Lac Bar, I think, is the better pedicure. They file and file until you have baby soft feet and the polish is always perfect. But, they're not exactly fast - I swear sometimes you go in before lunch and head out again to find it's gone dark. Today I needed fast and was on Orchard Road so popped into Mandarin Gallery.
Everything about this pedicure was perfect. They have a fantastic selection of Essie and OPI colours (the picture above is Essie Limited Addiction, my shade of choice for today), excellent selection of magazines and I got a really good leg scrub and massage. It was only when I got up to leave and looked down at my toes that I realised my therapist had filed both my big toe-nails at an angle, the nail was longer at the end of the foot and shorter at the side next to the next toe. And she'd done this on both sides, so my toes looked like a rather quizical set of eyebrows, or two asymmetric fringes.
I hummed and awed about saying something. "Does this look right to you?", I asked the lady on reception. She looked and confirmed I was seeing (not) straight. And really they couldn't have been nicer; they tried to level them out, they offered to take the polish off and start again (I didn't have time) and they said I could come back the next day if I was still unhappy. I suspect to make them remotely straight they would have to cut my nails eye-wateringly short, so I am resigned to a few weeks of wonky toes...I'm even starting to get used to them now!
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