Pedicures and Cold Weather

These 2 things do not go together. While I love having pretty toes, once it gets below 60°, maybe even 70° because I get cold easily, I stop wearing flip-flops or sandals. Lately, I have considered not getting color during the colder weather because first of all, no one sees my toes except for Brian, the cats, and me. OK, I suppose the ladies in the gym locker room might notice them.

Second, it takes way too frickin’ long for the polish to dry and even when the nail tech assures me that it’s safe to put on my socks and clogs (which is what I bring even when there’s a foot of snow, because I will not pull on snow boots after a pedicure), even when she assures me that it’s safe, well, sometimes she’s wrong. As soon as I get home and pull off my socks, what do I find? Ruined polish.

It just so happens that there’s a salon a block away from our hotel. Though I already have my next pedicure scheduled — you know how they get busy with the holidays and all — and my nail tech has warned me against getting pedicures while on vacation because you pay a lot more and might get a decent pedi, I wanted pretty toes. Besides, my nail tech did recommend getting massages while on vacation and again, since there’s a salon a block away, I scheduled one — which was fantastic, by the way. But I couldn’t resist asking about a pedi because I. Want. Pretty. Toes. Plus, we’re in Cedar Falls, IA, so how expensive could it be, even if they do a shitty job?

And as you can see from the picture above (click to see the large image and the wonderful new OPI color I decided to try called “Dear Santa”), my toes look great. The nail tech talked to me, unlike that one time I made the mistake of getting what turned out to be a shitty pedi at a spa in Mesquite, NV, where they didn’t even use soap in my tub — gross — and I was completely ignored. In fact, the lady today, it turns out, went to high school where my father-in-law used to teach. Just before she put on the polish, she put these lovely disposable pedicure slippers you see here on the left. These soles are 5mm thick, though I’m pretty sure the ones I wore were the 3mm ones.

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