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tierra mia

#030 September 2011

Pretty Poisons: How Tierra Mia is fighting the toxic ills of the fingernail biz

You’ll never see fresh-cut flowers in a nail salon,” says Justin Mitchell, who co-owns Center City’s Tierra Mia Organic Nail Spa with his fiancée Karina Restrepo. “Flowers die in just a few hours, because the fumes in the air are so bad. It sounds like a tall tale, but it’s shocking, really.”

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November 7, 2011
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