Y2K, Evil Eye and Strawberry Nail Designs: A Tech's Execution Guide
Three nail art requests share a pattern. A client sits down at the station, unlocks a phone, and turns the screen tow...
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Hot Pink Nail Art Designs: A Working Tech's Guide to Bright Color
Hot pink is unforgiving. A soft nude hides a thin patch, a sheer builder hides a small bubble, but a saturated pink s...
Nail Glue and Adhesives: A Practical Guide for Nail Techs
Nail glue is one of the cheapest bottles on the tray, and it quietly does a large share of the structural work in a t...
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Ombre Nails for Techs: Sponge, Brush Blend, and Ombre Dip
Ombre reads as one color melting into another, but on the nail it is really a stack of thin, deliberate layers. Get the layering wrong and you get ...
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The Best Nail File Guide: Grit Numbers, Buffers and E-File Bits
Files are one of the smallest line items on your station and one of the fastest ways to lose time when you buy the wrong ones. Too coarse and a sim...
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Snowflake Nail Designs: How to Get Clean Winter Nail Art Every Time
Snowflakes are a winter design worth drilling before the season, not during it. The shape looks simple in a reference photo and gets difficult on a...
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Monomer and Acrylic Liquid: A Working Guide for Nail Techs
Monomer is the liquid half of a two-part acrylic system, and it is the part most techs learn by feel long before anyone explains it to them. Once y...
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Gel-X Nails: The Salon Guide to Apres Soft Gel Extensions
Soft gel extensions are one way to put length and shape on a service menu. A full-cover tip lets you deliver a shape and length the client picked u...
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Almond Nail Designs: A Tech's Guide to Shape, Length and Finish
Almond nail designs sell themselves at the desk, but they only look right when the shape underneath is right. An almond is a tapered shape with a s...
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The OPI Gel Manicure: A Salon Tech's Complete Guide
An OPI gel manicure — OPI's GelColor system — is one of the easiest services to add to a salon menu and one of the easiest to do badly. The chemist...
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Nail Moisturizer and Cuticle Care: The Routine That Actually Works
Nail moisturizer is the least glamorous thing on a salon retail shelf and the one product that decides how a set looks on day twelve. Every tech kn...
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French Manicures: Classic, Modern, Milky and Colored Tips
French manicures are still the most-booked design on most salon menus, but the version clients bring in on their phones has changed. The same three...
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Nail Salon SDS Requirements: What State Boards Check (+ Binder Checklist)
What SDS sheets are, why OSHA and state boards require them in nail salons, what inspectors look for, and an 8-step checklist to get your binder in...
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