As beauty professionals increasingly blend traditional salon services with wellness offerings, we’re answering that call with the official launch of MODERN Spa & Wellness—a new content channel and community that brings together the best of beauty, spa, medspa, and wellness.
A federal initiative aimed at studying chemical exposure in nail salons has ended due to staffing and budget changes. Here’s what the project set out to do—and what its conclusion means for salon professionals.
This NTNA season was the toughest call of them all. Without the judges ever seeing the contestants or nails in person, judging was based on video submissions, Facebook Lives, written descriptions, and final photos from Top 3 contenders.
OPI was on countless hands at the MET Gala. Here we share three beautiful nail looks on some of the night's most anticipated celebrities including Sabrina Carpenter, Sydney Sweeney, and Tracee Ellis Ross.
Natalie Kurz, a booth renter at Sleek Images in Berkley, Mich., who specializes in gem-studded art-work, believes wearing her nail art is her best advertisement.
NAILS’ sister magazine Modern Salon holds Artist Session, a two-day photo shoot workshop, twice a year. The fall session in October marked the first collaboration with NAILS, allowing nail techs to enroll in the program. Stone Ridge, N.Y.-based nail tech Joanne Sorbello became the first nail professional to attend.
Another season of NAILS Next Top Nail Artist wrapped up at Roof on theWit in Chicago on Saturday, March 25. Tracey Lee took home the Season 4 title, Jonny Pham was named first runner-up and Liina Leino was named second runner-up.
Have you ever come across a tech whose nail art belongs in galleries? Do you ever wonder how they came to possess such skill? Or what else they’re capable of creating? We talked to six techs with a passion for art so fiery, it transcends the nail industry. From tattooing to oil painting, these artists-turned-manicurists (and vice versa!) have done it all.
On Friday, Young Nails visited the NAILS’ office to tell us more about ManiQ Color, its brush-on gel-polish.When president Greg Salo mentioned that some Young Nails-educated nail techs were doing three Mani Q Color clients an