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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” as well as for customers.
The current trend is more dangerous than you think. Nail technicians or “nail artists” are the little hands behind manicures that are causing a stir on social networks. A fashion that has been exported to everyday life. “There is a kind of normalization of having colored nails, because more and more people are getting their nails done with nail art, whether they are women, men, public figures , I think, who popularized it a little bit”, explains Lili Creuk, nail technician.
“These working conditions can be ergonomically difficult, with permanent sitting positions, hunched over, head down towards the client or client”, describes Doctor Fabrice Locher, occupational health specialist. A position that Lili Creuk quickly paid the price for: “I started working in my studio, at the beginning, on a Formica chair, it killed my back, clearly.”
Artists also work with chemicals that are bad for them. In particular the resin, which is “causing skin and lung irritation“, while being “reprotoxic“in other words being able to”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.