NAIL SALON

Updated 04-May-2020.

Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about NAIL SALON!

Cuomo Orders Emergency Measures to Protect Workers at Nail Salons: Acting in response to a series in The New York Times, the governor said a multiagency task force would investigate possible wage theft and health hazards salon by salon.

How Tippi Hedren Jump-Started the Vietnamese Nail Salon Monopoly: On Thursday, the first installment of “Unvarnished,” the nail salon labor exposé series from the New York Times, laid out many of the cultural and economic strictures that determine the workings of an industry that for many women remains relatively invisible outside of its visible results (“Cute nails, omg”). And, underneath the slew of demeaning human rights violations (followed up today by a piece on nail salon health hazards), there was one fascinating quirk: the New York City nail salon industry is controlled by Korean-Americans, which—as Sara Mayeux pointed out on Twitter—is anomalous, compared to the rest of the States, where Vietnamese immigrants typically dominate salons. In California, for example, three-quarters of nail salons are Vietnamese-owned; in Houston, where I grew up, I don’t think I ever went to a nail salon that wasn’t the same way.

Why Vietnamese Americans rule the nail salon scene: 48% of nail professionals in the US are Vietnamese Americans.

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: nail salons offer a variety of options for nail care, examples include acrylics, silk or fiberglass wraps, French manicures, polish, and pedicures . nail technicians, manicurists, or nailists nail technicians must hold state-recognized qualifications to work at nail salons . Currently, almost 40% of nail salon technicians in the us are Vietnamese women . the highest density of Vietnamese nail technicians is in California . the majority of these women are Vietnamese immigrants . the prevalence of Vietnamese women in the nail salon industry dates back to the Vietnam war . actress Tippi Hedren was involved in a charity which provided vocations to Vietnamese refugee the nail salon workforce consists mostly of recent immigrants from East Asia . many of the nearly 2,000 nail salons in the new york city area are owned by Koreans, while Hispanics are on the bottom. new york governor creates emergency multi-agency Enforcement Task Force . after publication of investigation, governor announced creation of emergency task force . survey: work environment may cause negative health consequences for nail salon workers . study: nail salons have only one single door for ventilation with no secondary air pathway . 90% of workers wore masks and 70% wore gloves to work . nearly all chemicals are reported to be eye, skin, nose, and some chemicals, like toluene and dibutyl phthalates, are known endocrine disruptors . according to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), they interfere with the en organizations and coalitions address worker rights and exposure concerns faced by nail technicians . if the substances are known to cause cancer or reproductive harm, the products will be investigated . California law requires state of California to publish list of chemicals known to campaign efforts hope to extend the EPA’s regulatory jurisdiction to include cosmetics . cosmetics are currently excluded from regulation under the TSCA . campaign efforts have been made to expand cosmetics’ regulatory jurisdiction .