3Years and Counting! We asked, and you told us. For the third year in a row, NAILS announces the winners of our annual Readers Choice Awards. From Acrylics to Wraps and everything in between read on to see if your favorite products made it onto our 2006 list. So what are your favorite products? We ve tallied the votes and are happy to announce the winners of the 2006 NAILS Readers Choice Awards. So many consumer beauty magazines and outside organizations give awards for favorite beauty products that we wanted to do something in the professional nail care realm. And what could be a bigger honor than landing on the top five list voted for by the people who are actually using the products? (That s you!) This year we got double the responses we got last year. Ours are not editor s picks or a best of roundup; they re simply a fun look at what product you and your peers love right now. We sent out nomination forms to every major product manufacturer in the nail industry. They nominated themselves (NAILS did not select the products for voting). We published the list of nominations in the August 2006 issue and sent readers online to vote for their favorite products. If your favorite products weren t listed, you could write them in. Readers were not required to vote for every category. Like in previous years, the votes for products were very close, so we are listing your top five favorites in each category. And the votes for favorite new product were so plentiful that we re bringing you the top 15 favorite new products for 2006. If you have any comments or would like to see additional categories in the future, please let us know. You can e-mail Hannah.Lee@bobit.com. 94 NAILS December 2006
Acrylic System Retention+ Liquid 2. OPI Products: Absolute Liquid & Powder Technology 3. EZ Flow Nail Systems: High Definition 4. Tammy Taylor Nails: Acrylic System 5. OPI: Competition 3000 Airbrushing System 1. Too Much Fun Complete Airbrush System 2. Safari Airbrush: Airbrush System 3. Del Laboratories: Sally Hansen Airbrush Sun 4. Badger Airbrush System 5. Aztek Airbrush System Base Coat Stickey Base Coat Brushes Competition 3000 Edge Kolinsky Brush #7 2. OPI Products: Natural Nail Base Coat 3. Orly International: Bonder 4. Nail Tek: Foundation 5. Seche: Seche Base 2. Creative Nail Design: MasterSeries Pro Styler Brush 3. EZ Flow Nail Systems: Grand Artist 508 4. Tammy Taylor: Large Flat Custom Brush 5. Entity Beauty: Couture Sculpting Brush Competition Products Competition Formula 3000 2. Creative Nail Design: Moxie Fast Set Sculpting Liquid 3. EZ Flow Nail Systems: Competition Products 4. NSI: Attraction Competition Acrylic 5. Star: Flash Silica Acrylic Computer System 1. Elite Software Salon & Spa Management Software 2.Innovative Business Computer Solutions: The Spa Salon Manager 3. Mikal: Salon/Spa Management System (SMS) 4. Salon Iris 5. Harms Millenium 96 NAILS December 2006
Cuticle Treatment SolarOil 2. OPI Products: Avoplex Nail and Cuticle Replenishing Oil 3. EZ Flow Nail Systems: Cuticle Love 4. ProLinc: Be Natural Cuticle Eliminator 5. (tie) Nail Tek: Renew Natural Cuticle Oil (tie) Cuccio Naturalé: Apple Cuticle Remover Design/Colored Acrylics 1. EZ Flow Nail Systems Boogie Nights Kits 2. Creative Nail Design: Custom Blending Kit 3. OPI Products: Absolutefx Chromatones Precision Color Powders 4. NSI: Technailcolor 5. Star Nail International: Prismatix Glitter Powder Disinfection/Sanitation ScrubFresh 2. OPI Products: Swiss Guard Antiseptic Handwash Gel 3. King Research: Barbicide Disinfectant 4. Isabel Cristina: Let s Touch Disinfectant 5. Backscratchers Salon Systems: Germ Terminator Pro Electric Files 1. Kupa KP 3000 2. OPI Products: Professional Electric Nail Technician File 3. Medicool: Pro Power 30,000 4. Lasco Diamond Products: Micro Delux Nail Machine 5. Ultronics: Diamond Drill Bits Performance Forms Files Girlfriend buffer Forms 2. OPI Products: Brilliance Block and Long File 3. Backscratchers Salon Systems: SeptiFile Sanitizable File System 4. Flowery Beauty Products: D Files 5. EZ Flow Nail Systems: Pro Shine 2. OPI Products: Transform Reversible, Adhesive Nail Forms 3. Tammy Taylor: Gold Forms 4. EZ Flow Nail Systems: Perfect C Curve Forms 5. Entity Beauty: Sculpting Forms NAILS December 2006 99
Gel/Light System Brisa Gel System 2. OPI Products: MicroBond Gel Overlay & Sculpting System 3. IBD: French Extreme 4. LCN USA: Light Cured Resin System 5. Young Nails: Finish Implements Pusher Plus Multiuse Pusher 2. Mehaz: Triple Cut Tip Cutter 3. Tweezerman: V Cuticle Nipper 4. EZ Flow Nail Systems: Pro Pusher 5. Young Nails: Magic Wand Lotion for Hands and Body Scentsations Hand and Body Lotions 2. OPI Products: Avojuice Skin Quenchers 3. Nail Tek: 7 Days to Beautiful Hands Advanced Hydrating Crème 4. Cuccio Naturalé: Milk and Honey Butter Blend 5. Haken: Body Butter Manicure System SpaManicure 2. OPI Products: Manicure By OPI 3. Cuccio Naturale: Hand, Nail & Foot Care Kit 4. Art of Beauty: Q-tica System 5. Nail Tek: 7 Days to Beautiful Hands System Nail Art/Decals/ Accessories Competition 3000 Designer Brush 2. EZ Nails: That s It? Instant Nail Art 3. ProLinc: Nail Styles 3D Nail Appliques 4. It s So Easy: Picker Upper 5. All Season Nails: Nail Art Brush Set Nail Jewelry 1. Snails Italian Jewelry Nail Jewelry 2. Lava International: Jewlery Decals 3. Nubar: Tow Twinx 4. Dina s Nail Art: Nail Jewelry 5. It s So Easy: Toerings 100 NAILS December 2006
Odorless System 2. Nail Tek: Natural Alternative 3. Star: Acrygel 4. NSI: SPA 5. Kupa: Odorless Acrylic System Clarité by OPI Paraffin & Accessories 1. Gena Ultimate Spa Paraffin Bath 2. GiGi: Paraffin Bath 3. Clean + Easy: Paraffin Spa 4.Cuccio Naturalé: Grapeseed Hand Anti-Oxidant Oil 5. Depileve Hair Removal Co.: Professional Warmer Pedicure Equipment 1. European Touch Platino Spa 2. Belava: Pedicure Tub and Disposable Liners 3. Helen of Troy: Ultimate Footbath (model 61360) 4. SalonTech: Impulse 5. J&A USA: Petra 700 Pipeless Sanijet Pedicure Chair Pedicure Product/System SpaPedicure 2. OPI Products: Pedicure by OPI 3. ProLinc: Be Natural Callus Eliminator 4. Cuccio Naturalé: Milk and Honey Sea Salts 5. EZ Flow Nail Systems: Spa Elements Polish Dryer 2. Creative Nail Design: Solar Speed Spray 3. China Glaze: Fast Freeze Quick Dry 4. Nail Tek: 10-Speed 5. Essie Cosmetics: Quick-e Drip Dry Lacquer Drying Drops Polish/Nail Color 1.OPI Products Nail Lacquer 2. Essie Cosmetics: Nail Polish 3. China Glaze: Nail Polish 4. Creative Nail Design: Nail Enamel 5. Orly: Nail Lacquer 102 NAILS December 2006
1. Takara Belmont Bella Manicure Table Salon Furniture 2. Veeco Manufacturing: Delta Manicure Table 3. Backscratchers Salon Systems: Salon Vac 4. China Glaze: 480 Permanent Rack 5. Buff & Go Inc.: Buff & Go Portable Workstation Strengthener/Treatment 1. Nail Tek Nail Tek Strengtheners 2. OPI Products: Nail Envy 3. Nailtiques: Formula 2 - Nail Protein 4. Creative Nail Design: Toughen Up 5. China Glaze: Nail Strengthener & Growth Formula RapiDry Top Coat Tips Velocity Tips Top Coat 2. OPI Products: Structure Nail Tips 3. EZ Flow Nail Systems: Perfection Tips 4. Young Nails: Style Tips 5. Star Nail: Deep Smile Well-Less Tips 2. Seche: Seche Vite 3. Creative Nail Design: Super Shiney 4. INM: Out The Door Top Coat 5. Almell: Poshe Super Fast Drying Topcoat Ventilation System/Equipment 1. Modern Solutions The One That Works Air Purifier 2. AIR Systems: Extract-All Model S031 Air Purification System 3. Edsyn Inc.: Fuminator 4. WTAC: Work Top Air Cleaner 5. Alpine: Air Purification System Wrap System 1. Backscratchers Salon Systems Glass Glaze Fiberglass & Silk Wrap System 2. OPI Products: MicroWrap 3. EZ Flow Nail Systems: Fibreglass 4. Star: Ultimate Fiberware 5. All Season Nails: Brush-on Fiberglass Nails 104 NAILS December 2006
FAVORITE NEW PRODUCTS top 15 1OPI Products Designer Series by OPI/Nail Lacquer 2Creative Nail Design Solar Balm Entity Beauty 3Nudite Powders 4Essie Cosmetics Good to Go 5ProLinc Be Natural Dry Heel Eliminator All Season Nails 7Professional Aspire Acrylic Line 6 Haken Professional Chocolate Mint Spa Pedicure System 106 NAILS December 2006
LCN USA 9LCN Spa Line Gigi Spiced Pumpkin Paraffin 8 10 Kupa Inc. KP6100 Spa & Table Electric File 11 12Tammy Taylor Vicki Peters Signature Series Prizma Powderz S-Gel System 13 Beech Sandals Beech Pedicure/ Yoga Sandals in Pink 14 Signature by Mehaz Cuticle Nipper NSI Balance Brush-On White UV Gel 15French NAILS December 2006 107