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The Great Scratch Shoot Out: Voter’s Choice is open!
It’s time to cast your vote and pick your favourite entry for this year’s Voter’s Choice accolade and a special prize. Votes are now open for this year’s’ Voter’s Choice award for The Great Scratch Shoot Out. Our annual, worldwide photographic competition closed for entry on 31 August 2023 and it is now time to choose our winner for the Voter’s Choice accolade. Votes open from 9am on 11 September 2023 to midnight on 18 September with Scratch readers, clients, friends and family of entrants able to place their vote for their favourite entry. The winner of the Voter’s Choice accolade will receive a special prize and the winners…
The Great Scratch Shoot Out: Your top 3 questions answered
With entries currently open for The Great Scratch Shoot Out 2023, here are the answers to some of your burning questions… 1. Can I enter more than one image? Yes! There’s no limit to the number of entries that can be submitted per person as images are judged anonymously. Entry costs £25 per image. 2. Is the complexity of the nail design considered during the judging? No- the competition does not mark on complexity of the nails in the image. This is a cover image/editorial style competition, therefore it allows for nails of any length, which can be natural, pink…
The Great Scratch Shoot Out: Meet the 2022 winner, Ania Kesiak
Scratch chats to Ania Kesiak, winner of The Great Scratch Shoot Out 2022, about how winning helped her career and why fellow nail pros should enter… What did you enjoy about creating your competition entry? I loved that there is no theme for The Great Scratch Shoot Out, so the possibilities are endless. I didn’t know what other competitors would create, so there was more pressure and excitement to think of an unusual concept that would hopefully ‘wow’ the judges. What has changed in your career since winning last year’s Shoot Out? Thanks to winning last year’s Great Scratch Shoot…
The Great Scratch Shoot Out 2022: THE RESULTS
After a whopping 79 entries for this year’s The Great Scratch Shoot Out, the winners have been revealed… The top three prizes and the winner of the Voter’s Choice accolade were revealed at Olympia Beauty as well as via a live stream on our social media platforms. The top three sees: 1st- Ania Kesiak 2nd- Ivana Prokic 3rd – Ioana Cristescu Voter’s Choice- Ania Kesiak The judging panel examined the entries as well as the criteria including originality and execution of concept, instant impact, clarity of the photograph and nails, use of colour and lighting, nail finish and design, model choice…
Great Scratch Shoot Out: How to create a winning image
2017 Great Scratch Shoot Out winner, Hannah Missen, looks back at the photoshoot that saw her team come together to create a winning image… The shoot saw a day of fun for Hannah and her creative team. Short but sweet, the group had a lot to achieve in a small frame of time. “The shoot took place at the end of August at my chosen photographer’s studio. Located in a cool container in Leigh-On-Sea overlooking the sea, the studio was such a lovely location to work “We only had our model, Chloe Hague, for a few hours,” Hannah adds. “To…