Nevskie Berega Nail championship 2012

At 28th of September till October, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1st International Festival of Beauty Nevskie Berega took place. International Nail championship of nail sculpting and design was held also. This time the amount of the registered participants was shaking – more than 600 entries!
Hundreds of participants showed really high level of professional skills during three days of competitions. However, Nail Couture studio students took seven awards!

This time the Nail Couture team was not big at all – just three girls from Moscow and Ekaterinburg. They won 4 trophies and 3 medals!
Who wakes up at 5 a.m…. Get a chance to see an empty parking lot!

Being a nail model is really a tough job. Sitting for more than 4 hours without food and any chance to walk or stretch your arms… That’s why on Nevskie Berega Nail championship the models also get a medal for 1st, and and 3rd place! They deserve it!

Nail Couture team. Congratulations!

Do you want to test yourself, and do nails like a champion?
Contact us and we will show you how.

Nail art tutorial “White roses”

 

This tutorial is made by Yuliya Hasanova, ENTITY educator, Ekaterinburg, Russia.

 

• Sanitize both your hand and your client’s hands.

 

• Prep the natural nail as usual: push back the cuticle, take off the surface shine with the 180 grit file.

 

• Fit the form.

 

• Sculpt a thin layer using Lavender glitter acrylic powder. Gently pinch the nail and take off the form.

 

• Sculpt the rose petals with the white powder.

 

• Place the lines of acrylic expansions using Nail Fuse.
• How to create acrylic expansions?
• 1.      Take the form paper
• 2.      Place an acrylic bead of white powder to the shiny side of the paper and fold it.
• 3.      Roll it with the sculpting tool
• 4.      Wait a little bit. Open the paper, cut the acrylic expansion in the shape of the lines.

      

• Sculpt the leaves near the roses.

 

• Cover the entire nail with Clear acrylic powder. Gently pinch the nail again.
• File the nail using Shaper, Refiner. Buff the surface and shape of the nail with the Perfector buffer.
• Cover the nail with Entity One Gel Top Coat.
• Condition the cuticle with the Cuticle oil.

 

You can make this design exactly like it is shown in tutorial above. Or, you can also extend the natural nail bed with Nudite powders and place the design only in the free-edge area – and you’ll get a great french-style design!

On the final photo you can see the combination of different styles: it is French-style design on four nails, and a pure inlay acrylic design on the middle nail. Your clients will definitely love this soft charming design!

Good luck!

Try and create!

Our trophies from St. Petersburg!

Once again, the International Beauty Expo Nevskie Berega hosted thousands of visitors and lived up to their expectations. Beauty Expo - an event which was attended by contestants, exhibitors of professional trade shows guests and all beauty admirers. It's been five days of celebration and magic.

Our team with competitors from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Ekaterinburg took part in International Cup of Friendship on Hairdressing, make-up  and Nail-Design.

We got 9 trophies!!!

NSI Educator in St. Petersburg

Introducing new NSI certified Educator - Sergey Vezhnin from St. Petersburg, Russia!

Sergey is involved in Nail Industry since 1996. During this time he became a successful nail technician, who runs his own salon in St. Pteresburg, Russia. He got over 20 trophies from different international nail competitions such as London Nailympis and World Championship "Golden Rose of Paris".
We are proud to have such talented and skillfull member of our team like him.


Welcome Sergey!

Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866 –1944) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely-abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—he began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

We would like to introduce you a nail design with tutorial  by one of the Wassily Kandinsky’s paintings – “Splashy Harmony”, 1938.

The design is made by Tatiana Machitarova, graduate of Nail Couture Moscow, Russia. Bronze-prize winner of International Championship Nevskie Berega in Mix-Media, 2011.

Sculpt the base layer using Pink EF powder. Extend the natural nail bed using Cover Pink powder.

Using color powder Teal create the background color of our design.

With Pure Black powder mixed with a little bit of glitter, sculpt the shape of our design. Using dots tools, create some laces on the outlines.

Add some color circles using color EFexclusive powders – Neon Orange, Neon Green, Pure Red, Neon Blue.

Place some smaller size dots using acrylic paints. Cover the entire nail with clear powder. File and shape the nail, cover it with the Top Coat.

The design is ready!

Murano Glass

This design is created by Anastasia Luksha

Certified Educator of Entity, NSI, Supernail, Efexclusive.
Valid INES (International Nail Expert School) Judge
Double 1st place winner of NailPro IBS Las Vegas Competition, 2011.
Moscow, Russia

Murano glass is a famous product of the Venetian island of Murano. Located off the shore of Venice, Italy, Murano has been a commercial port as far back as the 7th century. By the 10th century, the city had become well known for its glassmakers, who created unique Murano glass. While Murano glassmakers have settled and operate elsewhere, some say authentic Murano glass is fabricated only in Murano.

Last year I’ve been to Venice for the first time and this city impressed me. Those romantic views, gondolas, Italian language, atmosphere, beautiful bridges… It’s impossible to describe it, it just worth to be seen. As a designer I was also obsessed with the Murano glass products when I saw it in the stores. Plates and cups, jewelry, furniture décor, all of it was so perfectly contoured that I just couldn’t stop looking at it. I took more that hundred photos of it, to keep all those ideas with me. So when I’ll be at home, I can just open my PC and remind myself of all these fabulous ideas and materialize them on nails…

1. Prep the natural nail as usual, fit the form. Using Cover Pink Powder, extend the natural nail bed. 2। Using Clear acrylic powder, sculpt the free edge of the nail with a really thin layer as a base in a Pipe shape. Remove the form, gently pinch the nail.3. Take the golden foil and place it all over the surface of the base layer. Cover it with the clear acrylic. 4. Add few drops of brown glass paint to the monomer. Take a bead of clear powder with colored liquid and extend it from the smile line to the free edge. While acrylic is wet, cut the Turkish cucumbers using dots tool. 5. This is how it looks from the underside. 6. Cover the surface with the clear acrylic. 7. File and shape the nail, buff the surface. 8. Cover the nail with the Finish gel.



Take some vivid and contrast colors to create this kind of design – silver foil and dark blue glass paint, golden foil and red, bronze foil and deep purple. Just use your imagination!

Halloween

“Trick or treat” step by step.

The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even ("evening"), that is, the night before All Hallows Day.

Halloween is an annual holiday observed on October 31. Are you ready for it?

Here’s some design ideas for this holiday – your clients will definitely love it!

This step by step design is done by Luksha Anastasia and Makhitarova Tatiana.

To create this design you’ll need:

Purple glass paint

Purely Pink Masque powder and Totally clear powder

Technailcolor powders: orange, green, brown.

Acrylic paints: black, white, orange, green.

1. Prep the natural nail as usual.
2. Fit the Platinum nail form. Using Purely Pink Masque, extend the natural nail bed.
3. Add three drops of purple glass paint to the Attraction liquid. Using Tottaly Clear and colored monomer sculpt the free edge and leave a small spot in the corner clean. Sculpt that corner using Totally Clear with pure liquid.
4. Gently pinch the nail. File and shape the nail, buff the surface with a 240 grit buffer.

Now it’s time to create the design.

1. Using orange acrylic powder, sculpt the circles imitating the shape of the pumpkin.
2. Sculpt the second row – the lobules. Add the leaves using green acrylic.
3. Sculpt the scape of the pumpkin using brown acrylic. With black acrylic paint draw the nets in the clear corners of the nails.
4. Add some shades and accents with acrylic paints; draw the rest of the nets and the spiders.
5. Draw the pumpkin’s faces. Add some white spots on the nets with white acrylic paint. Use orange acrylic paint to draw the pupils and teeth of the pumpkins, rood on the back of the spider.
6. Cover the entire surface with gel top, excluding the pumpkins. Condition the cuticle with the nurture oil.

The design is done!