We caught Stancliffe after a successful weekend pop-up before California quickly shut it doors once again the following Monday-for Stancliffe, keeping your head up and hands ready is the name of the game. Think: at-home-nail-kits, pop-up’s featuring women makers of all ethnic backgrounds, and so much more.
Though with the unfortunate coming of COVID-19 to the Bay Area, Stancliffe has had to close her brick-and-mortar for the time being and has had to figure out other creative ways to utilize her mission and physical storefront. Bringing women, men, those of gender non-conforming to a space where everyone (and we mean everyone) feels comfortable, is what Stancliffe set out to do when she first opened. Being able to work on a livable wage and be able to thrive is what she wants. When we spoke to founder Annie Stancliffe of High Five, a nail salon that believes in equity and equality-treating technicians with dignity is embedded deep within the day-to-day. Documentaries such as “Painted Nails” that tells the story of San Francisco nail salon owner Van Hoang, whose multiple miscarriages and asthma, due to prolonged exposure to toxic chemicals in nail care products, ultimately put her on a quest to bring safe cosmetics to all, produced and shot by San Franciscans Nhung Hoang Pham, Dianne Griffin, and Erica Jordan-change can be seen. Those like Heli Prilliman, founder of Lacquerbar in Berkeley, who’ve made it their mission to offer minority women-of-color technical classes in order to better that quality of life in the nail industry. And though we live in these often sad truths, much change is being made by the new guard of growing generations. Swan on MADtv to comedians like Anjelah Johnson who continue to push the narrative of the minority nail technician. For what we know, most about it, are insensitive stereotypes that permeate in mainstream media.Įverything from Ms. The nail industry is a dark and fairly seedy workplace that hasn’t seen any forms of innovation in the past decade.
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