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Water Works

If you’re looking for a unique service to add to your menu, consider testing the waters with a current nail art trend: aquarium nails.

Technique

Denae Sambrano of Sparks, Nev., shows how she makes these cathedral-quality stained glass nails. “It’s something that is very easy to do and it looks beautiful on the nails,” she says. Sambrano is an educator for Young Nails, and for these nails she uses Young Nails’ Imagination Liquid Art colors.

Technique

Creating the Edge Nail

by Staff

Nails by Angel Smith, Young Nails educator

Nail Design

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

by Staff

If you want to add some festive cheer to your acrylic repertoire, check out the Christmas nails of these two skilled techs.

Wellness

Nail Cravings: Fixing Bitten Mittens

by Staff

Adding nail enhancements to bitten nails can be a rather complicated and tricky procedure.

Technique

Heart-Shaped Dappen Dish

Atwood Industries

Add a little extra personality to your nail table with this heart-shaped dappen dish from Atwood Industries.

Technique

Heavenly Glitter Collection

Young Nails

Young Nails’ Heavenly Glitter Collection features eight pastel glitters: Ozone, Purple Dawn, Star Sand, Crushed Pearl, Diamond Dust, Prominence, Sakura Storm, and Mandarin.

Technique

Acrylic Kit

Entity

The Entity Acrylic Kit comes with everything needed to start doing high-quality acrylic enhancements right away.

Technique

From Fantasy to Reality

by Staff

Nail artist Sam Lynam of Arabella Nails in Bedfordshire, U.K., has developed a unique nail form to assist techs in creating fantasy nail art designs.

Technique

It’s So L.A. Acrylic Glitter and Charm Powders

StyleEnvy

StyleEnvy’s It’s So L.A. Acrylic Glitter and Charm Powders can be used with tips as sculpting powder for quick and easy nail art.

Technique

Take a Tip From ... INM's Rachel Mouritsen

by Staff

INM's Rachel Mouritsen explains the difference between applying odorless acrylics and standard acrylics.

Technique

Behind the Scenes: Cutting Edge

by Staff

Lynn Lammers knows a thing or two about perfect nails. After securing the top spot on NAILS’ Top 25 List of competitors for the second year running (and winning the World Championship in Dusseldorf, Germany, earlier this year), she’s on a roll. And she seemingly can do it all — extreme pink-and-whites, colored acrylic designs, fantasy acrylic sculptures are just a few of her specialties.

Technique

Polymer Nailfinity Corrective Opaque Pink Powder

Kinetics

Kinetics’ Polymer Nailfinity Corrective Opaque Pink Powder is designed to create flawless nail extensions even on very short, damaged nail plates.

Technique

Acrylic Nipper

Antoine de Paris

The original Antoine De Paris Acrylic Nipper developed 35 years ago was the first triple-reinforced acrylic nipper, and it still sets the standard to this day.

Technique

A Little Time (Line) for Pink-and-Whites

by Tim Crowley

Feel like you could stand to sharpen up on your liquid-and-powder application times? Then check out the timeline breakdowns from four experienced pros, and compare your own personal bests (and maybe find a new technique or two along the way).

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