📸 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. ✨

Our winners are @Dixie Speer @Barbara Gregory @Deidra Day Butma ❤️🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 I chose 3! Your mystery prizes are coming! 🎁 There were so many incredible entries. I love how each artist really made it their own and played with the color, especially! To everyone who entered: thank you for practicing, creating, and putting your work out there. I’m so proud of this community. ❤️ Next up: GLOW. Your turn to shine! ✨ Congratulation to our winners and make sure you enter our October contest!

I have been sitting here reading your comments about how much TIME you put into these nails. 30 minutes. 45 minutes. FOUR HOURS. “A few days because I kept going back to it.” 😂 (13 hours total) And I realized something. I am not comfortable with only one person being rewarded for this. You practiced. You experimented. You stayed late. You painted on yourself. You painted tips. You tried things you hadn’t tried before. Some of you photographed your work differently because of what you learned here. That time matters. So before I even choose the prize winner: EVERY PERSON WHO OFFICIALLY COMPLETED THE SPIDERS IN THE PUMPKIN PATCH CHALLENGE IS GETTING ONE FREE MONTH OF PAID NAIL SKOOL. All of you. ❤️ The mystery-box winner and some other fun things I’m cooking up are ON TOP OF THAT. Because this isn’t supposed to be a lottery where one person wins and everybody else goes home. You did the work. You get rewarded for doing the work. And OMG keep telling me how many hours you spent because I am calculating the collective amount of creative labor that went into this challenge and the number is already getting ridiculous. 😂 More coming. 👀

(omg hehehe I cussed in a HEADLINE lol not sorry) The SPIDERS IN THE PUMPKIN PATCH challenge is officially CLOSED, and I need you to understand something: YOU SHOWED UP. Like… REALLY showed up. 😭 I have been watching these entries come in and there are SO MANY of you who took the theme, interpreted it in your own completely different way, practiced something new, pushed yourselves creatively, and actually PUT YOUR WORK OUT THERE. And THAT is what this challenge was really about. I do not want to casually toss a winner into the feed and move on. We are making a BIG DEAL out of this. I need the whole weekend to absorb it all. I'm going to put it on my TV in my house and admire it all like an art gallery! I'll share what I create! I think I'll cry thinking about all of the beautiful energy that went into creating these, and then where that deposit into yourself and your artistry will take you in the future. It really is exciting to think about the possibilities. In the meantime: IF YOU ENTERED, COMMENT BELOW AND SAY “I DID IT.” Or you can drop your favorite cuss word, OMG just kidding. I want to see exactly how many of you participated because this challenge absolutely blew me away. And if this was your first Nail Skool challenge? (or challenge with me) I hope you realize you just became part of something we are going to do again and again and again. 🥹🕷️🎃 You made Nail Skool feel like a real freaking SKOOL this month. Thank you for playing with me. ❤️

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. 🎃🕷️