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Fashionable Nails, Fashion Week Win

Nail artists compete in a challenge to win a trip to New York City Fall Fashion Week.

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A Conversation with the 2009 Contessa Winners

The Contessas are an annual beauty award program that shows off the best Canada’s salon professionals have to offer.

Strutting in Style

The ninth-annual Strut Your Stuff Nail Art & Enhancement Contest, sponsored by WWWeb Services and BeautyTech.com, received 60 entries from 20 countries.

Adventures in OPI

The Nail Station in Huntington, Ind., asked clients to create short stories using the names of the salon’s OPI nail polish colors. Here are the first, second, and third-place winning essays.

That’s So Pedi Gets the Votes

Despite having been in business just six months, San Jose, Calif.-based That’s So Pedi Nail Salon beat out well established salons to be voted #1 for manicures and #2 for pedicures in the Metro newspaper’s 2009 Best of Silicon Valley reader survey.

Fabulous Fimo

The popularity of fimo cane nail art extends around the globe, as evidenced by these creative entries in the Aussie Nail Tips Forum’s Fimo Nail Competition.

Strut Your Stuff 8 Winners Announced

Congratulations to the winners of the Strut Your Stuff 8 Nail Art & Enhancement competition sponsored by WWWeb Services and BeautyTech.com. This year’s event enjoyed a record number of entries from 15 countries and 23 U.S. states. Highly respected nail professionals as well as past contest winners sat on the judges panel to evaluate the entrants’ masterpieces. Rita Jasinska of Poland took the title of “Best of Stuff,” earning a $200 cash prize from NAILS.

SalonTech Mercedes Benz Winner Announced

Jae Hoon Song of Nail Plaza in White Plains, N.Y. is the winner of a new Mercedes C230 courtesy of a SalonTech sweepstakes.

NAILS Readers' Choice Awards 2007

We asked and you told us what your favorite products are. From acrylics to wraps — and everything in between — NAILS announces the winners of our fourth annual Readers’ Choice Awards.

Kudos for Online Competitors

Best of Stuff winner Janet Martin of South Charleston, W.V. earns a NAILS cover shoot along with her share of more than $8,000 in prizes.