If it hasn’t happened already, I promise you that sooner or later you will get the call that will send your heart racing and sweat pouring. The next time that phone rings – it could be a client complaining that their nail enhancements been mysteriously ‘abducted’ in middle of the night.

The great nail defection seems an ethereal phenomenon that only affects the occasional client at the most unpredictable times and for absolutely no plausible freaking reason. As if there is some government conspiracy or maybe the nails are abducted by UFO’s in middle of the night to be probed and picked. Heck, maybe they are seeking asylum in France.

The defection is often traumatic enough to send any nail professional into panic mode.

• “Do I suck?”
• “Does my product suck?”
• “Is she going to want her money back now that I have just spent it on a new yacht?”
• “Did the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie really chug as bad as I thought it did?”

I bet my toupee that the only affirmative answer to the above questions is with the latter - that movie sucked the sweaty socks off a gerbil.