See nails on the runway at the 06:56 mark. Beauty Changes Lives (BCL) held its fourth annual event following the first day of ABS Chicago. The BCL Experience, #ShoutYourBeauty, featured NextGen hairstylists and nail artists walking the runway with their models at Chicago's Soldier Field. For the second year in a row, nails rocked the runway with CND's NextGen artists who were the Top 3 finalists in the NAILS Next Top Nail Artist competition. Congrats to all of the NexGen artists:00:05 — Redken (NexGen: Blake Reed Evans)01:05 — American Crew (NexGen: Lauren Shuler Thompson)02:32 — Matrix (NexGen: Breck Csicsai, Ksenia Kim)03:53 — Wella's Hair Dressers at Heart (NexGen: Jamie Pierce and Katey-Bug Browne)05:15 — Mizani (NexGen: Ashley Lee and Marquita Gatling)06:56 — CND / NAILS Next Top Nail Artist Top 3 (NextGen: Celina Rydén, Sarah Elmaz, and Winnie Huang)09:29 — TIGI (NexGen: Demi Walsh)
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Designer Johnson Hartig created messenger bags specifically for the NAILS NTNA Top 3.
NAILS joined CND and NTNA Season 2 winner Lavette Cephus for the Cosmetologists Chicago Board Meeting that kicked off America's Beauty Show 2016.
Guest contributor, Braden Jahr recaps his weekend at America’s Beauty Show in Chicago.
Beauty Changes Lives held its fourth annual event following the first day of ABS Chicago. The BCL Experience was titled Shout Your Beauty and featured NextGen artists walking the runway with their models at Chicago's Soldier Field.
America's Beauty Show dedicated a large section of the show floor to the Nails Central. NAILS editors interviewed some key exhibitors to find out what's flying off the shelves.
Hundreds celebrated as Winnie Huang was crowned this year's winner in a gala on March 13, 2016 at ROOF on theWit.
The event held at McCormick Place West in downtown Chicago also presented its first Nails Central, a hub packed with suppliers, educators, and demos.
See the nail looks that we spotted at America’s Beauty Show.
NAILS NTNA Top 3 competitors will be featured as CND’s “NextGen Artists” at the 4th annual Beauty Changes Lives Experience during America’s Beauty Show.
Celina Ryden, Sarah Elmaz, and Winnie Huang will compete for the season three title in Chicago at America's Beauty Show, March 12-14 2016.
That’s right folks, we were represented in a major way by not just one, but three nail pros.
The next big tradeshow on my calendar is Orlando, where will you be next?
OPI's Alicia DiCaro shows three nail art designs using OPI Color Paints at America's Beauty Show 2015 in Chicago. Check out the Editor's blog for more on the OPI Color Paints: http://www.nailsmag.com/blogpost/110533/mani-monday-opi-color-paints
On Saturday, March 21, the beauty industry united to posthumously honor Pivot Point International’s founder Leo Passage. The hairstylist and cosmetology school founder was an advocate for continuing education and he was selected by Beauty Changes Lives (BCL) to receive this year’s Legacy Award for revolutionizing the business of beauty education.
OPI introduces their new Color Paints line of polish.