Trouble Shooter: Save Filing Time With Tip Blenders
Tip blenders not only make removing excess tip material easy, they’re easy on the natural nail as well.
Nails au Naturel - Expanding Your Nail Nail Care Business
Although acrylics may be a higher ticket item for you, natural nail care can also mean big business.
Alpha Hydroxy Acids Can Save Time In Cuticle Care Services
Alpha hydroxy acids are in all kinds of skin care products, but what can they do for nail care? NAILS found out.
Trouble Shooter: Drawing the Line – Perfectly
Drawing a smoothly rounded smile line in your polished French manicure takes lots of practice. Here are some tips to make it easier for you to master.
Nail Art Work Book Part 1
In this three-part series, NAILS will show you how to get started doing nail art.
One Manicure Does Not Fit All
Because your clients differ your services should, too. Some clients need to get in and out of the salon quickly; others want the total salon indulgence. Make everybody happy by offering several types of manicures.
Use Cuticle Nippers Sparingly, If At All
It is safer to push back the cuticle and remove pterygium with a cuticle pusher with a pumice stone on the end.
Top 10 Questions to Ask Clients With Chronic Lifting
Are you taking insulin or heart medication? Plus 9 other specific questions to get at the root of your client's lifting problem.
Heat Up Hands, Feet & Profits With Paraffin
Give clients an extra treat and increase your receipts by offering the simple-to-do paraffin service
Hand Facials Add Value & Extravagance to Natural Manicures
Modified skin treatments for hands can double client enjoyment (as well as the price) of a manicure.
Nail Makeovers Win Over Clients
Make over a new client’s nails by prescribing a course of professional nail services and home maintenance products that will give her well-groomed nails and hands.
It's Only Natural
By supplementing the natural manicure with nail and cuticle care, massage, aromatic oils and lotions, and good old-fashioned client service, salons are attracting a loyal clientele.
Wraps Round Out The Salon Service Menu
Despite the growing popularity of wraps, many technicians have avoided trying them.
Give Clients the Healing Feeling
Reflexology requires skill and some intuition, but experts say clients are willing to pay more to feel better.
Today’s Wonder Top Coats to the Rescue
Can today’s chemically enriched, specially formulated top coats do more than provide a hard, glossy finish?
Show Clients Your Skills By Doing Nail Makeovers
Even the most hard-core nail abusers can be “made over” with regular professional manicures. Use before and after photos to promote the makeover to other clients.
Ingrown Nails Are Preventable
Ingrown nails are most common on the big toes because people wear tight shoes that press on the skin around the big toe, jamming it into the side of the nail.