Jo's Nails
Well-Known Member
HI,
over the last two years I have worked 5 salons. I go to the interview get the job work happily away untill a problem arises.
I know that the nail industry has changed alot and standards have changed.
I am a fellow geek and the advice I have recieved from this site is something I apply to every client that sits at my table, aswel as advice from Doug Schoon and other leading industry experts.
I thought salon owners also knew this, so when client asked for hard skin to be removed from feet and I am given a big heavy wooden file that's 20 years old that's been at the back of a cupboard, or the client says that they have either a veruccu (sorry I can't spell it) or they are not sure if it's a corn on the bottom of there foot but it hurts and I refer them to doctor I am seen as being awkward because I refused treatment.
This is the type of thing I have come across as a new employee in many of the places I have worked ...
Dirty tools with things growing on them
Dirty tables
Dirty pedi baths with no liners
Dirty files and dog eaten buffers
Power tools/Drills used for screwing nails into walls used on nails of the hand.
No sanitation process
No cleaning products
Hands not washed before services
I worked for one lady who never washed her hands after going to the toilet!!!!!??????
I've been told to over buff natural nails.
To use products which come in unlabled bottles and put into a branded bottle.
Mixing gel and acrylic together so the gel is more able to sculpt causing massive heat spikes and majore discomfort to the clients. And when I explained what an exothermic reaction is and the fact that their nail plate has been over zealously buffed with a power tool which causes a friction burn when going under the lamp with too thickly applied gel, my boss tried to sack me.
Told to cut cuticles.
To remove hard skin from feet with razor blades that have been previously used and swiled out.
To reuse water in a pedi spa from previous clients.
Most of the people I have worked for are not fellow geeks but I assumed they knew what I did and that it's obvious not to do these things.
I am seen as being awkward because I can educate my clients and look after them but the salon owners have no product information or hygiene standards. I am there to make them money no matter what. I feel like I am talking to my self.
Everybody has a different idea to me how things should be done and I am seen as wrong when I try to implement some sort of standard or try to educate myself,my clients, their staff or the salon owner.
It's really hard!
over the last two years I have worked 5 salons. I go to the interview get the job work happily away untill a problem arises.
I know that the nail industry has changed alot and standards have changed.
I am a fellow geek and the advice I have recieved from this site is something I apply to every client that sits at my table, aswel as advice from Doug Schoon and other leading industry experts.
I thought salon owners also knew this, so when client asked for hard skin to be removed from feet and I am given a big heavy wooden file that's 20 years old that's been at the back of a cupboard, or the client says that they have either a veruccu (sorry I can't spell it) or they are not sure if it's a corn on the bottom of there foot but it hurts and I refer them to doctor I am seen as being awkward because I refused treatment.
This is the type of thing I have come across as a new employee in many of the places I have worked ...
Dirty tools with things growing on them
Dirty tables
Dirty pedi baths with no liners
Dirty files and dog eaten buffers
Power tools/Drills used for screwing nails into walls used on nails of the hand.
No sanitation process
No cleaning products
Hands not washed before services
I worked for one lady who never washed her hands after going to the toilet!!!!!??????
I've been told to over buff natural nails.
To use products which come in unlabled bottles and put into a branded bottle.
Mixing gel and acrylic together so the gel is more able to sculpt causing massive heat spikes and majore discomfort to the clients. And when I explained what an exothermic reaction is and the fact that their nail plate has been over zealously buffed with a power tool which causes a friction burn when going under the lamp with too thickly applied gel, my boss tried to sack me.
Told to cut cuticles.
To remove hard skin from feet with razor blades that have been previously used and swiled out.
To reuse water in a pedi spa from previous clients.
Most of the people I have worked for are not fellow geeks but I assumed they knew what I did and that it's obvious not to do these things.
I am seen as being awkward because I can educate my clients and look after them but the salon owners have no product information or hygiene standards. I am there to make them money no matter what. I feel like I am talking to my self.
Everybody has a different idea to me how things should be done and I am seen as wrong when I try to implement some sort of standard or try to educate myself,my clients, their staff or the salon owner.
It's really hard!