London. Back in the 1990s a friend planned to launch a chain of nail bars (at that time virtually non-existent here) like those on every street in his native Manhattan.
There the staff were Korean. The prices cheap. The service fast. He didn't go ahead but others did and nail bars and speedy beauty salons are now found in every city, often staffed by young women from the EU – many from Romania and Poland.
Or they used to be. Now the perfect storm of Covid, which sent many back to their families, along with the new restrictions on working and living here imposed by Brexit has led to a beauty drain.
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