Business
How to Properly Remove Pedicure Spa Packaging
Learn how to safely remove packaging from a newly delivered J&A Pedicure Spa.
Basic Spacing for Pedicure Chairs
Learn about the space reuqirements for J&A Pedicure Chairs.
Crowdsourcing: What is the best way to find great employees for your salon?
This month we asked nail techs: What is the best way to find great employees for your salon?
by Tracy Rubert
Amp Up Your Offerings: Henna Tattoos
In the second installment of our new series, NAILS explores services you can easily add to your menu to increase your revenue and offer your clients convenience. This month, we take a look at henna tattoos.
by Tracy Rubert
How to Deep-Clean Your Salon
If you’re not in the habit of annually cleaning your salon, you should add it to the list of what it takes to be a successful salon owner. Below we’ve listed tips and techniques, plus advice from owners and techs who make it routine to clean their salons and workstations yearly.
Retail Displays
Three new displays from ToolWorx help you customize your retail section.
Upselling: If Your Client Likes This...Have Her Try This
Looking for ways to help your client switch it up and try something new? An easy way is to make suggestions based on what she already likes. Here are a few popular services along with alternate or complementary ones that she just might make a permanent part of her routine — and will add more money to your bottom line.
by Tracy Rubert
Retail Boutique: Bath Products
Help your clients take a load off with these sweet, functional, and relaxing bath products. They’ll love the opportunity to indulge and you’ll love having yet another reason to entice them into your salon. What better way for them to pamper themselves than doing so after a carefree day at your salon?
Palette Display
This display from Geluv makes showing off your color palette fun and easy.
Timeless Foaming Gel Cleanser
Adding to their line of Timeless products, this facial cleanser is all natural.
Retail Display
Flowery's new retail design will spruce up your salon.
9 Ways You Might Be a Hipster Salon
Google defines hipster as, “a person who follows the latest trends and fashions, especially those regarded as being outside the cultural mainstream.”
Websites Worth Watching: Paintbox Blog
Modern manicure studio Paintbox offers more than curated nail art to their clients; they also produce a highly editorial blog that’s updated weekly.
by Beth Livesay
Time for Polish: Homemade Polish Bottle Clock
See how Robert Nguyen made this clock out of polish bottles for his Beverly Hills, Calif.-based salon.
by Beth Livesay
Learn From Someone Who’s Been There
In his new book, “Tales of an American Entrepreneur: Journey of a Small Business Owner,” beauty industry veteran Michael Randazzo shares business tools and counsels patience and perseverance to help other salon owners achieve the level of success he has seen.
The Theme’s the Thing: Contemporary Chic
Talk about sleek, chic, and modern, the new Claude Baruk Salon at Wynn in Las Vegas boasts a floor-to-ceiling window wall that adds a warm, natural glow to the slick white interiors and Italian polished chrome furnishings.
Get Help and Info at The Nail Hub
The owner of Va-Va Varnish Salon in San Diego, Calif., nail tech Elizabeth Morris has started a free consulting/advice podcast for nail techs called The Nail Hub.