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Get inspired: Nail pro, Lucy Price-Marshall, shares her journey to dominating the nail industry

By Lilly Delmage | 9 February 2025

Natural nail specialist, OPI educator, salon manager & multi-award winner, Lucy Price-Marshall, shares her career story and how she balances various industry roles… Tell us about your journey into the nail industry… While I was at school, I worked at my mum’s nail salon, Nailspa in Huddersfield, on Saturdays, assisting…

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Scotland home salon: the pro offering a one-stop shop for nails, hair & beauty services

By Lilly Delmage | 8 February 2025

Emma Saunderson, the owner of Angus-based salon, GlamEm, has made a name for herself as a versatile beauty professional, offering an impressive range of beauty treatments from her home salon. Having trained as a nail technician in 2019 with Young Nails, Emma initially worked on a mobile basis. Though as…

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Homeless to home salon success: a Staffordshire nail tech’s inspiring journey

By Rebecca Hitchon | 7 February 2025

“I became homeless when I was 21; I had just split up from my partner of five years and my friends and family were unable to help me,” explains Isabelle Pattissier of Chesterton business, Drop Dead Beauty. “I stored some things at my mum’s, told her I was living with…

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NAIL TECH TALK: Tihana Besevic, Scratch Stars finalist 20/21

By Lilly Delmage | 14 May 2021

Get to know Tihana Besevic, Scratch Stars One Stroke Artist of the Year finalist 20/21 (sponsored by HD Pro Nails), about her signature nail style and passion for one stroke artistry… Tihana took her first Crystal Nails course in 2012 and went on to become a Crystal Nails Educator in…

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#NowTrending: Retro daisy nails by Jaz Tuck

By Callie Iley | 11 May 2021

Scratch chats to Jaz Tuck of Jazzy Nails about her career progression and how she created this retro-inspired daisy nail design… Growing up, I knew I wanted to work within the beauty industry. I used to read Scratch Magazine when I was young while my mum was at the salon…

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NAIL TECH TALK: Charlie Bishop of By Charlie B

By Callie Iley | 8 May 2021

Scratch chats to Charlie Bishop of By Charlie B about her favourite nail designs and future goals… What is it about nails that has you hooked? I love how trends change all the time and how supportive people in the industry can be, even when you haven’t met. I adore…

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NAIL TECH TALK: Kayley Cairns, Scratch Stars finalist 20/21

By Lilly Delmage | 7 May 2021

Kayley Cairns is a Scratch Stars Awards finalist in the Mixed Media Artist of the Year (sponsored by Magpie Beauty) and Nail Stylist of the Year (sponsored by OPI UK) categories 20/21. Here, shares her experience in the nail industry thus far, her lockdown endeavours and why she entered the…

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Inspirational nail tech, Maya Velkova tells of her will to succeed while living with a lifelong disability that could have held her back

By Alex Fox | 4 May 2021

‘Be a flamingo in a flock of pigeons’. That sounds great doesn’t it! Yet how does, ‘be a pigeon in a flock of flamingos‘, sound? From my perspective, when being a pigeon one can create great inner strength. In each and every one of us there is some weakness, which…

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Keeping it in the family: The day my little sister showed us her hidden nail talent

By Guest Writer | 4 May 2021

Lead image L-R: Mike & Jazz Christodoulou, Jason & Georgie Smedley, Eliza Smedley Many of you may be familiar with Jazz Christodoulou; general manager of GS Group Ltd, award-winning nail tech and protegé of Georgie Smedley. Georgie just so happens to be her mother – a hugely successfully tech, educator…

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