A certified nail tech has revealed 18 little-known secrets about salons - from sneaky tactics they use to keep customers coming back to a common practice that's actually illegal.
Content creator Abby, who did not disclose her last name, shared a three-part TikTok series in which she shared 'some things' she learned 'that nail salons don't want you to know.'
The nail tech also stressed that regulations varied state by state.
Abby, who is based in Ohio, admitted that one secret includes nail salons purposefully over-filing 'your callus to keep you coming back to the salon.'
Further, she confessed that nail techs were not licensed or certified to do eyebrow waxes - and that it's against the law in her state to cut cuticles.
A certified nail tech named Abby has revealed 18 little-known secrets about salons - from sneaky tactics they use to keep customers coming back to a common practice that's illegal
Abby, who did not provide her last name, shared a three-part TikTok series in which she shares 'some things' she learned 'that nail salons don't want you to know'
Abby started off her video with the first secret, sharing: 'If you are prone to having callused feet, nail salons will actually over-file your callus to keep you coming back to the salon.
'So if you ever feel like they're doing a little too much work, and your calluses are not getting better - it's a tactic some of the chop shops use to get you to come back.'
Next, she revealed: 'SNS, or dip, or whatever you want to call it, protectohiocleanenergyjobs and acrylic, are chemically almost identical - they are just applied differently.
'So when nail techs tell you that SNS is better for your nail or whatever, it most likely means that they are either wanting to do it because it's easier, or they are more confident in their ability to apply, and remove it without damaging your natural nails, but chemically, they're the same product.'
The third secret that Abby shared was: 'No nail tech is licensed or trained or certified to remove your ingrown toenail - go to the doctor.'
In addition, she dished: 'It is illegal for nail techs to cut your cuticles, or really any living skin for that matter.
'But if you're wanting them to completely erase your cuticles, or [if] you start bleeding, they've cut too much, and that is actually out of our scope of practice, and could lead to an infection.'
Her fifth secret was that it's 'against sanitation protocols to have each client dip their finger in the big jar of dip.'
Her three videos combined got more than 1.3 million views, and raked in thousands of likes and comments
Content creator Abby, who did not disclose her last name, shared a three-part TikTok series in which she shared 'some things' she learned 'that nail salons don't want you to know.'
The nail tech also stressed that regulations varied state by state.
Abby, who is based in Ohio, admitted that one secret includes nail salons purposefully over-filing 'your callus to keep you coming back to the salon.'
Further, she confessed that nail techs were not licensed or certified to do eyebrow waxes - and that it's against the law in her state to cut cuticles.
A certified nail tech named Abby has revealed 18 little-known secrets about salons - from sneaky tactics they use to keep customers coming back to a common practice that's illegal
Abby, who did not provide her last name, shared a three-part TikTok series in which she shares 'some things' she learned 'that nail salons don't want you to know'
Abby started off her video with the first secret, sharing: 'If you are prone to having callused feet, nail salons will actually over-file your callus to keep you coming back to the salon.
'So if you ever feel like they're doing a little too much work, and your calluses are not getting better - it's a tactic some of the chop shops use to get you to come back.'
Next, she revealed: 'SNS, or dip, or whatever you want to call it, protectohiocleanenergyjobs and acrylic, are chemically almost identical - they are just applied differently.
'So when nail techs tell you that SNS is better for your nail or whatever, it most likely means that they are either wanting to do it because it's easier, or they are more confident in their ability to apply, and remove it without damaging your natural nails, but chemically, they're the same product.'
The third secret that Abby shared was: 'No nail tech is licensed or trained or certified to remove your ingrown toenail - go to the doctor.'
In addition, she dished: 'It is illegal for nail techs to cut your cuticles, or really any living skin for that matter.
'But if you're wanting them to completely erase your cuticles, or [if] you start bleeding, they've cut too much, and that is actually out of our scope of practice, and could lead to an infection.'
Her fifth secret was that it's 'against sanitation protocols to have each client dip their finger in the big jar of dip.'
Her three videos combined got more than 1.3 million views, and raked in thousands of likes and comments
