Liquor & Nails
caught up with TooTalonted to find
out what she thought about The Nail Show and being crowned the winner of the
competition.
Liquor & Nails: How long
have you been doing nail art for and how did you get started?
TooTalonted: I've
been doing nail art for almost 3 years now! It all started when I was bored one day and
watched a few nail art videos on YouTube.
Once I saw the nail art and how it was done I thought it looked pretty
easy and couldn't wait to try it out - so I did and I got a lot of good
comments so I immediately started
searching nail art on google and soon found loads on tumblr but mainly from
nail techs in Japan or the USA so I was quite chuffed when I found out about a
year later while sitting at a computer in a boring lesson that there were also
nail artists in the UK such as ; Wah
Nails , The Illustrated Nail and Sophy Robson
Liquor &
Nails: How did you come up with the
winning design for the Nail Art competition?
TooTalonted: For the competition I was planning to do quite
a coordinated and simple set of nails but soon thought I should just do the
sort of designs I do on my own nails and be myself (loud , colourful and
exciting!) so that's exactly what I did more or less. I also
planned the design for a few days but when it came to those nerve-racking
minutes I began free-styling. The
overall designs I came up with we're more or less inspired by clothing and also
a few nail artists e.g. Spifster , Boom Nails
and Nails by Regina etc.
Too Talonted's Planned Design for the competition
Too Talonted's Winning Design
Liquor & Nails: What was it like for you taking part in the
competition?
TooTalonted: Overall the competition was great and very
nerve-racking , I naturally have quite shaky hands (too much coffee) but I can usually control them when I'm doing
nails but on the day my hands were shaking up controllable so how I even managed
to create something fairly coherent is beyond me as this was the first proper
nail art competition I've entered!
Liquor & Nails: How
important do you think shows such as The Nail Show are within the Nail
industry?
TooTalonted: Very! I always try to encourage others
like myself who are obsessed with nails to go to these sorts of events as
you'll be surprised by how much you learn from experts. Moreover , ever since I went to 'now we do
shellac' in the sasson gallery in 2011 I've been obsessed with attending nail
related events from Nailphilia to Professional beauty to Olympia beauty (nailolympics) to The Nails Show . In order to make sure you know everything and
anything about nails it's important that you try to attend these events even if
they focus mainly on beauty in general as it’s really easy to pick up tips and
tricks from experts and even gain inspiration from the many professional nail
competitions going on.
Here are some moble phone cases also designed by TooTalonted
