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Fun fingertips for World Friendship Day: 28 nail designs to help inspire the love

By Jess Watts | 31 July 2025

Check out entries to the 30 July 2025 nail art challenge from Scratch, in which techs were tasked with creating a design to fit the theme: Friendship. 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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What’s the deal with fish nails? Here are 20 designs to catch the eye

By Jess Watts | 30 July 2025

It’s National Fishing Month! Celebrate with the catch of the day… Aquatic designs have dominated this summer, with our finned friends being splashed across nail designs. If you haven’t tried the trend, maybe one of these designs from Instagram will get you hooked?

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Celebrate Women’s Euro 2025 with football-themed nail designs

By Jess Watts | 27 July 2025

England’s Lionesses have made it to the finals of the UEFA Women’s Championship, and what better way to support the team than to sport a football-inspired manicure? Cheer on from the sidelines with these nail looks from Instagram…

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The stained glass nail looks you need to try

By Lorna Brown | 20 March 2023

These eye-catching nail designs mimic the thousand-year-old, colourful, intricate art of stained glass windows. Check out our roundup of stained glass-inspired designs below…

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25 out of this world alien nail art ideas

By Callie Iley | 20 March 2023

March 20 is Alien Abduction Day, popularised by a festival in Toronto in 2008. Use this date as an opportunity to create some out of this world nail styles! Check out our roundup of alien-inspired reader designs below…

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25 purrfect cat nail designs to try

By Callie Iley | 2 March 2023

Thursday 2 March marks International Rescue Cat Day. Show your love for cats with hand-painted nail designs, while raising awareness about the importance of protecting felines.

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The trending lipgloss nail looks you need to see

By Rebecca Hitchon | 21 February 2023

Sweet and simple styles seem to be dominating nail trends of late: just take 2023’s newest trend, lipgloss nails. Mimicking the glossy finish of lipgloss, the look is a more natural take on 2022’s hottest style, glazed donut nails, and adds a sheer layer of shiny colour over the natural…

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40 out of this world galaxy nail designs you need to try

By Rebecca Hitchon | 5 February 2023

Looking for a stellar nail art look to add to your portfolio? Get inspired by our roundup of out of this world galaxy styles…

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Love Island’s Farmer Will’s nail look

By Guest Writer | 30 January 2023

Ella Jarvis, who is part of The Gossip Nail Bar team, was flown to Cape Town in South Africa to create nail looks for the first set of islanders entering the villa for Love Island 2023. Here, the Bristol- based tech demonstrates how she created an apt farm animal themed nail look for…

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