“A growing crop of stylish, well-appointed salons and services are now making a manicure as accessible as Drybar has made the blow out. While it’s not entirely surprising to see a new breed of spiffed-up but accessibly-priced salons and services emerging in New York and Los Angeles, experts believe the trend is much wider. Karen Grant, NPD beauty analyst, believes it has to do, in part, with growing interest in service experiences.” Read more at Business of Fashion.
Read More“The media attention reminded readers that nail salon workers are protected by the government, but for the workers themselves, it wasn’t necessarily a reminder. It was news.” Read more at Columbia Journalism Review.
Read More“While manicures are meant to be a relaxing half hour or so, they can be fraught with decisions that are just too overwhelming to make in a massage arm chair. Now that we've mastered the art of going nude when it comes to nails and choosing the right polish color, the next salon challenge is picking a shape.” Read more at Marie Claire.
Read More“An exposé published earlier this year by The New York Times that detailed hazardous working and health conditions and mistreatment of workers in nail salons in and around New York City ‘went too far in generalizing about an entire industry,’ the newspaper's public editor, Margaret Sullivan, wrote Friday in a column. The two stories—‘The Price of Nice Nails’ and ‘Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers,’ written by Sarah Maslin Nir and published on consecutive days in May—were widely discussed after they were published in English, Chinese, Korean and Spanish.” Read more at Newsweek.
Read More“The rise of upscale nail salons over the past decade has firmly established Essie as the go-to salon brand for higher-end and fashion-minded clientele, both uptown and downtown. By placing aesthetics and service over convenience and thrift, these salons are valuing aspirational branding more and more — both their own and that of the polishes they stock. Thanks to its iconic founder, its product design, and its signature range of colors (a wide and generous selection, but nothing too crazy), Essie has commanded this niche market, even as its primary competitor, OPI, commands a larger overall market share.” Read more at Racked.
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