NTNA Challenge 3: A New and Wearable Extension Shape
Here's round #3 of the 10th annual NTNA Challenge where the artists showed off their sculpting and shaping skills.
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Here's round #3 of the 10th annual NTNA Challenge where the artists showed off their sculpting and shaping skills.
Lexi Martone (Dix Hills, NY) creates a 3-D design on a single nail tip using a variety of nail products based on a "music" theme. "I've done Backstreet Boys. I've done Spice Girls. The only things left were Eminem or Christmas music, and you've pretty much covered the extents of my musical enjoyments. As much as I love a Christmas nail in June, others might not share the same appreciation, so I decided to go with the later. When I first sat down to think about it, I drew a complete blank. After a couple hours I had concocted this crazy idea in my head to make the nail actually play music. I mean, what better way to convey a music theme with actual music."
For NTNA Challenge 3, sponsored by LeChat, contestants were asked to create a double nail design, with one design on the underside of the nail and a transparent design layered on top. Here is Lorna Andrews's entry. See all 10 entries here.
NAILS Next Top Nail Artist (NTNA) Top 18 contestant Valerie Ducharme shows her inspiration and nail tutorial for NTNA Pre-Challenge #2, New Perspectives, sponsored by Swarovski.
In the NAILS Next Top Nail Artist, Top 6 contestant Danielle Costantino from Cranston, R.I., created a steampunk design for one hand using using mixed media. They received bonus points for using out-of-the-box (non-nail) materials. http://www.nailsmag.com/ntna2014
NTNA Top 24 contestant Lorna Andrews created this Day of the Dead nail mural for the first pre-challenge, Drop Dead Gorgeous.
For the third NTNA S.7 challenge sponsored by LeChat, contestants were asked to show us their super powers. This is Allison Goertzen's entry. See all 10 entries here.
For the eighth NTNA S.7 challenge sponsored by Swarovski, contestants were asked to create nail art inspired by a Spring/Summer 2021 trend. This is Allison Goertzen's entry. See all five entries here.
NAILS Next Top Nail Artist contestant Simone Gilbert from Melbourne, Australia, created a bejeweled design inspired by a couture dress. http://www.nailsmag.com/ntna2014
Lini Sherburne (Sparks, MD) creates a 3-D design on a single nail tip using a variety of nail products based on a "music" theme. "I chose one of my favorite bands: No Doubt, and one of their classic hits, "Spiderwebs" to be the inspiration behind my art. While searching the Internet for images related to the band, I saw a sheet of music for "Spiderwebs " and immediately noticed how much the bars of music looked like the title of the song: spiderwebs. I quickly decided that my nail would focus on bars of music that would transition into webs, ensnaring music notes within. The "tree" holding up the webs would be a treble clef, and since the tree is the base of the web, the nail itself would become the base of my design. The final element of the "Spiderwebs" theme was the spider. I wanted the entire design to flow together, so I placed the spider' s head as the center dot of the treble clef. I wanted to add an extra musical touch to my design, and so I used actual string from a guitar to create both the music bars and spider webs. The finished nail is bright, colorful and a little bit outrageous, all characteristics that truly describe the band' s style as well."