Emma Jean Cosmetics provides salon-quality, vegan, and cruelty-free scented nail polish. The beautiful color and fragrance combinations are inspired by life’s remarkable moments to evoke memories of good times. Two can win the Glitter Collection featuring seven dazzling shades: Do You Like Pina Colada, Gold Rush, It’s a Fairy Tale, Starry Nights, Strawberry Shortcake, Sweet Tea, and Tinseltown.
Six readers can win a 70-Tip Package of Designer French Tips from Shooting Star International. The designs are applied using an overlay of either clear gel or clear acrylic. There is no blending or special prep work required, so application is simple. Each 70-Tip Package will complete at least five full-sets, and with more than 100 original creations, there are styles to fit every taste and season.
Geluv’s Shock Neon collection comes with gel-polish, nail studs, and nail sparkle. Gel-polish color includes Tweet This, glitter comes in fine and semi-translucent shades, and studs come in both square and round varieties.
Create beautiful liquid-and-powder extensions with the ProHesion Sample Kit from Hand & Nail Harmony. Four can win a kit containing Sculpting Monomer, Elegant Pink Powder, Crystal Clear Powder, Vivid White Powder, and a 20-pack of nail forms. ProHesion offers strength, durability, and competition-like results, without the use of acid primers.
Make your Barbicide disinfectant jars as stylish as the rest of your salon. Ten readers can win Salon Skins Decorative Wraps, which are made to fit the 21-oz. jars. Salon Skins come in a variety of colors and patterns with a magnetic closure making them easy to interchange. Switch them out regularly to keep your salon decor fresh and new.
Easy to use and disposable, the Youveeshield blocks 99.9% of UV light. It provides slits that expose the nails, and the nature of the material allows it to grip your finger right under the cuticle. Youveeshield will bring more clients into the salon by easing the fears of customers concerned about UV light for reasons relating to a photosensitivity or just plain old caution. Ten can win a package of 20 shields.
Capture a famous face on a nail tip and you might just enjoy your own 15 minutes of fame as the winner of our Celebrity Face Off Challenge. The rules to enter the 2014 Celebrity Face Off are simple: Using a photo as a guide, paint a mini-portrait of any well-known face on a #1 nail tip. Submit both the nail tip and the photograph (with the celebrity’s name on the back) to arrive at NAILS by the deadline of July 10. Mail your entries to NAILS Celebrity Face Off, 3520 Challenger St., Torrance, CA 90503. Don’t forget to include your name, salon name, address, phone number, and e-mail address. You may submit up to three entries. For more information, call (310) 533-2457 or e-mail judy.lessin@bobit.com. Winning nail tips will be displayed in our October issue.
Professional spa product manufacturer Bodipure has created a waterless manicure and pedicure treatment that deeply moisturizes the nails, skin, and cuticles. Keratin Gloves and Socks, featuring copaiba oil and vitamin E, have a unique nail strengthening formula that also protects from harmful UV rays and penetrates deeply into the skin after a thorough massage. Fifty lucky winners will receive a dual package of Keratin Gloves and Keratin Socks.
Alfalfa’s Geluv Color Palette Tree is a great way to put your polish collection on display. Nail techs can paint each of the tree’s 60 removable tips in different shades for a more compact and stylish way to let clients browse their choices. The Color Palette Tree serves a variety of functions, whether you need to make space, reduce inventory, or prevent polish theft. Two can win.
SofSpa puts emollient- and botanical-rich intensive dry skin therapy to work on rough, problem skin, calluses, and cracked heels. The product is designed to absorb slowly then deeply penetrate into the lower layers of the skin. Use with Pedi-Sox to lock in the healing benefits. Two can win the Salon Pro Retail Pack, which includes one 8-oz. Professional Service Tube, 10 2.4-oz. Retail Tubes, 10 pairs of Pedi-Sox, and a display unit.
