Today is National Flip Flop Day! We recommend your salon as the perfect place to don these signature sandals of summer.

Here are some of our favorite blog posts of the week:

Let Them Have Polish shares bottle images of the soon-to-launch dazzling Miss Universe by OPI collection. If you watch the Miss USA Pageant on Sunday night, you may even catch a glimpse of judge Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, OPI’s executive VP & artistic director.

Have you been to sister blog Blueprint of a First Year recently? We've quite a few great Q & As in the past week [http://blogs.nailsmag.com/blueprint/category/11.aspx] that you may want to check out. Plus, feel free to leave your own question for one of our several new salon owner-bloggers!

The Purple Pinkie Nail Salon came back from the Premiere Orlando show with hot new neon colors for its clients. For those of you at IBS Las Vegas [http://www.ibslasvegas.com] this weekend, we'd love to hear about what exciting products you bought! (Feel free to leave a note in the comments section about your hot finds.)

Jim Nordstrom at Famous Names LLC, maker of Lumos nail products, has launched a blog (about Famous Names and Karma Wine).

--Sree

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