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Go nuts for 60 pistachio green nail art designs: #ShowScratch Creative Challenge

By Lilly Delmage | 27 February 2025

Check out entries to the 26 February 2025 nail art challenge from Scratch, in which techs were tasked with creating a design to fit the theme: pistachio green nails. Each nail style was submitted via Instagram or Facebook using #ShowScratch #CreativeChallenge. Follow Scratch on Instagram and Facebook for future Creative Challenges – launching every other Wednesday.

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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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Microbead ban comes into force

By Kat Hill | 20 June 2018

From 19 June, retailers in England and Scotland will no longer be able to sell rinse-off cosmetic and personal care products, such as face scrubs, toothpaste, soaps and shower gels, which contain solid plastic microbeads. The announcement from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs follows a ban from…

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Salon in the Spotlight: Foxy Nails by Laura Jane, Great Yarmouth

By Kat Hill | 20 June 2018

Based near Great Yarmouth in Norfolk is Foxy Nails by Laura Jane. After needing a base for her beauty business, Laura Jane Mitchell found her place. “I was a mobile technician for five years but due to my disability I knew I had to get myself into a premises full…

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Salon System collaborates with Andy Rouillard for Just Wax Expert range

By Sophie Nutt | 19 June 2018

The month of July will see a collaboration between Salon System and waxing expert, Andy Rouillard, of Axiom Bodyworks, for the Just Wax Expert range. Designed with the needs of today’s beauty therapists in mind, the range sees skincare products for soothing prep and aftercare as well as hot and…

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Scottish spa scoops two award wins

By Kat Hill | 19 June 2018

Scottish spa, Blythswood Square, has revealed a recent double award win. The five star spa and hotel located in Glasgow recently scooped Spa of the Year in Scotland’s LOOK Awards, as well as Luxury Spa of the Year in the first ever Scottish Beauty Industry Awards. The wins come aftercompleting several spa…

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Learn chic designs at Cherrie Snow’s Fashion Nail Art Workshop

By Kat Hill | 19 June 2018

Session stylist and nail artists, Cherrie Snow, is set to hold her third Fashion Nail Art Workshop. In association with Zoya, the workshop will see live-screened demo of freehand nail art by Cherrie. Attendees will also be fitted a 12-piece Zoya nail kit to work with and to take home. As well…

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#TRENDINGTUESDAY Jo Halladey, Jo’s Pamper Parlour

By Sophie Nutt | 19 June 2018

We want to see the designs trending at your nail desk! Jo Halladey, of Jo’s Pamper Parlour, reveals that this dusky rose shade and henna-style stamping has been popular amongst her clients recently. “I think this design has been so popular as this particular shade, The Gel Bottle Inc. in…

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