Nail Salons
Description
Nail salon establishments focus on delivering comprehensive manicure and pedicure treatments to enhance the health, appearance, and style of customers' fingernails and toenails. These businesses employ various techniques including file and buff services, artificial nail extensions, gel applications, and acrylics, alongside the use of pedicure bowls and foot spa equipment. While some locations offer specialized services for nail art or removal, the core operation centers on providing cosmetic care and maintenance for both men and women in a relaxed setting. The industry consists of independent small businesses ranging from single-location boutiques to larger chains found in malls and retail complexes. Operators typically manage staff to perform cuticle care, exfoliation, polish applications, and nail shaping. These facilities often require specific safety protocols and sanitation practices to ensure client health. Their scope varies from neighborhood shops serving local residents to regional centers offering premium spa experiences. The market includes diverse business models such as owner-operated outlets, franchise networks, and corporate chains. Revenue streams rely primarily on service fees, product sales like polishes and lotions, and retail merchandise. This sector remains vital for personal grooming across demographic groups.
Hierarchy
| Code | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 81 | Other Services (except Public Administration) 2-digit sector | The Sector as a Whole The Other Services (except Public Administration) sector comprises establishments engaged in providing services not specifically provided for elsewhere in the classification system. Establishments in this sector are primarily engaged in activities such as equipment and machinery repairing, promoting or administering religious activities, grantmaking, advocacy, and providing drycleaning and laundry services, personal care services, death care services, pet care (except veterinary) services, photofinishing services, temporary parking services, and dating services. Private households that engage in employing workers on or about the premises in activities primarily concerned with the operation of the household are included in this sector. Excluded from this sector are establishments primarily engaged in retailing new equipment and also performing repairs and general maintenance on equipment. These establishments are classified in Sector 44-45, Retail Trade. |
| 812 | Personal and Laundry Services 3-digit subsector | Industries in the Personal and Laundry Services subsector group establishments that provide personal and laundry services to individuals, households, and businesses. Services performed include: personal care services; death care services; laundry and drycleaning services; and a wide range of other personal services, such as pet care (except veterinary) services, photofinishing services, temporary parking services, and dating services. The Personal and Laundry Services subsector is by no means all-inclusive of the services that could be termed personal services (i.e., those provided to individuals rather than businesses). There are many other subsectors, as well as sectors, that provide services to persons. Establishments providing legal, accounting, tax preparation, architectural, portrait photography, and similar professional services are classified in Sector 54, Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services; those providing job placement, travel arrangement, home security, interior and exterior house cleaning, exterminating, lawn and garden care, and similar support services are classified in Sector 56, Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services; those providing health and social services are classified in Sector 62, Health Care and Social Assistance; those providing amusement and recreation services are classified in Sector 71, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation; those providing educational instruction are classified in Sector 61, Educational Services; those providing repair services are classified in Subsector 811, Repair and Maintenance; and those providing spiritual, civic, and advocacy services are classified in Subsector 813, Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations. |
| 8121 | Personal Care Services 4-digit industry group | This industry group comprises establishments, such as barber and beauty shops, that provide appearance care services to individual consumers. |
| 81211 | Hair, Nail, and Skin Care Services 5-digit NAICS industry | This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) providing hair care services; (2) providing nail care services; and (3) providing facials or applying makeup (except permanent makeup). Illustrative Examples: Barber shops Hair stylist shops Beauty salons Nail salons Cosmetology salons |
| 812113 | Nail Salons 6-digit U.S. detail | Nail salon establishments focus on delivering comprehensive manicure and pedicure treatments to enhance the health, appearance, and style of customers' fingernails and toenails. These businesses employ various techniques including file and buff services, artificial nail extensions, gel applications, and acrylics, alongside the use of pedicure bowls and foot spa equipment. While some locations offer specialized services for nail art or removal, the core operation centers on providing cosmetic care and maintenance for both men and women in a relaxed setting. The industry consists of independent small businesses ranging from single-location boutiques to larger chains found in malls and retail complexes. Operators typically manage staff to perform cuticle care, exfoliation, polish applications, and nail shaping. These facilities often require specific safety protocols and sanitation practices to ensure client health. Their scope varies from neighborhood shops serving local residents to regional centers offering premium spa experiences. The market includes diverse business models such as owner-operated outlets, franchise networks, and corporate chains. Revenue streams rely primarily on service fees, product sales like polishes and lotions, and retail merchandise. This sector remains vital for personal grooming across demographic groups. |
Need a supply chain stack that maps to this industry?
Use this NAICS classification as the starting point, then connect it to Item workflows across inventory, warehousing, order management, fulfillment, and transportation.
Index Items
Manicure and pedicure salons
Manicurist services
Nail salons
Pedicure and manicure salons
Pedicurist services
How Item Can Help
The WMS optimizes inventory management for nail polish and accessories by tracking stock levels in real-time across multiple locations, reducing waste from expired products and ensuring popular items are always available for customers.
OMS streamlines order fulfillment by digitizing customer bookings and processing requests instantly, allowing salons to accept and complete orders online without manual paperwork delays.
The TMS coordinates last-mile delivery logistics for mobile nail services, ensuring technicians and their supplies arrive punctually at client locations, which is critical for maintaining customer appointments.
Item.com Tools
External Resources
Census.gov NAICS Detail
Official US Census Bureau definition and scope for NAICS 812113.
National Cosmetology Association
Trade association supporting the cosmetology industry including nail technicians.
U.S. Department of Labor - Occupational Outlook Handbook
Government page providing data on nail salon workers and career outlook.
Angi - Nail Salon Directory
Industry directory helping customers find licensed nail salons near them.
