One of the things anybody will notice about salon owner Connie Lee is her nails — long, cotton-candy-pink talons encrusted with glitter and Swarovski crystals. Even so, she applies rhinestones one by one to a pinky nail with the fluid, delicate precision of a surgeon.
Lee opened her salon, Bling Your Nails, in Castro Valley, California, to share her passion for Japanese 3-D nail art. The trend traces its roots to the 1970s, when artificial nails emerged in Hollywood. It spread to Japan in the 1980s, when the country’s first nail salon opened and took the American invention to zany extremes.
Sachiko Nakasone, founder of NSJ Nail Academy, in Tokyo, helped pioneer 3-D nail art; her technique has earned her students international recognition at nail-art competitions. The ornate manicures spread to Taiwan, Vietnam and other Asian countries before landing stateside in the past five years or so.
Lee opened her salon, Bling Your Nails, in Castro Valley, California, to share her passion for Japanese 3-D nail art. The trend traces its roots to the 1970s, when artificial nails emerged in Hollywood. It spread to Japan in the 1980s, when the country’s first nail salon opened and took the American invention to zany extremes.
Sachiko Nakasone, founder of NSJ Nail Academy, in Tokyo, helped pioneer 3-D nail art; her technique has earned her students international recognition at nail-art competitions. The ornate manicures spread to Taiwan, Vietnam and other Asian countries before landing stateside in the past five years or so.
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