
Energize Students Via a School-wide Competition, Tradeshow, and Networking Event
Empire Education Group has found great success in its annual Future Professionals Expo and offers tips on its strategies and how your school can start its own event.

Empire Education Group has found great success in its annual Future Professionals Expo and offers tips on its strategies and how your school can start its own event.

If you’re turning prospective students away because of their inability to afford your school’s tuition, here are some scholarships you could be turning them to instead.

Learning doesn’t have to be boring and difficult when dedicated nail instructors find clever ways to make education fun for their students. Here are a few fun ways you can spruce up your nail classes, from three creative nail teachers.

Inspired by artist Dale Chihuly’s sculptural glass works (particularly the ceiling piece Fiori di Como in Las Vegas’ Bellagio Hotel and Casino) we asked Columbus, Ohio-based nail tech MaeLing Parrish to recreate the design for this month’s cover model.

After dabbling in competitions for years, nail tech Allison Baker started this year out with gusto by keeping her competition schedule full and her product applications perfect. Her hard work paid off — landing her in the #1 spot on this year’s Top 25 list above a group of very talented and competitive nail techs.

Depending on conditions, clients’ hands and feet may be puffy, moist, and sweaty or cold, dry, and numb. A tech needs to know how to compensate for these changes so she can apply product to a consistent, stable nail surface each time.

For our Fall 2012 polish preview, we asked Orange, Calif.-based nail tech Elsbeth Schuetz to create a variety of animal-print looks to showcase the fall colors.

Leopards and tigers and zebras, oh my! Wild animal prints have come roaring back onto the fashion runways and into our lives. We used this season’s wild new nail polish colors to show off the animals on the prowl.

Prachi Agrawal of SuperWowChannels shares a step-by-step for how to create a variety of abstract lines nail art designs that are simple, yet varied, and that you can never go wrong with. Get more at http://www.superwowchannels.com.

Go behind the scenes with Orly at their Birds of a Feather - Fall 2011 photo shoot.

Go behind the scenes with Orly at their Cool Romance - Spring 2012 photo shoot.

London's Nails Inc. releases a collection of limited-edition polishes with various particle shapes, sizes, and textures, giving it an edgy, graffiti look. Nails Inc. recommends applying two coats of Graffiti polish over Floral Street polish.

While on an education tour through the UK, FingerNailFixer Holly Schippers took a break to create this Union Jack Flag nail art tutorial using CND Additives.
In this video from the NAILS Troubleshooter series, Thao Nguyen gives some tips on cleaning the nail plate before a service and using a cuticle nipper correctly.

Go behind the scenes with Orly at the photo shoot for their Feel The Vibe Summer 2012 Collection.

Misk Nail Spa in Instanbul, Turkey, uses its own custom magnolia-scented products in this floral manicure.

For a sopthisticated look this fall, check out Julep’s new argyle design.