Business
Bringing The Sun Inside
The decision to add a substantial new service to your salon is not one to take lightly. Tanning requires a financial investment that requires careful consideration.
Shave Time From Services With A Good Filing System
You can’t beat a good filing system for helping you to make consistently great nails in less time. The first step is to develop one that works best for the way you work.
Masters Of Their Craft
In just six months since its official launch, The Creative Academy has graduated hundreds of nail technicians, providing them with enhanced skills and a closer working relationship with Creative Nail Design Systems.
Protect Your Good Name
You want your salon name to be a household name; however, you don’t want it to be on every nail shop in town. Here’s how to keep it yours alone.
Never Say Never, Except Sometimes
Knowing what not to do can be just as important as knowing what to do when trying to create a salon environment that keeps customers coming back.
May The Next Vamp Come From the Professional Industry!
On the one hand, Chanel's Vamp polish did wonders for nails by getting everybody talking about it and by getting people looking at nails and wearing color. On the other hand, it should have come from one of our own professional manufacturers first.
The Salon of Choice
Whether you take Pucci Salon and Day Spa’s slogan, “The Salon of Choice,” to mean a salon with many choices, or the salon to choose, you’d be right. Between the salon’s full menu of services and owner Debra Capaldi’s unflagging dedication, Pucci is the place.
Business Cards That Make Their Mark
It may be small, but your business card speaks volumes about your salon. Get our experts advice on how this tool can make a powerful, effective statement about your business.
Licensing Upheld In Massachusetts, For Now
The Massachusetts state legislature recently voted against a bill proposed by Governor William Weld that would have abolished regulations for 14 professions, including barbering and cosmetology.
What Valentine’s Day Promotions Do You Offer?
Readers do such sweet gestures as baking cookies to offering special free services.
Does This Mean We’ll See Nails on Cindy Crawford?
What does Revlon Consumer Products Corp. s acquisition of Creative Nail Design Systems, Inc., mean to Revlon, Creative, and the rest of the industry?
Salon Superstores: How Much Is Too Much?
Beauty superstores such as Ulta3 specialize in selling the products used by professionals, rather than the services offered by them. By doing so, these retail stores/salons have taken retailing to new heights.
Tip of the Month: Booking Efficiency
Keeps a chart by the appointment book that lists the amount of time each nail technician requires to perform a particular service.
Achtung, Nail Techs!
A couple nail vocabulary words ... in German
A Global Approach To Nails
As a globetrotting educator for Orly International and Develop 10, cover tech Elsbeth Grutter-Schutz is able to stay up to date with what’s going on in the worldwide nail care industry.
Would a No-Tips Policy Enhance the Image of Nail Professionals?
Instead of expecting clients to supplement the nail professional's earnings, nail salons would price their services at a level that allows workers to earn a living wage. Salons could even make it a salon policy and notify clients that tips are no longer accepted at the salon.
Accept No Excuses
Salons are responding to customers' cries of "I just don't have the time" with super-quick natural nail manicures targeted to women on the go.