When a person gets their nails done, “what we’re wearing is artwork,” State Senator Jessica Ramos said, “and I don’t believe that we’ve been compensating our nail artists in the right way”
Photo: Steven Molina Contreras When Yashoda Rai left Nepal in 2017, it was because the U.S. was her “dream country,” she said. She had won the visa lottery and came to New York to start a new life. Needing a way to support herself and her two children, Rai soon found work in nail salons, which employed many of her Nepali-speaking peers in working-class Queens.
“We have this pressure that you finish a service in an hour, right? And we can’t speak up if a client takes 20 minutes to choose a color,” said Shanti. “What that means is that you have barely 45 minutes to do everything, and you’re rushing it. That impacts the quality of service and what they think of you.” Shanti said she’s expected to perform other services , though she doesn’t get paid for the extra work. “It’s stressful,” she said.
After immigrating to New York City, Yashoda Rai found work in nail salons, which employed many of her Nepali-speaking peers in working-class Queens. Photo: Steven Molina Contreras Like Rai, most nail techs support families on their low wages — often while facing health risks from work-site chemicals. Nail techs frequently work with products that include ingredients associated with serious respiratory illnesses, the Times reported in 2015.
“The pandemic just totally upended the nail-salon industry,” Fu said, and nail techs bore the heaviest burden. “There’s no way to physically distance when you’re giving a manicure or pedicure to another person.” A February 2021 NYNSWA survey found that “29 percent of workers reported that they had tested positive for COVID, and an additional 9 percent said that they believe they had the virus but were unable to get a test.
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