Doing Good While Boosting Your Business
Spa parties can be a great revenue booster, but partnering with a local charity can bring in new clients and set your business apart from the pack.
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SEARCHMENUSEARCHSpa parties can be a great revenue booster, but partnering with a local charity can bring in new clients and set your business apart from the pack.
A raffle held at The Nail Tech Event of the Smokies raised $500 to support Thistle Farms, a Nashville, Tenn.-based charity dedicated to helping women who have survived prostitution, human trafficking, and addiction.
Eager to “pay it forward” and help the next generation of nail techs, celebrated New York City-based nail artist Fleury Rose took her passion for nails a continent away to give women in Medellin, Colombia, a “hand-up” toward achieving emotional and financial independence.
Each color in Sherwin Hora’s new E.G.O Lacquers polish line holds a deeply personal meaning for her.
After building successful nail businesses, these techs set their sights on the greater good. From giving Georgia salon professionals a voice in government to raising pedicure safety standards to putting pressure on Connecticut to add a manicurist license, their accomplishments are everyone’s gain. Get inspired and get involved.
June 7 is Cancer Survivor Beauty & Support Day. Since 2003, beauty professionals have opened their doors on the first Tuesday in June to offer complimentary beauty services to cancer survivors.
Every other Friday the young patients at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, Wash., receive a special visitor — none other than the Nail Fairy. Wearing wings and bearing polish, Martina Ngo is welcomed with broad smiles as she dispenses manicures and good cheer.
The North American School of Podology recently went beyond the call of duty to make a difference to the feet of almost 900 people living on the island of St. Kitts. From January 21 to 24, NASP — along with its graduating class of 2014 — offered a unique free four-day foot care clinic to help Kittitians with skin- and nail-related foot problems.
One of our own is running for State Senate in Georgia’s District 40.
For the past three years, the salon sundries supplier has helped students start their nail careers.
Alanna Wall appeared recently on The Ellen Show to talk about her charity organization Polished Girlz. This incredible young entrepreneur started a non-profit organization that provides manicures for children in hospitals. Ellen had a very special surprise for her! Click here and here for more on Alanna.
Augusta, Ga.-based nail tech Kamisha Winfield believes all young girls deserve to be supported in their dreams and given a positive outlet to express their creativity.
Every year, women are trafficked into the U.S. with the promise of a better life, but instead they find themselves sold as labor or sex slaves. It happens in every industry, including nail salons, massage parlors, and spas.
Sure, human trafficking might not be a subject you expect to see in the pages of NAILS, but it is happening in some nail salons right here in the United States. And thanks to one New York-based salon owner who is shedding light on the sad situation, maybe as an industry we can take a stand and do something about it.
It is estimated that during the years of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade 12 million people were enslaved. Today, the estimate is 27 million worldwide. Some of those slaves are working in nail salons, and one nail tech has had enough.
Carmen Jimenez, nail tech. In her other life: child protective services social worker.
Debra Rowlands, nail tech. In her other life: family/community partnership specialist.