According to Yahoo, a woman was recently charged an extra $5 at a nail salon in Georgia for being overweight. The manager of the salon claimed she had to collect money for the eventual repair/replacement of the pedicure chairs which aren't made for people over 200 pounds. (Read the full article).
While I find this utterly ridiculous and rude, I have to admit that the thought has crossed my mind that salons could charge me more for being tall when it comes to services like waxing. I have looooong legs compared to the average person and it must take much longer to wax me than someone petite like my friend Genie, who introduced me this week to a wonderful Korean spa in Lynnwood, Washington. Genie and I got the most delectable body scrubs there surrounded by women of all shapes and sizes, some twice as large as Genie. Our scrubs were 40 minutes, but Genie got a massage thrown in because it doesn't take 40 minutes to scrub Genie. We decided that as long as a service is timed, it doesn't matter how big or small one is. Food for thought....
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Hey That’s kind of wierd.
our current obsession with salon treatments reminds me of the ancient roman’s obsession with public baths.
You would think that this would be built into the overall cost.
At least in my business I understand that their are certain costs of doing business and embarassing someone in front of everybody else seems a little bad for business (and you know the tip was bad…)http://www.iwantthathair.com