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Hannah Van De Peer & Zahna Eklund

'I make £90k a year painting nails - each set takes me up to 40 hours and can cost £6k'

A nail artist who makes around £90,000 a year making and selling bespoke press-on nails has said she can spend up to a staggering 40 hours making each set.

Maddox McCollough, 27, first started painting nails professionally during the lockdown in 2020, and although she claims she was "terrible" at it when she first started, she now paints sets commercially for brands including Burger King, HBO, and Fox.

And Maddox, from North Carolina, US, admitted she can sometimes charge as much as £6,000 for a single set of nails, as her bespoke designs involve taking on "weird" requests from her clients.

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