The Water Room — Bare Magnificence
It’s been a while, nonetheless I’m nonetheless proper right here. 🙂 The Water Room formally opened on January tenth, 2019, it’s like I had a third youngster. I’m exhausted, overjoyed, SO busy, and I can’t even keep in mind what day it is. Thanks in your endurance whereas I gave it my full consideration for the ultimate month. Merely FYI, I’ve enormous points in retailer for Bare Magnificence. I’m throughout the midst of redesigning my web site with the weblog design queen, Gadabout Creative. It’s going to be even less complicated to go looking out what you’re looking for and use Bare Magnificence as your go-to helpful useful resource.
For these of you who don’t know the story behind The Water Room, you truly need to return to 2011, because of that is the place all of it began. Not prolonged after I began my transition to unhazardous magnificence, my buddy, and now affiliate, Laura Pelzer, had merely returned from a enterprise journey to New York Metropolis the place she attended the fragile opening of tenoverten, the pioneer of unhazardous nail salons. Determining I was a transparent magnificence diehard, she raved about it. The next time I went to new York, it was my first stop. I bought right here residence, and we checked out each other, and we had been every like, “we’ve got to open one factor like this in Charleston”. That was in 2012, and it was merely an idea, nonetheless we under no circumstances let it go. In 2016, we had been every in a position to ship the thought to life, and we knew Charleston was ready for a larger nail salon. It took some time, nonetheless it has been properly well worth the wait.
I’m assured that The Water Room is completely totally different from any nail salon you’ve ever been to. To start with, the determine superior from our signature architectural side that we’ve been calling “the water room” for years. It’s the place our workers wash, sanitize, sterilize, and put collectively all implements and pedicure bowls on full view for everyone to see. Think about it as an open kitchen in a extreme end restaurant; buddies can watch the rituals that go into our processes because of we have nothing to cowl. There is not a creepy once more room the place points might – or couldn’t – be cleaned appropriately. The Water Room takes sanitation considerably. We use freestanding pedicure bowls – the jets of whirlpool baths at typical salons are breeding grounds for micro organism – which might be cleaned with hospital-grade disinfectant after each use. All stainless-steel devices (clippers, nippers, and pushers) along with glass nail recordsdata are bagged in pouches with indicator strips and sterilized in an autoclave. (An autoclave is a little bit of medical instruments that sterilizes metal and glass implements through the use of extreme temperatures and high-pressure steam. This course of kills all micro organism, viruses, fungi, and spores.) All non-metal devices, just like buffers and orange wood sticks, are single use.
At The Water Room, we’re devoted to a fume-free environment for our prospects and workers. By not offering Acrylic, SNS Powder, Dip Gel, commonplace gel suppliers, and even commonplace nail polish, our air top quality is considerably higher than at totally different nail salons. (We even have a number of pretty vegetation that clear the air in our home.) We urge you to study the two-part article, Unvarnishedprinted by The New York Events a few years up to now. The exposé examines the unsafe working circumstances and potential properly being risks endured by these employed in commonplace nail salons. It is not okay, and we’re proper right here to set a model new customary. Speaking of caring about our workers, we truly do care. Our workers work terribly exhausting, and I can personally attest to the reality that they are all actually fairly people who deserve respect. We pay them correctly, we cope with them correctly, and I uncover it crazy that this is not the norm throughout the nail service enterprise.
And, you perceive I did a deep dive sooner than I chosen the merchandise we use and promote! We solely use polishes that are 5-free or greater. That suggests that at a minimal, they’re free of the 5 most toxic elements usually current in most traditional nail polish: Formaldehyde, Formaldehyde Resin, Camphor, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP), and Toluene. The other merchandise sourced for our signature suppliers are moreover #barebeautyapproved to be free of all toxic elements along with cruelty-free, gluten-free and vegan.
We also have a personal event room. Most women, ourselves included, love a mani-pedi get collectively, however moreover want complete privateness. It is subsequent to inconceivable to rent out an entire nail salon, and a number of the resort spas in Charleston solely have two manicure and pedicure stations each. With Charleston being such a popular trip spot for weddings and bachelorette occasions, together with a personal event room appeared like a no brainer to us. (The private event room may also be on the market for little ladies’ birthday occasions, firm group setting up events, or just because of.) We’re nonetheless setting up our workers, nonetheless we may be on the market to book for private events starting this spring. It’s going to be so gratifying!
In case you might be native to Charleston, or in case you might be planning to go to, be sure you enter our giveaway on Instagram (@thewaterroomofficial). We’re giving away a mani-pedi for two buddies! Hurry, I’ll be saying the winner on 2/12.
I hope you’re having a terrific weekend, and I hope we’ll preserve you at The Water Room rapidly!
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