My, How They’ve GROWN
From nails-only to full-service, Salon De Nouveau has enjoyed double-digit business growth for the past several years. Owner Cindy Fairchild and her staff are no slackers when it comes to personal growth either.
From nails-only to full-service, Salon De Nouveau has enjoyed double-digit business growth for the past several years. Owner Cindy Fairchild and her staff are no slackers when it comes to personal growth either.
Her career was launched in politics and law, but Joyce Hampers says she never fully appreciated business (despite a stint as Assistant Secretary of Commerce) until she ran her own salon.

At this bustling salon with 13 nail techs, it's all about family and "home-made" products.
Marina Levin, Lana Stanislavsky and Elena Kuuri came to the U.S. from Russia in hopes of making a better life for themselves. Today, the three women own a lavish salon and day spa and are making life better for many people in the Chicago area.

A baby elephant strays from its mother’s watchful eye to sample the vegetation near a client’s feet. Nearby, giraffes gaze over the top of the credenza. It’s just another ordinary day inside Patti’s Nail Safari.

Mixing the old (as in their decor and tried-and-true customer service) with the new (as in the latest and hottest client-pleasing services) is what makes this New Jersey salon a winner in more ways than one.
NAILS first heard of Ciao Bella when nail technician Dynise Rein- bold submitted the salons printed materials to the magazines 1996 Graphics Contest.

Nail Galleria in Pittsburgh takes home the Nail Salon of the Year title again.

The Nail Shoppe, owned by Debbie and Gary Krakalovich, in Toronto Canada is crowned a winner.
When Stevie Ehmer gave up her big-bucks tourist industry job to open a day spa/salon, she was really looking to go home again to relationships, familiar faces, and the comfort of community.

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?
A salon's prestige is built on excellence, not image.
Considered the “Club Med” of nail salons, Judy Franck’s California Nails salon in St. Charles, III., is a whimsical paradise for snow-weary clients.
Whether you take Pucci Salon and Day Spa’s slogan, “The Salon of Choice,” to mean a salon with many choices, or the salon to choose, you’d be right. Between the salon’s full menu of services and owner Debra Capaldi’s unflagging dedication, Pucci is the place.
You’ll get no namby-pamby, perfume-scented, touchy-feely beauty care at The Men’s Room, a new Las Vegas-based salon where “Men can be men.”
“I got started doing nails through my mother, Sandra Bauer, who has been doing nails for almost 30 years now. I always watched my mother work, and I was always fascinated with nails,” saysSheilie Lucke, a German nail technician profiled this month.
From banking to beauty New England native turns nails salon into a sweet success story with a little help from her family