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10 year old getting nails done

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Monkey987 · 21/01/2022 21:01

Are we being unreasonable to take 10 year old DSD to get nails done.
Dad has had some health problems so hasn't been able to see her since Christmas so he would like to spoil her a little bit.
DSD lives quite far away and we're running out of fun contact ideas for the winter. Usually we would go to the park/walks etc but it's too cold.
So my question is are we being unreasonable to go and get our nails done. Obviously she would have something discrete and school friendly.
What is acceptable for a 10 year old (year 6) to have done?
I was thinking simple nail varnish/ maybe gel so it lasts longer? Is that too much for a 10 year old?
I'm not really a nail person so don't really know what to ask for.
How much roughly would you expect to spend?

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Graphista · 23/01/2022 02:42

My gran has Alzheimer's near the end, one of the few things she could still manage with the great grandkids was simple board games (ludo, snakes and ladders...) and dominos and cards.

What we didn't expect was that the kids would enjoy this so much! They loved learning to play some rarely played (now) card games and she even taught them how to cheat! Grin

One of my fondest memories of her actually

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