Premiere Orlando 2015

Bodipure's Jonathan Yoo and Steven Choi

Debra Bourque and Kimberly Kennedy, educators for Footlogix and the directors for the International Pedicure Association (IPA)

Footlogix’s Linda Prida demos some of the company’s comprehensive pedicure products for show attendees Sandra Montiel, Yvonne Rodriguez, and Carrie Rose from Carrie’s Hair & Nails in Tampa, Fla. surrounded by Debra Bourque, Keith Grader, and Tanya Palladina

Alfalfa Nail Supply’s Dat Ton, Tina Nguyen, Anh Nguyen, Duy Truong, and Kevin Nguyen

Chris Luong with Lexor’s Luminous (left) and Mystique pedicure spa chairs integrated with the company’s newest Aurora LED Color-Changing Bowls.

Team Orly: Cindy Cebulak, Catherine Baek-D'ambrosia, Nadine Galli, Amy Oung, Kanisha Muslar, Sylvia Friedman, Elissa Mark, Ke'na Marcell

Team Orly’s fun shot!

Revel Nail’s Keeli Malone, Phon Malone, Monica Sutton, Ai Nguyen, and Nich Hipple promoted the company’s Masquerade acrylic nail liquid.

Two father-son teams with Aerovex Systems’ Jeff and Nick Cardarella and Healthy Air’s Dr. Karim Zahedi and Arya John Zahedi

Orly’s Shirley Cheng

Medicool’s Robert Munkel and Steve Wallace

Morgan Taylor’s mascots Super Bunny, Pandamonium, and Owl helped promote the company’s Hello Pretty! line.

Morgan Taylor’s Khalaila Hines, Morgan Haile, Garrin Haile, Vanessa Willoughby, Taylor Daniel, Wanda Belk, and Latonya So

Alexis Irene with Static Nails (right) demos the company’s pre-made nail tips on show attendee Sabe Oldfather.

Gelibility owner Brandi Hensley shows an attendee how to turn regular polish into gel-polish.

Team Gelish’s Danielle Candido, Maria Aune, Shannon Schneider, Melinda Chruscial, and Jesse Bruner

Artistic Nail Design’s Wende Thummel, Ellie Williams, and Jorge Ruvalcaba

Team Tammy Taylor

ANC’s Nancy Tran with Gelish educator Bryan Vu

Amazing Nail Concepts’ Eric Huynh, Nancy Tran, Maya Le, Shelly Pechota, Ricky Huynh, Vicki Jensen, and Dylan Huynh

Atwood Industries’ Kristi Din and Bruce Atwood

Famous Names’ Niki Nordstrom, Ken Cooper, Linda Nordstrom, and Lisa Cooper

California Mango offered an extensive line of products at the show.

Odyssey Nail Systems power couple Vannie Luu and Trang Nguyen

Nails4Viet’s Henry Duong, Hoang Lefty Nguyen, Amy Oung, Victoria Beauty Supply’s Vinnie Le, and Tan Nguyen

NTNA Season 2 finalist Lexi Martone with her dad.

The Geláze team of Tonya O’Dell, Sreynin Peng, and Michele Baker

China Glaze’s Lynn Long getting in on the Geláze action.

Signature Nail Systems (SNS) founder Joe Nguyen with Nail Supply City’s Nghi Ngo, Quynh Dang, and Tuan Tran

Odyssey Nail Systems’ Joseph Pham (right) with his daughter Jade Pham

Young Nails educator Shara Pegram from Atlanta, Ga.

CND education ambassador John Nguyen from Ontario, Canada

Orly’s Amy Oung from Warwick, N.J.

Alessandro’s Sylvia Clark, Michelle Williams, and LaShaun Brown-Glenn

Show attendees try out Bio Seaweed Gel's newest LED light and gel-polish colors.

Christrio’s Hong Nguyen, Ann Nguyen, Anahi Romero, My Anh Vo, Ylianne Maldonado, Veronica Vargas, and Mimi Tritachaigoon

Belava’s Vladimir Zolotnik and Stephen Pirtle, Belava’s new VP of sales

Bio Seaweed Gel’s Trang Vu, Elaine Giang, Michelle Le, Amy Luu, Hellen Luu, Sarah Luu, and Michael Luu

VietSALON's Kim Pham (front, right) helped gather members of the Vietnamese nail industry for an impromptu get-together.

Team LeChat winding down after an eventful first day of the show.

Tweezerman’s Erich Liendo, Sylvia Clark, Kim, Alyssa Camardella, and Mark Ganga

Hong Nguyen, Mai Pham, and Giang Lombard with IBD's Terry Burciaga.

NAILS senior editor Tracy Rubert (center) with The Nail Association’s Ali Davidson and Megan Heagle

Our friends from the NailTech Network Orlando Social Diana Bonn and Mindy Borrego

OPI’s Danielle Devine and Vu Nguyen

Nail industry veterans Vu Nguyen, OPI guest artist, and DeShawn Bailey

Chisel Nail Art’s Christopher Nguyen, Frank Deo, David Hoang, model Genesis Stallings, and John Hang debuted their new products at Premiere Orlando.

Cousins Dara Marsden from Orlando, Fla. and Ashley Alexander from Atlanta, Ga.

Lavette Cephus and Carly Snyr

Binh Nguyen and salon team prepared for a day at the show.

Intrinsics’ Teri Lea Ahlswede, Christopher Ahlswede, Stacy Glover, and Kim Arrowood gave away their hearts (in the form of heart-shaped compressed sponges).

The team at Direct Payment Services: Tim Tran, Vincent Dang, Catheryne Tran, and Max Trieu, based out of Atlanta, Ga.

Worry Free Pedi’s Johanna Kimberley, Jen LaRue, Clark Gibbons, Michelle LaRue, Anthony Cortes, Allen Pryor, and Megan Morris

Entity Beauty’s Yuliya Normand, Dee Nguyen, Roxanne Nguyen, Janna Jahr, Lenzi Brock, and Leslie Randall

OPI is a main hub at the show, showcasing its Spring/Summer Hawaii collection, Infinite Shine, and GelColor

The Lexor team 

Gel II team Margo Reed, Alena Clark, Sandie Lombardi, Rosie Johnson, and NAILS advertising rep Mary Baughman

Jan Arnold and the CND team perform a rap song about the rapid performance of XPress5 Top Coat, designed to expedite Shellac removal.

CND nail designer and educator John Nguyen works on NAILS editor Erika Kotite.

The Bio Sculpture Gel team

Attendees check out Gigi's waxing and paraffin products at their sunny booth.

AII brands Nail Tek and Seche shared booth space and fun.

Sleek lines and dramatic lighting set off Akzentz' ultra-modern space.

LeChat's newest products included the SMD LED lamp, Perfect Match Oasis collection, and Mood Gel-Polish.

Light Elegance demo

The China Glaze booth 

Young Nails makes a splash

Nails by Danielle Lubin

Editor Sigourney Nuñez with NAILS NTNA Torie Bastian at the Athena Rocks booth

Kia Sky's Amanda Acello, Stephanie Martinez, Mike Doung, Jennifer Dang, and Saksith Say. 

A look at Nail Spex by Lauren Wireman with profits that go toward her Wildflowers Nail Academy.

The Painted Nail's Jennifer Delios, Christine Ozeretny, Katie Cazorla, and Libby Letlow

The Painted Nail introduces right light technology for its new LED lamp. 

Lauren Wireman hosted a class on getting noticed in the nail industry.

Editor Sigourney Nuñez with Nail Talk Radio's Braden Jahr

Safari nail art spotted at Mia Secret booth

Nails by Gelish's Sandy Borges and Maeling Parrish

Mia Secret's Eva Montelingo, Robert Mejia, and Karla del Cid

Cuccio's Elaine Watson 

NAILS NTNA Celina Ryden at hanging out at the Light Elegance booth

CND's John Nguyen and editor Sigourney Nuñez 

Plaid nail art by CND's John Nguyen for editor Sigourney Nuñez 

Nails by Halley Fortenberry 

Editor Sigourney Nuñez at the Skyline Beauty Supply mani cam

Nails by Rose Barron (left) and Gena del Portillo

Skyline Beauity Supply hooked up attendees with mani cam similar to the one at the House of Polish. 

Nails by Gino Trunzo 

Nails by Cuccio's Marilyn Garcia 

Nails by NTNA Top 24 Celina Ryden 

Orly has been made in Los Angeles for 40 years and is celebrating the milestone at the show. Educator Denise Kelley wore Orly GelFX in It's Up to Blue with a cool LA ring for the occasion.

Nails by Elizabeth Morris

Victoria Zegarelli's amazing nails 

Nail art by Shannon Rooney

Nails by Lexi Martone 

Nails by Lexi Martone 

Jan Arnold nail art by Shelena Robinson 

A look at CND's fall 2015 Contradictions collection

Continuum Footspas' Connie Weissling, Renee Gorelik, Jamie Rivers, and Dana Carini welcomed attendees to the show with a few of their sleek products including the Continuum Echo pedicure chair.

Skyline Beauty Supply's David Ngo, Beru Lalli, Kandi Banks, and Cathy Cheoung

Nail art by Elizabeth Morris

CND's Jan Arnold 

Nails editor Sigourney Nuñez and OPI's Shannon Rooney

Naja Rickette and Nuni Torres

January 2015 cover tech Amanda Lenher did demos at the Empower Nail Art booth. 

Nail techs Rose Barron (left) and Gena del Portillo

Jessica Cosmetics' Joey Brown, Kris Ruffin, Ilene Richkind, Donna Wilton, and Niki Huynh

Editor Sigourney Nuñez recieved a demo from Akzentz's Elizabeth Morris.

Chris and Lexi Martone

Orly's Kelly Bannon, Shirley Crerig, Nadine Galli, and Denise Kelley

Gelish educator Jesse Bruner 

J&A USA with NAILS senior editor Kim Pham

Light Elegance Joseph McLellan, Lexy McLellan, and Jim McConnell

Kimberly Kennedy and Debra Bourque, Footlogix

Live demos at the Gelish booth by Bryan Vu

Whale Spa and Valentino's David Dilorenzo, Johnny Ngo, David Ngo, and David Anthony

Rebecca Isa, Zoya

Zoya's new Naked Manicure demo

Cris Searle and Mary Chhea, CND

Hanna Do, Jackie Truong, and Daniel Buenabad, LeChat

Maricio Trujillo, Moyou

Entity Beauty's Roxanne Nguyen, Dee Nguyen, and Lenzi Moore Brock

Lisa Boone and Ericka Ramirez, Gelish

Danielle Candido, Melinda Chruscial, and Shannon Schneider, Gelish

Allana Williams, Dashing Diva

Becky Wroblewski, Gel II

Sandra Lombardi, Gel II

Melanie Visser and Marilyn Castorina, Bio Sculpture Gel

Beautiful neutrals from Essie

Essie's Bridal 2015 collection

Essie's new Watercolor line

Nicole Goldberg, Essie

Joel D. Arivett, Microplane Personal Care

NAILS NTNA Top 24 Halley Fortenberry

OPI's Vu Nguyen

Morgan Taylor team 

Kimberly Harr's awesome manicure