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Glossy black, green nude & 2 other nail colours dominating Paris Fashion Week

By Lilly Delmage | 12 March 2025

After London, New York and Milan, the AW25 Fashion Week has concluded in Paris, finishing the season with a stylish bang. Over the past weeks, we’ve seen intricate and daring nail art designs, including nail piercings and embellishments, but the Parisian nail choices have been all about colour. Here are the…

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Nail competition winners announced at Dublin trade beauty event

By Helena Biggs | 12 March 2025

The Professional Beauty & Hair Ireland trade exhibition, held at The RDS in Dublin 9-10 March, welcomed nail students and professionals to the competition arena in a bid to take home medals and trophies. “Professional Beauty & Hair Ireland created a vibrant stage, where both budding talents and seasoned professionals…

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Sweet Squared delivers SOFGEL nail products to UK market

By Rebecca Hitchon | 11 March 2025

USA-based professional nail brand, SOFGEL, has partnered with hair and beauty distributor, Sweet Squared, to bring its soft gel products to the UK market. The brand boasts SOFTIPS PRO™: a range of ultra-thin, flexible and durable full coverage tips in two styles: standard and structured. The tips are available in…

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Coronavirus: Government working ‘rapidly’ on a timetable for reopening

By Kat Hill | 3 July 2020

In a briefing tonight (3 July), Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed the government is working ‘rapidly’ on a timetable for reopening ‘sectors that remain closed’. The announcement comes as lockdown restrictions are beginning to lift around the UK – with hairdressers and barbers set to open their doors from tomorrow (4…

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Hair & Beauty Charity sees huge surge in support requests

By Kat Hill | 3 July 2020

Industry charity, Hair & Beauty Charity, has reported a staggering 78% increase in requests for financial support during the Covid-19 crisis. With thousands of hair, beauty and barber salons closed and industry professionals unable to work for three months, there was a tremendous increase in requests for help from the…

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Parliamentary group shares letter templates urging for clarity on reopening date

By Scratch Staff | 1 July 2020

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Beauty, Aesthetics and Wellbeing (BAW APPG) has shared two letter templates for contacting the Prime Minister and your local MP regarding last week’s announcement that nail & beauty businesses are to remain closed. The two letter templates urge for reconsideration on ‘the re-opening of…

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Celeb hairstylist seeks donations for pop-up project for NHS workers

By Alex Fox | 1 July 2020

Celebrity hairstylist, Adee Phelan, is inviting the hair, nail, make-up, beauty industry and beyond to donate products and money to support the NHS workers with products and a pop-up shop concept in four cities. Adee’s project is to open four pop-up styling stations in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham cities with the…

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Kirsty Algouneh places in international CND™ educator contest

By Kat Hill | 29 June 2020

UK CND™ education ambassador, Kirsty Algouneh, has been awarded third place in its the brand’s international educator contest. CND™ EAs from around the world were invited to enter, with the theme being ‘Springtime’. Firstly, the CND™ experts were challenged to create a nail art look utilising the shades from the English…

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Polish nails skills at Disneyland Paris education event

By Alex Fox | 26 June 2020

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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