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In nail world this is a tough one and not without complications. We all know someone who has had, is having or will be having chemo therapy and if your family is like mine, it’s the #1 cause of death – although 3 of us have survived our cancer, my mother, my son and myself,…

Between the nail plate and the nail bed is some elastic tissue called the bed epithelium – it’s kind of the same non-living tissue as the cuticle, only the cuticle is produced by the eponychium and the bed epithelium by the nail matrix. It’s as if the nail plate is sandwiched between cuticle and bed…

After soaking off our gel polish or rebalancing our enhancements it’s important to inspect our clients nail plates for any signs of abnormalities. We don’t want to see … Yellowing of the nail plate This could be onycholysis or inner nail plate damage Greenish effects on or under the nail plate This could be the…

Most of us love a hand or foot treatment that involves an exfoliation and so do our clients, right? We know that it speeds up, what would normally be, natural desquamation. It gets rid of the dead skin cells, allows for more penetration of subsequent treatment creams, and gives the skin a brighter and fresher…

From this month (September ’21) it is now illegal to sell UV cured products that contain HEMA and di-HEMA in retail stores. This applies to the UK and the EU. These must be ‘for professional use only’ and we all know why! However, this has turned the consumer customer (and some uneducated professionals) into on-line…

Following on from our recent article ‘Is nail oil contributing to the allergy crisis?’ – let us look at the implications of this. Some thought this was ‘fake news’! It most definitely wasn’t, and it caught the attention of many! What was ‘new’ about this was the fact that, something suspected by dermatologists for a…