Playing Footsie: Ideas to Make Pedicures More Pleasant
You can change up the layout of the pedicure, add rocks to your massage or "feed" clients' feet.
Fit for Royalty (A Buyer's Guide to Pedicure Thrones)
With summer approaching, clients are itchnig to show off their freshly pedicured feet. Pamper them even more by investing in a pedicure throne.
Toe Woes - what goes wrong with feet
Stay a step ahead of clients' needs by learning to recognize the most common woes that may cause pain and disfigurement to clients' toes.
Getting a Step Ahead of Onychomycosis
Once deemed almost impossible to treat, newer antifungal medications are claiming cure rates of 80% and higher.
Go to Healthy Extremes With Feet
Do your best not to get on a client’s nerves -- because you never know who might have peripheral neuropathy. The loss of sensation in feet and hands that marks this not-uncommon condition leaves the unaware client susceptible to infection.
Help Desk
What am I doing wrong? Is alcohol a better polish prep?
Let Them Wear Sandals
Salon owner Pattie Kobe repairs damaged toenails using the same products and techniques she would for nail biter. The result is a perfect set of pink-and-white toenails
Add Sunshine to Your Spa Pedicure
The nail care menu at Atlanta’s Salon Red offers two intriguing option: the $45 Bronzed and Buffed Manicure and the $70 Bronzed and Buff Pedicure. Both are spa-style treatments that include targeted sunless tanning.
Building Custom Pedicures
Pedicures serve many purposes from the therapeutic to the beautifying to the pampering. Here we show you how to customize your services to the special needs and desires of pedicure clients in need of a touch up, an overhaul, or simply an hour of luxury.
Closing In On Ingrown Toenails
Wearing tight, closed-toed shoes is an invitation for ingrown toenails. Soreness, irritation, and pain are just a few symptoms clients live with. Here we give you tried-and-true solutions to ease client discomfort.
Foot Shy
What do you do when you already offer great customer service and pampering, yet you can’t get those shy clients to take off their shoes and put their feet in your hands?
Footspa Cleaning Guidelines for Nail Technicians
After last year’s bacterial outbreak in a Watsonville, Calif., salon, the California Bureau of Barbering and Cosmetology laid out cleaning regulations for salons using whirlpool pedicure footspas. Use this step-by-step guide to make sure you are getting your footspas clean enough to protect your clients.
Foot Shy
What do you do when you already offer great customer service and pampering, yet you can’t get those shy clients to take off their shoes and put their feet in your hands?
The Help Desk
"I have been a nail tech for a little over two years and I still have trouble blending the tips so that they don’t show through the acrylic at all. Do you have any advice?"
Patio Pedicure
Salon's signature service is a Margarita Pedicure outdoors.
Don’t Skimp on Paraffin Paraphernalia
As nail techs strive to be perceived as highly trained professionals with unique service and retail offerings, they need to consider the message they send out by using a retail unit.
Caring for Callused Feet
With summer quickly approaching, women (and men) are making it a priority to get their feet in tip-top shape for sandal season. And for feet to look their absolute best, they should be smooth and free of calluses.