Manicure & Pedicure
Hands and feet, properly looked after.
Nails shaped, cuticles cared for, and a gel finish that survives real life, for hands and feet that get used.
A manicure is not just colour. Nails are shaped and balanced, cuticles are tidied rather than cut back to the quick, and the nail plate is left strong enough to hold what goes on it. Gel is cured properly so it lasts, and taken off properly so the nail underneath is not wrecked when it comes time to change.
The pedicure is the one people put off and then never stop booking. Hard skin taken down, nails cut and shaped straight so they do not grow in, and a foot soak that is the actual point of the appointment for most of the people who sit in the chair.
What it does
Why clients book it
Shaped, not just painted
The structure of the nail is sorted out first. Colour on a badly shaped nail still looks like a badly shaped nail.
Cuticles cared for
Softened and tidied rather than cut away, because cutting them is what causes the ragged regrowth.
Gel that comes off cleanly
Soaked off properly. Nothing is scraped or peeled, so your own nail is not left thin and flaking.
Feet taken seriously
Hard skin, ingrowing edges and the bits nobody else looks at. This is the half that actually changes your week.
The session
Exactly what happens
- 10 min01SoakWarm water first, for both hands and feet. Everything afterwards is easier and kinder for it.
- 20 min02Shape and cuticlesNails cut and filed to shape, cuticles softened and tidied, hard skin taken down on the feet.
- 20 min03Colour or gelYour choice of finish, cured properly in thin coats so it lasts rather than lifting in a week.
- 10 min04Oil and massageCuticle oil worked in, and a hand or foot massage to finish, which nobody has ever objected to.
