Wellness
Help Desk
I have lost several clients who work in the medical field because they are no longer allowed to wear acrylic nails. What can you tell me about acrylic versus natural nails in terms of spreading bacteria?
Is it Truly Pterygium?
Most techs will see overgrown cuticles once in awhile. But that fairly common condition can be easily confused with pterygium, a rare nail condition that should not be serviced.
Help Desk: What Can I Do About Elderly Client's Peeling Nails?
This month's panelists answer reader questions about nail conditions.
Warning: Prevent Salon Accidents
A seemingly small safety hazard can turn into a big liability. By learning to recognize potential problems, you can prevent mishaps and create an accident-proof salon.
Don’t Be Sidelined by Carpal Tunnel
Our bodies weren’t designed to sit in a chair filing someone’s nails back and forth all day. But there are things we can do to prevent this potentially career-ending condition.
Pipeless Foot Spa Addresses Disinfection Issue
European Touch has a response to the ruckus regarding foot spas and the potential problems with bacteria due to improper sanitation: a new pipeless spa. They maintain pipeless technology is safer and requires significantly less cleaning.
Pipeless Foot Spa Addresses Disinfection Issue
New foot spas aim to remove any doubt about sanitation and cleanliness.
The Aging Foot
Our feet — along with our activities— change as we mature. From hereditary problems to injuries, our feet often take a pounding the older we get. Help your clients take care of their feet throughout their lifetime to ensure good foot health into old age.
Preventing Allergic Reactions
After month of receiving enhancements with no problems, your client develops redness and then swelling around her cuticles.
Allergies in the Salon: A Guide for Clients
Here are few of the main reasons enhancement-related skin allergies occur and some useful tips for avoiding them.
Healing Hands: Helping Clients With Cancer
Respect, a sympathetic ear, and human contact are among the many gifts you can offer a client with cancer. Your gentle touch and professional skill can help her to feel pretty and feminine when feeling that way may be a struggle.
Nail Strengtheners: What’s in the Bottle?
One of the best-selling retail items in most salons, nail strengtheners remain a bit of a mystery to clients and nail techs alike. Here we tell you how the different types of strengtheners work and when you should use them.
Spa Clients See the Light
Chromotherapy, also known as color light therapy, is a technique with roots in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and India that uses different-colored lights to evoke different physical and emotional responses.
Clear the Air
Good or bad, odor reveals little about salon air quality. Even if your salon rates "sweet" on the smell scale with employees or clients, depend on more reliable measures than your nose to rate your salon's air quality.
Be of Good Cheer
How does Cindy Wentzel, owner of Nails at the Carriage House in Newmanstown, Pa., keep herself sane and her clients happy during the hectic holiday season? She steadfastly tends to her own physical well-being even as she nurtures clients’ spirits with holiday cheer.
The Help Desk Answers Your Technical and Health Questions
Spa Offers Healing Touch To Women In Need
Spa offers soothing relief to women who were victims of domestic violence.