competitions

Ladies, Start Your Engines: Consider Competing

Besides developing a greater understanding of what goes on behind the judges’ curtain, as a judge myself, I discovered a greater empathy for the competitors for putting themselves through a competition, and for judges, who have to quickly evaluate and score so many sets of seemingly perfect nails.

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The Hottest Show in Las Vegas

Show attendees were abuzz with the announcement of Top Gun, NAILS Magazine Show’s newest competition.

Cover Tech: Keeping a Competitive Edge

Winning nail competitions could get you noticed. How about being called to endorse nail products? Add to that starting your own product line! The sky's the limit for technician Kim Morgan.

Cover Tech: Tom Bachik Is a Man on a Mission

“Competition is in my blood,” says the husband, father, and former high school athlete.

The Neatest Tech Around

"Manicure table manners" are rewarded

Salon Owner Panel a Hit at Nails Magazine Show

NAILS Magazine Shows made continuing education a priority at its New Jersey show held September 11-12. For the first time, all classes and seminars were free for attendees at this show. Class attendance was sold out.

Kim Morgan: The Nation's #1 Nail Competitor for 1993 Attains Her Goal to Do NAILS' Cover

When NAILS Magazine phoned nail technician Kim Morgan to ask her to do the nails for the July cover, she was ecstatic.

Fiberglass Or Acrylic?

Top nail competitors Connie Ortiz and Anita Lime discuss what they like and don’t like about acrylic and fiberglass system.

Are Nail Competitions Fair?

Competition is rivalry between skilled persons, and the theory that once you have competed and won, you should step down is absurd.

Cover Tech Katrina Rouillard: Pretty In Pink and White

People now want natural-looking nails, and pink and white nails look very natural,” says Katrina Rouillard of her favorite technique. “I do sculptured acrylics with forms, again because I think acrylics with forms look more natural than tips. I use plain pink and white powders.”