Some links on NailHandbook are affiliate links. If you click one and buy something, I get a small cut. You pay the same price either way. That is the whole disclosure in two sentences, but the FTC and my own conscience want the details, so here they are.
Where the money comes from
NailHandbook is part of the Amazon Associates program and a handful of smaller nail-brand and tool programs. When I link a base coat, a lamp, a 240-grit file, or a dip kit, that link is usually tagged. If you buy through it, the retailer pays me a percentage. Your total does not change. The commission comes out of the seller’s margin, not your card.
Not every link is an affiliate link. Plenty of what I link pays me nothing, because it was the right thing to point you at. I do not go back and strip those out to force you toward something that pays.
Editorial independence
I buy the products I test at the prices you pay, and I say what I paid. A commission does not buy a good review. If a $9 top coat peels off by day three, that is what the guide says, tagged link or not. Wear days get logged before anything gets published, and the number in the guide is the number I actually observed on my own hands.
If a brand ever pays me to cover something, or sends product for free, that guide will say so at the top, in plain text, before you read a word of the review. Sponsored content gets labeled Sponsored. No exceptions, no burying it in the footer.
AdSense
The site also runs display ads through Google AdSense. Those are served by Google, not chosen by me, and they may use cookies to show ads based on your browsing. I do not control which ads appear next to a guide, and an advertiser showing up in that space has zero say over what the guide says.
Questions
If something here is unclear, or you spot a link you think should be flagged and is not, tell me through the contact form. I would rather fix it than have you wondering.