
Salon Facelifts
To stay up-to-date and to keep clients and staff interested and excited, many salon owners have opted to redesign their businesses. Is it time for your salon to go under the hammer and nails for a whole new look?
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To stay up-to-date and to keep clients and staff interested and excited, many salon owners have opted to redesign their businesses. Is it time for your salon to go under the hammer and nails for a whole new look?








Your nail station is one of your most valuable business tools. It is your office, your conference room, your classroom, your showroom, and sometimes even your lunchroom. It is where you do your work and spend much of your day — and you deserve to be comfortable. So what would you change about it if you could? From self-sanitizing stations to elaborately themed decor, techs defy the laws of physics, finances, and convention to come up with some innovative solutions for their individual needs.
Katie Ezzeddine wanted to create a salon that she would want to visit — one that focuses on green products and provides a relaxing ambiance. Her high-end salon, Dolls & Dandy in Mill Valley, Calif., doles out pampering regardless of gender or age.
I just wanted to share this photo of an ideal nail salon breakroom. Found in Da-Lonnie’s Hair & Nail Studio in Las Vegas, it’s referred to as the “After 5 Room” and features rich colors, cute
When Jessica Hoel scouted the perfect place to open her nail studio in Belleville, Wash., she knew it would be a dream come true if the space could serve multiple functions — a gel nail studio, storage for the product line she distributes, a small classroom to teach, and a photo studio.
Whether you are just pondering a salon layout change or you are in the middle of a salon renovation, we hope this article will help guide your direction. A salon layout that accommodates its guests and stylists will help business boom while keeping employees and clients happy.
In honor of the reader-written issue, NAILS asked several nail techs to give us tours of their home salons. Teresa Shackleton gives us a tour of Tee's Nail NV in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Nails 21, a company based in Lisbon, Portugal, shows how to create an ornamnetal design using gels.
Kirsty Meakin of Naio Nails shows how to create this inverted stencil rose nail design using gold and black gel-polish.
Watch as Greg Salo from Young Nails shows how to create a chic design using the Young Nails Pop & Sparkle kit and gel.