
Warm Milk and Mud Pedicure
Toronto-based Featuring...You Salon & Spa demonstrates how to perform a warm milk and mud pedicure.

Toronto-based Featuring...You Salon & Spa demonstrates how to perform a warm milk and mud pedicure.

Stylux Beauty Salon, based in Glendale, Calif., demonstrates how to perform a Sweet Sherbet pedicure.

Self offers advice on how to get rid of wine-colored stains with tooth whitening products. Use a tooth-whitening pen, gel, or toothpaste once a day for three days to lighten the stain without damaging the nail bed the way buffers do. The key ingredient: hydrogen peroxide.

Celebrity manicurist Tom Bachik gives Glamour three helpful tips to keep nails looking their best.

Hollywood Nails explains how to give clients a luxurious manicure/pedicure with mango oil, sliced oranges, and flower petals.

Don your berets, because Orly’s new Instant Artist Collection promises to help you achieve clean, precise, and colorful nail art designs at every skill level. The collection features 24 water-based shades that each come with a tapered brush for exact placement. The collection also includes four tools: a detailer brush, striper brush, dotter duo, and design tear-off cards that offer suggested step-by-steps.

Dashing Diva’s French Wrap Manicure gives you a quick, easy, and perfect French that really lasts.
From saving money on products to developing an efficient schedule, salon coaches offer practical advice behind the cliché.

If your clients are afraid of this pointy shape, offer up this advice from nail techs who do their best to ensure that beauty doesn’t have to equal pain.
Whether you decide to add a new service, or completely rethink how you’ve set up your salon, commit to making at least one change in your business this year.

When nails are weary, weak, and inching toward the eponychium, a modified nail tip can be a great way to protect nails and encourage them to grow.
Surprise! It’s often said that school does little to prepare techs for the salon environment. And it’s not only the technical challenges that may come as a surprise to the newly minted nail tech.

More and more manufacturers are creating soak-off gels, including ones that look and feel similar to nail polish. New company Hand & Nail Harmony demonstrates how to use its product Gelish Color Gels.

Passion is contagious, and at least several students at Michael’s School of Beauty can testify to this fact.

Though many technicians prefer to sculpt, a pre-made nail tip that can be adhered to the natural nail can give newbie nail techs a nice runway to learn the delicate craft of gel and acrylic sculpting, while providing great-looking results.


Nails by Angel Smith, Young Nails educator