A page for your work that moves when you do

What's on the page

Your profile lives at polishperfect.co/nail-techs/ followed by the username you pick. From the top, it shows your name and photo, your city and state, your years of experience, and a short bio. Then come the services you specialize in, your star rating with the number of reviews behind it, and counts of your designs, saves, and views. Your Instagram and TikTok are linked if you add them. Below all that is your portfolio, then your client reviews. Here's the card an owner sees first.

You pick your specialties from a set list, up to 10: gel, acrylic, nail art, pedicure, dip powder, French, ombre, manicure, chrome, and builder gel. They're the same words a client or an owner would search for. That's why it's a list and not a blank box.

Setting it up, in a few minutes

You sign up, say you're a nail tech, pick your specialties and your city, and you're in the profile editor. The one choice that really matters is your username, because it's your link. It can be 3 to 40 characters, using letters, numbers, and hyphens, and it's first come, first served. Pick the name your clients already know you by. Want to follow along? Here's how to create your tech profile.

• Bio. Up to 500 characters. Say where you work, what you're known for, and how long you've been doing nails.
• City and state. This tells people where you are and helps the directory find you.
• Years of experience. Add your Instagram and TikTok handles too if you want them linked.
• Photos. Add them from your phone, with a caption and tags on each one. Pick one as your Featured photo and it goes first on your page.

Your page is live as soon as you save. You can hide any photo without deleting it, delete one for good, change your Featured photo, and edit everything above whenever you want.

How photos get on it

There are two ways. The second one is why your profile fills up without any extra work from you.

1. 01You upload them. Any photo from your phone, with a caption of up to 280 characters and tags like the style and the shape.
2. 02A client leaves a review. Every review on Polish Perfect comes with a photo of the set, taken by the client at your chair. Once you've confirmed you work at that salon, the photo joins your portfolio with the salon's name on it. The salon's page shows it too, with your name.

A reviewed photo links both ways. Your portfolio links to the salon's page, and the salon's page links back to your profile. That second link is how people who've never heard of you find you. An owner reading a job post sees the work coming out of a salon, and the photos with a tech's name on them lead to that tech. How reviews work.

Signed-in visitors can save a photo. Your page counts saves and views, so you can see which sets get the most attention.

Reviews, and the rating they add up to

Your profile comes with its own QR code. A client scans it after their appointment, takes a photo of the set, picks the salon, and rates it from one to five stars. They can write a line if they want to. The review waits until you've confirmed you work at that salon. Then it goes up on your profile and on the salon's page.

Your rating is the simple average of every review on your profile, from every salon. Each review shows the client's photo, their stars, their words, the salon's name, and when they left it. Nothing gets left out because of where you work now. And neither you nor the salon can remove a review. That's what makes a rating in your own name worth something.

What an owner sees when you apply

When you apply for a job, you send three to five photos of your work and a short note. If you have a profile, the owner also gets a link to it. That link is what gets you a reply. The owner opens it and sees your sets, your rating, and the salons your reviews come from. So the conversation starts from what you can do, not what you say you can do. How applying works.

Your profile works the other way too. A job post on Polish Perfect opens with the work coming out of that salon, and photos with a tech's name on them link to that tech's profile. Confirm the salon you work at, and your reviewed sets show on its page and on its job posts. Every owner and tech who reads them sees your work.

How people find it

• The tech directory. polishperfect.co/nail-techs lists every profile that has at least one photo showing.
• Search engines. We tell them they can list your page once it has a photo or a bio. We also tell them the page is about a person who's a nail technician, with your rating, so a search for your name can show it with stars.
• The salon's page, through the reviewed photos with your name on them.
• Your own link. Put polishperfect.co/nail-techs/your-name in your Instagram bio and on your business card. A client who loved their last set can find you by name, not by the salon's address.

Keeping it yours when you move

Change salons and nothing on your profile changes, except the salon name on your next reviews. You keep your username, your photos, your rating, and every review you've earned. When the first review at the new salon comes in, confirm the salon. From then on, reviews from both places sit on the same page. Work at two salons at once? Confirm both.

If you change your username, your page moves to the new link. So update the link in your bio and on your card before you do. Everything else stays the same.

Here's everything on this page, in order:

1. 01Pick a username your clients already know you by, and add your city.
2. 02Add 3 or 4 photos of your best sets, and pick one as Featured.
3. 03Write 2 lines of bio and pick your specialties.
4. 04Download your QR code from the Reviews page of your dashboard.
5. 05Confirm your salon when your first review comes in.

It's free, and it takes a few minutes on your phone. Create your profile.