Japanese Plastic Food ^.^

Happy New Year 2010! There's totally no time to upload the blog, the backlog is so hard to keep up..haha.

Here's a peek at my messy table. Also there's something that had been my fascination for a long time. You can see it next to Tinkle-Bell... yeap! The "delicious" strawberry ice-cream on cornflakes!

When I was in Japan last month, brought back a whole lot of "real desserts".

Adding to my already huge collection this time are: a strawberry+red bean parfait, ice-ka chang with condense milk, iced-cold beer and another full miniature sushi collection ...haha..

Well.. they looked real enough to eat! Totally made from resin & soft plastics, they are a feast to the eyes... The parfait, in all its creamy majesty, has a calorie count of precisely zero. That's because this parfait is not meant to be eaten, except with the eyes. It's a yummy example of another unique Japanese innovation -- replica food.

You can see them outside some Japanese Restaurants, to show customers just what kind of food the establishment offers. These kinds of replicas are rarely seen outside Japan, and they are known as a unique aspect of Japanese culture.

The cost is steep --starting from about 5,000 yen --no calories included, perfect for those on diet.. I also used them as references when creating the 3D nail art that we see in Fantasy Nails or Mixed Media Category.

Do not be mistaken that because the above parfait is made of plastic, that is why the strawberries looked so fake... in actual fact the real strawberries in Japan all looked so perfect that you'll think that they are unreal...the strawberries in the boxes below are what you see being sold on the streets.

NAIL EXCHANGE KOREA - Seminar Teaching at University

Seminar Teaching at Daejeon University. It is a university for students after collage to study beauty,hair, nails full time. They have many topics to choose from , even special effects make-up!

I was there to do an exchange seminar of Singapore Gel Nails Design Technique to the students.
It was quite an interesting experience for them. They are amazed at our techniques that is so fast and saves time for their gel nails.

Below photo of me with Chairman of KONEA, Ms Kim Mi Won and a male student after class.

Hope for them to come for an exchange program in Singapore soon. ^.^
 












 












 












 












 
















 

NAIL EXCHANGE KOREA - Int'l Nail Competition

N.A.I.L.S is honoured to be invited again by the Korean Nailist Expert Association [KONEA] to participate in their annual international nail exchange event. I am again on their panel of International Judges for their annual Korea Nail Design Festival[K.N.D.F]. Judging next to Nailympics Head Judge Lysa Comfort and Russian's nail-industry mover Galina Stepanovna.
There was more mixed media nail art entries this time round, much to the delight of our Singapore nailist team. They were snapping away at the Nail art displayed for all to view. It is indeed a learning experience for all of them, I am sure they learnt much more in terms of nail art design than their salon experiences can bring.

 

















 The satisfaction of winning amidst the thousands of contestants brings Singapore nailist much honour & pride. Overall, every nail exchange with KONEA is always very fulfilling for everyone.
We had benefited so much collaborating with KONEA since 2006. Our association looks towards more fulfilling collaborations for the improvement of our nails industry.

Would try to upload more nail art from KNDF when time allows. ^.^














 
























































































































































 



























 

















 













 













 

















 

















 

















 

















 

Nail Exchange with Hong Kong - Int'l Nail Competition

N.A.I.L.S was invited to participate in the Nail Competition organised by Hong Kong Professional Nailist Union. It is their 2nd Int'l Nail Competition. We've brought along participants from Singapore to take part & support.

Our Singapore team comprises of nailist from singapore, malaysia, china & japan!! There was also a Japanese team from

Japan that participated too!!






  










































As you can see, it is also curtain judging for this competition. We saw some very good nails for the French Twist Category & French Sculpture Category, it was a very close fight for the winners





































The Salon Success was also participated by many contestants as participants need not finish one hand prior to the competition. For Design Sculpture, participants need complete one hand prior to the competition, making it an easy win for the participants due to the reduced number of contestants.























































competitions; as judging is mainly done on the nails done on the day of the competition. It would also encourage overseas contestants to participate too, allowing for easier hand-model allocation.

 












 












 












 
















 

NAIL EXCHANGE WITH TAIWAN- Int'l Nail Competition

Taiwan's International Nail Competition. I'm invited to be on the Judging Panel, it is a curtain Judging. I like that fact, as this is the most fair method of judging till date.

This competition is very disciplined, starts & end as time stated on the official time schedule board. The recent Nail Asia 2009 Competition needed to learn from this, the extra 10 minutes for their French Sculpture Extension Category is a total shocked to everyone; not to mentioned the fact that the extra time was announced during the minute that time was supposed to be up.

Back to Taiwan's Nail Competition, I saw many life-liked 3D mixed media art. Also, the nail art from Russia was so finely drawn. It was an eye-opener and good platform for exchange. The taiwaness nailist works very closely with their product distributors to advance their industry.
We had agreed to bring nailist from Singapore to participate in their competition next year.
































 












 







Judge Committee Meeting... There's difference in judging standards that needed to be straighten out before the actual nail