Beware of the additional costs.
5. All costs are not included. Some salons will try to keep certain added costs a secret, says Choi. They try and up charge you for “nail strengtheners or base coats” and won’t tell you until it’s time to check out, she says.
Before you sit back and relax, you should take some time to talk to the nail technician. Be clear with the services you want done. According to health.costhelper.com:
Specialty designs for acrylics, including fake jewels and multiple color strands, can increase the cost by 20 percent or more. Some salons charge an additional $3-$5 per nail.
Everybody is really at risk.
4. Just because there is no blood, doesn’t mean you haven’t been cut. “Breaks in the skin can be microscopic or highly visible,” says Dr. Spalding. They can either come in with the client via “cuts, scratches, hangnails, bitten nails, insect bites, paper cuts, split cuticles — or be created in the salon,” he says. “Nail techs using callus-cutting tools and nail nippers, files, cuticle pushers, and electric burrs and drills, can and do scratch and nick skin,” sometimes drawing blood and sometimes not. But just because no blood is visible, doesn’t mean these “portals of entry” aren’t susceptible to infective organisms, the doctor advises.
According to articles.mercola.com:
A new study has shown that customers in nail salons could be putting themselves at risk for the deadly disease. Many nail salons use sharp instruments, which carry a risk of infection if they are re-used.
Can you believe this?
3. They swap and dilute bottles. In her long history as a nail technician, celebrity manicurist Jin Soon Choi, owner of Jin Soon Natural Hand and Foot Spas in New York City, says she has heard of many salons filling expensive lotion bottles with a cheap generic lotion.
How do find out if your nail salon is practicing such dirty trick? According to youqueen.com:
You have a right to know exactly what they’re putting on your body.
So don’t be afraid to ask.
This is why you always need to make an appointment.
2. They don’t turn customers away. Dr. Spalding says that the greatest danger of the nail salon is “The transmission of infection from one client to another.” And with “millions of people whose immune systems are compromised by diabetes, HIV, cancer, hepatitis and other infective organisms” booking services offered in nail salons, many are dangerously susceptible to infection, warns the doctor.
Here’s what hepatitiscentral.com has to say about this:
Unfortunately, an increasing number of chronic hepatitis cases are being attributed to poor sanitary practices at nail salons.
If you think it’s never going to happen to you, think again.
1. You are always at risk. Podiatrist Dr. Robert Spalding, author of “Death by Pedicure,” states that “at this time, an estimated one million unsuspecting clients walk out of their chosen salon with infections — bacterial, viral and fungal.” And no matter which salon you go to, there is always a risk of infection.
According to m.livescience.com:
Everyone who enters a nail salon can be affected, yet the workers are the ones left entirely unprotected.
This doesn’t mean you should stop going to a nail salon. This is just to warn you about the dirty secrets of a nail salon. No matter what kind of salon you prefer to go to, you are better off being careful all the time. Dr. Robert Spalding is right to say that you are always at risk each time you get your nails done in a salon.
You can actually bring your own equipment but there are some salons that don’t allow this practice. Nonetheless, you have the right to know how they sterilize their equipment. So feel free to ask. Remember, you are a customer and you have the right to know.
If you want to learn more about the dirty secrets of a salon, you can read the article on this website. If you love going to a nail salon, you should really read the article. You can read the whole article here.
Are you now having second thoughts about going to a nail salon?
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