BEAUTY
REST, RELAXATION, AND A REALLY CUTE MANICURE HOW TO BRING THE SALON EXPERIENCE TO YOU WRITTEN BY MADISON OBERMEYER
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ou have your work-fromhome routine down pat. You take walks to break up your day. You bought a laptop riser to help remedy your increasingly bad posture (we can only blame the makeshift desk for so long). But the one thing you can’t help but stare at as you type away on a seemingly endless schedule of deadlines and video calls is your picked-off, monthsold, chipped or even grown out manicure (and let’s not even talk about those cuticles). While a manicure or pedicure is easily the last task on anyone’s to-do list during a global pandemic, let’s take a step back and analyze the situation— is it really just a manicure? Or is it taking 30 minutes of “me” time to meditate on your day or delve into that self-care routine you were supposed to start Jan. 1? With salons keeping a tighter sched-
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ule or only allowing a few clients in at a time, perfecting the art of the at-home manicure and pedicure is your latest and greatest quarantine activity that, with our help, you’ll nail in no time! We spoke with KC beauty guru Lauren Shaw (@beauty.lo.down) to find out how we can polish up on our skills.
Create the Salon Experience at Home Just because this is an “at-home” manicure or pedicure doesn’t mean you should deprive yourself of some of that glorious R&R. “For an at-home mani/pedi, I love to put on music or a podcast and light a couple of candles,” says Shaw. “Doing your own nails can take some serious time and patience, so I like to create a vibe before I get started.” Whether you add a few drops of your go-to essential oil blend into a hu-
