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Judge Gigi-Honorary Geek
Perhaps some interesting points for discussion?
Doug always hits the nail on the head! Proper no nonsense truth.
Is it time for all of us to stop generalising and perhaps face the truth.
We should drop the NSS term altogether as it is meaningless the way it is used. There are nail bars, hobby techs, salons, Mobile technicians and cowbows/girls; there are good and bad technicians in every one of these groups.
Doug always hits the nail on the head! Proper no nonsense truth.
Is it time for all of us to stop generalising and perhaps face the truth.
We should drop the NSS term altogether as it is meaningless the way it is used. There are nail bars, hobby techs, salons, Mobile technicians and cowbows/girls; there are good and bad technicians in every one of these groups.
From Doug Schoon
Lets clear something up! Its not just nail bars or non-standard salons that are damaging client's nails. I've been in high end salons and watched nail technicians over file the nail plate. Ive seen top educators for major companies, over file the nail plates. Go to a trade show and watch the nail demos, and youll see this happen all the time. Some manufacturers video demostrate techniques that encourage over filing the nail plate. This is all too common problem in our industry. Id venture to guess that a significant percentage of all nail techs around the world are prone to using overly aggressive filing techniques. And I guess that many of you reading this post, also over file the nail plate.
As an industry, we got to move past blaming non-standard salons and begin to realize this is a COMMON problem in the nail industry, which means huge number of nail techs (if not most nail techs) are improperly filing and/or removing nail coatings. Sure, things were much worse in the 80s and 90s and this industry has made great strides in the last ten years. Still, the nail industry has a long way to go. Blaming some nail techs for what many nail techs regularly do will NOT solve this common problem.
The solutions start with each of you. Nail techs should NOT be removing layers of the natural nail and when coatings are removed- there should be no nail damage. Responsible companies should NOT be teaching potentially damaging techniques which encourage over filing of the nail plate. If your client's nails show signs of nail damage, you need to look at your own techniques and not blame the products. Most of this nail damage is the caused by the nail professional, not the products.