Manicure and Pedicure at Home

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A manicure and a pedicure, ninety minutes, in your own chair with your feet in a lined tub. Nail work is where salon hygiene is at its worst and it is also where the consequences are worst, because a nipper that broke skin on the last person is carrying that person's blood. So this listing is mostly about tools, and it is specific. Porous things are never reused. An emery board, a buffer, a wooden cuticle stick, a pumice block and a tub liner cannot be sterilised, because they absorb. They come out of a sealed pack at the start of your visit and go into a bag that leaves with the therapist. Any salon reusing a nail file on you is doing the equivalent of reusing a bandage. Metal is autoclaved, not wiped. Cuticle nippers, pushers and toe clippers are scrubbed, ultrasonically cleaned for eight minutes, pouched, and run at 121 C and 15 psi for 20 minutes. The pouch has an indicator strip that only changes colour if the cycle held, and it is opened in front of you so you can see it. Blue liquid in a jar is not sterilisation; it is a disinfectant that a hepatitis B virus survives comfortably. And no blade touches a callus. The credo knife or callus blade that most pedicures use is a scalpel in an untrained hand, and on anyone with reduced sensation in the feet it is how a small cut becomes a foot ulcer. We use a foot file and take longer. If your callus needs a blade, it needs a doctor. Products: the soak is Shuunnya Care Shea and Oat Bathing Bar, a syndet at a measured pH 5.5 rather than a real soap, because soap at pH 9 to 10 on already-dry feet is why they crack. The massage is Shuunnya Care Everyday Body Lotion, urea assayed at 5.06 percent, about 8 ml on hands and 12 ml on feet. Poise At Home is being stood up in Gaya and nobody is engaged for this role yet. Bookings open when a police-verified person has passed the practical assessment, and not before. We name a service area and we do not name an arrival time, because we have no crew whose travel we could honestly promise anything about.

• 90 minutes: 40 on hands, 50 on feet
• Nails shaped, cuticles softened and pushed back, one gentle nipper pass only where there is a genuine hangnail
• Plain polish in one of six colours, or buffed bare, and no charge either way
• Honest trade-off: cuticles are pushed, not cut back to the moon. A cut cuticle looks better for four days and then grows back thicker and ragged, and the seal it made against infection is gone for a week