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Answer for the clue "Doing fingernails ", 10 letters:
enamelling

Word definitions for enamelling in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
See enamel

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An application of enamel. vb. (context British English) (present participle of enamel English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enamel \En*am"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enameled or Enamelled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Enameling or Enamelling .] To lay enamel upon; to decorate with enamel whether inlaid or painted. To variegate with colors as if with enamel. Oft he [the serpent]bowed His turret ...

Usage examples of enamelling.

Brother Luke hath given me some skill in damask work, and in the enamelling of shrines, tabernacles, diptychs and triptychs.

The enamelling studio, in which ladies had their faces, shoulders, and busts coated with a mixture of arsenic and white lead, was the forerunner of the modern beauty salon.