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These beautiful shades will inspire artistry while helping nail professionals rebound and recover.

Candy Coat, the London-based nail brand, has announced the launch of their first ever PRO Palette Collection, featuring over 120 gel colors. The PRO Palette Gel Nail formula offers a unique scratch resistant formula and is strongly pigmented with a high gloss finish offering up to four weeks of wear.
In line with the brand’s mission to empower women through color and self-expression, each shade in the PRO Palette Collection is named after a formidable woman, including Candy Coat’s social followers and customers.
Knowing that the professional nail industry suffered during Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, the PRO Palette is an eye-catching and affordable range of professional gel nail shades that will offer professionals something new to inspire their clients and to retail in their salons. The 120 bottle collection means these gorgeous shades can create a stunning display and add a bold statement to any salon wall or nail kit.
Candy Coat PRO
"There has been a rise in the number of women who have sought to train as nail technicians online and have used this challenging period to learn new skills and become professional nail artists/stylists," says Candy Coat Founder, Lynette Achiaa. "At Candy Coat, we have been verifying 50 customers a day into our PRO Community, ready to start with Candy Coat to boost their salon business. From extensive salon experience, we know that environments, color displays and visuals are huge for salons and nail professionals."
The Candy Coat PRO Community was launched in 2020 as a membership program for qualified nail professionals. The Community is free to join and has no membership fees as well as offering a 15% discount on all PRO Palette shades and products.
In joining the community, pros have access to dedicated online support from Candy Coat’s new in-house salon team, which offers 1-2-1 support to each pro within the community. PRO members also have access to a color library of over 9500 bespoke Candy Coat shades, including PRO Palette, to keep their nail business on trend. Candy Coat commits to high quality products, competitive prices and on-point colors all year round.
About Candy Coat Nails
Candy Coat Nails began life in 2015 selling 14 shades directly from their Instagram page. Fast forward 5 years, and the London based nail brand now boasts over 1200 unique nail shades all handpicked, curated and formulated in-house.
Alongside their 1200+ rainbow of nail shades, the brand offers gel pens and paints, acrylic nails, dipping powder nails, builder gels, polygel gels and nail art with paint! Not to mention lamps, tools and all the accessories needed to create a bespoke nail design.

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