Posts by Alex Fox
Nailympia Online presents line-up of 36 judges
Nailympia Online closes for registration on Saturday 27 February and will be open for another 24 hours to take in submissions. It will finally close its portal at midnight on Sunday 28 February.
This is when the 36-strong judging team will be sent links into their judging portals, which have been allocated to them, but not yet revealed. “It’s getting very exciting as we get closer to the deadline,” enthuses Alex Fox, Nailympia organiser. “We have upgraded the Nailympia website and turned it into a competition portal where competitors from all over the world can register and upload their entries. This in turn, sends the entry to its respective category, where a link will be created and sent out to the judges ( from 1st March), who will then access their criteria, the entries and score straight into the system.”
With more than 30 countries represented and over 170 competitors, this competition is hotting up as it moves through its last week.
A live awards will be held at 7pm GMT Monday 15 March hosted on the official Nailympia Facebook page with Scratch’s Alex Fox and Helena Biggs, managing editor of Scratch magazine.
Meet – Sue Marsh – UK
NAME: Sue Marsh
Business Name: Sue Marsh London
Location: London
Nationality: British
Who Trained you: Self-taught
Years in Nails: Since 1985… 84 maybe…who’s counting?
Years Judging: How long ago was 1999?
Nail Brand You Represent/Use: I don’t do nails anymore, but I do judge them.
Role in Industry: Someone who rocks up every year because Alex Fox still has my number.
Favourite Trade Exhibition: Olympia Beauty, UK
Favourite Nail Tool: My Creative Brain.
Favourite Book: Love Looks Not With The Eyes by Anne Deniau
Favourite Movie: There’s something about Mary
Favourite Food: Ice Cream
Favourite vacation Destination: Italy
Your Hobbies: Painting and sculpting.
Sue Marsh with Alice Harr Davis
What Inspires Your Work: Anything can inspire me because there’s creativity in everything.
Who do you Admire in the industry: There isn’t a particular person I admire. I admire anyone who has the guts to turn up and create something new and innovative.
Top Technique you’ve mastered: I mastered what was available at the time, but am most proud of everything I’ve created and watching it all evolve when I judge.
Advice to Competitors: Be yourself don’t worry about everyone else. Do what you feel you can to your best ability and as long you’re happy, the judges will see it.
Hot Tips or Tricks for Competitors: It’s not about fashion, it’s about mastering fusion.
What Lockdown has taught you: Be patient and be creative.
A Funny Day / Memory At the Nail Desk: When one of my clients once passed out and the person who owned the salon said ‘move that client over to that chair, this lady needs her nails fixed’.
An Affirmation You Love: Even if you’re small, think big.
Why Nailympia: This is where I get to meet some of the most incredible people and where the competition is the best. It’s the largest UK event with an even bigger prize…we all get to see each other. We accommodate some of the best competitors in the world.
Instagram: www.instagram.com/suemarshlondon
Meet – Antony Buckley – UK
NAME: Antony Buckley
Business name: Works as the Dean of education for Nail Alliance
Location: Manchester, UK
Nationality: English
Who Trained You: Tom Holcomb, Danny Haile & Najet Hamila Strand
Years in Nails: 28 years
Years Judging: 15 years
Nail Brand You Represent/Use: Gelish from Nail Harmony
Role in Industry: International educator
Favourite Trade Exhibition: Olympia Beauty, UK
Favourite Nail Tool: Harmony Pro 9 sculpting brush
Favourite Book: Too many to mention, I love reading
Favourite Movie: Trading Places, it’s a classic
Favourite Food: Italian
Favourite Vacation Destination: Home! I travel a lot with work, so it’s nice to spend some time not going anywhere
Your Hobbies: watching movies/TV shows, reading, computer games
What Inspires Your Work: Wanting to get better. I’m always looking for ways to improve what I do and learn new techniques.
Who You Admire In Industry: Danny Haile
Top Technique You’ve Mastered: Sculpted pink & white
Advice to Competitors: Practise, practise and more practise. And be ready for anything!
Hot Tip or Trick for Competitors: If it’s going wrong, take the nail off and start again! Don’t fight with the product to make it go right, you’ll never be happy with the finished nail and it will change the opinion of the rest of your work.
What Lockdown Has Taught You: How to properly relax!
A Funny Day/Memory At The Nail Desk: I can’t think of anything funny, but a memory that stays with me is meeting Alex Fox for the first time many years ago at a training with Tom Holcomb and starting an instant friendship.
An Affirmation You Love: I will not worry about things I cannot control!
Why Nailympia: It’s a fun, and big, competition with a consistently high standard of competitors. It’s also a comp that wants to push people to try new things with the new categories it introduces, so it’s always fun to see the results from that.
Instagram: antony_harmony
Facebook: antony buckley
Meet – Alisha Rimando – USA
NAME: Alisha Rimando
Business name: GlossaryLive.com
Location: Dallas, Texas, USA
Nationality: American
Who Trained You: Tom Holcomb & Danny Haile
Years in Nails: 27 years
Years Judging: 16 years
Nail Brand You Represent/Use: Any
Role in Industry: Mentor, author & entrepreneur
Favourite Trade Exhibition: Cosmoprof Bologna, Hong Kong & North America
Favourite Nail Tool: Kolinsky #10 oval brush
Favourite Book: Author: Anne Rice
Favourite Movie Genre: Movies based on real people or events.
Favourite Food: Savoury… seafood
Favourite Vacation Destination: Warm beaches
Your Hobbies: Cooking, painting, writing
What Inspires Your Work: Everything around me
Who You Admire In Industry: I will always admire Tom Holcomb and hold him to the highest esteem for the rest of my life. Today there are so many amazing artists that I look up to and are inspired by for different techniques and for their personality, passion and love of sharing.To name a few: Catherine Wong, Krasimira Krumuva, Frank Sharberle, Lisa Boone, Dafne Fernandez…
Top Technique You’ve Mastered: Pink & white L&P Sculpture, hand filing
Advice to Competitors: Practice and time yourself! Break up each section of your work and time yourself every time you perform it. LOG it and see if you are improving on time AND consistency.
Hot Tip or Trick for Competitors: Get a great model. Meditate on the finished look in your mind before you start. See it… then do it!
What Lockdown Has Taught You: Balance… Stop and take time when you need it. In order to be the BEST you can be, you need YOU time. You need time to rest, time to reflect, time to play, time to sleep, and time to get recharged… before you can head out and ‘give it all you have’ again!
A Funny Day/Memory At The Nail Desk: Oh goodness there are so many that make me laugh right off hand. ALL were working side by side with Tom Holcomb. ALL are probably inappropriate to write down. LOL
An Affirmation You Love: ‘Winning’ is not the result, it’s the action.
Why Nailympia: It’s fair. It’s fun. And it’s run by the legendary Alex Fox.
Instagram: @alisharimando @glossary_live
Facebook: Alisha Rimando
Facebook: GlossaryLive
Meet – Anneke van der Sar – The Netherlands
NAME: Anneke van der Sar
Business name: NailsCafe
Location: Eindhoven- the Netherlands
Nationality: Dutch
Who Trained You: Tom Holcomb – Danny Haile – Alisha Rimando
Years in Nails: From 1992 – so 29 years
Years Judging: Over 25 years
Nail Brand You Represent/Use: Artistic Nail Design
Role in Industry: I’m an educator, brand ambassador, product distributor & a salon owner
Favourite Trade Exhibition: BEAUTY World Dubai & Tokyo
Favourite Nail Tool: Artistic Mini Striper Brush
Favourite Book: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
Favourite Movie: The Godfather
Favourite Food: Indonesian (part of my roots)
Favourite Vacation Destination: Spain
Your Hobbies: Listening to music
What Inspires Your Work: People with passion
Who You Admire In Industry: The educators that trained me
Top Technique You’ve Mastered: All – with expertise in UV hard gel, Polygel, gel polish
Advice to Competitors: Please read the rules and with all the languages we have in Europe, make sure they are translated correctly.
Hot Tip or Trick for Competitors: Choose you model(s) wisely and do not be afraid to ask us judges or ‘old’ champs for advice.
What Lockdown Has Taught You: Use your ‘free’ time to do things you wanted to do for maybe a very long time. It could be reading that specific book, learning how to relax, talking to people you’ve not seen for a long time, try new recipes…
A Funny Day/Memory At The Nail Desk: Travelling through Europe with Tom Holcomb and his constant crazy jokes/anecdotes at the nail table (especially when we had no translator)
An Affirmation You Love: Treat others the way you want to be treated!
Why Nailympia: Fair – equal treatment for all – not product related – lovely people – FUN!
Instagram: artisticnaildesignnl
Twitter: @ArtisticNailNL
Facebook: Anneke van der Sar
http://www.artisticnaildesign.nl/index.php
NEW: deadline date for Nailympia Online
The Nailympia Online First Edition 2021 will be open until midnight on Sunday 28 February 2021 for entries & submissions.
Contact Alex Fox directly with any queries, questions, thoughts or comments: on nailympia@gmail.com
Join the Ring of Hands
New fact-based expert online nail education launches
Introducing Nail Knowledge…
After nearly two years in the planning, an idea voiced by Kevin Nicholls from Roo Beauty to Marian Newman has resulted in Nail Knowledge; fact-based online learning with a difference. Nail Knowledge provides the information and understanding essential for the nail professional. It’s presented via three masterclasses; The Nail Unit, Product Chemistry and Health & Safety, each offering five to six separate lessons.
So, ‘what’s the deal with this new online learning?’ is the burning question. Well, the big difference is that it’s presented in a totally unique way. Every individual learns in different ways. Some like reading, some listening, some watching and some ‘experiencing’. Theory is almost always taught using 2D images and diagrams while Nail Knowledge animates all of this teaching. Marian comments, “You can see the nail growing from the nail matrix; you can watch polymerisation happening; see the blood and antibodies rush to fight an allergen!
“Nail Knowledge hits every learning style with beautiful graphics and animations. The written word and the spoken word come together with ‘knowledge points’ in each lesson and ‘knowledge checks’ after each lesson. It culminates in the final exam which, when passed, results in the Nail Knowledge Essential Nail Professional diploma.”
Doug Schoon
www.schoonscientific.com
Marian Newman is the author and has collaborated with two other experts; Vitaly Solomonoff (a dermatologist and cosmetic chemist), who edited masterclass one: The Nail Unit and Doug Schoon (world-renowned nail expert and scientist), who edited masterclass two: Product Chemistry.
Vitaly Solomonoff of Cleanestiq
Visit www.nailknowledge.org for more information.
Nail Education Without Borders
An International Nails Marathon is currently being fashioned by organiser, Viryi Rodriguez, for hungry nail artists to run from 10-24 January 2021 – showcasing two classes per day, Scratch learns from Russian nail artist, Irina Vrodenko.
Promising 15 days of ‘spectacular’ learning from a pool of 33 top class educators, students will visit the cyber space of teachers in Russia, Belarus, Romania, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Argentina and Brazil.
One of the 33 educators over the 15-days in January 2021 is Susy Moreno of Mexico
Driven by a passion to inspire growth in performance from skill development, the marathon is claiming to take the student’s knowledge to a new level.
Topics will expose techniques and tools for crafting all manner of nail structures from square to almond and stiletto, dragon, butterfly, extreme and feline to super-3D then onto colours and painting, incorporating micropainting, realism, cartoons, pop art and princesses. Sterilisation, hygiene and nail diseases are all also covered during the 15-day event.
Classes will be translated into six languages (Spanish, English, Russian, Portuguese, French & Italian), and access granted for three months after the payment of a $20 registration fee is received for signing up.
The $20 will present access to all classes, access to the closed Facebook forum that’s hosting the classes and an emailed certification on completion with all educators signatures present.
https://www.facebook.com/virginia.delpinorodriguez.7/videos/2771357356456880
Contact the organiser: Viryi Rodriguez @nerviranails
Facebook: mundo unas 3 y maquillajes
Extension for Submission For 3 Nailympia Online Comps
STOP PRESS – STOP PRESS – STOP PRESS – STOP PRESS
Manicure Poster – Pedicure Poster – Marketing Style Card
Nailympia Online Festive Discount for Artists
It’s hotting up and the race is on…it’s halfway to the closing date for the first Nailympia Online edition and techs are now beginning to complete their nail styles and designs and submitting them via the website portal. Meanwhile, others are braving the registration process and signing up, so it’s a busy and exciting time behind the scenes on the Nailympia desk. Since I (Alex Fox) work for Scratch and run the Nailympia project, I thought a quick look at the stats would be in order to get competitors a little nail hungry…thirsty and intrigued.
So far there are 130 nail artists, from 26 countries taking 353 seats!
The Nailympia 3-strong team, Alex Fox, Lisa Ebbens and Laura Tarling, in noting the holiday season, are offering a 5% discount on entries taken up before the 3 January, when using the Nailympia5 code at checkout.
WAXING STATISTICAL
The most popular categories are – Joy of Nails, Gel Polish & Invent a Nail Shape of the 12 on offer. However, every category has attracted entries.
There are currently 11 contestants signed up for the Division 4 – 5-Shape VIP Challenge – a most exciting category, which will push, stretch and excite the techs taking part.
Nailympia has created an innovative and unique judging system whereby once the registration closes, all techs will be allocated a new, secret number that only the organiser will know. From registration all competitors were allocated a number to get back into the system to upload their entries, this will become a new, secret number so that all judging is blind and fair.
There will be at least 4 judges on each competition, with some categories affording 7 judges in order to thoroughly dissect the criteria. To date there are 35 judges – experts in their field – from all over the world giving up their time and expertise to judge for this 16-year-old nail competition brand.
Competitors are invited to send in their head shot to join the Nailympia Wall of Fame – where onlookers can see who’s taking part and from where. This is a great way for the techs to drum up interest and support among their clients as well as boosting their social media profile while getting in the competition zone.
Nailympia Online first edition will present an overall Top Scorer , a Winner of Winners in Divisions 1, 2 & 3 and the Grand Champion Division 4 Tech. A full winners list and winners imagery will be published in the Scratch magazine February 2021 edition.
JOIN THE RING OF HANDS
Register & take your place on the Nailympia Online Wall of Fame at www.nailympia.com
CLOSING DATE to enter is 17 January 2021.
https://www.nailympia.com/online
