TBT: Nailite Turns 25
Let’s take a look at some of the products that helped make this brand a standout from the start.
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Let’s take a look at some of the products that helped make this brand a standout from the start.
Rebecca Byrne of At Your Fingertips in San Mateo. Calif., noticed that many of her clients’ hands and cuticles had become unusually rough and dry over the past winter.
Jennie Shaw, a Canadian nail art enthusiast, is putting a fresh spin on book reviews. Her Instagram feed is filled with incredibly elaborate manicures featuring the covers of current reads, and you won't believe the detail that goes into them.
Tennis stars enjoyed CND Shellac manicures before competing in the Rogers Cup tournament.
Shoulder pain is a common complaint among techs due to the nature of our posture: In a typical day, we can spend hours hunched over a desk or a pedi tub.
Resembling simple strokes of a brush from a painter’s hand, this runway trend translates perfectly to the blank canvas of a solid-colored nail plate
“Going green is in, and that’s a good thing,” says Chef Paul F. Magnant, Dean of Culinary at Stratford University. Many of his recommendations for going green in the kitchen apply to the salon as well, whether you’re serving food and beverages to clients or using all-natural ingredients in specialty hand and food treatments. “Even following through with just a couple of the tips below will net positive results,” he says.
When we asked Orange, Calif.-based celebrity nail artist Elsbeth Schuetz to come up with a toenail art design for this month’s cover, she brought us a whole slew of nail tips to choose from. While her hand-painted nail art is always super creative and artistic, we wanted to go with something a little more simple and wearable for the cover. Inspired by tone-on-tone patterns, she created this faux-snakeskin design using layered polish and diamond-shaped rhinestones.
One-of-a-kind Christmas ornaments may be just what your client is looking for. Offer them as a seasonal retail item.
Intricate floral stiletto nails won the NSI Free-hand Nail Art Competition, an online photo competition that invited nail techs from around the globe to use NSI acrylic or gel to create nail art designs. The entries were judged by Vicki Peters, Denise Wright, and Debbie Doerrlamm, who looked for difficulty of design, use of color, originality, overall enhancement design, and first impression (or the “wow” factor).