While still in school, Derr took first place in the academy’s student nail art competition and in 1988, she won first place in the professional nail division at the NCA's national championship in Atlanta.
Robert Yates, formerly with Vidal Sassoon and most recently with Matrix Essentials, has joined Creative Nail Design Systems as vice president of marketing.
Kelly Ostraat wants the industry to recognize that home-based salons can be professional. It’s not where the salon is located that determines professionalism, she says, it’s the nail technician’s attitude.
Norwegian women’s interest in nails is growing, reports Norwegian nail school owner Tone-Lise Forbergskog, whose three-month nail course is the first of its kind in Norway.
Being a nail technician in Australia is not so different from being a nail technician in the United States, except that nail technicians in Australia have no licensing requirements and nails-only salons are a new phenomenon.
Laurie Tedesco, who manicures the hands of television, film, and beauty magazine models and celebrities, has discovered there’s no business like show business.
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