photographing nails

Step-and-Repeat-Style Backgrounds for Nail Art

Check out this gallery of step-and-repeat-style photos for your nail art. It's a chic and simple way to brand your salon and show off your work at the same time!

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Photograph, Post, Repeat

More and more salons are making use of step-and-repeat-style backgrounds when photographing their nail art for the web. Take a look at why these chic and simple advertising tools are catching on and how you can join the party.

How to Build a Lightbox

Lindsey Roberts of the blog www.nails4dummies.blogspot.com shows how to easily create your own affordable lightbox for better nail art photography.

Hand Positions for Your Nail Art Photos

Nail Art Sutra presents you with 20 hand positions to pose in for taking photos of your nail art. Finding the right hand pose for your nail art can sometimes be difficult; we hope this video helps you to explore and discover new hand placement when taking those lovely photos of your nail art for your Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, etc.

Cover Tech 2014: The Perfect Puzzle

We tallied your votes and nail tech Miki Nakano of Nail Salon Ciel in Tokyo took top honors this year with her oh-so-pretty puzzle image. Congratulations to Miki, and to runners-up Janina Lumous, Lenzi Brock, and Melanie McCulley. A giant thank you goes out to everyone who entered.

Behind the Scenes: Party Nails

Reach for the Star(s): Elaine Watson  has a very long title at Star Nail International. In addition to being vice president of marketing and sales, she’s also the global education director. That means she wears a lot of hats. Her main focus is on Cuccio Veneer gel-polish and Cina nail art lines.

Cover Look: Sweater Weather (NAILS Nov. 2013)

NAILS Magazine's November 2013 cover features CND education ambassador Lisa Wong who creates a knitted sweater nail look using CND Retention+ Liquid and Powder, CND Additives, and Vinylux. You Might Also Like: Behind the Scenes: A Beauty Blitz

Cover Look: Pearl Anniversary (NAILS February 2013)

NAILS Magazine's 30th anniversary cover features celebrity nail tech Tom Bachik who creates a classic jacquard look using gel-polish, polish, exclusive Minx nail applique patterns, and half pearls. Behind the scenes with NAILS Magazine's February Cover: http://www.nailsmag.com/demoarticle/96144/behind-the-scenes-our-pearl-anniversary-cover-nail-art-look

Sculpting in the Year of the Snake

To help VietSALON Magazine celebrate the Year of the Snake, Kupa's Sindy Mark combined real snakeskin with faux snakeskin designs and sculpted a 3-D snake on oval acrylic extensions using Artfinity and Divinity products from Kupa.

Cover Tech 2013: Mining for Metals

Readers just fell in love with Hillary Fry’s edgy image. Take a look at all the incredible images that vied for the winning spot in this year’s Cover Tech Contest, as well as some other great entries that caught our eye. Thank you to all who entered and all who voted.

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