Sampler Kit

The Balance Elite Sampler Nail Kit is a great way to try the Balance Elite System. This Nail Kit contains enough product to create one set of nails.

The Balance ELITE Gel System combines light cured technology and beautiful chemistry to create a user-friendly hema free hard gel nails system. Balance ELITE is perfect for sculpting a variety of hard gel nails services including natural nail overlays, tip and overlays, sculpting on a form, and indestructible pedicures. Balance ELITE Gels are available in a range of colors and opacity, all intelligently formulated for creating the perfect gel nail enhancements.

• Hema-Free formula perfect for sensitive clients.
• Odorless product perfect for spa environments
• True color when applied means using less product to get the perfect opacity.
• Can be used for any length natural nails, sculpting on a form or tip and overlays.
• Great for any level gel user.
• Can be used with any NSI Top Coat.
• Great for Sculpting on a form, tip and overlay or natural nail overlays.
• Cures hard in a LED or UV Nail lamp.

VISCOSITY & USES

VISCOSITY: Medium/Thick
SKILL LEVEL: Ideal for all levels.
USAGE: Can be used for easy building of the nail, or for a slight apex for some added durability. Because of the added strength, builder gels are ideal to be used for natural nails, tip and overlays, or sculpting.

Kit Contents:

• Balance Elite LED/UV Pretty in Pink – 15 g (.52 Oz.)
• Balance Bond (Acid-Free) Primer – 15 mL (.5 Fl. Oz.)
• Cleanse – 70 mL (2.4 Fl. Oz.)

Sampler Kit

Simplicite PolyDip System Sampler Kit is our dip nails kit, it contains everything you need to try our Light Cured Dipping system!

With the arrival of the old technology of the traditional cyanoacrylate dip systems, we wanted to bring our system into the light cured era. We called it Simplicite because it’s simple to use and simple to remove. The Simplicite Dip Powder Nail Enhancement System has risen to a whole new level of nail dipping systems that utilizes new oligomer technology.  The unique light cured technology is faster than a traditional dip service and keeps clients’ nails strong and healthy.  With the versatility of using over tips or as a natural nail overlay, the lightweight and flexible feel, the pigment rich dipping powder and the speed of application, it is a perfect addition to any techs’ services menu.  It’s simple!  It’s Simplicite!

• Light Curable Dip System Technology
• This dip nails kit is part of our Simplicite Dipping System Line
• Completely Odorless System
• A Versatile Dipping system that can be used for tip and overlays or permanent polish enhancements
• Optional Rebalance – don’t have to soak off the product in between application

KIT CONTENTS:

• Prep – 15 mL (.5 Fl. Oz.)
• Essential Bond – 15 mL (.5 Fl. Oz.)
• PolyBase – 15 mL (.5 Fl. Oz.)
• Essential Seal – 15 mL (.5 Fl. Oz.)
• Attraction Radiant Pink – 40 g (1.4 Oz.)

Sampler Kit

The Attraction Acrylic Sampler Kit Contains just enough product to sample the user friendly Attraction Acrylic System. The Attraction Sampler Kit is a great Acrylic Nails Kit for Beginners and contains just enough product to try the Attraction System.

The Attraction Acrylic Nail Enhancement System empowers the nail tech to create captivating nail enhancements – effortlessly. Highly advanced acrylic enhancement technology gives the system its unique feel and spring-back action while delivering exceptional adhesion, unsurpassed strength, and flexibility. These powders are super strong and can sculpt Extreme lengths or a natural-looking short acrylic nail set. The NSI Attraction Acrylic System creates natural-looking, artificial nail enhancements with exceptional adhesion, strength, and flexibility. The Attraction Nail Powders are color stable and will not fade or discolor. Create stunning acrylic nails with the Attraction Acrylic System – the perfect choice for salon-quality results!

 

• Great Acrylic Nails Kit for Beginners and contains just enough product to sample the Attraction System
• Create natural-looking, thin nail enhancements with exceptional adhesion and unsurpassed strength & flexibility
• Designed for effortless work-ability and flow with a spring back action and feel unique to our industry
• Use with NSI nail liquid for exceptional adhesion
• Nails can be refilled, or rebalanced to keep enhancements strong.
• Non-yellowing formulated powders are completely color stable and will not fade
• For the best results, use with NSI Nail Liquids

Kit Contents:

• Attraction Nail Liquid – 60 mL (2 Fl. Oz.)
• Three 7 g (.24 Oz.) Nail Powders (Radiant White, Radiant Pink & Totally Clear)
• Essential (Acid-Free) Primer – 15 mL (.5 Fl. Oz.)

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Attraction powders to be included in Simplicite Kits for dipping

NSI has been working to simplify and streamline our product lines. Starting with Essentials, we created a versatile and universal line of prep products to be used with all NSI products. The Essential line replaced the need for different prep products for each line, to only needing one line of prep products to be used with all of your products.

As we further expanded our ranges to become more streamlined, we introduced Simplicite Coloured Acrylic Powders to be used with monomer with our NSI COLOUR kit.

Now to introduce – Attraction powders to be included in Simplicite Kits for dipping.

As we continue to research which Attraction powders can be used to dip with, we ask that technicians do a sample color test of their own on a tip before using it on clients.

What Products Are Affected?

With this new introduction, we are replacing the Simplicite Pinks, White and Clear entirely with the Attraction line. This means it will affect the Following Simplicite Kits:

Simplicite Discover Kit New Contents:
Simplicite Prep – 15 mL (.5 Fl. Oz.), Essential Bond – 15 mL (.5 Fl. Oz.), Simplicite PolyBase – 15 mL (.5 Fl. Oz.), Essential Seal – 15 mL (.5 Fl. Oz.), Simplicite French White – 15 mL (.5 Fl. Oz.), Attraction Radiant Pink – 40 g (1.4 Oz.), Attraction Rose Blush – 40 g (1.4 Oz.), Attraction Totally Clear – 40 g (1.4 Oz.)

Simplicite Sampler Kit New Contents:
Simplicite Prep – 15 mL (.5 Fl. Oz.), Essential Bond – 15 mL (.5 Fl. Oz.), Simplicite PolyBase – 15 mL (.5 Fl. Oz.), Essential Seal – 15 mL (.5 Fl. Oz.), Attraction Radiant Pink – 40 g (1.4 Oz.)

Powder Replacement Recommendations:
Simplicite Pink Silk – Attraction Radiant Pink
Simplicite Opaque Pink – Attraction Rose Blush
Simplicite White – Attraction Radiant White
Simplicite Clear – Attraction Totally Clear

As a research, development and manufacturing company, NSI has been advancing technology for the professional-only nail market for more than 30 years. Headquartered near Philadelphia, NSI is committed to creating time-saving, cost-effective products, enabling professionals to work more efficiently and profitably. For more information about the NSI professional-only product line, contact us at (800) 354-6741 or visit the NSI website at www.nsinails.com.

Color Theory & Skintone – Part 1

Custom blending allows the technician to offer the ultimate manicure and pedicure service. Not only to customizes pinks and whites using formulas to complement or match your client’s skin tones, but also creating a look that is just for them and no one else. Customizing for your client can create the illusion of longer, sleeker nail beds that may not be achieved in the conventional methods. Customizing a color for that client that no other salon has is a great way to boost your service ticket and style.

In order to mix colors successfully (there is a science behind this), it is important to truly understand color. In part 1 of this series we will discuss color theory, and how it can relate to skintone.

 

Color Wheel

 

 

Color theories create a logical structure for color. Sir Isaac Newton used a glass prism to divide white rays of sunlight into the fanned colored wavelengths, which he named the spectrum. He diagrammed the seven spectral hues into a closed ring that followed the ordering of the colors as the appeared in the spectrum, and in the rainbow, thus creating the first color wheel.

A color circle, based on red, yellow and blue, is traditional in the field of art. The great advantage of Newton’s color circle over preceding linear ordering was that it revealed color relationships. Artists could see that the adjacent hues are related by color, not just by lightness or darkness, and that colors of highest contrast are located directly opposite each other on the wheel. There are also definitions (or categories) of colors based on the color wheel. We begin with a 3-part color wheel.

Primary: Red, yellow and blue. In traditional color theory (used in paint and pigments), primary colors are the 3 pigment colors that cannot be mixed or formed by any combination of other colors. All other colors are derived from these 3 hues.

Secondary: Green, orange and purple. These are the colors formed by mixing two primary colors together.

Tertiary: Yellow-orange, red- orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green & yellow-green. These are the colors formed by mixing a primary and a secondary color. That’s why the hue is a two word name, such as blue-green, red-violet, and yellow-orange.

Value: value refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. Black, white and gray are used to create dimension, mood, rhythm and emphasis. When referring to pigments, dark values with black added are called “shades” of the given hue name. Light values with white pigment added are called “tints” of the hue name. What color is a highlight on a nail? What color is a shadow?

Warm vs. Cool Colors

Colors, especially skin tones, lie in a spectrum of cold or warm colors. Cooler colors tend to appear more blue or have a blueish undertone. Warmer colors tend to have more of a yellow undertone. Aside from Blue and Yellow, warm or cool colors are not always obvious. They can just have a slight warmth or coolness that can only be seen when held up to a similar color. This is why you have variations of purple colors, they may have the same VALUE but one purple may be warmer and have more red, than another that may be cooler and more blue.

Understanding how to identify a warm color or cool color and knowing how to warm up or cool down a color can help you create the perfect mix for your client. Both the Attraction Acrylic System and NSI Hard Gel Systems have a range of Warm to Cool hues that can be used when customizing your colors.

Warm colors are traditionally red, yellow, and orange.

To make a color warmer, you can add a small amount of a true yellow or red and create a whole new custom warm color. A yellow-green is a warm green, an example of a yellow-green is a fresh avocado. It is still green but it has a yellow undertone.

Cool colors are traditionally blue, green, and purple.

To make a color cooler, you can add a small amount of a true blue and create a whole new custom cool color. A blue-red is a cool red, an example of a blue-red is the color of red wine. It’s still red but it has a blue undertone.

 

Color and Skin Tones

The genes that determine your skin tone, hair, and eye color also determine what colors look best on you. When you study your own coloring, you will find that your skin, hair, and eyes have either blue (cool) or golden (warm) tones. Your inherited skin tone does not change; it simply deepens with a tan and fades with age.

The tone of your skin comes from three pigments, melanin (brown), carotene (yellow), and hemoglobin (red). It is the particular combination of these three pigments that gives you your unique skin tone.

Because your skin acts as a thin filter, it is the tone just under its surface that determines whether your skin is warm or cool. Cool skin tones have blue undertones, while warm skin tones have a golden undertone.

 

Determining Skin Tone

Some people’s skin tone is quite obvious, but for others it is subtle. Compare wrists and palms by placing a piece of white paper under your hand and wrist. Does it look pinkish/blue or golden/orange?

Don’t be fooled by hair color since some clients may dye and color their hair, it isn’t an accurate way to determine how warm or cool a color is. To determine your client’s skin tone it is best to do it on an area of skin without makeup and compare it to a white surface or white towel.

 

Complementing colors

If you are unfamiliar with customizing a color for your client, instead of matching, try complimenting. Even take a look to see what your client’s favorite lipstick color, blush, or eye shadow happens to be. Chances are, they are already wearing the “right” colors.

To pick a complementing color for your client choose your desired system, and select a color that is either more blue or more golden. It’s a good practice to have some sample tips made up of your blushes and pinks to compare to your clients skin tone before starting the service.

TIP: It’s easy to make some samples to reference, just press out several beads of product onto a Clear nail tip and allow to cure so that you can hold it over the client’s finger to compare.

 

Trial Kit

The NSI Secrets Removable Gel Nails Trial Kit is the perfect way to sample the NSI Secrets Removable Gel Line. The Secrets Removable Gel Kit contains all of the products you would need to add Secrets Removable Gel Nails into your salon services!

NSI presents the latest in nail gel technology, the Secrets Removable Gel System. Secrets Removable Gels capture the same ease and workability as acrylics without the set time. You can take your time applying the product onto the nail as it only hardens when cured. The NSI Secrets Removable Gel is perfect for sculpting on a form, tip and overlays or adding strength to the natural nail.

• Easy to Remove and soak off just like acrylic nails but with the strength of hard gels
• Optional soak off – Can be refilled, rebalanced to keep enhancements strong.
• Super creamy gel that is easy to work with.
• A perfect base for nail art or gel polish
• Can be used with any NSI Top Coat.
• Great for Sculpting on a form, tip and overlay or natural nail overlays.
• Cures hard in a LED or UV Nail lamp Curable

Kit Contents:

• Essential Base Coat – 15 mL (.5 Fl. Oz.)
• Essential Seal – 15 mL (.5 Fl. Oz.)
• Builder Clear – 6 g (.21 Oz.)
• Builder Blush – 6 g (.21 Oz.)
• Brush On White – 6 g (.21 Oz.)
• Tech-Gel Color Hot Tamale – 6 g (.21 Oz.)

 

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