InternatioNAILS: Germany

Gain insight into the nail industry in Germany.
Gain insight into the nail industry in Germany.
With a growing number of men opting to pay bills and forge careers from behind a nail table, NAILS takes a look at some male techs to find out what they think of their chosen profession and how they’re making it in a female-dominated industry.
A German film crew recently visited nail tech Peggy Jakob-Kissner of Nagelateller Exquisit in Ostheim, Germany.
Toronto nail tech says that neons are popular, while Germany-based nail artist is seeing florals.
We always like to learn about the nail industry in foreign countries. Unfortunately we are not always lucky enough to travel to distant lands. When we found out one of our writers was going on vacation in Germany we assigned her the “difficult” task of going to a spa to do some investigating. Turns out it wasn’t so difficult
Although she says nails are not big business in Germany, the women who do get their nails done prefer artificial services to natural. Gels are far and away the most popular service, according to Mapp.
“I got started doing nails through my mother, Sandra Bauer, who has been doing nails for almost 30 years now. I always watched my mother work, and I was always fascinated with nails,” saysSheilie Lucke, a German nail technician profiled this month.
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