Christmas Nail Design: Bauble and Bow Acrylics (Part 3)

Kirsty Meakin finishes the design process of creating this set of Christmas bauble and bow nails using acrylic and UV gel products. Part 1  |  Part 2 |  Part 3

Up Your Acrylic Skills: Mix Ratio

Even though mix ratio is fundamental to learning about liquid-and-powder acrylic application, it’s still one of the biggest challenges for nail professionals in the salon. The performance and longevity of our product is hugely affected by an incorrect mix ratio.

Nail Troubleshooter: Polish, Gel, Gel-Polish, and Acrylics

Once you start working with clients regularly, you may run into minor mishaps that will challenge you. To help you out when they do, keep this chart handy for pointers on fixing some of the most common problems.

Application Made Easy

Behind the Scenes: Cutting Edge

Lynn Lammers knows a thing or two about perfect nails. After securing the top spot on NAILS’ Top 25 List of competitors for the second year running (and winning the World Championship in Dusseldorf, Germany, earlier this year), she’s on a roll. And she seemingly can do it all — extreme pink-and-whites, colored acrylic designs, fantasy acrylic sculptures are just a few of her specialties.

Going primerless

Techs trained to include the third step of the acrylic application process -- primer -- may have a hard time dropping the insurance of this tried-and-true old friend. But many who have dared to explore this new, primerless world made the transition without missing a step. Is primerless the future of nails?

A Quick Sculpture

A sculptured nail using a flat nail brush.

Week 7: The Acrylic Journey Continues (With Encapsulations)!

For the second half of the week, we learned how to do encapsulated nails, which was much harder than I anticipated.