September 2024

Barber Shop Razor Cuts and Hair-Cutting Nicks

By Alyssa Cink | September 16, 2024

Barber wearing a baseball hat and glasses carefully avoids nicks and cuts on a client’s face while shaving his beard. By gently pulling the reclined man’s skin on sensitive areas like the neck, he’s less likely to cause a barber shop razor cut.

Nicks and cuts aren’t fun for you or your clients. For clients, a barber shop razor cut triggers anything from mild pain to genuine fear. Forums across the internet share scenarios like: My barber cut my ear. I didn’t see him disinfect his tools. Can I get HIV from barber scissors or HIV from a…

Fire Safety in a Salon: Precautions Against Hair and Nail Salon Fires

By Stephanie Jaynes | September 9, 2024

A single candle lit against a black background, illustrating fire hazards in a salon. Putting out candles before you leave is important for fire safety in a salon.

Want to create an atmosphere of warmth and welcome? Encourage meditation and relaxation? Like many beauty pros, you might reach for a scented candle. But when you light up that Voluspa, don’t forget your final and essential step: blowing it out. Forgetting to extinguish a candle is a simple mistake with costly consequences, as D.C.-based…

Nail Technician Pains and Aches: Why These Nail Tech Problems Happen and How to Prevent Them

By Alyssa Cink | September 2, 2024

Client sits at a workstation while her nail technician uses an electric filer on her nails. The tech puts the client’s arm and wrist on an elevated surface, an ergonomics best practice for preventing nail technician pain, a repetitive strain injury for nail technicians, like carpal tunnel syndrome, and other nail tech problems.

“I am a nail technician and when I work my neck hurts when doing pedicures,” one Reddit user posted in a thread about painful nail tech problems. “Any help or tips for that?” “Wait until you have sciatic nerve damage and carpal tunnel,” another Redditer replied. “Repetitive injury is a definite cost of doing nails.…