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Q: Why nail cutters are so hard to find in China?
and why some foot spas use scalpel to remove heel calluses?
Who knows if it's in demand or not? Was there a statistic on this or something because I've seen nail cutters all over the place.
harryjohn:
ARE THERE? WHERE ARE YOU? IN MY PLACE, ZERO. AND I AM IN CHINA, IS THAT CONSIDERED?
Scandinavian:
I GOT MY NAILCUTTER IN THE "MYFACE" SHOP, THEY HAD A SELECTION OF 3 DIFFERENT ONES
harryjohn:
i edited the question for you silva. @ scandinavian...i am afraid to buy that in that shop. ha ha ha
Nail cutting goes back 4,000 years and was invented in Shandong Province by a Chinese blacksmith (reputed to be related to Confucius somewhere along the family tree). It was a revered profession which, at one time, had over 200,000 practitioners organized into local guilds throughout the land.
Alas, the nailsmiths (as they were referred to several millenia ago) went the way of the travelling barber, dentist and bloodletter: they died out due to dwindling demand and the introduction of Merkur nail clippers made in Germany of platinum-coated steel.
The last nail cutter is saw in my neighborhood was a toothless, old hag on a rusty bicycle with a rack-mounted whetstone over the back tyre, singing her trademark ditty for all to hear: "Nails, nails! I cut nails! Big and small, I cut them all!" Think she checked out last year...
Ha ha. Seriously, check out your local Carrefour. Good luck!
My wife bought some bijou for a dinner a few days ago and there was a "gift" of nail cutters in each bottle.
If you don't score with your type of bijou, try this helpful tip from Chinese Good Housekeeping magazine
put 100ml bijou in a finger bowl and soak your nails in it for 5 mins at which time they will fall off
drink the rest
fall asleep
when you wake up say "what happened to my finger nails"
drink the bijou in the finger bowl - it will taste better
