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Understanding Your Clients' True Needs

Note from Holly: Here’s a guest blog from Tanya Sisson. Tanya is an experienced professional in the nail industry. Licensed since 1989, she has been involved in education from the start of her career. Tanya enjoyed

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The Difference Between LED and UV Lamps

UV or not UV? The new crop of LED gel lamps on the market have caused a bit of confusion as to the benefits and differences between LED and the standard UV lamps techs have been using for years. To help clear up the subject, NAILS has highlighted the biggest differences between the two so you can be better informed on lamp purchases and maintenance.

Day 244: Assorted Patterns Nail Art

Kari Haire, The Kru (Lancaster, CA)

100% and a Snakeskin Pedi!

I raise my glass to this past week. It was the best week at school thus far. One, I took my test over Chapter 9: Diseases and Disorders and received 100%. Two, I obtained some snakeskin

GelFX

Orly has just come out with a brand new soak-off color gel called Orly GelFX, which applies like polish.

Test Tubes

Nailite’s new Test Tubes give you 13 different sampling options for you to try.

Sponged Pink Elegance

Thoa Nguyen uses Gelish to create this simple yet elegant nail design.

Angel Love Nails

Angel Love Nails prides itself in its organic, protein-based gel formula to create lovely looking enhancements that are healthy for the natural nail.

The Glass Is Always Gleaming

LCN’s new Glass Gels include 11 transparent colors that create fantastic works of nail art. LCN educator Rossana Chousal-Fune of Hawthorne, N.J., shows how she makes this lustrous design.

Mani•Q Glitter Press

Young Nails has developed a new technique for pressing glitter into the Mani•Q Color gels to create a layered and sparkly effect.