2 year old having shellac

[Glitterspy]

I’m in the nail bar. It’s a hot humid afternoon. This place of stinks to high heaven of nail glue. Among the various women and nine year olds having their holiday nails done, is a 2 year old, sucking a dummy, having shellac nails done. They’re using the plug-in file on her tiny nails. The mum is here and argued with the salon owner who said she was too young, got really shitty and in her face to have it done, so it’s happening but the poor nail tech doesn’t look happy about it.

AIBU for hoicking my judgy pants and saying toddlers shouldn’t have shellac (damage to tiny nail beds, toxic chemicals, sexualisation of children as reasons off the top of my head)

YABU - it’s fine to shellac babies
YANBU - children should be seen and not shellac’ed

WTF have I just read? What a disgusting woman. I mean, just why?

Bet the poor little sod will get shoved in a tacky leopard print bikini on holiday, and heels for the evening. Why in the hell would you shellac a toddlers nails FFS?

Of course a 2 year old should not be getting shelac but i think the technician/owner is almost as bad as the (very poor) parent - they should have refused to do the nails

Name of the shop?

I suspect the mother was threatening to leave awful reviews all over the place. In an ideal world all the other customers would say "But if you do it, we'll be leaving awful reviews AND reporting the whole thing to social services". But I know it's incredibly easy to say that with hindsight.

I can’t be the only one who saw shellac and assumed this was going to be about a toddler with a vintage record collection.

I have never had my nails done.

i see some pp have already mentioned people trafficking. Nail bars are an absolute hotbed of this. Report them all.

What the actual fuck- say something

Absolutely. I would be reviewing them saying they went ahead and did this. OK, so it naybhave been the mum insisting but they should have turned her away. Awful

I judge the parent and the salon owner tbf

I’d be reporting the salon/nail tech! That’s seriously bad form!

I’m assuming you’re in a Chinese nail salon from the description. The only salon I would assume would allow this. Absolutely disgusting.

Vietnamese not Chinese. All the ones people think are Chinese or Korean - they’re Vietnamese. Let’s have some cultural sensitivity please!

WHO ON EARTH IS GOING TO SAY THIS IS OK???

Yikes! Racist much!!!!

WHAT 😳 You have got to be joking, a 2 year old???!!!!!
I've heard it all now😲

@Glitterspy you weren’t sympathetic to the needs of a 2 year old to advocate for her though…..
interesting.

@ShimmyYaYaYay it’s not racist at all. I know a Chinese lady through our local playgroup who owns a nail salon and is very honest about the low standards in hers and other similar ones.

Fist fight?!

seriously if you think the parent was going to punch you over this then you really do need to report

I mean, YANBU at all, but good luck telling her this and not getting injured.

Why don't you want to report the salon?

The salon employees will have undergone training on the risks, health and safety, insurance, etc and have decided to ignore all that just to make a few quid. Plus there's a chance that the employee is a victim of trafficking - or just has a bad manager, which the owner/chain may not be aware of.

I saw something similar a while ago but the salon was run by Vietamese staff who didnt speak great English and they agreed to do what the women was demanding. I am presuming they didnt want the police there.

Who knows, she was mad enough to have shellac nail art on a 2 year old and loudly and aggressively square up to the salon owner over it. She had a weird, angry energy. Confronting her directly was not my job in the situation. I’m not afraid to stand up and advocate for children, I have done this before, but I made my own judgement that I couldn’t have pulled it off in this context. Hopefully I can report this to the salon management and make them think twice about their responsibilities. That will be a win in my view.

I’m not sure whether PPs on this thread really would have done as they suggest and squared up to this woman to advocate for the child. It would take someone as equally mad as she seemed to be, to do it.

Ok so you didn’t want to confront directly

but you will complain to the salon? The salon that actually decided to allow this?!

op - get in to contact with your council FfS

AIBU for hoicking my judgy pants

you should re word

AIBU for hoicking my judgy pants but do bugger all about it

It's up there with ear piercing...another unnecessary procedure to make little girls look cute.

I get that kids may use make up etc as part of play, but just toy make up and clip on earrings, surely?