
Clear the Air
Good or bad, odor reveals little about salon air quality. Even if your salon rates "sweet" on the smell scale with employees or clients, depend on more reliable measures than your nose to rate your salon's air quality.
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Good or bad, odor reveals little about salon air quality. Even if your salon rates "sweet" on the smell scale with employees or clients, depend on more reliable measures than your nose to rate your salon's air quality.







Whether a result of inexperience or bad habits, these 10 troubles tend to consistently trip up techs. Can you honestly say you have never committed any of these major missteps?
Let’s continue to shine, continue to spread light, joy and love to all around us! We’ll make a difference one smile, one hug, one nail service at a time!
Naio Nails' Kirsty Meakin creates this design perfect for Mother's Day using acrylics and Urban Graffiti gel-polish for the designs.
Clean up the book? Update client files? Isn’t that like cleaning out the attic — a good idea, but not something you actually get around to? It’s a matter of setting aside the time — your clients will notice and your retention rate might improve.
We’ve all had them and we’ll have more of them too, but we hold the power to turn a day that is spiraling out of control into a success. Before you let fists fly, take a breath and rise above.
Candice Idehen didn’t just want to build a successful business, she wanted to build a community of women, children, and men in her Harlem neighborhood who enjoy treating themselves to the services nail salons have to offer.
Fariha Ali of Los Angeles, shows how to make this nail design for the contemporary bride.
The distinction between a spa and a salon is a blurry one — at times the designation is more a marketing tool than any real indication of the level of service. NAILS asked writer Pamela Yaeger — a beauty industry outsider — to sample a few nail spas in her area and give us her perspective on what makes a spa the real deal.
Gas prices exploded last year. Everyone — salon owners, booth renters, manufacturers, and distributors — has been affected differently by the surge. Some of the effects, like customers cutting corners, are expected; others, like taking more time for services, are not.