Late Post: Christian Siriano Nails by Kiss

For the debut of Christian Siriano's Spring/Summer 2019 Collection at NYFW, Lead Manicurist of KISS Products Inc. Gina Edwards created the "Twisted Zebra" nail look. The look was created by using the KISS imPRESS Press-On Manicure Medium Length Nails in Black. 

Sally Hansen Color Therapy Enchanting Gems Collection Available for a Limited Time

Pink Sapphire, $8.99

Just in time for fall and the holidays, Sally Hansen has added six new colors to its Color Therapy line. These new hues, inspired by gemstones, are awesome for the season.

Brilliant Lapis, $8.99

Orchid Amethyst, $8.99

Sally Hansen's Color Therapy collection uses Argan Oil to nourish nails. It also wears for ten days, fade-proof.

Smokey Emerald, $8.99

Opulent Pearl, $8.99

Rose Diamond $8.99

The Sally Hansen Color Therapy “Enchanting Gems” collection will be available at mass market retailers for a limited time. 

Skyy Hadley's DIY Halloween Nails

Halloween is a great time to get super experimental with your nails. Celebrity nail artist Skyy Hadley, who has worked with Faith Evans and Janelle Monae, has the recipe for Halloween nails that is so cool they're scary!

Skyy recommends doing your nails the day before Halloween at home and giving yourself 45 minutes to an hour of time to complete it. Follow Skyy’s DIY stiletto nail tutorial.

1. Sanitize hands and nails.
2. Start out with a square nail by clipping your nail straight across.
3. Clip the uppermost portion of the two sides diagonally into a triangle.
4. With a file, focus on curving the sides evenly to get a teardrop shape that softens the triangle.
5. Whatever you do on one side, do on the other side. For example: If you do three files on one side, do three files on the other so that it looks symmetrical.

Surya Brazil's Exotic Animal Collection

We are a month and some change away from fall. As you begin to make adjustments to your wardrobe to welcome the season, don't forget to make the same changes to your nail colors. Surya Brazil nail polishes are vegan and never tested on animals, and, just in time for fall, they are releasing their Exotic Animal Collection. 

The 19 colors in the Exotic Animal Collection are inspired by some of our favorite friends of the wild, such as the Anteater, Amazon River Dolphin, Eclectus Parrot, and the Pampas Cat. The collection includes nudes, reds, greens, and other fun colors that are perfect for fall. 

See more of the Exotic Animal Collection here.

Pink Post: Dr.'s Remedy Nail Polish

Dr.'s Remedy Enriched Nail Care is a healthier alternative to traditional nail care products. The products include wheat protein, tea tree oil, garlic bulb extract and lavender and do not contain formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin, toluene, camphor or pthalates or DBP. Throughout the month of October, Dr.'s Remedy is donating 10% of the proceeds of the sales of their enriched pinks to Living Beyond Breast Cancer.  

PURITY Pink Nail Polish, $17

PEACEFUL Pink Coral Nail Polish, $17

PROMISING Pink Nail Polish, $17

DIY Try: Halloween Candy Corn Nails

Halloween is all about getting dressed up! While putting your costume together, don't forget your nails! Try this candy corn look from Skyy Hadley, celebrity manicurist and owner of As U Wish Nail Salon. 

1.       Paint one half of the nail in white (Sally Hansen Miracle Gel in Get Mod) and the other in yellow (Lauren B. Coachella Valley Sun).

2.       Apply nail art stickers (hole reinforcers cut in half). Apply two on each nail as shown below.

 

3.       Working on one nail at a time, paint the area inside the stickers with orange nail polish (Sally Hansen Miracle Gel in Tribal Sun).

4.       Carefully remove the stickers.

5.       Repeat on all other nails. Allow 5 minutes for your nail design to dry and finish it with a coat of a top coat (Lauren B. Gel-like Top Coat).

Sally Hansen Miracle Gel in Get Mod

Sally Hansen Miracle Gel in Tribal Sun

Lauren B. Coachella Valley Sun

Lauren B. Gel-like Top Coat

Free: Zoya's Spooky Glam Trio

For those of us that love spooky, dark cosmetics year-round, Halloween is a great time to stock up on supplies. From now until Halloween, you can get the Zoya's Spooky Glam Trio free with any $25 purchase. Use code GLAM3. The trio includes the colors Storm (black), Mimi (purple), and Amy(orange).  Get your trio today at Zoya.com. 

       

Sally Hansen Does Fashion Week!

Sally Hansen was behind some of the best nail looks this year at New York Fashion Week. Create the look at home from with Sally Hansen colors and show inspiration. 

Sally Hansen for Adam Selman 

THE INSPIRATION

 A collection inspired by a long-forgotten nudist colony in Hawaii; full of prints, bright colors and frills, we wanted a nail that gave the girls a more tomboy edge to balance the femininity of the clothes.

 THE NAIL LOOK

 For Adam Selman’s highly anticipated Spring/Summer 2016 Collection, he turned to Sally Hansen, the #1 Nail Color and Nail Care brand in the US, and Madeline Poole, Sally Hansen Global Color Ambassador, to create an exclusive nail look.

 Madeline explains, “Adam Selman’s collection was inspired by a long-forgotten nudist colony in Hawaii, and features bold prints, bright colors and frills to evoke a tropical feel. We wanted to balance the feminity of the clothes with a nail look that gave the girls more of a tomboy edge. The nails were ironically painted with nails: we used the head of a construction nail dipped in Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Dark Hue-mor to paint haphazardly placed circles on clear nails. The look feels as if the girls painted it on themselves with a marker.”

Dark Hue-mor is part of Sally Hansen’s award-winning Complete Salon Manicure collection that infuses trend-setting shades with an expert-quality formula to deliver salon-caliber results. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure delivers seven salon manicure steps in one bottle. Chip resistant strength joins gel-quality shine. Must-have color meets nourishing benefits. Plus, with a built-in base and top coat, it’s everything you need to achieve a professional manicure at home. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Dark Hue-mor costs $7.99.

Sally Hansen for Misha NoNoo

THE INSPIRATION

Misha Nonoo’s Spring Summer 16 collection was inspired by the idea of a movement in all senses. A movement can be a graceful motion with grand results. From the colorfully bold, modern lines of the 60s’ minimal art movement to the simultaneous spirited beginnings of the women’s rights movement, Misha has created a playful yet powerful wardrobe that brings us to the present day. Misha’s goal has always been to create a uniform for women as well as embracing the individual. Embracing the strength of the individual, Misha invites the modern woman to her world.

 THE NAIL LOOK

 Misha Nonoo turned to Sally Hansen, the #1 Nail Color and Nail Care brand in the US, and Madeline Poole, Sally Hansen Global Color Ambassador, to create two exclusive looks. To complement Misha’s Spring Summer 2016 collection, Madeline envisioned a minimalistic look with a bold twist. For the first style, models wore Complete Salon Manicure in Almost Almond with gold star accents, while the second look featured Complete Salon Manicure in Red My Lips with a lightning bolt detail. Madeline then used Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Gilty Party to create the detailing on the pinky and middle fingers, giving the classic colors an unexpected edge.

Almost Almond, Red My Lips and Gilty Party are part of Sally Hansen’s award-winning Complete Salon Manicure collection that infuses trend-setting shades with an expert-quality formula to deliver salon-caliber results. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure delivers seven salon manicure steps in one bottle. Chip resistant strength joins gel-quality shine. Must-have color meets nourishing benefits. Plus, with a built-in base and top coat, it’s everything you need to achieve a professional manicure at home. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Almost Almond, Red My Lips and Gilty Party cost $7.99 each.

Tanya Taylor

THE INSPIRATION

 The Tanya Taylor Spring Summer 2016 collection focuses on vibrant pigments, novel textures and ornate architectural motifs. Inspired by a recent trip Tanya took to Kenya, Tanzania and Morocco, this season's woman is wrapped in painterly over-sized floral prints, loose silk knits and reinterpretations of classic plaids. There is a focus on fluidity in both fabric and mood. Playfully proportioned silhouettes are enhanced with embroidered laser-cutting, laced ties, and featherweight crystal embellishment.

 THE NAIL LOOK

 This season, Tanya Taylor turned to Sally Hansen, the #1 Nail Color and Nail Care brand in the US, and Madeline Poole, Sally Hansen Global Color Ambassador, to create exclusive nail looks.

 Madeline explains, “Tanya’s collection is an homage to the hand-made textiles, delicate beadwork and vivid dyes used in Africa, and I wanted to continue that aesthetic. I designed a striped nail look that mimics the multicolored, layered jewelry of the Maasai people, giving each model her own unique combination of five different stripe colors in various thicknesses.”

 Arm Candy, Kook A Mango, Ruby Do, Water Color, Dark Hue-mor and In Full Blue-m are part of Sally Hansen’s award-winning Complete Salon Manicure collection that infuses trend-setting shades with an expert-quality formula to deliver salon-caliber results. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure delivers seven salon manicure steps in one bottle. Chip resistant strength joins gel-quality shine. Must-have color meets nourishing benefits. Plus, with a built-in base and top coat, it’s everything you need to achieve a professional manicure at home. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Arm Candy, Kook A Mango, Ruby Do, Dark Hue-mor and In Full Blue-m cost $7.99 each.

 3.1 Phillip Lim 

THE NAIL LOOK

 Phillip Lim turned to Sally Hansen, the #1 Nail Color and Nail Care brand in the US, and Madeline Poole, Sally Hansen Global Color Ambassador, to create exclusive nail looks.

 Madeline explains, “Every nail is different at Phillip Lim. The girls are each wearing a sporty stripe of chrome-silver in varying thicknesses on top of an organic, creamy brown in shade ‘All Bark.’ The collection’s theme, ‘Stop and Smell the Roses,’ embraces beauty in dirtiness and transitional colors, with high-shine specks and glossy accents. Silver is Phillip Lim’s 10^th anniversary color, and the stripe is an homage to his decade of style.”

 All Bark is part of Sally Hansen’s award-winning Complete Salon Manicure collection that infuses trend-setting shades with an expert-quality formula to deliver salon-caliber results. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure delivers seven salon manicure steps in one bottle. Chip resistant strength joins gel-quality shine. Must-have color meets nourishing benefits. Plus, with a built-in base and top coat, it’s everything you need to achieve a professional manicure at home. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in All Bark costs $7.99.

How To Remove Your Gel Manicure

Gel manicures are all the rave right now because of how long they last. However, getting them professionally removed can be costly and not an option for a girl on budget. Never fear, Skyy Hadler, owner of As You Wish Nail Salon, tells us how to remove gel polish on your own.

         File – Use an emery board to lightly buff each nail to remove the shiny top coat so you’re left with a powdery finish. Be careful not to over buff so you don’t hit your natural nail underneath the gel.

·           Soak – Next you must soak your nails in 100% acetone polish remover. To do this, take a piece of cotton ball the size of your nail and pour the acetone on it, place it on your nail and cover your nail with a piece of aluminum foil or tape to keep it in place. Do this on every nail and let soak for 15 minutes to relax the gel.

·           Remove – Remove the cotton pieces from your nails and take a wooden cuticle stick to push the gel polish off your nails. If you have trouble, instead of forcing it, soak your nails with a cotton ball for 5 more minutes and try again.

·           Moisturize – After the gel has been removed, wash your hands and apply a cuticle oil to the nail and cuticle. This will rehydrate your nails after using acetone on them to keep them strong and healthy between polishes.

 

Note: It’s important to take your time when removing a gel manicure yourself as it can be a slow process and you want to treat your nails very delicately and carefully to avoid weakening them.