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Gelös Gel Thinner

No more wasting time or money. LeChat’s Gelös Gel Thinner restores any traditional gel or gel-polish that has thickened while maintaining its original curing time.

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Orly's GelFX Shade Shifter: How It Works

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Worn atop Orly’s GelFX gel-polish, Shade Shifter allows any of Orly's 68 shades of GelFX gel-polish to change with body chemistry. You Might Also Like: Orly’s Shade Shifter Application and Removal (demo)

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3-D Colored Gel Art Tutorial

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Akzentz educator Gina Silvestro shows how to simply mix Akzentz Gel Art Powder with any Akzentz UV/LED Options colors to create beautiful, odor-free 3-D nail art. It's great for beginners, because you have plenty of time to sculpt each petal into the perfect shape and it does not get hard until you put it in the light.

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3-D Gel Rose Art

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Gina Silvetro shows how to create a 3-D gel rose using Akzéntz Gel Art Powder.

Use black paint and the reindeer stencil to add several reindeer in flight. Apply Safari top coat.

Nail Design

Spread Holiday Cheer with Airbrush Stencils

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If your handpainting skills aren’t that hot but you want to celebrate the season with some themed designs, it may be the perfect time to whip out your trusty airbrush (or to buy yourself one as an early stocking stuffer). Here’s a Santa and reindeer design from Safari Airbrush to get you in the spirit:

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Gel Fill with Designs

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Akzentz educator Gina Silvestro shows a 45-minute gel fill using Akzentz Classic UV gel and Luxio gel polish, finished with Akzentz Shine-On no wipe top gloss. This is an advanced fill with no finish filing and no hand filing, it is completely done using an E-file with time-saving techniques. Note: If you are not trained and/or certified to use an e-file you can use a hand file instead.

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Brush with Greatness

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Heidi Milliner was getting frustrated by not being able to tell all of her #10 brushes apart.

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Midnight Swim Mosaic Foil Art

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The Midnight Swim Mosaic Foil design requires nail art foils in pink, plum, cerulean, and tangerine glitter in addition to CND Shellac in Midnight Swim.

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Floral French

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When nail artist Julie Parker was asked to do her sister’s wedding nails, she knew she wanted to create something above and beyond your basic French.

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SO Gel Nails’ Candy Cane Lane

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SO Gel Nails’ striping tape can be used to create sweet looks for clients this holiday season.

Wellness

Valentino Beauty Pure Generation III System

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Valentino Beauty Pure’s new Generation III Table Model is an air filtration system that eliminates nail dust and odor from acrylic or gel systems.

Technique

There’s an L&P for Everyone

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Artistic Nail Design launched its Rock Hard Liquid and Powder Kits.

Technique

Heat Up Your Manis with the Pampered Soak

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Pampered Perch, makers of the ergonomic hand/foot rest, launched a new product called the Pampered Soak.

Nail Design

Luxio Crystal Nail Design Kit Application

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Akzéntz educator Gina Silvestro demonstrates the application of the Swarovski Crystal Nail Design Kits using soak-off gel cured in an LED lamp for 30 seconds. Alternatively, you can cure most soak-off gel in a UV lamp for two minutes.

Technique

How to do Ombre Gel Polish Nails with NailGuyTV

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In this video, NailGuyTV's Robert Nguyen shows the steps in creating Ombre nails using gel-polish. Materials used: GelColor Base Coat, Gel Polish, Gel Brush, LED Light, Gel Top Coat, Alcohol Model: Olivia Casares | Director/Editor: Noland Nguyen

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