Judges Instructions

• Criteria is scored as a total scored
• All criteria points awarded are from 1-10
• Scores are determined by the judges educated opinion based on the specifics of each criteria

Judges Criteria

Level of Difficulty

• The complexity of the design is evaluated on it’s degree of expertise.
• Is the art executed without any elaboration (simple) or is there more difficulty and expertise put into the making of the design?

Composition

• How all the parts and pieces of your complete design are put together.
• The design should flow from each nail so that the eye is drawn from nail to nail.
• The nails individually represent the complete design.

Balance

• The design should not be too busy or too sparse.
• The art should look evenly balanced on each nail and from nail to nail.
• There should not be large portions on the surface of the nail left without design.

Use of Color

• The colors chosen should complement the design and flow throughout or graduate through all 10 nails.

Continuity of Theme

• The theme should be carried through the design in some manner on each nail.
• The design should compliment and have continuance from nail to nail while representing the theme.

Graphic Quality

• Are the graphics created with dimension or are they flat?
• There should be dimension in the artwork.

Clarity of Design

• The design must be apparent and identifiable.
• You should be able to identify what you are looking at on each nail

Originality

• The theme or design should be something you have not seen before.
• If seen before, it should be done in a manner that is in a new, creative and unusual use of of art media.

Overall Workmanship

• Components painted entirely & smoothly.
• No visual excess glue.
• All creations are cleanly finished.

Costume

• How good is the costume?
• It should portray the theme well.
• This criteria is scored based on your opinion on how well the costume was put together and how well it represents the theme.

Presentation

• The design appears completely finished on each nail
• No art work was left unfinished. Artwork that wasn’t finished being completely executed Example: face with no lips or eyes, car without the tires, dog without a tail

Creativity

• Creative use of embellishments, stripers, paint, color powders & glitters.
• There should be a creative collaboration of art that is used.
• There should be a creative manner in which the embellishments are used to reach the design.

3-D Presentation

• There should be 3D art is present on each nail
• The 3D art should be presented with clean application
• The 3D should be created with unique style