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- “Safety of UV Curing for Fingernail Coatings”
- “Understanding UV Nail Lamps”
- “Do UV Nail Lamps Emit Unsafe Levels of Ultraviolet Light?”
- “Where Is The Cuticle?” (with video)
- “The Three Greatest Challenges Facing the Nail Business” (with video)
- “What Nail Professionals Should Know and Do About MMA”
- “Avoiding MMA and Nail Damage”
(with video) - “Give Me 100% Organic” (with video)
- “Nail Plate Construction Zone”
(with video) - “Performance Through Consistency Control” (with video)
- “7 Secrets To Curing UV Gel Nails”
(with video) - “What Do We Want Nails To Be?”
(with video) - “5 Forgotten Properties of the Nail”
- “Exposing the Formaldehyde Myth”
- “Pregnancy And The Salon”
“Pregnancy And The Salon”
January 2013
When your clients discover they're pregnant, one of the first questions they will ask you is, “Can I keep wearing my nail enhancement during my pregnancy?” Similarly, if a nail technician becomes pregnant, will she have to quit the salon? This article provides the answers and additional information.
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“New Studies Examine Safety of UV Curing for Fingernail Coatings”
May 2013
This technical article was written for the Radtech Report, a magazine that specializes in UV curing applications. This article reviews two studies commissioned by the Nail Manufacturers Council (NMC) of the Professional Beauty Association. One of the studies was performed by Dr. Robert Sayre and his partner Dr. John Dowdy; both are leading research experts in the effect of UV on skin. Dr. Sayre is also the inventor of the SPF rating system for sunscreens and is respected world-wide as a leading authority of the effects of UV exposure to skin. These articles demonstrate why UV nail lamps are safe as used in nail salons.
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“Understanding UV Nail Lamps”
November 2012
Two styles of UV nail lamps are used in salons to cure UV nail products; Traditional and LED. Although these nail lamps use different types of bulbs, both types emit UV and can quickly harden UV curable artificial nail coatings. The bulbs used in traditional UV nail lamps are "fluorescent tubes," while the bulbs used in newer LED style UV nail lamps are called "Light Emitting Diodes" or LED for short.
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“Do UV Nail Lamps Emit Unsafe Levels of Ultraviolet Light?”
August 2010
A recent report incorrectly concluded that UV nail lamps are a source of "high-dose UV-A" and also inaccurately compared UV tanning beds with UV nail lamps.
Worked with two of the leading scientists in the professional nail industry, we verify the facts, by using an independent laboratory to test the leading UV nail lamps to determine how much UV-A and UV-B they emit and then compared that to natural sunlight. Our attached report shows that UV nail lamps emit relatively low levels of UV light and these exposure levels are considered well within safe levels when they are used to perform UV artificial nail services in nail salons.
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click here to read a related article in Russian in Top Nails Magazine 
"Where Is The Cuticle?"
Professional Beauty Magazine, July 2007
The problem is the incorrect usage of professional terminology. There are several workds that everyone in the professional nail industry should always use correctly, and one of those words is "cuticle."
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Russian translation also available:
Top Nails Magazine, 29 April 2013
Click here to read the Russian article
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"The Three Greatest Challenges Facing the Nail Business"
Nails Magazine
February 2009
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"What Nail Professionals Should Know and Do About MMA"
Professional Beauty Magazine
2005
"Avoiding MMA and Nail Damage"
Scratch UK Magazine
2005
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"Give Me 100% Organic"
Professional Beauty Magazine
September 2007
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"Nail Plate Construction Zone"
Professional Beauty Magazine
November 2008
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"Performance Through Consistency Control"
Scratch UK Magazine
March 2005
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"7 Secrets To Curing UV Gel Nails"
Scratch UK Magazine
January 2009
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"What Do We Want Nails To Be?"
Scratch UK Magazine
November 2005
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"5 Forgotten Properties of the Nail"
Professional Beauty Magazine
January 2009
"Exposing the Formaldehyde Myth"
Scratch Magazine
March 2010
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