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BOOK CORNER

 '30 Nail Designs' by Susan Tumblety         UK Price  £17.50

Published by Milady  ISBN 1-56253-268-5

This is an excellent step-by-step guide to 30 hand painted designs. All of are very easy to follow with good results. The designs are very French & flower orientated, but for me this was a refreshing change.  The book is small, ring-bound and paperback, consisting of 130 pages. The first part of the book covers the supplies used within the designs although you do not need to stick ridgidly to these colours. The colours in the book are very limited and conservative, but I have re-created the designs using some wonderful colours with great results. Also in the first part of the book has a small chapter on 'photographing your nail art' and a chapter on 'displaying your nail art'. The rest of the book is dedicated to the nail designs. The designs are broken down into four sections - basic, intermediate, advanced and expert.       

 Book review by Sharon Simpson, Eastbourne, England.

CALLING ALL AIRBRUSHERS

We’ve all heard the menfolk of our clients asking silly questions like ‘can you touch up my car with that thing?’ yeah, yeah, ha ha ha.  Well we’d like to know what you airbrushers out there really are aiming your guns at.  If you’ve decorated anything other than nails recently we’d love to see.  Think about it, if you can airbrush fingernails you can airbrush anything, see those pound signs yet?  Send your pics to me at the address below. Don’t worry, I’ll send them back.  Look out for airbrushed objects on future issues of Nail Art Gallery. 

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