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20 nail products you’ll love for Valentine’s Day 2025

By Rebecca Hitchon | 31 January 2025

‘Tis the season of love, so we’ve rounded up 20 love-ly nail products – from gel polishes to nail lacquers and glitter – that will set hearts aflutter this Valentine’s Day…

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Tammy Koslowski House Of Naf Glasgow

Why Glasgow? Founder of nail company, House of NAF! shares heritage & success story

By Helena Biggs | 25 January 2025

Glasgow-based House of NAF! is the umbrella company of the multi award-winning NAF! Salon, NAF! School, and hand & skincare product lines, NAF! Stuff and NAF! Professionals. Founded by manicurist, Tammy Koslowski, in 2015, NAF! has become a renowned destination for clients seek quality beauty services, products and education, and…

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Keysie Brian Gregor Eadie Scotland

How a Scottish inventor & son created a product nail enthusiasts can’t live without

By Helena Biggs | 23 January 2025

Have you ever damaged a nail opening a can, prying open the clips of photo frames or opening keyrings? It’s these nuisances that led husband and son duo, Brian and Gregor Eadie, to create Keysie: a handy device to save nails from unnecessary damage. It was Gregor who approached his…

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Scarlet Stilettos for Power, Strength & Style

By Alex Fox | 27 December 2020

Stunning scarlet nail styling & a powerful message about beauty, combine in a photographic project revealed by Brillbird educator, Neringa Alsauskiene. Kat Hill reports Captivating with a striking, scarlet stiletto nail, Neringa Alsauskiene created a series of images that celebrates both the beauty and strength of womankind. Contrasting against her…

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Gellux Colour Of The Year

Salon System announces Gellux’s nail colours of the year

By Chloe Randall | 25 December 2020

Salon System has announced its Gellux’s nail colours of the year after the announcement of Pantone’s colour of the year for 2021. Pantone has announced its colours of the year for 2021 as Pantone 17-5104 Ultimate Gray and Pantone 13-0647 Illuminating Yellow. Whilst an unlikely duo yet complementary, it emphasises…

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Halo Polibuild 1200

How-to: Halo PoliBuild overlay on natural nails

By Guest Writer | 24 December 2020

The team at Pure Nails reveals more about Halo’s PoliBuild and how to apply to natural nails to create strength… Some of you may have heard of this system, however others may be asking ‘What is Polibuild?’. Halo PoliBuild Precision Gel combines the benefits acrylic and hard gel to create…

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Sanitiser Machine 1200

Stay safe & on brand with personalised salon sanitiser machines

By Helena Biggs | 24 December 2020

Embrace a marketing opportunity for your business with a personalised sanitising unit from Killis. Available in three sizes, the dispensers help keep you and your clients protected from bacteria and viruses such as coronavirus. What’s more, Killis is offering 15% OFF a personalised unit for Scratch readers until 31 March…

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Salonspy Web Feature

SalonSpy adds hygiene question to improve client’s confidence in nail salons

By Chloe Randall | 23 December 2020

Leading verified salon review site, SalonSpy, have added an additional question to its review form. The question – did our hygiene standards make you feel safe in the current environment? In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, when salons started to open again after the first lockdown, one of the initial…

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Smart Nail Web Feature

Store data at your fingertips with Lanour Beauty’s ‘smart nail’

By Chloe Randall | 22 December 2020

A nail salon in Dubai, Lanour Beauty, has unveiled the ‘smart nail.’ The smart nail is a cutting edge contactless microchip, which is applied as part of a manicure that allows you to store a small amount of information at the tip of your fingers. The chip is glued on…

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