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SALON LIFE

 Hi guys!! Welcome back! I hope you guys had a great week. If you’re in WI, I hope you loved that snow we got 🥲 So! This week we’re switching it up a little bit! We’re going from NY, back to WI ❤️ we’re going to talk about what where I don’t of my work & how I feel about it. ☺️ As much as I LOVE the fashion world, I’m not sure I could ever live in & fully do the NYC lifestyle. Like I mentioned previously, I work full time in a luxury salon & spa here in Milwaukee. I work 4-5 days a week, and offer services ranging from polish changes all the way to nail extensions, nail art, all the fun stuff.  I’ve been at my salon for four years now and it has been very nice. Nothing is perfect, obviously. But there are a lot of benefits of working at a salon rather than being independent. When I was in nail school, I kind of always thought I would just be independent and do my own thing right away, but that wasn’t the reality. God had a different plan for me and we just go with it.  Bei
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Reaching & Relationships

 Hii guys!! Welcome back, I hope you all had a great week! Getting right into it, this week we’re going to go off of a little of what we talked about last week. Last week I lightly mentioned starting to research & get more involved in fashion week. Sooo let’s get innn tooo ittt.  Once I realized that I loved the industry and that I wanted to be more involved I truly didn’t know where to start. I just took a step back and observed with different eyes to begin with. After I saw who people were working with and what other people were doing as far as collabs I started looking into brands that I would want to work with. Essentially, just went through the FW line ups and following everyone, starting to dm people. I knew that with the shows that I was doing already I worked very closely with the stylists- so I started looking into stylists as well. You just gotta dm everyone lol. You have to find the people of the people. You have to dm everyone, email everyone and really just put yoursel
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How did we get here?

Hi everyone! Welcome back to the blog. I hope you all had a great week and I hope you’re enjoying the start of this journey. So, this week we are going to talk about how we got to NY. There is so much fun content to share from my time in NY so I want to start you guys off with how we even got there in the first place.  It’s kind of crazy and surreal actually. This was my first year where I could actually take a step back & acknowledge with myself where I was and that it was my hard work  that got me there. When I first started doing nails I met a woman from Milwaukee who was a fashion designer- Elena Velez. I met her in April 2021 and she was debuting at fashion week that following September. When we were talking she asked me if I had ever been to fashion week and if I ever wanted to go. I didn’t know if this lady was just delusional or if people actually could just “go to fashion week”. She then asked if I wanted to work on her show with her and do nails and I was like I mean duh…
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Who is she?

 Hiii everyone! Welcome to my  blog ❤️ This is going to be a space where I bring you into my world: salon life, family, fashion weeks, campaigns, projects, any and all things you’re interested in.  So, for starters, who am I? Well! It’s so nice to officially meet you, my name is Emily. I’m a 25 year old nail designer, and I’ve been in the industry for 4 years now! I work full time at a luxury salon & spa in Milwaukee, WI but also do a lot of work out in NY in the fashion world. So much has happened in these last four years and there is still so much to come. So welcome, thank you for coming with me along on this ride! I can’t wait to share all of the fun with you ☺️  HOW DID I GET INTO NAILS?  I get this question so much haha. Fun fact: I actually was in college for criminal justice for a few years before I decided to go into the beauty industry. I have alllways loved doing nails. I had this giant pink leopard print tote bag filled to the max with nail polishes when I was younger.
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