Manicurists and Pedicurist Clean and shape customers' fingernails and toenails. May polish or decorate nails.
Manicurists and Pedicurist is Also Know as
In different settings, Manicurists and Pedicurist is titled as
- Manicurist
- Nail Technician (Nail Tech)
- Pedicurist
Education and Training of Manicurists and Pedicurist
Manicurists and Pedicurist is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Manicurists and Pedicurist
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Manicurists and Pedicurist
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Manicurists and Pedicurist
- Bachelor in Cosmetology/Cosmetologist, General
- Associate Degree Courses in Cosmetology/Cosmetologist, General
- Masters Degree Courses in Cosmetology/Cosmetologist, General
- Bachelor in Nail Technician/Specialist and Manicurist
- Associate Degree Courses in Nail Technician/Specialist and Manicurist
- Masters Degree Courses in Nail Technician/Specialist and Manicurist
Training Required for Manicurists and Pedicurist
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Manicurists and Pedicurist in different industries are
- Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers
- Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists
- Furniture Finishers
- Barbers
- Skincare Specialists
- Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
- Shampooers
- Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers
- Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance
- Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners
- Painters, Construction and Maintenance
- Etchers and Engravers
- Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
- Sewers, Hand
- Cutters and Trimmers, Hand
- Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders
- Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic
- Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers
- Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Stone Cutters and Carvers, Manufacturing
What Do Manicurists and Pedicurist do?
- Clean and sanitize tools and work environment.
- Schedule client appointments and accept payments.
- Remove previously applied nail polish, using liquid remover and swabs.
- Shape and smooth ends of nails, using scissors, files, or emery boards.
- Apply undercoat and clear or colored polish onto nails with brush.
- Advise clients on nail care and use of products and colors.
- Maintain supply inventories and records of client services.
- Roughen surfaces of fingernails, using abrasive wheel.
- Promote and sell nail care products.
- Polish nails, using powdered polish and buffer.
- Whiten underside of nails with white paste or pencils.
- Decorate clients' nails by piercing or attaching ornaments or designs.
- 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.
- Use rotary abrasive wheels to shape and smooth nails or artificial extensions.
- Assess the condition of clients' hands, remove dead skin, and massage hands.
- 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.
Qualities of Good Manicurists and Pedicurist
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
Tools Used by Manicurists and Pedicurist
- Callus shavers
- Credit card processing machines
- Cuticle knives
- Cuticle nippers
- Cuticle pushers
- Cuticle scissors
- Dry heat sterilizers
- Electronic cash registers
- Emery boards
- Finger separators
- Finishing nail stones
- Foot baths
- Laptop computers
- Manicure airbrushes
- Manicure tables
- Manicure tweezers
- Nail buffing blocks
- Nail clippers
- Nail dryers
- Nail files
- Nail nippers
- Nail scissors
- Nail scrub brushes
- Nail slicers
- Pedicure carts
- Personal computers
- Pumice stones
- Steam autoclaves
- Toe separators
- Ultraviolet UV sterilizers
Technology Skills required for Manicurists and Pedicurist
- Aknaf ADVANTAGE Salon Software and Spa Software
- Appointment Search
- AppointmentQuest Online Appointment Scheduler
- Customer information databases
- DaySmart Software Appointment-Plus
- DaySmart Software Salon Iris
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software