FAVORITE ACRYLIC (TRADITIONAL) SYSTEM
1. CND: Retention+ Sculpting Liquid and Perfect Color Powders
2. Young Nails: Acrylic System
3. OPI Products: Absolute Liquid & Powder Technology
4. Hand & Nail Harmony: Acrylic System
5. Entity Beauty: Success Sculpting Liquid
FAVORITE ACRYLIC (COLOR) SYSTEM
1. Young Nails: Colored Acrylic
2. CND: Perfect Color Powder Collection
3. Hand & Nail Harmony: Reflections of Harmony Colored Powder Collections
4. EZ Flow: Boogie Nights Glitter Acrylics
5. Entity Beauty: True Artistry Colored Powder
FAVORITE BASE COAT
1. CND: Stickey Base Coat
2. OPI Products: Natural Nail Base Coat
3. Hand & Nail Harmony: Gelish Foundation Base
4. Famous Names: Lumos Fast Dry Bottomcoat
5. Seche: Crystal Clear Base Coat
FAVORITE BRUSHES (FOR ENHANCEMENTS)
1. OPI Products: Artist Series Brushes
2. Young Nails: Finesse Sculptor Brush
3. CND: ProSeries Enhancement Brushes
4. Hand & Nail Harmony: 2-Piece Pro 9 Brush
5. Entity Beauty: Pink Studio Sculpting Brush
FAVORITE CUTICLE TREATMENT
1. CND: SolarOil
2. Young Nails: Rose Cuticle Oil
3. OPI Products: Avoplex Cuticle Oil To Go
4. Famous Names: Dad’i Oil
5. Hand & Nail Harmony: Gelish Nourish
FAVORITE DISINFECTION (IMPLEMENTS) PRODUCT
1. OPI Products: Spa Complete
2. BlueCo Brands: Barbicide
3. Ultronics: Ultracare Disinfectant
4. Backscratchers Salon Systems: Cavacide Salon Disinfectant
5. Isabel Cristina: Let’s Touch “The Only No Rust” Disinfectant
FAVORITE DRILL OR ELECTRIC FILE
1. Kupa: Upower-2 G
2. Young Nails: YN-99 Electric File
3. Medicool: Pro Power 20K Rechargeable Filing System
4. OPI Products: Professional Electric Nail Technician File
5. Erica’s: MT-20
FAVORITE FILES
1. OPI Products: Professional Files
2. Young Nails: 150/150 Zebra Files
3. CND: Girlfriend Buffer
4. Hand & Nail Harmony: 100/180 Buffer
5. NSI: Endurance Nail Files
FAVORITE GEL (TRADITIONAL) SYSTEM
1. CND: Brisa Gel System
2. Young Nails: Synergy Gel System
3. Hand & Nail Harmony: Gelish Hard Gel
4. OPI Products: Axxium Gel System
5. Entity Beauty: One Gel Technology
FAVORITE GEL (SOAK-OFF) SYSTEM
1. OPI Products: Axxium Soak-off Gel Lacquers
2. Young Nails: ManiQ Soak Off Gel
3. Bio Sculpture USA: Gel System
4. ibd: Soak-Off Gel System
5. NSI: Illusion Soak-Off Gel System
FAVORITE IMPLEMENT OR TOOL
1. OPI Products: Titanium Tooling System
2. Young Nails: Magic Wand
3. Hand & Nail Harmony: Professional Tools Eco Pusher
4. Tweezerman Professional: Cobalt Stainless Steel Cuticle Nipper
5. Mehaz Professional: #777 Cuticle Nipper
FAVORITE LOTION FOR HANDS AND BODY
1. CND: Scentsations
2. OPI Products: Avojuice Skin Quenchers Lotion
3. Young Nails: Lomasi Lotions
4. NSI: Nurture Lotion
5. Star Nail: Cuccio Vanilla Body Butter
FAVORITE MANICURE SYSTEM
1. CND: Almond SpaManicure
2. OPI Products: Avoplex Moisture Replenishing System
3. Young Nails: Lomasi Natural Nail Care
4. Entity Beauty: Nanovive Skin Revival System
5. Bio Sculpture USA: Vitamin Dose
FAVORITE NAIL ART/DECALS/ACCESSORIES
1. Young Nails: Glitter Collections
2. CND: Additives
3. OPI Products: Pure Nail Lacquer Nail Apps
4. Dashing Diva: Design FX
5. Minx Nails: Kimmie Kyees Collection
FAVORITE NAIL PREP PRODUCTS
1. CND: ScrubFresh
2. Young Nails: Protein Bond
3. OPI Products: Bond-Aid PH Balancing Agent
4. Hand & Nail Harmony: Pro Bond
5. Entity Beauty: Natural Nail Prep
FAVORITE PEDICURE EQUIPMENT
1. Belava: Heater/Massager Unit With Pedicure Tub and Disposable Liners
2. European Touch: Rinato Spa
3. Buff & Go: Buff & Go
4. Medicool: PediNova Professional Electric Pedicure File
5. Footsie Bath of Beverly Hills: Footsiebath & Footsiebath Ez Access Tray
FAVORITE PEDICURE PRODUCT OR SYSTEM
1. CND: Marine SpaPedicure
2. OPI Products: Manicure/Pedicure by OPI
3. Young Nails: Lomasi Natural Nail Care
4. Entity Beauty: Rainforest Body Couture
5. Gena: Pedi Spa
FAVORITE PEDICURE TOOL
1. Mehaz Professional: Two-Sided Curette
2. CND: Callus Smoother
3. Young Nails: Cuticle Nippers
4. OPI Products: Disinfectable Foot File with Disposable Grit Strips
5. Star Nail: Cuccio Stainless Steel Foot File with Disposable Grits
FAVORITE POLISH DRYING PRODUCT
1. OPI Products: Drip Dry Lacquer Drying Drops
2. CND: Solar Speed Spray
3. China Glaze: Fast Freeze Quick Dry
4. Essie Cosmetics: Good to Go
5. Dashing Diva: Top Seal
FAVORITE POLISH (TRADITIONAL)
1. OPI Products: Nail Lacquer
2. China Glaze: Polish
3. Essie Cosmetics: Nail Polishes
4. CND: Colour & Effects
5. Zoya and Qtica: Zoya Nail Polish
FAVORITE POLISH (GEL-POLISH OR UV-CURED POLISH)
1. CND: Shellac
2. Hand & Nail Harmony: Gelish
3. Young Nails: ManiQ Color
4. OPI Products: GelColor by OPI
5. Entity Beauty: One Color Couture Gel Enamel
FAVORITE STRENGTHENER OR TREATMENT
1. OPI Products: Nail Envy
2. Young Nails: Thymol
3. CND: Toughen Up
4. Nail Tek: Intensive Therapy II
5. China Glaze: Nail Strengthener & Growth Formula
FAVORITE TIP
1. CND: Velocity Tips
2. Young Nails: Style Tips
3. Entity Beauty: Salon Style Tips
4. EZ Flow: Perfection II Tips
5. NSI: Elation Nail Tips
FAVORITE TOP COAT
1. Seche: Seche Vite
2. OPI Products: Rapid Dry Top Coat
3. CND: Super Shiney Top Coat
4. Young Nails: Y-UV Top Coat
5. Hand & Nail Harmony: Top It Off by Gelish
FAVORITE VENTILATION SYSTEM
1. Medicool: Mani-Vac by Medicool
2. Air Impurities Removal System: Salon Pure Air
3. Aerovex Systems: “The One That Works” Salon Air Purifier
4. EF: Nail Dust Collector
5. Valentino: Beauty Pure
FAVORITE WRAP SYSTEM
1. Backscratchers Salon Systems: Glass Glaze Fiberglass & Silk Wrap System
2. EZ Flow: Professional Fiberglass System
3. LCN USA: Fibrique Express Repair
4. Nubar: Infinity Silk Wrap
5. Star Nail: ASP Aspire Wrap Kit
Top 20 Favorite New Products
Top 20 Favorite New Products
Top 20 Favorite New Products
Top 20 Favorite New Products
Top 20 Favorite New Products
Now in its ninth year, NAILS Readers’ Choice Awards stand alone as the ONLY nail product awards chosen by YOU, the nail professional. As working nail techs, who better to choose the best professional nail care products than those of you who use them every day?
Ours are not “editor’s picks” or a “best of” roundup; they’re simply a snapshot in time telling us the products you and your peers love most at this very moment.
So what are your favorite products? We’ve tallied the votes and are happy to announce the winners of the 2012 NAILS Readers’ Choice Awards.
We are listing the top five favorites in each category. We’re also highlighting the top 20 favorite new products for 2012.
If you’d like to see how this year’s favorite products stack up to years past, go to www.nailsmag.com/RCA to take a look at what products are consistently on the list from year to year and who has broken into the club of finalists. (You’ll notice slight modification in our categories from year to year to reflect industry trends.)
Now for the small print: We sent out nomination forms to every major product manufacturer in the nail industry. They nominated themselves (NAILS did not select the products for voting). In August and September, we sent readers online to vote for their favorite products. If your favorite products weren’t listed, you could write them in. Readers were not required to vote for every category. If you have any comments or would like to see additional categories in the future, please let us know. You can e-mail Erika.Kotite@bobit.com.
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