
NAILS' Becky May (left) and Beth Livesay (right) caught up with Orly's John Galea about the new Breathable collections.

Red PR's Julia Labaton, contributing editor and blogger Ashley Gregory, and NAILS Beth Livesay celebrated the end of the show by attending Nail Alliance's House of Blues party.

Bio Seaweed Gel brought tons of nail swag, including sweatshirts and hats, which the NAILS team gladly tried on
NAILS' publisher Michelle Mullen, executive editor Beth Livesay, and CND's Jan Arnold talked the new Creative Play gel-polish
Apres Nail introduced Gel-X nail tips on the show floor and on @nailsmagazine's Instagram live
Arvis Nguyen of Cacee
Shannon Rahn with Amy Meier and Chad Law of Chaleur
Laura Novak and Shanice Royal of China Glaze
Sarah Pollock of EzFlow Nail Systems
Nancy Hinojosa of IBD Beauty
Christina Lewis of Indie Girl
Shannon Rahn, Nadia Shamsi & Alexander Sarkissian of Jessica, and Katherine Fleming
Ricardo Martinez, Koko Kashiwagi, and Iori Iwaza of Kokoist
The La Palm and Gel II Team`
James and Lezlie McConnell of Light Elegance
Mark Spilo and Lisa Kelly of Mehaz
The Mia Secret Team
Amanda Bowen's nails
Skip and Debi Wandrey of Premium Nails
Alexis Irene of Static Nails and Katherine Fleming
Vité 20's Shannon Rahn and Rey Tinoco

Modern Salon's Maggie Mulhern and Alison Alhamed presented the award for Nail Professional of the Year at NAHA

Modern Salon's Maggie Mulhern and Alison Alhamed presented the award for Nail Professional of the Year at NAHA

Nail Professional of the Year Rochelle Dingman (center) with daughter and makeup/hairstylist Phoebe Dingman (left) and their photographer Ed Carlo Garcia

Nail Professional of the Year Rochelle Dingman (center) with daughter and makeup/hairstylist Phoebe Dingman (left) and their photographer Ed Carlo Garcia

Nail Professional of the Year Rochelle Dingman (right) with daughter and makeup/hairstylist Phoebe Dingman

Nail Professional of the Year Rochelle Dingman (center) with daughter and makeup/hairstylist Phoebe Dingman (left) and their photographer Ed Carlo Garcia

Nail Professional of the Year Rochelle Dingman (center) with daughter and makeup/hairstylist Phoebe Dingman (left) and their photographer Ed Carlo Garcia

Color Club's Robert Nguyen and Color Club South Africa's Nevin Sher

Orly's Carla Collier (left) explained the benefits of GelFX Bodyguard for techs

Tortoise + Crane's Dewey Kiem, Dana Nguyen, and Julie Ngo

Alfalfa Beauty Supply's Kevin Nguyen and Charlie Ton

ADI's Ron Kothari

Chisel Nail Art's Phong Tran, David Hoang, and Hung Tran


Color Club's Robert Nguyen demos some of the company's newest products for Tuan Le and Jem Huynh from Jen Beauty Supply in Surrey, B.C.

Color Clutch founder Katharine Contag and Cheryl Beja

Cuccio's Marilyn Garcia and Tony Cuccio

Gelish's Vu Nguyen, Gari-Dawn Tingler, and Danny Phung

INM's Joe Diorio, Mike Jaramillo, and Rudy Lenzkes

International Abrasive Manufacturing's Mike Jaramillo and Joe Diorio

Bio Seaweed Gel's Kenneth Vo with the latest copy of VietSALON Magazine!

LeChat Nails introduced the company's Mood Polish to the media during Cosmoprof's Media Luncheon.

KM Manufacturing's Lana Mah

NAILS publisher Michelle Mullen and American Dawn's Ron Kothari

The editors of NAILS & VietSalon: Kim Pham, Katherine Fleming, Becky May, Beth Livesay, and Nancy Kirk

The Light Elegance family of Joseph and Lexy McLellan and Lezlie and Jim McConnell

NSI's Nick Czarnecki got a Simplicite demo from educator Darlene Tewitz

Team Odyssey Nail Systems

O'Nine's Hieu Le, Angela Lee, Anna Qin, Paul Gorbel, Jolie Peterson, and Billy Zhao

Thu Tran from Phat Beauty Supply in San Diego, Calif., tries out Orly's newest Easy-Off Basecoat with Orly educator Trina Ngo

NAHA nail category winner Rochelle Dingman (center) with daughter Phoebe (left) and NAILS' Beth Livesay

Tortoise + Crane's Dana Nguyen and Hao To

Voesh NY's Faith Roxas with NAILS sales rep Shannon Rahn

Yagala's Sergei Bargamotov and Galina Sadovenko debuted the Yagala polish line at Cosmoprof with Nail Labo's Shinya Fujinami
This year, Cosmoprof North America welcomed 33,750 attendees from 110 countries. Held in Las Vegas, Nevada, the award-winning trade show featured 1,154 exhibitors from 38 countries over three days, July 9th through the 11th. Products were organized into three different categories: Cosmetics & Personal Care, Packaging, and Professional Beauty. Special areas on the trade show floor included Glamour Me, where visitors could try on new products with demonstrations by reps, then get headshots taken by professional photographers, as well as Tones of Beauty, an area dedicated to beauty for the multicultural consumer. Cosmoprof also holds shows in Italy and Hong Kong during the year.
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