Manis for Smiles is a web-based academic platform that gives a membership-based expertise with programs and assets for nail strategies in each English and Spanish. Along with the programs already included on the platform, we add new courses and masterclasses every month, that includes particular friends. We even have a neighborhood chat for members, month-to-month giveaways and group Zoom classes to offer steering and reply all business-related questions within the nail trade.
Objects Wanted:
Manis for Smiles is a web-based academic platform that gives a membership-based expertise with programs and assets for nail strategies in each English and Spanish. Along with the programs already included on the platform, we add new courses and masterclasses every month, that includes particular friends. We even have a neighborhood chat for members, month-to-month giveaways and group Zoom classes to offer steering and reply all business-related questions within the nail trade.
The Mission of Manis for Smiles
For me, doing nails is greater than only a job; it carries a function. Listening to, loving and caring for every consumer touched my coronary heart in some ways. It was not nearly being profitable or having a ‘profitable’ enterprise, however about leaving a long-lasting affect on my shoppers’ lives.
Over time, I bought concerned in training and have become obsessed with instructing different nail techs how one can use their career for a larger function. On the similar time, I had been serving for over eight years with the group Imaginative and prescient World, taking part in mission journeys all over the world, and now I’ve the chance to work full time on this group. This group conducts one thing known as “Spa Experiences,” on every journey, the place we goal to revive dignity, present hope, love and luxury to girls and women globally. This venture was born by combining my ardour for training, the necessity for a close-knit neighborhood and the enjoyment of spreading like to girls via nail care. The final word aim and best reward just isn’t solely to see different nail techs develop on this career but additionally to convey hope and help to girls in want. Usually, that is mirrored in a smile when their manicure is completed—therefore the title: Manis for Smiles.
Advantages of Platform
Membership and Pricing: My dream is for each girl to be a part of this venture, with out value being a barrier. Conscious of the financial scenario in lots of international locations like Mexico, Chile, and Argentina, I needed to provide a value that wouldn’t be a monetary burden. That’s why I set the membership price at simply $9, permitting entry to all content material—like a Netflix for nail artists.
Particular Friends: Manis for Smiles isn’t just about one individual; it is about a complete neighborhood of girls with desires, aspirations, and challenges. Each month, our particular friends not solely present a course filled with their experience but additionally share one thing of excessive worth: an interview the place they talk about all the pieces behind the success they’ve achieved. For 40 minutes, every particular visitor solutions questions associated to their private {and professional} life, sharing their highs and lows of their journey as nail techs and entrepreneurs.
The Trigger: The center of the venture: One manicure for one smile. By being a part of this neighborhood, a part of the cash collected helps us buy all the pieces wanted to offer manicures and “spa experiences” together with Imaginative and prescient World to locations like: Sierra Tarahumara, Chiapas, the Amazon, Colombia, Turkey, Italy, France, Morocco, India, and native occasions in shelters and orphanages. Along with nail merchandise, we purchase face paint and hair merchandise to type the ladies’ hair, together with private hygiene merchandise for every of them.
Manis for Smiles Business Influence
As a Latina nail tech, initially of my profession, I couldn’t discover a lot info in Spanish. I noticed wonderful platforms with programs I needed to take, however lots of them have been solely in English. Providing assets in each languages, English and Spanish, supplies larger help to the following era of nail techs in Latin America, Europe, and the US. The second cause I imagine such a venture is essential is that it helps us look past ourselves. It makes us a part of one thing greater than simply private or monetary success. It unites us as a neighborhood, permitting us to see the wants of others and use the presents and skills that God has positioned in our palms for a larger affect. That is the place the phrase “neighborhood over competitors” actually involves life.
3 Methods to Get Concerned
There are numerous methods to be a part of this venture.
Member: You’ll have entry to all of the content material on the platform, and also you’ll mechanically be a part of the trigger: One mani = One smile!
Donate Merchandise: Similar to Mia Secret, you may change into one in all our sponsors. If you happen to’d wish to donate new or used merchandise (in good situation), we’d like to obtain them for the kits we use for every girl and lady. If you happen to’d wish to donate monetarily, you are able to do so on to Imaginative and prescient World, and thru them, we will purchase what is required with the cash you donate.
Objects Wanted:
- Common nail polishes
- Nail clippers
- Recordsdata (240 or 180 grit for pure nails)
- Buffers
- Cotton
- Nail Artwork decorations (nail decals, glitters, flowers)
- Prime coat polish
- Cuticle sticks
- Sugar scrub
- Hand cream
Educator: Are you obsessed with training and want to provide a course on the platform? We’d like to have you ever as a particular visitor! If you happen to’re interested by being a part of this, please electronic mail me at [email protected] for extra info.
Programs Supplied
The platform provides over 20 programs given by completely different nail techs and feminine entrepreneurs, who share their information on product software strategies, nail artwork strategies, branding and design, press-on nails course, wellness and social media content material.
What’s Subsequent?
My short-term aim is to boost extra consciousness about Manis for Smiles and to develop the neighborhood together with the academic content material. I’d love to finish 2024 with roughly 50 programs accessible on the platform. Subsequent 12 months, we’ve got a giant dream to present manicures to over 500 women and girls in North Africa, Sierra Tarahumara, Colombia, France, Spain, Turkey, the Amazon and India. We additionally plan to launch our Training for Ladies initiative, specializing in girls in excessive poverty and people with backgrounds of abuse and home violence. This venture will begin in Colombia, the place we’ll start educating girls who’ve the will to enhance their lives and help their households however lack the assets to take action. Via Manis for Smiles, they may obtain all the required merchandise and training to start out a profession as nail techs. This can assist restore their dignity, give them hope, and equip them to realize their desires.
Michelle Quiroz, also called Miish (@ohchamomilenails), is a Mexican nail tech, graphic designer and entrepreneur based mostly in El Paso, Texas. Her work is thought for its minimalistic and clear designs, delicate floral artwork, and vibrant Mexican Talavera patterns.