With Premier behind us and Sacramento still a few months away, now is the perfect time to take a step back and re-evaluate goals. If you’e anything like me, your goals are always evolving and that is a good thing because that means some of the goals that I set earlier, I either achieved or abandoned because I realized it was unattainable. Which is also good because I’ able to recognize my limitations and make adjustments.

I know I’ve already talked all about this somewhere along the line but its worth repeating — regular goal evaluations are important.

Anyways, of course there are the never changing goals like winning the championships, but there are also more subtle goals like creating the perfect c-curve. For me, one ever elusive goal is to sculpt the acrylic at the exact same thickness across the nail plate.

Maybe that needs to be relegated to the “unattainable” pile, but I think not.

Because nail competition judges are looking for the perfect nail, I still must try to obtain it. This area includes the “surface structure” category and “convex/concave” criteria. Now this is where those all important score sheets come in to play. I gather them all up, lay them side by side and look for inconsistencies. And from the looks of my score sheets, (because my scores are all over the map, as compared nail to nail and competition to competition) I still have work to do.

I guess that the perfect “surface structure” could be obtained in the filing, but who wants to file when you can sculpt?

— Lynn