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You may recall that #glassnails and #braceletnails took over your Instagram feed last year, and inevitably launched thousands of DIY recreations. Well, meet Park Eunkyung, the genius South Korean nail artist behind those double tap-worthy designs. It’s hard to believe Park has already been in the industry for 15 years, but with the power of Instagram and […]

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The nail art trend may have subdued to neutral manicures on the runway in recent seasons, but if social media is any proof, this beauty pastime is far from leaving us any time soon. Negative space nail art has been generating some talk for some time now. Judging from the cool manis we’ve seen around […]

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Here’s some Friday morning fun for you! The show that brought us One Direction and the country that gave us the Spice Girls have pretty much done it again: Little Mix is a new girl group that formed on the UK’s X Factor in 2011. If you’ve been missing the upbeat pop music and feisty lyrics that dominated the charts in the late ’90s, it’s time to give Little Mix a listen. (The video for “How Ya Doing” could easily be mistaken for a Destiny’s Child song and makes us want to dye our hair bright colours ASAP.) The four-girl group not only won X Factor, they launched a debut album, DNA, that dominated the charts in Britain—which is why they’re now in North America to do the same.

And because any girl group worth their salt is all about individual style coming together in one sassy package, Little Mix has created a custom nail art tutorial with Toronto’s Pinky’s Nails.

As Essie Canada’s lead nail artist for World MasterCard Fashion Week, Rita Remark certainly had her hands full last week. She was in charge of creating nail looks for eight shows, including Mackage, Chloé Comme Parris and Pink Tartan—and with some shows casting more than 20 models, that meant Remark and her team had to file, prep and paint 1500 false nails in advance. Curious about the process of painting so many nails, I met Rita in her studio space at Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel. After getting a sneak peek at the nail art designs for upcoming shows, it was my turn to try painting.