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The dangerous working conditions of “nail artists”
Nail technicians take care of their clients’ nails. Colors, rhinestones and designs, they fulfill all desires. Discover the risks associated with this practice, for “nail artists” and for clients.
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Nail technicians take care of their clients’ nails. Colors, rhinestones and designs, they fulfill all desires. Discover the risks associated with this practice, for “nail artists” and for clients.
The current trend is more dangerous than you think. Nail technicians or “nail artists” are the little hands behind the manicures who are causing a sensation on social networks. A fashion that has been exported into everyday life. “There is a sort of normalization of having colored nails, because there are more and more people doing their nails with nail art, whether women, men, public figures , I think, who popularized it a little bit”, explains Lili Creuk, nail technician.
“There is no perfect, risk-free technique in this activity”
“These working conditions can be ergonomically difficult, with permanent seated positions, hunched over, head down toward the client.”, describes Doctor Fabrice Locher, occupational health specialist. A position for which Lili Creuk quickly paid the price: “I started working in my studio, at first, on a Formica chair, it killed my back, clearly.”
Artists also work with chemicals and are bad for them. In particular resin, which is “causing skin and lung irritation“, while being “reprotoxic” in other words can “impair reproductive capacity”, according to Doctor Fabrice Locher. The gel is just as dangerous since it dries thanks to UV rays, which are carcinogenic. “There is no perfect technique, if you will, without risk, in this activity”, he concludes.
