NAILS Magazine's May 2012 cover features Terri Silacci from Monterey, Calif., who creates flame nails inspired by the novel series and movie, The Hunger Games. She uses OPI GelColor and gold leafing.Photography by Vu OngModel: Adele Uddo (www.adeleuddo.com), Body Parts Models
Tip Jar offers a wide selection of designs, styles, and colors on expertly designed nail tips so you can find the perfect nail style for any client.
The folks at Tip Jar, a manufacturer of stylish pre-designed nail tips, show NAILStv users how to easily and correctly apply the tips to clients' nails.
Colleen Ramsey of McKinney, Texas, shows how she reuses old nail tips to practice nail art.
Students at the Celebrity School of Beauty in Miami design a "nail dress."
March can be a tough month for football-loving families, especially for the die-hard Sunday males. So to help fill the football void, offer clients these special Super Bowl sets in their hubby’s favorite team and see if you can “go for two” on pricing.
Backscratchers Salon Systems has re-designed and created Nouveau Nail Tips to improve the natural look and feel of nails.
Congratulations to the winners of the recent Aussie Nail Tips Forum photo contest.
For deep-diving nail techs, Glam and Glits has a new Aquarium nail tip that enables techs to easily create the fabled water bubble nails. The clear tips are manufactured with a slender pocket to hold the company’s patented Aqua20 non-evaporating liquid, into which techs put small glitter and rhinestones and then seal and cap with a UV sealant.
Create stiletto or oval shapes with Nubar’s new Stiletto Tips that come in clear and white.
ibd, the company that invented the first nail tip and the first nail glue celebrates 40 years of producing professional UV and adhesive products.
A new batch of nail tips is popping up on trade show floors this year, and they are taking colored and pre-designed nail tips into the new decade.
Though many technicians prefer to sculpt, a pre-made nail tip that can be adhered to the natural nail can give newbie nail techs a nice runway to learn the delicate craft of gel and acrylic sculpting, while providing great-looking results.
Xtreme Nail’s Xtreme Designer Tips make elaborate nail art designs simple, all you need is a coat of clear gel and an Xtreme Designer Tip.
OPI educator and guest artist Lynn Ackerson-Warren gives some quick tips on acrylic backfills.
Platinum nail form application
Express nail tip application