The knowledge and ability needed to provide basic manicure and pedicure treatments are no longer sufficient to enable the manicurist to fulfill all the needs of her clients with regard to nail care. Today's demand is for the exacting skills and knowledge of a nail technician.

Elaine provides all the information a manicurist/nail technician should ever need in her career, taking her from the basic information and techniques involved in manicuring, pedicuring, and nail art through to advanced nail extension work of every variety!

This book is an easy read and contains up-to-date theory and practice on nail technology, as well as comprehensive sections on hygiene, cosmetic science, use and choice of equipment, anatomy and physiology, nail disorders and diseases, and business management.

Suitable for students, manicurists, and nail technicians, salon owners, and lecturers, this book is unique in containing clear, step-by-step technique guidance, as well as much previously difficult to obtain scientific background information, all in an easily readable form. A true A-Z nail encyclopedia that you will refer to throughout your entire career! [Softcover/ 388pp]