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more about #manicures more comments → 1.1.1.: "I don't even look at this as luxury," she said. "It's basic cleanliness." Cleanliness? I'm sure that painting your nails every week with toxic chemi... more » lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black: Nailtiques has made my inability to afford a manicure anymore a little less painful. my nails are brittle, and split without tons of polish to hold t... more » danista: I've never had acrylics until yesterday. For her birthday, my roommate and best friend wanted to get her nails done and wanted me to come. I've been s... more » Lizawithazee: It's been documented for some time that the U.S. is overretailed. It was inevitable, and the crisis has increased the pace of retail failures exponent... more » laddibugg: heh, the only reason i can post this now is because I decided not to go to the salon, and try to hold out a few more days. Plus I'm going to do my ow... more » barzzini: Finally after 20 years of acrylic nails i took them off recently. Now i have nubs for fingers. I hate to say it but i would rather go out to a movie o... more » Maulleigh: I recently paid $6 to get my brows waxed at a salon at Fifth and 25th--not a bad neighborhood at all! Cheap! more » cantstopwontstop: Topical! I've been a life-long nervous nail-biter, chewer, knuckle-cracker, whatevah. My new years resolution in 2008 was to stop the nail chompin'. A... more » gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy: I love pedicures because the arthritis and fibromyalgia that have taken my feet over makes them hurt so bad all the time. But a nice warm footbath, fo... more » RedHotz: Well after the ice storm here left me without cable or internet for the last 16 days I am finally back yeaa! I go without pedicures and I do my own c... more » CandyColoredFrown: I'm going to preface this by saying that I'm having a really rotten day. That being said: I'm already so sick of these news bits about what people are... more » Uncommon Whore: For me it isn't even so much the money (although at $30 a pop for a spa mani pedi maybe it should be) but the time. I just don't find myself with an h... more » TheUptightMidwesterner: I love doing my own nails...I do it to relax. I have no pedicure to give up, because I don't like folks touching my feet. more » disco2000: Somewhere along the way I just stopped biting my nails one day without realizing it. Now, I sort of need manicures because a lifetime of nail biting h... more » amsci: I've given up on pedis ever since I started running and Muay Thai last year. I wouldn't wish my tatter, blistered feet w/ bruised, thickened toenails ... more » -
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Not shockingly, the recession has gotten in the way of some women's regular manicures. Good news for us nail-biters and Sally Hansen, less so for salon owners, many of whom are in trouble. [NYT]
