Organizing My First International Nail Competition for Professionals ~ A Global Brand

Global Nail Cup is a huge international competition that has been running for the 7th year in South Korea and 4th year in Finland in 2013.

This competition is created for nail professionals by a nail professional. The founder is none other than the 3 times World Champion, with more than 300 trophies behind him, Mr Trang Nguyen - who is also the founder of Odyssey Nail Systems.

The motivation behind the Global Nail Cup is to create a professional, fun and fair nail competition with top competitors from around the world. Any competitor that wishes to pitch their skills and set a benchmark for themselves would love to compete in this championship as they would be competing with some of the best and seasoned competitors from the region and there are also 3 levels : Student, Division 1 (Professionals) and Division 2 (Masters), a chance to shine at every level.

Competitors would vouch that this has to be one of the toughest nail competition in the running, but also the most fun and generous ! Top prizes are offered in cash for up to USD3,000 for the Grand Champion.

When I was given the opportunity to host the 1st Global Nail Cup Malaysia, I was ecstatic, excited but at the same time felt daunted and inadequate. 

Fast forward 2 weeks, it's finally made it's debut on the 1st July, 2013 in Johor Bahru. We had a great turn out with more than 300 entries, 9 countries and saw the highest standards in the nail art categories which was just mind blowing. This event would not have been a success without the support of my ONS team members, friends, students, competitors and all the judges both local and international.

Here are some videos (thanks to James Ng) for your viewing pleasure and I hope that we will see another great turn out and more amazing work in 2014 !

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1st Global Nail Cup Malaysia 2013 VOD

Team Relay Fun @ 1st Global Nail Cup Malaysia 2013

NAILPRO USA End of Season 2012

We made it to the NAILPRO 2012 Team Cup again !

Great to catch up with all the nail greats and also competed with the best.

I feel that as age catches up, time seems to run out too fast, there's so much to do and so little time !

  

 

Jenna my fantasy model

Irene my Design Sculpt model

  

 

L-R : Marilyn Garcia (CND), Viv Simmonds (ONS-VivCat), Sam Biddle (Be Creative) and me

L-R : Viv Simmonds(ONS-VivCat), Gina Silvestro(Akzentz), me, Joseph Pham (OPI), Trang Nguyen (ONS) 

 

 

Gina Silvestro, me, Rachel Mouritsen & Anita Lime-Sims

Global Nail Design Awards Gold Coast, Australia

The 3rd Global Nail Design Awards (GNDA) was held in Gold Coast in April at the Twin Towns Resort. The weather was supposed to be nice and cool around 20degrees Celcius unfortunately it started to rain non-stop the day we arrived and the weather only cleared up on the day that we were leaving Gold Coast.

I had the pleasure of judging the Poster competition, Flat Art, Fantasy Art, Sculptured Nails and Gel Manicure. Did not judge 3D !

I have to say that the Poster entries in the Masters level this year was phenomenal - very inspired and excited to see the next one and to get all my novice girls to start competing.

The turnout for this year's competition was great despite the gloomy weather.

Majority being Australians, there were also contestants from Japan and Malaysia and entries from as far as Germany and Singapore.

It was such a great pleasure to catch up with friends and industry professionals.

Congratulations to all who participated in the competition and especially to everyone who placed, job well done especially to Olga Menshikova who won the Overall Champion once again !

Also Congratulatons to our educators and Singapore team who made top 3 in the art categories ! (Yoko - 2nd Flat Nail Art Open, Erica - 1st 3D Nail Art Masters and Jess - 3rd 3D Nail Art Masters)

Do check out the next Global Nail Design Awards in Melbourne in October 2012

For more information go to : www.globalnaildesignawards.blogspot.com