Water Works
If you’re looking for a unique service to add to your menu, consider testing the waters with a current nail art trend: aquarium nails.
Creating the Edge Nail
Nails by Angel Smith, Young Nails educator
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
If you want to add some festive cheer to your acrylic repertoire, check out the Christmas nails of these two skilled techs.
Nail Cravings: Fixing Bitten Mittens
Adding nail enhancements to bitten nails can be a rather complicated and tricky procedure.
Heart-Shaped Dappen Dish
Add a little extra personality to your nail table with this heart-shaped dappen dish from Atwood Industries.
Acrylic Kit
The Entity Acrylic Kit comes with everything needed to start doing high-quality acrylic enhancements right away.
Heavenly Glitter Collection
Young Nails’ Heavenly Glitter Collection features eight pastel glitters: Ozone, Purple Dawn, Star Sand, Crushed Pearl, Diamond Dust, Prominence, Sakura Storm, and Mandarin.
From Fantasy to Reality
Nail artist Sam Lynam of Arabella Nails in Bedfordshire, U.K., has developed a unique nail form to assist techs in creating fantasy nail art designs.
It’s So L.A. Acrylic Glitter and Charm Powders
StyleEnvy’s It’s So L.A. Acrylic Glitter and Charm Powders can be used with tips as sculpting powder for quick and easy nail art.
Behind the Scenes: Cutting Edge
Lynn Lammers knows a thing or two about perfect nails. After securing the top spot on NAILS’ Top 25 List of competitors for the second year running (and winning the World Championship in Dusseldorf, Germany, earlier this year), she’s on a roll. And she seemingly can do it all — extreme pink-and-whites, colored acrylic designs, fantasy acrylic sculptures are just a few of her specialties.
Take a Tip From ... INM's Rachel Mouritsen
INM's Rachel Mouritsen explains the difference between applying odorless acrylics and standard acrylics.
Acrylic Nipper
The original Antoine De Paris Acrylic Nipper developed 35 years ago was the first triple-reinforced acrylic nipper, and it still sets the standard to this day.
Polymer Nailfinity Corrective Opaque Pink Powder
Kinetics’ Polymer Nailfinity Corrective Opaque Pink Powder is designed to create flawless nail extensions even on very short, damaged nail plates.
Artist Spotlight: Liliya Sereditskaya
Ukrainian-based nail tech Liliya Sereditskaya is a relative newcomer to the nail craft. She’s only worked as a nail tech for three years, but she has quickly learned how to make stunning, high-quality stilettos to keep a full clientele. NAILS got a chance to talk to Sereditskaya about nail trends in Ukraine and how she got her start.
EZ Flow 3-D Nail Art
EZ Flow’s colored acrylic collections allow you to free your mind and create endless combinations of colors and art to keep clients enthralled year-round. The collections Time to Shine, Pastel, Earth Stone, and Rainbow offer unique shades for nails, and the Competition White Series has superior performance and adhesion.
Take a Tip From ... Nail Labo's Rumiko Nakaya
Rumiko Nakaya, educator and advisor for Nail Labo, explains how she fixes smile line imperfections in gels.
A Little Time (Line) for Pink-and-Whites
Feel like you could stand to sharpen up on your liquid-and-powder application times? Then check out the timeline breakdowns from four experienced pros, and compare your own personal bests (and maybe find a new technique or two along the way).
by Tim Crowley