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02/13/09
Cleanliness? I'm sure that painting your nails every week with toxic chemicals is terrific hygiene. How about using a nailbrush and some soap and water?
The things some women decide they must spend money on... Amazing.
02/13/09
Budget version, for all you recessionistas: a quick soak in Ti-D-Bol and you're on your way! Fabulous!
02/12/09
however, nothing is making my pedicure abstinence less painful. i suck with a brush--get that shit everywhere--so i am just doing without until sandal weather comes, and then i am going to suck it up and forgo something else for a pedicure once every two weeks.
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But after I shovel my dirt this weekend I'm definitely getting a mani/pedi. Can't go into the office looking like the farmhand I secretly am.
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The hair, however.....I will not eat so that I can get my hair done every two weeks. I even have a line item for it in my budget.
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i used to do mani pedis at salons for fun...it felt good and i felt like i looked a little better. i could easily do them at home, but chose to go to a salon. last year, i stopped because i'm not moneybags malone. i don't go to a nail salon for anything anymore, and i and use training nights at salons to get my hair either touched up or colored for either a discount price or for free. i don't feel bad about it one solitary bit. there is no shame in 'falling on your wallet'. i'm looking out for myself at this point, and when it comes to retirement, it's not like the ladies at the nail salon are going to pool a fund to take care of me.
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However, I haven't gotten may hair cut by a pro in 11 months. Over the sink bang trims afford my new nail habit... :)
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I do go an extra week between nail appointments, though. Oh, and yes, I can and do bite my acrylics, even though I keep them very short and natural. So I usually have one to replace!
02/12/09
I go without pedicures and I do my own color at home. I also only get my hair cut when I absolutely have to but I refuse to give up getting my nails done. After more years than I care to count of nail biting I finally started wearing acrylic nails. I quit biting them but no matter what I do my nails break and look horrible. Wearing the acrylic also makes my hands not look as crooked and deformed from the rheumatoid arthritis.
02/12/09
That being said: I'm already so sick of these news bits about what people are beginning to give up because of the economy. I don't need NYT to tell me what goods and services are non-necessities.
I'm a broke-ass college student who is facing a post-graduation job search this spring, in this economy.
So no, I'm not particularly interested in stories about people giving up manicures, or daily lattes, or staying in on Friday night to watch a movie, as ways to save money. This to me, is common sense.
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I just don't find myself with an hour to camp out at the salon and watch E! and drink tea and then wear my flip flops home in the cold. So I did my own the other day with a bucket and a towel... watching E! and drinking tea, of course.
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I have no pedicure to give up, because I don't like folks touching my feet.
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I do that with my eyebrows, too. I get them done and then keep them up myself for awhile until I get more than I want to tweeze and I go back.
Both paras above are sort of my "ideal" 'cause I don't do either of those things as regularly as I would if I had a job and needed to present myself out of the house every day. Nowadays I leave the house to go to the barn. yesterday I fell in the pasture trying to outwait Ms. Mare...so the whole eyebrow nail thing isn't a priority. Although I do know women who come to the barn and ride and groom their won horses who have fake nails.
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For srs. I do my own hands - and own exfoliating facials blah blah - so I can afford to have my feet done. I'd rather not deal with the ramifications of doing otherwise.