
Holiday Nails That Are All Decked Out
A striper brush, a dotting tool, and Morgan Taylor nail lacquer are all you need to dress up nails for the holidays. Clients will love these festive looks and you’ll appreciate how easy they are to do.
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A striper brush, a dotting tool, and Morgan Taylor nail lacquer are all you need to dress up nails for the holidays. Clients will love these festive looks and you’ll appreciate how easy they are to do.




Tan Nguyen of Conroe, Texas, demonstrates this nail art design perfect for Thanksgiving.
Fade a small wet bead of Black Acrylic at the smile line.
Apply a small amount of Metallic Gold in corners of the smile line.
This week was all about book work and practicing with acrylics. I completed seven out of 10 chapters, and played with creating different nail shapes. I also performed a few manicures and pedicures on real clients. Yes, I’m touching people now!
A small, hidden design on the underside of a nail is a perfect way for flashy clients, (and even shy ones too), to show off your work. Clients will love showing their friends the little detail, and pulling off this feat is rather simple for techs. G Elizondo of D’Hair to Be Different Salon in Las Vegas, shows how she creates a hidden heart on the inside of a nail.
Reduce your time doing colored acrylic fills by using this "Reverse Application" method.
Fade Royal Red Glitter near the smile line.
Loni Jensen Preato, of Da-Lonnie’s Hair & Nail Studio in Las Vegas, shows how to use a Q-Buffer to make a special “V”-French in a Halloween nail. 1. Prep nail. 2. Prime nail. 3. Apply pink acrylic. 4. Allow pink
What makes the perfect nail? How do you define the picture-perfect acrylic pink-and-white sculpt? NAILS combined contributions from CND education materials, Young Nails’ Greg Salo, and former NAILS Top 25 competitor Lynn Lammers to help draft guidelines for the quintessential “perfect nail.”