It's possible you've been asked if you want Shellac nails the last few times you were at the nail salon. And maybe you politely declined, not because you weren't interested — you just simply weren't ...

What's worse: waiting forever for your gel nails to soak off, or waiting forever for paint to (literally) dry with a regular manicure? Yeah, I don't know either. But what if I told you that you don't ...

Going to the nail salon should, in theory, be a relaxing experience. But things can escalate quickly when you’re faced with a plethora of polishes and you’ve already reached peak decision fatigue for ...

When you're debating a long-lasting manicure at the salon, you’re usually presented with two main options: gel or shellac. But what, exactly, is shellac? The name refers to the signature shine ...

Being a qualified nail tech (CND Shellac beginners, Perfect Polish and Core Nail Art qualified) means that writing about nails is more of a passion for Vogue's Lauren Murdoch-Smith than a job. "In ...

No pain, no gain. It's the philosophy behind a lot of beauty treatments. Gel nails, for instance, are long-lasting, but they can make you want to scream when you have to file them down to remove them.

Shellac is billed as the ultimate long-lasting manicure, and as I can’t keep my nails neat for more than three days, I was unable to say no to the chance of perfect nail polish for up to two weeks.

Beauty has come a long way in recent years, and one of the developments we're most grateful for is the invent of gel nail polish. Polish that dries within minutes and nails that remain chip free for ...

One thing I, a total non-nail-expert, can tell you for certain about manicures is that they are most definitely addictive. Growing up, no one in my family got salon manicures, and so I used to just ...

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