Nails, Nails, Nails by Madeline Poole (Chronicle Books, 127 pages) $17.95
They are constantly on display, in use and in motion.
Your nails can offer so much information about you before you've even opened your mouth to speak.
Fantastic, sophisticated, flamboyant, your nails are 10 spokespeople for you always on the ready to make a statement.
Nail stylist Madeline Poole takes you through proper nail care, tips on best practices for applications and techniques for creating unusual nail art. She then provides how-to instructions for 25 different nail treatments. You can follow her ideas or use them as starting points for your own imagination. Photographer Lara Rossignol shows all the details in her closeup images so you can see exactly how the end results will look.
