Pretty much anywhere you drive in the good old US of A you where there are shops you’ll see a nail parlour of some description. Even in the current economic climate there are thousands of them. I’ve been wondering for some time how so many manage to stay in business. I think it has a lot to do with the little luxuries they provide. Getting your nails done isn’t that expensive – for $20 or so you can indulge in a tiny amount of pampering.
Once I’d started thinking about it I started to notice that almost every American woman has their nails done. Curiously even the worst form of hippacrockapigadog that munters around in gigantic velour tracksuits with awful hair has fabulous nails. I think that might be because of all the bits that can look really good, almost anyone can have amazing nails without much effort or money.
Ashamed by the fact that I’ve been doing my own for all this time and curious to see what actually goes on in these places, I went for my first ever pedicure this week. Actually it was rather nice. You sit in a chair that massages your back while you get your feet washed, oiled, pummelled and your nails painted. In fact I might even go back. I’m still letting the side down with my horrible fingernails though.Oh well, just for the time being I have fabulous toes (that hopefully distract from all the rope scars on my feet).