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Is your manicurists American?
Posted: Feb 5, 2010
For those of you that have your nails done at a salon, Is your manicurists American?
All the salons in my area & surrounding areas seem to be Korean. Now I don't have a problem with that except for the fact that most don't speak English. Whatever happened to Americans doing nails. It's really hard to communicate when you aren't speaking the same language.
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Nails are "beneath" a lot of Americans SM - my opinion
[ In Reply To ..]and the average American is not going to sit at someone's feet and scrub them, whereas people from other countries are willing to take jobs Americans will not.
If you are only looking at nails-only salons, that is the problem and you will need to call around to all-service salons or day spas if you want an American technician. And yes, you are going to pay more.
MANICUREST - old mt
[ In Reply To ..]I believe it was last year they were the fastest growing career in America - no what does that say about us as a country! As noted before most are Asian - but as noted earlier most Amercians don't want the job.
I actually complained - susan
[ In Reply To ..]to the Vietnamese owner of a nail salon I was going to an Asian salon for about 3 years. The owner knows English fluently and proceeded to converse to an Asian employee in Vietnamese. I told her it was rude and that she was in the USA and should conduct herself appropriately. Well now, she always speaks English at least when I'm there.
I dont mind people speaking other languages to each other - Not Rude
[ In Reply To ..]If I lived in Italy and had to speak Italian to Italian people all day, but at work or in a social setting there was an American there, I would speak English to them. It is natural, and not rude or inappropriate in the slightest.
Living in the United States does not mean everyone has to speak English to everyone all the time.
Full service salons and spas - vs drive-thru type shops
[ In Reply To ..]Full service salons and spas are a safer bet as far as following standards of hygiene, sterilization of tools and equipment, etc.... also more likely that the technicians will be licensed by a credentialing and/or governing body.
These storefront, drive-thru type shops skimp on things like sterilizing tools, foot baths, etc., between customers. They might do it once, at the end of the day. Their technicians are often not licensed by any credentialing body and/or a Board of Health. The owner might be, that's how the shop gets opened. They don't have to show certification in their "craft," or certification of employees, to get a business operating license, and if/when they are busted by the Health Dept. or Licensing Board, they just close up shop and move down the street or across town under a different name.
If you do patronize one of these shops, check on the wall behind each station and see if each technician has their own individual certification/license issued by a school or licensing board and/or Health Dept. They are required by law to have them, just like your hairdresser or cosmetician does.
I go to a shop where not much English spoken - L
[ In Reply To ..]And I could care less. As long as someone understands what I want done such as a fillin, cut down, pedicure, then I am alright. If they want to speak their language, and they do plenty, that is them. I did not go to hold a conversation with them, I went for a service. Oh, by the way, no need to check on the wall behind the stations. All the people working there have their licenses displayed on their desk with their picture on it also. I have also noticed them cleaning the pedicure apparatus as soon as 1 pedicure is over and before they start another one. I don’t go to backstreet places.
How do you guys afford a pedicure? nm - Curious
[ In Reply To ..]nm
in my area, a pedi is only about $25 (sm) - MK
[ In Reply To ..]I have to have my toes done in the summer - will not wear sandals with naked toes. You can upgrade to a "spa" pedicure with extra scrubbing and rubbing for an extra $10.
The best part is that, unlike a manicure, I only need to get my toes done every six weeks or so. Well worth it to me since I can't paint my own toes without making an enourmous mess!!
MK
Combo pedicure and manicure runs me about - L
[ In Reply To ..]$52.00 and I go probably about once a month. Only thing I do not like is the massage- they can leave that off.
Nails - Vikefantam
[ In Reply To ..]I can't see ever getting a manicure. I have a hard time growing nails as it is but once in awhile, they get a little too long and I end up with too many numbers in my words when I type and I clip them immediately. I keep them short. Not to mention I've seen women with infections caused by the nail tips. I don't know the cause, just that they got pretty bad infections.
Now my feet - I might consider a foot massage. :-) That would feel good, once my damaged and formerly broken foot stops hurting whenever I touch it or step the wrong way. (It's been six months and I'm going for a third opinion in March).
I always keep my nails, hands and feet done - L
[ In Reply To ..]I have 3 different incomes, not just from working my job now. I even get diamond patterns put on for special things, like holidays, going on trips, etc. Oh, about the infections, those are fungal and they absolutely do not just come from getting nails done. The reason I know this is my father years and years ago had the same kind of infection in both nails in hands and feet and finally went to Duke University to have that treated. I know father would never have stepped in a spa type setting to get nails done. I have always had the worst nails and years ago my daughter asked why did I not have them done. Now I have pretty nails like I have always admired.
Actually I have talked to several manicurists-not what you think!!!! (sm) - Ella MT
[ In Reply To ..]Many "manicurists" are in the US from Korea or Vietnam on a program that helps them get out of their communist country and come to the US for hope of a better life. They don't WANT to be manicurists, that is just the program that is offered to them to escape their country. They have to go through an extensive program and learn American culture and the language to the degree that they can, before they are able to come here and work a certain number of years for the salon before they are free! It is almost a freedom train to an extent. One man who did my nails told me that in communist Korea, he was able to find a way to escape, by paying to be smuggled on a boat. Many people died on the trip and those who lived barely survived. Their only drinking water was what they caught in their hands when it rained. He nearly cried telling me his story. He told me that coming to America, was for him and others from communist countries, like dying and going to heaven. In his country he was well educated and in a very professional career, but it did not matter because everyone was rationed equally, eduation or not. At least here, he said, doing nails or whatever, the harder he worked, the more money he could make. At least here how hard he worked could make a difference in his life. So these people don't care if they have to scrub your feet - all they care about is having some amount of freedom.
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