Nail growth

Nail science: how they grow & what makes them grow faster

By Katie Barnes | 9 July 2025

Although it may sound like there’s no rhyme or reason to how nails grow, award-winning nail tech & founder of Katie Barnes Tool Range & Education, Katie Clark, shares the basic factors that affect the speed of growth. The standard rate of growth of a normal fingernail is between 0.5…

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Checking lengths

How to achieve consistent lengths with your nail enhancements

By Katie Barnes | 27 July 2018

Educator and award-winning nail technician, Katie Barnes, serves u advice on achieving consistent nail lengths… Did you know that each nail is naturally a different length and grows at different rates, meaning it is unlikely that they will be exactly the same length at any time? Have you ever experienced…

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