Getting a manicure is a service that many of us book regularly, but there’s a price to nice nails that customers often don’t see.
It is a physically taxing job and a creative art that takes savvy entrepreneurship and skill. On TikTok, nail technicians have cleared up misconceptions about their jobs and shared their hard boundaries with clients under hashtags like #5things.
To help people understand what being a nail tech is really like, we’ve included a few of these videos below and interviewed nail technicians about what they won’t do after working in their industry.
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1. I won’t constantly check my hands in the middle of an appointment.
“I would not keep pulling my hand away to look at what my nail tech is doing. I’ve had this happen to me multiple times, and it’s super stressful! You begin to think about whether or not they’re satisfied with what you’re doing, and it also interrupts the whole process, causing the appointment to take longer. Please trust your nail technicians.” — Aleanie Molina, an Everett, Washington-based nail technician
2. I won’t stop wearing a mask.
Carmella Laporta, a New York-based nail technician, recounted in a TikTok video that one of the top things she would never do after working in her profession is not wear a ma
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