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

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