Safe nail salon protocol!

Ladies and gents! Next time you head over the nail salon for the weekly or monthly pampering, don’t forget your tools! That’s right..your own tools! No one can be certain about the sanitizing protocol at any salon so don’t risk it, just ask the salon if you can purchase a brand new set of tools from them. And what are we risking? A number of diseases, besides athletes foot and fungal nails, that are transferred from person to person via water baths, paraffin wax, dirty drains and tools that are not properly sanitized! 

Here’s my list of must-haves for you and the salon:

1. Your own tools (even heel scraper and pumice stone)! Get it from the salon you like!
2. Pick a salon with a disposable plastic covering for the foot baths.
3. Use your own nail polish, including base coat and top coat (can be purchased as one!) and color coat.

Finally, here’s a list of my favorite toxic chemicals-free nail polish. Some are free of 3 toxic chemicals, and the newest trend is for the polishes that are free of 5 toxic chemicals! Stay tuned for edible polish next! hehe 

My favorite “5-free” nail polishes

1. Zoya  

2. Jin Soon (available at Sephora)

3. Chanel 

4. Deborah Lippman (available at Sephora)

My favorite “3-free” nail polishes:

1. OPI

2. Butter 

Here’s a list of ‘em all: 

http://www.goddesshuntress.com/2012/03/30/the-list-3-free-and-5-free-nail-polishes/

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