NAIL BITES: 5 tales from the industry w/c 4 July

Here at Scratch, we love keeping up to date with anything fun happening in the nail industry! These are our top 5 nail tales of the week…

1. Harrods to open 3 beauty stores

Harrods has announced a national rollout of its standalone brand H beauty. Following the successful introduction of two standalone stores last year, the Knightsbridge retailer will open three more H beauty boutiques in Edinburgh, Bristol, and Gateshead’s Metrocentre within the next year.

2. Vanessa Hudgens and Madison Beer’s beauty line

Vanessa Hudgens and Madison Beer have launched their own beauty line, Know Beauty, a skincare branded rooted in DNA personalisation. After sending back your cheek swab DNA kit, you can complete a one-minute skin diagnostic quiz that takes into account lifestyle and other factors that can impact skin’s health.

3. Chocolate beauty

Luxury confectioner Hotel Chocolat has just concluded a sweet deal – by gobbling up a cosmetics business that specialises in “cacao-powered beauty”. The firm paid just £4 to take full control of Rabot 1745, which it set up five years ago in partnership with businessman Andrew Gerrie.

4. Did you know?

K-pop girl group Momoland member, JooE has been learning nail art during the pandemic.

5. Celeb mani spot!

Chaun Legend created nails for Kylie Jenner, using The Gel Bottle products.

@chaunlegend