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.
So, by now most of you have probably heard of, or even seen, “Tabatha’s Salon Takeover” on Bravo. There was some buzz about it over on the mailing list at BeautyTech.com a couple of weeks ago
Sorry, no, that’s not where I’m going with that title. In fact, maybe I’m talking to you. We are using written language to communicate on a daily basis more and more in our culture. Many of us
So yesterday I got a call from a fellow nail tech at another salon in town. She wanted to let me know the State Board had just left their salon. She gave me an update on
Actually, as it turns out, they don’t. The FDA approved leeches and maggots as “medical devices” a few years ago and with all this talk about fish pedicures, I thought maybe I could make some correlations.
So the other day I was looking through the January 2008 issue of NAILS. You know, all reader-written? A colleague and I had an article about trading places for a day in it and I wanted
MaryAnne has been my client for more than a year now. She is a senior at one of the local high schools, and she has been a swell client who I always enjoy having her in
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Maggie. It isn’t really; it’s actually “Marjorie,” but when I finally got around to starting my career as a professional nail artist I decided “Maggie” conjured up a more
This weekend was our local “Relay for Life,” a 24-hour walk-a-thon put on by the American Cancer Society to raise money for cancer research. One of my clients is heavily involved with the event and this
Within a week of starting nail school I knew nails was all I ever wanted to do. And nails is all I have done since having that revelation. I’ve known a lot of people who went into
And I don’t mean the bread! Well, the case of the Maggie-imposter seems to have been handled with swift and iron-fisted justice; it’s now just another footnote in the adventures of being me. But the experience of
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