Manicure Risk
Leeza

Are  manicures really safe?  What is the biggest manicure risk?

Every little girl loves to have her nails painted, mostly because they’ve seen their older female counterparts all dressed up with their nails colored a glossy pink ready to hit the town.  Little girls want to be pretty, just like all of us older girls do.  We do things to make ourselves beautiful and in the process we feel better about ourselves and that’s a good thing.  Getting a manicure and a snazzy color brushed on is just one of the main ways we have of lifting our spirits.

I have a friend who calls Shopping Retail Therapy and getting a manicure Hand Therapy.  If you think that getting a manicure isn't a dangerous activity, you'd be wrong.  Just ask Paula Abdul.  A few years ago the 'American Idol' star lost her thumbnail when a bad manicure caused an infection in her finger.

So if you're considering going for some 'Hand Therapy' there are a few things you want to think about before choosing a nail salon. Make sure that the salon is clean.  Take peek inside their bathroom.  If it reminds you of a truck stop restroom out on the highway that hasn't seen a disinfectant in two years, I'd skip the manicure there.  You're likely to come out of your Hand Therapy with more than you bargained for in the way of fingernail infections.

A good spa will have an autoclave, which is a sterilizer, to cook all of the germs right out of the equipment that they use to give manicures and pedicures. Tools can also be sterilized by soaking in an antibacterial solution. If the solution looks cloudy you can bet that it needs to be changed immediately. Manicure tools can also come wrapped in paper, much like a doctor's instruments are sterilized and wrapped for your protection.  If your manicurist drops a tool while working on you, ask her to replace it with a clean one.  You wouldn't pick fork up off the floor at a restaurant and eat with it, would you?  Don't use a dropped tool at a salon for a manicure either.

I know it's sometimes difficult to stand up and say that something isn't to your liking when you're in public, but remember that your health depends upon having the instruments they use on you as clean as they can be.  If something isn't to your liking, speak up.  They're offering you a service when they give you a manicure and you're paying for that service.  It's not wrong of you to tell them exactly what you want in the way of clean tools.

If you go to a certain manicurist often, then you are probably already aware of the steps they take to clean their tools. If you haven't thought about it before reading this, then perhaps now is a good time to make sure they sterilize their equipment thoroughly.  It's better to be safe than sorry, plus you'll enjoy your Hand Therapy so much more!

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