Hannah Lee and Jessica Cosmetics’ owner Jessica Vartoughian took a minute to catch up during the busy meeting schedule. Jessica had this lovely polish chandelier sitting in the middle of their booth.
AII’s Diana Duran-Jones (center) gave NAILS’ Sree Roy and Tim Crowley a tour of AII’s comprehensive collection of brands.
AII VP/Sales Mark Moesta (center) had some wisecracks about the “demands” of working with Sally, and accepted the award for Partners in Progress from Linda Voracek, Group VP/ Merchandising, Sally Beauty Supply and Mike Spinozzi, President, Sally Beauty Supply. This was the 3rd time that AII has been honored.
In its first year on the shelves, Gelish broke records for Sally Beauty Supply and was honored with the beauty store giant’s Partners in Progress Awards. The Partners in Progress award comes with a beautiful two-foot crystal vase (held by Harmony president Danny Haile), who shares the spotlight with his team (from left) Spinozzi, David Daniel, Gari-Dawn Tingler, and Voracek.
Duri’s Tatiana and David Debrow promoted Duri’s new holiday polish kits and colors.
Artistic Nail Design’s April Jones met with Tim Crowley to talk about Artistic’s new Colour Gloss soak-off gel colors.
London-based supplier Cuong Trinh (left) met with Glam and Glits’ Michale Duong, Ana Katrina Tan, Michelle Tran, and Jason Le.
Nubar’s Aileen Atlas, Gabby Sanchez, Lona Martinez, and Aime Abrahamian (front) were all smiles on the show floor.
VietSALON associate editor Kim Pham with LeZon's Nhan Le.
Bobby Ortega, Mary Jo Zwirowski, and Arpi Sekeryan are part of Dashing Diva’s impressive sales force.
NAILS’ Michelle Mullen and Hand and Nail Harmony’s Danny Haile enjoyed the 3-D view of the new Gelish Vitagel.
Christine Nguyen stands by a Lexor pedicure spa prototype that features a more private design with greater wingspan.
The FootLogix team of Murray Smith, Eniko Campbell, Vicki Malo, Dr. Katharin von Gavel, and Tanya Palladina showed NAILS’ Tim Crowley (center) their new products.
European Touch’s Sheila Newkirk and Dawn Holz show off the Rinato Spa pedicure chair.
Sally Ferguson, Marc Spilo, and Maria Orona celebrated Spilo Worldwide’s 70th anniversary as a manufacturer and master distributor for the professional beauty industry.
Entity Beauty's Vickie Heller, Dee Nguyen, and Jamie Steily
Beauty bloggers enjoyed a dinner and networking with salon owner Katie Cazorla, reality star of The Nail Files, after the show floor closed for the day. (Photo courtesy of Krystal Seidel)
Nonprofit Beauty Bus opened its first-ever national pop-up salon in Las Vegas during the show, where beauty professionals like nail tech Camera Butler provided free services to clients from the National MS Society and the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Southern Nevada. The salon was supported by SpaRitual, Orly, and InStyler Professional.
Tweezerman’s Celes Ybarra, Maureen Beresford, and Susie Santiago talked up the company’s new products.
LC Corp's Hieu Le shows Mary Baughman one of LC Corp's SpaZi pedicure chairs.
Beautiful Nails by Kupa sported its new logo, which Sindy Mark and Richard Hurter helped design.
Jordan Langhofer and Michael Le explained LaPalm’s Gel II products with the help of informative T-shirts that declared “no more base coat needed.”
NAILS managing editor Sree Roy tries out Cuccio’s new Veneer gel-polish, applied by nail tech Lina Nyberg.
John Galea and Orly’s CEO Jeff Pink were looking dapper on the show floor.
Miss Professional's Charlie Vo and Mike Vo
INM’s Garret Kellenberger poses with the new head of education at INM Juli Miller.
Young Nails director of education Tracey Reierson and art director Ramon Hernandez
VietSALON associate editor Kim Pham getting a demo of one of Dashing Diva's new DesignFX appliqués, applied by educator So Yong Yu.
Vanessa Curry, Justine Herron, and Ravid Yosef showed off the company’s signature “Violent Lips.”
Polly and Mark Deason explained the differences between Acquarella Water Based Nail Products and other water-based polishes.
Jody Weiss promoted the I Am A Peacekeeper line of products, which has been in Whole Foods Market for about 10 years and just launched an upscale line for the professional salon market.
Alfalfa Nail Supply’s full team was there at the show, from left to right Kevin Nguyen, Angie Lim, Kathy Phan, Hien Ton, and Dat Ton.
The NAILS team, along with Bobit Business Media CEO Ty Bobit, met with Light Elegance's Jim and Lezlie McConnell.
Pacific World's Vincent Jafari with Andy Hillas
Mary Baughman poses with J & A's Mike Ahn
Beautiful Nails by Kupa educator Sindy Mark, Kupa president Richard Hurter, customer service manager Sara Smith, and repair & service manager Robert Arthur
Cacee's Christina Ha and Tony Chevere
LCN's Tina Gilbert (center) with Mary Baughman (left) and Hannah Lee
Gelaxy's Thai Thach, Carol Tran, and Sally Pham
Continuum's Tony Galati promoted Continuum's Vantage + pedicure spa chair.
Signature Nail Systems creator Joe Tran demonstrated his acrylic dip system on show attendees.
LeChat's Yvette Holt promoted LeChat's new Mood gel polish colors.
Today's Products founder and educator Christine Tran demoed products at her booth.
Graham Professional's Dave Albers and Debbie Schlise promoted their new soak-off gel nail wraps.
QGS' Phi Nguyen with Vanessa Vu and Nhat Phan promoted their point of sales (POS) software tool that is compatible with the iPad.
Mary Baughman with Luraco's Tom Le, VietSALON associate editor Kim Pham, and Luraco's Patty Ladebell.
INM’s Christina Korodan and Garret Kellenberger pose with the new head of education at INM Juli Miller.
Family-owned Lamoon Beauty promoted their new Précision nail lacquers. Pictured above are Lamoon Beauty assistant manager Sophia Tran, owners Janine and Don Tran, and Erick Villalobos in sales.
Spotted on the show floor: LeChat's Newton Luu and OPI guest artist Joseph Pham
Father and son team of Billy and Johnny Ngo with new pedicure spa chairs from Whale Spa.
Katie Cazorla (center) met with beauty bloggers Krystal Seidel of polishgalore.com (left) and Judy Rusk of beautyjudy.com to talk about a few exiting new products she will soon unveil.
VietSALON associate editor Kim Pham with LeChat educator Connie Le.
Beyond Designs' Vincent Vu and Huy That Ton promoted their new modular chairs with Human Touch massage technology.
Spotted on the show floor: NailGrafx husband and wife duo Pat and Mami Griffin.
#1 Eyelash Extensions recently came out with a new magnetic mix. Christina Dao, Cookie Do, and Natalie Pham.
Hannah Lee and Jessica Cosmetics’ owner Jessica Vartoughian took a minute to catch up during the busy meeting schedule. Jessica had this lovely polish chandelier sitting in the middle of their booth.
AII’s Diana Duran-Jones (center) gave NAILS’ Sree Roy and Tim Crowley a tour of AII’s comprehensive collection of brands.
AII VP/Sales Mark Moesta (center) had some wisecracks about the “demands” of working with Sally, and accepted the award for Partners in Progress from Linda Voracek, Group VP/ Merchandising, Sally Beauty Supply and Mike Spinozzi, President, Sally Beauty Supply. This was the 3rd time that AII has been honored.
In its first year on the shelves, Gelish broke records for Sally Beauty Supply and was honored with the beauty store giant’s Partners in Progress Awards. The Partners in Progress award comes with a beautiful two-foot crystal vase (held by Harmony president Danny Haile), who shares the spotlight with his team (from left) Spinozzi, David Daniel, Gari-Dawn Tingler, and Voracek.
Duri’s Tatiana and David Debrow promoted Duri’s new holiday polish kits and colors.
Artistic Nail Design’s April Jones met with Tim Crowley to talk about Artistic’s new Colour Gloss soak-off gel colors.
London-based supplier Cuong Trinh (left) met with Glam and Glits’ Michale Duong, Ana Katrina Tan, Michelle Tran, and Jason Le.
Nubar’s Aileen Atlas, Gabby Sanchez, Lona Martinez, and Aime Abrahamian (front) were all smiles on the show floor.
VietSALON associate editor Kim Pham with LeZon's Nhan Le.
Bobby Ortega, Mary Jo Zwirowski, and Arpi Sekeryan are part of Dashing Diva’s impressive sales force.
NAILS’ Michelle Mullen and Hand and Nail Harmony’s Danny Haile enjoyed the 3-D view of the new Gelish Vitagel.
Christine Nguyen stands by a Lexor pedicure spa prototype that features a more private design with greater wingspan.
The FootLogix team of Murray Smith, Eniko Campbell, Vicki Malo, Dr. Katharin von Gavel, and Tanya Palladina showed NAILS’ Tim Crowley (center) their new products.
European Touch’s Sheila Newkirk and Dawn Holz show off the Rinato Spa pedicure chair.
Sally Ferguson, Marc Spilo, and Maria Orona celebrated Spilo Worldwide’s 70th anniversary as a manufacturer and master distributor for the professional beauty industry.
Entity Beauty's Vickie Heller, Dee Nguyen, and Jamie Steily
Beauty bloggers enjoyed a dinner and networking with salon owner Katie Cazorla, reality star of The Nail Files, after the show floor closed for the day. (Photo courtesy of Krystal Seidel)
Nonprofit Beauty Bus opened its first-ever national pop-up salon in Las Vegas during the show, where beauty professionals like nail tech Camera Butler provided free services to clients from the National MS Society and the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Southern Nevada. The salon was supported by SpaRitual, Orly, and InStyler Professional.
Tweezerman’s Celes Ybarra, Maureen Beresford, and Susie Santiago talked up the company’s new products.
LC Corp's Hieu Le shows Mary Baughman one of LC Corp's SpaZi pedicure chairs.
Beautiful Nails by Kupa sported its new logo, which Sindy Mark and Richard Hurter helped design.
Jordan Langhofer and Michael Le explained LaPalm’s Gel II products with the help of informative T-shirts that declared “no more base coat needed.”
NAILS managing editor Sree Roy tries out Cuccio’s new Veneer gel-polish, applied by nail tech Lina Nyberg.
John Galea and Orly’s CEO Jeff Pink were looking dapper on the show floor.
Miss Professional's Charlie Vo and Mike Vo
INM’s Garret Kellenberger poses with the new head of education at INM Juli Miller.
Young Nails director of education Tracey Reierson and art director Ramon Hernandez
VietSALON associate editor Kim Pham getting a demo of one of Dashing Diva's new DesignFX appliqués, applied by educator So Yong Yu.
Vanessa Curry, Justine Herron, and Ravid Yosef showed off the company’s signature “Violent Lips.”
Polly and Mark Deason explained the differences between Acquarella Water Based Nail Products and other water-based polishes.
Jody Weiss promoted the I Am A Peacekeeper line of products, which has been in Whole Foods Market for about 10 years and just launched an upscale line for the professional salon market.
Alfalfa Nail Supply’s full team was there at the show, from left to right Kevin Nguyen, Angie Lim, Kathy Phan, Hien Ton, and Dat Ton.
The NAILS team, along with Bobit Business Media CEO Ty Bobit, met with Light Elegance's Jim and Lezlie McConnell.
Pacific World's Vincent Jafari with Andy Hillas
Mary Baughman poses with J & A's Mike Ahn
Beautiful Nails by Kupa educator Sindy Mark, Kupa president Richard Hurter, customer service manager Sara Smith, and repair & service manager Robert Arthur
Cacee's Christina Ha and Tony Chevere
LCN's Tina Gilbert (center) with Mary Baughman (left) and Hannah Lee
Gelaxy's Thai Thach, Carol Tran, and Sally Pham
Continuum's Tony Galati promoted Continuum's Vantage + pedicure spa chair.
Signature Nail Systems creator Joe Tran demonstrated his acrylic dip system on show attendees.
LeChat's Yvette Holt promoted LeChat's new Mood gel polish colors.
Today's Products founder and educator Christine Tran demoed products at her booth.
Graham Professional's Dave Albers and Debbie Schlise promoted their new soak-off gel nail wraps.
QGS' Phi Nguyen with Vanessa Vu and Nhat Phan promoted their point of sales (POS) software tool that is compatible with the iPad.
Mary Baughman with Luraco's Tom Le, VietSALON associate editor Kim Pham, and Luraco's Patty Ladebell.
INM’s Christina Korodan and Garret Kellenberger pose with the new head of education at INM Juli Miller.
Family-owned Lamoon Beauty promoted their new Précision nail lacquers. Pictured above are Lamoon Beauty assistant manager Sophia Tran, owners Janine and Don Tran, and Erick Villalobos in sales.
Spotted on the show floor: LeChat's Newton Luu and OPI guest artist Joseph Pham
Father and son team of Billy and Johnny Ngo with new pedicure spa chairs from Whale Spa.
Katie Cazorla (center) met with beauty bloggers Krystal Seidel of polishgalore.com (left) and Judy Rusk of beautyjudy.com to talk about a few exiting new products she will soon unveil.
VietSALON associate editor Kim Pham with LeChat educator Connie Le.
Beyond Designs' Vincent Vu and Huy That Ton promoted their new modular chairs with Human Touch massage technology.
Spotted on the show floor: NailGrafx husband and wife duo Pat and Mami Griffin.
#1 Eyelash Extensions recently came out with a new magnetic mix. Christina Dao, Cookie Do, and Natalie Pham.
Cosmoprof North America’s 10 year anniversary in Las Vegas showed just how resilient the beauty industry can be. With new exhibitors and large booths, the nail manufacturers showed that the market place is continuing to grow.
The event was held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center from July 22 – 24 and featured 856 exhibiting companies with over 25,000 attendees, representing a 9% increase to the year before. A collection of importers, distributors, manufactures, and global beauty leaders from all over the world gathered under one roof to reaffirm relationships and create new business opportunities in beauty.
The show offers a unique occasion for nail manufacturers to connect directly with their distributors and showcase their newest products for the coming year. The show kicked off with George Schaeffer’s City of Hope Spirit of Life Award ceremony, which featured top-notch dining and star studded musical guests. And the NAILS team held their own cocktail party at a suite in the Mandalay Bay, bringing the nail world together for a fun night of laughs.
Start planning ahead for next year’s show as Cosmoprof North America 2013 will take place July 14 – 16 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.
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