Life Style : Being careful at a nail salon

Hello again! Just a little history about me, I used to work at a nail salon for about 4 months because my mom decided I could use the experience and made me work for her friend's sister in law's nail salon. I have work with clients and learn the ways of the 'master' who taught me how to do pedicures and manicures. 

Things to avoid & remember : 

Getting cuticles cut

Cutting the cuticles opens could lead to infections or irritation. Cutting your cuticles can also lead to nail problems, such as ridges, white spots, or white lines. Instead use the orange wood stick to cuticle pushers and push it back if you want longer nails. This is something that I learn in an anatomy when we were discussing skin.  

That cream!

I'm unsure what the cream they use, but it's sorta grayish and they apply it on the heel of your foot. It's suppose to soften really bad calluses. DO NOT allow them to put it on your foot because it can damage the skin around it.

Pumice Stone

Bring your own. Just do it because the salon are reusing the stone and sometime they don't clean it well enough and there'll be calluses from the previous people using it.

Hygiene

The nail salon I worked at has us wearing disposable rubber gloves BUT they make us reuse it whenever we can. So be sure to ask the person working on you to change gloves if it looks worn out or dirty. Also the nail salon I work at has a machine which sterile the tools we use. This is important because the metal cuticle cutter and nippers would have been used by someone else. The nail salon I went to near my house after I stop working at mine didn't have any of these and I wasn't very comfortable letting them use their tools on me. These are just some things I noticed between working at the salon and going to one to experience it. What else would you add to the list for others to look out for?