Beauty Biz Bffs

A short episode to honor George Floyd, speak up and express our thoughts about the protests, riots and looting that have caused damage to people’s hearts and property We don’t pretend to understand it all but we stand with everyone who wants change and growth and are here to support our community and anyone suffering.

In this episode, we discuss how we let our passion guide us and why you should too. Moreover, we break down the idea of hiring out and how it helped us focus on doing what we love and, ultimately, grow our businesses.

Tune in to this episode to discover how following your passion and hiring out can scale up your business.

Resources

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Episode Highlights

The Latest with Kasey & Glow Skincare

• Kasey is the founder of Glow Skincare, a skincare studio turned virtual studio.
• Kasey is rebranding her facial towel to Glow Towels.
• She put a subscription on her Glow Towels because it is common for some towels to get ripped or stained.

Lorena’s Fun & Creative Lifestyle Brand

• Lorena is the creator of Dear Lash + Love, a shop for beauty industry tees.
• From being just t-shirts, her products evolved into a lifestyle brand.
• For her monthly subscription, she sends graphics for social media use, which she loves making for fun.
• Lorena envisions people to get creative and have fun with her products.

Keeping Things Homegrown

• Our content is homegrown, like how we really are.
• We use professional photos for our websites and the like, but we want to stay true to being budget-friendly girls, not photo shoot chicks, when posting content.
• Instead of having glamorous shots, we prefer keeping things real.
• We define ourselves as estheticians first before businesswomen.

Going Back to Your Roots

• People are getting out of touch with who they really are and how they want to make money.
• If you’re struggling with laying out what you want to do, make a list of what you love doing.
• Things might not work out well if it’s forced on you or if there’s no “why” in what you’re doing.
• It is best to niche down and focus on a few things instead of spreading yourself too thin over different directions.

Building Content

• We plan our content to ensure consistency and authenticity.
• Making a schedule and keeping things simple help when you’re just starting out.
• We eventually got the hang of it and developed more c

On today’s episode we answer some listener questions, talk about break ups in business and why it’s healthy to feel sad and even healthier to move on. We discuss making small changes in your business and why you sometimes have to do things for work in order to grow and network that don’t seem beneficial now but will pay off later.

On today’s episode Kasey and Lorena talk about their most recent photo shoot and how they hired Glamsquad to do their hair and makeup which gave me them more time to work and also network with the employees. They discuss cutting hours, how to know when you can and how you can make up your income in other ways. From selling retail to taking education courses, they dive into several topics that are helpful for anyone in the Beauty Industry. If you love this episode, rate, review and subscribe!

Today we get into a hot topic of : “To pay rent or not to pay rent” , what’s the right choice and how do you decide what to do? We get into ways we’re noticing the industry coming together, bonding over a commonality and things we’re doing to stay motivated !