acrylics

Nail Art Studio: Textured Pineapple

Alyssa Adams demonstrates how to do Textured Pineaplle nail art.

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Tammy Taylor Turquoise Corsage

Follow these steps for a glitzy floral design with Tammy Taylor.

Young Nails ManiQ with Pigments

When mixed with acrylics, Synergy Gel, and ManiQ colors, the Amethyst and Gold pigments can be used to create pearlescent combinations.

Tammy Taylor: Jelly Pop Seahorse Nail Design

Tammy Taylor creative director, Gisela Marti, creates the Jelly Pop technique, encapsulating gel-polish designs over acrylic and creating a really fun Seahorse in the Ocean Design.

Week Three: Going the Extra Mile

This week I have been doing some extra training aside from nails.  Here in the U.K., it’s expected that nail salons provide beauty and tanning services too. You’ve got to be a triple threat!

Tammy Taylor "Take Me To The Big City" with Marbling Design

Tammy Taylor demonstrates the "Take Me to the Big City" nail design using a marbling technique, or what she calls an "organized chaos technique." "What I like about this technique is every nail turns out unique so no two nails are alike. A great way to incorporate this design into your nails is, use only one of the colors as the main color on eight nails, either for the whole nail or just the free-edge and then create two accent nails using this main color and then adding two to five more colors for marbling," Taylor says.

Utah Imposes Ventilation Requirements for Acrylics Application

Effective July 1, Utah now requires nail salons and schools under new construction or being remodeled to provide a source capture system at all workstations where acrylics are applied.

Tammy Taylor How-to: Color Acrylic Nail Fill-in with Repairs

Tammy Taylor shows how to do fill-ins and repairs with color acrylic using Cashmere, a light Prizma Acrylic. "The only difference when doing fill-ins on Dazzle Rock's Prizma Acrylic, Dark Color Acrylic or Bright Color Acrylic is you will add one ball of clear acrylic over the top to seal these types of colors," she says.

The Bright Side: Summer Neon Colors

Summer is the perfect season to sell your clients on neon color.

NSI’s My Little Secrets Nail Art Kit

NSI nail techs  teamed up to create this feminine floral stiletto design  using the new nail art kit.