Archive for September 2024

From PTSD to ADHD, anorexia to anxiety, and chronic pain to chemotherapy side effects, your massage therapy clients can have serious emotional, psychological, and physiological conditions impeding their wellbeing. While not a replacement for medical doctors and mental health professionals, massage therapists like you can help relieve negative symptoms your clients experience by bettering their…

TikToker (@frmstephwluv) Stephanie loved her professional silk press—until she washed her hair. Post-wash, her natural curls were gone. “As someone who’s been on a natural hair journey for years, this was absolutely devastating,” Stephanie said. “To go to someone that’s a professional and come out with fried, heat-damaged hair—I could cry about it.” Model Kamie…

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…

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…

“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.…