A professional who cleans, shapes, and polishes customers' fingernails and toenails. Respnsibilities include:

• Removes previously applied nail polish, using liquid remover and swabs.
• Shapes and smooths ends of nails, using scissors, files, and emery boards.
• Cleans customers' nails in soapy water, using swabs, files, and orange sticks.
• Softens nail cuticles with water and oil, pushes back cuticles, using cuticle knife, and trims cuticles, using scissors or nippers.
• Whitens underside of nails with white paste or pencil.
• Polishes nails, using powdered polish and buffer, or applies clear or colored liquid polish onto nails with brush.
• May perform other beauty services such as giving facials, and shampooing, tinting, and curling hair.