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Originally Posted by Kätzchen
Rico and I still have not been able to get a vaccination.
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I haven't even had a chance to get mine, because Georgia is so far behind in giving out vaccines. The only people who can get them here are healthcare professionals and the over-65s.
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Originally Posted by Kätzchen
The beauty industry has suffered greatly, in my state. I am glad I left the industry 15 years ago. I've got long time friends who are still in the beauty industry and let me tell you, the pandemic destroyed their private business salons. Not one of my colleagues in that field made it out unscathed. I still retain and keep my state credentials up to date and pay bi-annual fees, but the licensing division just dealt another blow to beauty industry professionals by jacking up fees and other pandemic related rules which has impacted the industry for those who still have a business.
Great question though, Georgia: I, too, wonder what is happening for those who are independent beauty consultants. It's got to be real rough for people like this, I imagine.
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I finally called my sister, who is a Mary Kay consultant. (Duh, I should have called her first, but I never think about her being an MK consultant because it is not her main job and she lives so far away.) She brought me a bag of goodies to try (full-size! sisters are great). Anyway, I asked her what she was doing about her MK business during the pandemic, and she said she just orders stuff for people who request it, she's not doing makeovers or parties any more. She said she basically breaks even by the time she orders her own personal products, and she is mainly just doing it as a service to the people who have been her long-time customers. She also confirmed what I heard on NPR - there is an uptick in men ordering cosmetics - that it has become kind of a big deal - because men get on Zoom meetings and see how terrible they look. That doesn't affect her business much, though, living in a rural county where most of the men work in agriculture and mining.