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Michaela Phillips Halo Vip January Blues Step 6

How to nail a January blues nail art look

By Guest Writer | 23 January 2025

Nail art aficionado & Halo VIP, Michaela Phillips, shares how to beat the January blues with this striking nail design – created using Halo products.

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50 blue nail art designs that are blue-tifully chic

By Scratch Staff | 18 January 2025

Feeling the blues? You won’t be after checking out these 50 blue nail art ideas to inspire creative handiwork…

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50+ green nail designs that are trending right now

By Scratch Staff | 8 January 2025

Green nails have been dominating our Instagram feeds, and show no signs of going anywhere anytime soon! Check out our roundup of trending designs below…

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Nail Tech Talk: Beca Carrillo of Geminails by Beca 

By Callie Iley | 28 May 2022

Beca Carrillo of Gemininails sits down with Scratch to chat about the wealth of opportunities for nail techs and where she sees her future within the industry… “I love to express myself with colours,” Beca smiles. “I have always had a love for painting and drawing. “When I started doing…

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Salon in the Spotlight: LEAF Beauty, Stoke on Trent

By Callie Iley | 26 May 2022

Working in a spa up until 2017, Zoe Cook made the decision to go self-employed, spending the first three years as a makeup artist in the wedding industry. “I was inspired by my own nail artist to expand and do more, and that’s exactly what I did!” “In January 2020,…

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#ShowScratch Creative Challenge: Birthdays

By Rebecca Hitchon | 26 May 2022

Check out entries to the 25 May nail art challenge from Scratch, in which techs were tasked with creating nail designs with the theme ‘Birthdays’, as this month marks Scratch’s 19th birthday. Each design was submitted via Facebook or Instagram using #showscratch #creativechallenge. Follow Scratch on Instagram and Facebook for future Creative Challenges – launched every Wednesday.

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Form Fit For Wide Fingernail

How to effectively fit a form to a wide nail

By Katie Barnes | 25 May 2022

It can be tricky to fit a form on an uneven free edge or when the fleshy pad of skin where the free edge would usually be, is raised and higher than or level with the nail plate. The nail plate is often flat or may be concave. This can…

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WINNER ANNOUNCED: Scratch Snap May 2022

By Chloe Randall | 24 May 2022

The winner of Scratch’s monthly nail art challenge has been announced as Magdalena Baranowska. In a showcase of talent, techs stepped up to the Scratch Snap challenge for May & created nail designs inspired by ‘French Twists’ in the bid to win a prize from Georgie Smedley Group.  Judged by Scratch‘s news & features writer,…

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Got a space? BiBi’s Beauty & Supplies seeks UK locations to host education class

By Chloe Randall | 24 May 2022

Netherlands based brand, BiBi’s Beauty & Supplies, is seeking UK locations to host education events. The brand is making its way to the UK with a class in Sheffield on 12 June, and is now looking for other locations to host similar events in other parts of the UK. “We’re…

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