Whenever this subject is discussed on here someone always says what you have said or that the discount salons (due to language differences) call something we don't "gel".
The fact is that all the NSS around me use their normal product i.e. L&P and put a gel topcoat on (maybe uv cured or not) and tell their clients it is gel. It is a deliberate way of misleading clients.
What if they were not taught what L+P is..?
What if they were not taught what gel is..?
What if they were taught that putting gel over L+P is then called 'gel' and they should charge more for it..?
If they were not taught then how would they know..?
Does that still make them deliberately out to mislead clients..?
Or just ignorant and mis informed...?
Why do we always speak of these salons thinking that they all know what we know...?
What I am saying is, that yes, there are people out there who deliberately mislead clients for their own advantage, but sometimes, it is not always the case. They could be just uneducated and ignorant.
The are many many salons that I have come across - and NOT just NSS - that advertise Shellac but clearly not using it as a full system and sometimes not even using Shellac..!!
Why then, are we always targetting this particular group of people and saying they are bad people because they are deliberately misleading their clients..? Are we 100% sure that they are...? Or is it something that we just assume..? Are we just assuming because we are just seeing everything on the surface and have no real knowledge of what is really happening in their very enclosed community..?
Every thread on here about the NSS is always OUR opinion - what WE think of them, why WE think they do such thing, how WE think theyshould be better.
This is all assuming - We ASSUME that they all use MMA, we ASSUME that they don't care about their clients and their health, we ASSUME that they do not want to learn, we ASSUME that they are bad people with horrific business practice.
We complain and we moan about what they are doing, but have no real insight about who they are, their enclosed community as a whole, why they do things a certain way, why they do not seek help and education. No one has ever spent any time in trying to really understand what is going on.
Instead, we just sit and we bitch.
The lack of education is clearly the problem here, and we, as 'proper' nail professionals shouldn't jump into conclusions. How are they going to want to learn from us if we are constantly putting them down..? What makes you think they will put down their pride and go seeking help if we look down on them so much.....? If they are afraid to ask for help, then how is this situation ever going to get better...?
The bottom line is, we do not have regulations in the UK to prevent them from working so It means they are not going to go away whether you like it or not. so if they are not going to go away, then we should look into ways of welcoming them into our industry to learn, improve and better themselves.
Only this way, we will be finally helping our industry in moving forward.
Please geeks, give them a chance.