Sanitation Ovation
A professional-looking disinfection container can easily show clients that sanitation is a priority at your salon — and you’ll likely be applauded for it.
Wrist-Assist Provides Relief for Muscle Fatigue
Increase your client's comfort while reducing your muscle fatigue with this innovative product.
by Judy Lessin
Let's Get Healthy
Join NAILS editor Hannah Lee as she blogs and journeys her way to "become a healthier person." Swap encouragement, recipes, and experiences with others in the nail industry as we challenge ourselves to live healthier, fitter lives.
A375UV Air Purifier
The Alen A375UV Air Purifier contains two UV lamps, a titanium dioxide filter, dust/odor sensors, remote control, and increased activated carbon for improved odor removal.
Safety First [a guide to keep your salon safe]
It’s the end of a long day. You’re filing toenails and tired when your file slips and slices into the toe, drawing blood. What do you do? An elderly client stumbles and takes a bad fall to the ground. What do you do? A fellow nail tech is pregnant and working beside you when her water suddenly breaks. What do you do?
by Tim Crowley
NAILS State-by-State Guide to Disinfection Regulations
Required disinfection process, handling of disposable items, and handling of electric file accessories for all 50 U.S. states
Good to Go Greening: Minimize Your Carbon Footprint While Traveling
Vacations are the time to cut loose and kick up our heels, and welcome the break from our usual routine. Just remember to bring the best of your eco-consciousness with you when you prepare to travel.
I Don't Have a Hunch
Why hunch over to reach your pedicure client’s foot when you can bring the foot up to meet you at a comfortable height?
A Gift From a Flower to a Garden: Let it Grow on You
Ancient cultures from the polar snows to the equator and everywhere in-between worshipped the sun for its energy and power—especially for its ability to bring food from the earth through photosynthesis. Today, we take care to shield our own skin from the UV rays, but the sun remains essential to our life-force. So enjoy organically grown, energizing fruits and vegetables in season from your local farmers market, or grow your own—even if your garden is only a clay pot set on a sunny balcony.
Shaking Off the Shakes: Keeping Hands Steady While Polishing
Tips on making a steadier polish application so your clients will know you're a pro.
Can Doing Nails Make You Fat?
Staying active has to be a conscious effort. We can’t hold our jobs totally responsible for our weight issues, but they do play a role. I’ve seen from personal experience the effect of a sedentary job.
by Hannah Lee
New Approach May Render Staph Harmless
Exciting new treatment strategy could help the body defend against potentially lethal strains of antibiotic-resistant Staph, also known as MRSA.
Oregon OSHA Translates Pamphlet into Vietnamese
For the state’s nail techs who prefer literature in Vietnamese, Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has recently translated a safety pamphlet into Vietnamese.
Survey: Vietnamese Nail Salon Workers Report Health Concerns from Workplace Chemicals
According to a new survey from the Northern California Cancer Center and Asian Health Services of Oakland that specifically focused on Vietnamese nail salon workers, Vietnamese nail techs suffer from acute health effects associated with the chemicals they use in that work.
Helping Hands
Nail tech Karen Hodges recounts a difficult journey that began with a diagnosis of breast cancer. Her load was made lighter by the support and friendship offered by her “angels” — other nail techs who came to help.
Wearing Contacts in the Salon
With filing dust, clippings, aerosol sprays, chemicals, and vapors making their way around the salon environment, wearing contact lenses while working can be potentially hazardous.
Protection for E-File Users
It’s most important to wear a mask when filing artifi cial nails. “Especially if you use an electric file,” says Schoon.