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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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Nailympia Estonia 2019: THE RESULTS

By Scratch Staff | 13 May 2019

The second Nailympia Estonia took place 10-12 May 2019 at Beauty World, Talinn, and attracted 69 competitors from 16 countries. 320 competition seats were taken and the results are as follows: SOAK OFF GEL MANICURE Division 1 1st – Aleksandra Karnosova – Finland 2nd – Agne Montivilaite – Lithuania 3rd…

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Beata Aleksandrowicz launches new ‘Ask Beata’ concept

By Sophie Nutt | 10 May 2019

Author, speaker and international expert on massage, Beata Aleksandrowicz, has launched a new interactive concept called ‘Ask Beata’ to support therapists, spa directors and managers. Beata, the creator of the Pure Massage Spa Training Method, provides spas worldwide with advanced training in a modern concept of massage and is an…

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St Moriz partners with skin cancer hospital for sun awareness week

By Sophie Nutt | 4 May 2019

St Moriz has partnered with St Helen’s Hospital in Lancashire for a third consecutive year, promoting safe tanning in the skin cancer ward over sun awareness week (6th – 12th May, 2019). Each year, St Moriz provides support and guidance on the ward to cancer patients, friends, family and staff,…

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Salon System supports ‘The Masterclass’ by Mario Dedivanovic

By Sophie Nutt | 29 April 2019

Salon System supported ‘The Masterclass’ event hosted by celebrity make-up artist, Mario Dedivanovic (aka @makeupbymario), in London earlier this month. At The Masterclass, 650 make-up artists had the opportunity to take a behind the scenes look at Mario demonstrating his signature make-up look. A four hour immersive show, Mario also…

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Expand your waxing horizons at Wax Live 2019

By Sophie Nutt | 13 April 2019

Wax Live, an exciting day of hair removal education and networking for waxing enthusiasts, is taking place in Coventry on Sunday 28th April 2019. Organised by experts and self-confessed wax addicts, Andy Rouillard and Toni Keable, the event features an inspiring seminar programme of valuable advice and clever tricks to…

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Ensure nail skills are Insta-ready with Samantha Cox @DailyNailSpa

By Kat Hill | 9 April 2019

Want to ensure your nail designs are photo-ready? Gerrard International has revealed a new Jessica Insta Nail Art course set to run between 29th April and 22nd July hosted by Samantha Cox of The Daily Nail (@dailynailspa). The new course is open to Jessica account holders only, and is set to take place…

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