NAILS shows you how to keep your pedicure spa clean and protect your clients. By following a few simple steps and using inexpensive cleaning products, you can protect the health of your clients and your business against bacterial infections.
Jean Kuan shows how to apply Japanese LED lights from Mr. Nail Art at the International Salon and Spa Expo in Long Beach, Calif. The LED light is activated by the NFC signal from an Android phone. For iPhone users, the technology is locked and the LED won't work unless you have an iPhone 6 and you're paying through Apple pay. The LED nail art shown at 2:17 was created by Fariha Ali (@nailjob), Nikki Diamond (@nikkidiamond01), and Marisol Alvarado (@sinplycreativeartistry) at the House of Polish in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The mantra at Bliss Nail Spa is centered around three R’s: relationships, relaxation, and rejuvenation. Owner Linda Duong places high importance on relationships with her customers and says the experience in her salon should feel like “catching up with old girlfriends.”
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)
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