Comments on: Cosmetologist Carlene Collins giving something back http://www.stabroeknews.com/2008/business/08/15/cosmetologist-carlene-collins-giving-something-back/ Guyana News, Sports, Businesss and Entertainment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:31:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Mainlandweb.com http://www.stabroeknews.com/2008/business/08/15/cosmetologist-carlene-collins-giving-something-back/comment-page-1/#comment-20564 Mainlandweb.com Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:09:55 +0000 http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=19941#comment-20564 This is a fairly new industry to Guyana. Acrylic nails are very popular amongst the nail fanatics of the Caribbean. However, the Bureau of Standard needs to pay attention of what products are being used. In most cases, the Nail Tech use (MMA) Methyl Methacrylate. You can easily identify this substance due to its high scent. If not used in a properly ventilated area, the people exposed to it become drowsy. It is outlawed in several states of the US. (Some girls use gel. It is same to what we call plastic steel) It is recommended by the FDA that (EMA) Ethyl Methacrylate be used instead. However, dues to the 10 times high cost of ETA against MMA ,Nail Tech use MMA. MMA Acrylics is very difficult to remove from ones original nail when it is applied onto it. In most times you have to grind it off because if you use the regular stuff (acetone - another harsh substance) to soak the nails into, you have to keep fingers submerged in the acetone for an extremely long period before it get gummy and removable. Having you fingers in acetone damages the cuticle. Acrylic nails, when not properly applied, tend to trap water between the false nail and the original nail. This is ideal breading ground for nail fungus. Also, what is used as a primer before the acrylic is applied, so that the acrylic stays on, is a strong acid. This acid eats the nail plate, making it rough, just like how concrete has to me made rough before plaster is applied. It eats into the nail. I supply beauty products to a few nail shops in the Caribbean. 90 percent of the shops on the island of Trinidad have used my products. Some of the people that I do business with is Wesley Gittins of TT Salon, Wrightson Rd, POS; Gail Young, Town Center Mall, POS; Hair Tips, Golden Doors Plaza; Normandy Hotel; Island Beauty, Barataria; Plaza 2001,Chag; South...all over TT. I miss Trinidad a lot. There are lots of online resource on this. Rgds, Red Lion www.mainlandgate.com This is a fairly new industry to Guyana. Acrylic nails are very popular amongst the nail fanatics of the Caribbean. However, the Bureau of Standard needs to pay attention of what products are being used. In most cases, the Nail Tech use (MMA) Methyl Methacrylate. You can easily identify this substance due to its high scent. If not used in a properly ventilated area, the people exposed to it become drowsy. It is outlawed in several states of the US. (Some girls use gel. It is same to what we call plastic steel)
It is recommended by the FDA that (EMA) Ethyl Methacrylate be used instead. However, dues to the 10 times high cost of ETA against MMA ,Nail Tech use MMA. MMA Acrylics is very difficult to remove from ones original nail when it is applied onto it. In most times you have to grind it off because if you use the regular stuff (acetone – another harsh substance) to soak the nails into, you have to keep fingers submerged in the acetone for an extremely long period before it get gummy and removable. Having you fingers in acetone damages the cuticle.
Acrylic nails, when not properly applied, tend to trap water between the false nail and the original nail. This is ideal breading ground for nail fungus.
Also, what is used as a primer before the acrylic is applied, so that the acrylic stays on, is a strong acid. This acid eats the nail plate, making it rough, just like how concrete has to me made rough before plaster is applied. It eats into the nail.
I supply beauty products to a few nail shops in the Caribbean. 90 percent of the shops on the island of Trinidad have used my products. Some of the people that I do business with is Wesley Gittins of TT Salon, Wrightson Rd, POS; Gail Young, Town Center Mall, POS; Hair Tips, Golden Doors Plaza; Normandy Hotel; Island Beauty, Barataria; Plaza 2001,Chag; South…all over TT. I miss Trinidad a lot.
There are lots of online resource on this.
Rgds,
Red Lion
http://www.mainlandgate.com

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