Do people really get a manicure every 2 weeks?

[PolkaDotMankini]

I'd like to start looking after my hands and nails a bit better. My usual salon charges £35 for a manicure with gel nails, which look nice for a couple of weeks. If I keep on top of it, that's £70-£105 a month just on nails.

Do normal people really spend that much every month on nails? I know I could do nail filing etc. at home (and do) but cuticle care is beyond me.

I have gels removed and redone once every 3 weeks. Aside from my nails growing leaving a slight gap in the polish they look as good as they day they were done so I wouldn't have them done every fortnight.

Do you live in a city where you could go to one of the cheap nail places? They’re usually the best anyway.

I don’t do it any more as my nails grow too quickly and I like them redone every week so I do them at home.

Those of you that talk about cuticle care, what do you mean? What's wrong with natural cuticles?

I have a normal manicure every week and wouldn't know cuticle care. I stopped letting anyone cut my cuticles 15 years ago after a horrible and v painful infection. Now, they just put cuticle cream on and push back gently. So whatever it is they do to others must be a bit if a con.

I used to but it ruined my (really thin and crap) nails. I had them done every 3 weeks for about 6 months

But they took a year to recover when I stopped (dry, flaky, broke once they got to the end of my finger so extremely short for a year)

Do what makes you happy and what you can afford. Everyone’s different. There’s nothing wrong with spending what you can afford on nurturing yourself. I don’t like fingernails done, and I do my own brows, lashes and pedicure, but I spend a fortune at the hairdresser because I want to.

I couldn’t care less about my nails but I have a blow dry about twice a month and eyebrows threaded once a month. Probably spend £50-60 a month

I do my own with just normal polish. At night I use hand cream and cuticle oil, or whatever body oil is lying about and just concentrate on the skin around my nails
The only thing I have done is my hair cut, twice a year
Thread my own eyebrows, dermaplane myself, had Botox a few times but using tretinoin has stopped the need for it

Yes I do sometimes every 10 days if I’m going somewhere and won’t be back in time and they will start to look crap I have the gel fake nails cost and infills cost about £28

I also pay £100 on a subscription to my beauty salon so I can have as many lash infills that i want in a month plus brow waxing shaping and tinting
I tend to go weekly for the lash infills
I also get a pedicure & polish every month which is around £40

I do other beauty treatments like Botox every 4 months as well

every 2-3 weeks but it’s ridiculously cheap, £10, from a woman working out of her home

30euro every three weeks for mine.

Manicures are a racket! If you stop getting them, eventually your cuticles heal and no longer need so much upkeep. But it takes YEARS to recover from the damage of being cut and shoved back. I will sometimes paint my nails but always let the cuticle be.

Like many, I do my own. Just normal polish not gel etc I'm lucky to have nice natural nails. Currently sporting a lovely magenta / light pink ombre with light holo glitter top coat. Brought an ombre brush recently and much prefer the finished look to using a sponge.

Nail art is very fun. I've got a lot of stamping plates and there's so much you can do with those. Recently brought some really nice glitter polishes. Also got some chrome polish to play with. Plus there's stickers, foil transfers and heaps of other things. So many options and only 52 weeks in a year LOL

This is fascinating. So many different experiences.

My salon had last-minute availability yesterday so I popped in for a manicure with no polish. They sorted out the dead skin, shaped my nails nicely and sent me off with a bottle of cuticle exfoliator and strict instructions to use hand cream every day and night. I'll go with that and see how I get on.