Manicurist Sample Resume

Lorraine Wilson
1234 Wolverine Drive
Kalamazoo, MI 64000
Home: 404-555-5555
Cell: 404-555-5556
Email: Lorraine-Wilson@frontfocus.com

Objective
To obtain a position as a Manicurist in a beauty salon in which I am able to perfect my skills and learn new things in order to reach the top of my profession.  

Qualifications Summary

• Excellent knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services, including customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
• Strong ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to perform for people and deal directly with the public.
• Able to develop constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintain them over time.  

Education
Moler Beauty College, San Diego, CA

• Manicurist/Nail Tech (July 2000)
• Licensed with the California State Board of Cosmetology  

Work Experience
Manicurist/Nail Stylist: June 2004 - July 2009, SpaNobia, San Diego, CA
Responsibilities included:

• Cleaning and shaping customers' fingernails and toenails.
• Polishing and decorating nails.
• Applying undercoat and clearing or coloring polish onto nails with brush.
• Attaching paper forms to tips of customers' fingers to support and shape artificial nails.
• Brushing powder and solvent onto nails and paper forms to maintain nail appearance and to extend nails, then remove forms and shape and smooth nail edges using rotary abrasive wheel.
• Cleaning and sanitizing tools and work environment.
• Cleaning customers' nails in soapy water, using swabs, files, and orange sticks.
• Polishing nails, using powdered polish and buffer.
• Removing previously applied nail polish, using liquid remover and swabs.
• Roughening surfaces of fingernails, using abrasive wheel.
• Shaping and smoothing ends of nails, using scissors, files, and emery boards.

Manicurist/Pedicurist: May 2000 - May 2004, The Ritz Carlton, San Diego, CA
Responsibilities included:

• Softening nail cuticles with water and oil, pushing back cuticles, using cuticle knife, and trimming cuticles, using scissors or nippers.
• Treating nails to repair or improve strength and resilience by wrapping, or providing treatment to nail biters.
• Whitening underside of nails with white paste or pencil.
• Advising clients on nail care and use of products and colors.
• Assessing the condition of clients' hands, remove dead skin from the hands and massage them.
• Decorating clients' nails by piercing them or attaching ornaments or designs.
• Maintaining supply inventories and records of client services.
• Promoting and selling nail care products.
• Scheduling client appointments and accepting payments.  

*References: Available upon request.