Olympus Digital Camera

Back to Work: Clean up

By Scratch Staff | 19 June 2020

Scratch gathers guidelines from across the industry for what should be considered for when you & your clients set foot back into your business… Following your risk assessment, you need to thoroughly clean and title your premises. Not only is this good health & safety practice, but will reassure your…

Read More
Phone

Back to Work: Check-in with clients

By Scratch Staff | 19 June 2020

Scratch gathers guidelines from across the industry for what should be considered for when you & your clients set foot back into your business… When you have the official go-ahead to reopen your business and you’re confident that you have taken all necessary safety measures, you will need to communicate…

Read More
Barbicide Certificate

Back to Work: Top up training

By Scratch Staff | 19 June 2020

Scratch gathers guidelines from across the industry for what should be considered for when you & your clients set foot back into your business… “Effective infection control is paramount to minimising the risk of the spread of harmful diseases/bacteria/viruses etc.,” notes BABTAC’s Back To Work Guidelines.  “By understanding the processes…

Read More
Kara Kotsonis Nail Desk

Why I’ve installed nail desk screens in my salon

By Guest Writer | 9 June 2020

Kara Kotsonis, founder of the award-winning NailSquad Nail Bar in Deal, Kent, reveals why she has added perspex screens to the salon’s nail desks… The official government guidelines for the re-opening of nail salons are due to be released shortly. Most of the proposed guidelines seem straightforward but there has been…

Read More
Beauty Treatment

Google searches for D.I.Y beauty treatments spike

By Sophie Nutt | 9 June 2020

The number of Google searches for D.I.Y beauty treatments has quadrupled since March and April 2019, with over one million related queries. The team at Cult Beauty has compared the number of UK Google searches in March and April 2019 to March and April 2020 to reveal the most popular…

Read More
Burnout Woman

5 ways to prevent burnout in the nail salon

By Guest Writer | 8 June 2020

Janan Saher, director of Aviva Day Spa in Luton, shares advice on how to avoid burnout… As the old saying goes, ‘prevention is better than cure’, and this is something we all need to prioritise while we prepare for the new year.  It’s important to recognise beauty pro burnout in both yourself…

Read More
Hand Cream

Helen Burton-Ward on maintaining nails & your business

By Sophie Nutt | 5 June 2020

Scratch Stars Natural Nail Specialist of the Year 2019 and CND education ambassador, Helen Burton-Ward, shares her advice to maintaining clients’ nails and your business while salons remain closed due to Covid-19… Many of us will have lost a huge chunk, if not all, of our income and will have been inundated…

Read More
British Beauty Council 1200

5 June: British Beauty Council releases update about reopening of beauty businesses

By Helena Biggs | 5 June 2020

Following some uncertainty regarding the reopening of hair and beauty businesses after the coronavirus peak, the British Beauty Council has published the following via Instagram in a post on Friday 5 June: “We can now confirm that as officially communicated by BEIS (Dept for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy), the…

Read More
Raphael Lovaski Pe9ixuuc6qu Unsplash

Beauty therapy is third most anticipated post-lockdown activity

By Sophie Nutt | 4 June 2020

It has been revealed that beauty therapy is the third most anticipated post-lockdown activity amongst UK consumers. Data was collected by Kantar Media between the first week of the lockdown and the first week of May to demonstrate how consumer desire to inhale in activities has shifted over the period.…

Read More
Abt Insurance

ABT accredits online nail courses

By Kat Hill | 2 June 2020

Insurance provider, Associated Beauty Therapists (ABT), has allowed for online courses to be ‘acceptable for insurance purposes’. This will allow ABT accredited members to deliver accredited live education via online channels, including Skype, Facetime, Zoom or similar. “At ABT, we know how important it is to work together during these…

Read More