Before you even get into customer service or taking black dollars blah blah blah, Asian nail salons are gross and unhygienic. I know people are trying to get the most bang for their buck but I'd put money on people being a nick or small cut away from a bacterial infection at the average cheap Asian nail spot. They make their money on volume and skimp on everything else which is partially why these fools are falsely imprisoning and beating people over five whole American dollas. I primarily went to these salons for waxing not mani/pedi's but after being burnt and losing skin along with hair I chucked going the cheap way the deuces forever ago. On the mani/pedi tip I have only ever ended up with bloody cuticles going to Asians which was enough to turn me off to those services for a long time. The golden rule whether you got it like that financially or not is that you get what you pay for. If you paying b.s. prices expect b.s. service. While them Asian thugs had no business doing what they did I ain't go lie, when I read this story I was wondering how good of a job did the black lady expect for the $5 she was refusing to pay?
The only black nail spot I have been to was inside a JCPenny's salon which obviously isn't black owned but I didn't question the cleanliness and my appointments always happened at the time they were scheduled. I don't go to hood salons because hood shenanigans (like cash only/pay before service/lateness/people coming in to sell stuff/the entrance/exists looking like prison cells) ensue and I don't have the patience for it anymore.
Somebody gave me a gift certificate to the Murad Salon and afterwards it was a "white people take my money" wrap. I was hurt, HURT I SAY when that place shut down. It was a spa adjacent to the Murad medical center (where I went for dermatology visits) and you could eat off the floor (if that's what you're into). When my shoes disintegrated that one terribly embarrassing time, the dude was on the spot with Cavi-cide to clean the area and give me a pair disposable flip flops almost before I realized something had happened. After they closed, I followed my masseuse and aesthetician to Burke Williams where I will admit I had sticker shock and I'm still pissed that they don't provide alcohol (Murad believed wine/champagne was good for the skin) but both me and the old man have made some great business contacts so both our memberships have paid for themselves.
Alladat is to say, I feel a little removed from the Asian nail spot hoopla because it's a travesty that these places be called salons. To me, an admitted hypochondriac there's bigger issues about these spots than just invading black neighborhoods. I think over the long haul, we're going to find that they are making a lot of women sick with unhygienic practices.