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

Any nail or in fact beauty place worth their salt would flat out refuse. They are not insured for treatments on under 16s, lady I go to was asked by a friend of mine to wax and tint her daughter's brows, she refused.

A 2 year old is too tiny

I always get confused with these terms. Are acrylics the same as nail extensions? And then you have normal polish on top?

YANBU, that's awful. I don't go to the most salubrious of nail bars but they will only ever do ordinary polish on a kids nails.

I love how many people are going on about the owner and technician. How many keyboard warriors would actually be brave enough to stand up to someone so aggressive face to face?

Ideally I think the owner should have quietly sloped off to call the police to have the woman removed, but I doubt in her situation I’d have thought about that quick enough.

@Glitterspy, report to the local council office which licenses businesses providing personal services like manicures, waxing, etc. Probably the health inspactors/ department.

The salon should have a big sign restricting services to certain ages 'By Law we cannot provide XYZ services to anyone else under age 12' or something like that.

If you're still at the salon, maybe suggest this to the manager. Express your sympathy for the position the tech and the manager were put in but tell them also that you intend to take the incident up with the licensing office.

I assume the manager wasn’t in at the time? Salon needs reporting.

And if the manager can’t stand up to customers like these then she shouldn’t have a nail salon! Her reputation and business is at stake for some coarse loou mouth pushy mother.

What kind of a salon uses the plug in file anyway? A sweatshop !

Salon needs reporting

Reporting to who? For what?

Shellac a two year old is skanky bad taste but not illegal.

At least she wasn't piercing the child's ears - which is also not illegal.

That's absolutely insane! I've been to places before that won't even do facepainting on under 3s/an upset child. Personally that salon wouldn't be getting my custom again. And the mother is awful. YADNBU

Ring Trading Standards, most beauty places have a no under 16 policy.

And others have children's packages, pricing and do birthday parties.

it should be illegal to perform cosmetic enhancements on a 2 year old.

The poor little ones. I'm not sure how I'd react to this, I don't go to nail bars or similar anymore, but there seems a lot wrong going on from what's been said.

My mother used to make me do shite like this by the age of four (maybe younger but I can't remember). I hated it and have long wondered what the adults around me were thinking and why no adults ever seemed to question it. Little-me used to wish someone would stop it, stood up to her in the way I wasn't yet able to do, or at least told me I was fine without it.

I guess, like this case, she was too scary - I certainly thought she was. Probably a lot of people judged her, which I get now, but as a kid, I had to assume adults agreed with her.

This

When societies become this decadent they tend to collapse.

No keyboard warrior at all, but if it was my business I'd want to protect it!

Slope off to call police? What do you think their response time would be?

This all appeared to be done and dusted in 30mins!

You should have done something about the situation.

Instead you did nothing, just in case you didn't get your shellac service.

This is very poor citizenship on your part.

Very similar attitude to the parents at my dd's school. The year 6 girls all had their nails & hair done for the school prom. They looked like little love islanders in their tiny dresses and they were 10/11 Yr olds. Too sexualised at a young age.

As a former nail tech I don't believe for a second they used an e file on a toddler. There's not even any need to use an e file while applying shellac on an adult, let alone on a nail that is less than 1x1cm.

I thought it was bad the other week when I saw a four and six year old brother and sister duo having theirs done.

Baby shellac takes the cake

they should hav refused and even then onl use a hand file on her not the electric one it will ruin her nails then she'll be the one complainging to them

Toxic fumes - delicate skin, sexualising baby girls- wrong on all levels.
Grotesque.
What next? Pierced navel and lip fillers?
Awful.

fucking mental. I'd have thrown her out(the mother that is)