Rose is poorly..... again......

What a coincidence! My business partner stroke friend (don't know where the stroke key lives in my phone) is 'poorly'.

She is not normally poorly. She is usually a right trooper. The last time she was too ill to come to work was Wimbledon 2013 fortnight claiming some kind of mosquito bite lurgy.

Today is the Men's Half Pipe competition at the Winter Games and quel suprise she is poorly. 

Now I'm not saying that she's foxing. As if I would! 

But one of us (me) is having to watch the snowboarding on the scabby mental computer in the salon in between painting nails whilst someone (not me) has their feet up in front of a massive telly with a caffee lattee as we say in Newcastle. 

I predict that when Woodsy is in the Ski slopestyle on Thursday she will phone me claiming symptoms of bubonic Plague, consumption or leprosy. 

Not that I'm complaining like. I am too busy painting nails for that...

I can't believe these are my own nails!

There are a handful of exclamations that we come across from clients both new and not so new.  The one we hear the most often is "I can't believe that these are my own nails".   This is usually rapidly followed with 'my own nails have never been so long, strong, or healthy'. 

I concur! 

Prior to opening Upmarket Nails with the artist known as Rose I had gone to a friend in London for many years every fortnight to have my acrylic nails maintained.  As a freelance Nail Technician in London using Bio Sculpture on my clients it wasn't until I left lovely Acrylic Tracey behind to open Upmarket Nails in Kettering with Rose that we finally removed my acrylic. 

Rose applies solvable gel overlays such as Bio Sculpture, Jessica GELeration or Alessandro Lac Sensation and I honestly have never looked back. 

We make sure that my product is carefully removed as we would any of our clients.  

It is worth mentioning that if the gel is picked off it would cause damage to the nails and this would weaken or break the nails.

Picking off a product that has been designed to be soaked off may damage your nails, NOT the product!!!  

Clients who return to the salon regularly and follow our maintenance advice will continue to exclaim "I can't believe that these are my real nails"! 

Life after Acrylic

I thought it was time to talk about life after acrylic...

Most ladies move on from having worn acrylic for many years to wanting to grow their own nails.  

Many have enjoyed wearing pink and white nails - like footballers wives' nails maybe - not knowing that there is a wealth of colour, glitter and opportunity for growing beautiful nails in a healthy way using non-damaging products.

We have many clients who have come to us once they realised that wearing gel polish can enhance their own nails, allowing them to grow healthily and strong.  Every few weeks (usually between 2 to 4 weeks), the gel is dissolved off, a full manicure is completed, and then new gel re-applied.  




Some examples of beautiful nails after acrylic.

With over 200 colours in the salon - your interest can always be piqued!

Dasher, Dancer, Sparkle.... Glitter and Bling

There is no shortage of sparkle at Upmarket Nails - if you manage to get out with plain nails - you deserve a pat on your back!.  A little bonus this week you may receive a frighteningly fabulous frosty fancy or mince pie!

There is something funny about someone who arrives for their appointment wanting plain pale pink, who then leaves an hour and a half later with bright Christmas red and a substantial amount of bling!!!

The power of sitting next to another client and being influenced!!!

Merry Christmas to all our lovely (and future prospective) clients!

Christmas? Bah Humbug Avril! Baubles are in position!

I really hate Christmas me, Av said to Miraed, and I really hate doing Christmas nail art, Avril continued.  

The irony was not lost on the fact it was still November when Miraed came in, and her Christmas nail appointment was in fact another three weeks away, at least one week before Christmas!

Whilst looking in Rose’s nail art drawer (whilst she was out), Av spotted some sparkly stars….

Alessandro Velvet Taupe with sparkly stars!

Lightbulb moment – "I’ll use those on Miread (who incidentally had no say in the matter)”!  

Not content with having to do the ordering, the tax, the banking and publicity, Rose is now looking for snowflakes so that Av can do one less job, that of learning how to paint them!

Whilst Rose is away, Avril will play....

It all started really well. Our 10 new Alessandro colours arrived along with 10 new glitters. Not satisfied with 250 + gel polish colours that we have adorning our bijou nail salon Avril positively HAD to paint up the colour sticks immediately in readiness to be used on the very next client to walk through the Upmarket Nails threshold. 

Regular clients to our salon will not be surprised to see the "more haste less speed" outcome of this desk. There are also no prizes for guessing that this desk could only belong to Avril.  

Rose would have to have an alien living in her body for her work station to look like this 

All tidy now! Colour stix neatly painted (well sort of) in a clean and tidy manner..... ready to be shown to our clients. They are all different to the other 250 colours in our collection. We really did need them.  Honest! 

As to the glitters, don't get me started. The Internet isn't big enough!


Note from Rose: only 21 more days to get your party nails appointments in.... they're going fast, so you had better put your skates on!  Check out our Facebook page to look at designs already done, or to our Pinterest page, where there is lots of inspiration.  

The fact that our gel polish nails last between 2 to 4 weeks means you can be wearing the bling throughout the whole party season, so there is no need to leave it until the last minute for your appointment.

Gel polish saves finger...... Honest!

One of our clients accidentally trapped her finger in her car door - apparently the nurse practitioner said she was very lucky as without the gel polish, she could have lost her finger!

If you needed a reason to justify getting your nails done...... this is it! 

Keep safe this Winter!