November 22, 2010
| Photo Gallery
With bonus nail art not printed in NAILS Magazine, this gallery showcases stylish, salon-friendly Valentine’s Day designs.
Keywords: 3-D nail art colored acrylics colored gels embedded acrylics embellishments
November 17, 2010
| Article
We asked fans on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/nailsmag) to send us a picture of the most interesting thing they’ve ever embedded in a nail. From beads and feathers to hay (yes, hay!), here’s a look at a few of the images we received.
Keywords: embedded embedded acrylics embellishments gels nail art
November 1, 2010
| Article
Dashing Diva director of education, Pattie Yankee, gives some sound advice on preserving your nail art products as you beautify from one customer to the next.
Keywords: Dashing Diva gels glitter manufacturers educators nail art
October 1, 2010
| Article
Intricate floral stiletto nails won the NSI Free-hand Nail Art Competition, an online photo competition that invited nail techs from around the globe to use NSI acrylic or gel to create nail art designs. The entries were judged by Vicki Peters, Denise Wright, and Debbie Doerrlamm, who looked for difficulty of design, use of color, originality, overall enhancement design, and first impression (or the “wow” factor).
Keywords: acrylics competitions contests gels nail art
October 1, 2010
| Demo
Elena Maltseva is a nail artist from St. Petersburg, Russia, who educates all over the world. She is an expert in gels, acrylics, and hand-painting, and is especially good at combining all three together to make spectacular nail designs. Maltseva has chosen an acrylic design here that is simple, yet very expensive-looking and rather easy-to-complete.
Keywords: acrylics colored acrylics colored gels gels international
October 1, 2010
| Article
Gina Silvestro, educator for Akzéntz, offers this advice on how to get clear and crisp lines on gel nail art. “I’ve been doing this for a few months now, and people can never figure out how I get such clean lines with gel art. When using gel for art and designs, it can be very difficult to achieve fine lines because if you brush gel art onto the tacky layer of gel it often spreads.
Keywords: Akzentz gels nail art
September 21, 2010
| News
For the Teen Choice Awards, celebrity manicurist Kimmie Kyees manicured singer Katy Perry’s fingernails in Hand & Nail Harmony Gelish in the shade June Bride for an eye-catching sparkly nail look.
Keywords: celebrities gel polish gels Hand & Nail Harmony polish
September 7, 2010
| News
Glamour’s beauty expert Andrea Pomerantz Lustig recommends getting gel manicures only once in a while, as the removal process can leave nails weak after lots of filing and acetone soaking.
Keywords: acetone/removal products CND consumer press gel polish gels
September 1, 2010
| Demo
Michelle Achhammer of Michelle’s Nail Design explains how to create a delicate purple floral nail with foils and gels.
Keywords: colored gels floral nail art foils French nail art gels
September 1, 2010
| Article
Carla Foster, of Carla Foster Nails in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, prefers UV gels as her medium of choice when it comes to nail art — which may come as a surprise to many nail artists (especially in the United States) who think gels aren’t workable for detailed designs.
Keywords: colored gels gels nail art
August 19, 2010
| News
Soak-off gels are on Cosmopolitan's Hot Sheet for August.
Keywords: CND consumer press gel polish gels OPI Products
August 1, 2010
| Demo
Nails by Cassie Fero, Eugene, Ore.
Keywords: colored gels French nail art French twists gels Light Elegance
July 30, 2010
| Product
New from Hand & Harmony comes Gelish Color Gels. The gels apply like polish with a twist cap and applicator, but are cured in a lamp like gels.
Keywords: gel polish gels Hand & Nail Harmony soak-off gels
July 1, 2010
| Article
It’s been a while since the nail industry had something truly new to capture our imagination. But over the course of the last several years, several professional manufacturers have been fine-tuning gel technologies and the product developments are truly something to get excited about.
Keywords: gel polish gels Hannah Lee On My Mind pink-and-whites
July 1, 2010
| Demo
Nails by Cassie Fero, Eugene, Ore.
Keywords: colored gels Fourth of July nail art gels holiday nail art holidays
