the fabled Rural Heterosexual Drag Queen

Oy remembah when oy spotted one in Lizahd Lick, Noyth Carolinah in '92. Crikey! The boots on that sheila. What a lookah!

/poor croc hunter impression

Matt, the better salons do not trim cuticles. Lotion is applied, and they're pushed back a bit, but they're not trimmed.

Incidentally, I received the worst mani-pedi ever today here in Barcelona, and it was a little under $100. A very expensive mistake. I will actually have to remove the nail polish on my toes it's so sloppy and lumpy, and re-apply myself. Thankfully the rest of the trip has been too good for me to care all that much. But still.

Lotion is applied, and they're pushed back a bit, but they're not trimmed.

Mine are, but that's because I pick at them and my cuticles are pretty nasty.

I had a wonderful pedicure in Fira, Santorini. After days of tromping around Crete the pedicurist had to haul out actual power-tools to deal with my feet. But they felt wonderful afterward.

I got it done in the Yves Rocher salon. I booked the appointment a few days ago, and was really looking forward to it, based on how pretty and clean the salon/store looked. Today I arrived and was led upstairs, into a hot, flourescent room and told to lie on a hospital bed. I don't think any of the nail files or implements used on me were clean or new, and the nail polishes were stored, all 15 or so of them, in a beat up plastic drawer thing. They were all at least a year old; cakey and gooey and awful. I kept hoping for the best, thinking she knew what she was doing; when I finally sat up and looked at my toes, I almost cried. I seriously should take pictures. There is nail polish in the middle of my toes, as an example. And the tops of my toes look like someone spray painted the Rockies and stuck them on the ends of my feet. Lesson learned.

/off topic

Incidentally, I received the worst mani-pedi ever today here in Barcelona, and it was a little under $100. A very expensive mistake.

The mani-pedi I had in Seattle at the F2F stands as by far the best ever. Both the process and the results - that blue/black polish lasted on my toes without chipping for a month.

Brenda, where did you go?

It was next door to the liquor store with the sparkly pink vodka, if that helps, midway between the hotel and Pike's. Cheap, too - $30 I think?

Wasn't it called Queen Bee or something like that?

That sounds about right.