Spa Nail Technician

Nail technician or cosmetologist for our Lincoln Square (Chicago) spa: healthy, beautiful nails from Classic to Chakra to GelX. Part time: every Saturday and Sunday, plus the weekday(s) you choose.

Nails are our front door. Care is the house.

Lena Rose is the spa where the person in the chair matters more than the service on the menu. We're a W-2, non-tipping, clean-beauty spa and shop with two homes, Lincoln Square in Chicago and downtown Naperville. We're looking for a nail technician or cosmetologist at our Lincoln Square (Chicago) spa who does clean, healthy, beautiful work and wants to take care of the human attached to the hands.

Why nail pros choose Lena Rose

• Steady hourly pay on every shift, never dependent on tips.

• Guests booked for you. No chair rent, no chasing clients, no social media hustle.

• A part-time schedule built with you. Saturdays and Sundays are part of every schedule; you choose the weekday(s) that fit your life.

• Clean products we've vetted ingredient by ingredient.

• Newly licensed? You're welcome here. Every Rose gets 14 days of paid training before taking guests on their own.

The schedule

Part time, 3 to 4 days a week: every Saturday and Sunday, plus one or two weekdays you choose. We're hiring more than one part-time nail pro for this shop, so tell us the days that work for you.

What you'll do

• Manicures and pedicures from Classic to Chakra to Fire & Ice, plus gel, structured, GelX and Russian manicures, all to our written protocols and time windows.

• Nail health first: an honest consultation every time, proper cuticle care, and never covering a damaged nail without addressing it.

• Sanitation to Illinois state board standards after every guest, and a station reset to the Lena Rose Standard.

• At least one product recommendation per guest (goal of two), and every guest rebooked before checkout.

What you'll bring

• A current Illinois nail technician or cosmetology license. Bring it to the interview.

• Available every Saturday and Sunday.

• Clean, consistent technique: cuticle care, gel and structured application, e-file use and pedicure massage flow. New to one of these? We'll train you.

• Punctual and reliable, on time for every guest.

• Open to feedback and to doing things the Lena Rose way, even if you learned it differently.

You'll feel at home here if

• You'd rather have steady, predictable pay than chase tips.

• You love the craft of nail health as much as the polish.

• You like using a quiet afternoon to learn, reset and care for the shop.

What Roses really earn

The pay shown on this post is base pay: $20/hour to start, growing with tenure to $27/hour. On top of that, you earn 2–10% commission on everything you sell (services and retail) through our Rose Rate. From May to September 2026, commission added about $1 to $2.50 an hour on average for our providers, and up to $5.60 an hour in a strong pay period. As your Rose Rate grows, so does your commission.

What we offer

• $20/hour to start (every Rose starts as an Apprentice), growing with tenure to $27/hour, plus 2–10% commission on all your sales through our Rose Rate.

• Pay Protection Promise: your base rate only ever moves up.

• Non-tipping: steady, predictable pay that never depends on tips.

• Paid leave and paid sick leave, earned from day one.

• Medical, dental and vision for Roses working 40+ hours, after 90 days.

• Four paid professional development days a year and 100% reimbursement of the continuing education hours Illinois requires.

• 40% off retail and services from day one.

• A paid 14-day training program, with sign-off before you take guests on your own.

How we hire (so you know what to expect)

1) Apply here. A resume helps, but it isn't required.

2) A 15-minute phone call.

3) An in-person interview.

4) A paid working interview: one manicure or pedicure on a model at our spa.

5) Reference checks.

Physical requirements

This is a hands-on, on-the-floor role. You should be able to stand and move for most of a shift; bend, stoop, reach and lift up to 40 lbs to deliver services and reset rooms; and have the manual dexterity to use all tools and equipment, with or without reasonable accommodation.

How to apply

Apply through this posting. If you like, add a few sentences: tell us about a guest whose nails weren't ready for what they asked for. What did you say, and what happened next? Prefer to talk it through? We'll ask you on the phone.

Beautifully,

Jenny & the team at Lena Rose Beauty

Lena Rose Beauty (Noktivo, LLC) is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and are committed to building a team as diverse as the community we serve. Reasonable accommodations are available on request, including for the interview.