From the Editors

IBS Las Vegas: Highlights from Beautiful Nails Launch Party

by NAILS Magazine | June 30, 2012 | Bookmark +
KUPA Inc. officially launched their Beautiful Nails line of acrylics, glitters, soak-off gels, and brushes at Insert Coin(s) Video Game Arcade Bar in downtown Las Vegas.


IBS Las Vegas show attendees from Bling Salon in Hayden, Idaho stopped by the party. From left to right, back row: Tasha Holmes, Kathy Corbit, Michelle Engelbrecht, and Kayla Winebarger from Shimmer Salon in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Front row: Colleen Carter, Andrea Platt, Idella Mansfield, Danika Cross, Donna Brand, and Kasey Fulkerson.


Katie Cazorla, owner of The Painted Nail in Sherman Oaks, Calif., and star of the TV Guide Channel’s reality show “The Nail Files” was a special guest. Beautiful Nails educator Ann Chang sculpted this cute calla lily on Cazorla's nail (left nail). Chang had the same style on hers. Manicures and nail art were created by Beautiful Nails educators along with artists from Wild Orchid Nail Salon and Paris to New York Nail Bar.


It's Hey, Nice Nails! artists/bloggers/sisters Ginny and Donne Geer with filmmaker Brass. The Geer sisters were interviewed for Brass' nail art documentary, NAILgasm. Donne, a nail tech based out of Rossmoor, Calif. was recently featured in the July 2012 issue of Marie Clare.


NAILS senior editor Tim Crowley played video games at the bar. Console video game booths line one side (behind him), old school arcade machines line the other.

For more photos throughout the night, click here.

— Kim

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