Timing Is Everything

I’ve gotten pretty good at just being blunt and honest when clients arrive too late. I’m usually pretty comfortable telling them that they missed their chance and will have to reschedule. I’m bad, however, at enforcing

A Matter of Perspective, I Suppose

As we all know — and often wish we could shout from the rooftops to the general public — not all nail salons are created equally. Not all nail technicians/nail artists/nail stylists/nailists/onychological enhancement specialists are created

I’m Not Psychic

So a new client comes in the other day for a full set. She tells me that she’s been stalking me online for a while and loves my work. But she has a regular nail tech,

Bradford, Pennsylvania

That's where the BF's family is from. (How am I supposed to say that? Any way I form that sentence to NOT end in a preposition, it sounds stupid!) It's an itty bitty town on the

Here Comes the Bride

Yesterday I got a call from a bride-to-be who wanted some pricing info for her bridal party.  Yikes. In all my years of doing nails, in all the salons I've worked in, the ONLY brides who have

Opaque, Revisited

Quite some time ago you might recall my going off on a rant about the meaning of the word "opaque" and how so many people don't actually use it correctly. Well, yesterday I found myself very

Another Year Over

I was working hard last night, blowing up balloons and curling ribbon, decorating the tiny new salon for the impending New Year. In 17 years I have never managed to get around to decorating for New

But It's Not Your Art!

Look. I like Minx and all its various counterparts as much as the next gal ... Well, OK, maybe not. I want to like it, but honestly, I think it needs some tweaking before I could

Monkey + Banana + Chair = My New Salon

So about a million years ago I remember some teacher of some subject at some school somewhere relaying a little story about a research project about cognitive thinking.  If you put a monkey in a room