Sophie Harris-Greenslade The Illustrated Nail will be treating customers to exclusive nail designs based on Raf Simons’ spring/summer 2013 creations.

Two limited-edition Dior Vernis nail colours have also been created especially for the event – the pale pink Diorling and the metallic grey Windsor.
Read more about the Dior at Harrods event on Vogue here…
To see all the looks click here. 

For this beautiful editorial by Hollie and Grace Carlin in Institute Magazine I made sculptural 3D nails to look like pieces of nail jewellery. 

I filed the nails to a sharp point and covered in gold metallic Minx. I then cut folded and shaped gold foil to sharp points and attached to the nail. 

I think the nails make a great statement and I absolutely love these shots. It was a great team to work with and I had so much fun shooting that day.

See the full story here.

For the Harpers Bazaar shoot I woke up super early to catch the bus to Dover for the day. We all headed off about 6am to the beautiful St Margaret’s Bay in Kent. 

I used Orly dazzle, a really beautiful silver foil effect colour and also an icy blue, Coat Azure by Essie to work with the “Cool Metal” story. I changed the blue however in the afternoon to a natural cream (Nigella by AFNB) as we thought it would work better in shot.

It was a freezing cold day and the sea winds on the beach really cut through you. I don’t know how the models got through it! Unfortunately the weather turned from bad to worse and poured down in the afternoon but the pictures are so beautiful it was well worth braving the cold for. 


See the full story here.
Follow Sophie on Twitter here.

We are so excited to announce that nail technician, Sophie Harris-Greenslade aka The Illustrated Nail has joined the agency. 

Sophie studied illustration at university and completed a nail technician course after she graduated. 

Her artistic hand means that Sophie paints each nail design with incredible detail and precision with intricate, beautiful and creative designs which you can see several examples of on her blog: http://theillustratednail.tumblr.com/.




Sophie has worked on shoots for French Elle, W magazine (with M.I.A.), Stylist Magazine, Instyle, Glamour, i-D and The Guardian to name a few and has just had a mention on Teen Vogue.


Sophie was also recently chosen to be part of Nail Philia, the worlds’ first nail art exhibition.


Follow Sophie on Twitter here.
See Sophie’s facebook page here.