Manicuring Toolkit: Home

  Safety Information

• Safety and Health Tips for Nail Technicians
• Nail Technicians: Workplace Safety and Health
• OSHA Health Hazards in Nail Salons

  Library Books

  YouTube Videos

• The Salon Life
• 20 Nails
• Best of Nails
• Nat de Nail
• Nail Career Education
• Vee Nailedit

  Websites

• Meticulous Manicurist
  • Trainings and videos for manicures and pedicures.
• Nail Technicians Supply
• Nail Magazine
  • Stay up-to-date on the latest news in Manicuring.
• Nail Tech Event in the Great Smokies

  Databases

• Britannica Image Quest
  • Provides access to over two million rights-cleared images for use in presentations, online courses, and student projects.
• Career & Technical Education Database
  • Vocational information on technical topics, such as computing science, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, and photography.
• ProQuest Central
  • General reference database for over 175 subjects from magazines, journals and newspapers, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.
• Vocations and Careers
  • Aides users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career.

  Free Apps

• Fresha
• Nail Manicure Designer Pro
• Nail Know How - iPad
• The Mobile Manicurist

  Professional Organization

• Associated Nail Professionals
• Salon an Spa Professional Association (SSPA)

  Career Information

• Occupational Outlook Handbook - Manicurists and Pedicurists
  • Provides you with information from hundreds of different job types: the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, and working conditions.

  Certification/Test Prep

• North Carolina Board Cosmetic Art Examiners
• State of North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Art Examiners Nail Technology Candidate Information Bulletin