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A picture-perfect mess
During school picture day, Aly's arch rival Suzy decides to undermine the Sparkle Spa and set up shop in the bathroom to supply the rest of the girls with makeup.
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The managed hand
Two women, virtual strangers, sit hand-in-hand across a narrow table, both intent on the same thing-achieving the perfect manicure. Encounters like this occur thousands of times across the United States in nail salons increasingly owned and operated by Asian immigrants. This study looks closely for the first time at these intimate encounters, focusing on New York City, where such nail salons have become ubiquitous. Drawing from rich and compelling interviews, Miliann Kang takes us inside the nail industry, asking such questions as: Why have nail salons become so popular? Why do so many Asian women, and Korean women in particular, provide these services? Kang discovers multiple motivations for the manicure-from the pampering of white middle class women to the artistic self-expression of working class African American women to the mass consumption of body-related services. Contrary to notions of beauty service establishments as spaces for building community among women, The Managed Hand finds that while tentative and fragile solidarities can emerge across the manicure table, they generally give way to even more powerful divisions of race, class, and immigration.
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Tell Me What I Did Wrong: Experts Seek and Respond to Negative Feedback
A large proportion of marketing communication concerns feedback to consumers. This article explores what feedback people seek and respond to. We predict and find a shift from positive to negative feedback as people gain expertise. We document this shift in a variety of domains, including feedback on language acquisition, pursuit of environmental causes, and use of consumer products. Across these domains, novices sought and responded to positive feedback, and experts sought and responded to negative feedback. We examine a motivational account for the shift in feedback: positive feedback increased novices’ commitment, and negative feedback increased experts’ sense that they were making insufficient progress.
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Designer nails : create art at your fingertips
Offers step-by-step, illustrated instructions for fifty nail art designs, including geometric shapes, lace patterns, and animal prints, with advice on maintaining healthy nails and building a nail art tool kit for home use.
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Multiscalar Toxicities
This article analyzes nail technicians’ occupational health experiences using body and hazard mapping – a visual, low-cost, and worker-centred approach. Thirty-seven Torontobased nail technicians from predominantly Vietnamese, Chinese, and Korean communities identified various occupational illnesses, injuries, and symptoms on visual representations of human bodies (body mapping) and linked these to their hazard sources in the nail salon (hazard mapping). The impacts identified include musculoskeletal aches and pains, stress and mental health concerns, various symptoms linked to chemical exposure, and concerns about cancer and reproductive health. Rather than a conventional occupational health approach, this work draws on Vanessa Agard-Jones’ expansion of the “body burden” as more than the bioaccumulation of chemical agents. As such, this article asserts that nail technicians’ body burden encompasses various types of occupational illnesses and injuries. In addition, nail technicians are exposed to broader “toxic” systemic inequities and structural conditions that allow these workplace exposures to occur and persist. By illustrating the embodied and experiential knowledges of nail technicians and contextualizing this lived experience, the body and hazard maps illuminate vast layers of harm – or multiscalar toxicities – borne by nail technicians. Moreover, as a group-based method, body and hazard mapping allow collective reflection and can spur worker mobilization toward safer and fairer nail salons.
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Bling it on!
The Sparkle Spa nail salon relocates for Carnival Day-but can the Tanner sisters salvage the situation when a not-so-fun problem appears? It's Carnival Day at Auden Elementary School and Aly and Brooke are thrilled to set up a glittering Sparkle Spa booth for festive manicures. But what starts off all fun and games soon ends up in unpolished disaster! Can the girls find a way to repair the damage in time to enjoy the day?
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Bad news nails
The Tanner sisters have a troublesome time when Aly's archnemesis Suzy begins to work at the Sparkle Spa and starts dictating the way things should run.
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Dysregulation of markers of oxidative stress and DNA damage among nail technicians despite low exposure to volatile organic compounds
Objective The study aimed to compare levels of selected biomarkers of oxidative stress and DNA damage and their correlation with occupational exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOC) among female nail technicians and a group of unexposed volunteers. Methods A panel of biomarkers of oxidative stress and DNA damage was assayed among 145 female nail technicians and 152 healthy female volunteers. Occupational exposure of nail technicians to VOC was assessed analyzing the VOC content in nail salon air samples. Results The level of occupational exposure of nail technicians to VOC was below the respective threshold limit values, with combined airborne exposure to a mixture of VOC reaching only 3.3% (range 0.2-33.3%) of the threshold limit. Despite that, nail technicians presented increased activity of glutathione peroxidase 1 (GP×1), plasma ceruloplasmin, and the GP×1/superoxide dismutase 1 ratio (P<0.0001). The levels of plasma thiobarbituric acid-reactive species and DNA strand breakage in blood leukocytes were not significantly different. In contrast, total and oxidatively-generated DNA damage were significantly decreased among nail technicians compared to controls (P<0.0001). The individual's current tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption status did not modulate the observed changes. Significant correlations between selected biomarkers of oxidative stress, DNA damage, and airborne levels of VOC (eg, ethanol) were found. Conclusions The levels of biomarkers of oxidative stress and DNA damage among nail technicians seem to be dysregulated despite the low level of occupational exposure to VOC. Although the outcomes are not fully conclusive, our findings point to possible causation related to prolonged low-level occupational exposure to VOC.
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