Are You Actually Making Profit on Your Treatments? Why Your Treatment Timings Matter More Than You Think

You might be fully booked but are you actually making a profit? In this episode, I’m talking about something every beauty professional needs to understand your treatment timings and how they directly affect what you’re actually earning. It’s so easy for appointments to start running over. Making drinks, chatting, clients taking ages to choose colours or nail art, spending too long on prep, stopping to answer messages or simply not having a clear structure to your appointment. Those extra 10, 20 or 30 minutes soon add up and suddenly the treatment you thought was making you good money could actually be paying you less than minimum wage once your product costs, overheads and time are taken into account. I also talk about why this is so important for lash artists, particularly when it comes to 2-week and 3-week infills. If a client comes back with more regrowth or fewer lashes remaining, that appointment requires more work and more time and your pricing and booking times need to reflect that. We’ll cover how to work out whether your treatments are genuinely profitable, where you could be losing valuable time during appointments, how to improve your timings without rushing your clients, and why clear boundaries around appointment times and infills are essential for a profitable beauty business. Because being busy doesn’t necessarily mean you’re making money. If you’re a nail technician, lash artist, brow artist or beauty business owner, this episode will help you look at your diary very differently and make sure the hours you’re working are actually paying you properly. You can find me https://www.instagram.com/beauty_by_sophie_nottingham/ www.beautybysophie.uk