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OPI collaborates with award-winning nail pro on mani/pedi essentials range

By Helena Biggs | 14 April 2025

Following the launch of the Katie Barnes X OPI branded E-file in 2024, the two companies have announced a second collaboration: a range of nail and cuticle tools and E-file bits. Katie Clark (née Barnes), a multi award-winning nail pro & educator, founded Katie Barnes Tool Range in 2017 to…

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Family affair: Meet 3 sets of siblings finding success in the nail industry

By Rebecca Hitchon | 10 April 2025

Scratch puts the spotlight on brothers and sisters working together in the nail industry… Glitterbels While Annabel Maginnis will likely come to mind when you hear the word ‘Glitterbels’, there is a trio of siblings involved in the brand: Annabel’s husband, Elliott, and his brothers, Mac and Alex. It was…

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Chrome pigments: a nail expert shares a troubleshooting guide

By Katie Barnes | 6 April 2025

Educator & award-winning nail pro, Katie Clark, offers advice for dealing with issues that can arise when using chrome pigments… The chrome nail trend is ever-popular, but are you applying chrome products correctly? Each brand may have slightly different instructions, so always follow these and get in touch with the…

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Sam Biddle to Host Online Education Platform

By Alex Fox | 24 November 2020

Be Inspired is your new home for online education & a way to share and shine. Nail artist, international educator, judge, mentor & expert, Sam Biddle is known industry-wide to innovate and adjust, pivoting her business to accommodate the growing needs of the industry. Over the years she’s created a…

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Expand your nail colour range with Purple Professional’s ‘MY Collection’

By Chloe Randall | 24 November 2020

Purple Professional has unveiled its six gel polish shades in its My Collection, named after various dog breeds. The shades are highly pigmented and can be cured under UV light in 120 seconds and under LED light in 60 seconds, offering up to four weeks’ wear. The shades available are:…

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Retail Christmas beauty gifts with CND™

By Kat Hill | 24 November 2020

Stock up on stocking fillers and pull in profit with retail-ready gifts thanks to CND™’s range of seasonal sets. Available now via UK distributor, Sweet Squared, the collection of retail-friendly products offers a range of nail goodies for clients to treat loved ones – or themselves. What’s more, the sets see…

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The Gel Bottle Inc becomes first nail brand to launch products into space

By Helena Biggs | 23 November 2020

The Gel Bottle Inc has celebrated the launch of its galactic-inspired Infinity nail colour collection by sending the 10 shades into space. In an industry first, TGB founder Daisy Kalnina, and her team sourced a company in Sheffield to rocket the gel polish products high above the earth via a…

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Nail tech launches sharpening service to keep tools performing at their best

By Helena Biggs | 22 November 2020

Katie Barnes, the award-winning Warwick nail tech who has founded her own tool range, has launched a sharpening service. The service is available to nail techs using any tool brand, not just those using the KB Tool Range. “Sharp tools are safer and more efficient to use than blunt ones,”…

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Gloved adds fragranced hand sanitiser to range

By Kat Hill | 22 November 2020

Luxury hand care brand, Gloved by Tom Daxon has added a fragranced hand sanitiser to its range of  products. The sanitiser is enriched with natural ingredients to offer a formula that is both anti-bacterial as well as moisturising thanks to squalane and hyaluronic acid. The gel features 62% alcohol, as…

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