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NTNA S.5 Challenge #1: Runway to NTNA

Inspiration and Description

I love the trippy, busy and vibrant design created by CND for Libertine. There is so much going on in the design and like an optical illusion, when you look again, you see something different or seemed hidden before. This is what I wanted to capture in my nail design and the inspiration for my psychedelic trip nails came from. I was instantly drawn to the skulls and the emoji’s on the Libertine design which is also portrayed throughout a lot of Libertine’s looks. I created my emoji skulls of punk couture queen Madonna and punk rocker Johnny Rotten whilst using emoji’s as pills popping out the optical illusion black-hole. I added textures and layers from the Libertine look by using different illusions, feathers and shapes. The Libertine look is all about letting your imagination run wild and a psychedelic trip where anything is possible perfectly captured this from using a psychedelic deer smoking a cigarette to optical illusions throughout. Whilst making the set wearable, I wanted to stay true to Libertine’s style of edgy, outrageous and bold. I could see this look on the Libertine catwalk or recreated in salon. The shape I chose is one of the most popular salon shapes requested so chose this to display my wearable design. Look at a nail, then look again – there will always be something different to look at that tricks your mind or eyes. Take the blue bubble nail for example, when you first look it could be bubbles, when you look again, it could be a planet in outer space or the psychedelic feather nail, if you look long enough, does the lines or feathers start to move?

As my nail design was so lively, I wanted to keep the finger art simple. To ‘pin’ the punk couture look together, I made safety pin jewellery by bending safety pins into my desired shape and painted with Vinylux. I chose not to top coat, to keep a matte finish. The rings were displayed on different places on the fingers.

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