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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, launches 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 unlocking the potential…

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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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Cardiff nail tech: Offering vegan nail services has attracted 75% of my clients

By Lilly Delmage | 31 January 2025

Coral Kendall (she/they) of vegan nail studio, Oh Lush Nails, shares why she believes it is important to offer vegan services, the products she uses and what techs can do to become more vegan-friendly… “As a vegan of seven years, I was always going to run a vegan studio,” reveals…

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Sugaring London reveals second location

By Kat Hill | 7 June 2019

Hair removal studio, Sugaring London, has opened its second location at Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross – a new shopping and restaurant district. Founded by Tanja Westendorff, who opened her first studio in Notting Hill last year, Sugaring London’s 100% natural and vegan hair removal studio offers a range of…

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CND™ Nail Lab to make its mark at new Urban Retreat flagship

By Scratch Staff | 6 June 2019

Urban Retreat is set to open its new Knightsbridge flagship, The White House, in July, with CND™ as the brand of choice for nail services. The five-storey salon will feature the CND™ Nail Lab; a luxe destination where Londoners and tourists can go to experience CND™’s extensive colour offerings and…

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The journey to opening my first nail academy – Part 4

By Erica Turley | 6 June 2019

The work on the academy is coming on extremely well and everything is coming together rather quickly. I think that because so much time and effort has been spent in doing preparation work of the building, it was hard to see the wood from the trees! We are now upstairs…

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Premiere Orlando 2019: Key nail & beauty events

By Kat Hill | 6 June 2019

Scratch’s Helena and I touched down in sunny Florida for Premiere Orlando, a trade exhibition for the hair & beauty industry in the US. Taking place across June 1-3 at the Orange County Convention Center, the professional exhibition saw over 850 brands exhibiting, as well as educational seminars, demonstrations and…

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Why you should be offering add-on services

By Sophie Nutt | 6 June 2019

As clients become increasingly time-poor, they may seek to find a professional that can cater to all of their beauty needs in one stint, squeezing treatments around other commitments. As a nail tech, you’ve already earned the trust of your clients, so consider expanding your treatment menu to cater to…

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Spa at South Lodge partners with Gerrard International

By Sophie Nutt | 5 June 2019

This spring the Exclusive Hotels & Venues portfolio, including Pennyhill Park Hotel & Spa, announced the opening of the Spa at South Lodge near Horsham. For a number of years, Pennyhill Park Hotel & Spa has been a flagship spa for Gerrard International’s portfolio of products, and now the Spa…

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