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While school may teach you the basics, entering the beauty industry as a total newbie can be intimidating. Popular blogger Tina Alberino has written the ultimate guide to navigating this exciting industry, The Beauty Industry Survival Guide.
If you’re not in the habit of annually cleaning your salon, you should add it to the list of what it takes to be a successful salon owner. Below we’ve listed tips and techniques, plus advice from owners and techs who make it routine to clean their salons and workstations yearly.
Looking for ways to help your client switch it up and try something new? An easy way is to make suggestions based on what she already likes. Here are a few popular services along with alternate or complementary ones that she just might make a permanent part of her routine — and will add more money to your bottom line.
Help your clients take a load off with these sweet, functional, and relaxing bath products. They’ll love the opportunity to indulge and you’ll love having yet another reason to entice them into your salon. What better way for them to pamper themselves than doing so after a carefree day at your salon?
Simone Gilbert of Urban Bliss in Melbourne, Australia, demoes how to use AthenARocks nail art. You Might Also Like: My Other Life: Athena Elliott, Rock Collector
OPI lacquer introduces the three-step Infinite Shine Gel Effects Lacquer System. Rich, OPI color, shine that lasts up to 10 days, easy, soak-free removal, and no need for an LED lamp. Prime. Lacquer. Gloss.
The Nail Superstore shows how to pierce a nail using a handheld nail piercer tool to attach a dangling heart charm.
Get creative by filling in the negative space of a flower charm with a little white gel. The Nail Superstore has Sakura cherry blossom charms in large and small. Apply pink and purple gel on the base nail. Make C-curves to Sakura charms. Put the curved Sakura charms in their proper places and then add tiny flowers in the space. For the tiny ones, you can use them without curves. Swarovski crystals make the nail gorgeous! Put them on the nail with the stick. Apply the clear gel. Clean off unhardened gel with the cleaner.
With Coachella around the corner, it's music to many nail tech's ears as clients crave crazier than usual nail art.
In a time crunch but your client is looking for something edgy? Dangle clip-on jewelry will be your client’s new go-to. Just apply a simple gel or polish background, a couple nail art stickers and then accent the nail with a clip-on charm. Use The Nail Superstore's Charm Shaper to shape charms to perfectly fit the natural curve of the nail and the thicker the gel on the nail is, the better the clip-on charm will stay.English Translation: This nail art is for the Christmas and winter season. Apply the clear gel as an adhesive. Put a Swarovski snowflake charm, and a small gold color snowflake on. Curve it with the mold. It’s easy to curve. Put it here. Apply the sticky top gel starting from around the large charm and then on the charm. Apply the top gel. It would be better to apply the top gel several times to fix the large charms tightly. Clean off the unhardened gel.
This freehand flower power nail art design was created using Bio Sculpture Gel's Happy Hippie Color Collection for Spring/Summer 2015. The collection features five fruity pastels inspired by the bohemian, carefree spirit in a contemporary context.
With the release of Gelish and Morgan Taylor's Cinderella collections and the live-action Disney movie, more and more nail artists are finding their inner princess.
OPI's Alicia DiCaro shows three nail art designs using OPI Color Paints at America's Beauty Show 2015 in Chicago. Check out the Editor's blog for more on the OPI Color Paints: http://www.nailsmag.com/blogpost/110533/mani-monday-opi-color-paints
The Professional Beauty Association (PBA) is now accepting applications for the 2015 Minerva Beauty Scholarship and the Hans Neumaier Memorial Scholarship.
On Saturday, March 21, the beauty industry united to posthumously honor Pivot Point International’s founder Leo Passage. The hairstylist and cosmetology school founder was an advocate for continuing education and he was selected by Beauty Changes Lives (BCL) to receive this year’s Legacy Award for revolutionizing the business of beauty education.
This freehand Bio Sculpture Gel nail art design is sure to get you inspired, not only for Easter but for spring as well. Instead of the traditional Easter look, try an elegant rose design with accent gel deco stone enhanced with bullion.
Create this look using OPI GelColors: Just Lanai-ing Around, HelloHawaii Ya?, Do You Take Lei Away?, Suzi Shops & Island Hops, Alpine Snow, and Black Onyx.
