
Celebrate Good Times [With Nails!]
It’s the time of year for dressing up for holiday parties and clinking champagne glasses on New Year’s Eve.

It’s the time of year for dressing up for holiday parties and clinking champagne glasses on New Year’s Eve.

RDcorp, a Russian manufacturer, welcomes winter with this stiletto design using colored gels, nail art appliques, and glitter.

Get the Ice Angel mani with OPI's Mariah Holiday shades. See more of OPI artistic director Suzi Weiss-Fischmann's favorite holiday nail looks by clicking here.

This tutorial uses flecks of glitter within OPI's nail lacquer to create embellished nail art. "It's like jewelry for your nails," says OPI EVP & Artistic Director Suzi Weiss-Fischmann.

In this video from the NAILS Troubleshooter series, Entity's director of education, Lorena Marquez, shows how to create velvet nail art with flocking powder and gel-polish.

Nails remained near naked while the clothing combos popped at New York Fashion Week Spring 2014. Subtle embellishments such as matte and light dustings of glitter made an appearance, and there are still a few fashion houses that enjoy showcasing nail art.
I’m pretty new to the “nail world” — I had my first gel manicure a couple of weeks ago. So I’ve been blown away seeing all the creative and varied designs and enhancements from NAILS readers.

“Our motto is ‘nails with endless possibilities.’ We do whatever we can to live up to that,” says Tanaya Middleton, who owns Treasure Nothing Better Nail Studio in Baltimore, Md., along with her partner Sheena Smith.

In this video from the NAILS Troubleshooter series, LaShaun Brown-Glenn, a U.S. business development manager and trainer for Alessandro, shows how to create a French manicure with foil.

Akzéntz educator Gina Silvestro demonstrates the application of the Swarovski Crystal Nail Design Kits using soak-off gel cured in an LED lamp for 30 seconds. Alternatively, you can cure most soak-off gel in a UV lamp for two minutes.

Reach for the Star(s): Elaine Watson has a very long title at Star Nail International. In addition to being vice president of marketing and sales, she’s also the global education director. That means she wears a lot of hats. Her main focus is on Cuccio Veneer gel-polish and Cina nail art lines.

In this video from the NAILS Troubleshooter series, Entity's director of education, Lorena Marquez, shows how to create a gel-polish marble effect without tools.

Let's change the face of men's health by raising awareness and raising funds with mustache nail art.

In this video from the NAILS Troubleshooter series, Entity's director of education, Lorena Marquez, shows how to create a brush-blended ombre look with gel-polish.

In this video from the NAILS Troubleshooter series, Entity's director of education, Lorena Marquez, shows how to create outline nails with acrylic paint over gel-polish.

Have you ever used uncooked spaghetti to create nail art? Elaine Watson, Star Nail’s vice president of marketing and sales, has!

Gelish recently released Trends, a line of soak-off gel-polish inspired by current fashion on the runways and in look books.