Geneva Holcomb shows off her awesome nails.
Thank you to our sponsors!
NAILS' Beth Livesay, Mary Baughman, and Sree Roy
NAILS' Mary Baughman and Sree Roy help check in attendees.
Diana Bonn and Mindy Borrego checking in attendees.
NAILS' Mary Baughman and Pattie Yankee
INM’s Sharon George and Kandis Jacob
IBD's Terry Burciaga
Gelish's Sandy Borges
Gelish's Sandy Borges
Morgan Taylor marketing assistant Taylor Daniel
Artistic Nail Design
Entity's Joseph Pham, Mindy Pham, Blueprint of a First Year blogger Tina Caton, and Orly's Trina Ngo
Demos at the ENP table
Orly's Trina Ngo
ANC's Roxy Carillo and INM's Juli Miller
Vicki jensen, Shelly Pechota, and Roxy Carillo
The Valentino boys David Dilorenzo and David Anthony
BeautyTech webmaster and event host Debbie Doerrlamm with NAILS' Hannah Lee and Katie Cazorla
Hiro Matsugi, Vicki Peters, Robert Arthur, and Marshall Himmel from Kupa
IBD's Terry Burciaga and Nicki Payton
Kupa's Ann Chang and Robin Stopper
EZ Flow's Lulu Desfassiaux Vergara
INM's Juli Miller, Kandis Jacob, Jessica Ayala, and Chris Hofer
Friends, old and new, caught up at the event.
Solange Richardson from Trinidad & Tobago and BeautyTech.com webmaster Debbie Doerrlamm
Nail Veils and Chronicle Stones creator Su Laing with Empower Nail Art's Lucien Henderson
NAILS' Michelle Mullen and Hannah Lee (third and fourth from left) with AII's Alanna Littlepage, Dinh Pham, Jacqueline Lin, and Jackie Doherty
Nail Talk Radio's Cate Widemire, Naja Rickette, Athena Eliott, Braden Jahr, and Millie Haynam
Mami from NailGrafx and Robert from Kupa had a great time at the party.
Ceci Escobar and Thom Le
Team Kupa: Sindy Mark, Yire Castillo, Vicki Peters, Ashley Saephanh, Ann Chang, Sara Kuzma, Richard Hurter, and John Tran
Old friends Millie Haynam, Maisie Dunbar, and Hannah Lee
Attendees try out products at the nail stations.
Attendees try out products at the nail stations.
Attendees perusing some of the amazing nail art from our sponsors
Team Kupa's Sindy Mark, Yire Castillo, Ann Chang, Richard Hurter, and Ashley Saephanh
NAILS' editor Hannah Lee and Kupa's Robert Arthur
Raffle prize winners at the NailTech Network Orlando Social
Kim Pham and Anita Lime-Sims
Anjanette Saint-Bartlett, Nancy Mapes, Maureen DePeter, and Susan Loggins, and Darcy Olin
NailTech Network Orlando attendees get their photo taken at the NAILS photobooth.
Geneva Holcomb, Candace Szpiech, Deb Cabrera, Gina Rinaldo-Silvetro, and Anjanette Bartlett
Kim Pham and Tammi Merritt
Kim Jemison, Tammi Merritt, and Robin Stopper
Sree Roy, Melodee Lange-Christensen, Rosa Vargas, and Stephen Woolsey
Mindy Pham, David Dilorenzo, David Anthony, Melodee Lange-Christensen, Stephen Woolsey, Mindy Hardy, and Vicki Dilorenzo
Braden Jahr, Millie Haynam, and Cate Widemire
Braden Jahr and Cate Widemire
Luke DuBois, Roxy Carillo, and Markus Deshler
Blueprint of a First Year blogger Tina Caton, VietSALON associate editor Kim Pham, and Kupa's Sindy Mark
Sree Roy and Jenny Flanagan
Heather Taylor, Dayna Knight, and Jessica Hoel
Kupa's Richard Hurter and Robert Arthur, and ENP's Jonathan Ozeretny
We love these colors!
The NAILS Magazine step and repeat
The NAILS team...Michelle Mullen, Sree Roy, Hannah Lee, Beth Livesay, and Kim Pham
Thom Le, Ceci Escobar, Katie Cazorla, and Mami Griffin
Attendees show up to the NailTech Network Orlando Social held at the Rosen Centre.
AII's Alanna Littlepage and NAILS' senior editor Beth Livesay
Fun times at the NailTech Network Orlando Social
AnnaMaria Paty and Amy Oung
Thank you to our awesome helpers Diana Bonn and Mindy Borrego!
Leaving the event with laughter and smiles.
Premiere Orlando has been the selected destination for BeautyTech.com members to meet in person for the last 12 or so years. It all started back in the late 1990s when techs from the BeautyTech.com forums would get together for breakfast so they could meet each other face-to-face after having only chatted online. Webmaster Debbie Doerrlamm officially took the event over in 2004. It quickly became a destination networking event, morphing from a breakfast on the first day of the show to a more leisurely barbeque the day before the show started.
Several years ago, NAILS got involved and together we've turned the NailTech Networking Orlando Social into an annual destination for newbie and veteran techs alike. Held this year at the Rosen Centre, nearly 300 nail industry members got together on Saturday, June 1 to catch up with old friends, meet new friends, and watch live demos at tables hosted by manufacturers Artistic Nail Design, ENP Nail Products, EZ Flow, Gelish, IBD, INM, Kupa, Morgan Taylor, and Orly.
Representing 27 states and eight countries, the nail techs in attendance were lucky enough to win more than 45 raffle giveaways totalling more than $5,000 in product prizes from top manufacturers. In addition, NAILS gave away $100 bills to five lucky attendees. And everyone went away with goodie bags filled with products from the sponsors and a coupon booklet for great deals at the show.
A fun-filled evening with others in the nail industry? It's the perfect way to start off a great show!
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