"A Complete Guide to Manicure & Pedicure is crammed with useful information, providing insight into hand, foot and nail problems and their solutions. Clear step-by-step instructions show you how to achieve a range of attractive manicures and pedicures, with glorious full-colour photographs to inspire you. Discover how to maintain the health and beauty of two of the most hard-working parts of your body." - back cover.

Achieve professional looking nails in a multitude of styles to suit all ages and ages.

Skip the spa and give yourself an at-home manicure using the guidance of New York's most celebrated nail expert and founder of Rescue Beauty Lounge. Ji Baek, the high-energy owner of New York's hottest nail salons, the Rescue Beauty Lounge—written about from Vogue to InStyle, Lucky to Harper's Bazaar, used by designers and stylists, patronized by actors, fashionistas, professionals, and more—presents the definitive guide to beautiful hands and feet. Emphasizing natural beauty, cleanliness, and simplicity, it covers the science of the nail, and why it's important to take vitamins, file regularly, and moisturize constantly; the care of the nail, with step-by-step illustrated directions to achieving professional-quality home manicures and pedicures, including tools, techniques, lotions, polishes; the dressing of the nail—shapes, colors, and styles; the health of the nail and the surrounding skin—how to heal split nails, brittle nails, and ingrown nails, and take care of common problems like calluses and sunspots.

The indispensable guide to nails suitable for every skill level.

Looks at manicuring and pedicuring in a commercial environment. Topics covered by this book include bacteriology and sterilization, cosmetic science, equipment and materials, the manicure, the pedicure, nail disorders and diseases and business management.

Marian Newman's The Complete Nail Technician has been written in line with the current NVQ in Nail Services at levels 2 and 3, and will appeal to both students, instructors and practising nail technicians alike. Written by a leading figure in the nail industry, The Complete Nail Technician contains everything you need to know about nails. It covers essential information about the chemistry of artificial nails, as well as comprehensive sections on the anatomy and physiology of the skin and nail unit; preparation of therapist, work area and client; applying and maintaining tips, overlays and sculptured nails; and basic and advanced nail art; as well as providing important health and safety advice. The new third edition has been completely brought up to date and includes inspiring 4-colour images and nail art designs, and easy to follow step-by-steps. It also includes new pedagogical features and increased coverage of business practice to ensure that students and nail technicians alike are better equipped with all-important commercial skills.The Complete Nail Technician is an essential reference manual for practising nail technicians, salon owners and instructors and a great step-by-step guide for beginners.

Covering all aspects of working as a nail technician, this text explains the skills, procedures and practical know-how required to train and work in this exciting industry.

"Fed & Fit offers meal preparation guides and incorporates practical application tools that are centered around the 'Pillars' to ensure complete success and make transitioning to a healthy lifestyle a positive and rewarding experience. Fed & Fit also features expert techniques and fitness recommendations from New York Times Bestselling author and fitness coach Juli Bauer, "--

This lively, colorful, and wide-ranging exploration of the evolution of the painted nail places a fascinating aspect of cultural history at your fingertips. Author Suzanne E. Shapiro traces the origins of the modern manicure as a radical gesture in style and follows it through today's culture of ubiquitous nail salons and edgy experiments in nail art, showing how at every turn the manicure has reflected larger style trends as well as changing ideals of femininity. Unique, accessible, and authoritative, Nails brilliantly connects the painted nail to the history of women's fashion and the evolution of beauty.

This book was written to educate, inform and empower anyone who cares about their own health, safety and well being or that of a loved one. When receiving any type of nail care service, it is imperative you know what to look for and what to be aware of. Unsuspecting clients around the globe have experienced severe allergic reactions to nail care products, infections from dirty manicure tools, amputations, of fingers, toes, limbs, and worse, death. The information in this book will help keep you from being the next victim of a corner cutting, careless, ill trained nail technician. It will also show you how certain chemicals used to create acrylic nails CAN harm your unborn baby, how you CAN contract Hepatitis B and C from dirty manicure/pedicure tools, how you CAN become overexposed to certain nail product chemicals and much, much more. The information found in this book could quite literally save your life or that of someone you know and love.