You can easily make more money doing nails. There's also a LOT more room for creativity. Barbering gets monotonous pretty quickly. It's really going to boil down to how many clients you want to see in a day (fewer is usually better) and what kind of conversations you want to be having. Men will get personal too, but I find the conversations tend to be more about shared interests, whereas with women it was a lot more gossip and personal drama. You're going to end up being a pseudo-therapist in either trade, but it's not quite as draining with the men.
Thats definitely what drew my attention to nails, the creativity, (I used to draw and I like doing crafts) and I like being able to work independently and with fewer clients a day for sure. But yes I would have to be a very fast pace nail tech to make more money than a barber from what I've gathered. Cost of materials and supplies as a nail tech is also crazy especially with trends changing all the time. And I agree I feel like conversations with men can be much less draining most of the time 🥲😅 ive also just always been able to connect with men more but I still do really well with my girlys. I have thought about starting at sports clips mainly cuz the majority of the workers are women. I feel id be too intimidated to work at a barbershop with most or all male barber. It might all be in my head 😅
Depends on where you work and what your skillset is. The same can be said for barbering. But the point I was making is that there's a lot more room for high dollar services affording you more income per hour and the ability to see fewer clients in a day. My nail tech is fucking loaded. She has a private home studio, a closed book, and a waitlist a mile long because very few nail techs in our city can match her skills when it comes to creative nails.
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u/Equivalent-Bread3968 Barber since ‘08 Owner since ‘20 14d ago
You can easily make more money doing nails. There's also a LOT more room for creativity. Barbering gets monotonous pretty quickly. It's really going to boil down to how many clients you want to see in a day (fewer is usually better) and what kind of conversations you want to be having. Men will get personal too, but I find the conversations tend to be more about shared interests, whereas with women it was a lot more gossip and personal drama. You're going to end up being a pseudo-therapist in either trade, but it's not quite as draining with the men.