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Halloween Art and Tutorial

I love love the nail art!  Halloween is one of my favorite times to do holiday nails and they can get pretry elaborate. It doesn't have too!

I have had a pretty good last few weeks with some of my fun clients who love the art too.  Here are a few pictures from my clients who don't mind being models!

S. HAD A GREAT IDEA FOR PUMPKINS IN HALLOWEEN COLORS

         

           A KNEW SHE WANTED MONSTERs

Start with a solid black or the darkest solid purple creme.

Use your dotter's largest and medium balls to make sets of eye whites in a white, glow in the dark or milk green.

Take your medium and small dotter balls and make pupils with your black or purple base color.....and voila!

You can do variations with red and yellow or green pupils to make all kinds of Monsters in the Dark!

Have fun and post pictures here or on my facebook page with you Halloween nails.

Posh to Meet You - When something good comes along

You guys may know as a nail tech I am almost as interested in the how and why of nail services as I am the ewws ans ahhs! I want my clients and well you to have healthy hands and feet as well as good services thay are worth them money. Hence, my obsession with hand creams!

About a month ago, I stumbled upon Perfectly Posh products at a fair. I had never tried anything from the line! I tried a few samples and purchased a Hand Creme.
This Big Fat Yummy Hand Creme was amazing.  It was so much richer the any lotiin I have found that doesn't have lanolin or petro product. Definitely not the watered down feeling you get from the nail industries hand lotions.  The best part- I got online and started researching to company. Its not just the BFYHC but all their products and natural and safe to use with acrylics and gel nail services and make your skin feel fantastic. You no longer have to wash your hands after rich body butters to prevent you nails from lifting!

I havent even started on the scents! But good golly!

Here is a little about the company:

*Pampering products Made in the USA
*Gentle, natural ingredients
*No parabens, paraffins, sulfates, lanolin, or fillers
*Lots of natural butters and essential oils
*Many vegan options
*No animal testing
*Use Essential Oil
*Flat rate shipping

I also like the clever names, cute packaging, and overall marketing of the product itself so I have decided to not only use in the salon but to sell it.

I am addicted to the Big Gat Yummy Hand Creme, Chunk Soap and face masks now.

You need to check out Perfectly Posh and since I know your love it I have a few incentives!

Buy 5 Big Fat Yummy Hand Creme  or any other products and get your 6th free. Just add the 6 and at checkout one will be priced at $0.00. (Some low stock scents not included)

Also check here for a great giveaway!

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JennLoves Posh Perfectly Posh Giveaway

If you haven't heard of Perfectly Posh by now you need to go and read my last blog post.

I love this stuff so much that we're selling it in the salon and I'm using it exclusively for my acrylic and gel nail services.

Go check out our Posh website and come back here and enter to win a posh to meet you bundle with two of my favorite Posh products and a Chapstick. You can buy this bundle yourself for only $20. It's a great way to try out Posh but also a great gift.

The Posh to meet you bundle is a perfect gift for yourself or others because you actually get to pick the difference hand cream trunk and lip balm that you want.

Enter here and good luck!

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Fall / Winter Polishes for Everyone

After a long Summer, thankfully, Fall has most definitely arrived. Finally it's the season for pumpkin spice lattes, knits, and deeper polish shades. Let me help you pick your next CHILLY weather Manicure.

Here are my picks for the cooler weather polish colours.

Reds

Every season needs it's Red it's the color of couture. Whether you're a fire engine red girl  or deep burgundy gal, you can find the perfect red made for winter wardrobe.There are so many gorgeous rouge but I love these two.

(left to right: OPI's Lost on Bombard, CND Shellac's Wildfire)

GREENS &BLUES
Not you grandmother's colors but I promise once these polishes are on you'll never want to take them off. Because of their rich tones and dark shade they pass as a neutral and will go with anything

From left to right: Butter London- British Racing Green,  OPI's CIA- Color is Awesome, China Glaze's Jagged Little Teal

NUDES
Beige, Tan, Taupe, no fall polish collection is complete  without  your basic  nudes and skin tones.They're a Fall classic. Perfect for an easy natural look and to keep your look fresh even in Winter with these warm tones.

(left to right: Zoya's Noah, Essie's Topless & Barefoot, CND Vinylux's  Field Fox, OPI's You Dont Know Jaques)

Greys
You can't go wrong with a grey. Sassy light and classy darks go with it all. Grey is the new....everything! Steels to charcoal cover all the basics. Its bold amd confident but never overstated.

(left to right, CND Vinylux's Silver Chrome, OPI's Dark Side of the Mood, CND Vinylux's Cityscape, China Glaze's Change Your Altitude)

Metallics
Every palette has to have a metallic. The shine gives off the bling to make your nails jewels not just 'make-up' so match your mood not only your clothing.

(left to right:  Essie's Penny Talk, CND Shellac's Locket Love, Zoya's Cinnamon, Julep's Leo)

Have any old favorite you would include or new stunners we need to see? I want to hear and try your faves!

Sanitation Nation!

How safe are your nail services?

A lot of people think because we are working on their 'nails', which are hard or solid, that there isn't much risk for infection. Even if they've hear about infections from acrylic nails, they pass it off as because the acrylic caused it or the nail wasn't allowed to 'breathe'.

Wait, what???

Doesn't that mean it's not solid? You see my problems with the logic, right? People just don't think it's an issue or they don't get how delicate their skin and nails can be. A way I like to think about it is, your nails are your weapon, not your shield. You have to be on the offense and actively ensure your services are preformed in a safe manner, with safe products and sanitary implements and tools.

Prevention starts and ends with the client.

You may ask how is it up to you that your nail services are done in a safe and hygienic way. You decide where you get your services. Clients need to be informed and proactive about your hand and nail care. Here is a list of ways to protect yourself and that your nail tech should utilize.

1. You and your Nail tech should sanitized your hands before any part of the service is preformed. Feet should be soaked for 5 minutes in foot bath and techs hands sanitized.
2. Tools and implements should come from sealed packages from a heat sanitizing system, taken from sanitizing liquid, or taken from a dry storage marked clean and you can see where used implements go after they are used and it is clearly different.
3. Files need to come from same sanitized areas as tools and be clearly marked Sanitizable OR be new for each client and given to client or disposed of after use. (We use new file and buffer for each client, send home file and throw away buffer.)
4. Know what products are being used on you. Know that they are, what they are supposed to be. Antiseptic foot bath instead of Windex (Yes, it has happened), Hand Sanitizer or antibacterial lotion instead of plain lotion in bottle.
5. Pay attention to the cleanliness of your salon and nail tech. Notice if they have healthy hands and nail. If they are wearing gloves, make sure they change into new gloves and toss last pair between each and every client. Gloves are awesome for preventing disease, but only work for the nail tech if they are changed for every client.
6. If you have overlays and see discoloration make sure the product is filed away and the nail exposed so it can be determined if it is in fact a fungus or infection or just something like makeup or dirt that was able to get between nail and product because of lifting.

These are all things we as nail techs and manicurist should be doing, but it's up to you to make sure your services are done safely.

Ivy Vines, Visions by Judy Serrano Blog Tour Review

Ivy Vine, Visions
                 by Judy Serrano
I was given this book to review by the author and CM Book Tours for my honest opinion.

This book was enthralling. No Joke. As soon as I picked Ivy Vines, Visions up, I couldn't put it down. It was like nothing I've ever read. I love all things paranormal especially those that tinker around in biblical dogma, but Judy Serrano took it to a whole other level. This deserves at least 5 stars.

I love to read but seldom do I find a book that I am so immersed in. Like watching the most captivating movie in my own head. I usually liken books to other books, but Ivy Vines got me where the movie The Order, did. You know, the one with Heath Ledger. And it had Heath Ledger going for it too. So, that is saying something.

While we get glimpses of Ivy Vine's early life, we meet her as she is trying to start a new life away from her home town that has so many bad memories, and trying to start over in Sedona. Ivy believed God had answered her prayer and taken away her gift or curse if you want call it like you see it. She was moving to a safe and comfortable place where her best friend and high school sweetheart had gone away to college. She'd have her best friend back and was getting back together with the beautiful Michael.

Ivy has a new job, a new home with Simone but as soon as she thought she could relax she met Eli, their dark, sexy and no so nice boss Eli. As soon as he touched Ivy she had a vision again. A vision of them. They were together. He could be her Guardian or the Devil himself.

Ivy isn't the only one with a gift. She was wrong about being safe in Sedona, and she was wrong about who she could trust. She hadn't escaped him. He had taken her parents away, and he was going to have her, or kill her. Lucifer wanted her, and it was up to her new caretakers to keep her safe. No matter what that meant.

Judy Serrano grips you from the start, but doesn't stop there. She sends you on a roller coaster of emotion with Ivy as she becomes stronger and grows with her gifts and new knowledge. After a ride like this and high expectations, the ending doesn't let you down. I'm still reeling that I have now more to read. I can't wait to read the book from Judy, and I would recommend this book to anyone who loves suspense of any kind.
You can find more reviews of Ivy Vines, Visions by Judy Serrano on Blog Tour on CM BOOK TOURS, HERE. You can pick up your own Paperback or Kindle copy on Amazon or Paperback or Nook at Barnes and Noble.