The indispensable guide to nails suitable for every skill level.

Your nails can say a lot about you—so you want them to look their best. The first step to great-looking nails is making sure they're healthy. Then, with a few style secrets, you can make your nails glamorous. Caring for your nails—and the skin around your nails—can be as easy as using the right kinds of tools and as fun as giving yourself a pedicure. And happy, healthy nails look even better with some decoration. Find out about different kinds of nail polish, learn how to get the most out of your polish, and experiment to discover your own style. You can even make your own nail art and stick-on nail decals to add bling to basic polish. With the right tips and tricks, your nails can be works of art!

A manicure is a cosmetic beauty treatment for the fingernails and hands. A manicure can treat the hands, just the nails, or both. A standard manicure usually includes filing and shaping of the nails and the application of nail polish. Care for your twenty nails as best you can.

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.

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.

A guide to manicuring and nail care, providing information on the basic anatomy of the nail, looking at the tools and products used to create perfect-looking nails, and discussing the basics of nail care, color and style, first aid, pedicures, and other topics.

Your nails can say a lot about you—so you want them to look their best. The first step to great-looking nails is making sure they're healthy. Then, with a few style secrets, you can make your nails glamorous. Caring for your nails—and the skin around your nails—can be as easy as using the right kinds of tools and as fun as giving yourself a pedicure. And happy, healthy nails look even better with some decoration. Find out about different kinds of nail polish, learn how to get the most out of your polish, and experiment to discover your own style. You can even make your own nail art and stick-on nail decals to add bling to basic polish. With the right tips and tricks, your nails can be works of art!