At Your Fingertips: The Nail Technician's Companion

With over 250 colour photos and images, At Your Fingertips provides the foundation to this creative and vibrant profession all in one volume. Basic salon and customer service skills, step-by-step procedures, as well as the science of nails, and diseases and disorders of the hands, are all presented in plain English and full colour – bringing the theory of nail technology to life.

At Your Fingertips covers all ten core units and five elective units in the Certificate II in Nail Technology from the SIB10 Beauty Training Package. 

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Chapter 1 Workplace personal health and safety
Chapter 2 Communication in the workplace
Chapter 3 Providing client services
Chapter 4 Financial transactions
Chapter 5 Selling products and services
Chapter 6 Applying nail science to nail services
Chapter 7 Performing manicure and pedicare services
Chapter 8 Nail enhancements
Chapter 9 Removing artificial nail enhancements
Chapter 10 Applying gel enhancements
Chapter 11 Applying acrylic enhancements
Chapter 12 Applying nail art
Chapter 13 Using electrical equipment

Appendix 1 Troubleshooting
Appendix 2 Research and apply beauty industry information
Glossary

• A companion website (www.pearson.com.au/vet/symington) provides students with additional quiz questions; salon documents, including templates and checklists; and step-by-step visual demonstrations of selected nail procedures.
• As students complete exercises in the Companion Website, the Gradetracker records their progress. Simple questions like true/false and multiple choice are marked automatically, while you can mark open ended questions, then download your entire class results in a single file.

Jan Symington first enrolled in a nail technology course in 1986 and was soon running her own successful nail salon. Jan then trained Nail Technicians at Petersham TAFE for 6 years. During her teaching years at TAFE, Jan was responsible for course co-ordination, lesson planning and writing learner guides. She is the successful author of Australian Nail Technology.

Karen Peppercorn has been part of the Australian beauty industry for over 25 years, in many roles including Nail Technician, salon owner and owner of a nail and beauty supply business: GNB Salon Supplies. Karen is President of the Australian Professional Fingernail Association (APFA) and travels extensively around Australia helping technicians become APFA certified technicians and training providers become APFA certified. Karen is also a regular contributor to industry magazines.

Core Units
SIBBNLS201A   Work in a nail services framework
SIBBNLS202A   Provide manicure and pedicare services
SIBBNLS203A   Apply ultraviolet gel nail enhancement
SIBBNLS204A   Apply acrylic nail enhancement
SIBXCCS201A   Conduct financial transactions
SIBXCCS202A   Provide services to clients
SIBXCLM001A   Organise and maintain work areas
SIRXCOM001A  Communicate in the workplace
SIRXIND001A    Work effectively in a retail environment
SIRXOHS001A   Apply safe working practices

Elective Units
SIRXCCS002A   Interact with customers
SIBBNLS205A   Apply nail art
SIBBNLS206A   Use electric file equipment for nails
SIBBRES201A   Research and apply beauty industry information

• Contains Instructor resources including PowerPoint presentation slides and solutions to revision questions.
  http://www.pearson.com.au/vet/symington