# How to Find Your First Lash Clients After Training > How to get lash clients after training: a portfolio from models, lash portfolio photos, social media, local partners, word of mouth and keeping a client base. - Type: post - URL: https://eyedecorstudio.com/about/skin-journal/how-to-find-your-first-lash-clients-after-training/ - Updated: 2026-10-05T02:30:40+00:00 ## About this page How to get lash clients after training: a portfolio from models, lash portfolio photos, social media, local partners, word of mouth and keeping a client base. ## Key facts - Phone: +1-908-402-2310 - Email: hello@eyedecorstudio.com - Location: Cranford, NJ - Map: 40.65, -74.2956 - Price range: $$ - Serving: Kenilworth · Union · Elizabeth · Garwood · Roselle Park · Westfield · Clark · Linden - Social: https://www.facebook.com/p/Eye-Decor-Studio-100063746997135/ · https://www.instagram.com/eyedecor_studio/ - Logo: https://eyedecorstudio.com/storage/sites/18/uploads/7ddbd213-e47c-45de-96c5-e0d34825e53b.webp - Hours: Tuesday 09:00–19:00 - Hours: Wednesday 09:00–19:00 - Hours: Thursday 09:00–19:00 - Hours: Friday 09:00–19:00 - Hours: Saturday 09:00–19:00 ## Page content ## How to Find Your First Lash Clients After Training The question of how to get lash clients is answered for a lash artist much the way it is for any other beauty professional. There are many options here: word of mouth, social media, partner programs. The main thing is persistence, because only persistence breaks the closed circle in which a new artist needs clients to… ## The first steps after training If you are only starting your career as a lash artist, it is worth taking a job in a salon for a while. This helps you gain experience, see professionals at work and get valuable advice, even if you are listed not as an artist but as an assistant. You also get good experience talking with clients, learn how to get out… Once you have the practical and organizational skills, you can move on to your own business. If at first you have only 3-5 clients, that is already not bad; the main thing is that their loyalty to you is as high as possible. Most likely your first clients will be acquaintances, friends or even relatives. ## A portfolio is the base of everything The portfolio is your main sales tool. Even if you have no clients yet, you can build a basic portfolio in several ways. ### Free sets for models Offer free lash extensions to friends, relatives or coworkers in exchange for good photos for the portfolio. You can also use groups on social networks where artists look for models and models look for artists for low-cost services. ### Working with photographers Find a beginning photographer and offer a mutually useful arrangement: you do the models' lashes, the photographer takes quality pictures for the portfolio. Practice on live models usually starts already during training. In the program of our lash academy the last of the four steps is called certify and launch, and along with a certificate, a starter kit and a manual it includes a plan to get your first clients. Students from Clark, about seven minutes from the Cranford… ## Lash portfolio photos and your page Social networks have proven themselves as a convenient and accessible platform for posting information about yourself. They are very popular, so advertising there reaches more people. For a lash artist the best platform is Instagram, since it is made for photos, and your work is judged first of all by the eye. To make the account attractive, the page has to be set up properly. All photos should be in one style so they are recognizable. If you find it hard to pick one yourself, use ready templates. Post not only photos of your work but information about yourself too: it wins potential clients over and removes doubts. 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