Rescue Your Nails

by Ji Baek

Change your nails, change your attitude. With well-groomed nails, your gestures become livelier and more important, and your look definitely sexier. And suddenly, it's not just your hands feeling that way, but your whole self. Now you don't have to go to a salon to enjoy a spa-worthy manicure or pedicure. Ji Baek, the stylish, high-energy queen of nail care - the go-to expert for fashion designers, actors, fashionistas, and media ranging from "Vogue" to "The New York Times", and owner of New York's hottest nail salons, the Rescue Beauty Lounges - presents the definitive guide to beautiful hands and feet, emphasizing natural beauty, cleanliness, and simplicity. In her witty, approachable voice, Ji explains why it's important to take your vitamins daily, file weekly, and moisturize constantly. Her illustrated step-by-step directions demystify professional nail care and make it easy to replicate the results at home using the right tools, products, and techniques. From nail length and shape to the right polish colour for every occasion, no topic is left unexplored.
Even the most irksome of problems get foolproof solutions: how to avoid split nails, fill ridges, fade sunspots, and soften calluses. She even has her own twelve-step program for the very worst of the nail care offenders: NBA (nail-biters anonymous), a no-fail, guaranteed system to get anyone's nails - no matter how ragged - into tip-top shape.

• ISBN13: 9780761143772
• Publish Date: 28 May 2008
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Out of Print: 10 August 2010
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Workman Publishing
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 165
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

She does a good job of explaining how to do a manicure or pedicure, but has a bit too much of an emphasis on her own products.

Interesting book about a woman who worked as a chef who then opens a nail salon and uses skills learned in the first in the second. She believes in cleaning and in having your mise-en-scene ready before getting going with your tasks and details this as she goes, is quite interesting about moisturisers and using what you have to do the work. Worth reading if you want a down-to-earth guide, the ad for her polishes and the colours is interesting but feels slightly out-of-place.

The Rescue your nails things is a slight misnomer, it's named after her spa, Rescue Spa, rather than how to fix problem nails, there is a chapter on fixing some problems but it isn't really in-depth.