How-To
Dashing Diva French Wrap Manicure
Available in thin or thick styles for short or long free edges, Dashing Diva’s French Wrap Plus provides an easy-to-create, lasting French manicure or pedicure with consistently perfect smile lines and a no-chip finish.
Backscratchers Extreme Powder Glaze Acrylic Dip System
Backscratchers Extreme Powder Glaze Acrylic Dip System incorporates resin technology with high quality acrylic dipping powder to create strong, natural–looking nails that are easy to apply.
Stars & Stripes
Ana Vega created this patriotic red, white, and blue glitter design.
Between the Lines
Here's a simple yet stylish plaid design from Cassi Samora.
Happy Dolphin
Dawn Reagan shares her dolphin in water nail art design.
Hay Stack
Kimberly Harr uses copper, white, yellow, brown and gold polish to create this handpainted haystack.
Hippie Chic
Here's a fun tie-dye and peace sign French by Jade Sewell.
Bird in the Hand
A make-up sponge and polish are used to create the background fade on this acrylic paint parrot design by Raquel Pimentel.
All Season Professional’s Rock Star French
The All Season Professional (ASP) Glitz & Glamour Kit will add sparkle and shimmer to your acrylic nails. With four sparkling colors to choose from, you’ll be adding glamour to your clients’ nails quickly and easily.
Tocaloma Spa & Salon Signature Manicure
Tocaloma Spa & Salon at Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort, Phoenix shares their recipe for the salon's Signature Manicure.
Young Nails' Star Gazer
Young Nails Imagination Art Powders come in 11 different collections of colored acrylic powders to make nail art fun, easy, and quick to complete.
Put a Ring on It
Some nail techs find success in retailing hand-made jewelry made from nail products like acrylic. Kimberly Harr, a nail tech at La Nail Beautician in Everett, Pa., shows you how to make an acrylic ring:
Organic Sugar Scrub Pedicure
The Woodhouse Day Spa shares the recipe for its Organic Sugar Scrub Pedicure.
Behind the Scenes: Two Talented Techs Created the April 2011 Cover
Viv Simmons (from Australia) and Catherine Wong (from Singapore) created this month's extreme spring look using a combination of colored acrylics and gels. See how they did it.
by Hannah Lee
The Fellowship of the Nail
JoAnne Millar of En Vogue reveals how she creates this rhinestone-tipped curl on a gel nail.
Make Their Nails Water
Jade Sewell creates a juicy watermelon French.
Perfect Poppies
These handpainted flowers can be created in your client's choice of paint color.