PRODUCTS & TREATMENTS

Valentine's Nail Products

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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Indigo Nails

Indigo Nails Lab UK offers back-to-work offers & tutorials

By Kat Hill | 29 June 2020

Indigo Nails Lab UK is helping nail businesses prepare for re-opening with Instagram Live sessions and lower prices and discounts across its range of professional products. Allowing shoppers to stock up on nail products and personal protective equipment, prices have been lowered across the website. “Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, we…

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Olympia B Store

Olympia Beauty Online Store launches

By Kat Hill | 27 June 2020

Leading trade beauty exhibition, Olympia Beauty, has announced the launch of a new shopping online platform for beauty professionals and consumers. The Olympia Beauty Online Store sees multiple brands, services and training available through simple, independent and online platform. Brands on the store include Vu Nail Systems, Edge Nail & Beauty…

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Dorota Palicka

Nail art options for every skill level

By Guest Writer | 24 June 2020

Scratch puts the spotlight on the esteemed educators at Beauty2trs, the online platform for nail classes… This month: Awarding winning nail tech, Dorota Palicka About Dorota Dorota moved with her family from Poland to a small village in Scotland in 2006. Due to the language barrier she was not able to work as…

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Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association Counter

Association reveals safety guidelines for beauty counters

By Kat Hill | 22 June 2020

The Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association (CTPA) has published a charter to help shoppers safely browse beauty counters as department and retail stores in the UK have now opened. CTPA, the trade association representing the UK cosmetics industry, has worked with manufacturers, distributors, retailers and the industry’s scientific experts, with support from the British…

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Cuccio Veneer Mini

Cuccio reveals gel polish range in handy 9ml bottles

By Helena Biggs | 19 June 2020

Are you considering trying a new brand or simply want to squeeze more gel polish shades in your kit? Cuccio Europe has unveiled handy 9ml bottles of its gel polish range, Veneer, so you can benefit from a more diverse colour collection at a low cost. Veneer’s standard bottle size…

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Luxe Professional Builder Gel

Extend nails with Luxe Gel Professional Builder Gel range

By Kat Hill | 18 June 2020

Extend and enhance clients’ nails with the Luxe Professional Builder Gel range. The one phase builder gel sees a self-levelling, flexible formula presented in a handy 50g screw jar. It has a medium thick viscosity and a cure time of 2 minutes for UV and 1 minute for LED. The…

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