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How to create flawless enhancements using CND's Perfect Color Pink Opaque Powders, featuring Roxanne Valinoti.

How to create flawless enhancements using CND's Perfect Color Pink Opaque Powders, featuring Roxanne Valinoti.

Continuing show season, America’s Beauty Show (formerly the Chicago Midwest Beauty Show) took place March 1-3, 2008.

Nail Taxi's own Cinnamon Bun Scrub makes this pedicure sugar and spice and everything nice.

Shape, refine, and finish both natural and enhanced nails with this sampler pack from CND.


These clients are especially grateful for at-home manicures by Holly Schippers, but she's the one who says they provide something very special for her.

Using products from CND's Spapedicure kits, the Samone Spa Bar gives clients the ultimate pedicure pick-me-up.

Fashion Week took New York City by storm Feb. 1-8, showing off the upcoming Fall fashions and, of course, the latest trends in nails. Here’s a round-up of some of the best styles from the runways.

The first big show of the year, the International Salon & Spa Expo (ISSE), kicked off in Long Beach, Calif., January 26-28, 2008. The show, hosted by the Professional Beauty Association (PBA), is the West Coast’s biggest show. More than 30,000 attendees visited booths from more than 465 exhibitors.

Give your clients a day in the tropics using these aromatic pedicure products spiked with coconut, mango, honey and rum!

We asked NAILS readers what new retail products they’ve recently introduced. Far and away the most popular move was to add a new polish line from the top professional brands. Cuticle care products and lotions were also popular choices. Foot care follows in fourth place, then skin care, with Entity’s Nanovive Skin Revival System a particular favorite.

Doug Schoon, industry chemist and chief scientific adviser for CND. In his other life: astronomy enthusiast.

CND Hotline Administrator Dede Hardy takes a moment to answer the question she hears most often from callers.

The editors of Allure review and evaluate more than 2,000 beauty products before issuing their Best in Beauty list. See which nail products earn their praise and why.

In its first-ever beauty awards, Cosmopolitan Asia’s selected CND’s SolarOil as the best nail treatment and Raw Earth Foot Buff as the best foot scrub.

In this travel journal, former NAILS associate editor Jayna Rust goes to Asia. From China to South Korea, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia, she finds nail services everywhere (and happily tries them all out in order to report back to you).

A cocktail-inspired blend of cranberry soak for moisture retention, salt for softening, and lime as an astringent, the Cosmopolitan manicure is ideal for sophisticated clients.