Sigh. I haven't found (um, nor looked for) a nail salon I like/trust here in Seattle, but I loooove pedicures. Sadly, this means I have not gotten one since I moved here. Granted, it's been winter, but all week while I was in Mexico I kept looking at my feet and wishing I'd had one!
Manicures have never done much for me--I like the polish better than what I can do myself (especially french) but it isn't thaaaaat much better, and they chip so quickly. But pedicures? With the buffing, and the massaging, and the spa chair, and the lasting for weeks? Love.
Other beauty procedures, I would LIKE to get/do more often, or at all, but have a hard time justifying. Like, if someone gave me $1000 and told me I had to spend it on things like that, I'd have no trouble, but when I think about nice dinners and new clothes, versus the cost of salon color (vs. doing it myself for $10), well
...
LA has given me a love of the "done" brow. Inasmuch as I use it as a start and a finish for doing my face.
I amuse the women that do my brows, though, because I let them grow all the way out inbetween, at the very least. Helps them get a good grip and all that. As much as I might like the results, I can never get aroung to being groomed in anything resembling a timely fashion.
I have accepted that even if I grow my brows out, there just isn't enough of them any more to have them done properly. So I shave off the outer corners and draw them in. They look, eh,
semi
-natural, which works for me.
I have perfect eyebrows. There! I said it!
Acrylics mess up my nails too much. They're thin enough that when I take off the acrylic my remaining nail bed is painfullly thin, particularly on my thumbs.
Pedicures are of the gods.
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This is so very, very disturbing. Haven't they read any Asimov? They're gonna kick back!
Skipped a few hundred posts and find grooming discussion. Huh. I did the mani/pedi last week and yesterday the manicure. Best thing happened when my SIL decided to buy a nail salon. I had the line of credit and lent her a chunk of cash so I get free services for life. I've always let her pamper me because she is so damn good at it. She waxes my legs. I may let her do the brows again, but really I don't care about them. They do everything there. Massages, facials, permanent makeup. I don't wear temporary makeup, so it is unlikely I will do that. She was really pressuring me yesterday that I had to give her an hour a week. One week pedicure, next week facial, next week massage, etc. She's had the salon 2 years now and I think I have gone 5 times. The girl has a point. An hour a week to be loved and pampered and prettied, for free! There is no downside.
ION, can it please be the second week in November? I'd give up summer to have the election stuff behind me. I try and not ever watch news, but I can't help myself. How can they manage to say the same stuff over and over and over again? Let it end.
Well, as one as a tall, striking woman of color and a short, frumpy woman of no-color can be.
The first half of this sentence is true. The second half has no relation to reality.
You people made me have a dream last night that I painted my toenails a deep Chanel Vamp red. And when I woke up, I was seriously thrown for a moment that my toenails were au naturel.
Naked toenails! Naked toenails!
