TECHS & SALONS
What are rings of fire on nails & how can they be avoided?
Red rings or semicircles that appear on the nail – often referred to as ‘rings of fire’ – can strike fear into the hearts of nail techs and clients alike, but what causes them and how can they be avoided? “Rings of fire appear as red rings on the nail…
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Inside the Kent nail studio where calm meets creativity
Chloe May Boyce began her beauty career 12 years ago, training at her local college. Over a decade later, she is a successful nail artist & educator who has worked with Vogue and at London Fashion Week, and she owns home salon, CMB Studio. Scratch spoke to Chloe about what…
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How to make your social media videos more watchable – a guide for nail artists
Nail content creator, Zoya Mac, shares what makes a social media video watchable, and how you can elevate your posts… Creating engaging video content is about more than producing aesthetically pleasing clips. You need to keep people watching. Picture this: your nail desk is set up, the nails are prepped…
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Scratch chats to Lucy Ames of By Lucy Alana about balancing a full-time job with tekking, and the sense of community that the nail industry offers… “My favourite products to use has got to be The GelBottle’s Builder in a Bottle or Glossify’s Naturabuild,” Lucy enthuses. “They’re both absolute game…
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Gemini Lad has been in the beauty industry since 2006, setting up her first beauty salon in Bath in her early 20s before moving salons to work as a beauty salon manager in the north of England. “I ended up moving back down south, so on 1 April 2022, I…
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Jordan Ramos worked at a salon for eight years, but when it was closed, she was left with a decision to make about the future of her career. “I decided it was time to open my own nail salon, which I have now owned since 2018. I have since moved…
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Scratch chats to Fern Barron of Barron Beauty about running a business from home and what she would change about the industry… “I had always wanted to be a nail tech ever since I had my nails done for the first time in a nail bar when I was 16,”…
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Euphoria Nail and Beauty Salon was formally a butchers, but was transformed in 1990 by Carole Lionet, with the help of her husband. “We quickly realised that the beauty industry was becoming more and more popular, so we added beauty room after beauty room, and it morphed into Euphoria as…
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Scratch talks to two techs, who reveal how they created the perfect pedi setups to accommodate to their back pain. Becks Dunn of Beautiful Destiny Nails and Tanning Northamptonshire based Becks Dunn has suffered with a bad back for 15 years, after an injury which ended her former dancing dreams…
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