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Who is Julie does Nails ? Why press-on ? 

It all started more than ten years ago. Spending the summer holidays with my family, we stopped by this little market and particularly this nice lady, that offers a lot of different beauty products, especially nail tools. I discovered that day nail stamping, which was super popular back in the 2010's (and it's coming back now, what a throwback !). From this day on with my mom, we spent hours trying new designs, colours, combinations, products, tools, etc. From nail stamping, I moved to water marble (which I don't have a picture of, sadly), nail tapes, nail dotting tools, and nail art brushes. I tried everything that was trendy at the time, and even adventured myself in the confines of character nail art, which was....something !

Picture of a very beginner-level nail art of minions

My very first character nails, back in 2012. I was so proud of myself !

July 2023 - I am officially a nail technician !

All this to say that my passion for nails is not something that came to me recently. However, with university, moving to a whole other country by myself at the age of 20, discovering adult life on my own, far away from my loved ones, nail art was something that I had to put at the back of my mind for a while... Until a very global, major event that forced us all to stay at home and find things to do. And there was the opportunity to spend time playing with nail product again; I started moving from regular nail polish to gel polish, then gel extension, and soon enough, I was doing my own nails at home every two weeks out of boredom, and out of this desire to practice and get better. This kept going on until 2023, when I decided that I really needed to do something about it, for myself, and got certified as a nail tech in every areas needed to do nails

However, space is something I am truly missing right now, and accepting clients was not the right move for me. That's when I started purchasing nail tips and practicing nail art on them, to get better at my craft while having fun. Seeing that these were looking pretty good, and discovering the world of press-on nails (which was exactly what I was doing without knowing that this had a specific name), I decided to surprise my twin sister for our birthday and send her the very first two sets of press-on I had ever done. And there, Julie does Nails was born!

The very first set of press-on from Julie does Nails. For my twin sister, of course.

First orders coming in ! So grateful for every single person trusting me.

I then started getting requests from my sister to do custom sets, then my mom, then friends and family chimed in, making me the happiest girl alive. I was overjoyed to be able to create something truly custom to their wishes and that they would not be able to find anywhere else. And now I am opening myself to the world, in order to bring the easiest way to get a manicure to anyone !