Nail & Deco: Eriko's Gel Nail Book

I was incredibly excited when I looked at the title and realized this was another book by my idol, Eriko Kurosaki. She and her studios have done acrylic nails for a long time and I'm glad to see her put out a book for gel nails. The instructions are very clear, and at 126 pages, this book is quite a bit longer than her usual 80-90 page books.

I might be partial to this book in part because I had to go through several steps to get it. I was originally going to order it through YA, but it went out of stock before I could. Since it was published in 2010, I had hope it would become available again, but it seems books in Japan tend to go out of print quite suddenly, so time is of the essence.

I put in the serial number on a whim, and it was in stock on the Kinokuniya website! The price, with shipping, came out to only about fifty cents more than it would have been if I had gotten it from the original source I looked at. Plus, since it shipped from a US-based Kinokuniya store, it arrived by FedEx in only three days. I had the choice of requesting it to be shipped from a few Kinokuniyas here in the US, but chose the LA store simply because it's the one I've visited before and I was impressed with it a lot.  :)

If I was living in LA, I could have done one better and simply had them hold a copy for me and picked it up at the store myself. *sigh* One day, one day.

Anyway, the book is beautiful, which of course I expect of Eriko and her team. Her work is so perfect that I know I can buy her books blindly (no preview of the inside contents) and not be disappointed.

P.S. From now on I'm putting up small-sized thumbnails instead of medium, to cut back on the space these posts take up. Clicking on the thumbnail will still take you to the full-sized picture, of course.