The Nerd-Geek Challenge!

Hi everyone!

Today I have a really fun announcement!! And if you read the title or taken a look at the picture above then I think you can guess what the announcement would be ;)

That's right: Franzi from FrankieHuntersNails and me are hosting a nail art challenge together!
We discovered that we both love nerdy things, like Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead and Firefly a lot!

So the idea grew to do something "nerdy" together, and a challenge was born! We've come up with four prompts, which we will do designs for spread over two months - so twice a month we'll post something! We wanted to make sure that we had enough time to do them properly.

We'd love if more people participated in our challenge, so we've come up with a few pointers and guidelines (which are totally non-strict so don't worry):

First up, the basics:

1. Anyone can participate! It doesn't matter if you only have a blog/Instagram/... or nothing at all, if you want to join us then you can!
2. This is a geeky/nerdy challenge so your inspiration can come from anything that would broadly be classified as such! Sci-fi, fantasy, magic, werewolves, fairies, zombies, spaceships, dragons, if you like it then it's fine by us! We want to be very inclusive so if you're not sure whether your idea is "nerdy" enough, don't worry about that and just do it! ;)
3. There are four prompts: inspired by a character, inspired by a movie, inspired by a tv-show and inspired by a fantastical beast.

Then, let's get more into the details about what, when and how - don't worry, it's all very broad and inclusive.

1. Your design can be as abstract as you want. I myself wouldn't be able to paint Daenerys's face even if I spent 20 hours on it, so if you can't either than that's fine! Anything goes :)
2. You can use any technique you want: watermarble, water decals, freehand painting, stickers or studs...
3. Don't worry if you can only do one prompt. You can participate in all four prompts or only do one! Whatever you want and can do is fine.
4. Our dates are guidelines, so if you can't post on the dates we suggested, that's fine as well and you can post your design on another day.
5. You can make as many designs for one prompt as you want. So if you're super inspired by various geeky movies, feel free to let your creativity run wild and come up with 30 designs!
6. If you want, you can leave a link in our blog post comments/on my FB wall/on Instagram/... to your design so we can check it out!
7. We've come up with a hashtag to tag your designs on FB, Twitter, Instagram: #RFnerdnailschallenge so we can find them easily!

You already saw it on the collage, but I'll add them here too: the dates we suggest to post our designs are:

• Character: 12th of April
• Movie: 26th of April
• Tv-show: 10th of May
• Fantastical Beast: 24th of May

That's about it! I already have some ideas for all the prompts - I'm curious to see if I will be able to execute them properly! ;)

If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to leave it in a comment here or to email me at roaringnails[at]gmail.com :)

You can find Franzi on Instagram under @frankie.hunters.nails and on Tumblr here! You can find me on Facebook here and on Tumblr here! :)

Thanks for reading!

P.s. big thanks again to Franzi's fiancé for helping us out (read: design this completely on his own) with the awesome collage!

P.p.s I know it's still April Fool's Day today but I promise you that this isn't a joke or anything - what a lousy joke it would be lol!