Your questions answered by Doug Schoon, Melissa Carlini, and David Dyer.
Just because the buffing step is last doesn’t mean it should be glossed over. Perfecting you buffing skills can transform natural or artificial nails from good to great.
From functional to just plain fun, nail files come in hundreds of styles. Most are a matter of personal preference, but there have been some advancements that can make your work faster and easier:
Sanitizable files are becoming a tool of choice in many salons. How do they stack up against their more temporary counterparts?
We asked our readers to tell us how they get their clients to take care of their nails after they leave the salon.
Files are more specialized, offer the technician more features, and come in a greater variety of shapes, colours, and sizes than ever before.
Examine the pros and cons of disposing of, saving, or disinfecting your files.
Simply the one item you cannot do without, the file is the work horse of the nail salon. There is no nail service that you don’t use if for. It is probably your least expensive tool and it’s very likely the tool every one of your clients has at home. But as nail care has become more complicated and more sophisticated, so too even the simplest of implements.
Professional nail files that won’t “rub your clients the wrong way” have been introduced by Simply Elegant of Huntington Beach, California.
