A woman has issued a warning after she claims her a salon nail manicure left her with a horrific fungal infection.
Bethany, who asked not to be identified by her last name, said she got a dip powder manicure on October 17.
She did not identify the salon where she had the procedure but said her finger had been cut during her appoitnment.
Just a week later, Bethany claimed her fingers were swollen, bloody and oozing pus.
After booking in to see a doctor, Bethany was told she had a fungal infection, that she could have caught by dipping her fingers into the same powder that several other customers had also used.
It is not been proven that the manicure was the definite cause, but Bethany believes it was the cut on her nail that resulted in her hands becoming infected.
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES BELOW.
A dip manicure is a nail technique where a person picks a coloured powder and then dips their nails into a jar.
The technician will then brush off any excess powder, put a protective coat on tip and repeat until the polish has hardened.
But at a salon, a technician should paint the powder onto the client's nails - or divide the powder into smaller pots that are individual to each customer - to keep things hygienic.
Speaking to WFMY News 2 , Bethany explained that while her nails were being filed, the manicurist accidentally cut one of her fingers, but her nails were still dipped into the container of powder.
She said: "I noticed about a week later I had little spots come up [around a few nails] and tried creams over-the-couner and then soaked them in alcohol and peroxide and it just kept getting worse."
Pictures provided by Bethany, who lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, showed her fingers looking incredibly sore and swollen, some even oozing pus from the nail beds.
Bethany now claims she will never go to a nail salon again.
