At a Total Loss
I have nothing to gripe about today. I know, you're shocked, and possibly dismayed. Mostly, it's the holiday season. I love the holidays. Sometimes I like the way that so many people get all grumpy and stressed
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I have nothing to gripe about today. I know, you're shocked, and possibly dismayed. Mostly, it's the holiday season. I love the holidays. Sometimes I like the way that so many people get all grumpy and stressed









With support from its partners and members, PBA donates tools and supplies worth more than $100K to create Beauty Relief Kits containing essential that help licensed professionals get back to serving their clients.
"The world is filled with horrible things, so it’s nice to take a little breather and smile at a silly little watercolor portrait of Larry David or The Dude from The Big Lebowski," says watercolor portrait artist and nail tech Bree Garland from Nailed It Portland in Portland, Ore.
Your votes are in- the winners for the best of 1996 are here!
NAILS' cover tech artist Lynn Lammers demonstrates sculptured acrylic pink and white nails with backfill and rebalance. She specializes in sculptured pink and white acrylic nails rather than tip and overlay or gel. See more work at www.myspace.com/lynnberry1972.
Tucked into the corners of dark ballrooms at nail shows, some of the best nail technicians in the world compete against one another, sculpting dazzling nail art designs and perfectly precise C-curves. But what is it like to be a competitor? NAILS takes a quick look at the competition schedule of one veteran and one novice competitor at ISSE Long Beach this past January.
Matsushita says it’s study and practice that got her where she is—in this case, that’s doing the nails on our cover model.
NAILS editor Hannah Lee shares her memories of industry icon Vicki Peters.
As I browse through the fashion magazines each month, I begin to think we needn’t worry about the message these so-called beauty authorities are sending about nail care because they’re on such a different wavelength from us anyway.