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nail art

06/05/2026
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Must-Have Spring Nail Trends Your Clients Are Sure to Love

Spring is one of the busiest seasons for nails, with clients looking for fresh, wearable designs that still feel on-trend. For 2026, the focus is on soft pastel nails, playful nail art and glossy finishes using professional gel polish systems that deliver consistent, long-lasting results. For nail technicians and artists, success comes down to speed, precision and choosing designs that are both eye-catching and efficient to recreate in-salon. Below are the key spring nail trends your clients will be booking in for, along with practical techniques to help you deliver... Read More

21/11/2025

Halo Snow Angel Collection | New Festive Shades For 2025

The Halo Gel Polish Snow Angel Collection captures everything nail professionals love about the festive season – shimmer, softness and salon-grade durability. Whether you’re creating icy elegance or cosy winter sparkle, these six new cateye shades are designed to inspire every Christmas manicure menu. Made by Pure Nails UK, Halo Gel Polish offers reliable coverage, smooth consistency and a lasting high-shine finish. Meet the Halo Snow Angel Shades Each colour in the Snow Angel Collection delivers its own wintry personality. Here’s how to work them across your festive nail services.... Read More

Black and tortoiseshell nails on a dark grey background 17/08/2023
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7 hottest nail trends for autumn 2023 you have to try right now!

It’s that time again. The seasons are about to change and before you know it you’ll be reaching for those chunky knits and pumpkin-spiced lattes. Clients will soon be ready to cool down their nail colour palettes and will be looking for your expertise on what’s hot in autumn nail art. We’re here to help you get ahead of the game on autumn nail trends so you’re stocked and ready for the season ahead. Here, we’ll outline some of our favourite gel and nail polish shades and nail art trends... Read More

08/02/2018
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Feel The Love With These Valentine’s Nails 💕

  Spread the love this Valentine’s Day with some beautiful nail art inspiration! 💞     We love love love this matte burgundy heart design! 😍   Recreate the look with our favourite Gellux shade from the Showstopper Collection:                                   Add some sparkle to your Valentine’s with this adorable pink nail (he)art 💫   Try this style with Halo Gel Polish:                   Valentine’s doesn’t have to mean love hearts... Read More

14/10/2016
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Top 5 Spooky Halloween Nail Art Designs

  With Halloween rapidly approaching, we’ve found 5 of our favourite spooky nail art ideas to get all your clients in the scary spirit! 👻     You can’t go wrong with some ghostly pumpkin nail art! 🎃 🎃   Recreate this design using Orly Lacquers:                         Fancy something cuter? This black cat design is adorably spooky. 😼   Get the feline look with our favourite Halo Gel Polish:                         What about... Read More

04/08/2016
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Disney Nail Art to Make Your Inner Child Happy

Following the release of Disney Pixar’s ‘Finding Dory’ (still can’t contain our excitement 😁) loads of us are embracing our inner children in a celebration of all things Disney! Whether it’s movie marathons, unnecessary purchases or bursting into Disney songs on the spur of the moment (apologies to any unsuspecting passersby: that was totally us 😏) Disney is something the vast majority of us will never outgrow.   And that doesn’t stop when it comes to beauty regimes! We’ve found some of the absolute best Disney-inspired nail art that you’ll need... Read More

15/07/2016
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☀️ Hot Summer Nail Art: Create The Looks

  Nail art is a great way to add a little flourish to your manicure services (and we all know clients love dramatic nails!) What better time than summer to pop a few more colourful nail art ideas into your expert portfolio. 😎   Here are some of our current summer faves:     Ombre Ombre nails and fades are super easy but ultra effective. Just picture these vibrant nails on a sunny beach somewhere! ❤   Try this with IBD Just Gels:                  ... Read More

29/04/2016
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DIY Nail ‘Art’ That Proves Nail Techs Are Essential

  From sponging and wraps to intricate detail, a whole lot of people are taking it upon themselves to create their own nail art (whether they know what they’re doing, or not!) Adel strongly warn against this! 😅 As this post proves, going to a fabulous nail tech is always the best option…     Even the simplest of nail art can become disastrous for the critically untrained…       Classic styles may look easy, but this is far from the French Manicure we all know and love 😆      ... Read More

22/04/2016
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Inside Adel’s Scunthorpe Demo Day

Last Monday, Adel Scunthorpe hosted a fabulous demo day featuring expert advice and product demonstrations from some of our favourite brands. ❤     Diva We learnt a huge amount about the incredible styling tools from Diva Professional. Kat (the wonderful Diva expert) showed us just how awesome hair can look with the super-affordable collection of styling tools they have on offer.      She created beautiful beach curls with the Intelligent Digital Multi Wand and even demoed the brand new Micro Stick on our very own Steph Raffo (we cannot... Read More

31/03/2016
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Fun Florals: Nail Art Designs for Spring

                Floral French Tips Your client’s confidence will truly blossom with a gorgeous floral French manicure. Whether you leave it simple and chic or add glitter and decals, these stylish and fresh floral tips are perfect for Spring. This colourful, sparkling design from NailsAt2AM is one of our favourite examples!   Create the look with NSI Misa lacquers:                       For extra sparkle check out these Glitter Rhinestones.       Vintage Roses A timeless... Read More