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Entity Beauty Does Netherlands Trade Show and Training

Lorena Marquez, director of education for Entity Beauty, Inc., traveled to the Netherlands Utrecth show in late March to launch Entity Beauty’s new True Artistry Colored Sculpting Powders and to lead an educator training seminar with

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Volunteers Needed for D.C.'s Welcome to Our World

If you care about the beauty industry and can be in Washington D.C. on May 9, then I highly encourage you to volunteer your skills at the annual Welcome to Our World event on Capitol Hill.Welcome

Graduation, Now What?

NAILS’ Blueprint of a First Year blogger Alica Best will be teaching a class at the Premiere Orlando trade show for new nail techs who could use some help transitioning from nail school to the real

U.S. Department of Labor Cracks Down on Misclassified Employees

Be warned: If you’re classifying your employees as independent contractors, you may have to answer to the U.S. government. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is focusing its attention on the misclassification of employees

In-Progress Nail Art Documentary Needs Funding

While backstage at the CND Shellac Couture event at America’s Beauty Show, I was thrilled to meet Ashley Crowe, better known as Astrowifey (who runs a nail art blog by the same name), a phenomenal nail

My Favorite Mistake

Sometimes the most painful mistakes you make, turn out to be experiences you learn the most from.

Walgreens’ Nail Salon Photos

I understand the hesitancy among nail techs (and myself, to be honest, at least until I saw the salon in person) about the in-store experience at the nail salon that just opened inside a Chicago Walgreens.

ABS 2012: Win a Salon Website from The Nail Superstore

Drop your business card into the jar at The Nail Superstore’s booth for the chance to win a free salon website. The Nail Superstore just launched a salon website template business as a new offering, and

ABS 2012: Download the App

America's Beauty Show has impressed me in recent years with its tech-savvy. Last year, there was a QR code in the printed program that, when scanned, took attendees to the “ABS Mobile Program (the program and

Create a Salon “Green Team” with Coordinator to Spearhead Efforts, says NAEFSS Report

At least one salon employee must be given the responsibility to carry out environmentally friendly practices at the salon or the initiative will fizzle out, according to a newly released white paper by the National Association