Gel Nail Courses

Gel Full course
Gel Conversion course

• This Gel Nail Course is a comprehensive training course.
• It contains everything you need to become a Qualified Gel Nail Technician.
• You watch your lessons on the DVD with Gina as your Personal tutor.
• You use The Nail Trainer practice hand to create your nail extensions.
• On completing your Gel nail course:
  
  
  • You send your finished nails to us for assessment.
  • If you have reached the required pass mark we then issue you with your Nail Technician Certification.
  
  
  

Gels are the latest innovation in the world of professional nail enhancements.

Gel is easier to apply than Acrylics, making it the ideal system for beginners. Gel Nails are easy to apply, odour free, hard wearing and beautiful to look at. Whether you're a beginner or an accomplished nail tech, to offer a modern service, you need to learn Gel nails.

Gel Nails are in demand from customers who have tried them and loved them.

Gel Nails: what you will learn

The course includes everything you need to learn Gel Nails. After learning the basics about the nail industry, your tools, and products, you will be shown the best techniques to apply and blend tips to extend the length of the nail to the desires of your client.

You'll then learn how to apply the 'bonding', 'building' and 'finishing' layers of Gel to the nail. The Gel is like a thick polish and is applied to the nail with a brush. Application is quick and easy and does not start to set hard until placed in the UV light curing box. After a few minutes in the UV box the Gel hardens to form a shiny, strong and long lasting nail.

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Part 1: Foundation

You'll learn about life in a nail salon and you will understand the issues involved with sanitation, salon procedures, nail diseases, different nail systems, tools, chemicals and products.

Part 2: Essential Techniques

You will create your first nails. Gina shows you how to hold files and fingers, how to prepare the nail and create the extension. All the techniques are shown slowly and then at a speed you might achieve in a salon. You copy what you see on your own Nail Trainer.

Part 3: Working the Whole Hand

You bring together all the techniques you have mastered and learn some of the tricks of the trade. Saving your work. The nails you create on the Nail Trainer are detachable, you save them as you work though the course, so on completion our tutors get to see and asses your finished work.

Your course work

As you work through the course you will be saving the nails at each stage of the nail build on our unique progress cards. You'll also have practised up to 60 sets of nails, perfecting the techniques you've learnt. You'll have answered up to 8 question papers and had one to one coaching over the phone or email.

Assessing your work

You post your progress cards and question papers back to us. We look at each nail you've created, prepares a report for you on your work and issues a distinction, credit, pass or fail.

Certification

You receive a handsome certificate and can obtain your liability insurance and start work. Should you fail, we will annotate each problem and suggest a way you can improve. Resubmission of work for re-assessment is free, and most students who have failed the first time pass on the second attempt. We want you to succeed!

"I would just like to say a huge thank you to Essential Nails for the wonderful courses and customer service. As a mother, with two young children, the home learn courses have been an absolute dream to me. I now get to study around my children, in my own time, for the career i've always wanted. The staff at Essential Nails are always happy to help if I ever need a push in the right direction and their friendly manner makes you feel like nothing would be too much trouble for them."

Lauren Gilman

"I am 42yrs old, married with 5 children. I am currently an aerobics instructor, but have a damaged achilles tendon and so needed a new business where i could learn quckly and start earning right away. I have managed to jugle family life with work only because of the flexible Nail Technician Courses from Essential Nails, so basically with all the amazing support I have had from Nathalie and Sarah, as well of course as the AMAZING courses you have provided, in only 3 months I have finished my training and am launching a business..... YOU ARE HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!."

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Loraine Pickering

"I am 32 years old, married and Mummy to Joshua-James. I have always worked with children as a nursery nurse and childminder, but when my son recently started fulltime school I decided it was time for a career change.
I'm a girlie girl so thought nails would be ideal. I chose to train with Essential Nails because I could study from home without having to give up my childminding or taking time away from my family. The help & support I received from Essential Nails was amazing. Within two months I had completed my first course and received my diploma. Thanks to Essential Nails I am now a professional Nail Technician and have my own mobile and home based business."

Donna Caldicott

"The Diploma Course just fitted in perfectly. I could practice at home, there is unlimited technical support and it's very cost effective compared with other courses. Now I earn £30 to £60 per client depending on the type of service."

Janet Monet-Telfer, Artistic Visage, Croydon. Mobile nail tech.
Speciality: Airbrush nail art

"In many ways the courses are perfect for learning to compete, because the tuition is so technique based. The level of detail and volume of practice is fantastic. For me the Essential Nails Diploma course has been a great platform from which to innovate and become a competition winning nail technician."

Ivan Bunt, Gel Nails Champion.

Sue is an acrylic overlay, sculpt and airbrush distinction graduate who now has her own salon. Sue's husband Andy has completed the acrylic overlay course, also gaining a distinction.

Sue Yates. Leicester.

"For someone who is thinking of becoming a nail technician I would absolutely recommend the Essential Nails Diploma Courses. In all honesty I wouldn't recommend anyone else. They provide you with everything you need to become an excellent nail tech."

Kayla Rust. Norwich.

"The techniques I learnt prepared me perfectly for the salon, which is where I'm working now, after just a few weeks with The Diploma Course."

Sarah Price.

"I always wanted to become a nail technician, but as I worked full time my dream seemed out of reach. Thanks to Essential Nails my dream is now reality."

Donna Stott.

"After completing my classroom course, I tried to do extensions on a friend and it was a complete disaster. 3 Days after getting the Essential Nails Diploma Course I did a fantastic set of nails and was thrilled to bits."

Christine Cowell.

I would like to say that I'm enjoying the Essential Nails Gel Nails course. The DVD is very informative and clearly defined to make learning easy. I'm looking forward to making a career of this"

Elaine Owen, Surrey.

"Telephone support wonderful, instalment plan made course attainable, would recommend The Acrylic Nails Course to anyone"

Sheila Dunlop-Clark, Bristol.

Essential Nails had total confidence that if I followed the lessons I would be truly competent. They're right, I'm now a competent airbrush artist - I'm hooked."

Jeannette Humphrey.

"I looked at lots of courses and decided the Diploma Nails Course from Essentail Nails was the best one. I'm really pleased I made this decision as I'm now building great extensions and recieving compliments from both clients and fellow technicians."

Jaqueline Gilpin, Somerset.

Road test of The Diploma in Nail Technology, Acrylic Nails Course. The company was really helpful and supportive. I am impressed that the company is able to monitor your ability through the progress cards.

Road test by Joetta Fox, Nails Plus magazine.