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How do women find time to get pedicures/spray tans etc?

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PickledLily · 01/02/2012 10:24

Just wondering. How do women fit it in (I mean a salon treatments rather than a home DIY effort).

Fitting in a haircut is bad enough. I've no desire to turn orange, but a proper pedicure would be nice! Do you do it in work hours or do you not work or do you dedicate a Saturday morning to it? I can't figure out how the average women (even without kids) could manage to fit this into their schedule, but maybe I'm missing a trick.

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Pagwatch · 01/02/2012 10:28

I don't whom but I wouldn't have a spray tan or a pedicure if you paid me. Plus it would eat into my drinking coffee time

ProjectGainsborough · 01/02/2012 10:51

I'm currently a SAHM in Dubai and there seems to be an army of women here who do nothing else. I have never felt so unkempt. That said, you can go to salons where they perform everything on you simultaneously (mani, pedi, massage) so I guess if you can find an hour you can get whatever you like done.

When I was at home and working, I would have the odd pedicure/massage at the weekend. I am a grumpy cow at the best of times, so I believe my parter feels it is in his interest to take over the childcare and allow me some breathing space

Pandsbear · 01/02/2012 12:19

Before children waxing, manicures, massage (if I had them) would be after work in the early evening or Sat mornings. Never had a spray tan. With small babies, if I had anything done as a treat it was a Sat morning. Now they are at school I have a few spare hours but no money as not much work coming in so I don't have any treatments!

TopazMortmain · 01/02/2012 12:20

Sunday afternoons and evenings... Non negotiable me time to be honest

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thehairybabysmum · 01/02/2012 12:40

Dont do spray tan but go to a home based beauty therapist for waxing/tiniting/pedicures...tis a lovely treat. I go on an evening 7 pm ish usually. Taks 1.5 hrs but she is lovely and we generally just have a good gossip.

Otherwise i could go in my lunchtime but found this harder to manage as a 1.5 hr lunch off my flexi not ideal.

Labootin · 01/02/2012 12:48

ha ha ..I am one of those women that Projects talking about. I had my roots done this morning along with the mandatory mani/pedi

It's pretty easy to fit it in when you have school age children and you don't work.

spray tans are hideous ( though weirdly for Dubai they offer them at my local salon)

Almondroca · 01/02/2012 12:49

It's how some people choose to spend their time I suppose. People often say they don't have time for Facebook...but then spend hours at the weekend watching Strictly Come Dancing. It's about your priorities and how you want to spend your time.

Labootin · 01/02/2012 12:55

to be fair i hate looking at peoples scuffy feet when I lived in England I only bothered with pedicures in the summer, now I'm in a state of permanent flip floppiness its almost a civic duty

Mrsrobertduvall · 01/02/2012 12:56

Agree it's priorities. I work 30 hours a week, hair hair cut and coloured every 6 weeks, facial every 6 weeks and another skin treatment every 6 weeks.
Only have a pedicure in the summer, rarely have a manicure and don't spray tan, preferring the milk bottle look.
I don't watch tv , go on fb and expect a lot of time to myself!

alwaysrunninginheels · 01/02/2012 13:08

I would love to fit such things in....well the manicures/pedicures. It is definitely hard to even fit in roots getting done regularly. However did mange to have first manicure ever done before Xmas...fantastic...could fully appreciate how you could start to feel its essential. But I had to leave work early to do it...I have high hopes that when my youngest starts school in August that the free day a week I have will be spent enjoying such luxuries. Unlikely but I will remain optimistic!

gregssausageroll · 01/02/2012 13:38

My lunch hour (I work 4 days a week) means I can fit a lot in.

I quite often have a Saturday mornng or afternoon to myself so I can treat myself then - usually when DH takes DS swimming which is their thing together.

KWL51 · 01/02/2012 13:46

I have no idea how they fit it in when working full time.
I'm a divorced mum of 4 and used to fit it in when xh had the children so was easy then, but hes working overseas now and so i will only be without the children one weekend every few months.
With much sadness I had to have my acrylic nails removed as i just wasn't getting the time to go every other week for infills. without acrylics or gels my nails are awful even with home manicures they just dont grow and are weak and split.
My hair is now just brown and no more highlights as I don't have 4 or 5 hours to sit in the hairdressers. I have 30 minutes for a trim and thats about it.
I do do home treatments, such as face mask and mini pedicures whilst watching tv once the yougnest ones are in bed, but nothing beats salon treatments.

worldgonecrazy · 01/02/2012 13:49

I work in a job where I don't take my lunch hour very often, so when I do need a bit of extra time to get my hair done, my boss is okay with me taking a couple of hours out in the middle of the day to get my hair done or get a pedicure.

gregssausageroll · 01/02/2012 13:51

Can't you get a mobile hairdresser and beautician to come to the house for your hair and nails?

OnlyANinja · 01/02/2012 13:52

I spend a lot of time on the internet doing unimportant things, or watching TV, or reading books.

I could find time to do those things if I spent less time doing other things.

KWL51 · 01/02/2012 13:57

Gregs- NO way not ever again. I must have been unlucky but two hairdressers completley messing up my highlights so i had to go and spend the time in hair dressers getting them corrected. and a beautician that burnt my eyebrow!
if anyone knows of a good mobile hairdresser and beautician in Reading then let me know please.

HipHopOpotomus · 01/02/2012 16:50

I get my eyebrows threaded in my lunch hour.
Not often enough though - they end up far too sluggish before I make it back for the next appt.

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PickledLily · 01/02/2012 21:14

The consensus seem to be:

don't work full time or
use your lunch hour (though not convinced you can do most treatments in under an hour) or
find somewhere open/working outside work hours

I'm doomed! None of those are options for me. DIY efforts will have to continue, hair cuts excluded, until I win the lottery and can work part time!

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KateSpade · 01/02/2012 21:18

ProjectGainsborough

That sounds like my dream, especially with all the sunshine aswell, Please trade lives!

I admit i've found it harder since I've been working full time, just because I'm shattered but I've been forcing myself to do it. I used to have a spray tan every thursday, but have since stopped being orange.

I go and get my nails done one evening, or a saturday afternoon.

I've had an face accident, and can't touch my eyebrows so have been trying to pluck them gently myself, but usually get them threaded whenever i'm in town, in the debenhams.

It's either evenings or weekends, but i love it though, and look falward to it. :)

ProjectGainsborough · 02/02/2012 07:21

That's what I thought, but it can be a bit boring. >

I'm not really fussed about hands, being generally up to my elbows in poo, but like labootin feel it is my civic duty to have pedicures now. And since I can no longer reach my feet (almost 8 mths pg) the salon it has to be. It is easier now that DS has started nursery.

I looove the fact that you can get things done simultaneously here. There should be more of that back home. I never never let them thread my eyebrows though. I had a great threader at home but have yet to find anyone here who doesn't want you to rock the 'startled clown' look.

littledolly · 02/02/2012 09:05

My beautician opens late most evenings, so I tend to go then. Either wait until after kids bedtime, or leave DH to it. I also have a beautician a few doors up from my house who does spray tans for £10, so occasionally I go there and I am only out of the house for 20 minutes tops.

I get my hair done about every 6 weeks and highlights a few times a year. Again, I go local to home, either on a Thursday evening or Saturday afternoon while DH entertains kids.

I tend to just get eyebrows done and the occasional file/paint or pedicure so it's not like I go very often.

SlinkingOutsideInFrocks · 02/02/2012 09:31

I don't spray tan as I don't need to (at least in summer), pre-kids I got a facial every 6 weeks like clockwork on a Saturday morning, and a mani/pedi as and when.

These days we tend to let each other have half a day off at the weekend to do our own thing child-free, and I usually use the time to do something like this.

I honestly don't know how I filled my time pre-kids...

Bonsoir · 02/02/2012 10:26

I get a pedicure during my haircut!

bustyGGal · 02/02/2012 11:01

I don't got for lots of beauty treatments, but i hatehatehate nasty feet so I do keep my feet well pedicured and toes painted! Sometimes I do it myself but it's my treat in a lunch hour once a month, i think they do mine cheap becaue i have tiny sixe 3 feet!!! :D ;)

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