18 Nov My Blessed Sunday

Strut Your Stuff Online Competition 2007 USA- Results announced today and both my entries were placed. What really made my day was that 2 nail professionals which I mentored also made great achievements today in nail competitions. Regine Lo of Hong Kong was also placed in the Cosmoprof Hong Kong Nail Competition today in Sculptured Nails and Design Sculpture division (I will post as soon as photo is available) and Shana Chua of Malaysia entered and placed runner-up in Strut Your Stuff mixed media jr. (HM)

Year of the Rat 2008 - An Inspiration

I embarked on a project to create a nail design for the year of Rat 2008 which had to be completed ASAP. The idea of having a "rat" as a nail design can be intimidating so I decided to create something endearing with lots of sweet goodies to represent all the sweet beginnings of a brand new year. The product used are acrylic powder, color drops, acrylic paint and gel topcoat.

GIRLPOWER by Scratch Magazine UK Oct 2007

Alex Fox, editor of UK's top nail magazine - Scratch, gave me this honour of being featured in Oct 2007 issue. It's a great encouragement and acknowledgement of effort to bring local nail techs to the global nail stage. Thank you Alex for this invaluable opportunity !

Fantasy Made Into Reality

These amazing work of art was created by former students who became my educators. Fairy theme placed first by Patricia Wong and Mermaid theme placed second by Yuka Gale in a Nail Asia Competition in Singapore early this year. Patrica's dream of opening her own salon and academy became a reality in September 2007. Congratulations ROWE NAILZ ATELIER ;)

Media Moment

NAILPRO Magazine Aug 2007 Issue Page 104

French Twist

French twist is such an interesting category in competitions, you need to create a twist to the french look using only white, pink and light glitter colors(which is optional). I've used the weaving and marbeling technique to create the effects for this french twist design. It's too time consuming to do in a competition but for a photoshoot, I just had to try this out and the result was pretty amazing.

Competition Winning Nails 2007

Nailpro Las Vegas -veteran division handpainted nail art in food theme - winning nail and Nailpro Orlando - veteran division design sculpture - 2nd place
Competition is addictive, to challenge myself each time to do better is addictive.
Eat, sleep and dream of nails :o)