I will be the first to admit that keeping my nails in tip-top (sorry, bad pun) shape is a difficult goal for me. A few years ago as I was doing a little shaping action of my own, my friend, who supplements her income by working as a part-time manicurist, laughed out loud. "It's called an emery board, not a saw," she said.
Just as makeup artists mix their own colors for fashion shows, so do nail technicians. If all goes well, the colors hit stores in the following season. Until then, though, you can do as they do and make your own color.
Behold! The Inkjet Printer That Gives You a Mani Are the latest nail color trends just not enough for you? Are the airbrushed designs offered by nail artists not creative enough? Then hit up this salon in Oakland, which now houses an Inkjet printer with the ability to print digital images on your nails. You can bring in any JPEG, they upload it, and you put your hands inside the printer and voila. Printed nails!
I had so much fun doing research for the
nail polish history quiz a few weeks ago, that I decided to put together another set of questions. This time I've changed it up a bit, and expanded the topics to include not just polish, but other interesting nail care facts, as well. So, take my quiz below, to see if you can achieve great lengths, or if you are short on knowledge.
Deborah Lippmann, founder of
Lippmann Collection, had a busy New York Fashion Week. After giving Mariah Carey not one but two manicures during
Fashion Rocks (she wore Fashion during the Stand Up To Cancer performance and then Rhapsody in White for her solo) she did the nails at Rodarte, Zac Posen and Zegna (which, if you read my post on
nail techs at FW, you know is no small feat). Still, she took a minute to talk to me backstage about a multitude of nail topics, the
first being trends and the second,
neutrals.
