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40 milky white nail ideas for an on-trend & elegant manicure

By Scratch Staff | 4 April 2025

This softer alternative to bright white nails uses sheer, creamy hues to create the ultimate milky mani. Check out our roundup of milky white designs from nail pros on Instagram…

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Don’t miss out on the butter nails trend: here’s 35 designs for inspiration

By Lilly Delmage | 20 March 2025

Butter nails are all over our socials, serving as the perfect hue for the transition into the warmer months. With pastels booming in popularity this spring, we’ve rounded up 35 manicures boasting the muted yellow shade for your spring manicure inspo…

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60 green nail designs that are trending right now

By Scratch Staff | 14 March 2025

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

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How a Northamptonshire nail tech perfected her work-life balance by opening a garden salon

By Lilly Delmage | 2 October 2024

Nail tech, Kim Hearn, behind byKIMI Nails, shares how opening her garden salon helped her create more definitive work-life boundaries. The nail pro previously worked from a console table in her living room, and found that this not only left her three children without a space to play, but hindered…

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How to paint a Pennywise clown nail this Halloween

By Guest Writer | 2 October 2024

Session nail stylist, salon owner & educator, Marie-Louise Coster, shares how to create Pennywise the clown from Stephen King’s It on nails, using Artistic Nail Design. She used the following Artistic Colour Gloss shades: Bride, Swag, Hotzy, How Do Hue Do? and Wild, available in the UK via Sweet Squared.

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How to create foil & chrome pumpkin nails for Halloween

By Guest Writer | 2 October 2024

Pure Nails educator, Nicole Dowling, has created this frighteningly fabulous foil and chrome pumpkin design for Halloween, and shares the step-by-step using Halo products, available here.

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Opi X Wicked

OPI collaborates with Wicked movie on bewitching nail colour collection

By Rebecca Hitchon | 1 October 2024

Nail enthusiasts can choose from 21 spellbinding nail colours in the OPI x Wicked collection, released for the holiday season. Inspired by the Universal Pictures’ musical movie, Wicked – in cinemas 22 November, the collection features 12 colour-matched shades in OPI Nail Lacquer and the reformulated GelColor formula, featuring Intelli-Gel…

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How to paint a sweet Halloween scene on nails

By Guest Writer | 1 October 2024

Try your hand at this spooky but sweet scene featuring a witch and her pet cat, by international nail artist & educator, Anastasiia Morozova.

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Pro Beauty North Nail Competitions 2024: THE RESULTS

By Rebecca Hitchon | 1 October 2024

The Professional Beauty North (PB North) exhibition took place in Manchester Central, 29-30 September, and hosted a variety of nail competitions for professionals and students. The judging board was chaired by Marian Newman BEM, with Jacqui O’Sullivan head judge and her and Sean O’Sullivan competition directors. Also judging were Kirsty…

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