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Nail salon etiquette

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LovingLivingLife · 02/08/2023 23:07

Those of you who visit nail salons more frequently, please can you help me out with these questions?

AIBU to request to not have a certain member of staff? I don't go very frequently but I often get a certain staff member when I do. But every time she seems to pull a cuticle or damage the skin around my nail somehow. When I have had other staff this doesn't happen. The additional issue is that I don't know her name so I wouldn't really know how to identify her. If it is acceptable to ask not to have her, how would you go about it?

I don't want to change salon as they are really efficient and the other staff do a really good job. For context there's usually at least 6 staff in.

And on a completely different (unimportant) note, I'm very curious what language they speak between themselves. Is it ever acceptable to ask? The staff aren't chatty with customers so it's not like I can casually drop it in.

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viques · 09/09/2023 15:32

Mothermotherd · 03/08/2023 01:35

Baffled by these replies. I am very close to a Vietnamese family who owns and works in nail shop. They are often family members or family friends from back home in Vietnam who come for a holiday but work temporarily in the nail shops. They’re brought over to work for a bit to get some money to take or send home for family. They’re undocumented workers yes but not slaves.

not saying some of them aren’t. But this is how most nail shops are run.

Wow, you really believe that a small family business would risk a fine of up to £20, 000 per undocumented worker just so they could let a few family members and friends earn a bit of cash while on their holiday! People being smuggled into the UK from desperate countries like Vietnam is a huge problem, not only do families bankrupt themselves and put themselves into lifetime debt to pay the smugglers but the people being smuggled are at huge risk of exploitation, and even death. Do you not remember the people who died of suffocation in a transporter lorry in Essex a few years ago? Their families are probably still paying of the fees they paid to the smuggling gangs.

jannier · 09/09/2023 17:41

LovingLivingLife · 09/09/2023 15:28

£55 for SNS hands, that's the only one I know as that's what I get when I go. £36 is the cheapest around here.

Wow that's a lot for that type of nail bar I pay £52 for Biab in a proper spa environment taken off properly so it's a 90 minute treatment.

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