IBS Las Vegas

Here’s a quick photo round-up of my experience at IBS Las Vegas (formerly the Las Vegas Hair & Nails show). How was your experience at the show? Leave me a note in Feedback. Check the September issue of NAILS Magazine for more coverage of this show and of Premiere Orlando.NSI’s North American account manager Staci Noble and company president Rick Slack pose by their booth.

Live Social Networking at Premiere Orlando NailTech Event

Nearly 300 members of the nail industry joined NAILS Magazine and BeautyTech.com at the Rosen Centre for a live social networking event during Premiere Orlando.

The 2018 Software and Technology Guide

This software guide by our sister publication Salon Today introduces you to a variety of digital products to add to your management toolbox. 

For Ultimate Pampering

Inspired by NASA engineering, the EZ Back Zero Gravity Chair from Super Relax reclines fully to give the user the experience of floating on air.

Ozone Sanitizes Foot Spas

Design X Mfg. incorporates the Ozone technology in each of its manufactured pedicure stations.

It's Your Birthday Nail Art (January)

Michele Baker of Van Goe’s Salon and Day Spa in Cumming, Ga., is developing a year’s worth of nail art based on each month’s birth flower and birthstone to share with NAILS readers.

NTNA 2014 Pre-Challenge #1: 3-D Music (Lini)

Lini Sherburne (Sparks, MD) creates a 3-D design on a single nail tip using a variety of nail products based on a "music" theme. "I chose one of my favorite bands: No Doubt, and one of their classic hits, "Spiderwebs" to be the inspiration behind my art. While searching the Internet for images related to the band, I saw a sheet of music for "Spiderwebs " and immediately noticed how much the bars of music looked like the title of the song: spiderwebs. I quickly decided that my nail would focus on bars of music that would transition into webs, ensnaring music notes within. The "tree" holding up the webs would be a treble clef, and since the tree is the base of the web, the nail itself would become the base of my design. The final element of the "Spiderwebs" theme was the spider. I wanted the entire design to flow together, so I placed the spider' s head as the center dot of the treble clef. I wanted to add an extra musical touch to my design, and so I used actual string from a guitar to create both the music bars and spider webs. The finished nail is bright, colorful and a little bit outrageous, all characteristics that truly describe the band' s style as well."

Competitors Go Brazilian in Amsterdam

The spirit of Rio could be felt in Amsterdam when nail techs, educators, salon owners, and distributors from Europe and Russia gathered for the second-annual EZ Flow and IBD Nail Competition.

Cover Look: Acrylic Watercolor Floral Nails (NAILS Feb. 2015)

Allie Baker-Bennett, global educator for EzFlow, creates watercolor floral nails for NAILS Magazine's Feb. 2015 cover using EzFlow colored acrylic. Click here for a step-by-step photo tutorial.