Yea!!! My nail salon opened today🙂🙂🙂 - Page 3

Sunshine Kate · ‎03-10-2010

I went yesterday and got a mani/pedi. It was long overdue and was wonderful.

I had to make an appointment and wear a mask. They had plexiglass at the manicure booths.

Everyone, especially the employees were so glad to be back to work.

Lipstickdiva · ‎03-10-2010

@Shelbelle wrote:
In my opinon, it is way too soon. Lets get back into seeing our docs and dentists and going for health screenings before they open nail salons and hair salons.

@Shelbelle, that has already happened in Ohio.

The governor opened doctors' offices, including dentists and elective surgical procedures.

Now this week salons, spas and barbershops can open on Friday along with outdoor seating at restaurants.

As i posted in another thread, I'm not sure what my nail salon with do. They normally only take walk-ins which will have to change. The owners were very careful. In fact, they actually closed their doors before they were mandated to. So I wonder if they will even open right now.

minimalistWF · ‎02-02-2018

@Janey2 Wow I am sooo sorry for the loss of your family members. It's definitely sad to see how few people (at least it seems like few people) are taking this situation seriously and are truly more worried about their vanity than the health of themselves and others. Too many people are worried about returning to their normal, the exact same way that they lived before, but the world we live in now is not the same as the world two months ago. That previous normal is never coming back and no state reopening is going to change that.

suzyQ3 · ‎03-09-2010

For those who think that salons are safer than grocery stores, I doubt that anyone has their hands on you in a market. I certainly hope not. And I doubt that salons are as big as supermarkets. Let's face. Anywhere now is a risk. It's all a matter of weighing your priorities

~Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

CelticCrafter · ‎03-09-2010

@hookedonq wrote:
Just a few thoughts to add here for anyone reading this OP and considering going to a nail salon at this stage in our pandemic...one, the source of the CA original outbreak was a nail salon. This is not a surprise and I am sure everyone knows this is a high risk activity...just FYI. Two, the CDC and several other health agencies list nail salons and hair salons in the top 5 things to AVOID as long as possible due to the inability in those services to mitigate risk. While everyone makes their own choices, do think about who you may be spreading to before you go (live alone? Work alone from home? See or care for anyone?) The contagious nature of this disease forces us to think about the risk as not just our own.

I don't believe for one second that they could pinpoint the exact person at the exact salon as the original source of the virus in CA.

erica g · ‎03-09-2010

You don't have to believe it if you don't want to, but I live in CA and I believe Gov Newsome to be very truthful and deliberate at his 12 noon DAILY press conferences. He stated the nail salon as a source of the 1st infection. He has put Californians health first, thankfully. As a matter of fact Gov Newsome was the first governor to issue a mandatory stay at home order.

SeaMaiden · ‎03-10-2010

The virus does not care " How Safe" you feel....seems like a dangerous thing to do.

homedecor1 · ‎03-09-2010

@Kachina624

Please I don't mean to be rude to you because I respect many things you & others say but in this case,neither of us are taking risks!!!

As I've stated before we can't stop living -- we are very aware.

For the record, even his pulmonary specialist encouraged him to get out of the house and return to his normal routine.

As for my 45 minute to the nail salon today. They had partitions, drape hanging (you were behind it) feet in water. Nail tech did my pedicure.

I wore mask -no mask no service - they had you buy one if you didn't have one and hands needed to be washed up to elbows with antiseptic soap.

I watched her clean every inch of the chair and put plastic liner in water bath area. I had to buy a tool kit for $10 which I took home.

I felt comfortable and at no time were there more than 6 clients in shop. I think these salons are as concerned as we are...plus, the health dept. are doing unannounced checks -- why would salon owners take a chance getting fined OR having shops shutdown again.

homedecor1 · ‎03-09-2010

@KKlim

west coast, FL

Lipstickdiva · ‎03-10-2010

@suzyQ3 wrote:
For those who think that salons are safer than grocery stores, I doubt that anyone has their hands on you in a market. I certainly hope not. And I doubt that salons are as big as supermarkets. Let's face. Anywhere now is a risk. It's all a matter of weighing your priorities

@suzyQ3 this can be debated back and forth. Personally I do feel a salon is more safe than a grocery store. Grocery stores are larger so there are more people in them at once. People may or may not wear a mask at a grocery store where salons are requiring them for both the employee and the client and that is much more easily enforced. I don't think anyone is going into a salon and refusing to wear a mask or throwing a fit about that fact. You certainly can't say that about people going into various stores. If the stylist wears a pair of gloves, they are changed afer each client, not like in a grocery store where the cashier is wearing the same gloves throughout her entire shift, handling hundreds of items.

In a salon you walk in, sit in the chair and get the service done. At the grocery store people are walking around picking up and touching many, many items, putting some of them back on the shelf for the next person to come along and touch. Then there are all of the handles on the doors to the frozen and cold foods, that are touched my how many people over and over. Those areas aren't wiped down after every person touches them. Don't even get me started on how filthy the machine is where you pay with your card.

And no, not every store is practicing social distancing. More than once I've had people practically on top of me to reach around me and get something. One woman even touched me with her shoulder trying to grabbed something out of the meat section. This can go on throughout the entire store.

Some salons are even putting up acrylic partitions between stations or hanging shower curtains if they can't have the stations 6 feet apart. My salon is also staggering hours so there would be less people inside at once. They are going to be working later at night and on Sundays.