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    mma horror

    Well no, I am not sure that we can be so definite about the current legal status of MMA in nails. You say it is a criminal offense, I have not seen the state regulations written in that manner, what I have seen are 'civil codes', therefore civil offense with extremely mild enforcement and mild...
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    free samples

    I obtain trail size or sample size products in a varity of ways. Many are given to me by my main supply house. Trail sizes of ccs foot cream and callus eliminator and 911 rescue, many items thurout the year. He also goes over the coming price increases with me prior to their implementation...
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    mma horror

    Very little presented here in the post is what I would consider 'definte' evidence of MMA. Infections begin with germs, MMA or EMA is not actually relative to the issue of infection. Wish I had seen her nails. You may be describing nail condition as a result of electric drill abuse or result...
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    Retail Prices

    Your mention of Orly just brings to mind another case in point. Orly WAS one of the early professional only products and Orly for decades was not easily available to the general public. BUT now, is all over the general walkin public beauty supply stores, available to ANYONE who has da MONEY to...
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    Retail Prices

    Why did you say that did not sound like a Ken post, that it must have been a Mrs Ken post ? It was a Ken post. I dont do nails anymore, except to occasional gels. I have termianl congestive heart failure and complete disability. With a degree in Computer Science and another in Business...
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    Retail Prices

    Yes indeed my post was very generic and never mentioned CND and I assure you that was nothing in my post singling out you nor CND,LTD. AND in fact, even in the USA, I have noticed that CND does indeed draw attention to itself (in my viewpoint) in at least 2 areas. One being that CND has...
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    to be or not to be??? that is the question

    Still, the rent itself (not knowing the actual comparision) would be much less than what is norm in our area of the USA and still, the business fees to the governement agencies are WAY higher than those here. The point still stands that at some figure of rent and fees, a location is going to...
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    Retail Prices

    yes, everybody do your retail. One of the major subject in the nail biz in the USA these days is that it is so terrible that the providers of professional products are finding alternate methods of retailing professional products to the public ( WHY ) because so few hair stylists and so few...
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    to be or not to be??? that is the question

    see. That sounds like about $ 6,000 USD annual rent. Cheap for the USA. Shops in the single level shopping centers in good area (and many not so good areas) rent for $2,000 to $3,000 USD PER MONTH. Then again that is not for a single tech - that is a nail business employing 5 or 6 techs to...
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    MMA article?

    go to www.beautytech.com and seach the articles there. There will be dozens on the subject of mma. And the great thing is the read the different writing styles and the different methods of presenting the information and the forms that they take in being educational. From that, you should be...
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    What do you store your tips in?

    A Tip Box. Perhaps they are uncommon in the UK, but are very common in the USA supply stores. Plastic. Divided into compartments and the compartments are labeled 0 thur 10 for the sizes. And inexpensive, like as low as $ 3.00 USD, so if you use several types of tips, it is inexpensive to...
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    NEW nail tech getting stared..USA...exam

    I think that in another place, I have spoken with her about this. Generally, you studied in an approved school, which can sometimes mean nothing, thinking about the standards of some schools. But if I recall, she studied in a school that I know and that my wife had attended at one time and the...
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    How to choose a nail salon...

    I certainly agree with others that it is incorrect of you to speak anti-electric drill and anti-mask. It is not correct to make an implication that electric drills equals mma/nss, not correct to make an implication that mask equals mma/nss. You are correct to associate the use of mma and the...
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    Nail products for public available at the chemist UK vs USA

    Ok just want to make comparisions. We like in a Podunk. Podunk is slang word for areas of the USA where true real country people are still native to the land. We are 25 miles from downtown Charlotte a city of approx 600.000. And our little town of Indian Trail is like population 2,500 BUT...
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    New here, but have questions??? :>)

    that I had located anything in your profile that might have helped me created a visiulisation of whom you are. OK. Look at some words used.... Licensed..... Certified..... Coorespondence....... Nail Art. I wish to make some comments on them. Licensed is what you need, licensed in YOUR...
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    ?????? on Booth Rental

    You can go either way with the situation. You know in mostly legal terms and viewing a booth rental like an apartment rental, what we would do is enter the strange and bewildering world of SUB-LEASING or SUB-RENTAL. (( yeah, like I know, it's like we already have normal rental down pat, don't...
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    Nail products for public available at the chemist UK vs USA

    Just wanting to get some comparisions here. Because a post mentioned that little use at home 8oz, bottles of acetone seem to be UNcommon at the chemists in the UK. We have large chains of them. Like CVS may have 4,000 stores and Eckerds may have 7,000 stores and Walgreens may have 5,000...
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    I Know I did the right thing - but need confirmation!!

    Neat, I'm the type who loves to know where people are and where they have been blah blah blan BUT then I read the entire post and NORTH had no meaning at all. You and your profile never idenify your location, your city, your country, so North never had any meaning. Please do go back and...
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    american/french/cuban.....

    American manicure uses off white colors --- colors with a tinge of pink or blue or whatever. Here is a partial list of some OPI colors that could be used in COMBINATIONS to paint an American manicure. Shanghai SHimmer, Swedish Nude, Tutti Frutti Tongta, Samoan Sand, Malaysian Mist, Kyoto...
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    Wondering if the CUBAN MANICURE will at last become popular

    I see that I had written """""I find the most easy method to paint them is to paint the entire nail white and then paint over the tip and the moon with white. """"""" sorry I meant I find the most easy method is to paint the entire nail white and then paint over the middle portion with the...
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