A page for your work that moves when you do

What's on the page

A profile lives at polishperfect.co/nail-techs/ followed by the username you pick. Top to bottom, the page shows your name and photo, your city and state, your years of experience, a short bio, the services you specialize in, your star rating with the number of reviews behind it, counts of your designs, saves, and views, and links to your Instagram and TikTok if you add them. Below that is your portfolio, then your client reviews. Here is the card version an owner sees first.

The specialties are chips you pick from a fixed list, up to ten: 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, which is the point of a list instead of a free text box.

Setting it up, in a few minutes

You sign up, say you're a nail tech, pick your specialties and your city, and land in the profile editor. The one decision that matters is the username, because it's your address: three to forty characters, letters, numbers, and hyphens, first come first served. Pick the name clients already know you by.

• Bio: up to five hundred characters. Where you work, what you're known for, how long you've been doing it.
• City and state, so the page says where you are and the directory can find you.
• Years of experience, and your Instagram and TikTok handles if you want them linked.
• Photos, from your phone, with a caption and tags on each. Pick one as your Featured photo and it leads the page.

The page is live the moment you save. You can hide any photo without deleting it, delete one outright, change the Featured photo, and edit everything above whenever you like.

How photos get on it

There are two ways, and the second one is the reason the profile fills up without you doing anything.

1. 01You upload them. Any photo from your phone, with a caption of up to two hundred and eighty 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 the chair. Once you've confirmed you work at that salon, the photo joins your portfolio with the salon's name on it, and the salon's own page shows it too, with your name.

A reviewed photo links in both directions: from your portfolio to the salon's page, and from the salon's page back to your profile. That second link is how people who have 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, and the page counts saves and views, so you can see which sets get attention.

Reviews, and the rating they add up to

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

Your rating is the plain 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 it was left. Nothing is filtered by where you work now, and nothing can be removed by you or by the salon, which is what makes a rating on your own name worth something.

What an owner sees when you apply

When you apply to 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, and that link is the part that gets you answered: the owner opens it, sees your sets, your rating, and the salons your reviews come from, and the reply starts from what you can do instead of what you say you can do. How applying works.

The profile also works the other way round. A job post on Polish Perfect leads with the work coming out of that salon, and the photos with a tech's name on them link to that tech's profile. Confirm the salon you work at and your reviewed sets are on its page and its job posts, in front of every owner and tech who reads them.

How people find it

• The tech directory at polishperfect.co/nail-techs lists every profile with at least one visible photo.
• Search engines are asked to index your page once it has a photo or a bio. The page is marked up as a person, 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, and 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 the profile changes except the salon name on the next reviews. You keep the username, the photos, the rating, and every review you've earned. Confirm the new salon when the first review there comes in, and from then on reviews from both places sit on the same page. Work at two salons at once and confirm both.

If you change your username, the page moves to the new address, so update the link in your bio and on your card before you do. Everything else stays as it was.

Everything on this page, in the order to do it:

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

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