The Gels of Spring
If you’re itching to ditch this heavy winter, ring in the spring with these fun new color gels from your favorite manufacturers. There’s no time like the present to make nails more pleasant.
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SEARCHMENUSEARCHIf you’re itching to ditch this heavy winter, ring in the spring with these fun new color gels from your favorite manufacturers. There’s no time like the present to make nails more pleasant.
What’s really going on when your client puts her hand in a UV or LED nail lamp? We explain what gel nail products are made of and why they work so well.
It’s OK if your client can’t pick just one color. It may even be preferable. Use these products to give her a nail look that changes with her surroundings.
Melisa Bruce, Mani Pedi Cutie (Hermosa Beach, Calif.)
Jenny Meek, Classy Nails by Jenny (Fletcher, Okla.)
Dawnn Pierson, Fleur de Lis Salon and Day Spa (Medford, Ore.)
CND has 12 new Shellac shades to further excite nail techs and customers alike.
Tabitha Viergutz (Riverton, Wyoming)
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Christrio’s Gelacquer is a soak off gel system designed to be used over tips as well as natural nails to give a long-lasting, high-quality shine in a variety of colors.
Madelyn Johnson has been a licensed nail tech for 22 years, presently servicing clients at New Again Nail Spa & Boutique in Houston. Johnson’s early clientele had a fondness for wraps, leading her to become a skilled wrap expert, even earning a placement in the 2005 Nailympics in Las Vegas in the category. She is also an educator for Star Nail. Here she shares one of her most common fiberglass wrap procedures over a tip.
So, you wowed your client into a new gel polish application by telling her how much more durable they are than standard polish, and that they help prevent chipping and cracking, and then she comes back a day later with a chip. So what do you do?
Congratulations to Maya Abbedissen, who won the National Bulgarian Championship in Nail Design in November. Her impressive first place win in the Gel Nails category allows her the opportunity to compete in the gel category at the World Championship in Dusseldorf, Germany, in March. She will be representing the country of Bulgaria and compete using Entity One Gel Technology.
Cecilia Bustamante, Chixnails (Kinawa, Japan)
Katja Klinkenberg, European Way of Nails (El Paso. Texas)
Kristine Hyde, Gel Nails by Kristine (Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada)
Colored gel is the medium for this bright animal-print design by Cassie Fero, Eugene, Ore.