High Road To Education (HRTE) Melbourne

Tammy Warner (founder of HRTE) making the intro

Christine Maher introducing Natural Nailcare & Spa system

Viv Simmonds showing us how to make a fantasy design

Upclose with Gina Silvestro working her magic with Gel French and Design

Chelsea showing the reverse technique, blings and colordrops

Catherine Wong combining gel and acrylic in design sculpture and 3D

Thank you HRTE Melbourne....you guys Rock!

Melbourne Expo with VividNails

I did a set of "sampler nails" on Viv for the expo out of gels and acrylic combination

Olga posing at the booth, an amazing talent herself!

Olga's stunning nails

Vivid's staff & educators at the expo

New Design ~ Colors of Spring

Food trail in Germany and the Netherlands

We managed to squeeze some food time into our tight schedule and it was awesome to savour the delectable palletes of cheeses, frankfurters, chocolates, etc

This is a typical German dish with sour cabbage (sauerkraut)

served with apple sauce (below)

the good ol' german sausages (bratwurst) in all its glory

chocolatier & sweets

absolutely no room for diet!

it's okay to feast the eyes, but not the tummy...

a typical sight for nail people...lol...have a quick bite while soaking off your nails...

this snack is fantabulous! it's Surinamese food called Telo ~ I could live on this!

Netherlands is geweldig!

Spent a day with these awesome nail artists in ONS Europe HQ in Enschede, Netherlands.

Check out the chocolate stores just in time for Easter

Lots of bicycles in Amsterdam, what a great way to keep fit and minimize pollution

Beautiful sceneries and caught a glimpse of the windmills along the journey

Stunning Nails from Europe

These nails were absolutely stunning in person and pictures do not do them justice at all. They were so awesome when I took the pictures that I regret not getting the names of the nail artists.The white one and the black lilac were from Hungary and the one with the turtle was from Germany (she made the ring too!) Kudos to all of them, a beautiful job well done!

26 Countries took the stage at the world championship at International Beauty Dusseldorf 2010

It was an eye-opener and a great learning experience to compete amongst the best competitors in the world. Having been exposed to french nails from the USA, Japan and Korea, looking at french nails from other parts of the world such as Russia, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Czech, Ukraine, amongst all 26 countries in both the gel and acrylic categories just took my breath away. This experience have certainly helped me improve and greatly inspire me to the next level.

Trang Nguyen and his winning nails

 

A time to celebrate !

Masahiro Matsura, Catherine, Liu Hsiao Yi

Amy Becker of USA

Nam Gung Soo of South Korea

Me at work on Vanessa

Gorgeous girls...Kirsty's model - Sardha and my model - Vanessa

Kirsty Meakin working her magic

Aritou of Japan

Hanna of Finland

Favourite Product of the Month

Looooove this nailbed coverage pink from ONS - Duvet Pink acrylic powder. Took just 30 minutes from start to end sculpting using Duvet Pink, file and one coat of UV gel top, cure 2mins to get this natural finish. Definitely a lifesaver for quick fixes!

Thinking Out of the Box with Mixed Media

Global Cup Div 1 - 1st Place (Tattoos Of the East & West)

Mixed Media is one of the most creative category in a nail competition where an artist can tell a story with the different mediums used to maximize visual expressions that should draw a spectator's attention over and over again. We are so proud of the excellent artistry presented by Stephy and Mei Fang on their first attempt in this global competition, may you have many more success to come!

Global Cup Div 1 - 2nd Place (Mermaid Dreaming of Humanity)