Well, I am no longer associated with Beauty Brands and am back as a booth renter. I returned to the first salon I ever worked at here in Arizona; 'Beauty Max. I would like to share with you my experience of almost 2 years at Beauty Brands; working in a large corporate salon of 50 plus salon/stores... I had hoped to gain insight into the whole corporate salon and see what I could learn from them. I learned that it was a lot of talk and no action. Was it the fault of store management or upper management? I do not know, but it was a joke. When I first went there I had high hopes of making a career there. There was certainly a lot of potential there. Great location, top quaility products being used and nice equipment. Unfortunately, the promosied products were always running low and there were never proper files and buffers to be used so I provided my own. I started in late November of 2007. In July of 2007 they had upgraded the spa and installed 3 slightly used Alterna spas. Nice, but in that 4 months no one had EVER properly cleaned and disinfected those spas! They claimed that they did not know that the jets and drain control came apart and needed to be cleaned. The procedure for cleaning them was to drain the tub, fill with water add Cascade and a cup of bleach( when available) and voila they were done. I spent about 6 hours over the course of 3 days cleaning and disinfecting those spas. The amount of black and brown sludge that I removed from the jets and pipes was enough to fill several 8 oz styrofoam cups. There was no appropriate disinfectant to be found so I purchased some of my own; a jet line cleaner and OPI Spa Complete. I also purchased some liquid dish soap and some scrubber sponges and brushes along with a disinfectant container for disinfecting the scrubber and sponges after use. After cleaning out the spas and getting them in a safe mode for use I showed all the other service providers and managers how to properly clean and disinfect the spas. I also made up a disinfection log and showed them how to use it. I posted the state board instructions for cleaning the spas in the pedicure room where they could refer to it at any time. My last day at BB was September 19, 2009. My girlfriend Glenda (a nail tech) whom I had recruited to BB called me and told me that on November 17, 2009 the spas were cleaned for the first time since I had left. That's almost 2 months! The excuse was that they did not know how to do it and apparently until a new district manager saw them no one cared either. Now, I use the term cleaned very loosely, because apparently what she meant was that for the first time since I left the jets, drain knob and intake screen were removed and taken apart and cleaned. What did they use to clean? CLR, dish soap and cleanser. ?????? No disinfectant whatsoever. They (store management) had decided that no bleach was to be used and no cascade because they (the manager) believed it was causing mineral deposits to form on the water line. lol. My friend is so confused and frustrated. She has acquired fungal infections under three nails since I left and since she mostly does pedicures we can only assume that is what they are from.
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