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Digital Boost for Beauty: the campaign helping beauty businesses transition to Making Tax Digital

By Lilly Delmage | 2 February 2025

Ria-Jaine Lincoln, aka The Beauty Accountant, has launched a campaign to prepare beauty businesses for the UK government’s upcoming Making Tax Digital (MTD) initiative. Digital Boost for Beauty, launching on…

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Nail techs, salons, educators & teams invited to ‘show off their sparkle’ in UK&I industry awards

By Helena Biggs | 1 February 2025

Nail pros & business owners: it’s time to show off your sparkle and celebrate your strengths in the sector’s most prestigious awards event! It’s the ultimate celebration of creativity, passion…

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Cardiff nail tech: Offering vegan nail services has attracted 75% of my clients

By Lilly Delmage | 31 January 2025

Coral Kendall (she/they) of vegan nail studio, Oh Lush Nails, shares why she believes it is important to offer vegan services, the products she uses and what techs can do…

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20 nail products you’ll love for Valentine’s Day 2025

By Rebecca Hitchon | 31 January 2025

‘Tis the season of love, so we’ve rounded up 20 love-ly nail products – from gel polishes to nail lacquers and glitter – that will set hearts aflutter this Valentine’s…

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Manifest Your 2025 Dreams: North America’s Star Nail Artist – Challenge 3 Entries

By Helena Biggs | 31 January 2025

North America’s Star Nail Artist sponsor brand, The GelBottle Inc, set season one contestants the challenge of manifesting their dream 2025 onto nails. The brief states: “We’re inviting you to…

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CND™ appoints 4-strong Team Eurasia to support nail pros across the region

By Helena Biggs | 30 January 2025

Nail brand, CND™, has introduced Team Eurasia: a group of four dynamic education ambassadors and nail professionals who will support fellow techs and CND™ distributor partners across the region. To…

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23 adorable Jellycat-inspired nails you can’t resist: #ShowScratch Creative Challenge

By Lilly Delmage | 30 January 2025

Check out entries to the 29 January 2025 nail art challenge from Scratch, in which techs were tasked with creating a design to fit the theme: Jellycats. Each nail style…

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Cambridgeshire nail tech: how I created my dream salon space after 20 years

By Scratch Staff | 29 January 2025

Dominique Sharpe’s Godmanchester nail business rebranded to The Nail Editor in May 2024, and the nail stylist moved into the professional studio she had longed for since qualifying as a…

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Slither into the Year of the Snake in style: 15 nail art ideas to celebrate Chinese New Year 2025

By Scratch Staff | 29 January 2025

Chinese New Year 2025 is celebrated on January 29th, welcoming the Year of the Snake. The nail industry is no stranger to snake-inspired designs, from snakeskin prints and hand-painted characters…

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Nail Order Sunday Service Event

28th September 2025, 10.30am to late, Birmingham You do not want to miss this event! This event has it all:…

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Highly anticipated Grand Slam tennis tournament, Wimbledon, returns to London at the end of June, serving up sporting excitement, iconic…

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