Working with the vast array of 90’s fashion vibrant colour pop shades, false nails and high fashion nail trends. Anyone joining beauty training would imagine it being the most interesting, and glamourous job in the world.
Interesting it still is, however glamour was limited to only high days and holidays for the beauty therapist, a principal I still practice today.
Working with clients we soon learned long nails, plastics, nail glue and colour, possibly harboured bacteria, germs masked dirt and debris and nail infections and conditions.
So to be able to work with clients safely, to limit cross infection, our nails had to be cut & filed short, no nail polish worn when treating clients.
Hands had to be washed prior and post treatment, using sterilised and protective, disposable equipment where possible.
At home I protect myself and family, by washing hands as soon as I enter the house. Using a nail brush, a reliable cheap, affordable purchase. Early lesson, which I have never forgotten, from our science teacher, who pointed out with graphic scientific images and data just how important it is not to forget this area.