Visalia, Calif.-based nail tech Maggie Franklin tells it like it is. Never dull, she lends her unique perspective to a wide variety of issues facing working techs.
A few years back I took a hands-on class from Tom Holcomb. Aside from all the obvious awesome that is involved with spending two days in the presence of such legendary talent, I remember him talking
In 2002 my mother had a heart attack. At the time, she was working alongside me at the salon (she's also a licensed nail tech, but that's another story!) in the afternoons and going to school
It should be noted that I like to take photos. As far back as when Mom first let me handle the camera myself, I have liked to take pictures. And once I owned my own camera
What with all the problems I've had with my gel polishes, I decided not to take any more chances with it — despite the introduction of the new UV shield labels. So while I was at
I always enjoy getting together with other nail professionals and talking shop. In fact (there's that comma problem again), if you ever want to get me into a long and serious conversation, just get me on
I'm so easily distracted. Seriously, I just got back to "real life" after a weekend of the ISSE show in Long Beach() combined() of course() with a trip to Disneyland. Quite frankly() I'm exhausted and my
Through one of those occasional, random glitches in the space-time continuum, I just received the February issue of Nails Magazine today — along with the January issue, which never managed to arrive at all. (I had to
So I looked it up. Katy Perry is 26. Which means she's plenty old enough to remember crackle polish the first time around. Who knows? Maybe she thought it was super-duper cool when she was 14
Two years ago I entered some cupcakes into our local county fair and I got Best in Show. Yes, I’m bragging a little. But also just some background so it makes sense to you that the
For the poor girl's sake, I am not going to include her contact info, but check out this post I found on our local Craigslist:"Hiiii(: My name is Ashley i am 17 years old && im
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