Salons Without a Storefront
Ever dream of leaving the four walls of your salon behind to forge your own path? Mobile businesses and home-based salons offer alternative career opportunities — and challenges.
Michelle Pratt
Contributing Writer
All the Single Ladies
We often hear stories from techs who credit their spouse for carrying the financial burden while they built their nail business. But what if that’s not an option?
Less Stress
Along with an increase of goodwill, the holidays often usher in an elevated level of anxiety. This year, take steps to create a season filled with more merry and less stress.
Treating Fungus With Lasers
For years, treatment of fungal nails has been frustrating and only nominally successful. At last, evidence of safe, effective treatment provides hope.
My True Love
Have you ever dreamed of leaving the industry to get a “real job”? Techs who have tried it share their stories of how they came to realize their first love is their true love. They also share the challenges they encountered when they returned after an absence.
Five Things You Know But Are Ignoring
Do you ever know which way you’re supposed to go, but keep hoping to find an alternate — and easier — route? Learn how to stay on course from techs who have been down this road before.
When Pink Isn’t Pretty
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, a month when pink sheds its image of soft and pretty and becomes focused and determined. Let’s not let the month go by without doing our part to spread the message that the fight’s not over.
Extreme Nailing
Does our environment change how we do nails? Do techs living in climates where it dips into double digits below zero work differently than techs who live where it’s nearly 100 degrees with 80% humidity?
Photographing Nail Art
With the explosion of nail art, nail artists are expanding their creativity into the field of photography. Here are tips on how to capture the best shot.
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
With the explosion of nail art, techs are expanding their creativity into the field of photography. Here are tips on how to capture the best shot.
Ten Things Your Employees Won’t Tell You
Do you ever wish you were a fly on the wall so you could hear what your employees say? Here’s your chance to learn what they won’t tell you, but wish you knew.
Double the Fun
What happens when creative entrepreneurs combine their passions to build multipurpose businesses? You get more than your average nail salon.
Advertising in the Age of Information Overload
You want to market to clients but can’t figure out how to get the most bang for your buck. How do you make the most of all the advertising mediums open to you?
A Feast for the Feet (or Hands)
Food staples in your kitchen can be blended to create scrubs or masks to personalize any mani or pedi. Healing properties in the food benefit the skin, and nature’s comforting aromas soothe the soul.
25 Ways to Market on a Budget
With some creativity and a healthy dose of legwork, it’s possible to market yourself well even without a big advertising budget. Take these tips from techs and personalize them to work for you.
Is Your Salon Cell-Free?
As smartphones become a familiar appendage on nearly all adults and many teens, salon owners find themselves forced to develop a salon cell phone policy. Will you decide to make your salon phone-friendly or cell-free?
Sole Love: A Reflexology Primer
Reflexology is a massage technique that is gaining popularity in salons. It differs from traditional massage by releasing pressure points instead of rubbing muscles.