Are You a Star? Enter Nail Photo Competition
Do you know about the Stars Photo Competition? It’s an opportunity for you to showcase your best nails — on film. Basically you have to create a set of nails using extensions, nail art, colored acrylic
Do you know about the Stars Photo Competition? It’s an opportunity for you to showcase your best nails — on film. Basically you have to create a set of nails using extensions, nail art, colored acrylic
Long-time competitor John Hauk has just announced a new venture — Cruise with the Nail Stars, hosted by John Hauk. Scheduled September 15-22, 2012, the weeklong cruise will include three days of “intense education to inspire
Yesterday NAILS publisher Cyndy Drummey, associate publisher Michelle Mullen and I attended a memorial service celebrating the life of Tom Holcomb. On what would have been his 45th birthday, friends, colleagues, and family members gather in
Yesterday, I was lucky enough to be invited to an event hosted by CND at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel (formerly the Regent Beverly Wilshire where they filmed "Pretty Woman"). Co-founder and style director Jan Arnold was
CND and beauty website BeautyBlitz partnered on a behind-the-scenes fashion week video series exclusively about nails. It just went live and it’s really cool. Billed as the first “docu-series” about runway nail art, it includes behind-the-scenes
NAILS editor Hannah Lee remembers Steve Jobs and urges nail techs to take his 1997 "Think Different" ad campaign to heart.

In the small town of Redmond, Ore., this cozy salon in a converted house makes you feel like a neighbor just popping in to chat over some coffee.
Our friends at Misa Cosmetics sent us this cute picture of Kelly Perrin (left) and Sally Eid Reilly (right) of Glamour Secrets Champlain Place in Dieppe, New Brunswick, dressed up as Misa polish bottles on Halloween.
At the Nailympics in Long Beach this weekend I was chatting with Katie Cazorla (owner of The Painted Nail in Sherman Oaks, Calif. and star of the TV Guide Channel’s reality show “The Nail Files”) and
We have an update on this week’s horrible salon shooting in Orange County, Calif. We’ve now learned the identities of the eight victims, and one of them was in our family of nail technicians. Christy Lynn Wilson
The Nailympics are back on U.S. soil for the first time in five years. Now, in addition to the popular London Nailympics, you can compete right here in California. The event is being held a little
This awful story is still unfolding. Yesterday afternoon a gunman entered Salon Meritage in Seal Beach, Calif., and opened fire on employees and customers. Eight are dead. One is still in critical care at a nearby
Earlier this month, nail art aficionados were privy to a very original art exhibit. Called Nailphilia, it was a collaboration between British art house DegreeArt.com and some of the country’s most-recognized nail techs in the industry.
Remember when we told you about SPC Amy Feltzin of the 1249th Battalion stationed in Afghanistan? She's also a licensed nail tech and she wrote to Young Nails asking for products. They, being the awesome guys they
Sometimes things come across our desks that aren't really nail-related, but we still think you might find them interesting. We’ve featured cell phone accessories to retail to your customers in the magazine before. The Callet (available
I just got back from a great trip up north to Redmond, Oregon, where associate publisher Michelle Mullen and I visited Light Elegance Nail Products. It just so happened to be the company’s one-year anniversary in
Wow. I never thought my editor’s letter about bloggers would garner so much controversy (or foul language). Let me clarify a few things, though. A more careful reading of the article will show you that I’m