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Add to playlist: Nail On Sunday podcast, which serves up insight for nail techs

By Helena Biggs | 3 February 2025

The founders of professional nail brand, Nail Order, have launched Nail On Sunday: a podcast dedicated to discussing important topics for nail techs. A new episode goes live every Sunday. Topics discussed so far include: How to maximise your earnings as a nail tech. How to use social media to…

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Digital Boost for Beauty: the campaign helping beauty businesses transition to Making Tax Digital

By Lilly Delmage | 2 February 2025

Ria-Jaine Lincoln, aka The Beauty Accountant, has launched a campaign to prepare beauty businesses for the UK government’s upcoming Making Tax Digital (MTD) initiative. Digital Boost for Beauty, launching on 2 February 2025, seeks to ‘support hair and beauty professionals to transition from paper-based bookkeeping to digital systems – or…

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Nail techs, salons, educators & teams invited to ‘show off their sparkle’ in UK&I industry awards

By Helena Biggs | 1 February 2025

Nail pros & business owners: it’s time to show off your sparkle and celebrate your strengths in the sector’s most prestigious awards event! It’s the ultimate celebration of creativity, passion and dedication to client care: the nail sector’s equivalent to the Oscars has returned for a 13th year – and…

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Gemma Lambert Gems Gel Polish

Multi award-winning tech reveals own gel polish range

By Helena Biggs | 1 December 2019

Esteemed UK educator and tech, Gemma Lambert, has unveiled Gems Nail Systems – her own brand of professional nail products. Two years in the making, the first products to be released under the Gems Nails Systems name are gel polishes. There are 25 shades in the range, alongside a UV/LED…

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Perfect prep with Americanails Stainless Steel Filing System

By Sophie Nutt | 30 November 2019

Americanails has launched its Stainless Steel Filing System, featuring a Stainless Steel Nail File Kit and Stainless Steel Pedicure File Kit. Americanails Stainless Steel Nail File Kit This fully sanitisable and immersible stainless steel nail file features durable construction with the right amount of flexibility for optimal performance. The kit…

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Dealing with staff absences

By Scratch Staff | 30 November 2019

As we head into one of the busiest times of the year, do you know how to deal with staff absences? Tina Beaumont-Goddard, National Hair & Beauty Federation‘s director, serves up some advice… Your employees may be off work for a wide range of reasons, and you’ll need to understand what the law…

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CIDESCO to open exclusive training salon

By Kat Hill | 30 November 2019

CIDESCO, the world standard for beauty and spa therapy, has announced that it will be opening the doors of its exclusive CIDESCO Training Salon in 2020. Located at CIDESCO’s head office in Zurich, Switzerland, the new training salon will also provide a platform f to produce educational webinars for its…

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How to become a Crystal Nails UK educator

By Scratch Staff | 29 November 2019

Timea Berridge, nail technician and now Crystal Nails UK educator for Nottingham, shares her experience of the brand’s educator course… “Hi, my name is Timea and I have been working as a nail technician for a number of years. After seeing the opportunity to become a Crystal Nails UK educator,…

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Selfridges bans single-use wipes in beauty halls

By Sophie Nutt | 29 November 2019

Selfridges has announced it is removing all single-use, plastic-based beauty wipes from sale and use in its beauty halls. Instead, the store will provide recyclable or re-usable alternatives in a bid to encourage its customers to consume more sustainably. Less than a fifth of Selfridges customers knew that it can…

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