acrylics

Troubleshooter: Removing Acrylics Without Damaging the Natural Nail

Whatever the reason your client wants to go natural, it's a good opportunity to maintain her as a client by preserving her natural nail as only a nail professional can.

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The Help Desk

"I have been a nail tech for a little over two years and I still have trouble blending the tips so that they don’t show through the acrylic at all. Do you have any advice?"

The Help Desk Has Answers to Your Questions

This month readers want to know about triple-priming, how hydrogen peroxide works, and why polish stays longer on acrylics than natural nails.

The Help Desk

Get the scoop on laying acrylic, product contamination, and wide nail beds.

Try Cool Combo Nails

Milagros Hernandez devised an ingenious solution for clients with ski-jump nails.

Big Sky Country's Secret Place

Montana’s The Secret Garden offers a spa-like atmosphere, therapeutic paraffin dips, and even nail art to the residents of this remote town.

Creative's Performance Forms

How to apply the new acrylic nail from Creative Nail Design.

Pink And White Toes Sweep The Middle East

As a sales and marketing executive for Protouch Beauty, a distributor of beauty products based in the Middle East, Tracey Findlay is happy to report that the nail business in the region is growing quickly despite a lack of training among local techs.

Moon Struck

Now that sculpting with colored acrylic is so hot, why not make those nails even hotter by sculpting perfectly shaped moons?

The Nail Doctor