Acetone ignites while client is soaking

[VHunter]

YES and it did!
I had tried telling her... But you know there are some types of people who always have it their way, and you can't argue with them until they see for themselves otherwise.. She's one of those.
Love her dearly, but EEEEKS... some days she truly tries my patience.

 

[geeg]

YES and it did!
I had tried telling her... But you know there are some types of people who always have it their way, and you can't argue with them until they see for themselves otherwise.. She's one of those.
Love her dearly, but EEEEKS... some days she truly tries my patience.

Her being so silly and stubborn could have cost her her home or her life or her family's lives ..... All she had to have done is to have left the room while it was heating and that could have been it !! Stupid stupid stupid.

This incident alone is why I never let a client do a soak off at home (not blaming you Victoria). This is why a soak off should be a professional service and why professional products should not be sold to amateurs.

 

[VHunter]

This incident alone is why I never let a client do a soak off at home (not blaming you Victoria). This is why a soak off should be a professional service and why professional products should not be sold to amateurs.

Oh, I KNOW!!! And I AGREE... but as I said... her personality
She showed up out of the blue, ants in her pants, dead determined to get those nails off and in a rush about it too. She's very pushy, and often puts people off. (you have to dig a little to see how special she is, and she is VERY special) I felt that my client was not as relaxed as she could be, and that my gabby opinionated pal was putting her off, hence why I sent her home.. BIG mistake on my part!!
At the time, when she told me, I flipped out and paniced and had all sorts of explosion images in my head of her lovely kitchen.
NOW when she doesn't want to listen, I use the acetone example and it shush's her right quick. I remind her who the professional is, and that when I ask her hubby about plumbing, I LISTEN to him since I know naught... and she ought to listen to me. She's still stubborn, but easier to work with now, ever since hahahaha

 

[Insensitive.]

That poor woman! Can't see her getting her nails done again any time soon... she'll be too scared/scarred!!
I get that warming the acetone helps lifting... but putting your clients hands in a bowl of acetone to soak... is this normal?
I was taught to soak a cotton ball in acetone and place it on the nail and wrap it in foil.
I like littlegrohl's idea of using a heat bag.

She honest probably no longer has nails. I also doubt they will ever properly grow back. This is so sad.

 

[Kirstie77]

Sorry am a bit new to this what is the Tin foil method???:green:

 

[trusim]

I too use the cotton soaked in acetone, then place the foil around the nails, much safer.

But to shed more light on this accident, they said in the news when they finally found an english speaking worker, that the acetone was heated by an electrical heater (especially for acetone, which I have never known of) and it just caught a light, with flames going all over this lady, BUT...... at the end of it, the quote said

" We did not want to put water on lady, our nail shop had no damage, was business back to normal"

( UMmmm.........where are the priorities???)


What a horrible and scary experience for this poor woman to go through, she has 40% burns to her body, manily face, hands, torso, legs....
and yet, no one thought to place wet towels on her???

Sorry I sound harsh, but this lady is scarred for life. Not only physical, but mentally........ :cry::cry:

 

[geeg]

It is NOT safer to use the foil method for soaking off nails. Nail technicians including myself, have been doing soak offs in bowls for 30 years or more perfectly safely. There is more than one way to do things.

What wasn't safe was allowing a flammable liquid to be placed near a source of heat. Just as it would be unsafe for a client to be smoking or light a cigarette if they were at the nail table with flammable liquids.

People need education and clearly this lot didn't know much about it. A sad consequence that for a lack of education this lady might not be in the state she is in now.

Acetone is a flammable liquid .. so are lots of the liquids we use in our industry ... use them with sense and understanding and they are perfectly safe, as with anything potentially hazardous.

 

[littlegrohl]

just another thing the weat bag is good for, placing under the bowl to keep the warmth!!

 

[trusim]

It is NOT safer to use the foil method for soaking off nails. Nail technicians including myself, have been doing soak offs in bowls for 30 years or more perfectly safely. There is more than one way to do things.


Hi, Yep I just prefer it this way. Cleaner, quicker. And just a personal preference really. But thanks for the info anyways.

 

[tog]

During our college course we were taught both the soak off and foil method. But to speed up the foil method we were told to place hands in electric heated mittens, after reading this thread I'm assuming that this is a big no no

anne xx

A nail tech who works in my salon does this to soak off Biosculpture coloured Gel, I am now worried. Do you all think I should ask her not to? Apparently she was advised recently by Biosculpture to do this instead of just soaking off in bowls of acetone.

 

[geeg]

Now lets not get too paranoid.

Acetone will ignite near an open heat source. I very much doubt that heated mitts (unless there were exposed wires) would pose a threat.

This is why we get our electrical equipment checked YEARLY girls and boys.

 

[tog]

Thank you Geeg.
As I'm not a Nail Geek, I thought I'd ask you guys, the experts. . yes I'm probably worrying unnecessarily. And I know that her mitts are practically brand new too.
I supppose it's easy to get carried away with every tiny detail in today's Health and Safety orientated society.