Pink & White Pro

Day - Sunday

Entry level - 1/2/3

Duration –         1 hour 45min

Briefing –          10.00am

Start time –      10.15am

Finish time –   12.00 noon

Aim….

To create 5 extreme french/pink & white nails, using acrylic, hard gel or acrygel.

Must be on the models RIGHT hand.

Shape/Style….

All nails to be extended French/pink & white  – square shape.

Nail length….

The nail bed extension must be 2cm in length.

The extended white free edge must also be 2cm in length

Finer rules…

Nail length is measured from cuticle to the highest point of extended pink bed

 ( hyponchium ).

Free edge length is measured from the side wall corner point where white begins to the free edge.

All techniques and tools are allowed. Sculpt or tip, acrylic, hard gel or acrygel.

 E – files and pinching tools, clear gel topcoats and cuticle oil allowed. Do not saturate with cuticle oil

No white tips allowed or any colour gels, paints, glitters etc.

Stiletto Design

Day - Sunday

Entry level - 1/2/3

Duration –          1 hour 45 min

Briefing –           12.15pm

Start time –       12.30pm

Finish time –     2.15pm

Aim….

To produce one hand (models LEFT hand) of stiletto nails with colour and design.

To create a technically great stiletto structure whilst at the same time showing creativity and great use of colour.

Shape/Style….

Sculpted Stiletto with colour design & creativity.

Nail length….

The nails must be a Minimum of 4cm length measured from highest point of natural nail ( hyponychium ) no maximum length

Finer rules…

No tips allowed, sculpted only. Can be created using any systems, gel/acrylic/acrygel.
E-files are allowed, designs must be original. The nail design can be encapsulated or on the nail surface. All nail art products are allowed but nothing must be pre made before the competition. No stamping allowed. Gel topcoats & cuticle oil are allowed.
There is no theme for this category so be as creative as you like with colour and nail art products.
Gems, foil, glitters, gel paints etc can be used, but the nail art element must not be any higher than 5mm/0.5cm on the nail. 

No pre made decorations, everything must be made on the day.

One Stroke Tip Design

Day - Monday

Entry level - 1/2/3

Duration –        1 hour

Briefing –        12.15pm

Start time –    12.30pm

Finish time –  1.30pm

Aim…..

To create one stroke floral designs across 5 provided nail tips. No model is required for this category.

During this hour, you will need to paint your 5 tips with a gel polish base colour and then create one stroke designs on top that will compliment the chosen base. The one stroke design must flow beautifully across the 5 nail tips.

Shape/Style….

5 standard salon size nail tips will be provided on the day for you to use.

If you need a small tip holder to hold the nail while working , please bring along.

We will then provide you with adhesive and small plaque to display your tips with after ready for judging.

Nail length….

Tips will be provided. Bring along blu tack or nail holder to work on if required. 

Finer details….

Be sure to bring gel polish and lamp to firstly make your base, then to create the one stroke flowers you can use any traditional acrylic/water based paints. Gel topcoat can be used to seal in your design, matt or shiny. 

Crystal Bomb

Day - Sunday

Entry level - 1/2/3

Duration –       45mins

Briefing –        2.45pm

Start time –    3.00pm

Finish time –  3.45pm

Aim…….

To embellish one hand of nails with crystal bling varying in size, style and colour, to create a design that flows across the nails.

The model should be wearing STILETTO/BALLERINA shape nails on her LEFT hand when you arrive, ready for you to apply your crystal bling.

Shape/style……

Your models LEFT hand should have nails on but with no crystals when you arrive. They should be STILETTO or BALLERINA shape, any colour, including full cover or colour.

Note/idea: If you entered the Stiletto category you can use the same model in this category, but there should be nothing 3D on the nails when ready to start Crystal Bomb, so bear this in mind if you are considering using 1 model for both categories.

The free edge length must be a minimum of 2cm, no maximum.

Nail length….

The nails must be a minimum length of 2cm free edge, no maximum.

The nail will be measured from the highest point of the natural nail at the back to the end of the free edge.

Finer details….

Crystal bling must cover at least 50% of each nail.

The nails can be any colour. The arrangement and colour flow of the crystals must compliment the nail base they are on.

You can use any shape, size, colour of crystal. To fix you can use any medium such as glue, glue gel, acrylic etc.

DIY Salon Freestyle

Day - Monday

Entry level - 1/2/3

Duration –       1hr 15mins

Briefing –        1.30pm

Start time –    1.45pm

Finish time –  3.00pm

Aim…….

Working on yourself ( no model required ) you will need to create one hand of salon design nails.

The challenge/briefing for this category is that you will use PINK & PURPLE as your colour design.

So create 5 salon nails using pink and purple produts/mediums to create a salon/studio style arty nail.

Shape/style……

Any salon shape of your choice that will flatter the length and design, square or almond, ballerina.

Nail length….

As these will be salon style nails, we require the free edge length to be 1cm.

The nail will be measured from the highest point of the natural nail at the back to the end of the free edge.

Finer details….

working on one of your hands, create salon length/shape nails encorporating colour and design. Your colour theme is PINK & PURPLE.

Imagine a clinet sitting in front of you at the salon saying " do what you want but i want pink & purple"

So this is your chance to freestyle!....

Use any system you like, acrylic, hard gel, acrygel, clear, cover pink core products. Tip or sculpt. All tools are allowed including e-files, pinching tools, gel topcoats etc.

Every nail art technique is allowed. Using PINK & PURPLE nail art mediums, colour powders, gels, gel polish, pigments, glitters, crystals, stamping. So long as your colour theme is pink and purple.

System Master Match

Day - Monday

Entry level - 2/3

Duration –       3 hours

Briefing –        8.45am

Start time –    9.00am

Finish time –  12.00pm

Aim…….

For the experienced nail tech ( level 2/3 ) wanting to really challenge themselves and push to the next level.

Here we are looking for you to match 2 systems together, creating the same thing on both hands using 2 sytems but looking like one! 

Can you mirror the look of an acrylic french hand to that of gel french on the other!?

You will have 3 hours to complete this task and must use 2 different systems on each hand. One must be liquid & powder and the other sytem must be a UV/LED curing product, so choose either hard gel or acrygel as your second system.

Shape/style……

All nails will be traditional french pink and white square.

Ring finger russian almond

Pinkie/little finger classic almond

Nail length….

In true competition style, we are looking for long nails here, not salon length.

Your nail beds extensions must be 2cm from cutcle to highest point of your bed extension.

Same with the free edge, 2cm measured from corner point where white begins to where it ends.

This applies to the square and russian almond nails.

This will be shorter obviously for the classic almond, so we will look for your skill here in complimenting the nail bed when

creating your free edge shape.

Finer details….

Using either liquid & powder and hard gel OR liquid & powder and acrygel, mirror one hand to the other using traditional french application techniques. Square shape , but with russian almond on the ring fingers and classic almond on the pinkies.

We appreciate using 2 different systems you will not necessarily get an exact "colour match" but if you can try and get as close as possible.

We are looking for a match in terms of placing each finger side by side ( thumb to thumb ) and seeing the same length, shape, depth of smile line for example.

All tools and techniques allowed, tips, forms, e-files, pinching tools etc. Gel topcoat and cuticle oils allowed.

Photographic – Armed Forces

To be POSTED and reach us by the latest 2 weeks before the Nail Games -  Friday 4th September. 

Please note, we cannot send photos back unless pre-paid for return. Photos must be collected in person after the awards, or arrange your own collection.

Aim….

To produce a photographic image following the theme “Armed Forces”.

All nails should be French or full colour, EXCEPT… on both hands, the ring finger & middle finger should have accent nail art that compliments the theme.

Shape/Style ….

To confirm, 6 nails French, or full colour.

Colour can be either gel, paint, gel polish or acrylic.

2 nails on each hand, ring & middle must have accent nail art to compliment the theme.

The nails can be any shape and any length, again complimenting the theme and style of the photo image.

French can be french pink & white OR pink & colour.

We must see a french smile line on the 6 non art nails, so imagine french white tip, or french blue tip, green tip for example.

Any shape or length.

NO french fades/ombres/babyboomer/colour gradients on the tip.

No art whatsoever on these 6 nails, save that for your accent nails!

Entries that do not follow this rule will be considerably marked down.

Finer details….

The accent nails can be created using any nail art medium, such as acrylic paints, gel paints, acrylic colours, 3D designs with acrylic or gel, one stroke, aquarelle,stamping etc, anything goes.

All nail art should be created by hand and shown in step by steps.

A step by step brief manual should be included with the photographic entry to confirm authenticity.

( we cannot accept this in form of a USB unfortunately, a scrapbook style step by step must be presented with your photo )

No white tips allowed.

The photo should be taken in A4 portrait as if on a magazine cover, not in landscape.

You can edit the photo with adjustments to lighting / eye colour etc but please no over adjustments or editing to the nails themselves, we want to see your raw work.

Please note 

You must collect your Photograph / frame on the day of the competition or arrange shipping at an additional cost, we can not be held laible for any damage in transit. This category , along with Boxed Art willl be judged across both days and winners will be announced at Mondays awards ceremony.

 Please be mindful of trademarks & copyright, be ORIGINAL ! :)