continuing education

On My Mind: Making a Difference — One Tech at a Time

In a special guest column, salon and school owner Tina Caton talks about training nail techs to be the best they can be.

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What’s the Most Important Thing You Learned in Beauty School?

Customer service? Technique? Sanitation? We asked readers to share the most important information they took away from their days in beauty school and received a variety of helpful responses.

What’s the Most Important Thing You Learned in Beauty School?

Customer service? Technique? Sanitation? We asked readers to share the most important information they took away from their beauty school days and received a variety of helpful responses.

What's more important for a newly licensed tech to build her business: technical skills or people skills?

With required school hours varying across the country, and some states requiring less than 100 hours to graduate from a nail program, we asked a cross-section of the nail industry — from school instructors to salon owners to veteran nail techs — a timely question: For newly licensed nail techs, what is more important initially in building your business: top-notch technical skills or top-notch people skills? Why?

A Festivus for the Nail Artist in Us

While sports fans were glued to  their televisions the weekend of  Wimbledon, U.K. fashionistas  found a reprieve in the region’s  first Nail Art Festival.

Artistic’s Rock Hard World Tour

To support its new Rock Hard line  of enhancements, Artistic Nail  Design is hosting the Rock Hard  World Tour.

On My Mind: Never Stop Learning

Here are 10 ways to never stop learning even after you’ve entered the workforce.

Nail Tech Event of the Smokies

Are we going to see each other in Gatlinburg, Tenn. this year? I've been counting down the days until this fun, nails-only show and getting the chance to have a great nail time with some of

Using Ketchup to Explain Nail Art -- Seriously!

What is the strangest medium you’ve ever used to explain something nail related? I find myself improvising sometimes in class or in the salon when I am trying to help someone visualize what I am talking

Doing Nails in New Zealand

This weekend finds me in Auckland, New Zealand. I’m here for the beauty expo and to do a class for the nail distributor that brought me over. I’m excited to work for Aimee (shown in the