@chalkboardnails has taken over our @nailsmagazine Instagram account! Sarah shared this design with us on Instagram and will continue sharing her favorite nail designs all week long. Tag #chalkboardnailsweek and #nailsmagazine for the chance to be featured.Steps:1. Polish an oval shape at the tip of the nail.2. With a striping brush, paint two triangles for the ears. Fill them in.3. In a light pink, paint two small ovals where the cat's cheeks would be.4. Using a dotting tool, dot two even eyes with black polish.5. Paint a triangle for the cat's nose.6. Paint an upside-down "m" for the kitty cat's mouth.7. Paint two diagonal lines toward her nose for her whiskers on both sides.8. With a light pink, paint in some detail with two small triangles inside the cat's ears.9. Add white pupils by painting small circles inside the cat's eyes.10. Add top coat.
Young Nails president Greg Salo demonstrates his top tips and tricks for using a micro detailing brush to create detailed nail art with Mission Control Paint.
Create a simple ombre nail art design with Chisel Dipping Powder. Award-winning nail artist David Hoang shows you how to use the new system to create dipping ombre nails.
Today is #FutureDay, the day that Marty McFly traveled to October 21, 2015 in part two of the "Back to the Future" trilogy. To celebrate time travel, nail tech Jessie Mills shows how she recreated Doc Brown and McFly's shirts on nails.
In this video from the NAILS Troubleshooter series, Elaine Watson, vice president of marketing and sales for Star Nail International, shows how to use a stick of uncooked spaghetti to easily pick up and place rhinestones.
Here's a 10-minute recap of NAILS Next Top Nail Artist: Season 2. We selected 24 semi-finalists for our second annual NAILS Next Top Nail Artist competition. The field was narrowed down to our Top 12 after two pre-challenges. For 10 weeks in September 2014, we gave our finalists a new challenge each week to showcase their skills in creating nail art looks based on a theme created by NAILS and each of our weekly sponsors (Bio Seaweed Gel, CND, Dashing Diva, Entity Beauty, Gel II, Gelish, INM, It’s So Easy, Orly International, SuperNail, and Young Nails). In addition to creating their nail art masterpieces, NAILS Next Top Nail Artist contestants shot step-by-step tutorials, video demos, and shared their entries via social media.
FingerNailFixer Holly Schippers shows how to create a sparkling night sky nail design using CND Shellac and CND Additives in White Out, Midnight Revelry, and Hummingbird.