An Irish mum-of-two has told of how she transitioned from working two jobs, struggling to make ends meet, to building an aesthetics empire in Dublin, with more than 25,000 clients on her books.
Like many successful business owners, things didn’t come easy. Before ‘The Lip Queen’ was born, Kerry was working full-time as a nurse, while working weekends to build on her dream of being her own boss and earning enough to raise her two daughters, Emily and Alannah. “I was working full-time for a pharmaceutical company, as a respiratory nurse adviser. At the time I had a nice company car and a ‘regular’ income, but I needed something extra to look after my girls.”
Immediately Kerry jumped at the chance to learn something new, and said “I went down and did an introductory into dermal fillers. She said: “I came back to Dublin in 2006 and found myself financially in a situation where I didn’t have a lot, but I needed to buy a house and ensure I had financial security for my two girls - and they were only 12 and 2 at this point”.
From this, things began to kick off for Kerry, and “Between 2006 and 2012, I got to the point where I just didn’t have time for my day job - and I thought, I’m onto something here. Admitting her decision was a big risk, Kerry said: “At a time when you’re a single parent and you have two kids, a mortgage and you know we didn’t have any other income it was just all on me at the time - it was a big risk.
“I knew I’d have to do the hard slog at the beginning and I did - and I still do the hard slog now, I’m still working six days or seven days a week.”