We were lucky to catch up with Annie Foster recently and have shared our conversation below.
Annie , we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.
I found that i am now walking in purpose because this is not only my career this is ‘MY GIFT’ i get the opportunity to do what I love as well as making others feel good about themselves. When Clients come into my Salon, not only if they’re having a bad day they get to leave out feeling beautiful as well with me or my team uplifting their spirit. This alone is how I found out this is my purpose to make women,men,children whom ever feel wonderful about themselves this is my purpose. And because I am walking in know what my purpose is IAM never going to work another day in my life I do not look at this is a job this once again my purpose, and I am purpose driven with my career.
Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
I am From Spartanburg South Carolina. I have been a licensed aesthetician since 2014. I was a make up artist and ventured off into becoming a professional aesthetician in 2017 I decided to branch out and open up my own salon by myself. I did not go to school for business so taking this on was a quite of a task. I had to learn everything there was about business, so that I can become a successful entrepreneur all on my own. Once I open my salon in 2017, I started out just doing make up and doing body waxing. However, I had to learn that in order to have residual income in an order to keep building my clientele base i fell in love with skin care. I’ve been started doing facials on a regular building up my clientele with basic facials in over the years I started implementing new facials. One thing that stuck out to me was after I would perform a facial. I will then tell the client what they needed to buy ,however how do I know that they are actually going to purchase what I recommended this is when I decided to develop my own skincare line in 2020 I launched MORE COSMETICS skin care. This is a way for my clients to come in and get their professional, great facials and then purchase a skin care regimen at home to keep up there glow in their healthy skin in between their facials with me. In 2022 I decided to expand and I started to hire a team to work up under me. They are trained my way so anybody that comes in and get a facial inside a Facesnmore facial and body salon, does not have to worry about inconsistency with their skin. Yes, please be on the lookout for new services and new products. One way you can follow to keep up with our new things is to go to www.facesnmore.com and subscribe to the site this is a way you can get our weekly reminders and newsletters as well as purchase a MoreCosmetics skin care, I ship worldwide.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
As I look back over my journey of becoming a successful entrepreneur, one thing that sticks out to me the most is I had to learn and be OK with taking constructive criticism from people, and also learning how to multitask being a business owner. You have to learn how to have your hands in many different, pots at one time and learning how to not let it stress you out. Last, but not least, I would say you have to be open to always learning & listening to new things. To anyone who is new in walking in the entrepreneurship. I want to say to you keep your head up and keep walking towards your purpose, and I want you to understand you have to become comfortable with being uncomfortable in order to grow in this walk of entrepreneurship, but I encourage you to keep focus, and no matter what you got this.
One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?
I would love collaborate with anyone who is in the beauty industry. I am looking for professional people where we could link up and talk business. willing to learn, as well as I am willing to learn so that we can collaborate and make the best team out there. I would love to collaborate with other estheticians or business professionals LET’’S TALK SKIN My contact information is facesnmore17@gmail.com
Contact Info:
- Website: www.facesnmore.com
- Instagram: Facesnmore
- Facebook: Annie Foster
Image Credits
Photo credits to Celebrity photographer SMITHALEE
