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Important May dates for your nail & beauty business marketing

By Lilly Delmage | 30 April 2025

Get your business’ marketing content prepared for the month of May, with our roundup of dates to note… Skin Cancer Awareness Month Educate clients on the importance of protecting their skin by sharing the Protect and Check campaign from UK skin cancer charity, Skcin, and the Sun Protection Campaign from…

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Nails inspired by spring trends: see 94 entries & winner of nail art comp

By Rebecca Hitchon | 28 April 2025

The winner of Scratch’s monthly nail art contest for April is Katarzyna Korzeniak of @katessimplynails. In a showcase of talent, techs created nail designs inspired by theme, Your Favourite Spring Trends, in the bid to win a prize from Andreia Professional. Entries were judged by Sara Pinto, Andreia Professional product director, and Scratch deputy editor,…

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Inside look: Nail Beauty Congress & Championship 2025, Belgrade, Serbia

By Alex Fox | 24 April 2025

The landmark event highlighted industry advancements, expertise and hosted the first Serbian nail competition in nine years, while raising the region’s industry profile and standards, writes Alex Fox… The Nail Beauty Congress & Championship, held in Belgrade, Serbia, in April, was a historic event that brought together nail professionals and…

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Nail Education without Borders

By Alex Fox | 8 January 2021

An International Nails Marathon is currently being fashioned by organiser, Viryi Rodriguez, for hungry nail artists to run from 10-24 January 2021 – showcasing two classes per day, Scratch learns from Russian nail artist, Irina Vrodenko. Promising 15 days of ‘spectacular’ learning from a pool of 33 top class educators,…

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Win 1-2-1 Competition Training with Kupień

By Alex Fox | 29 December 2020

Having experienced a hugely successful year winning online nail competitions during 2020, impassioned nail artist & Nail Harmony educator, Monika Kupień wants to give back. Monika explains, “I want to give back to an industry that has supported me during my long journey, with a one-to-one competition training class and…

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The GelBottle Inc hosts awards for nail pros

By Chloe Randall | 29 December 2020

The GelBottle Inc. celebrate all nail pros and techs’ excellence by hosting their first ever award ceremony. The virtual awards ceremony took place on Monday 21st December 2020 and was divided into six categories covering everything from technique & design to interiors and displays. Finalists were chosen by #TeamTGB with judging for selected categories done…

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Nailympia Online Festive Discount for Artists

By Alex Fox | 8 December 2020

It’s hotting up and the race is on…it’s halfway to the closing date for the first Nailympia Online edition and techs are now beginning to complete their nail styles and designs and submitting them via the website portal. Meanwhile, others are braving the registration process and signing up, so it’s…

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Top Tech Presents 5-Classes for Animal Charity

By Alex Fox | 3 December 2020

Top champion tech, international educator & judge Olena Oezman will present five days of classes for just €20 to raise money for an animal shelter in Ukraine. Animal lover & supporter, Olena, who’s based in Germany, is keen to raise funds for food, medicines and surgery needed by the shelter…

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Sign Up to Join the Second Nail Safari 2021

By Alex Fox | 30 November 2020

The second Nail Safari event has been scheduled for Monday 15 – Friday 19 November 2021 and is open for bookings. With such positive feedback from delegates who attended the original event hosted back in November 2019, it was decided a second event should take place, however the pandemic put…

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