Gallery: Ideas for Short Nails

Jan 11th, 2016

Short, natural nails may provide a smaller canvas than long artificial enhancements – but that doesn’t mean your possibilities are limited. Check out these amazing nail designs for ideas.

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3 Pastel Nail Designs

Maggie Curlew (@alt.maggiecurlew) shares her step-by-step tutorial for three pastel nail designs that are sure to put a spring in your client's step!

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Nail technician and artist Milly Mac (@by_millimac) shares her tutorial for creating butterfly nail art.

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Tina Zavala (@popstarnails_) shares her step-by-step process for creating a balletcore nail set.

How-To: Balletcore Nail Tutorial

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Celebrity Nail Artist Thuy Nguyen created nail looks for Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade at the Academy Awards that are perfect for a black tie affair!

2 Black Tie Affair Nail Tutorials

Celebrity Nail Artist Thuy Nguyen created nail looks for Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade at the Academy Awards that are perfect for a black tie affair!

Nailpro dives into the nail looks sported at this year's Academy Awards and shares how you can recreate the looks!

What Nail Trends Were Sported at the Academy Awards?

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Bellacures shares some fun spring nail design tutorials featuring pastel colors to wash away the winter blues.

3 Spring Pastel Nail Designs

Bellacures shares some fun spring nail design tutorials featuring pastel colors to wash away the winter blues.

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Alice Nali (@alynails.italianacademy) shares simple steps that will help you to get a perfect metallic effect for your chrome nails.

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Here's a quick roundup of some gorgeous nail looks sported at the Golden Globes and Emmys with a step-by-step tutorial, so you can make sure your clients are red-carpet ready.

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Here's a quick roundup of some gorgeous nail looks sported at the Golden Globes and Emmys with a step-by-step tutorial, so you can make sure your clients are red-carpet ready.

This season, it's all about the sparkle. See eight reflective glitter nail designs to inspire your shimmery nail looks this winter.

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This season, it's all about the sparkle. See eight reflective glitter nail designs to inspire your shimmery nail looks this winter.

Helena Han (@helenahan.pro) shares her tips, tricks and techniques for applying chrome to nails.

How-To: Chrome Nails

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