Week 13: Tests and More Tests
I graduate. I'm not sure if all beauty schools are the same but in mine you can't fail any exam. You have to pass all of them in order to graduate, so being on top of your game always is a must.
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I graduate. I'm not sure if all beauty schools are the same but in mine you can't fail any exam. You have to pass all of them in order to graduate, so being on top of your game always is a must.



Ten aspiring beauty industry professionals will receive financial awards up to $5,000 to cover tuition for nail tech programs.
My chair was booked all week! I also got to do some nail art for my daughter.
We got a new student, and I am so grateful for her because she put the nail-art fire in me.
This week was an exciting one. One of the owners from Bellini Beauty Bar came in to talk to us about their business and upcoming plans. I actually follow them on social media and I look
Offering perfect balance between fashion forward and retro glam, the Spring 2016 Collection from Essie is inspired by Florida.
This week was dedicated to increasing my speed. I get frustrated with how long it takes me to complete a full set of acrylic or hard gel nails, especially if I have to first remove 3-D nail art, embellishments, and/or glitter before I can even prep the nails.
See nails on the runway at the 06:56 mark. Beauty Changes Lives (BCL) held its fourth annual event following the first day of ABS Chicago. The BCL Experience, #ShoutYourBeauty, featured NextGen hairstylists and nail artists walking the runway with their models at Chicago's Soldier Field. For the second year in a row, nails rocked the runway with CND's NextGen artists who were the Top 3 finalists in the NAILS Next Top Nail Artist competition. Congrats to all of the NexGen artists:00:05 — Redken (NexGen: Blake Reed Evans)01:05 — American Crew (NexGen: Lauren Shuler Thompson)02:32 — Matrix (NexGen: Breck Csicsai, Ksenia Kim)03:53 — Wella's Hair Dressers at Heart (NexGen: Jamie Pierce and Katey-Bug Browne)05:15 — Mizani (NexGen: Ashley Lee and Marquita Gatling)06:56 — CND / NAILS Next Top Nail Artist Top 3 (NextGen: Celina Rydén, Sarah Elmaz, and Winnie Huang)09:29 — TIGI (NexGen: Demi Walsh) You Might Also Like: Meet the 2016 BCL Experience NextGen Artists! [on modernsalon.com] ABS Chicago 2016: BCLE Shout Your Beauty Runway Show (photo gallery)
This week I finished all of my training acrylic exercises and got the chance to work on a technique I have been itching to learn — buttons! One of the hardest types of nails for extensions