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In November, 2008, a  study was published  that claimed that UV Nail Lamps caused cancer. In this study two healthy women with no family hi...

 You apply a beautiful let of nail enhancements and when your client comes back in 2 weeks you see lifting!  What went wrong? from htt...

We have discussed the chemistry of hard gel nails  and how gel nails interact with UV/LED lamps . In this post I am going to compare soak of...

One of the most common problems a nail tech sees during a fill service is separation of the natural nail from the enhancement at the nail ti...

There are two types of "lines" that you can see after filling an anhancement. One is a line where there was lifted product that w...

It's a bit echo-y but worth it!

Yellowing is the discoloration and breakdown of artificial nail coatings by ultraviolet light, excessive heat, or chemical contaminants.  ...

We have discussed the procedure for  re-balancing nails  (fills) and that all well and good, but what if we have someone who has a Pink ...

Pocket lifting is a term used to describe when an enhancement gets a "bubble" in the middle of the nail plate but the area around ...

Now that we have learned why we rebalance a nail in part 1 of this article, lets talk about the actual process of rebalancing. (We will tal...

The bread and butter of many nail tech's business is not the full set of nails but rather the nail rebalancing service (called "fi...

First and foremost, lets make something very clear. A drill is defined as "a hand tool, power tool, or machine with a rotating cutting ...

Hybrid: noun - a thing made by combining two different elements; a mixture Simply put, hybrid nails are a combination of different type...

I will be honest, I have a hard time talking about this subject without going on a rant. Since this blog is about facts, this is going t...

I want to post this note up front so it doesn't get lost - it is very important to remember that the thickness of the gel coating has a...