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Vanilla Latte Manicure
Created by MiniLuxe Nail and Beauty Lounge, Newton, Mass.
1. Remove old polish, soak the clients ngers, and apply cuticle eliminator. 2. Open a fresh package of implements. Prep nails. 3. Exfoliate hands with LaLicious Coffee Bean Sugar Souffl Scrub. 4. Massage hands and arms with LaLicious Vanilla Body Butter. 5. Clean nails with alcohol. 6. Apply base coat and polish. (Optional) To continue the theme, use OPIs Los Angeles Latte or Espresso Your Style. Apply top coat. 7. Allow the client to dry her hands at the drying bar and apply OPI Drip Dry to nails.
Ingredients
LaLicious Coffee Bean Sugar Souffl Scrub and Vanilla Body Butter cuticle eliminator polish base coat top coat OPI Drip Dry
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Minx Lamp Minx Nail Templates rubbing alcohol and pad crystal le
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Dress to Impress
Created by DaLonnies Hair & Nail Studio, Las Vegas
1. Purchase small metal utensils at a local craft store that will make nice impressions on the nail. Paper clips can be used as well. Try bending them into interesting designs. 2. Dip impression tools into acrylic powder so the wet acrylic wont stick to the tool. 3. Apply a layer of Young Nails Pink Acrylic, and while it is still wet press the impression tool into the acrylic and remove immediately, leaving an impression. 4. Sculpt the free edge with Young Nails Black Acrylic. 5. Press the impression tool into the black acrylic and remove immediately, leaving an impression. 6. Pinch a C-curve into the nail. Apply black acrylic and silver glitter and acrylic to the impressions on the nail. 7. File off the excess acrylic and shape the nail. 8. Apply Young Nails Finish Sealer for a high shine.
Ingredients
small metal utensils (paper clips work as well) Young Nails Pink and Black Acrylic, Artistic Nail Form, and Finish Sealer
Ingredients
California Mango Mudd Mask Extreme Crme, Mango Magic Cuticle Treatment Oil, and Natural Cuticle Softener coconut, lime, tangerine, and citrus essential oils Qtica Smart Spa Exotic Mango Sugar Scrub Essie lotion (Kiwi Lime or Coconut Pineapple) polish, base coat, top coat
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Zen Manicure
Created by Yuko System Salon, Beverly Hills, Calif.
1. Soak the clients hands in either green tea or cherry blossom water (their choice). 2. Exfoliate the clients hands using Phi Ten USA Green Tea Scrub. 3. Brush hands with paraffin for softness. Leave on for 5-10 minutes. 4. Using stress stones, perform a hot stone massage. 5. File, shape, and polish the nails. 6. Do a nal hand massage with Phi Ten USA Green Tea Lotion.
Ingredients
green tea cherry blossoms Phi Ten USA Green Tea Scrub and Lotion
1. To create the scrub, stir together the sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, apricot kernel oil, jojoba oil, almond oil, and apple oil. Pour the minced apple on top. Serve hot apple cider to your client. 2. Soak hands in warm water. Add a cinnamon stick and a soaking tablet that youve sprinkled with apple oil or nutmeg to the soak. 3. Prep nails. 4. Exfoliate hands with the homemade autumn apple pie scrub. 5. Massage hands and arms with CNDs Scentsations (in Apple & Cinnamon). 6. Polish nails. 3/4 cup brown sugar 1 tsp. ground cinnamon OR 2 drops cinnamon essential oil cinnamon stick 1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg OR 2 drops nutmeg essential oil 3 tsp. apricot kernel oil 3 tsp. jojoba oil 2 tsp. almond oil 1/2 fresh apple, minced
Ingredients
1/8 tsp. apple oil (optional) soaking tablet CND Scentsations Lotion (in Apple & Cinnamon)
Vinomanicure
Ingredients
Napa Valley Spa brand Grapeseed Bath Tea, Grapeseed and Rosemary Scrub, and Lavender Grapeseed Lotion
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Full-Coverage Nails
Created by Dashing Diva (multiple locations)
1. Sanitize your and your clients hands. Remove polish and clean the nail plate with acetone. Push back the cuticles. This is crucial to obtain an accurate t. 2. Organize the nail sizers by arch and C-curve. Measure the clients side arch, C-curve, and width of each nail. Arrange the nails in the proper order. 3. Prep the nail bed by lightly buffing the nail plate with a 180- to 240-grit le to remove shine. (You can trim the natural nail down or leave the nails the original length.) Remove dust with a nail brush, then apply Start Right pH Balancer, or any pH balancing agent, to the nail plate. 4. With a Swipie or a Q-tip, apply Skin Shield to the exposed areas around the nail bed. 5. Apply Rapid Bond Glue to the bottom third of the full-coverage nail. Slowly lower the nail onto the nail plate at a 45-degree angle and hold it in place for ve seconds. 6. Using a Swipie or Q-tip, clean any excess glue from around the nail and under the free edge. 7. Holding the nger angled downward, apply Bond Accelerator around the base of the nail near the cuticle and under the free edge. 8. Cut and shape the nails to the length and shape the client desires. 9. (About two weeks later) When its time for removal, the client can either soak off the nails in acetone at home or in your salon. In the salon environment, a Sonic Touch Nail Remover, an ultrasonic nail remover that safely warms acetone, gives the client the fastest soak-off time.
Ingredients
acetone Q-tip Prescription Nails Starter Kit: Skin Shield, Rapid Bond Glue, Bond Accelerator, nail sizers, full-coverage nails, Start Right pH Balancer
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Belle Luce Cranberry Fig Sugar Scrub Dr. Hauschka Cleansing Cream fresh cranberries pure raw organic almond oil base coat top coat polish
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The Stiletto
Created by Lynn Lammers, Redlands, Calif.
1. Shape and le the natural nails. Remove the surface shine, dust the nails, and apply primer to all 10 nails. 2. Sculpt all 10 moons with glitter acrylic. 3. Go back to your rst nail and apply the form. (Pinch the end of the form into a point in order to achieve the stiletto tip.) 4. Using a pink camouage powder, extend the nail bed out past the natural free edge. Keep the camouage pink very thin. 5. After youve extended the nail bed, apply the white tip in an extreme stiletto shape. 6. When youre satised with the smile line, apply a transparent pink acrylic over the entire nail bed to add depth to the nail. 7. File the nails to rene the shape and dust them off. 8. Apply a UV gel top coat and cure.
Ingredients
nail form glitter acrylic pink camouage powder white acrylic UV gel top coat
Ingredients
Universal Companies Cuticle Oil and Clair Topper Cuticle Remover Bodipure Green Tea Soak Pevonia Botanica EXFO-ZYM Caviar Hand & Foot Peel Youth-Renew Caviar Hand & Foot Mask, and Cream OPI Drip Dry Onyx Professional Mink Oil Spray base coat, top coat, polish
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Warm Milk & Wildcrafted Lavender Manicure
Created by Spa Radiances PURE, San Francisco
1. Prepare soaking bowl with warm milk, rose petals and French lavender. Mist environment with SpaRitual Innitely Wise Fragrance Mist. 2. Perform consultation with client and let her choose appropriate bath salt (SpaRitual Close Your Eyes Salts, Open Your Eyes Salts, or Look Inside Salts.) 3. Wash and dry hands. Sanitize hands with SpaRitual Visionary Cleanser. Prep nails. 4. Apply a generous amount of SpaRitual Cuti Quench to cuticles. Massage and soak. 5. Soak hands in SpaRitual Harmonizing Soak Tonic and one scoop of chosen salts. Pat hands dry. 6. Apply SpaRitual Cuti Clean to nails. Remove stains with cotton pad. Push back cuticles. Brush nails clean. Dry. Nip dead tissue. 7. Apply a drop of SpaRitual Cuti Cocktail to cuticles and massage. 8. Apply a warm layer of SpaRitual Innitely Loving Oil and a generous amount of SpaRitual Affirming Scrub Masque over the oil. Gently scrub in a circular motion for three minutes. 9. Wrap hands in plastic and cover with a warm towel for ve minutes. Rinse hands to remove the masque and clean beneath the free edge. Pat dry. 10. Spray SpaRitual Eloquent Toner on hands and arms. 11. Apply SpaRitual Instinctual Moisturizing Lotion to hands and arms. 12. Remove residue with Visionary Cleanser and wipe nail. 13. Apply base coat, strengthener, two coats of polish, and top coat.
milk rose petals French lavender SpaRitual Innitely Wise Fragrance Mist, Close Your Eyes Salts/Open Your Eyes Salts/Look Inside Salts, Visionary Cleanser, Cuti Quench, Harmonizing Soak Tonic, Cuti Clean, Cuti Cocktail, Innitely Loving Oil, Affirming Scrub Masque, Eloquent Toner, Instinctual Moisturizing Lotion base coat, strengthener, polish, top coat
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fresh fruit (avocado, strawberries, kiwi fruit, papaya) King Research Love & Kisses Protective Cream for Hands & Skin
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Colorful (Acrylic) French Mani
Created by Christies Nails, Ocean View, Hawaii
1. Remove the old product with tip cutters or by ling it down. 2. Cut away any lifting and prep the nail before lling the cuticle area. 3. Grasp the nger securely using an over-hand grip. This gives you more control when you are ling. Pull the nger away from the nail so you can le deeper into the corners without touching the skin with the le bit. Use a carbide bit to carve the smile line. Set your electric le to a very slow speed. Brace your right hand against your clients nger with your pinky. You must always brace your right hand to have control. Run the edge of the carbide bit along the nail starting up in the corner and continuing down into the smile. 4. When you have gone a little more than halfway across the nail you may want to adjust where you are bracing your pinky so you can carve up into the other corner of the nail. 5. Make sure you remove nearly all of the old colored acrylic. 6. Apply a nail form. 7. Place one acrylic bead at the end of the nail on the nail form. Press the product up into one corner of the smile, then up into the other corner. At this point it is not necessary to keep the smile line clean. You can overlap the tip color onto the smile line just make sure you have the product tucked all the way up into the corners. 8. With a carbide bit, rene the smile line, removing excess product. When the excess acrylic has been removed you will be left with a crisp smile line. File and shape the nail. 9. (Optional) Apply a UV gel top coat as the last step.
Ingredients
carbide bit nail form tip cutter 3:1 mix ratio of colored powder to glitter UV gel top coat
Ingredients
fresh lemon organic sugar grapeseed oil cuticle softener Qtica Mandarin Honey Moisture Mask and Mandarin Honey Lotion base coat, top coat, polish Ergo Soy Candle (in lemon verbena)
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Rosetini Manicure
Created by Mimosa, Hermosa Beach, Calif.
1. Place Epicuren After Bath Rose Petal Moisturizer, Serendipteas Shanghai Rose Petal and White Tea loose tea, and cuticle remover in small bowls. 2. File and shape the nails. 3. Add Aromatherapy Massage Rose Oil and water to the loose tea. Have the client soak her hands for a few minutes. 4. Apply cuticle remover and perform cuticle work as needed. 5. Lightly spray the hands and arms with Aromatherapy Freshening Mist in White Rose Petal. 6. Massage hands and arms with massage oil. 7. Place hands in paraffin dip. Wrap the hands in plastic and towels for a few minutes. Remove oil and paraffin using towels. 8. Spray rose-scented mist on the hands and arms. 9. Massage moisturizer into hands and arms. 10. Remove excess lotion with a towel. Remove excess lotion from the nails. Apply polish.
Ingredients
Epicuren After Bath Rose Petal Moisturizer Aromatherapy Freshening Mist in White Rose Petal and Massage Rose Oil Serendipiteas Shanghai Rose Rose Petal & White Tea paraffin
French Twist
Ingredients
CND Performance Tips CND Acrylics: Soft White, Silver Shimmer, Neutral Opaque, Perfect Pink, Metro Brown, and Copper CND Solar Oil CND Boomerang
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Raspberry & Roses Manicure
Created by Mystic Nails, Puerto Rico
1. To make the scrub, combine the yogurt and olive oil. Tear the rose petals into tiny pieces, then stir them in. Put the mixture in the refrigerator until chilled. Stir in the sugar immediately before use. 2. Soak hands in warm water. Add rose petals and river rocks to the bowl. 3. Exfoliate hands with the homemade raspberry sugar scrub. Do not rinse. 4. Using a spray bottle, spray chilled rose water onto the hands to start removing the scrub. 5. Use towels dipped in chilled rose water to completely remove it. Once the scrub is completely rinsed off, spray hands once more with the rose water. 6. Prep nails. 7. Massage hands and feet with any oral lotion. 8. Polish nails.
Ingredients
2 1/2 oz. raspberry yogurt 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 1/2 Tbs. olive oil 2 roses, remove (and reserve) petals river rocks rose water oral-scented lotion base coat, top coat, polish
Ingredients
mo clay canes razor blade glitter and colored acrylic two orangewood sticks pink acrylic 180-grit le, or e-le with medium-grit sanding band UV gel top coat (optional)
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Cosmopolitan Manicure
Created by Lavender Nail and Body Studio, Oakland, Calif.
1. Sanitize your and your clients hands. 2. Place your clients hands in a martini glass filled with CND Scentsations Wash (in cranberry), red food coloring, fresh lime slices, and Epsom and rock salts. 3. While wearing terrycloth gloves, exfoliate your clients hand and lower arm with Qtica Lime Zest Sugar Scrub. 4. Wrap hands in steamed towel for a minute, allowing sugar crystals to dissolve. Slowly pull off the towel to remove the scrub. 5. Prep nails. 6. Perform a double massage first massage CND Scentsations Lotion (in cranberry) onto hands and arms, then massage Qtica Lime Zest Therapy Lotion onto hands and arms. 7. Apply Nail Tek Hydration Therapy base coat, two coats of polish, and top coat.
Ingredients
CND Scentsations Wash and Lotion (in cranberry) lime slices Qtica Lime Zest Sugar Scrub and Therapy Lotion red food coloring Epsom and rock salts Nail Tek Hydration Therapy base and top coats and polish
Ingredients
Young Nails French Pink and Frosted Pink Acrylic (equal parts) Black Acrylic Clear Acrylic and Ice Glitter (mixed together) Celebrate Confetti Finish
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Magic Massage
Created by Elaine Watson, Valencia, Calif.
1. Start the massage by giving your client a relaxer movement. This will loosen up stiff joints and prep the hands and arms for the massage. Place the clients elbow on a cushion covered with a towel, and brace the arm with your hand. Then with your other hand hold the clients wrist and bend it slowly back and forth. Bend it ve to 10 times until you feel the client is relaxed. Then glide your hands down to the ngertips. 2. Begin the full massage using a teaspoon size dollop of Cuccio Natural Body Butter in a scent she chooses. Slowly bring the clients arm down and brace it with your left hand. With your right hand, hold the little nger at the base of the nail and gently rotate it to form circles, about three to ve times. Work each nger, from the pinky toward the thumb. 3. Next make circular palm movements. Place the clients elbow on the cushion and, with your thumbs in the clients palm, make circular movements in opposite directions. 4. Now make circular movements on the wrist. Hold the clients hand with both of your hands, placing your thumbs on top of the clients hand and your ngers below the hand. Move your thumbs in a circular movement in opposite directions from the clients wrist to the knuckle on the back of the hand. Move up and down, three to ve times. 5. The last time you rotate up, wring the clients wrist by bracing your hands around the wrist and gently twisting in opposite directions. Then glide your hands up to the arm and slowly and deeply rub in circular motions back down to the wrist. Do this on both sides of the arm.
Ingredients
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African Rooibos Brewed Tea and Leaves Body Shop Shea Butter Scrub and Shea Body Butter base coat, polish, top coat
pedicures
Green Tea Pedicure
Created by Benu Spa & Salon, Dallas
1. Light a green tea-scented candle and serve green tea while the pedicure is being performed. 2. Soak the feet in soy-enzyme milk. 3. Mix Yamaguchi Spa Green Tea Clay and warm distilled water in an Asian mixing bowl using a whisk. This should be done in front of the client. 4. Apply a thin paste to the feet and legs. Wrap the legs in warm towels. 5. While the paste is drying, le and shape the toenails. 6. Brush off the dry clay using a loofah glove or with your hands. 7. Using tea bags soaked in warm water, press the tea bags to the skin to remove any residue. Do not wash as the clay contains many moisturizing benets. 8. Massage Yamaguchi Spa Green Tea Lotion into the feet and legs. 9. Lightly spray legs and feet with Yamaguchi Spa Green Tea Firming Spray and gently pat into the skin. The spray is a light oil that seals in moisture. 10. Use a foot le as needed on the heels. 11. Apply polish or buff the nails.
Ingredients
Yamaguchi Spa Green Tea Contouring Lotion, Firming Spray, and Clay soy-enzyme milk distilled water green tea bags polish, base coat, top coat
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1. Soak feet in a warm bath infused with organic dried mint and Soothe Your Senses Refresh Foot Bathe, a blend of sea salts and dried chamomile. 2. Cleanse and exfoliate feet with Soothe Your Senses Renew Foot Scrub, a mix of cane sugar, sage, and tea tree oil. 3. Apply Soothe Your Senses Revive Foot Creme, a deep moisturizing mask. 4. Cocoon feet within a fresh, cooling peppermint leaf wrap, then warm feet with hot towels. 5. Massage legs and feet with Soothe Your Senses Replenish Leg & Foot Moisturizer. 6. Trim, le, and polish nails.
Ingredients
Soothe Your Senses Refresh Foot Bathe, Renew Foot Scrub, Revive Foot Creme, and Replenish Leg & Foot Moisturizer organic dried mint peppermint mint wrap polish base coat top coat
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Peppermint Spa Pedicure
Created by Pamper Me Please Travel Spa, Washington, D.C.
1. Light a Harvest Lights All Natural Soy Peppermint Twist Candle to set the mood and serve the client peppermint tea. 2. Mix water with a few drops of Peppermint Essential Oil and shake up the mixture. Spray the mist on a warm eye cloth and place over the clients eyes. 3. Add fresh organic mint leaves, Peppermint Mineral Crystal Soak, and a Traditional Medicinals Organic Peppermint tea bag to the foot bath. Soak the clients feet. 4. Spray Peppermint Refreshing Foot Spray on the feet. 5. Prep nails. 6. Apply Cooling Peppermint Foot Mask to feet. 7. Apply Cooling Peppermint Foot and Leg Gel to feet. 8. Exfoliate feet with Peppermint Pumice Foot Scrub. 9. Spray hot towels with the Peppermint Essential Oil mist, wrap them around the clients feet, then remove. 10. Apply Peppermint Foot Lotion or Peppermint Cooling Intensive Foot Rescue (for feet in need of extra moisture). 11. Add Peppermint Essential Oil to unscented paraffin, then dip clients feet in wax, and remove. 12. Polish toenails, and send the client home with a bag of mints.
Ingredients
Traditional Medicinals Organic Peppermint Tea Bags organic mint leaves The Body Shop Peppermint Mineral Crystal Soak, Peppermint Refreshing Foot Spray, Cooling Peppermint Foot Mask, Cooling Peppermint Foot and Leg Gel , Pumice Foot Scrub, Peppermint Foot Lotion or Cooling Intensive Foot Rescue peppermint essential oil unscented paraffin wax Harvest Lights All Natural Soy Peppermint Twist Candle base coat, top coat, polish
Ingredients
Buddha Nose Detox Bath Salts and Bodhi Balm Naturopathica Citrus Salt Scrub Cuccio Natural Earth Stone Lava Pumice Priti matte base coat
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Beach Feet Pedicure
Created by Andrew Michaels Spa Salon, Boston
1. Soak feet in Jessicas Blissful Bath to sanitize and deodorize feet and soften skin. 2. Clip and shape the nails and apply Jessica Gentle Cuticle Remover Gel. Return feet to soak. 3. One at a time, dry feet and brush with Callo Peel. Wrap both feet in plastic and allow to sit for at least 10 minutes. 4. Push back cuticles, clean nails, and remove excess dead skin around the nails. 5. Rinse feet lightly. Apply Jessicas Purify Enzyme Scrub to both feet and legs, massaging each foot and calf. 6. Rinse feet and buff with a foot paddle. 7. Brush Jessicas Balanced Stimulating Mint Mask onto feet and legs. Rinse off after ve minutes. 8. Apply Jessicas Pampered Silkening Souffle and perform a thorough massage on legs and feet. 9. Mist feet with Jessicas Refreshed Foot Spray. 10. Remove excess lotion from the nail bed and apply base coat, polish, and top coat.
Ingredients
Callo Peel Jessicas ZenSpa line Blissful Bath, Gentle Cuticle Remover Gel, Purify Enzyme Scrub, Balanced Stimulating Mint Mask, Pampered Silkening Souffle, Refreshed Foot Spray base coat, polish, top coat
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1. Add a few scoops of One Minute Manicure Oxygen Pops to the pedicure water. Drop in a few slices of fresh lemon. Allow feet to soak. 2. Perform the basic pedicure steps. Clip and shape the nails, reduce the cuticles and callus, and push back the cuticles. 3. Mix one scoop of Oxygen Pops with a dollop of Head to Toe Total Body Sugar Buff. Massage mixture into the foot and calf. Repeat on other leg. 4. Rinse scrub off, using lemon slices to help. 5. Massage legs and feet with Essie Smoothie Lotion in Lemon & Guava. 6. Wrap both feet in a hot towel scented with Estelinas Oil Therapy in Lemon Spice. 7. Finish with another light massage using Estelinas Oil.
Ingredients
One Minute Manicure Oxygen Pops Essie Smoothie Lotion in Lemon & Guava Estelinas Essential Oil Therapy in Lemon Spice Head to Toe Total Body Sugar Buff fresh lemon slices
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Champagne Pedicure
Created by A Perfect Pair Nail Salon & Spa, Dunedin, Fla.
1. Prepare a soak made with Keyano Aromatics Champagne Fizz Ball and a splash of champagne. 2. Soak the clients feet for 15 minutes. Serve chilled champagne, freshly dipped chocolate-covered strawberries, and red grapes. 3. Manicure toenails. 4. Exfoliate feet with a freshly made champagne and grape salt scrub that consists of Epsom salt, crushed green grapes, and a splash of Keyanos Champagne Oil. 5. Apply Keyanos Champagne & Rose Butter Cream to warm feet to moisturize and soften. Let penetrate for 10 minutes. 6. Rinse feet. Massage Keyano Champagne Oil into the feet and legs. 7. Cleanse and polish toenails. 8. Apply nail art (optional).
Ingredients
Keyano Aromatic Champagne Fizz Ball, Champagne Oil, Champagne & Rose Butter Cream champagne Epsom salt crushed and pureed fresh grapes OPI polish: Birthday Babe and Happy Anniversary base coat top coat
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1. Bathe feet in a basin of owers containing passion fruit and aloe vera extracts and a calming foot soak that includes anti-bacterial tea tree oil. 2. Shape toenails, tidy up cuticles, smooth feet and heels with a foot le. 3. Mix a sea salt scrub with a jasmine essential oil and massage into feet and legs to moisturize skin. 4. Rinse off the product and apply a peppermint mask. Wrap feet and legs for ve minutes and remove the product with hot towels. 5. Offer a paraffin dip. 6. Massage feet and legs with lemongrassbased essential body oil. 7. Apply base coat, two coats of polish, and a top coat.
Ingredients
fresh owers foot soak with tea tree oil sea salt scrub jasmine essential oil peppermint mask lemongrass oil unscented massage and body oil paraffin passion fruit and aloe vera extracts polish, base coat, top coat
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Pick-Me-Up Pedicure
Created by Samone Spa Bar, Chicago
1. Fill the pedicure basin with CND SpaPedicure Foaming Sea Soak. 2. Trim and le nails to desired length. 3. Protect hands with gloves, then apply Be Natural Callus Eliminator to dry areas on soles of feet. Be careful not to allow it to come in contact with broken skin. Wrap feet with paraffin protectors. 4. Remove protectors after ve minutes. Rinse thoroughly. 5. Use a foot le to gently remove dry skin. 6. Exfoliate with CNDs Sea Salt Glow or a.h.a. Sea Scrub. 7. Massage a small amount of Warm Spirit Special Attention Cream or CND Cucumber Heel Therapy on feet for three to ve minutes. 8. Wrap feet in hot towels to produce a calming effect. 9. Polish toenails.
Ingredients
CND SpaPedicure Foaming Sea Soak, Sea Salt Glow or a.h.a. Sea Scrub Be Natural Callus Eliminator Warm Spirit Special Attention Cream or CND Cucumber Heel Therapy polish, base coat, top coat
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1. Add a Cuccio Milk & Honey Fizz Ball and AquaLeaves to the pedicure tub. Soak the clients feet in the milk and honey bath for ve minutes. 2. Prep nails. 3. Exfoliate clients legs and feet with Cuccio Milk & Honey Sea Salts. Rinse with warm water and pat dry using a hot towel. 4. Using the provided application brush, apply a generous amount of Cuccio Deep Dermal Transforming Wrap onto the clients legs and feet. Cover the areas with clear plastic wrap, then cover with warm towels for 10 minutes. Wipe off the mask with the towels and pat dry. 5. Massage the Cuccio Milk & Honey Body Butter Blend into the clients legs and feet. 6. Clean the nail bed with sanitizing spray, then complete the pedicure with polish application.
Ingredients
Cuccio Natural Scentual Spa Signature Service Enhancement Kit (Milk & Honey): AquaLeaves, Pedicure Fizz Balls, Exfoliating Sea Salts, Body Butter Blend, and Deep Dermal Transforming Wrap sanitizing spray base coat polish top coat
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Fruit Smoothie Pedicure
Created by Artistic Trends Salon, Sellersville, Pa.
1. Combine fruit in a blender. Add yogurt and heat through in a crock pot. In a pinch, you can substitute canned fruit cocktail for the fresh fruits. Serve a fruit smoothie (made of the same fresh fruits and yogurt, add either seltzer or peach schnapps to thin it out) to your client when using this mask. 2. Soak feet in warm water. Add OPI AvoJuice Silk Body Wash (in Cran & Berry) to the soak. 3. Exfoliate with any fruity sugar scrub. To make your own, make the same crushed fruit salad in the blender, then mix it with 1/2 cup of sugar. Heat through with some water in a crock pot. Scrub clients feet and legs in a circular motion, then rinse off. 4. Prep nails. 5. Using a fan brush, smooth on the homemade fruit smoothie mask. Wrap feet in towels for ve minutes. Rinse. 6. Massage feet and legs with OPI Avoplex Skin Quenchers Juicie (in Cran & Berry). 7. Polish nails.
Ingredients
1/4 cup vanilla yogurt 1/4 cup of fruit (include a variety of pineapple, apple, orange, and banana) or canned fruit cocktail OPI AvoJuice Silk Body Wash and Skin Quenchers Juicie (in Cran & Berry) sugar or a fruity sugar scrub polish, base coat, top coat
Cranberry Pedicure
Ingredients
Haken Mineral Spa Crystals, Spa Yogurt Mask, and Whipped Body Butter (in Cranberry) Source Vitl Bio Essential Anti-fungal Oil, Aromatic Algae, Cool Mask, and Nourishing Body Cream Spa Essential paraffin strips Pinnacle by FPO Nurture Infused Therapeutic Paraffin (in Kicked Up Cranberry) base coat, top coat, polish
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Pumpkin Fritter Mani/Pedi
Created by Mint Julip, Philadelphia
1. Soak hands and feet in Trillium Organics Clementine Clove Wash for 20 minutes. 2. Mix together 3 Tbs. freshly boiled pumpkin (canned pumpkin may be substituted), 2 Tbs. sugar in the raw, and 2 drops of pure vanilla extract to create your pumpkin fritter antioxidant mask. Add 1 tsp. Trillium Organics Clementine Clove Oil immediately before using on client. 3. Saturate your clients legs, feet, arms, and hands generously with the mask. 4. Wrap the clients feet and hands with hot towels (or electric booties) for 15 minutes. 5. Clean the mask off and prep nails. 6. Massage feet for 10 minutes with Alaffia Handcrafted Shea Butter. Massage hands with Organics Pumpkin Hand Repair Cream. 7. Apply base coat, two coats of polish, and top coat.
Ingredients
Trillium Organics Clementine Clove Wash and Oil boiled or canned pumpkin sugar in the raw pure vanilla extract Alaffia Handcrafted Shea Butter Organics Pumpkin Hand Repair Cream base coat top coat polish
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1. Prepare the toenails for the pedicure by pushing back the cuticles, remove the shine, and clean with Light Elegance Cleanser. 2. Apply LE Bonder to the toenails and cure. 3. Apply LE Gel Polish (try Friday at 4) and sprinkle a light coat of Pink Glitter over the gel polish and cure, then dust off the excess glitter. 4. Apply LE Super Shiny and cure. 5. Cleanse the toenails. 6. Get a warm bowl of water and put green tea leaves into the water for 30-60 seconds (if you are using tea bags, then remove the tea bags after the 30-60 seconds and place some bay leaves in the water). 7. Place 12 drops of LE Cuticle Oil into the water. 8. Soak your clients feet in the water for a few minutes. 9. Exfoliate your clients feet with the salt scrub. 10. Wrap your clients feet with towels that have been soaked in warm water. 11. Remove each foot (one at a time) and massage with the invigorating cream containing mint. 8/24/08
Ingredients
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Light Elegance Gel Polish, Cleanser, Bonder, Super Shiny, Glitter, and Cuticle Oil green tea leaves (or 3 green tea bags and bay leaves) salt scrub foot cream containing mint
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Margarita Pedicure
Created by Radiance Salon and Day Spa, Carson City, Nev.
1.Fill pedicure basin with water. 2.Add a shot of tequila to detoxify feet. 3.Rub lime slices on skin and nails to whiten. 4.Exfoliate feet and legs with a blend of sea salts and organic essence of lime oil to slough away dead skin cells. 5.Trim, le, and buff toenails. 6.Massage Coconut Body Butter onto legs and feet. 7.Drizzle warm organic coconut oil, infused with lime and ginger, over the clients legs and feet. 8.Place feet in heated booties for ve minutes. 9.Polish toenails.
Ingredients
tequila ground ginger polish lime slices The Body Shop base coat sea salt Coconut Body Butter top coat lime oil organic coconut oil
Mojito Pedicure
1. Fill pedicure basin with cool water. 2. Add a shot of Bacardi rum and lime juice to detoxify and cleanse feet. 3. Exfoliate feet and legs with a homemade mix of sugar and lime juice to buff away dry, lifeless skin. 4. Push back cuticles, clean nails, and remove excess dead skin around the nails. 5. Rub lime wedges on the skin and toenails for a lightening effect. 6. Apply a mint mask using CNDs Marine Masque as a base, add your own fresh crushed mint leaves. 7. Massage legs and feet with a blend of Neaclear Unscented Foot Lotion and lime peel essential oil. 8. Trim, buff, and polish nails Bacardi rum mint sprigs Neaclear unscented foot lotion
Ingredients
polish CND Marine Masque lime peel base coat, top coat essential oil
1. Soak the feet in warm water infused with Bacardi white rum and essential oil of cinnamon or clove. 2. Prep nails. Use a callus eliminator and wrap feet in plastic wrap to let it work. Remove. 3. In the palm of your hand, blend hot buttered rum mix (homemade or store-bought) with a teaspoon of rum. Exfoliate feet and legs with the scrub. Use a foot le on heels, then rinse. 4. Pat the area dry and do cuticle work as necessary. 5. Massage legs and feet with a teaspoon of cocoa butter. 6. Place cinnamon sticks between the toes as separators, then polish as usual.
Ingredients
Bacardi rum (airplane-size bottle) store-bought hot buttered rum mix cinnamon sticks
cocoa butter cinnamon or clove essential oil callus eliminator polish, base coat, top coat
pedicures
Cinnamon Bun Pedicure
Ingredients
Maxim Pedi Redi Foot Soak (in Pink Grapefruit) CND Solar Oil and Solar Speed Spray Nail Taxi Cinnamon Bun Scrub
SpaRitual Moisturizing Lotion base coat top coat polish or OPI Brilliance Buffer Block
Latt Pedicure
1/2 scoop of dry organic oatmeal 1/4 tsp. honey dry organic milk powder Cuccio Natural Body Butter (in Milk & Honey)
Ingredients
Chocolate Pedicure
Ingredients
chocolate scrub or cocoa powder brown sugar and heavy cream oatmeal powder almond oil shea butter honey chocolate extract chocolate massage oil
pedicures
Apothecary Spa Ritual Pedicure
Created by Blu Water Day Spa, Kensington, Md.
1. Guide the client through the process of selecting the perfect blend of ingredients herbs, salts, and essential oils from the apothecary bar based on the type of treatment shes looking for (i.e. relaxing, energizing, detoxifying, or recharging). 2. Add a few drops of the chosen essential oil to warm water to create an aromatic foot soak. Soak clients feet. 3. Place a warm neck wrap on the client for total relaxation. 4. Exfoliate feet and legs with the customized salt (Himalayan or Dead Sea salts) or organic sugar scrub. 5. Prep nails. 6. Moisturize the calves and feet with a masque made of pure shea butter, water, ground herbs and essential oils. Wrap warm towels around calves and feet. 7. Massage calves and feet with Amber Products Unscented Massage Cream blended with chosen essential oils. 8. Apply base coat, two coats of polish, and top coat.
Ingredients
ground herbs (peppermint leaves, ginger roots, lavender, rose petals, green tea leaves, lemongrass) salts (Himalayan and Dead Sea salts) organic sugar aromatherapy/essential oils (spearmint, lemongrass, rose, lavender, peppermint, ginger, lemon, and other preblended oils) Amber Products Unscented Massage Cream pure shea butter base coat, polish, top coat
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1. To create the Cinnamon 2-in-1 Scrub and Mask, combine the ground cinnamon and honey. (As long as you use equal parts of each, the recipe works.) The cinnamon grains are great for exfoliating, and the honey is a great moisturizer, which means you dont have to use a separate mask. (It also makes a great retail product.) 2. Soak feet in warm water. Add wash (in Cinnamon Bun Heaven) to the soak. 3. Exfoliate feet with the homemade cinnamon scrub. Leave on for 10 minutes to let the honey do its work as a mask. Rinse. 4. Prep nails. 5. Massage feet and legs with lotion (in Cinnamon Bun Heaven). 6. Polish nails.
Ingredients
3 Tbs. ground cinnamon 3 Tbs. honey Bath & Body Works Temptations Wash and Lotion (in Cinnamon Bun Heaven) polish base coat top coat
pedicures
French Gel Toes
Created by Polished.ca, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
1. Remove the shine from the old gel. 2. Soak cotton with acetone and apply onto the nail and wrap with aluminum foil. Leave it on for 10 minutes. 3. Scrape the peeling gel off with a cuticle pusher. 4. Apply cuticle softener and push back the cuticles. 5. Buff the nails with 180- to 240-grit block. 6. Shorten the free edge, but leave the nail a little longer. 7. Using a medium sanding band, remove the excess hard skin around the nails. Dust the nails and wipe well with prep. 8. Apply a gel bonder and let it dry to chalky white. 9. Apply a thin layer of base coat and cure for two minutes. 10. Using a square brush, apply white gel to the free edge. Use gentle vertical strokes and cover the free edge from side to side. 11. Perfect the smile line from the middle to the right and the middle to the left. Flash cure for three seconds. Repeat on all ve toenails and then cure for two minutes. 12. Apply a second layer of base coat using light oating strokes. Turn the nail to each side to make sure the surface is even, and then ash cure for two seconds. Repeat on all ve nails and then cure for two minutes. 13. Wipe the dispersion layer with a cleanser. Shape the free edge and shorten it a little. Apply lotion and cuticle oil.
Ingredients
soak-off solution cuticle pusher 180-240 grit buffing block cuticle softener Akzentz Options Base N Gloss, Options Brite White cleanser
Ingredients
Signature Soak Blend: Dead Sea salts, essential oils (tangerine, grapefruit, lime, sweet orange), passion fruit extracts, antibacterial agents Signature Fresh Coconut, Passion Fruit & Organic Sugarcane Scrub: virgin coconut oil, almond oil, essential oils (tangerine, grapefruit, lime, sweet orange), organic sugarcane, passion fruit extract, grated coconut Signature Balm: wild honey, virgin coconut oil, shea butter base coat, top coat, polish
pedicures
Polka Pedi
Created by Ris Carter, West Conshohocken, Pa.
1. Perform a pedicure as you normally would. 2. Prep the toenails on one foot. 3. Apply a thin coat of NSI Balance One-Step Clear as a base coat. (You do this so the pigment of the colored gels doesnt penetrate and stain the natural nails. It also helps the gel come off more easily when it comes time to remove them.) 4. Cure for 90 seconds in the UV lamp. Wipe tacky layer off lightly saturated with NSI Cleanse. 5. Apply one coat of NSI Balance Color Gel. (Customblended green for the big toes and Hot Pink on the rest of the toes is shown.) Cure for two minutes. Leave the tacky layer. 6. Apply a second coat and cure for two more minutes. Remove tacky layer with Cleanse. 7. Use a small tapered brush to apply polka-dots to the big toe and freeze the dots for 10 seconds. 8. Apply dots to smaller toes two at a time and lock for 10 seconds at a time. 9. Apply a thin coat of NSI Builder Clear Gel. Cure for 90 seconds. Buff it lightly to smooth it out. 10. Remove the dust and apply a layer of NSI Glaze N Go. Cure for 90 seconds. There is no tacky layer to remove.
Ingredients
NSI Balance One-Step Clear Gel, Balance Color Gel (custom blend green and hot pink), Cleanse, Builder Clear Gel, and Glaze N Go Top Coat small, tapered brush for polka dots
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Bellini Pedicure
1. Soak the clients feet in Beauty Bar Bellini Milk Bath (in Peach) for ve minutes. 2. Scrub bottoms of feet with a foot le. Prep nails. 3. Exfoliate with Beauty Bar Champagne Scrub. 4. Mix 1 tsp. champagne oil into Beauty Bar Merlot Vinotherapy Mask, then apply to legs and feet. Wrap in warm towels. After 15 minutes, remove the mask with warm towels. 5. Massage Beauty Bar Bellini Body Butter into legs and feet. 6. Apply base coat, two layers of polish, and top coat.
Ingredients
Beauty Bar Bellini Milk Bath (in Peach), Champagne Scrub, Merlot Vinotherapy Mask, and Bellini Body Butter champagne oil polish base coat top coat