Gone neon!

I've been saying for ages I wanted neon orange nails, did these yesterday and love love love it!! Ibd just gel polish infinitely curious 💅♥😊

Instagram away

Hey hey, I thought if share some salon work. I've become a bit of an Instagram addict to go along with tweeting, pinning and of course Facebook ... I'm a social networking junkie!! 

These nails are from a few Saturday clients. 

The lovely Sam wanted pretty pink sparkles as she starts her mat leave. They are EzFlow acrylic natural nail overlays with IBD jgp Ingénue with Moroccan Spice to finish. 

Diane went for EzFlow's 'Dragon Red' TruGel and Orly Gel FX 'shine' smoked edges on her acrylic overlays 

We went with cutie white 3d acrylic bows  on top of Amy's acrylic overlays and used Inky Pink jgp with white stripes for extra candy effect. 

Now for some neon! 

Charlie wanted Coral blaze with Jet Set  shimmer EzFlow design acrylic nails. 

Green with Envy! Jessie J style nails

I'm on a posting roll!

A student of my had found a colour online which was the bright neon green like the colour Jessie J wore on The Voice so that afternoon I set out to create a colour match using my IBD Just Gel Polish and by mixing one of my fav greens (turtle bay) and the luminous yellow that is solar rays, the neon Jessie J green was found. 

I sent a few snap shots to the rest of the education team and was then asked if I could recreate the look on a model. 

My step by step was featured in Scrach magazine and also on the nail company's  blog click the link below to see  http://thenailcompany.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/get-the-look-step-by-step-guide-to-recreating-jessie-j-vibrant-green-nails/

 Or you can check out the scratch article 

Charlie was a fabulous model and loved the green and the long almond shape she kept then on for about 6 weeks!! 

"Hello IBD!"

I was asked to become part of the UK's IBD education team and joined the fabulous Graftons peeps in Tamworth back in January for a weeks worth of education, lots of nails, laughs and a little stress thrown in too with our exams. 

I re-certify every 2 years with EzFlow to keep up to date and make sure we are top of our game so it brings more to our education and it means we all are all teaching the same things across the board.  The same happens with IBD. 

IBD nail systems is a sister brand to EzFlow both are owned by AII (www.aiibeauty.com) and are also distributed in the UK by Graftons (www.graftons.co.uk)

 I already knew quite a lot about some of the products and had worked with the IBD team before at various eventsand trade shows over the years. 

My first big discover was that there were even more Just Gel Polish (jgp) shades to play with and that I truly love IBD's sculpting gels. Now the wonder product for everything nails has to be IBD's Power bond, it is a gel Bonder primary designed to be used with jgp but is also amazing at bonding all enhancement products such as hard gels and not forgetting acrylic. If I had to pick my best prep product then Power Bond it is! 

When doing any re-certification (ezflow and ibd) we are set home work and tasks before we attend the training. For one of the tasks we had to produce 5 nails using only nail products (so not extras like paint) just gels and acrylic in a theme which would be recognisable to our educator. 

Here's a few snap shots of my themed nails.... Can you guess my theme??... 

A close up of Mr wolf!

I really enjoyed creating these nails and am often asked by my clients how long they took me to do... The answer to that is a long time! Or in other words around 2-3 days off and 5 evenings. 

Next re-certification I think I'm going to start earlier and take my time as it felt very rushed as the time was getting closer. 

After a few agonising months wait (whilst all the scores etc. were collated,) we found out our grade level and I am so please that I've become an Elite IBD Educator.

In my next couple of posts I will share some of my recent salon and demo work 

Jess xxxx 

How long?? New ideas and the past year...

I was out having dinner with some of my best friends when we were chatting about blogging and our online interaction. One of my friends has self published a book and was talking about setting up a blog to help with new writers starting out. I knew I hadn't blogged in a long time and this poor little blog had been forgotten.... We got out our phones (all smart of course!) and realised it had been nearly a year since my last post. 

So if course a little revival is definitely needed!! 

Can I really blog about my 'Polished' life in the past year?.... I think I would run out of space!! 

So much has been going on in both my work and personal life, I've gained more family and have been getting really busy with my education. 

I think that the big things from the past year will need posts of their own so today will be a big blogging day for me!! 

Another result from our night out is that we are going to do a combined blog for the 3 of us as its nice to do things with your friends and share all if our different interests from writing, design, art, life, cosmetics, crafts, baking, food and of course for me nails and probably so much more.... So please watch this space...

Hope you enjoy reading my next updates!! 

Jess xxxx 

Nail art craziness

With the increasing trend on nail art, salon requests are on the up so a few of my lovely gel polish ladies also wanted to get on the scene too.
With mono stripes and Cath Kidston inspired print designs... The ideas keep coming!
Happy nail arting lovelies!

Jess x

(designs are all made with EzFlow Trugel and Orly Gel FX)

Polished Salon Offers

Seasonal Spring Offers 2012

At Polished we have put together a few seasonal offers and these will be changing through out the year

♥     Save 30% on all new full sets of one colour acrylic sculptured nails with both Jessica & Becky

♥    15 % off all infills (gel and acrylic)

♥    All gel polish manicures and pedicures now only £20 (choose from EzFlow TruGel or Orly Gel FX)

 ♥    File & Polish Friday! Half Price File & Polish every Friday, get your nails ready for the weekend

 

For all bookings call 01293 547 647 or  email contactus@polishednailsalon.co.uk

Offers available until end of April 2012.  Please state offer when booking. Percentage saving offers can only be used once per person. All normal Polished t&c apply.

Polished Rewards 2012

 We have also introduced a reward loyalty scheme. Remember to pick up your card on your next visit and get it butterfly punched

 

       ♥  After 5 visits receive 15 % off next treatment

       ♥ After 10 visits choose free Orly mini Polish & save 10% off a file and polish

       ♥ After 15 visits choose free Orly 2oz Cream & receive free hand or foot massage with treatment

       ♥ After 20 visits receive 30% off next treatment


All Polished t&c apply, please contact the salon for more details.