ISSE Long Beach 2016

Ardell's Allison Ross (left), Vicki Ornellas (right), and NAILS editor Erika Kotite

IndieGirl's Mary Flint, Rhonda Tooker, and Natalie de Witte promoted the company's expanding line of products.

VietSALON's Kim Pham with Nails Easy's Scott Do

Contego Nail Spa's Brandon Thanh Phuc, Jeff Ta, Christina Aviles, Peter Ta, Thuy Le, Daniel Jeffrey, and Lindsey Ta

Shiela Nail Products' Sonia Jimenez and Shahla Bahrami

NTNA Season 2 winner Lavette Cephus demos her Rubix Cube nail at the NAILS booth.

AiiBeauty's Tan "The Man" Nguyen and Hoang "Lefty" Nguyen

Bio Creative Labs' Cliff Heiser (right) with one of BCL's happy clients, Barbara Phares from Genisis Hair Design in Filmore, Calif.

Those who dared were able to find The Nail Spot, filled with classes, competition, and a resting area.

Spotted at The Nail Spot: "The Fingernail Fixer" Holly Schippers, Nail Talk Radio's Ellen Torchia, Masterworks' Aigul Fritzke, Associated Nail Professionals' Risé Carter, Empower Nail Art's Lucien Henderson, and Jessica White from Love Nails in Woodinville, Wash

The Great Wall of China Glaze

Gelish's Thao Nguyen, Kupa's Ann Chang, VietSALON's Anh Tran, and AII's Tan Nguyen

VietSALON's Anh Tran and Kim Pham (right) with AII's Lynn Long

Gena's Kim Woodard, Jan White, and Marisa Crane

Stacy Packard, Diane Adair, and Kristen Curtis, Doterra's wellness advocates, gave attendees a hint of the scents in Doterra's line of essential oils.

Gehwol's Shelley Kessler, director of education and development, and Johana Sterling

The Esthetics, Wellness, and Spa Arena

US Naily's Casey Lee and CEO Jennifer Jang

Entity Beauty's Lorena Marquez and Roxanne Nguyen

LeChat's Newton Luu and Diep Dee Nguyen promoted the company's new school and student kits, specially priced for current students.

XiuYing Lin of Lin Decorations, a new company featuring nail charms

NAILS Magazine's Amy Martin with her daughter, Taylor

Vivian Schaffer and Dana Dubell of Aida Grey Beauty Salon in Encino, Calif., visit the NAILS booth.

Linda Lam, the winner of VietSALON Magazine's Year of the Monkey nail art contest with her winning masterpiece

The Modern Salon Magazine Team!

MILV Nail Design's Anastasiia Kaliada

Tweezerman's Joseph Apac, Celes Ybarna, Sylvia Clark, and Ken Dishon

Whale Spa and Valentino Body Pure's Naja Rickette, Mychi Vo, Huy Huynh, Johnny Ngo, and David Anthony

Sigourney Nuñez, Nail of Queen's Mark Lee, and Shannon Rahn. 

Color Club's Robert Nguyen and NAILS associate editor Sigourney Nuñez

Gina Silvestro and NAILS associate editor Sigourney Nuñez

AII's tan Nguyen and NAILS associate editor Sigourney Nuñez

NAILS associate editor Sigourney Nuñez and Young Nails Sabella Snyder 

Lexi Martone and NAILS associate editor Sigourney Nuñez. 

AII/Ever Glaze's Lynn Long

Vu Ong demoing at the Gelish booth

Tin Bui, VietSALON managing editor Anh Tran and Bryan Vu

Lexi Martone MANicuring Merrick Fisher

Lexi Martone, Beth Livesay, and Beru Lalli at the Vetro booth

Elizabeth Janica and Chris Mans

Tameka Jackson, Natalie Minerva, and Lavette Cephus at the Nail Labo booth

Jan Arnold discusses professionalism

Japanese nail artist Shinya Fujinami and NTNA season 2 winner Lavette Cephus

Class selfie! (See the actual pic at @beaute_asylum)

Max Estrada

Leah O"Connor and Lavette Cephus

Tameka Jacskon

LuluDesfassiaux's EZFlow art class

Beth Livesay and NTNA season 3 contestant Tan "the Man" Nguyen finally got to meet!

Essie herself!

Louie Pham poses with her published work in VietSalon

Beth Livesay and Carly Snyr

Bling for Nails' Cindy Wilson

Denise Kelly poses in Orly's award-winning booth

Elsbeth Schuetz demoing at Orly