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Let Your True Colors Come Shining Through

Want a fresh new take on color choices for your nail clients? With colored acrylics, your only limit is your imagination.

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No Toenail? No Problem. Rebuilding Toenails

You may be surprised to learn that scotch tape is a key ingredient when repairing badly damaged toenails. Athena Elliott, the owner of SPAthena in Houston and a certified Medical Nail Technician, describes her method of rebuilding toenails when clients have very little nail.

Take a Tip From ... Charisma Nail Innovation's Lysa Comfort

Lysa Comfort, president of Charisma Nail Innovations Inc., gives some tips on making nail designs.

The Mink Coat for Nails — Minx

Minx Nails of Oceanside, Calif., has created a new way to apply color and design to nails. Pre-made templates are sealed onto nails using heat, and the excess is simply filed off.

En Vogue Three-Step System

Using a UV-cured resin bonding agent, En Vogue creates nails that are both strong and flexible.

Gel Fills by the Numbers

It’s been a couple of weeks since your client left the salon with a shiny new set of gel enhancements. Her busy fingers have washed dishes, made beds, surfed the Internet, and clicked the seatbelt, leaving her in need of your professional services to bring them back to their original beauty and balance. Embrace the ease and forgiveness of gel with this basic gel fill routine.

Mastering the Mix Ratio

The ideal bead should be smooth, round, and plump, and suspended lightly on the brush hairs.

Masterworks Innovations Tip Application

Amy Becker’s Masterworks innovations line of gels gives you the consistency and maneuverability of an acrylic, only in gel form. The gels are easy to use and allow you to save time on each application.

Contest Winners Strut Into View

This entirely digital competition drew entrants from 19 states and five different countries.

How to Prevent Lifting

Lifting acrylic nails are frustrating to the nail tech and annoying to the client. Left uncorrected, they could trap water and be the first step toward a bacterial infection. But before we get defensive and start pointing fingers, let’s check out the nails — and let them do the talking.