Google Virtual Tours for Businesses

Via Google Maps' Business Photos program, you can give potential clients a virtual 360-degree tour of your salon space. Results appear on Google Maps, Google Places, and Google search. Visit www.maps.google.com/businessphotos to learn more.

Twenty-Five Bright Ideas

Always trying to think of new ways to help differentiate your salon from the pack? Here’s a compilation of truly unique ideas from other salons to inspire and excite you.

Subtle Geometric Glitter Nails (OPI Starlight Collection)

Trending now for the Holiday season: geometric nail art with a sprinkling of glitter. Get this look using the OPI Starlight Holiday Collection shades Give Me Space, I Drive A Supernova,  and Ce-less-tial is More.

The Good, The Bad, and The Nasty

What are clients saying about their salon visit after they leave? We took that question to several frequent nail salon clients to find out what’s on their minds and see what they really think about you, your salon, and your services.

Get the Looks: Artist Session 2017

Nail tech Joanne Sorbello of Stone Ridge Salon in Stone Ridge, N.Y., created four nail art looks for Artist Session fall 2017. Replicate them using these steps. 

Something Sketchy: Aki Kohno

Aki Kohno of Two Brown Eyed Girls in Los Angeles, worked with NAILS senior editor Beth Livesay to create a negative space neon design for summer.

Sunflower II

Nail salon air filtration for dust removal is easy with the Sunflower II System, from Aerovex Systems. The powerful cyclone draws in gel and acrylic nail dust as well as other air pollutants. The bright 20-watt lamp illuminates the work space with clarity, while still being easy on the eyes.

Salons of the South

Take a stroll with NAILS to a magnolia garden, a lily pond, an old mill town, and a high-tech mecca as we visit some Southern salons and the people who run them.

Celestial Collection

Channeling outer space, Dazzle Dry’s Celestial Summer 2016 collection features bold vibrant colors and soft metallic shades.