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To: NH Governor Chris Sununu
Equality for NH Nail Salons - Help us Reopen!
To allow licensed manicurist professionals to perform nail care services privately with one client in the salon per nail technician at a time. All necessary precautions and sanitation protocols approved by the state of NH and the NH Board of Barbering, Cosmetology, and Esthetics will be followed. This may include Plastic/Acrylic Shields, Gloves, Face Masks, Face Shields, and repetitive cleaning of equipment in between appointments. Nail salons have always been overseen by the same NH Board of Barbering, Cosmetology, and Esthetics and therefor have similar sanitation rules and regulations on a normal day to day basis. Our industry needs to be recognized as a business of integrity, of the highest standards of sanitation, and that we provide a necessary and essential service to the community. Servicing one client at a time, while both client and stylist wearing a mask, keeps us in a controlled environment while also keeping the risk factor down immensely. With proper sanitation and procedures, we would most assuredly be safer than going to the grocery store/malls; where there are unlimited exposure risks.
Why is this important?
1. We have had numerous calls from clients requesting us to come to their homes. Nail Technicians will eventually start doing nails at home and in client's homes. When this happens, sanitation requirements are not going to be able to be followed properly and exposure will become heightened.
2. Many Nail Technicians have received unemployment and it will give them some income. For most nail technicians, this is not enough as most of their income comes from the commission and the tips that they make.
3. For the self-employed, it is even more of a struggle trying to manage both home and work bills. Having no source of income, lease agreements to pay rent, along with many other expenses that come from being self-employed, this puts many of us under stress that is effecting our mental health.
4. Many nail technicians and nails salons have now been without income since the businesses have closed back in March. A lot of salon owners are facing financial hardship and the longer the salons stay closed, the more possibility of some of us having to close our doors permanently.
Please ask Governor Sununu to Consider us as an essential business and allow us to reopen.
Thank you for Support & Consideration.