Time is drained for makeup and nail artists who want to compete within this year's Nailympia Australia and Face2Face Makeup Awards.
Entry to both competitions, which will judged during Beauty Expo Australia in Sydney on August 26-27, close this Monday (August 7).
Expo event director Julia Erben said the expo is looking on those who demonstrate the most skill in makeup and nail artistry to enter the esteemed beauty competitions.
Nailympia Australia
Held in colaboration with Nailympia London, Nailympia Australia allows nail technicians to showcase their talents to some panel of 15 judges including Nailympia London organiser Alex Fox.
This year's competition categories are:
- Soak off gel polish: Natural nails are enhanced and engrossed in a soak-off gel product. One hand has to be finished in a good red colour and also the other in a traditional French manicure style.
- Liquid & Powder Acrylic Sculpture & Tips/Overlay: Sculpture around the right-hand and tips/overlay around the left.
- Salon nails (one hand): 'Everyday nails for the everyday client' made up of L&P acrylic, UV hard gel or fiberglass/silk (No DIP system or gel polish to be used).
- Stiletto nails: Sculpted on forms, nails can be created using liquid and powder acrylic or hard gel systems.
- Reality nail art: A wide open freestyle competition for commercial salon nail art designs
- Fantasy nail art: 10 separate ideas to stick to 10 nails throughout the competition.
- 3d (mixed media): Nails are to be designed on varying sized nail tips and placed in a presentation case in the arena.
- Photographic nail art: The 2010 theme is 'medieval fantasy'.
Face2Face Makeup Awards
The Face2Face Makeup Awards reward “extraordinary makeup artists for his or her craft, creativity and passion”. Judged by a panel of “prominent industry icons”, the awards can act as “a launch-pad to propel makeup artists to the next level in their careers”.
This year's competition categories are:
- Bridal – The current Bride
- Fashion Catwalk – Trend Prediction: Makeup inspired through the trends predicted to be seen around the runways in 2022.
- Body Art – Art Is Life: A complete body paint inspired by a painter or artists (a designer, sculptor, musician, etc).
- Creative Makeup – The Club Kids of Sydney: “The Club Kids were a group of young New York City dance club personalities led by Michael Alig and James St. James in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The audience was notable because of its members’ flamboyant behaviour and outrageous costumes.” (Wikipedia) Within this new category, artists will create a modern ‘Club Kid of Sydney’ including creative makeup evidently and décolletage.
- Beauty Editorial – My Beauty Brand: Artists are asked to imagine they are going to launch their very own makeup brand, and make the first two images that will advertise their brand in the pages of elite glossy magazines.
Beauty Expo Australia 2022 will be held on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 August in the International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC) in Sydney.
