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NAILS editors blog weekly about the nail biz, products, events, and anything and everything nail-related. Join the conversation with your comments.

Erika Kotite

Katherine Fleming

Nancy Kirk

Conquering the Blahs

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We all have those days when our routine becomes just that — routine. When we lose touch with just how much we love what we do. I was reading some material Letha Barnes — the director

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I just read an article on NPR’s website about how beauty salons are faring relatively well in this economic downturn. The thinking is that people are cutting back on more expensive indulgences, like weekend getaways and

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The Edge Nail

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I was looking through the beautytech.com forum board yesterday, when I came across a couple threads on the new “edge” nails. If you haven’t seen them yet, they’re a cross between a stiletto and a square,

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Sole to Soul

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A friend forwarded me an interesting Associated Press article today about church volunteers who offer mini-pedicures (including a soak, pumice, nail trim, scrub, ointment, massage, and polish) to a city’s homeless, in order to both head

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More Than a Commodity

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I was talking to a New York City-based beauty editor the other day and realized her experience of the nail salon is very different from the one I’ve come to know through the salon owners and

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Hand Reading

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There was an article on Yahoo recently about a study done by the University of Cambridge in England that stated the length of a man’s ring finger correlates to his financial success. The study found that men

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It’s Official: Cosmetology Is a Top Career

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Rankings giant U.S. News & World Report has validated what many of you have known for years. For the first-time ever, it ranked “hairstylist/cosmetologist” as one of the “30 Best Careers for 2009.” The magazine “plowed through

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Kick Off 2009 Right

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With the holidays behind us, it’s a great time to re-evaluate where you’ve been for the past year and what you want your business to look like going forward. Strategies founder Neil Ducoff offers these 10

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Are Nail Services Endangered Treatments?

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An article ran in the Los Angeles Times yesterday titled “Los Angeles Salons Note a Client Downturn.” In the story, the author says that bikini waxes, manicures and pedicures, and many hair services are all on

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Nails in Rolling Stone

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I’m a pretty avid reader of Rolling Stone Magazine, and as I was catching up on an issue from November I was surprised to see a picture of nail art. It came from an article by journalist

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