When client health and salon reputation are on the line with every service, it’s important to know the ins and outs of tool disinfection like the back of your hand. Shoo away bacteria with proper products and protocol.
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Thanksgiving is celebrated by taking time out of our busy lives to sit down with loved ones and share a meal. It’s a time to slow down and to be thankful.
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Watch award-winning nail artist John Hauk create beautiful and simple mosaic nail art using artisan GelEfex.
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In this video from the NAILS Troubleshooter series, Entity's director of education, Lorena Marquez, shows how to create outline nails with acrylic paint over gel-polish.
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The 10 finalists for NAILS 2014 Cover Tech Contest have been chosen. Now it's UP TO YOU!
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Have you ever used uncooked spaghetti to create nail art? Elaine Watson, Star Nail’s vice president of marketing and sales, has!
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The Shaker by Izen is a mechanical gel-polish bottle shaker new to the market.
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After losing her son’s godmother to breast cancer in June, Kamisha Winfield, owner of The Polished Stone Mobile Spa in Augusta, Ga., decided to make a difference.
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Gelish recently released Trends, a line of soak-off gel-polish inspired by current fashion on the runways and in look books.
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Salon uniforms have never looked like this.
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Handcrafted in Italy, ArteStile implements combine form and function.
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Inspired by anti-chafing balms employed by runners, Sole Goddess glides onto feet to protect them from blisters and calluses caused by (fashionable but not ergonomic) shoes.
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If you’re stashing your glow-in-the-dark nail products for next year now that Halloween’s over, don’t twist that bottle cap too tightly.
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Create a bouquet of color on your salon walls with Gulfstream’s handcrafted 3-D glass flowers.
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“I teach from the heart and not the head,” says the 2013 N.F. Cimaglia Educator of the Year.
Crafty, artisan looks related to the traditional art or culture of a community
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Consumers pay well to make their own dinner at cooking classes and paint their own art at wine-and-canvas parties, so it follows that a similar DIY group-bonding experience would excel in a social space like a nail salon.
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