Posted April 2, 2015 by Jonelle Patrick7 Comments Beauty Secrets

Nail Queen…From Hell

If Scary Nails was the theme of this year's Nail Queen competition, the winner did not disappoint! — Too Much Is Never Enough when it comes to depicting the epic battle between Good and Evil, using fingernails.

If Scary Nails was the theme of this year’s Nail Queen competition at the Tokyo Nail Expo, the winners definitely did not disappoint!

As you can see by the outfit that goes with the winning nails, scary goes way beyond fingernails!

Second place went to this gothalicious design, which doubles as a set of Swiss Army Fingernails, in case she has to beat a real life level of Street Fighter X Tekken on the way home. — Second place went to this gothalicious design, just the thing for beating a real life Street Fighter X Tekken level on the way home.

And the bronze medal for want-to-look-away-but-I-just-can't goes to this confection of razor blades in apples. — And the bronze medal for want-to-look-away-but-I-just-can’t goes to this confection of spiderwebs and butterflies.

And in the Junior Student category…

Swipe right at your own risk to meet our 2nd place winner.

The perfect nail design to go with YOUR family tartan. — And in 3rd, the perfect nail design to go with YOUR family tartan on the next Robert Burns Day.

Thanks go out to the always-excellent Nail Max magazine for the pix & descriptions of the 2015 Tokyo Nail Expo Nail Queen winners.

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Wishing her nails were this magnificent, Jonelle Patrick writes novels set in Tokyo

“A genuinely gripping crime thriller which wrong-foots and perplexes the reader throughout, drawing us in emotionally . . . Highly recommended.” –Raven Crime Reads

For nine years, Tokyo Detective Kenji Nakamura thought his mother’s death was an accident. Then he gets a call, and his life begins to unravel. Because if it wasn’t an accident…what was it? *Read more*

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Writing mystery books set in Tokyo is mostly what I do, but I also blog about the odd stuff I see every day in Japan. I'm a graduate of Stanford University and the Sendagaya Japanese Institute in Tokyo, and a member of the International Thriller Writers, the Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters In Crime. When I'm not in Tokyo, I live in San Francisco. I also host a travel site called The Tokyo Guide I Wish I'd Had, so if you're headed to Japan and want to check out the places I take my friends when they're in town, take a look!

7 thoughts on “Nail Queen…From Hell” ›

wow, when scratching your cheek means tearing your eye out! someone has watched Edward Scissor Hands a bit too many times.

Jonelle Patrick says:

April 7, 2015 at 11:00 pm

Ahaha, the first time I saw this style of nails and posted about it, Edward Scissorhands was the first thing that came to mind!

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- Mchan says:
  
  April 8, 2015 at 12:18 am
  
  And …. how do they pee????

Reblogged this on The last hero's blog and commented:
Happy my ex-wives preferred the conventional nail styling.

Jonelle Patrick says:

April 7, 2015 at 11:01 pm

Wow, thank you so much for reblogging! ^_^ And HA I’m sure they’d have been ex-wives a lot sooner if they’d adopted this rather unfriendly fashion statement, ne?

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