Beauty salon fined after using banned substance to apply acrylic nails123RF Kiwi Nails & Spa Silverdale used a product that can cause irritation, dizziness, nail damage and deformed nail growth. An Auckland beauty salon that used a banned, high-risk chemical on a client's nails has been fined $13,500. A subsequent visit revealed the product the salon was using to apply acrylic nails contained a substance called methyl methacrylate (MMA). READ MORE:* Woman feels 'butchered' after horrifying wax treatment at Auckland salon* Beauty therapy turns ugly* Plastic surgery tourism to screen on television - despite warnings of medical misadventure* Filler fail: Why do men get cosmetic surgery so wrong? However, testing by health inspectors revealed the salon was using a product that contained 90 per cent MMA.

Source: Stuff February 19, 2017 23:48 UTC