Ready for Your Debut

1. Gather everything before you open the dashboard

Setup goes fastest when you're not hunting for files mid-form. Before you start, pull together:

• A real headshot — not a logo, not a group photo, just you.
• Up to 3 studio photos — your space, your setup, your chair.
• Portfolio images — before/after pairs, healed results if you have them.
• Your bio & experience — years in the field, training, specialties.
• Pricing, by procedure — what each service actually costs.
• Certificates & socials — up to 8 credentials, plus Instagram, TikTok, and your website.

None of this needs to be perfect — it needs to exist. You can always refine a bio later; you can't appear in search results with no services selected, and a blank pricing field is the first thing a browsing client (or your AI Concierge, if you have one — more on that below) notices.

2. Fill in your profile

Under Dashboard → Profile, your profile is built in six short steps: Basics, Location, About & Experience, Services & Pricing, Photos, and Social & Credentials. Work through each one — services especially, since picking every procedure you offer is what powers search filters and is required to appear in results at all.

It's tempting to treat photos as the whole job and everything else as paperwork. Resist that — bio, pricing, location, socials, certificates all matter, not just the ones that feel important. If an AI Concierge is turned on for your profile, it's having real conversations with prospective clients around the clock, and it can only be as specific and confident as the information you've actually given it. A blank pricing field or a two-sentence bio doesn't just look unfinished to a human browsing your page — it leaves your assistant with nothing real to say when a client asks the exact question that field was meant to answer.

3. Add your portfolio photos

Every procedure you offer gets one hero slider — the interactive drag-to-compare before/after that's capped at one per specialty, on purpose. Make it your single best example of that service. Beyond that, add as many supporting photos as you genuinely have; there's no cap there.

As a starting baseline: aim for 2–3 published pieces per specialty you list, and a complete portfolio of 8–12+ strong pieces before you consider your profile ready to share. That's enough for a browsing client to see a real, working artist — not a sampler plate, and not three photos rattling around an otherwise empty gallery. Quality still wins over quantity — but quantity is what makes quality visible in the first place.

Photo specs. JPG, PNG or HEIC, up to 10 MB each. Sharper is better — aim for at least 1200 px on the long side, shot straight on in good light.

Frame your photo. After you pick or drop a photo, a “Frame your photo” screen opens before it uploads. Choose a shape (Original, 4:3, 1:1 or 4:5), drag to reposition, zoom, turn it 90 degrees, or straighten a slight tilt. It only changes the framing — there are no filters or retouching, because your clients are looking for real results. It's always optional: choose “Use original” to skip it. For a before/after pair, use the same shape for both so the slider lines up.

4. Bonus: record your introduction video

Once the must-haves above are done, under About & Experience you'll find an optional “introduce yourself on camera” upload — it sits alongside your written bio, never replacing it. It's genuinely optional, and fine to skip for now and come back to later, but thirty seconds of you actually talking is the fastest way anyone builds trust in an artist they've never met.

Keep it short and give it three things:

• Who you are, and what you specialize in
• What makes your approach different — your technique, your eye, your bedside manner
• One honest sentence about what it's like to actually sit in your chair

Natural light, a quiet corner of your studio, and one authentic take beats a scripted, over-produced one every time. Look at the lens, not the preview screen — that's what reads as eye contact on the other end.

5. Connect your calendar

Go to Dashboard → Calendar and click Connect Google Calendar. You'll be sent to Google to approve access, then land back here connected — this is what lets a client pick a real, open time straight off your calendar instead of trading “does Tuesday work?” messages back and forth.

Once it's connected, set your weekly working hours and appointment length so a client only ever sees slots you'd genuinely want to be booked.

6. Claim your vanity URL

Still on Dashboard → Profile, find “Your public URL.” This is your short, memorable link — the one that goes in your Instagram bio, on your business cards, or on a QR code taped to your studio mirror.

gallery.tinadavies.com/your-name

Rules: 2–60 characters, lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens only (no leading, trailing, or double hyphens), and it must be unique — a few common words are reserved and can't be used. If your name's taken, add your city or your specialty — jane-doe-brows works just as well as jane-doe.

One thing worth knowing before you pick: changing it later breaks any link or QR code already pointing at the old one. There's no automatic redirect, so choose it once your profile actually has something worth linking to.

7. Submit your profile for review

There's no separate “Publish” button to click. Once the steps above are filled in, your profile is already submitted — a banner on your dashboard will let you know it's awaiting admin approval, and you can keep setting things up (more photos, pricing tweaks) in the meantime. You'll get an email the moment it's approved and live.

Want an AI Concierge answering client questions around the clock once you're live? That's an add-on we turn on per artist — reach out once your profile is approved and we'll get it set up for you.