A Student's Study-Log @PinkRoom : Product Intro Lesson @ Pink Room

These few personal blog posting of our student on her study-log at PinkRoom, is towards the end of her Diploma Course with us.. 

Talks about her future plans & also the last few free-topics that'll prepare her for the "world-out-there"...Talks about her future plans & also the last few free-topics that'll prepare her for the "world-out-there"...

I thought her blog post about her experiences at PinkRoom Nail Academy to contain no fake nice words; i found it very personal & real... with her ups & downs... 
I hope to have you all see PinkRoom truthfully through the eyes of our students instead.
I stumbled upon her blog-posts just last month & had a good time laughing & reading her be-lated posts. I am sure you'll also have an interesting time reading.For me, it's comments & posts like these that makes every heartaches & hardships of educating raw-zero knowledge gals to become professional nailist, just the bit-bit more worth it... ENJOY!!

 Cheerios~ Ms Rachel.T  

taken from PRINA.nailist Mayuko May Tay's Blog on her study experience @PinkRoom:

28 September, 2010

Product Intro Lesson @ Pink Room

Normally after this lesson, it is the end of the whole Nail Technology course and all of us probably wouldn't see each other(classmate) again unless in between there are some modules that we miss out then we got to come back for the make-up class.

I'll let the picture do the talking now :)
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Enjoy

I'll surely miss you girls,
hope to see you all again when I come back for my self-study ya.

Kawaii Doggies with Gel-TopCoats

Oki gals.. you can see the big difference between applying a layer of gel-topcoat & without. The thing with getting the best lasting effects from applying gel-topcoats is choosing the correct brand so that your nailart doesn't end up turning yellow after some time.. or even worst, cracked!!

OMG... I had so many bad experiences with some brands, makes me want to cry after seeing the ruins on the nail art designs, coz all nail arts done are precious efforts.. imagine seeing their "faces" crack is quite traumatic... ( *haha.. ok lah..i drama-queen again..lol..! )

Btw I'm using ANGEL-PRO's SHINING TOP GEL for these two cuties-canines..*product sponsored hehe..but so far so good; no cracks or color smudges on any of my nail art!.

AngelPro SOAK-OFF GELS..stays & stays....

OMG.. was going through my face-book and stumbled upon this photo tag. It was an experiment that I was trying on Chelxi's natural nails. At that time, many students had problems with the AngelPro's soak-off gel staying on their nails, i was trying to trouble-shoot the problem.
After consultation with the manufacture, I got the students to do full 1 minute cure for their first layer gel application. I found out that everyone was freeze-curing for only 10-15 seconds, thus the lifting problem. Actually, this freeze cure is common practice with traditional non-soak off gels, but the same should not be used for an organic soak-off gel.. 

Anyway, I did the marble-design with full cure of 1-2minutes for the 1st layer..and woa-lah! Super lasting soak-off-color gels onto natural nails! There is no lifting on the edges around the soak-off gel too! I was impressed! But we were also quite grossed out too lah...coz the gels are super ugly with so much of the real nails showing underneath. Anyway, we soaked them off in less than 20 minutes in pure acetone. Cool!

these are her  nails after soaking off the color gels. no damage to the real natural nails, although it looks abit dry without any cuticle oil.

More Kawaii Doggy Nails

More kawaii doggy nailart. I had not put top-coats on them yet... I think the effect would be cuter after the gel-top coats. Would post the after top-coat versions so you gals can make a comparison.

As you can see, it had been really hot last week and I was trying to hide from the sun again at Matsuzakaya Department Store. Can you see poor Kapuchiinousa (カプチーノうさ) next to the huge Pink Sakura Panda? haha..

The huge SAKURA PANDA in front of Matsuzakaya Department store is an advertising character of Matsuzakaya department store. Last year 2009, the huge sakura panda was sitting down.

xoxo,RachelT~ in Tokyo!

Updates on PinkRoom.Alumni.Nail.Classes

Kawaii Doggies NailArt in Tokyo! Some doggy nailart upgrades I did in my hotel while escaping the terrible sun in tokyo last week. The heat is really terrible(x10000).. Anyway, the doggy had more details than the last & she's wearing a polka-dot pink t-shirt this time round.. dear Kapuchiinousa  (カプチーノうさ) is posing next to it as usual...Wahaha! ^.^

Updates on the PinkRoom.Alumni.Nail.Classes: 

The KL Nail Show is finally over, we should be hearing from the nail product suppliers this week. Thus, all information on the cost of the classes to be posted by beginning next week.
Special concessions for PRINA students. 

I plan to have the first PinkRoom.Alumni.Nail.Class would start running in Oct 2001.

A summary of what you can expect from the PinkRoom.Alumni.Nail.Classes:  

1. All Classes would be conducted primary by Miss Rachel.T.
We would also be honored to have our PRINA Grand Master Educator Joe Chua for some of the classes.
Guest-Trainers from different parts of the world would be invited to "guest-teach" once a while too. Local Nailist would also be invited to do guest-appearance or demos in the plan to support & promote local nail talents.

2. The PinkRoom.Alumni.Nail.Classes would be held once a month, maximum twice a month.

3. Topics includes all types of Nail Arts like - Acrylic Embossed 3D, Kawaii Characters nailart, Folkart/tole painting, Design Sculpture, Airbrush Designs, Color-Gel nailart, Mixed Media nailart designs, etc. just to state a few topics.

4. The main topic to be taught for each class would be posted in advance on our official internet media. *Topics taught would not be repeated for the next 6-8 classes, thus you would need to wait for the next round if you had unfortunately missed the topics you liked.

5. Each PinkRoom.Alumni.Nail.Class would include demonstration of the advance techniques by the Master Trainer. It would also include hands-on sessions where each participants can work on the designs taught alongside the corrections given by the Master Trainer.

6. Only the nail products brand endorsed by our sponsor nail supplier would be allowed to be used during each class. [Full product list to be posted once we get it from the sponsors. Tentatively safe to say that Charisma would be one of the brands they agreed to allow..hehe]
*Imitation versions of the brands are not allowed; mainly because all imitations contains toxic cancer-causing chemicals and I dun want to have cancer..haha!

7. All available  seats are based on a first-come basis registration. Class size would be limited to the venue we are conducting the teaching.

Keep yourself posted here for the latest updates. If you do would like more conveniences in getting updates, adding yourself to our FACE BOOK account would do. Click here to access yourself to our FACEBOOK page (click on the "LIKE" button): The PinkRoom Int'l Nail Academy [PRINA]

PRINA.Gals job experience with a Nail Supplier at the KL Nail Show!

all photos taken from eugenia's facebook album

Students' on-job-experience in Malaysia at The Nail Depot Booth.. The Nail Supplier had only praises for both of our PRINA gals who helped them at their booth, they said that they were very friendly & hard-working. They can now perform "live" demos to any customers that walks-in to the booth.. Yipee! An ultra confidence-booster for both Eugenia Nia & Lici Yang! ^.~

 

Lici Yang Comments from fb: omg..so malu! hahaha! but it was a nice experience to work with them. boost our confidence and also improved our skills, and also able to see all kind of ppl and nails. haha. :)

An Inspiration for aspiring NAILS entrepreneurs

Welcome to my shop in a shop MY PAPER - Mon, Jun 21, 2010 

I've been wanting to post about this since I saw it on the MY PAPER in June...hehe..
our PRINA-Gal - Sylvia Tan (SIN09-xx3C) had been featured on our local newspaper about her business venture into nails. But I had been so caught up by a whirl-wind of stuff that I forgot to post... Until she tweeted me a congratulation message on my Successful Entrepreneur Award 2010.

Yeap... I got an award and itz cool that I am congratulated on it... but it is all the more meaningful that the well-wisher is from another successful PRINA-Gal. I wanted to blog about the article as it reflects many of my other students experiences too. I hope to encourage each and everyone of you that it is possible to fulfill your dreams! Like I always share in classes, it is not necessary to rent a full shop as a salon on your first attempt; you can slowly work your way up from doing freelance or home-service or renting a space within another shop..

I know fully that the road taken by her was not easy, especially doing something that is totally outside the "normal" career-path. I understand the many doubts that would always arises during down-times, the courage needed to keep on going. I truly hoped that when looking back now, everything would be worth it for you.
I would also like to say the same for all you aspiring NAILS entrepreneurs! It is not an easy path if you decided to troth it, but it totally beats wondering the many "what ifs" for the rest of your life.

http://business.asiaone.com/Business/News/SME%2BCentral/Story/A1Story20100621-223153.html