Maggie Rants [and Raves]

Why So Blue Too?

by Maggie Franklin | October 19, 2009 | Bookmark +

Speaking of stuff that's blue ... Sounds like a survey question from “Family Feud,” doesn't it? "Name something around the salon that is blue."

 

OK, so, speaking of things that are blue in the salon, what is up with these nail plate cleansers?

 

Don't get me wrong! I actually LOVE them. Nail plate cleansers have made my life much easier. I've found that even product systems that don't have their own still benefit from the use of one.

 

But why do they have to be blue? They blue dye used in these products is pointless! It doesn't do anything. Being blue doesn't contribute to the efficacy of these products at all.

 

I'll tell ya what that blue dye is good for: gunking up my Menda pump! Or anything else it gets on.

 

The problem is that the stuff that the product is actually made up evaporates very fast, but the blue dye doesn't evaporate at all. So what I get at the end of the day is an interesting way to demonstrate why the Dead Sea is so salty — using nail plate cleanser and blue dye. Which quickly turns to blue gunk. Which makes me terribly self-conscious because I'm sure that anyone who sees the little pump on the jar I keep it in is thinking, "hmmm, she says she cleans everything, but that's looks pretty nasty."

 

So I don't understand what the love affair with the pointless blue dye is? I suppose some guy in R&D is thinking, "We'll make it blue. Nail techs love blue. It'll be pretty, like that old lady's necklace from Titanic. It'll fly off the shelves and be the most popular thing ever!"

 

But it's NOT pretty. Not when I'm actually using it. It's gunky and sticky and hard to wash out of the nooks and crannies of the pump. And frankly, I put it into a jar that doesn't show off the lovely shade of blue that just about matches my properly mixed disinfectant anyway, so I hardly see why it's important that they match.

 

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