Elena Maltseva is a world-renowned nail designer, educator & coach who joined the industry in year 2000. Having graduated from an arts school, her passion was always ‘miniature’. The principles Elena uses for teaching nail art to her students differ from what’s seen in other manicure schools. Instead of making students copy her work, Maltseva teaches the basic techniques that everybody can understand & repeats. Having her students learn the basics, Elena then gives a special program of transforming simple techniques into complex designs that are easy to complete. Thus, even if you don’t have an arts school background, you still can be a great nail designer. Today, Elena Maltseva runs her own Nail Design Academy in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. She’s won numerous nail design competitions, & taken the World Champion title 3 times. As of today, Elena judges nail championships & conducts trainings all around the world. Maltseva has worked with & judged nail competitions alongside, Tom Holcomb, Danny Haile, Trang Nguyen, Alisha Rimando, Antonio Sacripante, Antony Buckley, Jewel Cunningham, Carla Collier, Amy Becker & many more. Elena delivers nail art classes in Russia, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, Italy, Japan, USA & the UK. She also offers online individual & group nail design training & coaching.
Cap the nail with UV/LED white gel polish, do not cure.
Over an uncured white gel polish, apply the rest of the gel polishes; red, orange, yellow, green, blue. Do not cure.
Over the uncured surface of the nail art, apply two strokes of golden liquid chrome. Do not cure.
Using a thin nail art brush, create several line strokes over the uncured surface. Here the lines are created in the diagonal movement with a slight curvature. In the areas of the created strokes, the uncured colors start to intermix. Do not cure.
Apply LED/UV gel paste or gel paint in black with a clean thin nail art brush. Apply thin black lines to the same areas as in step 4. On the left & to the right add barely visible curved lines of semi-transparent black to imitate the texture of stone (use very little product on the brush). Use a photo for reference as you create the effect of the texture. Cure in LED/UV light (the curing time depends on the brand of gel polish, paints & pastes). Apply no cleanse LED/UV glossy or matte gel top coat (choice of finish of the top coat is not vital here,). Fulyl cure the top coat.
Over the cured top coat (should be dry to the touch), add black lines running from thick to thin in a curved motion; try to copy the lines on the reference photo. These lines are more ‘active’ than the ones you created previously. Cure.
Golden glitter UV/LED gel polish or golden gel paste/ paint may be added over the previously created black lines. Do not fully overlap the black lines, leave a thin margin of black still visible on the right & left of the line. Cure. Apply no cleanse UV/LED glossy or matte gel top coat (finish of the top coat is not vital here). Fully cure the top coat.
Over the cured top coat (should be dry to the touch,) add delicate thin white lines, trying to copy the lines as shown on the reference photo. They will give the nail art the required volume & emphasize the depth. Fully cure & make sure the white color is fully cured, otherwise you risk smudging it in the next step.
Cap the nail art with no cleanse matte UV/LED gel top coat & cure
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Lisa Boone has over 20 years’ experience in the nail industry. The wide berth of knowledge she’s accrued has taken her from behind the chair, to the competition circuit & researching innovative products to assisting technicians in their quest to create better products & services in the salon. Lisa began her career as a nail tech in Chicago in one of its first nail-only salons & soon became the award-winning hands behind Tom Holcomb’s world champion nails. After traveling the competition circuit for over 15 years, she became intrigued with developing winning formulations & cultivated a love for researching new & improved products for the industry. Playing a crucial role in the R&D of new formulations for various industry manufacturers, Lisa has since won awards for both packaging & new product development in the beauty industry. As well as being credited for “best new product” awards by industry professionals & magazines across the globe. Lisa has judged for the 2nd World Championships, is a staple on the global judging circuit for Nailympia Competitions worldwide & can be seen all over the world as an international educator.
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A nail professional for over 22 years, Emese specializes in sculptured pink & white acrylic nails, which she’s competed in since 1999. Trained by some of the best competitors the nail world has seen, including Tom Holcomb, Alisha Rimando, Tom Bachik & Trang Nguyen, Emese has accumulated over 120 trophies to her name. Moving to the USA in 2016, Emese opened a nail salon on Sunset Strip in LA & founded the nail product brand, EDKO Nail Systems, with nail expert Frederic Edange. Having had covers on three editions of the USA’s Nailpro magazine, Emese judges for Nailympia & wears the titles Champion in Monaco, Nailpro Cup USA 2018, four times European Champion in Munich & 10 times Hungarian Champion Tom Holcomb Cup winner.
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Jeanette began her nail journey after attending a basic nail course in acrylic. During this course she was offered a job as a nail tech & within six months, had taken all the required classes to become a master educator. Keen to stretch herself, Jeanette jumped on the competition circuit & won a wealth of medals in French & gel sculpture, mixed media & educator skills. Running her own salon & nail school in Denmark, Jeanette has educated & mentored several nail techs that have gone onto win medals all over the world. In 2013 Jeanette became an international judge, styles nails for magazine step-by-step tutorials & cover pictures, owns a distribution company, academy & a professional team of educators & ambassadors.
Apply 2 layers of Be Jeweled UV/LED gel polish 02 in black. Apply UV/LED gel matte top coat to the set of nail tips. Cure.
Paint the lion portrait with White Liner Gel (UV/LED Art Gel). Cure.
Apply color drops 01,02,03,04,05,07,08 and 09 to give the lion color (Color Ink). Paint in the eyes with Pro and Go 23 and Pro and Go 26 (UV/LED Art Gel in blue and green Colors). Cure.
Paint white dots in the lion’s eyes with white Liner Gel (UV/LED Art Gel). Paint black details with black liner gel (UV/LED Art Gel). Cure. Apply 2 coats of UV/LED high shine top coat. Cure. Then you have the final result.
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