Elegant Artisan Nails - Entry for NAILS Next Top Nail Artist 2015
Channel: Szilvia Egerszegi-Feher
Date: 2015-06-24

Hi, My name is Szilvia Egerszegi, the owner of http://nailartinlondon.co.uk

In this video I show you how my entry for the Nails Magazine’s Next Top Nail Artist competition has been made.

This is our second pre-challenge and we were asked to create our own 3 word tagline. Thank you for CND for this project, it gives me the opportunity to create my tagline. I was very happy to see this challenge. It was very interesting to me, I haven’t done such nail design before. The first challenge was to find the 3 word tagline which describes me and my work.

I chose the Elegant.Artisan.Nails. tagline, because this is who I am, these words describes me mostly and these words define my nail designs perfectly.

I used special long white nail tips for the base. I started applying the base color, I used “medieval madness” colour from Gelish. It’s a neutral light greyish  colour. I normally don’t go for neutrals, but this one is really nice and it gives the perfect background to this project. 

I buffed the surface and I started painting the background.

The centre of my design is the Eiffel tower. The Eiffel tower were painted using watercolour paints. I did a quick sketch with black pencil and after then I painted the tower. I used various brown colors and black watercolour paint for the fine lines.  

Both sides of my competition entry are blooming trees with loads of flowers and tiny leaves. The flowers were painted using acrylic paints and they were painted using one of my favourite technique, the One Stroke painting.

I started painting the back layer of the flowers. Like in the nature the back petals of the flowers are more dark then the first petals. I mixed the color up by using white, dark red and magenta acrylic paints. I painted whole and half flowers and small flower buds as well. When the first layer dried I started painting the top petals with lighter colours to get a 3d effect. 
  
I painted the leaves with the same technique, they were painted using various green, yellow acrylic paints and white.

The thin bough were painted using dark brown acrylic paints and natural hair detail brush.

We were asked create a 3-D design across 10 nail tips. 
 
The 3 word tagline were made using acrylic powders.