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Lives In
Brooklyn, New York
Expertise
- Nail Health and Art
- Evelyn Lim is a nail technician and nail health expert with over 18 years of experience.
- Evelyn Lim currently serves as the Chief Educator of Paintbox, a top nail studio in NYC.
- Evelyn Lim is a freelance manicurist. Her editorial work can be found in VOGUE Taiwan and ELLE Vietnam, campaigns for fashion houses like Oscar De Larenta, Monse, Tanya Taylor, Alexander Wang, and nail polish brands like Paintbox, Essie and Auda B, as well as leading the nail team backstage at NYFW at Tadashi Shoji and Ulla Johnson.
Experience
As Chief Educator at Paintbox, Evelyn oversee training and development of artists in nail specialty, artistry, continuing education, creating content for social media and offering expert advice on but not limited to education/nail health based articles. She scan be found taking clients at Paintbox and freelancing for major fashion brands, while bridging the gap between the salon and editorial side of nail specialty. Evelyn's expertise has been featured in MindBodyGreen, Cosmo, and Byrdie.
Education
Within Evelyn's 18+ year career, she's worked in a funeral home as Licensed Funeral Director for seven years with a specialty in embalming, as well as obtained a degree in Anthropology, participating in an archeological field study in Romania. While at this may seem far-fetched from nail artistry, these experiences have shaped her skills in research and anatomy.
About Byrdie and Dotdash
Byrdie is part of the Dotdash publishing family. For more than 20 years, Dotdash brands have been helping people find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. We are one of the top-20 largest content publishers on the Internet according to comScore, a leading Internet measurement company, and reach more than 30% of the U.S. population every month. Our brands collectively have won more than 20 industry awards in the last year alone and, most recently, Dotdash was named Publisher of the Year by Digiday, a leading industry publication.