It's becoming more and more competitive in the nail industry, especially in Australia. Nail bars are popping up on every street corner. They're convenient, cheap and take a lot less time than it would if you went and saw a regular nail technician. These places cut costs by cutting corner, using white tips or spraying on the white instead of using white acrylic amongst other techniques.
It take a good hour or so to do a full set of acrylics properly. It's a very fiddly, labour instensive treatment. It's nail techs like myself that lose out on clients because they'd rather pay less to get their nails done at a nail bar, and at the end of the day, they may have saved themselves some $$$ but they're going to end up with poor quality nails.
I really do suggest, rather than working from home, hire out a table in a beauty salon, you will get far more revenue that way than you will working at home, and a lot of the time, if you rent out a table, they will have pre existing clients too.