The 15th Nail Tech Event of the Smokies was held on Sunday, July 10th, 2022 in the resort town of Gatlinburg, TN, the gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The show welcomed about 600 attending nail techs, salon/spa owners, beauty school students, and their instructors, plus “The Toe Bro” Jonathan Tomines was our distinguished guest who also taught a hands-on Onyfix Workshop.

To celebrate 15 years in business, during the show guests were treated to complimentary bites of chocolate and vanilla birthday cake with ButterCream glitter icing and Champagne punch thanks to Platinum Sponsor Light Elegance. Gold Sponsor Mia Secret distributed nice sized trial kits of their nail products during the show as did Silver Sponsor Gehwol foot care, plus all three Sponsors gave away special prizes during the show, too. 

The Grand Prize this year was sponsored by PinkPro Beauty Supply, the TN distributor for CND, OPI, Gelish, Cuccio, Voesh, and more and the winner was Ohio nail tech Samantha Parsons who took home $1,500 worth of nail products.

In addition to the one-day nails-only show, the 30 optional Friday, Saturday, and Monday workshops provided techs with additional hands-on education to customize their Smokies Nail Show experience to fit their budget by stretching the one-day nail show into a two, three, or four day nail education extravaganza.