Diaries of a Nail Technician: Gossip heard in the salon never stays in the salon

Follow a South Florida nail technician as she spends her career listening to gossip in the salon. The stories focus on the daily life of the women in one affluent area in South Florida. Money doesn’t buy manners, morals, or common sense. It was not what happened in her clients’ lives but how they reacted that demonstrated who they were.

The stories are of love and loss. A salon owner’s affair, a woman searching for her birth mother, and a girl who lost her mother too soon and had to find her way in life were only some of the tales-women whose behavior was less than flattering pepper the pages.

Ann learned so much from her clientele in the almost four decades she worked as a nail technician, and many of the lessons are worth sharing. Women can be great teachers, but women can also be ruthless. Be careful what you say in public; you never know who is listening.