Electric Nail Drill

The electric nail drill came into the market around 25 years ago. It followed the popularity of the acrylic nail. Nail technicians liked the speed and its capability to smooth, shape and clean acrylic nails. The early models were in a way copies of drills found in other fields like dentistry and other medical industries. Some of the early makers of nail drills were originally drill makers for these other applications. They then adapted the technology to make it suitable for nail drills.

There was a time when the electric nail drill got a bad rap as being too difficult to use and maybe even harmful. One of the reasons that happened was because in the early days some of the nail technicians were taking equipment that was being used in the wood industry or various other hobby related work, and using them to work on nails. The simple matter of fact was that many nail technicians were not properly educated in the proper use of the electric drill. The result was people who went to a beauty salon to get their nails done ended up with damaged nails.

But over the years all that changed. In part because of efforts of groups like AEFM. The AEFM went out of its way to train and properly educate beauty salons and technicians on the proper use of the electric nail drill or files. The AEFM’s education system has become so successful that many schools have taken their program and made it part of the curriculum. Other schools around the U.S offer programs that typically last for 10 hours to teach nail technicians how to use the electric nail drill. Now it’s a requirement in most states that nail technicians get some training in it before starting work.

Even in quality the electric nail drill has come a long way. You can find features like drills with sealed bearings that make them very quiet and give an increase in RPM, a forward and reverse switch so that both left handed and right handed people can use them, and even a built in voltage converter, that is from 110 to 220 volts so that it can be used in other countries. There are even cordless or rechargeable drills available. So with all the advancements and education available in electric nail drills it has become a staple of salons around the country, almost unthinkable not to have one. One of the misunderstandings that happened was that people thought the electric drill is used to take of the entire fake nail; it’s used to reduce the amount of manual filling. That was one of the big misunderstandings in the early days which caused a lot of grief to nail technicians. So if you have a properly trained technician and whether you have fake or real nails using an electric nail drill can make a world of difference in nail beauty.