Wellness - NAILS Magazine

Wellness

Reflections On A Balanced Life

While I am hardly an expert on balancing work and personal life, I know that since I've begun seeking a balance and creating time for family and friends, my life is richer.

Wellness

Spa Offers Healing Touch To Women In Need

by Staff

Spa offers soothing relief to women who were victims of domestic violence.

Wellness

In the Thick Of It

by Erin Barajas

Well-groomed cuticles can make a good manicure spectacular. Yet, while their importance is without question, the proper care of the eponychium and the true cuticle is often a mystery. Neglected by clients and mistreated by techs, the cuticle area finds itself much maligned. Here we show you what's what and how to keep it all beautiful and healthy.

Wellness

In With the “Om”

by Suzette Hill, contributing writer

Americans' fascination with Eastern philosophies and practices is playing out in salons with fresh twists on manicures and pedicures.

Wellness

Tools to Go

by Felecia Ligon

Fear of disease has prompted many clients to go out and buy their own tools. How do you handle sanitation when using those foreign tools?

Business

Team Spirit: How to Motivate Your Staff

by Lisa Marie Arnold

If your salon team isn't performing as well as you'd like, it could be because of your leadership. Study the systems that will assist each employee in achieving her best: mission statement, employee evaluations, staff meetings, coaching for individuality, and rewards.

Technique

What's the Diagnosis: Dry Skin or Athlete's Foot?

by Suzette Hill

Think someone with athlete's foot would never come in for a pedicure? Think again. What you and your clients describe and treat as dry skin might actually be a mild, but still contagious, case of athlete's foot.

Wellness

Help Desk

by Staff

The Help Desk answers all your questions. Today readers ask about deep cracks in feet and the difference between dry skin and athlete's foot.

The hand at the left has been exposed to the sun one too many times and has many visible age...

Wellness

See Spots Run

by Harvey Abrams, M.D.

Age spots — discoloration of the skin due to sun damage — provide an excellent opportunity for you to educate your clients about treatment options, suggest products and services, and begin treatment in the salon.

Wellness

Hepatitis C: What Are the Odds?

by NAILS Staff

Risk factors for hepatitis: Having unprotected sex, sharing drug needles, administering tattoos or body piercing s with dirty needles ... and getting a pedicure? Not really.

Wellness

Coming Clean On Disinfection

by Suzette Hill, contributing editor

Sterilizing salon implements may make for good marketing, but experts say standard disinfection is effective and would promote greater adherence, resulting in a cleaner, safer industry

Wellness

Let’s Keep Salon Sanitation Simple, and Stick Together

by Cyndy Drummey

Salons know that savvy consumers are wary of dirty salons and so they conduct their sanitation procedures with a great flourish.

Wellness

Nail Separation Anxiety

by Suzette Hill

Onycholysis - separation of the nail plate from the nail bed - may appear innocuous at first, but caution clients against a “wait and see” approach. While you can’t diagnose the condition or its cause, arm yourself and your clients with information.

Wellness

Nail File Disinfection Comes Clean

by Patricia Oropeza, NAILS staff writer

Should nail files be disinfected or tossed after one use? That’s been a hotly debated subject for some time. A group of scientific and nail industry experts may finally have the answer.

Technique

Toe Woes

by Suzette Hill, NAILS contributing writer

Stay a step ahead of clients’ needs by learning to recognize the most common woes that may cause pain and disfigurement to client’s toes.

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