📸 LIGHTS ON / LIGHTS OFF NAIL PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGE One winner will receive a BIG BOX of nail goodies (tons of stuff I promise)! 🎁 This is a nail photography challenge—not a challenge to recreate the nails in our example. Create any nail design using any brand of glow product. Then photograph the same finished nails twice: 💡 One photo with the lights ON 🌙 One photo with the lights OFF Try to keep your hand position and camera angle as similar as possible so we can clearly see the transformation. Need help? Competitors can use both of these Nail Skool courses for reference: ✨ Spooky Glow 📸 The Nail Photography Masterclass We are judging how well your two photographs capture the lights-on/lights-off transformation—not who creates the most complicated nail art. NO AI ENHANCEMENTS OF COURSE! (you have to turn OFF the flash on your phone when you take the pic in the dark - ALSO don't forget to try a video , again NO FLASH, you can take screen shots of still moments that are best). The example photos only demonstrate the photography concept. You do not have to copy the design, colors, length, shape, or products. Any brand is welcome. Wildflowers products are not required. LEARN IT. TRY IT. LIGHTS OUT. ✨

TIME TO PLAY. (there's a REAL PRIZE THAT COMES IN THE MAIL) Your challenge is to take the Spiders in the Pumpkin Patch https://www.skool.com/nailskool/classroom/bf073ada?md=97f53de42949484cb010c79b2023becblesson, learn it, and create YOUR version. You do not have to copy ours exactly. I want to see what YOU do with it. 🏆 THE PRIZE: (you know I FREAKIN LOVE TO DO PRIZESSSSSSSSSSS) One winner is getting a MYSTERY BOX OF NAIL SUPPLIES curated personally by me (OR if you already have to much nail crap, you can choose to PAY IT FORWARD to someone else in here). No one will know what’s inside (except me of course mmuuuaaahahahhahahahahhaah). I’m not showing you what’s inside. I’m not telling you what’s inside. 😂 TO ENTER: Create your Spiders in the Pumpkin Patch nails and post your finished work here in Nail Skool by September 30 at 11:59 PM ET. I’ll choose the winner based on creativity, execution, and how you made the challenge your own. 🚨 HEADS UP FOR OCTOBER: October’s Nail Skool Challenge is GLOW. If you need glow products, grab them NOW. The Wildflowers glow stuff is currently on clearance for practically nothing, and when it’s gone, it’s gone. NOW GO MAKE SOME TINY SPOOKY STUFFFFFFFFFF. 🎃🕷️

INTRODUCE YOURSELF (I legit want to connect with you and connect you to helpful people)! (I put my pic everyday I have an official work day because I'm ADHD and it helps me SHOW UP for YOU! It's like a silly accountability game, feel free to play with me.... I'll send you a PJ one on the weekends to check in haha) RIGHT NOW I'm in here every day checking in, answering questions, trying to be as HELPFUL as I can for now AS I BUILD CLASSES (you don't want anything old and crusty) and recruit my most qualified world champion friends to HELP ME TOOOOOO. I need to understand your problems to REALLY BE HELPFUL so I ask a LOT of questions. I love to solve a good nail tech problem or kung-fu your broken-ass, stinkin thinkin brain. I cuss sometimes now. I don't care if you like it or not, I can't help it. Forgive me and love me anyway or leave. I dont have time for polished professional performance in here. There's an AI bot for that and I'm not her. I'm building this thing FOR YOU ALL just about every day of the week. I want to build it FRESH with solutions to your RIGHT NOW problems, especially. What is my hidden agenda? Honestly I don't have one. I've climbed every mountain I wanted to in the nail industry. I'm going to keep as much of this FREE as I possibly can. NAIL TECH - it's NOT YOUR FAULT if you are broke, if you were taught the wrong thing, or if a technique didn't work like a video or brand or educator promised it would. THIS INDUSTRY NEEDS HELP. THIS IS ME TRYING MY EVERYTHING TO BE HELPFULLLLLLLLL because I REALLY DO LOVE YOUUUUUU. And hi, I'm Lauren. I have adopted kids all over the world lol. I'm getting the gray streak in my hair I always dreamed I'd get.... debating on whether to let it out NOW or wait a "hair" longer hahaha.

While building our Nail Career Mountain Map, I was asked about the wildest thing I’ve ever sculpted. This was a NAILS Next Top Nail Artist fantasy challenge: a snow globe breaking open sideways, sparkling water flying out and a winged elephant escaping—all created from NAIL PRODUCTS. Nail care can be basic human care. It can also be completely unhinged avant-garde art. SAME INDUSTRY. 💅 What’s one nail-industry mountain you’ve climbed—or would LOVE to climb—that people might never expect?