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Want a fresh new take on color choices for your nail clients? With colored acrylics, your only limit is your imagination.
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SEARCHMENUSEARCHWant a fresh new take on color choices for your nail clients? With colored acrylics, your only limit is your imagination.
Used properly, a C-curve stick can help you create the ideal curve.
Shape, refine, and finish both natural and enhanced nails with this sampler pack from CND.
Here is a quick rundown to give you a little info on some of the more common enhancement systems.
You may be surprised to learn that scotch tape is a key ingredient when repairing badly damaged toenails. Athena Elliott, the owner of SPAthena in Houston and a certified Medical Nail Technician, describes her method of rebuilding toenails when clients have very little nail.
Using a UV-cured resin bonding agent, En Vogue creates nails that are both strong and flexible.
Minx Nails of Oceanside, Calif., has created a new way to apply color and design to nails. Pre-made templates are sealed onto nails using heat, and the excess is simply filed off.
Lysa Comfort, president of Charisma Nail Innovations Inc., givessome tips on making nail designs.
It’s been a couple of weeks since your client left the salon with a shiny new set of gel enhancements. Her busy fingers have washed dishes, made beds, surfed the Internet, and clicked the seatbelt, leaving her in need of your professional services to bring them back to their original beauty and balance. Embrace the ease and forgiveness of gel with this basic gel fill routine.
The ideal bead should be smooth, round, and plump, and suspended lightly on the brush hairs.
Amy Becker’s Masterworks innovations line of gels gives you the consistency and maneuverability of an acrylic, only in gel form. The gels are easy to use and allow you to save time on each application.
This entirely digital competition drew entrants from 19 states and five different countries.
Lifting acrylic nails are frustrating to the nail tech and annoying to the client. Left uncorrected, they could trap water and be the first step toward a bacterial infection. But before we get defensive and start pointing fingers, let’s check out the nails — and let them do the talking.
Pedique plus by LCN is a one-component, light-cured resin that can be used to cosmetically restore damage toenails or simply create a permanent French look. It was created with high flexibility to follow the natural movement of the feet. A variety of color options makes it easy to achieve individualized color for each client, so Pedique Plus looks and feels natural. As an added benefit, Pedique plus is enhanced with an antimicrobial component.
Best of Stuff winner Janet Martin of South Charleston, W.V. earns a NAILS cover shoot along with her share of more than $8,000 in prizes.
With the new technology being applied to gels there is a good range of options for techs looking to create pink-and- whites, correct damaged or misshapen nails, add shine and protection to natural nails or acrylic enhancements, or give a client durable and long-wearing nail color. The main thing to keep in mind when dealing with various forms of gel is that the primary difference between them is the viscosity.
Using an electric file to remove lifted product will greatly reduce the time spent on this common repair.