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By now you should know how the nail unit works, how our nail plates are produced and most of the advantages and or disadvantages of wearing artificial nail products, especially if you have taken your NailKnowledge Essential Nail Diploma! We have learnt that choosing the right artificial nail product for the nail plate leads to […]

We seem to have entered a far more aggressive ‘cancel culture’! Restaurants and pubs are reporting a horrific number of ‘no shows’ where it can cost them around £60 in the food prep and staff availability. It seems some are booking several tables and then decide what they ‘fancy’ at the time! Do they not […]

Whether you embrace it or not; whether you agree or not; whether it offends you or not, this is now all part of the 21st century and it is better to have some understanding. I think we all, as nail professionals, recognise the absolute need for diversity and inclusivity. Whether it is referring to staff […]

Can we? Yes, we can! But not if you do what you’ve always done! We have woken up out of this long hard year to a ‘different world’ with a lot of our clients and potential clients having a different mindset. Having read a current report from the Business of Fashion (a fascinating and informative […]

This is a brief description on what all these mean (or should mean!). You may see that many claims are just marketing stories and have no basis in legal requirements nor accuracy! Claims should follow certain criteria as best practice: A new claim that keeps popping up is that some UV gel polishes claim to […]

HEMA (hydroxyethyl methacrylate) has become one of the most talked about ingredients over the last few years! It is an ingredient that is used in MANY products. Dentists use it, orthopaedic surgeons use it. It is also used in 3D printing and many other applications. It has also been used in nail coating products for […]

It was officially announced recently that new NOS (National Occupational Standards) for Nail Services have been formally approved. See the Press Release HERE. This news received a great response but also lots of questions about what they actually are. Is it good news? Does it mean that the industry is now regulated? Do we need […]

Nail services e.g. manicure, nail enhancements etc. have evolved over decades. In each country they have evolved in many different ways. What one country believes to be safe another doesn’t. What one country uses for the nail unit terminology another country uses something different. Mainstream nail services have evolved in different ways since the first […]

First of all you need to understand what ‘toxic’ means! Everything on this earth has a safe and unsafe level of toxicity. Toxic means something that is harmful to the body, possibly even lethal. A chemical going from safe to toxic is specific to the chemical and the individual. Take for example paracetamol: this is […]