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55 green nail designs that are trending right now

By Scratch Staff | 25 August 2025

Green nails have been dominating our social media feeds, and show no signs of going anywhere anytime soon! Check out our roundup of trending designs from Instagram below…

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Brighten up summer styling with these 24 neon nail art designs

By Scratch Staff | 12 August 2025

Ensure nails are looking on-trend for summer with neon art styles! Check out our pick of bright and bold nail designs below…

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Don’t miss out on the butter nails trend loved by celebs: here’s 28 mani ideas

By Scratch Staff | 10 July 2025

Butter nails are all over our socials, serving as the perfect hue for the spring and summer months. We’ve rounded up manicures boasting the muted yellow shade to inspire, courtesy of nail pros on Instagram…

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Calculating Money

Revealed: hair & beauty pros’ average income isn’t enough to cover cost of living

By Rebecca Hitchon | 17 August 2024

Many UK hair and beauty pros are not earning enough to cover personal and business costs. These are the results of the first annual pricing survey by Boss Your Salon, which offers pricing, marketing and mindset support to industry professionals. With insight gathered from over 1,200 respondents using Boss Your…

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Embrace emotions through nail colour with 12 gel-based options from Light Elegance

By Lilly Delmage | 16 August 2024

Nail brand, Light Elegance, has unveiled its autumn/winter 2024 Moody nail colour collection, inspired by seasonal colours that evoke feelings of ‘anger, sadness, attitude, love and deep passion’. The collection offers six shades in P+ Gel Polish and ButterCream formulas, as well as six shades in P+ Glitter Gel Polish…

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Time Management

5 time management tips for beauty pros

By Marie-Louise Coster | 16 August 2024

Session nail stylist, salon owner & educator, Marie-Louise Coster, reveals her advice to healthily manage your time and achieve all your tasks… How good are you at managing your time? If you add up all the time you spent scrolling on social media, googling what you have seen an actress in…

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A guide to taking care of your nail tools & brushes

By Scratch Staff | 15 August 2024

They’re the most essential items in your kit bag, so refresh your knowledge on storing, cleaning and maintaining nail tools and brushes… “With all tools, the general rule should be that if you can feel a loss of efficacy or you’re having to change your technique, it’s time to replace…

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Fancy a trip to the beach? Nail techs create 138 seaside-inspired manicures: #ShowScratch Creative Challenge

By Lilly Delmage | 15 August 2024

Check out entries to the 14 July 2024 nail art challenge from Scratch, in which techs were tasked with creating a design to fit the theme: A day at the beach. Each nail style was submitted via Instagram or Facebook using #ShowScratch #CreativeChallenge. Follow Scratch on Instagram and Facebook for future Creative Challenges – launching every other Wednesday.

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Salon in the Spotlight: Beauty Room @51, Crieff, Perthshire

By Lilly Delmage | 14 August 2024

Kelly Sweeney, behind Beauty Room @51, shares a behind-the-scenes look at her Glitterbels-inspired salon… The tech trained and qualified in 2022 in builder gel and L&P acrylic with Glitterbels, and has since taken inspiration from the brand’s renowned pretty-in-pink aesthetic. She says: ” I wanted my salon to run alongside…

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