Indigo Nails Lab UK offers back-to-work offers & tutorials
Indigo Nails Lab UK is helping nail businesses prepare for re-opening with Instagram Live sessions and lower prices and discounts across its range of professional products. Allowing shoppers to stock up on nail products and personal protective equipment, prices have been lowered across the website. “Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, we…
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Olympia Beauty Online Store launches
Leading trade beauty exhibition, Olympia Beauty, has announced the launch of a new shopping online platform for beauty professionals and consumers. The Olympia Beauty Online Store sees multiple brands, services and training available through simple, independent and online platform. Brands on the store include Vu Nail Systems, Edge Nail & Beauty…
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Polish nails skills at Disneyland Paris education event
A retreat-style seminar weekend for nail technicians is set to take place in Paris next spring. Taking place 25-27 April 2021, Nailed in Paris will see six top class mentors join nail professionals in Disneyland Paris. The retreat sees two nights in Disneyland Paris with access to the theme park,…
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Coronavirus: Nail & beauty businesses NOT to open 4 July
Nail & beauty businesses are to remain closed as a date for reopening has not been confirmed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as the easing of Covid-19 lockdown continues. In an announcement today (23 June), the Prime Minister confirmed hairdressers will be allowed to open from 4 July, as long as protective…
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Association reveals safety guidelines for beauty counters
The Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association (CTPA) has published a charter to help shoppers safely browse beauty counters as department and retail stores in the UK have now opened. CTPA, the trade association representing the UK cosmetics industry, has worked with manufacturers, distributors, retailers and the industry’s scientific experts, with support from the British…
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Louella Belle hosts virtual education week
Nail & beauty distributor, Louella Belle, is kicking off a week of virtual education on a variety of topics. Hosted by the Louella Belle team and brand ambassadors, each day this week will see a live on Instagram covering tutorials, step-by-steps and Q&As. Scroll down to see the full schedule! “As…
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Clawgasmic nail network offers monthly inspo & support
A season nail artist has created a subscription based website to offer regular video nail art tutorials. Chan, aka @chan_littlebitsnails, has pooled a team of eight other talented techs who will each create a tutorial video and submit it to subscription based website, The Clawgasmic Nail Network every month, for…
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Award-winning nail tech hosts business masterclass for fellow pros
Metta Francis, Scratch Stars Hall of Fame nailist and owner of Nails By Mets, has launched #NBMBizClub – an online platform to serve up business advice for fellow pros. Metta, who holds a BSc (Hons) Business & Management degree has attended a number of social media courses and masterclasses over…
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Cuccio reveals gel polish range in handy 9ml bottles
Are you considering trying a new brand or simply want to squeeze more gel polish shades in your kit? Cuccio Europe has unveiled handy 9ml bottles of its gel polish range, Veneer, so you can benefit from a more diverse colour collection at a low cost. Veneer’s standard bottle size…
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Extend nails with Luxe Gel Professional Builder Gel range
Extend and enhance clients’ nails with the Luxe Professional Builder Gel range. The one phase builder gel sees a self-levelling, flexible formula presented in a handy 50g screw jar. It has a medium thick viscosity and a cure time of 2 minutes for UV and 1 minute for LED. The…
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OPI adds a new dimension to nail colour with Hidden Prism collection
OPI has refreshed rainbow shades by adding a prismatic twist to catch the eye. The Hidden Prism collection for summer 2020 features 12 new shades; six of which are available in both GelColor and Nail Lacquer formulas, and six in Infinite Shine. Described as ‘electric hues with a sun-washed finished’,…
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Brown Beauty Talk relaunches website
Online beauty magazine, Brown Beauty Talk (BBT), has revealed a new website, designed connect Black and Asian women in the UK with beauty brands. BBT offers readers news and features via its new website, as well as daily updates via its social media platforms and fortnightly email newsletter. “We created Brown…
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Salon Standards Alliance formed to raise awareness of beauty salon health & safety
A number of nail techs and business owners have launched the Salon Standards Alliance, an organisation to create videos for consumers in the UK & Ireland to help them understand and promote safe salon practice. “The idea stemmed from a ‘Madge’s Chat Show‘ Zoom group organised by Marian Newman,” comments…
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So you wanna be a nail tech? New book shares insight into working in the industry
A nail technician from London has written a book to highlight what it’s like to work in the nail industry and help navigate some of the issues that existing workers face. Thirty-year-old Natifa Mai wrote So You Wanna Be A Nail Tech? over 11 weeks while grounded in Jamaica during…
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Indigo’s Fluomania collection welcomes 11 bright gel polish shades for summer
Show off nail overlays that pack a serious punch with the bright summer gel polish collection from Indigo Nails. Fluomania features all the shades of the rainbow with a neon twist; from the vibrant coral Dynamite to fuchsia La Bamba and striking green Fluomaniac. Serve up a block colour mani…
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