Itinerary

Over the course of 4 days, you will be able to spend 25+ hours on education!  Demonstration classes, business, classes, workshops and seminars will keep you busy between each meal.  The best part about it is that you get to attend what YOU want to see!  No matter what your specialty, there is always a class for you available to attend to enhance your skills or business.

Day 1 – Monday Oct 7, 2024

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10am – 11:30am

Glacier Peak Lodge

Check In

Follow the signs to check in.

At check in, you will receive your badge, team color and materials as well as your room assignments. You can then go move into your room and then set up for the Incredible Improvements Class.
Gel Users: Please make your way to the room for gels to set up for your workshop.  You can be in the acrylc room if you like.

Acrylic Users: Please ONLY set up acrylic in the acrylic room.  This is important so those who are sensitive to the smell can be in the gel room.

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12:00pm – 1:00pm

Dining Hall

Lunch

All meals are included but beverage options are limited.  Bring your own sodas or water flavorings.

Welcome to Camp!
This is our first meal at camp and we will invite you to meet all the educators in our main meeting space – the DINING HALL!  All the other places for camp are smaller which allows for classes and workshops.  But at meals we will make announcements, have our keynote seminar, competition awards play some fun games and most importantly, give away raffle prizes (you MUST be in. the room to win the raffles when they are given out).
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1:30PM – 6:00PM

Mt Zion (Gel) & Mt Hermon (Acrylic)

Incredible Improvements

If you will be using acrylic, you will need to be in the acrylic room Mt Hermon.  Gel users will be in Mt Zion.

How the Incredible Improvements Workshop Can Change Your Nails!
A foundation of Nail Camp, this workshop has been offered since 2010 as an included hands on workshop with the cost of the event.  Created to show improvement in your structure and nail appearance in just 4 nails!   Completely non product specific, bring the products you are used to using, 4 bare nails and you will be ready to go!  Why does this class make a difference?  There aren’t any other classes that let you start by doing nails the way you already do them!  We work to point out and fix things you may not see.  Do your sidewalls bow or flare?  Not sure how to get them perfectly straight?  We will show you!  The one on one time that educators spend with each and every attendee is something that you just don’t usually get in a class.

A perfect class for getting to know someone new or hang out with a friend you haven’t seen since last camp!  This class is done working in pairs so if you come by yourself to camp you will immediately met a new friend.  Many techs find that the friendship they have created in this class can last a lifetime!

When this class begins, we will simply ask you to create a nail.  Nothing crazy or different than what you do every single day. Apply one sculptured nail.  Our Amazing Educators will walk around the room and as you finish the nail and they will critique JUST ONE element (shape, structure, smile line etc).  This will give you just one thing to focus on improving.  The tech will do the second nail and a new element will be critiqued.  Again, now you will be focusing on a new thing to improve.   These small improvements will build over the course of the 4 nails.   After the 4th nail, a written critique using the same score sheet used in competition is given.  Techs will often see a HUGE improvement between the first nail and the 4th nail!   We recommend incorporating french so that you can be helped with french techniques as they are coming back in style!

Here are what a few techs have said in the class after this FREE included workshop!

“I came to camp not knowing what to expect, and after that first workshop I feel like I got my whole money’s worth in 1 day!”

“I’ve been a nail tech for 3 years but always struggled.  I learned more in that first class than I did in all of nail school”

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1:00PM – 6:00PM

Glacier Peak

Advanced Campers:   Nails & Photoshoot

For those who have attended camp multiple times and feel they are ready to step past Incredible Improvements.

Take A Full 5 Hours to Make an Amazing Set!
This completely self-led workshop gives you something you just don’t have at home… TIME!!   Have you ever wanted to create some stunning nails for your own marketing or to submit for a cover contest or online competition?  This is your chance to spend a full 5 hours to create your masterpiece.

Use your own hand or a fake hand to create a hand of incredible nails.  Allie Baker, competition winner and cover artist, will come welcome you to this workshop and see if you have any questions on any techniques you plan to do.  Then you are on your own!  We will play some music and you can do your nails and chat with other nail techs over the next 4 hours.

Around 5pm, be ready for some photos.  Make sure you bring your own props!  Shoes, jewelry, seashells, fabrics etc.  We have also used things we find outside such as branches, leaves and rocks for props with fantastic success.  So many things can be used and we can try a few of them to see what goes best with your nails.

Jessica Briarmoon was nail tech and photographer winning the one of the yearly Nails Magazine Cover contests.  She will take high quality images that will be processed making sure to take into account exposure, color, contrast, vibrancy, noise and light levels.  As well as smoothing skin and removing blemishes.  You will receive both raw and edited photos in the weeks after camp.

We highly recommend Incredible Improvements if this is your first time at camp!  But if you are an advanced nail tech and feel like you don’t need to improve your daily salon nails, you are welcome to come to this workshop.

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6:00PM – 7:00PM

Dining Hall

Dinner

At dinners you will sit with your TEAM.  Look for the same color as your buff on the table.

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7:00PM – 7:30PM

Dining Hall

Team Game

Earm more Raffle Tickets!

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7:30PM – 8:30PM

Dining Hall

Raffle Introduction

Time to see all the goodies donated by our amazing Nail Professional Corporate Sponsors!

How We Do Raffles at Camp
We love handing out amazing products for you all to try!  Our Sponsors spoil us and we are usually able to hand out 5-10 prizes per meal!  We want to make sure that the products are going to techs who will use them.  Which means you will receive tickets and you get to CHOOSE which prizes you want those tickets to go towards.  At check in you will receive your first 5 tickets.  You will have chances to win more tickets during the team games at dinner.  You will be able to buy up to 20 extra tickets total ($1 each).

You must remember to put your full name on your tickets that we can read.  We recommend writing your name on them as soon as you receive them so they are not lost.

This process does take some time on the first night.  Everyone will get to go on tour of the products and then make another round to put their tickets in the bins they choose.  We do allow exactly 20 tickets to be purchased at $1 per ticket ($20 total) to give you some more chances.  You will be able to buy these tickets after dinner on this night, so try to remember to bring your $20.  This money is then turned into prize money given out at our competitions!

The most valuable prizes (like an electric file, lamps or large kits) will usually have the most tickets, and these will result in games!  At each meal, 3-4 tickets will be drawn and those people will compete in a fun short game to determine the winner of the prize.  These games get the energy of everyone going and is a fun way to end the meal and head off to more classes.  If you don’t want to play any games, don’t choose the fullest bins.  And if you want the best chances to go home with a raffle, pick the bins with the least number of tickets per prize.

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8:30PM

Dining Hall

SWAG Bag & T-shirt Distribution!

It’s what you’ve been waiting for all day!  Time to get your hands on the amazing bags filled with hundreds of products to try and use in your salon.  Be sure to take lots of photos of your friends in the cabins looking through all the goodies!  Our Sponsors LOVE to see their products in photos!  After you take a look, come out to the campfire!

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9:30PM

Campfire - Weather Permitting

Campfire, Smores & Socializing

The night for this may be moved depending on the weather forecast but we always prefer it on the first night!  The campfire is always so fun to meet and mingle with your new friends.  We have adopted some pretty impressive smores and will have them available for you at the campfire.  Reeses smore anyone??  YES please!

Day 2 – Tuesday Oct 8, 2024

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8:00am - 9:00am

Dining Hall

Breakfast & Raffles

**WEAR YOUR CAMP SHIRTS TODAY**. You must always be present to win Raffles!

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9:00am - 10:30am

Demo Classes & Shopping

 

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10:30am - 12:00pm

Demo Classes & Shopping

 

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12:00pm – 1:00pm

Dining Hall

Lunch & Raffles

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1:00pm - 1:15pm

Group Photo

Please be sure to have your camp shirt on for the photo. We have a very organized process to make sure everyone’s face can be seen.  Do not wear coats in the photo, you will have plenty of room to set them at your feet for the photo.  We do our best to get this done in less than 10 minutes so you can get to your classes.

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1:15pm - 4:15pm

3 Hour Classes, Workshops & Seminars

Check the Classes & Workshops section of this website to sign up for what you want to attend.  Classes do have a 12-18 person maximum.

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4:30pm - 6:00pm

Demo Classes & Shopping

 

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6:00PM – 7:00PM

Dining Hall

Dinner

At dinners you will sit with your TEAM.  Look for the same color as your buff on the table.

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7:00PM – 7:15PM

Dining Hall

Competition Q&A

Allie Baker will be going over the process for competition morning and answer any questions you have.

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7:15PM – 7:30PM

Dining Hall

Coffee Break

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7:30PM – 8:00PM

Dining Hall

Team Game

Earm more Raffle Tickets!

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8:00PM – 9:00PM

Dining Hall

Keynote Seminar

Becky Bunnel and Amy Masters present a mastermind seminar with a combination of brainstorming, education and working with your fellow techs to help build your business skills and help accomplish personal goals.

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9:00PM

Dining Hall

Raffles

Who will win tonights big prizes!?  As always, you must be present to win!

Day 3 – Wednesday Oct 9, 2024

Wear Your Nail Camp Shirts TODAY!

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8:00am - 9:00am

Dining Hall

Breakfast & Raffles

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9:00AM – 9:45PM

Mt Zion (Gel) & Mt Hermon (Acrylic)

Competition Set Up

If you will be using acrylic, you will need to be in the acrylic room Mt Hermon.  Gel users will be in Mt Zion.

Get yourself or your model prepped. Turn in Mixed Media Entries
A Designated Nail Camp Educator will be collecting your Mixed Media Entries at the back of the room you are in during set up.

We hope that everyone participates in one way or another for the Nail Competitions.  You can not do BOTH Gel Manicure AND Salon Nails.  You must pick one.  The prize money is higher for Salon Nails as it is a more difficult service.  Nail Camp is the only place where you can compete and earn CA$H and medals with no additional cost.

WHY Compete??
We know competing isn’t easy,  BUT we do our best at Nail Camp to give you a chance to see
what it’s like before you are in a big competition arena.   The competitions at camp are
designed to simply help you learn and grow.  Competition helps make you a better nail tech.
You can see where you spend the most time, what parts of the nail you struggle building and
how to enhance your art skills.
Nail Camp competitions take place on the last full day of camp so you have an opportunity to
participate in the Incredible Improvements workshop and take a few more classes before the
timer starts. Incredible Improvements is a great workshop that gives you critiques nail by nail
that help so many campers see improvement almost immediately. We also give you the score
sheet so you can study where you should focus the most in competition.
The One Hand/One hour is exactly as it sounds!  You will have an hour to complete a set of
nails on one hand. We have eliminated the requirement that you must do three pink and
white or French nails. However, you can if you wish. Two nails need to be polished red and
three nails need to be either one solid color (cover or camouflage pink preferred) or
traditional pink and whites with the white built in, not polished on. Bonus points are possible
if you do pink and whites. Also, if you are working on yourself, you will receive 15 extra
minutes as we know it’s more difficult.
Gel Manicure is also one hand, 30 minutes. Plus 5 if you’re working on yourself. Gel Polish
only, no builders or extensions. Three French style pink and white nails, two red.
Mixed Media competition has grown so much the last few years!!  We have lots of attendees
that have learned you just NEVER know how good your art might be.   Checking out all the
amazing artwork that comes in is a highlight of competition day!
Our goal is for EVERYONE to be able to have a chance at competing.  Why not?!  Competition
is free to enter.  Nothing else is going on. It is actually fun.  It’s a great learning experience.
Bonus…. there is FREE prize money and medals! Give it a shot, you could surprise yourself
and end up with bragging rights and a little extra cash to spend.
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9:45AM

Mt Zion (Gel) & Mt Hermon (Acrylic)

Competitions Begin!

How Much Time Do I Get?
30 Minutes for Gel Manicure on a model

35 Minutes for Gel Manicure on yourself

60 Minutes for Salon Nails on a model

75 Minutes for Salon Nails on Yourself

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10:15pm

Mt Zion (Gel) & Mt Hermon (Acrylic)

Gel Manicure Judging Begins

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10:45pm

Mt Zion (Gel) & Mt Hermon (Acrylic)

Salon Nails Judging Begins

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12:00pm – 1:00pm

Dining Hall

Lunch & Raffles

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1:00pm

3 Hour Classes, Workshops & Seminars

Check the Classes & Workshops section of this website to sign up for what you want to attend.  Classes do have a 12-18 person maximum.

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4:30pm - 6:00pm

Demo Classes & Shopping

 

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6:00PM – 7:00PM

Dining Hall

Dinner

At dinners you will sit with your TEAM.  Look for the same color as your buff on the table.

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7:00PM – 7:30PM

Dining Hall

Team Game

Earm more Raffle Tickets!

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7:30PM – 8:00PM

Dining Hall

Competition Awards

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8:00PM

Dining Hall

Raffles

Who will win tonights big prizes!?  As always, you must be present to win!

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8:30PM - 10:00PM

Dining Hall

Retro Costume Party & Shopping!

This is your last chance to float around to all the booths and make your purchases before the last classes tomorrow.  Throw on some bell bottoms and do it in STYLE while you dance the night away!

Day 4 – Thursday Oct 10, 2024

Pack up your rooms and put your luggage in your cars or take with you before breakfast.  The staff would like to start cleaning rooms.

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8:00am - 9:00am

Dining Hall

Breakfast & Raffles

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9:00am

Classes Begin

You can choose to take two more 3 Hour classes or a full day class.

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12:00pm – 1:00pm

Dining Hall

Lunch & Final Raffles

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1pm-4pm

Classes Continue!

Continue with your full day class, or attend an afternoon 3 hour worshop.

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5pm

Dining Hall

Camp Ends

Anyone who wants to volunteer to stay a short time and help pack up the booths or help load the trailer is very appreciated!

Register Now!

Tickets include 10 meals, 3 nights lodging in room of your choice, SWAG Bag full of products, raffle prizes, t-shirts,  competitions and all free classes, workshops and seminars over the course of 4 days.

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