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Nisha Mal

'I make £90,000 a year selling bespoke press-on nails'

A luxury nail artist rakes in £90k-a-year selling bespoke press-on nails - and spends up to 40 hours painting each set. Maddox McCollough, 27, first started painting nails professionally during the 2020 lockdown.

She admits she was "terrible" when she first started - and "couldn’t even draw a straight line". But now, she paints sets commercially for brands like HBO, Burger King and Fox - some costing £6,000 a set.

Maddox, from North Carolina, US said: “You can’t even imagine how weird and wonderful some of the nail art requests get. I had one woman ask me to paint tiny versions of her Corgi in the style of the anime Naruto.

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