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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 […]

Parece que entramos em uma "cultura de cancelamento" muito mais agressiva! Restaurantes e pubs estão relatando um número terrível de "não comparecimentos", o que pode custar cerca de £60 em preparação de alimentos e disponibilidade de pessoal. Parece que alguns estão reservando várias mesas e depois decidem o que "gostam" na hora! Será que eles não [...]

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 […]

Os serviços de unhas, por exemplo, manicure, aprimoramentos de unhas etc., evoluíram ao longo de décadas. Em cada país, eles evoluíram de muitas maneiras diferentes. O que um país acredita ser seguro, outro não acredita. O que um país usa para a terminologia da unidade de unha, outro país usa algo diferente. Os principais serviços de unhas evoluíram de maneiras diferentes desde a primeira [...]

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 […]