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Staying Sane in an Insane World

Posted On September 8, 2021

Meditative

Ways to Keep Sane During the COVID Revamp We were almost out… Businesses were opening back up, mask mandates were being lifted, and curfews were a thing of the past […]

Filed Under: CI Blog Tagged With: beauty, Beauty Career, Calm, Career, cosmetology, COVID, COVID-19, Creative Images, Dayton, Delta Variant, DuoLingo, Esthetics, Headspace, Mental Health, Mentality, Nail Tech, Ohio, Open Culture, Positive, Skill Share, Staying Sane

The Art of Adapting

Posted On June 19, 2021

Chance over change

Adapting to a New “Normal” at CIIC On March 23rd, our lives seized to exist as we knew them. As Coronavirus stormed our shores and wreaked havoc on our communities, […]

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Putting the Social in Social Distancing

Posted On April 12, 2021

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Ways to be Social While Still Keeping Your Distance (Without Being Awkward) With warmer weather comes more possibilities, but also more social obligations. Between the family cookouts, baseball season, and […]

Filed Under: CI Blog Tagged With: 6 Feet, beauty, Beauty School, CDC, Coronavirus, cosmetology, Cosmetology School, COVID, COVID-19, Dayton, Esthetics, License, Licensed Cosmetologist, Nail Tech, Ohio, Safety, Social, Social Distancing, spring

Taking Control of COVID

Posted On March 10, 2021

Punching the COVID virus

Ways That Creative Images is Taking a Stand Against COVID-19. In the course of a year, COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has become the new celebrity household name that gets talked about around […]

Filed Under: CI Blog Tagged With: air filtration, Air Quality, beauty, Beauty School, Clean, Coronavirus, Cosmetology School, COVID, COVID-19, Dayton, Deep Clean, health, Protect, Protocols, Safety, School

COVID in the Workplace

Posted On December 16, 2020

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What to Expect With the Future of COVID One of my favorite sayings that I have stumbled across since this virus hit our shores is this: COVID-19 did not break […]

Filed Under: CI Blog Tagged With: Appreciation, COVID, COVID-19, Disinfect, Encourage, Innovation, Pandemic, Positives, Prepare, Re-Evaluate, Salon, Spa, Updates, Virus, Workplace

Coping With Stress

Posted On September 29, 2020

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Stress Isn’t The Problem– It’s How You Handle It. I think we can all agree that 2020 has been nothing shy of one large bundle of stress that just seems […]

Filed Under: CI Blog Tagged With: 2020, beauty, Beauty Blog, Beauty Career, Beauty Industry, Beauty Professional, Beauty School, blog, Community, Coping, Coronavirus, cosmetology, Cosmetology School, COVID-19, Creative Images, Dayton, Dayton Hair, hair, health, Leadership, Mindset, Nails, Ohio, Safety, Skin Care, Stress, Stress Management, Wellbeing

The Flip Side to Entrepreneurship

Posted On September 19, 2020

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Entrepreneurship– What They Don’t Tell You The beauty industry has a lot to offer to those who enter but it doesn’t come at a cheap cost. Regardless of the avenue […]

Filed Under: CI Blog Tagged With: beauty, Beauty Blog, Beauty Career, Beauty Industry, Beauty Professional, Beauty School, blog, Business, Business Owner, Career, Change, Community, Cosmetology School, COVID-19, Dayton, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Leader, Leadership, Ohio, Safety, Salon, Sanitation, School, Spa, Success, Well-being, Wellness

Outsmart Your Business Unknowns

Posted On September 5, 2020

Developing a strategy to lead your team through times of uncertainty

Five Ways to Prepare Your Business for Today’s Unknowns If we have learned anything from this pandemic, it is that we must prepare ourselves and our business for any hurdles […]

Filed Under: CI Blog Tagged With: 2020, Beauty Blog, Beauty Career, Beauty Industry, Beauty Professionals, Business, Business Owners, Business Plan, Career, Community, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Dayton, Entrepreneurs, Goals, Guidance, lead, Leaders, Manage, Manager, Motivation, Moving Forward, Pandemic, Passion, Plan, Positivity, Prepare, Professionals, Safety, Salon, Spa

Beauty Is Bouncing Back

Posted On August 20, 2020

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The Underestimated Resilience of the Beauty Industry Believe it or not folks, we are now 6 months into quarantine living. School has migrated to strictly online classrooms, vacations have been […]

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Fourth of July on the Fly

Posted On June 26, 2020

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How to Keep Some Independence on Independence Day Though Coronavirus may have sidelined many of us from not only our summer socials but also from a lot of our daily […]

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