Manicurist / Pedicurist
Quick Facts
Median Salary$45,252
Most Common EducationHigh school or GED
Projected 10-Year Growth+10.25%
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What They Do
A Manicurist or Pedicurist provides grooming services for client's hands, fingernails, feet and toenails. Cleans, trims, polishes and decorates nails. Works in an independent salon or in a health spa or hair salon.
Core 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.
What to expect as a Manicurist / Pedicurist
1Earn a High school or GED Diploma
13% of people achieve this level of education.
2Gain skills and experience
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3Land a job
761 openings for Manicurists / Pedicurists
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