Wellness
The Holiday Season: Fun, Frenzied, Profitable
Plan ahead to capitalize on the holiday season’s profit potential, and you’ll be jolly all through next year.
When Is “Clean” Clean Enough?
The issue of disinfection is confusing and sometimes frightening. But knowing what to use and when alleviates fears and helps keep everyone safe.
Protecting the Salon Environment, Part II
Work safely in the salon by understanding potential chemical dangers and exercising commonsense precautions.
The Nail Doctor: Avoid Spreading Warts Viruses
Warts are a common problem caused by contagious viruses. All warts come from direct or indirect contact with another wart. Each wart makes millions of viruses each day that can be passed to other people and cause warts.
Nutrition and Nails
Nail technicians may perpetuate the myth of diet-caused nail problems by encouraging clients with these complaints to take vitamin supplements to strengthen their nails. But nutrition is a much overrated factor in the nails’ condition.
Editor's Note: Jump-Start Sagging Motivation
Ever have one of those days ... or one of those months? Here are a couple ideas to get you out of your rut.
Protecting The Salon Environment
Understand odors and the need for proper ventilation.
Acrylic Nail Reactions
“The Nail Doctor” is a monthly health column written by Orville J. Stone, M.D., a dermatologist who specializes in diseases of the nail. This column is intended as a guide to help you recognize and understand common nail conditions. Remember, however, that your job as a nail technician is to beautify the nails, not to diagnose or treat physical ailments.
Keep Fit While You Sit
Hunching over client’s nails eight hours a day can lead to neck stiffness and back pain. Here’s how to strengthen the muscles that hold you up.
Drugs in the Workplace: the Signs, the Struggles, the Solutions
When drugs come into the workplace by way of an employee with an addiction problem, you have to approach it carefully and humanely.
The Nail Doctor
It can be very disconcerting for both you and the client to discover one or more green nails on removing her polish.
Preventing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Don’t let repetitive-motion injuries keep you from doing your job.
Find Time For Family
No one said it was going to be easy – but with compromise and imagination (and a microwave), you can find time for family.
Turning Irregular Nails Into Beauties
Problem nail challenge a technician’s skills, but the reward is professional satisfaction for the technician and boosted self-esteem for clients.
Be Water Wise… Not Faucet Foolish
Across the country, salons are finding that a water conservation program is an essential part of environmental awareness.
A Salon Professional’s Guide to Health Insurance
Sky-high premiums, unfair restrictions – it’s enough to make anyone sick.
by Judy Lessin
Ready to Recycle?
Everyone benefits when you start a salon recycling program – the salon, your clients, and the planet.