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Beauty Therapy and Nail Technician

The beauty and nails route from first interest to your own salon: training and licences, hygiene and product safety, manicures, acrylics, waxing, facials and lashes, pricing, a full client book and staff.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Beauty Therapy and Nail Technician, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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Starter tasks

🧰 Professions & Trades

Beauty Therapy and Nail Technician

Building a career in beauty therapy and nails: training, certification, hygiene standards, a client book, pricing and opening a salon.

  1. Testing whether beauty and nail work suits you
  2. Beauty therapy, nails or both
  3. School subjects and entry requirements for beauty courses
  4. Mapping beauty and nail training routes where you live
  5. Paying for beauty school and short courses
  6. Finding the licensing and registration rules for your work
  7. Choosing a starter nail kit and lamp
  8. Treatment room set-up with couch, lighting and storage
  9. Cleaning, disinfection and sterilisation routine
  10. Consultation forms, contraindications and consent
  11. Treatment insurance and public liability cover
  12. Daily opening and closing checklist for the treatment room
  13. Nail dust, vapour and ventilation control
  14. Client record cards and treatment notes
  15. Booking diary, deposits and cancellation policy
  16. Monthly takings, product costs and tax set-aside
  17. Product stock, batch numbers and expiry dates
  18. Portfolio photos and social posting for nails and brows
  19. Wrist, neck and eye care for close detail work
  20. Licence, insurance and certificate renewal calendar
  21. Continuing education and product training record
  22. Skin and nail science for therapists
  23. Manicure and pedicure to a salon standard
  24. Gel polish application, curing and safe removal
  25. Acrylic and hard gel enhancements, sculpting and infills
  26. Nail art from freehand lines to chrome and encapsulation
  27. Waxing face and body, including intimate waxing
  28. Facials and skin analysis for every skin tone
  29. Lash and brow treatments, tints, lifts and extensions
  30. Makeup for deeper skin tones and photo work
  31. Commission, room rental, home salon or mobile
  32. Pricing a treatment menu by time and product cost
  33. Choosing a booking and payment system
  34. Building a client book from zero
  35. Retail and aftercare product sales
  36. Setting up a legal home or mobile beauty business
  37. Opening a beauty or nail salon
  38. Applying for a junior therapist or nail technician post
  39. Practical assessment and theory exam day
  40. Bridal beauty and nail party bookings
  41. Peak season planning for Christmas, Carnival and prom
  42. Entering a nail competition or trade show
  43. Changing career into beauty therapy as an adult
  44. Starting nails part time alongside another job or study
  45. Returning to beauty work after a break
  46. Working abroad as a beauty therapist or nail technician
  47. Hiring and managing your first therapist or technician
  48. Advanced skin treatments and the training they require
  49. Medical pedicures and working alongside podiatry
  50. Teaching beauty as an assessor or educator

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Testing whether beauty and nail work suits you

Long days bent over a nail desk, clients who arrive late or want a full set changed after it is finished, product smells and the close physical contact of waxing or facials are part of the job, alongside the pleasure of sending someone out feeling looked after.

First tasks

  • Write down in ten minutes why beauty or nail work appeals to you
  • Ask a local nail technician and a therapist for twenty minutes about their week
  • Arrange two days observing or helping in a busy salon or spa
  • Record your decision and the reasons behind it

Beauty therapy, nails or both

Beauty therapy covers skin and body work such as facials, waxing, lash and brow treatments, makeup and massage, usually through a longer qualification; nail technology covers manicures, pedicures, gel and enhancements and can often be started with a shorter course.

First tasks

  • List the five treatments you would most like to offer
  • Compare the treatment menus of two nail bars and two beauty salons nearby
  • Check whether nail technicians are licensed separately where you live
  • Write down your chosen starting path and why

School subjects and entry requirements for beauty courses

Most beauty and nail courses ask for few formal grades, but the better colleges and the higher qualifications look for English, mathematics and a science, usually biology or human and social biology at CSEC, or GCSE or a high school diploma elsewhere. Biology carries straight into skin anatomy and contraindications, and mathematics shows up in pricing and stock.

First tasks

  • Find the entry requirements for three beauty or nail courses
  • Set your current or predicted grades beside each requirement
  • Ask a school or college adviser how to fill any missing subject
  • Note which subjects you are keeping for skin science and business

Make it yours.

Install Beauty Therapy and Nail Technician, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Blueprints are general information to help you organise your own work. They are not medical, financial, legal or other professional advice. See the Terms.