
Give Your Clients the Color of the Year
Pantone has spoken, and Radiant Orchid is officially the color to watch for in 2014.

Pantone has spoken, and Radiant Orchid is officially the color to watch for in 2014.

In this video from the NAILS Troubleshooter series, LaShaun Brown-Glenn, a U.S. business development manager and trainer for Alessandro, shows the second step toward repairing a broken gel extension edge. This is also the final step in completing a gel enhancement.

Supporting findings made in earlier studies, the latest independent, peer-reviewed study demonstrates that UV lamps commonly used for hardening gel-polish are safe and do not increase the risk of developing skin cancer.

Learn to create this fun design for the holiday season. Young Nails' Greg Salo uses the Imagination Art Celebrate Glitter Kit along with Young Nails Synergy Gel to create this design.

Young Nails has three new tinted sculpted gels for the Synergy Gels line, a collection of hard gels.

In this video from the NAILS Troubleshooter series, LaShaun Brown-Glenn, a U.S. business development manager and trainer for Alessandro, shows the first step toward repairing a broken gel extension edge.

In this video from the NAILS Troubleshooter series, nail tech Lorena Marquez shows how to create abstract 3-D nail art with acrylics and gel-polish.

Gina Silvestro demonstrates application techniques for a full set of sculptured nails on a reformed nail biter using Akzentz Proformance Gel, available early 2014. Two weeks prior, Silvestro did a gel manicure on the biter's nails to allow them to heal and grow before soaking them off and applying the sculptured set. "As they grow out and we fill them, they will take on a much more natural shape. We are planning to do a new video every two weeks to follow the transformation!" Silvestro says.

In this video from the NAILS Troubleshooter series, nail tech Lorena Marquez shows how to create a french manicure with caviar beads, acrylic, and gel-polish.

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

Gel II’s Masquerade collection for 2013 is available in a display that can be purchased online for $12.

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.

Akzentz educator Gina Silvestro shows how to simply mix Akzentz Gel Art Powder with any Akzentz UV/LED Options colors to create beautiful, odor-free 3-D nail art. It's great for beginners, because you have plenty of time to sculpt each petal into the perfect shape and it does not get hard until you put it in the light.

Worn atop Orly’s GelFX gel-polish, Shade Shifter allows any of Orly's 68 shades of GelFX gel-polish to change with body chemistry. You Might Also Like: Orly’s Shade Shifter Application and Removal (demo)

Akzentz educator Gina Silvestro shows a 45-minute gel fill using Akzentz Classic UV gel and Luxio gel polish, finished with Akzentz Shine-On no wipe top gloss. This is an advanced fill with no finish filing and no hand filing, it is completely done using an E-file with time-saving techniques. Note: If you are not trained and/or certified to use an e-file you can use a hand file instead.

Gina Silvetro shows how to create a 3-D gel rose using Akzéntz Gel Art Powder.

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.