OUR STORY
About The Nail Superstore
A professional nail supply distributor serving salon owners and nail technicians since 1995.
OUR STORY
Three Decades of Building for Techs, Not Just Selling to Them
For more than thirty years, The Nail Superstore has done one thing: put professional-grade nail products in the hands of the people who use them for a living, at prices that make sense for a working salon.
Founder Kevin Huynh opened the business in August 1995 as Skyline Beauty Supply, inside the Tài Nam Market in Chicago's Argyle Street community. It became The Nail Superstore in 1997, and nailsuperstore.com went online in 1999 — early enough that a nail tech in a small town could suddenly reach the same catalog and the same pricing as a shop in a major city.
Today we carry thousands of products across every category a salon needs — acrylic, gel, dip, polish, tips, implements, tools, furniture, and equipment — from the professional brands techs already trust, alongside seven house brands we design and develop ourselves.
1995 — TODAY
Three Decades, Milestone by Milestone
1995
Founded as Skyline Beauty Supply inside Chicago's Tài Nam Market.
1996
Our humble beginning .....
1997
Renamed the company to be The Nail Superstore.
1998
Launched OneTouch Acrylic Powder and Liquid System
2000
Launched Elfa Acrylic Wrap (Dipping Powder System)
2007
Moved our store and warehouse to Franklin Park, IL
2024
Moved to our current warehouse in Carol Stream
2025
Celebrated our 30th Anniversary
WHO WE SERVE
Who We Serve
We are a wholesale supplier built for professionals.
01
Salon Owners
Buying by the case, managing margins, and keeping a full service menu stocked — without guessing on availability or overpaying per unit.
02
Nail Technicians
Need implements that hold an edge, gels that cure true, and products that perform the same way every single time — no surprises on the client in the chair.
03
Serious At-Home Artists
Want professional quality and are done settling for what the drugstore carries — the same catalog and the same standards the pros work from.
Whether you're placing your first order or your five-hundredth, buying a single cuticle nipper or a pallet of acetone, the standard is the same: it has to work, the price has to be fair, and it has to be there when you need it.
OUR HOUSE BRANDS
Our House Brands
When a product is genuinely good but priced beyond what a working salon can justify — or when nothing on the market does quite what techs actually need — we build it ourselves.
Our house brands are designed, formulated, and developed in the United States to our own specification. Many of our chemical products — including our acrylic liquids, acrylic powders, and most of our top coats — are manufactured right here in the U.S. For the rest of the line, we contract manufacturing to carefully selected producers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, chosen the same way Kevin chooses everything else: in person, at the source, by people who have to answer for the quality.
That's why we develop and stand behind seven house brands:
Each exists for the same reason: professional performance without the professional markup, developed to our specification and sold direct, so the savings reach the person doing the work instead of a middleman.
HOW WE SOURCE
How We Source
We don't buy from catalogs.
Kevin still leads purchasing personally, and his standard is the same one he's kept for thirty years: see the factory in person before a product earns a place in our catalog. Not online. Not over email. Not on a Zoom call — on location, on the floor, however many thousands of miles that takes, whether the factory is across Asia, across Europe, or across the U.S.
He wants to see how something is made, understand why it performs, and build a direct relationship with the people who make it — because that's what keeps quality consistent and keeps important items in stock when supply gets tight.
Over thirty years that search has covered more than thirty countries and hundreds of trade shows, including the small Japanese and Asian manufacturers producing precision implements and gel systems that most American distributors have never carried.
The reason is simple: we're buying for you. You can't fly to a factory in Osaka to inspect a production line before committing your supply budget — so we do it for you.
Read Kevin's full story →
OUR PROMISE
What Hasn't Changed
The Nail Superstore has never been sold, never been folded into a larger group, and has never answered to an outside investor. The person who founded it in 1995 still chooses what goes in the catalog.
In an industry where distributors change hands and product quality quietly slips afterward, that continuity is the whole point. If it's on our site, we put it there on purpose.
Three Decades, Three Homes
We've grown, but we've never left the community we started in.
1995–2007
Tài Nam Market, Argyle Street, Uptown, Chicago
2007–2024
Franklin Park, Illinois
2024–present
Carol Stream, Illinois
Our 10,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center in Carol Stream ships across the country — and it's open to the public. Local salon owners and techs are welcome to shop in person, pick up online orders, and ask about local delivery.
VISIT
Come See Us
The Nail Superstore
320 Fullerton Ave, Carol Stream, IL 60188
Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–5:30 PM CST
800.669.9430 (US) · +1.847.260.4000 (International)
THIRTY YEARS IN
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Professional-grade supplies, fair pricing, and a real person behind every order. Whether you're restocking a single station or running a full salon floor, we've got you.
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