
The 7% Solution
When choosing professional products to use in your services, the product cost for each service should amount to approximately 7% of the service price.
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When choosing professional products to use in your services, the product cost for each service should amount to approximately 7% of the service price.






Featuring Doug Schoon and David Dyer
Reach for the Star(s): Elaine Watson has a very long title at Star Nail International. In addition to being vice president of marketing and sales, she’s also the global education director. That means she wears a lot of hats. Her main focus is on Cuccio Veneer gel-polish and Cina nail art lines.
Misk Nail Spa in Instanbul, Turkey, uses its own custom magnolia-scented products in this floral manicure.
A neuroma is a thickening of nerve tissue that may develop in various parts of the body, often the foot.
Everything grows better in fertile soil. It’s time to start enriching the salon atmosphere to get the most valuable and productive ideas yet. Whether you are the owner or an employee, there is always room for new ideas.
This collection includes festive shades.
Embellishments are all the rage right now, and a popular trend called “Blackberry Bling” is all about beautifying your clients’ dialing digit. Named by celebrity manicurist Dawn Sterling of The Back Room Hand & Foot Spa at Carol’s Daughter in Harlem, N.Y., the trend features a basic manicure in one color and special embellishments or a different shade of polish just on the thumb and/or ring finger.
An education in cosmetology can change lives. Nowhere is this more evident than in post-war Afghanistan, where a three-month course at Kabul Beauty School & Oasis Spa gives graduates the capability to earn three to four times the national average salary.
Nails by Leticia Lujan, Attitudes with Style, Bakersfield, Calif.