Week One and Two: A Major Adjustment
I knew tackling nail school as a full-time editor would not be easy, and to be honest, I underestimated the commitment.
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I knew tackling nail school as a full-time editor would not be easy, and to be honest, I underestimated the commitment.
Apprehensive at first, nail technician Heather Sweat took a job at a discount salon for some extra cash. She discovered that these often criticized salons have a lot to teach the rest of the industry.
Young Nails president Greg Salo creates this design using the brand's Holo Flash pigment and Art Screens stamps.
When Lisa Jones and De Curtis-Glakas graduate from nail school in a few weeks, it’s the short-sighted salon owner who doesn’t snap these two “newbies” up.
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This week we covered personalities in my Salon Success class. I learned that I am introvertedly intuitive and a structured thinker (I am an introvert, intuitive, structured, and thinking as opposed to sensing).
This week we watched a demonstration with the wonderful Gisela Marti, the creative director for Tammy Taylor Nails. I was so excited to finally have a formal introduction to a brand and product line that I see so many nail technicians are committed to using.
Tammy Taylor demonstrates the "Take Me to the Big City" nail design using a marbling technique, or what she calls an "organized chaos technique." "What I like about this technique is every nail turns out unique so no two nails are alike. A great way to incorporate this design into your nails is, use only one of the colors as the main color on eight nails, either for the whole nail or just the free-edge and then create two accent nails using this main color and then adding two to five more colors for marbling," Taylor says.
But once you have, using an electric file will become habit — a safe one.
A little more than three months down as a part-time nail tech student and I’ve officially completed 200 hours!