Starting and running a profitable nail salon can be a rewarding and challenging venture. However, this is a very competitive market and it is important to plan the business for you to succeed.

All artificial nail products contain acrylate and methacrylate chemical ingredients. Of these, chemicals from the methacrylate family are known to cause the majority of skin contact (contact dermatitis) allergies.

This Daily Mail article published today (20 January 2023) is based on a scientific paper published in Nature magazine on 17 January 2023. As we might expect, there are significant differences in the tone of both articles. 

In many countries, it is a legal requirement for beauty and nail salons to keep Safety Data Sheets (SDS) of all the cosmetic and chemical products used. But apart from this,SDS contain a lot of useful information about the products you will use on clients.

As an increasing number of Nail Technicians and salon clients develop allergies to artificial nail products, companies are racing to introduce safer hypoallergenic or HEMA-free products. Which option should you choose?

Every time we start or discover something new, we are filled with inspiration, expectation, anticipation and excitement. And sometimes you don't know which is bigger: the anticipation or the excitement...

Why? Because everything new is still unknown, unexplored, unfamiliar. And it's normal, it's natural.

But how cool it is to bring newness into life, to open up new perspectives, new opportunities!

We have always been taught to make choices, at work, in the supermarket, in life, etc. And sometimes to do it to the detriment of something.

But very often we want everything and "First" and "Second". And NOT to make a choice, but to take, accept all the options that are given and offered, without sacrificing one for the sake of the other. Do you agree?

Would you like to be able to calculate your the cost of each of your services? Here we explain a simple method to do this.

Seen some acrylic colours that you really like from a different brand? Before you buy, this information may save your career.

The reason that you didn't hear about HEMA 7 years ago, was that back then there were much fewer allergies. Then, you could pretty much assume that anyone who developed an allergy had not been working cleanly i.e. it was self inflicted.