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Rescue Your Nails
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| Part No: | 0761143777 |
| Manufacturer: | Workman Publishing Company |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.5 / 5.0 |
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Why do women care so much about their nails? It's simple: Well-groomed nails make your hands seem more alive, more important, and definitely sexier. And suddenly it's not just your hands feeling that way, but your whole self—which is why nails, and nail salons, are a huge and growing business, with more than 53,000 salons in the U.S. doing some $6.4 billion in business each year. But now you can skip the spa and do your own nails—and here's the perfect author to show how. 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—how to heal split nails, brittle nails, and ingrown nails. She demystifies the salon, from dealing with technicians to explaining exactly what is in that bottle of mysterious pink lotion; tells how to care for the skin around the nails, including solutions to common problems like calluses and sunspots; and even starts a virtual NBA (nail-biter's anonymous), with tips for quitting the nailbiting habit.
| Happy Customer | 2010-06-28 | 5 / 5 |
| | This is an excellent book detailing the fundamentals of nail care. I also appreciate that the author is very hygiene conscious. From knowing little to nothing about caring for my nails, this is the perfect learning material. Very easy to read with ample photos. |
| Best $12.95 You'll Ever Spend On Your Nails | 2010-03-28 | 5 / 5 |
| | A great, practical, useable book from the front lines of hand and foot care. After battering my feet and toenails with exercise, this book had what I needed to know to get my sad uneven toenails back in shape, and to make my fingernails silky and immaculate. I live too far away to ever go to Ji's salon, but her book is well worth the price. |
| Become your own perfect manicurist and pedicurist | 2010-03-25 | 5 / 5 |
| I picked up this book at my local Borders store and, after skimming through it, I became instantly hooked at the way it engages the reader in the complex topic of self-achievement of the perfect manicure and pedicure. I have always been a fan of doing my own nails and hardly ever visit a salon; however, I had never achieved such wonderfully clean and professional results until now. With glossy photographs and an easy to read layout, nail expert Ji Baek has given us the "secret" to always having the most glamorous-looking hands and feet.
Originally from South Korea, Baek was a musician who eventually got a condition in her fingers which precluded her to continue playing. It was then when she launched herself into research for her dream of becoming a "nail stylist" (of sorts). She runs the "Rescue Beauty Lounge" store in New York City, and has her own brand of nail polish, bath line and tools. Thanks to the step by step instructions, which are accompanied by excellent graphics and photos, one can finally say good-bye to the days of ugly looking hands and feet, as Ms. Baek's new book, "Rescue your nails" is the surefire ticket to fantastic, self-made manicures and pedicures. Throughout it, there are discussions on color theory, tools of the trade (including a very practical shopping list), suggestions and considerations for choosing a nail spa, as well as Ji's very own, proven program for NBA (Nail Biters Anonymous).
A few things that I picked up from the book go from Baek's insistence in sterilization of the tools after each use, even when the usage has been at our own home - the idea made me run to my own manicure-pedicure kit and sterilize it right then and there (something, I'm ashamed to say, I had never done before); to the attention to detail and thought behind every color of nail polish in her line, with one in particular called "Underwear", that instantly caught my attention and cannot wait to try - a neon white which can be worn alone or underneath other colors to "spark" their brilliance in a unique way.
As I get familiar with performing all the right steps to perfect manicures and pedicures at home, I am keeping the book next to my kit in the bathroom, since I do not want to miss any steps when performing them. The author claims in the cover that she can save the reader up to $1,080 per year in nail care. I have tried the techniques and they feel - and look - extremely professional. As for the savings, well... it is just an added bonus. |
| Very nicely done! | 2010-01-08 | 5 / 5 |
| | I found it to be very clearly written and informative. The layout of the book itself is beautiful and the photos are lovely. I was pleasantly surprised at the mini history lesson of nail care at the start of the book, something I've never really thought about until then. I'd recommend this book to someone who was apprehensive about taking their nail care into their own hands (pun very much intended). |
| At least buy it used | 2009-12-10 | 2 / 5 |
| I agree with the other 2-star reviewer. Most of what's written is common sense (did you need to buy this book to know you can use face cream for your hands and feet?). And there's other misinformation, as in what autoclaving really entails: no, not dry heat but heating to 121 degrees Celsius under steam pressure; in other words, moist heat. I absolutely agree with Kokopelli about heading to the podiatrist for treatment of ingrown toenails. And I do not agree with tossing sandpaper files after single-uses, nor with the need to sterilize your own instruments each time you use them. I agree with not sharing, and naturally, I expect the nail spa I patronize to sterilize instruments between clients. But the file you use at the edge of your nails can't transmit anything (assuming your nails are healthy already); the edge of your nails is just protein. And if your instruments are solely for your own use, there's no reason not to wash with anti-bacterial soap and water or wash with 70% isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol as you see fit, to sanitize your own instruments. I find that all-metal files leave my nails ragged.
I also found the instructions on proper nail filing to be pretty long-winded. And the hand model used in the photos, although she has nice nails, has quite short nails with no polish. I would would have preferred to see another hand model with longer nails wearing some of RBL's lovely colors (BTW, the quality of RBL polishes is very nice, though they are pricey). The foot model had misshapen feet; I couldn't appreciate the pedicure at all. Here again, another model would help the book.
The sidebar warning about using polish when pregnant was, im my opinion, hysteria and hype. You ask your OB-GYN and he/she will answer according to his/her malpractice premiums. If you look at the literature (I did), you'll see that there's no reason not to do your nails while pregnant as long as there's proper ventilation. (I mean: polishing natural nails and not doing acrylics.)
Finally, I wonder why the book even deals with acrylic nails! Shouldn't a book called "Rescue Your Nails" tell you how not to need them? |
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