An Educated Consumer is a Beauty Professional's Best Friend

It’s time to get smart about your nail salon choices

Welcome to BeautyTech.Info Knowledgebase. We are dedicated group of Beauty Professionals who’s goal is to educate those of you who currently patronize hair & nail salons, are thinking about getting hair, nail services or skin care services, or even had a bad experience you want to understand or learn more about.

This is the real deal from the people who use these products day-in & day-out, the chemists who research and develop these products. If these products were unsafe do you really think companies like CND, OPI, Essie and more would risk their entire empire using products that would cause, you, the consumer harm? Yes there are some nail products being sold and used that are NOT safe. As you will learn in the articles in this Knowledgebase, generally speaking the operators (we hesitate to call them nail technicians) and shops (we also hesitate again about calling these places salons or spas) that use these unsafe products remove the labels or put the products in unmarked jars and bottles.

• The first question you need to ask is, “What brand are you using?”. If they can not tell you – leave.
• The second question is, “How do you sanitize and disinfect your implements and spa tubs?” (if they have any) – if they can’t tell you – LEAVE.
• If you continue the appointment and the operator causes you pain - LEAVE. Period – no other comment, just leave.

There has been a wave of very bad press complete with serious scary information – incorrect or misguided information in the press, TV and web articles recently directed toward nail services and nail products.

As a 17 year NY Nail Specialist Licensee and webmaster for 16 years of a networking portal site for beauty professionals, I am sick up to here with this attack on the industry and people I love.

The BeautyTech.INFO Knowledgebase was set up for you, the salon consumer to get educated. Yes, the better educated you are, the more you will come see us in our salons, but that is NOT the base reason here for the Knowledgebase. Money is NOT the reason here. The nail consumer is being lied to every day, either by “Chop Shops” (or as we call them, to be more politically correct, Non Standard Salons) or by the press in any number of public arenas .

Oh and we’re not selling you anything, nor are we asking for donations to further any cause. Our purpose is true, a better educated salon consumer is our best friend, we’d like you to be our best friend!

We welcome your beauty service related questions. After searching, if you can not locate an Answer to your Question, please ask us. A seasoned beauty professional will give you an honest complete response.

If you have further questions about any of the material here, please leave a comment within the question for a professional's response.

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• Truth or Fiction - Tune in @ 6PM - Professional's rebuttals and responses to all those scare tactic new reports on the TV, Newspaper and online
• Complaints - Did you have a bad experience at a nail salon – or hair salon, spa, or any salon service for that matter. We are talking about serious issues:

  Did you get an infection?
  Did you have a painful nail service experience?
  Did the hairdresser turn your hair green?
  Was the salon/spa unsanitary?
  Did a salon worker behave in an inappropriate manner?

  The only way the public can have an impact on inappropriate practices in salons is for the consumer to file a complaint with the state agency that governs the salon and their license.

  You can find a complete list of US web site with the proper forms and information to file your complaint HERE 

  If you experienced a reportable incident at a salon, it is important you take pictures as soon as possible for proof as well as write down everything you can remember, what you were told – by whom and when, what proceedures were performed – by whom and when, what products to the best of your knowldge