$3 Pedicure

I've talked about Groupon before... If you haven't heard of it, SIGN UP! It's fantastic!




Last week the Groupon was $20 for a pedicure at a salon near my house. I have an $89 credit with Groupon... so I got 2.



It's about to be summer people!



After printing out the coupon today I noticed that it said "by appointment only". It was 4:15 and I had to get in by 5. I thought I'd check to see if they had any openings at that time. Here's how the conversation went...



Guy- Aqua Nails. How can I help you? (Chinese Accent)

Me- Hi, I have the Groupon coupon and I wanted to set up an appointment.

Guy- Ok, when did you want to come in?

Me- Umm, sometime within the hour... maybe 5?

Guy- Ok... let me look (papers shuffling) (looooong pause) Oh! You're lucky! We have an opening!

Me- Oh! Awesome! I'll see you then!



I got there at 5 and there was NO ONE ELSE THERE. I am not kidding. There were at least 5 employees though. Good thing I called to make that appointment. I was suuuper lucky to be able to get in!



After turning down the offer from the receptionist to watch my baby during the appointment I was ushered to the back toward my male nail guy. Which was great because I had to nurse Vandis and I wanted to make nursing in public even more awkward. (I think he was oblivious though because every time Vandis made a noise while eating the guy would just say "ohh, he's waking up!" with a big smile on his face. Yep... waking up and I'm just going to keep him all warm under this blanket!)



The guy asked if I liked my toe nails long. I said No, I like them short. So he cut them about as short as they could go without bleeding and asked if that was short enough. Yeah... that'll do. Then he filed them even shorter along with filing my skin. Which was great because my skin needed filing. It has been forever since I've done that.



I thought I might die while he was pushing my cuticles down.



That was nothing compared to the orange sandy exfoliant of death. I considered asking for an epidural.



But then he rubbed blue putty on my feet and swaddled them in hot towels. Mmm.



And then I got a calf/foot massage.



And then I almost fell asleep.



But didn’t.



He finished up with some cute pink polish, put me under the blue lights to dry, and came and checked me after 5 minutes.



I gave him a $3 tip and Vandis and I were out the door.



It was an experience, that’s for sure! The pain was worth it… I’d show you a picture but my feet look really terrible in pictures.



I don’t think I would go back again… but because I have the other coupon I have to. I’ll probably pop a couple Tylenol beforehand.



I’ll just remember that I have to get through the pain to get the swaddled, massaged, and polished.



PS. I can’t believe that there are only 10 more days left of April… how did this happen?