NailPro Feb 2013 Behind The Scenes

NAILPRO Valentine's Cover - Feb 2013 Issue Behind the Nailpros

 

Published on Jan 29, 2013

Brilliant nail art duo Viv Simmonds and Catherine Wong explain how they used acrylic, bling, foil, hand-painted accents and decorative layers to create sweet (pink) and saucy (red) nails for the February 2013 cover of NAILPRO. http://www.nailpro.com

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Shades of Black & White NAILS of 2012

Where did all the time go ? Again 2012 is another eventful year full of goals, anticipation, reflection and success of sorts. I'm grateful for the wonderful people around me and all the ups and downs that makes me a stronger person and hopefully a better one.

2012 has been very good for our education team as I'm very proud of their achievements. They've really worked hard and I'm so pleased to see a lot of the new ones start coming out of their shell to develop their full potential. A team dedicated to the skill and development of nail artistry and good practices is what we want to build on.

2013 is going to be a new exciting chapter of our career as Viv and I have embarked on producing a new line for Odyssey. I also need to start working on a new book soon ~ so many ideas and so little time.

Happy New Year 2013 and stay tuned for many wonderful things to come !

 

 

Michelangelo Inspiration on Nails

The Pieta by Michelangelo

 (The Archangel Gabriel)

 

(L-R : Joseph, Mary, Baby Jesus, Lamb)

 

I have marvelled at the work of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel and all over the Vatican in Rome, no artist in our time can possibly create what he did without the divine gift from God. It is truly amazing that I had to express this inspiration in my "Nativity" - Christmas themed nails, the true Gift of Christmas.

 

 

Run For The Roses - Courtesy of NAILS Magazine

NAILS Magazine - August 2011 Issue arrived at my doorstep today and pointed to a video interview that Kim Pham & Jessica Hoel did with me while we were in Orlando. Thanks ladies! It was great catching up and I had a great time xxx
Get the story here :
Run For The Roses Interview

NAILPRO April 2011 Cover: 3-D Nail Art Butterflies and Flowers

Loved how Nailpro named it the Trinity Butterfly !
Had an amazing time with Gina and Viv doing this cover for Nailpro Magazine in L.A

The crew behind the nail pros

We could do this all day and all night!

Trying hard to stay awake till wee hours in the studio....

Beautiful model and great personality !

The final product

NAILS April Cover : Behind The Scenes

Viv Simmonds and myself working on hand model Tracee King at NAILS

It was a spring "Bird" theme

Viv working on left hand focusing on the colors of earth and plants. She made a fairy and a humming bird that I absolutely love, it was adorable !

I was working on the colors of the skies. I made colorful birds and texture of feathers 

The end result was a complementary design of birds in the skies and on earth, assimilated into nature.

 We usually start with an idea, and talk about colors and concept, but we never know how the end result would be until we finish working on the nails.Viv and I really love working together this way and the end result almost always turns out to be a pleasant surprise.

Gina was also at Nails doing another cover which will be out sometime soon. The 3 of us had such a blast together and she was our tour guide in L.A :) :) (that's another story....)

Vu the professional photographer expertly captures the essence of our designer nails....(thank you Vu!)

The awesome NAILS team behind the scenes

The end result !