make suggestions) Music cheers you up when : you're down, and adds to the enthusiasm and joy level. : One or two excellent lights at your henna table are essential. : Some comfy couch things where people can rest as they look through : your pattern books, and where they can blow-dry their hands.....in : darkish or greenish colors, because you never know when there will be : a henna splat. : Your henna table should be very firm, not prone to bumping. Check out : the tables beauticians have for doing nails. They're very well set : up! All their supplies are at hand and in order.....clean and : perfect. : You'll need a pleasant little rug and comfy chair....you may need to : sit on the floor while people sit in a chair to do legs and feet. : You'll need a futon-bed like thing for people to lie down for tummies : and backs. : There should be a second privacy room where you can do backs, tummies : and such in privacy. If you're doing really private parts, you should : have an assistant there for the legal issue of potential "he said, she : said". : Make everything, and yourself, in your studio very, very beautiful, : inviting, and pleasurable. : Keep everything squeeky clean at all times. People are used to the : cleanliness of beauty parlors, and they will judge you on that : standard. Be professional and cheerful at all times. Always be : beautiful. Always be hennaed! : You'll need mirrors to show people hard-to see hennaes. If you get : inespensive mirrors and wedge tiny bits of cardboard behind them just : the right way, the mirror will flex and everyone will look 10 pounds : thinner. You wouldn't believe what that does for sales (oooh, I look : so beautiful all of a sudden....."Vanity, my favorite sin!") : Find a library with big glossy books with miniature paintings from : Mughal and Rajput India, and make enlarged color copies of : the paintings with ladies with hennaed hands. Frame them. : Don't start up your studio until you have an absolutely reliable : source of henna. Never use any product that will hurt people! Never, : never, never use PPD black henna!!!!!!!!!!!! You and your shop and : everything you ever hoped to own will go up in a puff of pain and : suffering lawsuits if you go the black henna route! : I wouldn't advise starting up a studio without 3-4 years experience : hennaeing people regularly, so that you're run into and dealtwith the : variabilities and suprises that henna can throw at you. : Have at least 20 books of patterns from all over the world. Be able : to freehand every last one of them. I can help you with patterns. : Free. Just email me. : You say you've done business before; so you don't need the business : rant. Model your business on a very nice nail parlor. Good luck!

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