Nail Training · Mullingar & Online
Most people teaching themselves nails online are copying the pretty part and skipping the bit that makes it last. Prep, structure, apex, safe e-file work. That is what gets taught here, by someone who has been doing it for over six years.
Founding group is capped. Doors open once, then the price goes up.
Finalist, Educator of the Year 2025.
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If one of these sounds like your last few weeks, you are in the right place.
You want this to be a real job, not a hobby. You do not know what to buy, what is safe, or what the first paying client actually looks like. You need the whole path laid out in order.
Start with Foundations Online, then the practical day.
You did a course somewhere, you can make a set look nice, and then it pops off in nine days and you are doing free fixes. Nearly always prep and structure, nearly never the product you blamed.
Start with Foundations Online, or the in person day.
You bought one, you used it twice, you put it in a drawer. Meanwhile everyone faster than you is using one on every single client and saving forty minutes a set.
Start with the e-file module, or the in person day.
Read this before you buy anything
You will see online courses promising a certificate watched entirely at home, no assessment, and some of those certificates will even get you insurance. That is the part nobody says out loud: an insurer might accept a certificate nobody watched you earn. Your clients won't.
So this academy splits the two things honestly. The knowledge goes online, because it is the same knowledge whether you are in Mullingar or Mayo and you should be able to rewatch it at 11pm. The assessment happens in person, because Jenny puts her name to a certificate only after she has watched your hands do the work.
If you only ever do the online part, you will be a much better nail artist, and your certificate of completion is yours to use however your insurer allows. The assessed certificate, the one with Jenny's signature on it, is earned in the room. That is said up front on purpose.
Courses
Same teacher, same standard. The only difference is how much of it happens in the room with her.
Learn at home
For anyone, anywhere in Ireland
Online, then hands on
The route to charging clients
In the room, all day
Jenny’s existing in person course
Payment plans available on the two online courses. Ask when you join the list and Jenny will sort it.
Inside the course
No filler. Every module exists because it is something Jenny fixes for people who come to her already trained somewhere else.
The nail unit, how it grows, and how damage actually happens. Contraindications you have to spot and turn away. Hygiene, sanitising and cross contamination. Boring for ten minutes, then it saves you for the rest of your career.
Cuticle work, the true nail plate, dust, dehydration and how far to take it. Filmed close up on a real hand so you can see exactly where to stop. If you only watch one module, this is the one that changes your retention.
What each bit is for, what speed it wants, and how to hold it so you never catch skin. Cuticle work, backfill, and the safe removal method Jenny uses on every client. Slow, close up, repeated until it stops being scary.
Bead control, placement, floating the product, and building an apex in the right place. Then the fixes: too thick, too flat, pooling at the cuticle, shrinking at the free edge. Each one shown going wrong and then going right.
Brush control and the small details that make a design look deliberate instead of shaky. How to break down the picture a client shows you and rebuild it on the nail, and how to price art time so a detailed set pays instead of eating your day.
Most of your week will be infills, not fresh sets, and most training barely covers them. Rebalancing, chasing regrowth, and careful e-file removal that leaves the natural nail intact. This is where speed and repeat clients come from.
Chrome, french, ombre and clean hand painted line work. Not two hundred designs, the handful that sell over and over, done to a standard that photographs well.
What to charge and how to raise it without losing people. Booking, deposits and no shows. Taking a photo of a set that actually looks like the set. Rebooking on the day, which is the single habit that fills a diary.
Modules are released as they are filmed, and the founding group gets every one of them plus everything added later, at no extra cost.
Exactly what to buy to start, where to get it in Ireland, and the expensive things you can skip for now.
A one page card you keep on the desk. Work through it on every client until you stop needing it.
Post a photo of a set you are not happy with and get a straight answer, from Jenny and from the others learning.
New modules, new designs, updated products. Buy once, keep getting it.
Your tutor
Certified nail technician and educator, based in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. Six years and counting doing nails, a 5.0 rating across 24 Google reviews, and a diary that fills itself on repeat clients.
She started with The Manicure Company, trained further at 50 Shades Academy, holds an Advanced Gel Technique certificate from Patricija Nails Academy, and qualified as an educator with Lash Dolls. Since then it has been course after course abroad on sterilisation and technique, plus masterclasses, because the products keep changing and standards differ country to country. She already teaches in-person courses in BIAB and e-file work and has trained techs one to one. This academy is that same teaching, filmed properly, so it is not limited to whoever can get to Mullingar on a Tuesday.
In her own student’s words
“I did Jenny’s BIAB and Efile course today and I honestly couldn’t be happier. I felt comfortable asking any questions I had and Jenny was so helpful in answering. I was able to take things at my own pace and I am over the moon with the results!”
And from the clients sitting in her chair every week
“Absolutely amazing attention to detail, always takes such good care of the cuticles and takes her time when shaping all the nails, such good value for money and a very friendly girl!”
“Jenny is absolutely amazing at what she does! My nails always come out flawless, and the attention to detail is unmatched. She takes her time, listens to exactly what you want.”
“The best nail tech in town!! Always provides the best service and always come out more than happy. 1000% recommend.”
Questions
The online course gives you a certificate of completion. Some insurers accept online-only certificates, others want to see an assessed qualification, so always check the exact requirement with the insurer you plan to use before you book anything, anywhere. The practical day gives you the stronger answer either way: a certificate Jenny has assessed and signed in person.
No. It starts at the very beginning, with what a nail is and what you are allowed to do to it. If you already work on clients you can skip the first two modules, but most people who do them say they should have watched them years ago.
Yes. Jenny runs a one day upskilling course in the studio for techs already in the business, for €250. You already hold your qualification, so there is nothing to re-certify, it is purely about making your work faster, cleaner and longer lasting. The online course also works well as a refresher you can keep. Message Jenny on Instagram about upskilling dates.
Not before you start. The kit list is inside the course, with Irish suppliers and honest notes on what is worth the money. Watch the first modules, then buy. It usually saves people a few hundred euro in things they would have bought for no reason.
Forever, including anything added later. There is no subscription and nothing expires.
In Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, a full day, one to one or in a very small group. Dates are arranged with you directly once you have worked through the online modules.
Yes, on both online courses. Mention it when you join the list and Jenny will set it up.
Watch the first two modules. If you genuinely do not think it is going to help you, email within 14 days and you get your money back. Keep the kit list either way.
The founding group opens first and it is capped, so that Jenny can actually give feedback to everyone in it. Join the list and you will hear before anyone else, at the founding price.
Founding group
The founding group is capped so that everybody in it gets their work actually looked at. Join the list and you get first refusal, the founding price, and the free lifting guide in the meantime.
Send Jenny the word ACADEMY on Instagram and she will put you on the list and send you the founding price.
DM “ACADEMY” on Instagram Or email Jenny