Manicurists and Pedicurists

Manicurists and Pedicurists typically perform the following tasks: • Clean and sanitize tools and work environment. • Apply undercoat and clear or colored polish onto nails with brush. • Maintain supply inventories and records of client services. • Shape and smooth ends of nails, using scissors, files, or emery boards. • Prepare nail cuticles with water and oil, using cuticle knives to push back cuticles and scissors or nippers to trim cuticles. • Prepare customers' nails in soapy water, using swabs, files, and orange sticks. • Remove previously applied nail polish, using liquid remover and swabs. • Use rotary abrasive wheels to shape and smooth nails or artificial extensions. • Schedule client appointments and accept payments. • Assess the condition of clients' hands, remove dead skin, and massage hands. • Roughen surfaces of fingernails, using abrasive wheel. • Advise clients on nail care and use of products and colors. • Treat nails to repair or improve strength and resilience by wrapping. • Extend nails using powder, solvent, and paper forms attached to tips of customers' fingers to support and shape artificial nails. • Polish nails, using powdered polish and buffer. • Whiten underside of nails with white paste or pencils. • Promote and sell nail care products. • Decorate clients' nails by piercing or attaching ornaments or designs.