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What Sells (Besides Polish)

If our admittedly unscientific poll of NAILS Facebook fans tells us anything, it’s that cuticle oil — and CND’s SolarOil in particular — is flying off your retail shelves. Strengtheners and antifungals made a good showing as well. But those are not the only home-care products that have the cash registers ringing. We asked techs to show us their biggest selling retail

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Simple Steps for a Quick and Easy At-home Manicure

Better Homes and Garden s lays out the rules for a quick and easy at-home manicure.

Essence's Must-know Tips & Tricks

Essence features four brave colors and some really great advice: To make a bright shade pop against your skin tone, apply one coat white opaque polish first.

Metallic Luster

Glamour offers a simple tip for achieving the metallic polish trend that dominated Chanel’s couture runway: try wearing a hue that compliments your skin tone. Silver polish works for fair skin, gold illuminates medium and olive tones, and copper looks gorgeous on darker skin.

Subtle and Sexy Summer

Cosmo's Beauty Showdown reports that subtle-but-sexy toes are all the rage right now.

My Other Life: Kriss Kiss, equestrian

Kriss Kiss, salon owner. In her other life: equestrian.

An In-Home Pedi Guide

Marie Claire magazine teams up with runway nail tech Elisa Ferri and Essie's Essie Weingarten to offer readers a four-step in-home pedicure class.

Fall Nail Trends from the Runway

Harper's Bazaar reports that "greige" polish — a mixture of beige and gray — is popular on the runway.

On Second Thought, Try Nude Polish

Think red polish is hot? A CND nail pro tells Instyle magazine to think nude.

Idyllic Acrylics

Amidst the gel-craze, acrylics have steadily been reinventing themselves to come out with better performing powders, and with brighter colors than ever. Here’s a collection of the newest acrylic powders on the market.