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Just General Chattering

Welcome, we hope you are enjoying your tour. This page is just general info, me talking to you, stuff like that. Please feel free to contact me if there is something you'd like to see here.

What's New?

We recently brought in a wonderful professional makeup line, Jane Iredale Natural Mineral Cosmetics, the Skin Care Makeup. This is a full line of cosmetics from lips to eyes. But the thing we are most excited about is the foundation. It's a loose mineral powder applied with a brush, goes on smoothly, uses very little because it's all pigment, no fillers or talc. Mary (our nail technician and my daughter) had her first jar of loose powder for 11 months before she finally had to buy a new one!! So we can honestly say it lasts really well. And it's GOOD for your skin!! No preservatives, no additives, no dyes!! When you apply Jane Iredale Natural Mineral Cosmetics you are applying only the pigment, nothing more, so there will be nothing on your skin to cause pore clogging, breakouts or senitive skin reaction!!! We have several clients now using Jane Iredale Cosmetics and I have to say I have really noticed a difference in their skin condition…there is much less to "extract" during their facials. This stuff is wonderful, stop by and give it a try.

A word about MMA ... and what's that you say?

For those of you who wear acrylic nails, MMA is a type of acrylic, usually used in discount salons. Methyl Methacrylate Acrylic (MMA) is dangerous, it's illegal to use this product in several states, unfortunately Illinois is not one of them....but we're working on it. Reputable salons and spas use a much more refined product called Ethyl Methacrylate Acrylic. The more refined acrylic is far more expensive...hence you probably won't find "good" acrylic nails for twenty bucks.

Discount salons that use carpenter's tools to drill your natural nail and MMA to build your artificial nail offer you a "cheap" acrylic but they are not doing you any favors, this product can damage your natural nail permanently!! MMA eats down through your nail and grabs hold of your nail. If you do something that causes you to "snap" your nail....opening car doors is a notorious nail snapper ... you could pull your entire fingernail right off. MMA nails rarely come off by themselves ... that's because it's embedded in your nail, if the MMA comes off -- your nail is going to come off!! This product is the same stuff that they use to glue linoleum to the underflooring...do you really want that on your fingernails? For more information about MMA see http://www.beautytech.info/articles/nmc7-01.htm. Even if you don't patronize our spa....please, please, please go to a place that uses a reputable product. This is your health we're talking about here, we don't want you to lose your natural nails even if you aren't our client.

Branching Out

I have recently started consulting with a nail salon cum spa in Minier, Illinois, Nina's Nails and More. The owner, Nina Riegler, has been doing nails for about 30 years (she admits this publicly, can you imagine?). Nina recently added a new room to her salon, which she calls "the spa area", where I will be doing facials and other body services for her (until she can find a permanent employee). Nina's clients are excited and really looking forward to the new services, as am I. So, if you live closer to Bloomington than to Fairbury, please give Nina a call and we can do your service there (309-392-2938). We'll have all the same products available so you won't miss out on anything. Come by, say hello, you'll love this place. Visit Nina's website http://www.ninasnails.net for a little preview.

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