May 14, 2013
| Article
For the past three years, the salon sundries supplier has helped students start their nail careers.
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March 5, 2013
| Video
Alanna Wall appeared recently on The Ellen Show to talk about her charity organization Polished Girlz. This incredible young entrepreneur started a non-profit organization that provides manicures for children in hospitals. Ellen had a very special surprise for her!
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January 4, 2012
| Article
Every year, women are trafficked into the U.S. with the promise of a better life, but instead they find themselves sold as labor or sex slaves. It happens in every industry, including nail salons, massage parlors, and spas.
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January 4, 2012
| Article
Augusta, Ga.-based nail tech Kamisha Winfield believes all young girls deserve to be supported in their dreams and given a positive outlet to express their creativity.
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June 24, 2011
| Article
Sure, human trafficking might not be a subject you expect to see in the pages of NAILS, but it is happening in some nail salons right here in the United States. And thanks to one New York-based salon owner who is shedding light on the sad situation, maybe as an industry we can take a stand and do something about it.
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June 22, 2011
| Article
It is estimated that during the years of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade 12 million people were enslaved. Today, the estimate is 27 million worldwide. Some of those slaves are working in nail salons, and one nail tech has had enough.
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March 2, 2011
| Article
Carmen Jimenez, nail tech. In her other life: child protective services social worker.
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March 1, 2010
| Article
Debra Rowlands, nail tech. In her other life: family/community partnership specialist.
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September 2, 2009
| News
Congratulations to Washington D.C.-based manicurist Lidia Schaefer, who was honored as a “CNN Hero” in June after she sold her home and her car in order to raise money to build a new school in her native village in Ethiopia.
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July 1, 2009
| Article
Elisabeth Weber, nail technician. In her other life: social worker.
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November 1, 2008
| Article
A salon in Florence, Kentucky helps with a blood drive in Cincinnati.
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February 1, 2008
| Article
It made the local TV news when Fresno, Calif.’s Atlantic Skin Spa and Beauty Bar shut its doors in October leaving hundreds of customers with newly purchased gift certificates and no place to redeem them.
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September 5, 2007
| News
The second-annual Nail Artists Helping Children Charity Nail Competition takes place Sunday, November 4 in Rockford, Ill.
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