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Experience nailing your business.
Offering one-stop and comprehensive programs, we’re here to help you maximize your two gorgeous hands: one for nail mastery, the other for building your nail salon empire.
After all, you’re not just a nail tech hopeful.
You’re a nailpreneur. A six-figure nail expert slash salon owner.

Our featured courses

Flash class
No more tiptoeing to success. Time to get licensed and get professionally-polished training in 4 weeks, minus the stress.

The Flow
Take it easy, sharpen the edges, and get in the flow with our 13-week evening-only training, shaped for part-timers.

Combo class
Handhold the best of both worlds—from basic to advanced manicuring. Packed with 8 full weeks of training, the Combo Class screams “It’s time to own your nail salon CEO dreams.”

No matter your race, gender, or ethnicity, we strive to be more than just an academy.
Experience boundary-breaking community and educational excellence.
We blend high-level training, high-performing instructors, high-quality products, and a high-vibe community ALL to give your nail care career its much-deserved, high-caliber makeover.
Take it from our GEMs whose lives turned 180°

About us
Our proven track record has raised the bar and has become THE blueprint in the nail care industry. Flash classes. Unrivaled courses. Best-kept secrets. We understood the assignment.
Having stood loud and proud in 3 different locations, we’ve grown into an academy that feels more like a home than an academy, an encompassing community that’s so in touch with its local community, and a culture of creating diamonds amid the pressure —including you.
This is what makes us different.
This is what makes YOU different.
The stats
100%
Passing rate in the 2021 state board practical exam
18 years
Of producing phenomenal licensed manicurists and nail techs
1st
Ohio’s First
Nails Only School
Experience the GEM legacy.
Your nailpreneur era is coming and we’re here to give you a hand.

Guidance
Guidance that hugs, helps, and hits different.

encouragement
Encouragement that’s backed by experience.

Motivation
Motivation that turns first-time takers into passers. Full stop. One and done.