Poll: How much does your pedicure cost?
 

I pay $23 with the massage chair, "quick dry" and wax
(w/o the tip).
What about you?

$25 -- same as you with the chair.

At my old BLACK owned salon in Columbus, there were various types of pedis but the cheapest and one I got was $40. I did not get it often.

$20 for the massage chair and quick dry..
and extra $5 for the parrafin wax.

$25 for chair, wax and quick dry... thinking about it maybe I should go into the business?!?

Mine is also $25. I go to an Asian nail shop to get my pedicure done. Does anyone else notice that it's only the womenwho give the pedicure?

Ya'll need to come to Brooklyn- I pay $12.50 for massage chair, $15 if I get French tips. I have my own bottle of quick dry polish (why pay extra each time I go when I can buy the bottle over and over). When I did pay much more at a spa for a pedicure with my cousin one time they didn't do anything more than my Korean friends.

One day about two years ago the shop was packed and the owners husband wanted to get his wife home - since I was the last one he asked if he could do my pedicure. I was tired and hesitantly agreed. That man worked my feet and massaged my legs to a point where I almost forgot I was at a public shop and not home with my man :p - She wouldn't let me take him home with me and I needed a serious cigarette after that one!!

Okay! I may have to pack my bags for a pedicure. Most establishments charge $40 in my neck of the woods.

In Houston I pay $16 for massage chair, wax, and color. It's $3 more for french manicure. When I was in Louisiana it was $20 and strangly enough at home in Cali where it should be expensive, its only $14, (but that'd with no chair or wax).

Has anyone ever gotten those extensions/tips on their toes??? I saw one girl and I told her her feet looked so nice, and that I wish my feet looked like that and she said that she barely had any toenails, and that she got them to put tips on! Have you ever heard of this?:eek:

A hott mess all the way around!
 

Yeah, and it's a hott mess. I guess it would even become more of a hott mess to see those nubs sticking out of the sandals. :eek:

Re: A hott mess all the way around!
 

LOL, you are too much!!! Honestly, though...her toes looked GOOD, I couldn't tell!

Chile please! :o My old roommate used to have tips on her toes. I mean they did look nice with the design and stuff but those nails were just too long for me! I can grow my own for all that! :eek:
Hot mess I tell ya! :rolleyes:

See that's the thing...they weren't long at all, which makes me wonder how short her toenails actually were! They were really nice looking.:confused:

Heard of it?! I've DONE it!!! I broke my big toenail one day a couple of summers ago. I couldn't walk around waiting for it to grow back, so I had a tip put on it. I wouldn't care if one of the little ones broke, it's not as noticeable. But if my big one broke again, I'd do it again, lol.

It depends on where I go. When I was just at home, I would have paid $40, I think, and it was without wax. But it was FREE for me. :D I'm special like that. :) Down here, I think I paid $30 or something like that. I doubt if I can find it any cheaper, everything is so expensive here. :rolleyes:

http://www.footartgallery.com/ronieka.html

You know I had to do a bit of research!!!

One of the women on there actually shows how she does it...now I am not into all those colors, but I think I could use a bit of length on my small toes...I am skurred though!

$20 for spa pedicure (complete w/vibrating chair) and manicure, and I tip $5. I go to an Asian place in San Diego that uses OPI, which makes quality polish. The only thing I'm mildly dissatisfied with is that my 'cure chipped after two days, and I had to redo my nails prior to our chapter's deb ball.

So are you actually getting the acrylic put on your toenails or just gluing the tip on?? I'm curious! :D

It was straight acrylic, no tip - I shouldn't have said that in my post. Just like they do sculptured nails? That's how she did my toe. And after my own toe nail grew out, she took the acrylic off for me, so I wouldn't tear my real nail again. :) It's a trip, cuz I remember the day I went and asked her to do it. I thought she would look at me like I was crazy, but she didn't. That's why I didn't trip when I saw it on Queens of Comedy. ;)

French manicures
 

I pay $25 for a French Pedicure with vib. chair. I give myself a French Manicure b/c my nails are naturally long and shaped well. In addition, when I get a professional French Manicure-it always chip. So, I use the Sally Hanson French Manicure kit. And my French manicures looks professional!

My grandmother uses the "attached toe nail" during the summer, it looks really nice. She told me that it was the same process as regular nail tips.;)

O.k. You are going to have to explain this to me like I'm 6 years old (a la Denzel in Philladelphia LOL)... The acrylic stuff that I'm familar with is this paste-y liquid-y stuff that they shape on your nail. You had them put that on your bare skin where your nail once was? Weren't you afraid of infections or bacteria getting in or something? :eek:

I a big toe nail that is split all the way to the cuticle. My dermatologist said that the only solution is to remove the smallest part of the split, but because of the way it is split that part of the nail will probably never grow back, leaving me with half a nail on my toe (if you can imagine such a thing!) Wonder if the acrylic stuff would work for me? I thought about it, but didn't want it to leak under the split and then make my big toe infected so that it falls off! Inquiring minds want to know!!

Ideal08, I am curious as well.

2D, where do you go? I know it's somewhere on the wackbank, I mean westbank. :D j/k

Anyway, I stay really close to the village, so I may dip in on one of the nail shops that they have down here. I usually go to The Plaza and it is $26 for the vibe chair and french tips (they charge $3 extra for that :rolleyes: ) I need to find somewhere else because I want the wax. My price doesn't even include that NOR quick dry! :mad: I'm just thinking about it!

As for the tips, I know of people who have gotten them and thay didn't get them again. They were cool with the tips until they started to get old. I guess if you are the type like me that wears sandals and/or flip flops all summer, then it's cool. However, I wouldn't stick them in shoes. You know how your finger may hurt when your (finger)nails start to come up and your fingers may get tender, think about some tender a** toes stuffed in shoes! I guess different people have different experiences. I probably would do it if I had some chewed up toes, but mine are OK. Trust me, I have seen toes that have so little nails that it just looks like they don't have any. If that's the case, get the tip!

Im not sure how much a regular pedicure is. I always get the special and they always have it. Its a fill and pedicure in that annoying vibrating chair with quick dry for 30.00. I tip well because Im kinda rude to the Korean lady. I dont like to be massaged or anything. I tell her, I am just here for pretty toes. :eek:

Ok, you've never seen sculptured nails done. I will explain this as best I can. The acrylic is NOT directly on your skin, let me say that now. There is this little black thing, that is kind of oval shaped. It has lines on it that criss-cross, like a grid; they are gold. They place that on the skin of your toe, right above the real nail, and they hold it there. Then they apply the acrylic to your toenail and add a little length over the little black thingie. It's hard to explain. Next time you go to the salon, ask them to show you what they use to do sculptured nails. Then you'll see the little black thingie, lol. So no acrylic directly on the skin, no chance for infection.

RedefinedDiva, I feel you. I normally wear sandals all summer, too. That's why I HAD to get the fake nail, lol. But I don't remember if I wore closed toe shoes or not. It probably would hurt some.

Yes. It's on the BESTbank. Just for your comment, I won't tell you where. And since it's sooooooo wack stay on the LEASTbank and pay all that money for NOTHING.

LMAO!

Oh dayum! LMAO!

Around me it's $15 for a manicure/Pedicure Mon-Wed, $20 any other day. I don't get tips :p Just regular manicure pedicure.

Some of y'all paying $40+ need to move up Norf. :D

Wow! :eek: I had no idea it was deep like that! That's really interesting! Thanks for the explanation! :D

I go to the JC Penney salon and it runs me about $25 for a pedicure and about $15 for a manicure. The girl who does mine does a really good job and I always tip!! :D

On Wednesdays you can get a "combo" manicure and pedicure for $25.00. (polish and if desired....airbrush are free) hand painted designs are extra $$$


But the grande pedicure with the reclining/vibrating chair and the so, so delightful parrafin wax, hot rocks and foot massage is $35. The tip varies between $5 and up depending on the technicians time, patience, work and attitude.

GOOD LAWD THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY!!!
 

My pedicure cost $13 (includes massage chair)

Of course for elaborate designs they charge extra per toe per design. But I just get 2 designs (one on each big toe which is $2 extra) and the rest are just polished.

My fill-in's are $13 also with $3 for nail design on all my nails ( I get hook ups cuz I've been a loyal customer).

So on average .. including the tip I am spending about $35 every two weeks.

Re: GOOD LAWD THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY!!!
 

:o Chile, I'm a little apprehensive when the prices are too low. $13 is too low for me to go.

:D :p

ME TOO
 

I thought I was the only one thinking that something was "Not quite right" about that price.......:o

$17 for the spa pedicure. I have a kparaffin spa at home so I do that myself. My refill is $10, but if I get them both together it's only $25.

Price has nothing to do with quality - I've been to the expensive salons - I'm not paying $40 so the well-to-do can pay for their Fifth Avenue store's rent. My Koreans on Flatbush Ave do a great job in a clean and hygenic shop for $12.50 and provide the same services.

I'll agree not all shops are the same - but I've found a good one and have been going for the past 10 years - everytime I've strayed I kick myself for wasting money and come right back!

I paid $39 total for a pedicure and a french manicure. Thats cheap but I am down in here in country Nashville.

Ok, I go to the Koreans...

In my area $13-$17 is average....


Now when I use to frequent my black business owners their prices were as steep as $17-25 for a pedicure.


I'MMA BALLAH ON A BUDGET... AS LONG AS MY TOES DON'T LOOK LIKE HAMMER TIME WHEN I LEAVE THE SHOP AND I CAN FAKE THE FUNK (TOES LOOK LIKE I PAID A LOT OF LOOT)... $13 IS ALL RIGHT WITH ME:D

Off topic!

BROOKLYN shout out. HOLLA ;) :p

Ok...I'm done. :D

If it's fine with you...it's fine with me. Make sure you leave with the 10 toes you came there with. :o

lol
:D

I pay $35 for a manicure/ pedicure combination.

I pay $ 20 for a pedicure (with the massage chair), french tips are $5 extra.