
In The Know

Top Shades To Pair Together This Summer
Allure magazine offers its five best nail-color pairings for June.

A New Shape for Nails
Celebs are requesting a new nail shape that is long and filed to be really thin, but with a soft-curved tip, according to Allure magazine.

Enhance French Tips with a Sponge Mani
The sponge mani is one of Cosmopolitan's Best Beauty Tricks, according to the May 2013 issue.

Add Color to a Mani-Pedi with Complementary Combos
Suggest clients choose colors based on the opposite side on the color prism wheel to avoid mani-pedis that are too ‘matchy-matchy.’

Long Live Your Gel Mani
Lucky Magazine’s May 2013 issue demonstrated the Glitter Fade to make gel manicures last even longer.

Color of the Month: Hot Pink
Hot pink is this month's go-to color choice for your client's manicure.

NAILS Brings Home Two More Maggie Awards! (That brings the total to 30!)
The NAILS website wins big at the annual awards program for best overall trade magazine site and best use of social media.

CND Launches Vinylux Weekly Nail Polish
From the company that brought you Shellac, CND Vinylux Weekly Nail Polish promises to change the way you think about polish.

Candy-Shop Nails
Kick spring into gear with non-sheer pastels.

Nail Art Deco
Instyle's April 2013 issue showed readers how to bring the glam of 1920s art deco design onto their nails.

3 Manis from Jin Soon Choi
InStyle's April issue featured three nail designs created by Jin Soon Choi using her flower-inspired spring collection of polishes.

Beyoncé's Super Bowl Nails
Celebrity nail artist Lisa Logan custom-designed golden chevron Minx nails for Beyonce to wear during her 2013 Super Bowl performance.

Same Polish, Different Styles
Two nail bloggers featured in Cosmopolitan used the same three polishes to create two totally different user-friendly works of nail art.

Runway-Worthy Polish Colors
Here are a few color-popping shades Harper's Bazaar has seen on the runways this spring.

Mint Nails for Spring
Mint green is one of the most popular shades for spring, according to InStyle's March 2013 issue.

Matching Lips to Manis
Many polish brands are coming out with matching lipstick shades, according to Shape magazine's March issue.

Remedy Chipped Nails Between Manis
Here are a couple of tips to give your chip-prone clients for those times between manicures.



