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Meet Rashelle

 

Even at six months pregnant, Rashelle Barney is constantly working to handle the overflow of sugaring clients at her spa Blush Olympia in Olympia, Wash. She has seen substantial growth of her clientele since starting to sugar.

Rashelle Barney Licensed Esthetician Instructor

Co-Owner of Blush Olympia, Olympia, WA

 

 

Owners of Blush Olympia  Stacy Alexander (Left), Andrea House (Center), Rashelle Barney (Right)

 

 Even at six months pregnant, Rashelle Barney is constantly working to handle the overflow of sugaring clients at her spa Blush Olympia in Olympia, Wash. She has seen substantial growth of her clientele since starting to sugar.

 

“It’s hard turning clients away, it makes me feel horrible,” she said. Therefore she’s training more people to be sugaring experts like herself.

Barney first heard about sugaring hair removal in 2008 – three years after becoming an esthetician.

 “I was shocked that simply sugar, lemon, and water could remove hair without the harsh side effects of waxing!” she said.

 Becoming a skilled professional in it was a different story, however, she’ll tell you.

 

“My first memory of sugaring was: ‘oh my gosh, this is hard! I’m never going to be able to do this’. I had been waxing for years before switching to sugaring, so it was quite a difficult transition. I made myself stick with it, despite the challenges. Eventually it just clicked.”

 

It clicked enough that in due course she connected with Tamara’s Professional Body Sugaring™ a became a sugaring educator.

Barney said it surprised her that her students grasped the technique so quickly.

 “Wow, she’s doing so much better than I did my first time,” is something Barney thinks while teaching students, she said.

 

“It’s exciting to see them succeed and be able to share how wonderful sugaring is.”

 

She plans on continuing sharing sugaring with clients and other professionals – even after the baby comes.

 

“One thing I wish more people knew about sugaring is how great the results can be,” she said. “I think people just assume that hair removal means ingrown hairs, irritation, etc. I wish more people knew that there is a better alternative to waxing and shaving!”

 Barney specializes in her Brazilian technique, which she claims was the hardest thing for her to learn, but she said she stuck to it and became a pro at it.

“I chose Tamara’s products,” she said, “not just because of the convenience of her being local, but I realized her products are so much more user friendly. The sugar paste in general is easier to work with, it doesn’t leave the skin sticky, and I never get stuck.” She added that the support Tamara offers – always being available for questions – just makes working with her so very pleasant.

 A pleasant work environment is a great place for a mommy-to-be. It’s too soon to tell if the Barney’s expected child will follow in mommy’s footsteps, but, baby Barney will definitely know that mom loves her second job of sugaring clients.

 

By Casondra Brewster, Creative Word Lab

Not Just a green thumb, but green hands

At Tamara’s Professional Body Sugaring™, we’re constantly trying to make our products better. We’re aiming for environmental accountability (organic, sustainable), made in America, and in general as responsible and conscientious as possible. There will be some new products very soon (so always come back and check this space), so stay tuned.

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Today, however, we want to talk to you about a product that we use in our processing and training and are now available for you to purchase.  It’s GreenDex™ Biodegradeable Gloves. They are made in the USA and they are the world’s first biodegradable nitrile glove.

Just so you know, no one has offered us any kind of sponsorship or monetary gain for talking or recommending this. We’re just convinced that this is a step in the right direction for our industry. It has always been our concern that we promote an eco friendly, natural, water-soluble service as professional sugarists, but yet we use Nitrile gloves that get thrown in the garbage and stay around in our landfills a very, very long time.  We’ve been searching for a glove that gave us the protection and usability that we need in my sugaring business. GreenDex does that. For the month of August you can order GreenDex gloves off of our site at the same price as less-earth-friendly nitrile gloves.

We’re so in love with this glove and the fact that it is environmentally responsible and made in the USA, that if post a photo via Instagram that you are using them, we’ll gift you something good for you and our planet. Be sure to comment here with the link to your instagram photo, or even better, tag me via Instagram @TamarasSugar.  Let’s all get a little green-handed! Can’t wait to see your green-hands in action!

  

#tamarassugar #sugaring #sugaringhairremoval #greendexgloves #biodegradeablegloves #esthetician #skincareprofessional #getcertfiedinsugaringbytamaras

When Your Name is On The Line

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When you go to a party or family gathering and there are new people, you often talk about what you do for a living. “So, what do you do?” you’ll be asked, or even asked yourself. I have a bit of fun with that, because I love what I do and I love telling people about this great beauty secret, as well as my own product line.

Recently, a non professional found out what I did and was intrigued. They asked if they could purchase some of my professional standard sugar. I had to decline. Tamara’s Professional Body Sugaring only sells to licensed professionals who have been trained and certified in sugaring. I think this is important to protect the integrity of the service and out of respect for the licensed professional who have paid for their certification and worked hard to become experts in the sugaring service.

When you have your name on a product, you want to make sure that it is used properly and safely. Many beauty schools, in fact, sadly most, do not teach sugaring. They teach waxing. Therefore, Professional Body Sugaring is an advanced method of hair removal and it comes with a learning curve. It can take up to six months to master the technique of sugaring. Taking a hands-on class is the best way to ensure success and use the proper technique.

There are several companies out there that will sell to licensed professionals without training and that concerns me; there are some companies that will only sell to those who have proprietary certifications.  Tamara’s Professional Body Sugaring will accept other company certifications, but we also offer our own certifications. My goal is that the professional using our product is certified and providing expert service to the public.

If you happen to be a client of someone using the Tamara’s Professional Body Sugaring products, you know that they have been well-trained, certified, and are of the highest standards in this advanced hair-removal technique. I put my name on that.

#tamarassugar #sugaring #bodysugaringhairremoval #madeintheusa #betterthanwax #sugaringtrainingclasses #getcertifiedinsugaring  #skincareprofessional 

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Coming Soon! GreenDex™ Biodegradable Nitrile Gloves

Coming Soon! GreenDex™ Biodegradable Nitrile Gloves

Let’s Get Social! Help us help you connect the dots

 

Keeping connected today is easy, but it’s also hard. That’s what we learned from the recent survey we did with our clients. Many of you are on social media, like we are. But we often feel like it’s a giant connect-the-dots puzzle. That is because some of you are over on Facebook; some of you are on Twitter; and even more of you are on Instagram. Not enough of you are on Google+, and even less of you are reading our blog. We’d like to connect with you where ever you happen to be; but, also let you know that there are other paths and avenues to find us, our content, and more importantly, our product specials. Everyone likes product specials, yes?

 

Below we’ll share where you can find us all over the World Wide Web. Click a link, please. Like us. Add us. Tweet us. Share photos with us. Let’s connect!

 

You can find our blog in two places, always on the shopping site at:
http://www.tamarasprofessionalbodysugaring.com/blog.html

or via blogspot here:  http://tamarassugar.blogspot.com/

You can find us on Facebook here:
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You can find us on Twitter as @TamarasSugar, here’s our page:
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We’re also getting our photo on via Instagram under the name TamarasSugar.

Pin us on Pintrest: http://www.pinterest.com/tammie_anderson/tamaras-sugar/

We’re using Google+ more and more, so be sure to connect with us there:
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You can even find us on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/tamaras-professional-body-sugaring---training-&-certification

As you can see we plop down our sweet sugar dots all over the social media map, so be sure to connect those dots wherever you can and be privy to news on training, sales, specials and all Tamara’s Sugar information!

See you around the web!

Thrown into sugar fire, Savannah educator finds passion.

Jessica Mock, Esthetician, Body Sugaring Educator 

Sugaring :: Luxury Hair Removal from Dollface

Dollface by Jules

Dear Sweet Readers: This is the next installment of a series of profile pieces of the wonderful people I’m so honored to work with every day. When you read these pieces, you’ll understand why I love my job and business so much! Enjoy! ..........Tamara

Jessica Mock got a baptism by fire – or rather sugar – when she was a freshly licensed esthetician fresh out of school. Her first experience being a body-sugar professional made her learn on her feet.

 

“I was briefly trained by the owner of the first salon I worked at, and when she came down with pneumonia and was out for a month, I was expected to take over her appointments,” Mock said.

 

She said she was extremely challenged by sugaring when she first started.

 

“My skin reacted so much better to it than it ever did to waxing,” she said. “So, I was determined to master it.”

 

Master it, she has. She’s now a sugaring educator in Savannah, Georgia, where many of her clients are in the military community.

 

“I am so inspired by and proud of their commitment to our country,” Mock said.

 

Her own commitment to teaching sugaring is also inspirational, despite a rocky start in her sugaring career. Giving her sugar education classes is the one of the best things she looks forward to each month, she said.  Continue Reading Here

Making your product go further

We recently did a survey regarding our products, our business, our brand, and how you connect with us. It told us some very valuable things. I’ll be chatting about that in the next few blog posts most likely because it was a real education. I thank all those who participated in it – the response was phenomenal and humbling.    Continue Reading More HERE