user 52471
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Hi everyone,
I've just started in a new salon, I'm self employed and rent a nail desk. The owner asked me if I use a blade for pedicures to remove the hard skin. I told her I'd never been trained so insurance won't cover me to use one, I'd never even seen one until yesterday.
She wasn't happy about this and started saying the blade used to remove callous' and hard skin is an important part of a pedicure and she was surprised I hadn't been shown. I told her I use a micro plane, which she tried and was surprised by how good it is, but said it was just superficial and not good enough, she's been using blades for pedicures but she's an eyebrow specialist and doesn't want to do pedicures any more.
She used the blade on herself to show me it and I cringed! She said she'll teach me to use it but I don't want to! :Scared: She's said if I want to offer pedicures (under her roof) I'll have to use the blade because that's the standard she's set.
I think this it's really unfair expecting a self employed nail technician to stop offering pedicures (even though she doesn't want to do them!)
Isn't hard skin there for a reason, wouldn't scraping it away make it worse?
With spring and summer on the way of course I want to offer pedicures, is the blade even allowed to be used by nail techs? And is it necessary? I said why don't we let a client book a pedicure with me to get some feedback but, because I won't use the blade she wasn't even willing to let me try!
I've just started in a new salon, I'm self employed and rent a nail desk. The owner asked me if I use a blade for pedicures to remove the hard skin. I told her I'd never been trained so insurance won't cover me to use one, I'd never even seen one until yesterday.
She wasn't happy about this and started saying the blade used to remove callous' and hard skin is an important part of a pedicure and she was surprised I hadn't been shown. I told her I use a micro plane, which she tried and was surprised by how good it is, but said it was just superficial and not good enough, she's been using blades for pedicures but she's an eyebrow specialist and doesn't want to do pedicures any more.
She used the blade on herself to show me it and I cringed! She said she'll teach me to use it but I don't want to! :Scared: She's said if I want to offer pedicures (under her roof) I'll have to use the blade because that's the standard she's set.
I think this it's really unfair expecting a self employed nail technician to stop offering pedicures (even though she doesn't want to do them!)
Isn't hard skin there for a reason, wouldn't scraping it away make it worse?
With spring and summer on the way of course I want to offer pedicures, is the blade even allowed to be used by nail techs? And is it necessary? I said why don't we let a client book a pedicure with me to get some feedback but, because I won't use the blade she wasn't even willing to let me try!