I SAID I WAS GOING TO REWARD THE WORK—and I MEANT IT. 😂❤️ Every single person who officially completed our Spiders in the Pumpkin Patch Challenge has now received ONE FREE MONTH OF PREMIUM NAIL SKOOL! That’s 22 nail artists who practiced, experimented, pushed themselves creatively and PUT THEIR WORK OUT THERE. You didn’t just enter a contest. You showed up for yourself—and that deserves to be celebrated. 🙌🏼 Your Premium access is live NOW through November 10. This is the full $49/month Premium tier, which includes: ✨ Everything in Standard 🎓 The full Premium learning library 🗺️ Goal-based learning pathways 📥 The Member Question Box with video answers 🏆 Certificates and CEUs when applicable 💅 Member product pricing and special drops 🎥 A monthly LIVE class plus the replay Go explore the Classroom, learn everything you can and USE THE HECK OUT OF IT! I am so freaking proud of you all. Challenge finishers, LMK when you see your Premium access! 🎉🎉🎉

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’m practicing box stuffing lol. I had a tooth pulled today and I was all laid up in bed sleeping…. I sat STRAIGHT UP out of bed and remembered that Erin had a box. (She’s just starting nails) I ran to the warehouse, it was already shipped. I dug it out of a tote and then I threw her package into a much larger box and stuffed it. MuuuuaaahHahahaa. I’m going to pick three winners from our challenge and I will announce them this evening. I love you guys so much. Keep up the hard work. I’m so proud of our community.

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. ❤️