Technique
Lab Reports
What can I do to relieve the pressure in my client's trumpet nail?
How Tips Are Made
Nail tips are made by a meticulous process that involves a computer, complex mathematical calculations, acetate pellets, and high-powered injection molding machines.
Tip of the Month: Make a Dry Skin Exfoliator
This homemade recipe will soothe clients' dry skin.
Training Grounds: How Trang Nguyen Became a Competitive Powerhouse
What does competition mean for the country’s top nail competitors and their salons?
Magical Nail Makeovers
We may not be magicians, but nail technicians can create what our clients think is "magic." The most dramatic illusions are achieved on clients with nails that are bitten, ski-jump-shaped, fan-shaped, or flat.
Male Nail-Biters Get Hooked
Tanning Services Heat up Salon Sales
Indoor tanning has brought year-round color to people in even the coldest of regions. It can also bring you year-round profits in your nail salon, with less trouble and expense than you might think.
Demos: NSI's French Fill Bit for Backfills
NSI’s products and techniques make a French backfill easier and faster. Accurate placement of a new smile line will make this service last up to four weeks.
Playing Fast Ball: Working Quickly With Acrylics
You can’t squeeze more hours in a day, but our experts can show you ways to fit more appointments into your schedule. How? By learning to do full sets in half the time.
Like Q-Tips, Only Better - Ear Candling
The Color of Monomer
Designed with the growth in the market for permanent French manicures in mind, these colored monomers don’t clean like laundry soap, they just make the nails look cleaner.
Shedding Light on UV Lamps
The attraction of light-cured products is that you do away with solvents, says one manufacturer.
Do Press-Ons the Professional Way
Reyna Traywick intructs on how to apply nails for clients who only want them for a vacation or a weekend out.
Tip of the Month
Vanessa Wright offers solutions to typical nail problems by using common household objects.
Tech Gives Clients a Bit of Bliss
Thirteen is a lucky number for nail technician Debi Gabler’s clients.
A Doctor's Notes on Ingrown Toenail Surgery
Ingrown toenails often become severe enough to require surgery. Dr. Mix shows you step by step what happens in the ingrown toenail surgery procedure.
The Nail Doctor
A very delicate anatomical structure, the nail matrix is easily injured, damaged, and scarred. Any injury or trauma to tills matrix can show up as a visible change in the nail plate or affect how it grows out.