Weakened Nails After Gel Removal

Sometimes a new gel client will be surprised to see damage to her natural nails after a few weeks of wearing gels. There’s no guarantee that all gel applications and removals will be done precisely to manufacturer standards, so in the event of soaking off a set of gels and looking at weakened and thinned nail plates, what is a tech to do?

Dazzling Color on a Dime

Cosmopolitan shares money-saving tricks on getting a gorgeous manicure at a great price.

Refined in Red

Harper’s Bazaar sits down with “It” girl and Charlotte Olympia high heel designer Charlotte Dellal to talk about her personal style picks. Dellal names Essie’s red polish in Forever Young as one of her must-have beauty items.

Kiss This, Girl

So I looked it up. Katy Perry is 26. Which means she's plenty old enough to remember crackle polish the first time around. Who knows? Maybe she thought it was super-duper cool when she was 14

Pocket-sized Polish

Lucky magazine spotlights mini-polishes in the October issue’s Beauty Spy article.

Pride and the Pedicure

Redbook magazine’s Beauty Director Cheryl Kramer Kaye offers advice on feet hang-ups for the Beauty Confessions corner.

Week 13: Post Graduation...Two Weeks Until State Boards

In the past two weeks I have become obsessed with buying nail polish. What is even is worse is that my husband is condoning this habit. I have been compulsively going to Sally’s, Salon Centric and

One-Stroke Nail Art

Painter and craftswoman Donna Dewberry is perhaps best known in the art world as the inventor of the One-Stroke painting technique, a method that allows painters to blend, shade, and highlight all in one stroke of a brush.

Getting Happy

Women’s Health shares some of-the-moment tips on how to get the most out of a pick-me-up manicure on bad hair and tight jean days.