Premiere Orlando Tops Our List of Favorite Nail Shows

Susie Santiago, Kathy Harvey, and Maggie Kombogiannis greeted attendees at Tweezerman’s booth.

Tweezerman’s Beauty for a Cause products donates $1 for every tweezer and 50 cents is for every file purchase to the Starlight Foundation, which helps families with children who have medical needs.

EZ Flow’s Brenda Skermont talks nails with a show attendee.

Varisi’s Hailey and Virginia Ramsay promoted some of Varisi’s nail and feet products including creamy sugar scrubs, cracked heel relief, and disinfecting cuticle solution.

Varisi’s Hailey and Virginia Ramsay promoted some of Varisi’s nail and feet products including creamy sugar scrubs, cracked heel relief, and disinfecting cuticle solution.

Joann Diprete and Jill Phillips greeted attendees at the Ultronics booth. Joann reminds an attendee to properly follow disinfection instructions carefully.

Real Gold Inc.'s Bill Crowley, Brooke Gilliam, Pam and Jamie Quick promoted their new Real Gold 22-karat gold and pure silver products.

Bruce Levinson demonstrates how to hold the new RPM Nail Dust Vacuum from RAM Products. Ram Products owner Richard Wiesen and Cynthia Wiesen were all smiles in the background.

Odyssey educator AnaMaria Paty shows Tina Thach the way to create a good C-curve in order to retain the strength of the nail and keep it structurally sound.

Nailite had new Art in a Box nail art glitters and embellishments.

Jerri Ferguson, an educator for Nailite, preps Cara Smith’s nails for application of Nailite’s new gel polish, GIA, or Gels in Action.

Northwestern sales manager Linda Woods and head education director Denise Mayson pose for a photo at the It’s So Easy booth.

Hand & Nail Harmony educator Ghenna Gonzalez shows Melinda Lane and the curious crowd of attendees ways to use Gelish to create nail art.

Sisters Erica and April Tausch helped promote some of Erica’s new electric file drills. The family-owned Erica’s, founded by their parents was named after the oldest of the two sisters.

Cheeky Monkey’s Carol Daugherty (left) and Creative Director/Founder Andrea Pahn had fun promoting their new Cheeky Monkey polish colors. Story here.

Cacee’s new gel polish colors include (from left to right) Jenn, Brittany, Ivy, Summer, Clio, and Christina.

Amy Duong, Tony Chevere, Melanie Le, and Long Truong promoted new Cacee Gel Polish colors.

Laura Campos and Bruce Atwood from Atwood Industries pose for a photo.

Masterworks founder (and top five competitor) Amy Becker demonstrates her gel products, including her new gel paints that can be used for creating gel nail art.

Hand & Nail Harmony’s Tiffany Silver gives a show attendee tips and information on using Gelish at one of the Try-Me Stations set up for show attendees.

EnVogue’s Courtney Trapp and Joanne Millar offered great glitter and gel specials at the show.

Entity’s Jeteca Larson and Lee-Anne Henderson showed us Entity One Color Couture soak-off gel polish and the new LED lamp that is available to use with the colors.

NAILS senior editor Tim Crowley (right) pals around with Medicool’s e-file educator Robert Munkel, a.k.a. The “Drill” Sarge.

LCN’s Kurt Malec, Jennifer Swan, Matt Dione, Tina Gilbert, and Rebecca Clare sported “I Heart LCN” T-shirts while being stalked for their fun Magnetic Polish.

Light Elegance’s Jayne Berger, Jim McConnell, Lezlie McConnell, Josephine More, and good friend Tiffany Carter keep their motto — “smart chemistry made beautiful” — close to their hearts.

In celebration of its new OPI Pirates of the Caribbean polish line, all the educators at the OPI booth donned scarves and eye patches, including educators Joseph Pham and Wendy Brownlee.

Jim and Linda Nordstrom of Famous Names LLC, are excited about all of the positive response they’ve heard from customers about their Lumos Top and Base Coats.

Making their beauty show debut, Valentino’s Lauren Valentino, David Dilorenzo, and David Anthony promoted their new Valentino Beauty Pure Air Filtration system.

NAILS’ Michelle Mullen and Casey Forte from Nails by Casey in Ocala, Fla., enjoyed a seat in The Nail Superstore’s new Red Dragon Sauna chair, which replaces the traditional water basin with steam.

NAILS editor Hannah Lee (right) met up with salon owner Maisie Dunbar who promoted her line of mineral makeup and cosmetics, Bluffa Jo, and taught several classes at the show, including one on building your salon business.

J&A introduced SalonPOS, a new touchscreen salon management program that can be used on iPads and iPhones too.

Footlogix debuted this new chair that can be raised up for the pedicurist’s comfort.

We found European Touch’s Dawn Holz and Misty Witte on the calmer spa side of the show with the company’s Rinato Spa chair.

Lexor’s John Pham and Chris Long promoted Lexor’s new Infinity chair with AutoClean™ technology.

Tammy Taylor took an honest-to-goodness hands-on approach to teaching. She guided House of Nails owner Valerie Sam’s hand so she could really get a feel for Taylor’s technique of creating perfect pink-and-white acrylic nails.

Mashall Himmel (right) joins Kupa each year in Orlando to fix Kupa e-files on-site. He’s joined by Kupa’s Robert Arthur, Sara Smith, and Richard Hurter.