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Now, here is a story that you don’t hear everyday. Except if you are an obsessed nail technician and all you do is “talk-eat-sleep” and yes “also read” about nails. It comes with the profession I guess.  Check out this story about Newton Faulkner and his nails - We just became his biggest fan after reading this story at The Age web site. Although this story had been printed a few weeks ago. See below for the interesting nailsy-bitsy.

Some guitarists are rewarded for their six-string notoriety by being asked to endorse signature strings or customised picks. Yet English singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner would be happy with his own range of fake acrylic nails.”I have a very different use for them, so I need them as thick as I can convince someone to do them,” says the personable musician, whose debut album Hand Built By Robots is built on a virtuosic finger-picking playing style on the acoustic guitar.”It’s pretty weird finding somewhere to get them done. I have to go to nail salons, so I usually sit between two middle-aged women who are just looking at me with complete bewilderment. Sometimes I wear fingerless military surplus gloves, which adds to the confusion.”The 23-year-old, born and raised in Surrey, has been on the road for a year, visiting increasingly large concert venues - and nail salons - on several continents.  

At Manhattan Nails, we do not recommend our clients using their finger nails as tools, especially after they just got them beautifully enhanced. But hey, we wouldn’t do that to Newton would we. Acrylic nails prove to be very useful in this instance obviously. and Newton is not unique as a guitarist wearing acrylic nails. We happen to know quite a few.

Check out the video here -> Mosman Nail Salon

Some of our friends pointed us to this article entitled “Fake fingernails sum up weird modern femininity” written By Claire Harvey, 24th August 2008, over at news.com.au. Here is the link for the full story and people’s comments

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24232394-5007146,00.html

It starts off something like this …

IF THERE’S one accoutrement that sums up the weirdness of modern femininity, it’s the fake fingernail.
In the pared-back grunge of the 1990s, when even lipstick faded to beige, it seemed safe to assume false talons were on the way out.

Soon, they’d be a boomer relic, reserved for ageing suburbanites, the odd transvestite and Flo-Jo, using one curved claw to stir her Bovril in the nursing home dining room. But now the whiff of polymer resin wafts through every mall.

Tiny nail sweatshops line the shopping strips, full of little Asian ladies with their heads bent over the plump pink paws of young middle-class women, using a potent chemical clag to attach gel or acrylic nails.

A very good read I must say as there are a mirage of such opinion everywhere. And we do acknowledge the pros and cons of having your nails done. No doubt about it. We don’t find it offensive or anything but rather amusing when we read between the lines. Obviously Claire is entitled to her own opinion and so is everybody else. We are living in a free democratic country after all. Freedom of choice and freedom of speech are extremely important and we certainly subscribe to that. If you don’t like fake, go for a natural care. If you don’t like to pay for it then you can do it yourself at home. This is what we love about a country such as Australia :-). You have choices!

Although we must say that the story is rather incomplete because Claire did not quite touch on many other reasons why people want or need fake nails. Equally important also are the quality of artificial nail enhancements which looks so natural that people cannot tell they are fake. That is another point of difference between the so called “sweatshops” but we prefer to call it “nail salons” .

What an eventful weekend and the subsequent Monday (aka today) when we opened the newly fitted nail salon for usual business. We can tell you it was not exactly business as usual this morning. The phone line didn’t work, the plumbing was leaking in places. At least the flat screen TV was up and running … oh yeah! Here comes Oprah!!!

So now we are here. A new place, new decor, a new breath of fresh air, and plenty of natural lights … but the same people, familiar faces who are ready to give you the best services you deserve.

Looking forward to see you all at our new salon soon!

Level 1, Suite 1
696 Military road
Mosman NSW 2088

Best wishes!

The Manhattan Nails team.

As many of our customers may have known by now that the Mosman Cache Shopping Court were sold to a fund manager FKP recently, in December 2007. FKP now has plan to renovate the Mosman Cache and remodel the whole building. FKP had given notice and asked all the centre’s business tennants to vacate the building within 3 months. That 3 months has finally came to an end and so Manhattan Nails, like other tenants will have to move.

We have not find an “ideal” place for our nail salon, but this place will have to do. We are on schedule to relocate to our Mosman store to the new premise in August 2008.

Suite 1 / 696 Military Road, just 4 doors away from our current location in the Mosman Cache. It is on first floor, above Vreelands fashion store and John McEvoy Real Estate.

We have created and collated some very practical Nail Care guides and made them available for download as PDF (Acrobat Reader) format on this blog site. Please feel free to grab a copy and give your friend one too if you think they’ll benefit from these well intended advice and information. They are available on this page “Nails Care Guide PDF Download“.

We hope you find them useful. Especially for looking after your artificial nail enhancements and/or natural finger nails and toe nails.

Winter has certainly came earlier than usual this year in Sydney. At least it feels that way this year around.

When winter comes, many of us tend to neglect many usual routines that keep our skin and complexion healthy. We tend to drink less fluid, keep a less than healthy diet, do less exercise and keep our hands and feet hidden away in cloves and socks with closed shoes. But this is not what your doctor, your nutritionist nor your dermatologist/beautician would prescribe.

Quite the contrary actually.

The air is much dryer in Winter and there are many more air-borne bacteria and viruses abound (one of many reasons why we all catch a cold or flu this season), thus we need to keep up with usual regiment of healthy eating, lots of exercise, drink a lot of fluids (distilled or purified water is good ) and use plenty of moisturiser cream to keep your skin moist and healthy. Especially for your hands and fingernails, keep using hand lotion and/or cuticle oils at least in the morning and at night time. Remember that because winter is cold, we tend to wash our hands in hot water more often than not. Plus other cleansing agent/chemical which can really make our hands and nails too dry and even brittle.

Keep yourself healthy and beautiful all seasons, not just for the warmer ones!

How To Care For Your Nails
Have you ever wondered why some women seem to have such gorgeous nails? Could they possibly be real? Of course they can! All you have to do is remember that gorgeous nails need to be pampered and if you remember these simple tips, you could be in possession of gorgeous nails yourself.
Source: beauty.about.com