Nebraska Nail Technology — Requirements & Free Practice

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Nail Technician

Licenses artificial-nail and gel services; natural-nail manicuring and pedicuring alone are exempt under the DHHS scope statement.

Licensing authority: Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Board of Cosmetology, Electrology, Esthetics, Nail Technology, and Body Art · Application information

Licensure by examination

National Nail Technology Theory Examination

Age: At least 17 years old; good character required.
Application: Submit the complete application, supporting documents, applicable fees or fee-waiver documentation; disclose convictions, disciplinary actions and any practice before licensing.
Delivery update: The PSI Nebraska program page states "NE Nail Technician Theory Examination – English - proposed live date 9/1/26". This proposed delivery update does not identify a different required national examination version; the supplied active frozen NIC theory version is referenced.
High school: United States high school education or equivalent.
Language: The written licensing examination must be taken in English.
Lawful presence: Meet Neb. Rev. Stat. § 38-129 and provide citizenship or lawful-presence documentation.
Other approved examinations: 172 NAC 36-002.03 also permits an equivalent examination approved by the Board; no additional currently offered examination is identified.
Passing score: At least 75 on the approved written licensing examination.
Training: Graduate from a nail technology program with at least 300 hours; provide diploma and training-hour documentation.

Licensure by examination subject to probation

All of the following:

National Nail Technology Theory Examination
Nebraska Jurisprudence Examination (practice unavailable)

Age: At least 17 years old; good character required.
Application: Submit the complete application, supporting documents, applicable fees or fee-waiver documentation; disclose convictions, disciplinary actions and any practice before licensing.
Delivery update: The PSI Nebraska program page states "NE Nail Technician Theory Examination – English - proposed live date 9/1/26". This proposed delivery update does not identify a different required national examination version; the supplied active frozen NIC theory version is referenced.
High school: United States high school education or equivalent.
Language: The written licensing examination must be taken in English.
Lawful presence: Meet Neb. Rev. Stat. § 38-129 and provide citizenship or lawful-presence documentation.
Other approved examinations: 172 NAC 36-002.03 also permits an equivalent examination approved by the Board; no additional currently offered examination is identified.
Passing score: At least 75 on the approved written licensing examination.
Probation: The Department may issue the ordinary credential subject to discipline. The nail page identifies its jurisprudence exam as a possible probation condition; sit it when the probation order requires it.
Training: Graduate from a nail technology program with at least 300 hours; provide diploma and training-hour documentation.

Licensure by reciprocity

National Nail Technology Theory Examination

Age: At least 17 years old; good character required.
Application: Submit the complete application, supporting documents, applicable fees or fee-waiver documentation; disclose convictions, disciplinary actions and any practice before licensing.
Delivery update: The PSI Nebraska program page states "NE Nail Technician Theory Examination – English - proposed live date 9/1/26". This proposed delivery update does not identify a different required national examination version; the supplied active frozen NIC theory version is referenced.
Exam exception: Provide successful written examination evidence from the other jurisdiction. If a written examination was not required there, take the NIC nail technology theory examination. An identifiable currently offered NIC examination remains a leaf; other-jurisdiction examination evidence is an applicant condition.
High school: United States high school education or equivalent.
Language: The written licensing examination must be taken in English.
Lawful presence: Meet Neb. Rev. Stat. § 38-129 and provide citizenship or lawful-presence documentation.
Other approved examinations: 172 NAC 36-002.03 also permits an equivalent examination approved by the Board; no additional currently offered examination is identified.
Other license: Hold a current equivalent nail-technician license in another jurisdiction, without discipline or revocation.
Passing score: At least 75 on the approved written licensing examination.
Training: Document 300 hours of nail training including 16 hours operating an electric file. Each full-time practice month within the previous five years may count as 100 training hours.

Reinstatement following suspension, limitation or revocation