Federal Research on Nail Salon Safety Concludes Due to Budget Reductions

A federal initiative aimed at studying chemical exposure in nail salons has ended due to staffing and budget changes. Here’s what the project set out to do—and what its conclusion means for salon professionals.

Young Nails Nail Talk: Is Hard Work Enough?

Young Nails' Habib Salo and Tracey Reierson discuss how hard work is just a piece of the puzzle to become successful.

The Nail Hub Podcast

Nail tech Elizabeth Morris is founder of a podacast dedicated to sharing industry news and education. 

Week 8: Pedicures, Shellac, and Nail Art

This week wasn’t any different from last week. We wrapped up all the styles of pedicures. We had a slow week — it rained in San Diego, which is our idea of a snowstorm and most

Nail Those Profits At Sea Round Table

Nail Talk Radio hosts a nail round table at the Vicki Peters "Nail Those Profits at Sea" Cruise featuring Brandy Coull, Jessica Hoel, AthenA Elliott, Karen Hodges, Alex Fox, and Holly Schippers.

Nail Techs Chat About Their Differences & Similarities

Editor’s note: For this piece we paired techs from different facets of the industry and gave them the microphone, so to speak, and got them to interview each other about their experiences in nails. Each tech asked and answered questions about their business, their clients, their motivation, how they cope, pushy coworkers, and, among other things, what they would change if they could. Read on for eight unique perspectives on your industry.

Nail News with Alanna Wall of the Polished Girlz

This intrepid young philanthropist-reporter talks tween and teen trends from Cosmoprof North America.

Nails on the ‘Net

What does “surfing the ‘net”mean? What is that “dot com”thing?

Don’t Talk Products, Talk Business

Your distributor can be the greatest friend a salon business has –if you know how to use them properly,” says distributor Howard Hafetz.