The Help Desk
Your technique questions answered by Melissa Carlini, Brooke Gilliam, Debra Marr-Leisy, and La Shaun Crown-Glenn.
From Tips to Toes
Why not offer your acrylic-wearing clients this easy-to-do French overlay service for their toes? The results will be pure profit.
Creative's Performance Forms
How to apply the new acrylic nail from Creative Nail Design.
Acrylic Addict Goes Natural
One woman decides to go back to her natural nails after 26 years of wearing acrylics.
The Help Desk
Featuring Doug Schoon and David Dyer
Moon Struck
Now that sculpting with colored acrylic is so hot, why not make those nails even hotter by sculpting perfectly shaped moons?
The Help Desk
This month's Help Desk features the advice of Rima Kitsko, LaCinda Headings, Lin Halpern, Debi Waszut, and Mary Metscaviz.
Put on a Smiley Face
The pressure is on... whether you are giving client a French manicure, or you are at a competition attempting to create the perfect sculptured set... the smile line is always on your mind. Here are some tips to help keep you on your toes while making the perfect smile line.
What's Your Problem?
Whether you’re a beginner struggling to reduce thickness at the cuticle or a veteran whose C-curve is looking flat, this troubleshooting guide, put together by nail technician Shari Finger can help. Here are her tips to combat common acrylic woes.
Perfect Nails Begin With Proper Prep
The Help Desk: Can I Mix and Match Products?
Nail techs ask our panelists about mixing products, using pennies in hot lotion warmers, and how to get the under-nail really clean.
Competition Formulas Are Built to Win
Competition formulas can be used in the “real world” to give clients’ nails the competition look without sacrificing strength and durability.
Creating Powerful Bonds—With or Without Primer
Due to differences in individual body chemistry, no single primer is going to work best for every client. So study your options: methacrylic acid primers, “non-acid” primers, and a new primer-less acrylic system.
The Many Faces of a Backfill
By acquiring this advanced skill, nail technicians can earn more money per service and stay one step ahead of the game.
Nail Techs Answer Colleagues' Technical Questions
Sometimes the best answers to technical questions are from your peers. In this bimonthly column, respected nail veterans from across the country tackle reader questions ranging from how to prevent a gel-cure burn to advice for chronic nail pickers to etching the natural nail.
When It Comes to Acrylic Brushes, Size Does Matter
Is bigger really better? Yes, say many nail technicians who claim that learning how to use a larger brush led to a more time-efficient service for their clients.
The Help Desk
Sometimes the best answers to technical questions are from your peers. In this bimonthly column, respected nail veterans from across the country tackle reader questions ranging from the cause of problem lifting to chronic nail pickers to proper paraffin equipment.