Top nail competitor Lynn Lammers offers an excellent description of filing grits, and how best to use them in this excerpt from her online NAILS blog, Competition Insider.
Intricate floral stiletto nails won the NSI Free-hand Nail Art Competition, an online photo competition that invited nail techs from around the globe to use NSI acrylic or gel to create nail art designs. The entries were judged by Vicki Peters, Denise Wright, and Debbie Doerrlamm, who looked for difficulty of design, use of color, originality, overall enhancement design, and first impression (or the “wow” factor).
Elena Maltseva is a nail artist from St. Petersburg, Russia, who educates all over the world. She is an expert in gels, acrylics, and hand-painting, and is especially good at combining all three together to make spectacular nail designs. Maltseva has chosen an acrylic design here that is simple, yet very expensive-looking and rather easy-to-complete.
Marilyn Garcia, Element Salon (Caguas, Puerto Rico)
Chere Emery, Mochaberry Nail Studio (Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada)
Lisa Duguay, Sassy Nails by Lisa (Hampton, NB)
Leanne Brown (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada)
Triana Ramirez (San Antonio, Texas)
Hanna Moulder, Beauty and the Beast (Pensacola, FL)
Amanda Savacool (Upstate New York)
