Kim Lawless
Grande Dame of the Brazilian Wax for Men and Women
Cheeky moo. I've just left her a message to which I hope to get a response. Will let you all know.
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Fab Freak
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This is the response I got to my complaint
*Glynis*
Gooner Geek
RESULT - I also had the same email as Louise
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julesheath
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Obviously never has extensions in their lives 
That statement is almost slanderous!!!!
Jules
That statement is almost slanderous!!!!Jules
Rose143
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glynis said:
Here Here!!! I haven't had a reply yet!!
jac extreme
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Nor me
Tiger Jay
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Well done guys! Did a good job there! The only reason I didn't send a message is that I don't think I'm that good at explaining stuff! Obviously you made quite clear enough to them. Superb!!!
debs81
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I cant believe that article!! Sent my e-mail anyway!
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Nailsinlondon1
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I love this quote, thats like me giving an oppinion on how to do a correct beauty service.......... I am a Nail Technician with many years expirience, would they ask my advice??? I don't blinking think so.............
I think this Lady should stick to what she knows best, beauty therapy and leave the advise giving and oppinion on nails to those that know best.... Nail Technicians !!!!!!
debs81
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Got my reply this morning! Exactly the same rubbish.
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Kim Lawless
Grande Dame of the Brazilian Wax for Men and Women
SORRY IF YOU'VE ALL SEEN THIS BUT IT'S JUST ARRIVED AND I HAVEN'T GOT TIME TO CHECK IF YOU HAVE, COZ I'M RUNNING OUT THE DOOR.
Ive received your email regarding my small comment on nail extensions in an
article I did for the BBC Essex website a while back. I am of course sorry
you were so offended. However, what I said in that article was entirely
true, and not ludicrous or inaccurate at all! I am a practicing beauty
therapist and I do have to nurse back to good health natural nails that have
been damaged by false nails, that is what I said in the article and sadly
that is the truth of the matter.
Im sorry to say it, for your trade and clearly the nail technicians in the
areas that my clients come from, but I have never seen a set of nails that
have had nail extensions on that have not been damaged by them! I did not
say that in my article, though it is true.
I would also like to emphasise that the article was not aimed, at all, at
abusing the trade of a nail technician; it was about recommending and
introducing people to looking after their own natural nails! I certainly
didnt mean to insult anyone!
Sadly, and its nothing to do with any fault of mine, I have never had one
client come in and say that false nails have improved the condition of their
nails, quite the contrary. As your own comment suggested, that this myth
was started by a bad nail technician in the first place, I would suggest in
your hopes to change a mass of opinion, that this is where you look for
change. Sadly you cant blame my perfectly valid comments. If the training,
qualifications and standards-of-practice of nail technicians all over the
country was better Im sure they would get better results and therefore a
better reputation. I do know Creative have a good reputation in their
training of nail technicians. I also know full well that a lot of nail
technicians in nail bars have no qualifications at all!
Any misconception myself or anyone else has will not be changed by reading
off a website, but by the conditions of natural nails once false nails have
been removed. Im sorry if you dont think that is reasonable but it is
true. Peoples bad opinions on false nails are purely as a result of the
effects they have seen, they have on natural nails! Once again this is not
my fault, but a true opinion of many based on results.
At my salon we did not offer nail extensions; then because they seemed so
popular for business reasons we decided to introduce them, and brought in a
Creative trained nail technician. However we still recommended clients to
try having regular manicures on their natural nails before resorting to nail
extensions. The majority of clients had a very good response from this and
beamed at the results they could get with their own natural nails, and told
us they never liked the look of false nails but just wanted their hands to
look nice. Needless to say the introduction of a nail technician did not
last more than a few months, we decided we were a beauty salon and to leave
nail technicians to the nail bars.
Im very glad you have had such a positive response from your clients, and
would be happy if you are local to the Chelmsford area, to pass your name
and number on to any enquiries I have for nail extensions. I would like to
pass potential clients on to good nail technicians, who wont damage their
nails. However the response from clients Ive had in from nail bars around
here, after theyve had them removed is not, at all, the same as the results
you are getting.
I am a very experienced therapist, qualified to the highest standards, in a
huge range of beauty and holistic therapies, whos done years of training
and am very intelligent in my field of work including all of the human
anatomy and physiology. I am open minded and reasonable and my negative
opinions of false nails are based, rightly so, on my vast experience, maybe
we just have a lot of bad nail technicians in my area.
Of course I appreciate your comments, and shall certainly be more careful
not to publicly offend other therapists trades in the future (though at the
time I didnt realise I was). However sadly my opinion does not change and I
dont think will change until I see nice, healthy, natural nails under false
nails, all the time and until the standards of nail technicians dramatically
improve. If you think this is an unreasonable opinion then sorry, I think
its a very reasonable opinion. I am not entering into a session of
protracted correspondence with you over an article that wasnt even aimed at
insulting the work of a nail technician, but am merely responding to your
email.
I wish you luck in transforming the opinions of myself and many other beauty
therapists, by improving the standards of nail technicians around the
country.
Good luck to you.
Naomi Adlington
Acacia Beauty Rooms
Ive received your email regarding my small comment on nail extensions in an
article I did for the BBC Essex website a while back. I am of course sorry
you were so offended. However, what I said in that article was entirely
true, and not ludicrous or inaccurate at all! I am a practicing beauty
therapist and I do have to nurse back to good health natural nails that have
been damaged by false nails, that is what I said in the article and sadly
that is the truth of the matter.
Im sorry to say it, for your trade and clearly the nail technicians in the
areas that my clients come from, but I have never seen a set of nails that
have had nail extensions on that have not been damaged by them! I did not
say that in my article, though it is true.
I would also like to emphasise that the article was not aimed, at all, at
abusing the trade of a nail technician; it was about recommending and
introducing people to looking after their own natural nails! I certainly
didnt mean to insult anyone!
Sadly, and its nothing to do with any fault of mine, I have never had one
client come in and say that false nails have improved the condition of their
nails, quite the contrary. As your own comment suggested, that this myth
was started by a bad nail technician in the first place, I would suggest in
your hopes to change a mass of opinion, that this is where you look for
change. Sadly you cant blame my perfectly valid comments. If the training,
qualifications and standards-of-practice of nail technicians all over the
country was better Im sure they would get better results and therefore a
better reputation. I do know Creative have a good reputation in their
training of nail technicians. I also know full well that a lot of nail
technicians in nail bars have no qualifications at all!
Any misconception myself or anyone else has will not be changed by reading
off a website, but by the conditions of natural nails once false nails have
been removed. Im sorry if you dont think that is reasonable but it is
true. Peoples bad opinions on false nails are purely as a result of the
effects they have seen, they have on natural nails! Once again this is not
my fault, but a true opinion of many based on results.
At my salon we did not offer nail extensions; then because they seemed so
popular for business reasons we decided to introduce them, and brought in a
Creative trained nail technician. However we still recommended clients to
try having regular manicures on their natural nails before resorting to nail
extensions. The majority of clients had a very good response from this and
beamed at the results they could get with their own natural nails, and told
us they never liked the look of false nails but just wanted their hands to
look nice. Needless to say the introduction of a nail technician did not
last more than a few months, we decided we were a beauty salon and to leave
nail technicians to the nail bars.
Im very glad you have had such a positive response from your clients, and
would be happy if you are local to the Chelmsford area, to pass your name
and number on to any enquiries I have for nail extensions. I would like to
pass potential clients on to good nail technicians, who wont damage their
nails. However the response from clients Ive had in from nail bars around
here, after theyve had them removed is not, at all, the same as the results
you are getting.
I am a very experienced therapist, qualified to the highest standards, in a
huge range of beauty and holistic therapies, whos done years of training
and am very intelligent in my field of work including all of the human
anatomy and physiology. I am open minded and reasonable and my negative
opinions of false nails are based, rightly so, on my vast experience, maybe
we just have a lot of bad nail technicians in my area.
Of course I appreciate your comments, and shall certainly be more careful
not to publicly offend other therapists trades in the future (though at the
time I didnt realise I was). However sadly my opinion does not change and I
dont think will change until I see nice, healthy, natural nails under false
nails, all the time and until the standards of nail technicians dramatically
improve. If you think this is an unreasonable opinion then sorry, I think
its a very reasonable opinion. I am not entering into a session of
protracted correspondence with you over an article that wasnt even aimed at
insulting the work of a nail technician, but am merely responding to your
email.
I wish you luck in transforming the opinions of myself and many other beauty
therapists, by improving the standards of nail technicians around the
country.
Good luck to you.
Naomi Adlington
Acacia Beauty Rooms
*Glynis*
Gooner Geek
I am just gobsmacked what utter arrogance.
jac extreme
Well-Known Member
She must be very concerned about clients natural nails if she felt that bringing in a nail tech was a good I idea (when she is convinced that all nail techs damage the natural nail) the word hypocrite springs to mind.............