What Manicurists and Pedicurists do:
- Advise clients on nail care and use of products and colors.
- Apply undercoat and clear or colored polish onto nails with brush.
- Assess the condition of clients' hands, remove dead skin, and massage hands.
- Clean and sanitize tools and work environment.
- Prepare customers' nails in soapy water, using swabs, files, and orange sticks.
- Remove previously applied nail polish, using liquid remover and swabs.
- 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.
- Promote and sell nail care products.
- Extend nails using powder, solvent, and paper forms attached to tips of customers' fingers to support and shape artificial nails.
- Maintain supply inventories and records of client services.
- Polish nails, using powdered polish and buffer.
- Treat nails to repair or improve strength and resilience by wrapping.
- Schedule client appointments and accept payments.
- Decorate clients' nails by piercing or attaching ornaments or designs.
- Use rotary abrasive wheels to shape and smooth nails or artificial extensions.
- Roughen surfaces of fingernails, using abrasive wheel.
- Whiten underside of nails with white paste or pencils.
What work activities are most important?
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Performing for or Working Directly with the Public - Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests. |
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Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships - Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
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Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others - Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others. |
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Assisting and Caring for Others - Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients. |
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Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge - Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
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Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events - Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
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Thinking Creatively - Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
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Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
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Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People - Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |
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Providing Consultation and Advice to Others - Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics. |
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Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work - Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
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Performing General Physical Activities - Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. |
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Scheduling Work and Activities - Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others. |
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Selling or Influencing Others - Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions. |