Anna Lajourdie's journey into the beauty industry started all with but a joke.

Late one afternoon while having a conversation with a friend, the topic of nails came about. There Anna was commenting on how discontented she was with how her gel nails were looking.

Her friend, in humor, made the comment to Anna "Why don't you do them yourself?!"

This sparked the idea, the seed was planted. From what started out as a comment turned into a passion.

With what seems like no time after that conversation with her friend, Anna attended a nail technology course at "Nail Professionals" own by Kim Tanner. Shortly after that Anna found a small salon in Streetsville, Ontario (near Toronto) to apprentice with. There, she apprenticed for two and a half years. After such, she decided to open her own professional studio.

There the road truly began...

Since that day all those years ago with what started as a mere comment Anna has gone on to become a world renowned nail technician, specializing in "forever french" gel nails. She competed in 2003's "Strut Your Stuff" (hosted by beautytech.com in New York, USA) taking home a 1st, became an international educator and distributor for Haigh Industries (manufacturer of Akzentz gels). Pictures of her work and her articles have been published in an array of magazines (Beauty Cosmedica, Nailpro, Scratch, Nails magazine, just to name a few).

In the meantime she lived in Spain for a year and with her sister, Gosia Lajourdie she co-created 'La Capriola' (a nail salon, first located in Lloret de Mar, now based in Blanes, near Barcelona).

Anna works closely with other distributors and travels to Singapore, Poland, Spain, Germany to teach educator and basic education classes.

She's also traveled to Malaysia to work at the trade shows as well as judge nail competitions. She works at the trade shows in Las Vegas and Toronto representing Akzentz.

With all this going on she still finds the time to contribute to several discussion forums like Beautytech.com, TheNailGeek.com, Euro-fashion.pl, Fryzjer.pl, and her own Polish and English educational forums hosted on www.polished.ca.

Wait there's more...

I'm sure many of you are thinking "More? How could there be more?". Well let me tell you... Not only does Anna have a talent and passion for nails but she has just as strong talent and passion for personal fitness as well, her figure truly shows. This 5'10 graceful beauty falls nothing short of stunning. In May of 2007 she competed in The Muscle Beach international classic in Venice Beach, Ca. There are plans about competing again (one day).