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Is anyone going to try and claim on their Business Interruption Insurance, now that we've had a High Court Judgement involving 8 big insurance companies who have been told they have to pay out? I have just read that the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) are going to issue a Q&A document for...

Hi geeks, can anyone let me know a good disinfecting solution for small metal tools eg cuticle nippers or plastic hoof sticks. Sterisure has been discontinued, Mundo rusts my tools, Barbicide is great but needs to be changed daily. Any suggestions?

I'm about to rent out a beauty room within my salon , where I already have public liability/ contents/ buildings/ treatment insurance in place to cover myself and 2 employed staff. My insurance company say that the renter (who already has treatment & public liablity cover) needs to be covered...

Just to inform anyone here, should your lead break/fray on your Gel FX LED lamp (not the new 5 finger version which has just been brought out, the previous version), you will be unable to purchase a new lead for it. This is unfortunate and reflects very badly on the supplier of Orly products...

I wonder if anyone is experiencing the same problem as me with the Inland Revenue. I have an employee on Maternity Leave who is receiving Statutory Maternity Pay. As she left at Xmas, her maternity leave spans 2 tax years. Because my business is modest, I'm entitled to receive reimbursement...

Thank goodness - after just over a week of football we now have an alternative sport to watch on the box. Great! Who saw the Federer match today? what I thought would be a predictable 1-2 hour, 3 set match turned into a thriller. Never heard of Falla before today, but he played brilliantly...

Hi Geeks I am trying to help my peri-menopausal symptoms of heavy and irregular periods with medication. I've been on the internet and seen the above low eostrogen pills recommended for controlling troublesome periods in my age group (late forties/early fifties). So now I'm wondering - will it...

Can anyone recommend me a heavy duty handcream to use this winter? My hands are really dry right now, and my usual Nailtiques one is not quite enough. I used to order a large pot of cheap and cheerful plain, thick, white hand treatment cream from Ellisons which was great but they discontinued...

OMG! I have just seen two people in hospital having maggots squeezed out of their scalps. Yuck! They had acquired them in Peru, remind me never to go there . . . and now someone with a tick in his leg, how vile! And a poor lady with a tapeworm egg lodged in her brain, that she's probably had...

Has any Geek ever had a fractured pelvis? My partner fell from a skip last week and is now home from hospital with a fractured pelvis and a mending dislocated knee. As it wasn't a severe break there was no need for him to have an operation, but he has to spend at least 6 weeks with no weight...

Did anyone see the Hotel Blackpool featured on tonight's episode? Two brothers had taken the hotel over and one wanted to turn it from a bog standard Blackpool guest house into a four star hotel by creating a 'treatment room'. Why? Because he had come from working on a cruise ship . . . ...

Just wondering if those of you who employ staff will be giving pay rises this year ( as I usually do annually ) or will you hold off and freeze pay due to the economic squeeze? I am in two minds . . . I know things have been difficult financially for salon owners over the past year or so, but...

After reading the views of several geeks, I took the plunge and got hold of some pre-wax oil and tried it on one of my staff for an eyebrow and lip wax today. What a fab result! Less painful for her and far less redness afterwards. The only question I have is, the label on the oil said for use...

Does anyone know of a company in the london area/south east that could repair the control panel on my electric couch? It won't go up, only down, so it can't be the motor. The couch is now about a foot off the ground so I can't use it! I'll try and make a few phonecalls today, but not sure where...

Hving just read a blog by Littlegrohl about a 'grand dame' who had been having nail enhancements for the past 25 odd years, and who she called a walking museum of nail technology, it got me thinking. I would love to know more about beauty treatments that were around in the last century, eg the...

Are any London geeks going to this tomorrow at the Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch? It's a free event put on by London Business Link. They're running other free events for small businesses and their website is www.businesslink.gov.uk/london/events if anyone's going PM me and perhaps we could...

I wonder if any of you have heard of this happening. Two of my clients have told me that recently whilst on holiday and using suntan lotion they found that by the end of the day if they were wearing nail varnish on their fingers, it had gone dull-looking and needed to be reapplied. As their toes...

Hello Geeks I have a CATastrophic situation which I need some help with. I have been cat-sitting my ex-husband's kitty for the last few days, she's a friendly creature and lots of fun, and her favourite game is chasing after a long piece of string which you have to trail ahead of her whilst...

Hello to all the male Geeks on this site I was wondering where you did your training? only a male friend of one of my employees is interested in training in beauty, and mentioned it to her, not knowing where to go. He lives in Kent/SE London area. If any of you have any advice it would be...

Hello Nail Geeks I have a nail tech in my salon who has introduced Biosculpture, what a great treatment. Two of us had colour applied, which has lasted well - at least 4 weeks and no lifting at all. But one of the girls has had French on for 9 days and it's started lifting at the base and...