Caring for (and Understanding) the Cuticle
To start in on fulfilling your requests for help with preventing lifting, a good place to begin is the cuticle. Most likely we all go through the steps of cuticle work and everyone uses different tools,
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To start in on fulfilling your requests for help with preventing lifting, a good place to begin is the cuticle. Most likely we all go through the steps of cuticle work and everyone uses different tools,






Green discoloration of the nail plate is the most common change in nail color of the fingernails. Yellow-green, green, and green-black discolorations of the nail plate are caused by pseudomonas bacteria, which can grow in the cleft between the nail plate and nail bed at the base of the nail.
What makes the perfect nail? How do you define the picture-perfect acrylic pink-and-white sculpt? NAILS combined contributions from CND education materials, Young Nails’ Greg Salo, and former NAILS Top 25 competitor Lynn Lammers to help draft guidelines for the quintessential “perfect nail.”
If you’re looking for a large selection of color UV brush-on gels, then check out Gelaxy.
Get in the spirit of Lunar New Year with this Year of the Goat step-by-step.
We (the editors at NAILS) get a lot of questions daily about how to appear in the pages of NAILS. One thing most of our submission guidelines have in common is the need for photos to be emailed to us. We understand you’re not all expert photographers, so we wanted to share with you our tips for submitting quality photos that are sure to help you get published.
The first big show of the year, the International Salon & Spa Expo (ISSE), kicked off in Long Beach, Calif., January 26-28, 2008. The show, hosted by the Professional Beauty Association (PBA), is the West Coast’s biggest show. More than 30,000 attendees visited booths from more than 465 exhibitors.
Pre-booking has transformed our business. When we started the salon our pre-book percentage was abysmal — something like 20% for the entire salon. The phones were ringing off of the hook and the front desk staff
The manicuring world lost a friend in February when Jan Miner - better known to most as Madge the Manicurist - died at the age of 86.
A salon's prestige is built on excellence, not image.