
Nail Art: Welcome to Summer Camp
With all the little kiddies heading off to camp this summer, we asked three nail artists to give us their take on the summer camp theme.

With all the little kiddies heading off to camp this summer, we asked three nail artists to give us their take on the summer camp theme.

Good Housekeeping says coral is the color of summer.

Semi-custom colors and designs created via layering are increasingly showing up at trade show booth demos and continuing education classes. Clients love walking out of your salon owning a look no one else has, plus this technique can breathe life back into older shades your clients have gotten bored with. You can layer with so many different mediums. Here are a few to try.

It’s Easter in a bottle.

If you’re an Essie Cosmetics fan, then the summer 2011 collection is a must-have to add some fiery brights to your salon’s polish selection.

Neon colors brighten up the season as shown in Marie Claire.

Are long red nails sexy?

Teen Vogue’s 10 Most Wanted includes a fun group of products inspired by the animal kingdom.

InStyle‘s Impress for Less shares advice from stylist Laura Ferrara on her tips for a great outfit under $100. One of the finishing touches from Ferrara was a great pedicure using OPI nail lacquer in You Don’t Know Jacques.

Lemon yellow is the color of the moment, according to this month’s InStyle.

Redbook features Jason Wu’s Colour & Effects Nail Collection for CND in its Pretty Smart section.

Cosmopolitan features the results of a guys’-only web poll and shares the shades guys want to see most on your pedicured toes.

Runway-inspired manicures, crackle-effect polishes, and celebrity stiletto nails reign supreme in this month’s InStyle.

It’s all about the beauty of matte’s in this month’s Glamour issue.

From tosylamide/formaldehyde resin to stearalkonium bentonite, ingredient names can sound more like a top secret formula for NASA than a recipe for regular old nail polish. Each of these ingredients, however, has a purpose and plays a part in the overall performance of the polish.

Dawn McRoberts is the owner of the mobile nail tech service High Five Nails in Tullibody, Scotland and she created this polish display so she can nicely show her polishes to customers wherever they may be

Judges from Redbook’s 2011 Most Valuable Product awards named OPI Nail Lacquer in Do You Think I’m Tex’y as the best bright nail color.