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Nail tech Lorri Silvestre started Blue Moon Betties in 2013. This social club brings together women interested in the vintage lifestyle to support a variety of charitable endeavors.
For $10,000 you could get 4,000 bottles of nail polish, 22,000 nail files, 3,000 oz. of acrylic powder, or 250,000 nail tips. We polled a group of NAILS readers to find out how---if offered the chance---they would spend $10,000 to improve their businesses. With answers as varied as nail techs themselves, read on to hear how your colleagues would spend their money if it happened to fall in their laps.
Salon owner Mary Metscaviz says the formula for her two decades of success in the nail industry is total dedication to continually educating herself as well as her clients.
Holly Schippers, nail tech. In her other life: State Director of the Angel Teddy Bear Foundation.
Techs share their tried-and-true methods for avoiding “Oops, I dinged my polish.”
Check out the changes at BeautyTech including a complete color and layout makeover.
Marinello Schools of Beauty raised $91,315 for the Newtown Memorial Fund, which supports victims of the tragic massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Congratulations to the winners of the Strut Your Stuff 8 Nail Art & Enhancement competition sponsored by WWWeb Services and BeautyTech.com. This year’s event enjoyed a record number of entries from 15 countries and 23 U.S. states. Highly respected nail professionals as well as past contest winners sat on the judges panel to evaluate the entrants’ masterpieces. Rita Jasinska of Poland took the title of “Best of Stuff,” earning a $200 cash prize from NAILS.
The latest studies prove it: The more you sit, the less you’re fit. As a nail tech who sits most of the day, you might have come to see your job as a fitness foe. NAILS looks at the research on sitting and suggests ways you can get out of the chair to stand up for your health.
During the NAILS Roundtable Breakfast in Las Vegas, nail techs, salon owners, manufacturers, and educators took a frank look at the state of the industry and discussed the challenges facing nails today. Echoing concerns as old the industry, education and sanitation proved to be the hot topics.
