
Double Agents
LeChat’s Double Agents is a clever base coat and top coat package that will keep polish colors protected and help prevent premature chipping.

LeChat’s Double Agents is a clever base coat and top coat package that will keep polish colors protected and help prevent premature chipping.

NYC-based DJ Harley Viera-Newton's nail painting ritual always starts with OPI Nail Envy because it contains protein and calcium to strengthen brittle nails.

Allure magazine put together a list of basic nail essentials, from polishes to polish remover.

The proverbial bread in the polish sandwich, base and top coats help polish adhere to nails and prevents nails from chipping and breaking.

InStyle’s Best Beauty Buys highlights nine great nail products, all handpicked by beauty pros as their tried-and-true favorites. Here are some of the winners:

As part of its Healthy Beauty Awards for 2011, Self named Orly’s Primetime Chip Preventing Primer as the best base coat for nails. “My polish barely chipped all week,” said the mag’s tester.

CND has launched larger sizes of the Shellac Base and Top Coats.

Jim Nordstrom, cofounder of CND, is back in the business along with his wife Linda Nordstrom, another CND veteran. They’ve named their new company Famous Names LLC and have introduced a new top coat and base coat called Lumos to the market.

Allure tested red, nude, pale pink, bright, dark, and trendy polishes for Best of Beauty, as well as base coats, topcoats, cuticle oil, and remover.

In Style magazine says the quickest way to fake a spa pedicure is to put on your peep-toes and paint only the nails that are visible.

Redbook magazine shares seven tips for making a manicure last for 10 days.

Orly’s Nailtrition Leaves Nails Strong and Healthy

If our admittedly unscientific poll of NAILS Facebook fans tells us anything, it’s that cuticle oil — and CND’s SolarOil in particular — is flying off your retail shelves. Strengtheners and antifungals made a good showing as well. But those are not the only home-care products that have the cash registers ringing. We asked techs to show us their biggest selling retail

Wet Paint’s Three-Pack includes the base primer Natural, the new red base polish Fetish, and the Glaze TopCoat Mirror.

InStyle recommends a base coat, top coat, nail strengthener, and many polishes in its May issue.

Have clients coming in with stained nails? Instyle reveals the remedy for getting rid of nail stains that come from dark polish.

Bio Creative Labs’ Age Defying Nail and Cuticle Treatment System is made with certified organic Argan Oil from Morocco.