What About those Nails?

For me, pedicures have always been the way to go.  I just love for my little toes and feet to feel better and look pretty...and I love the leg massage that goes along with it.  Our  feet are very important and should be pampered.  After all, they are what keeps us walking around, skipping and hopping. 

This week I started thinking about my poor neglected hands and nails.  They are consistently neglected because they are always in use some way or the other – either in the soil of the garden when I am planting or weeding, or in some abrasive household cleaning product when I am doing housekeeping chores. I don’t wear gloves and my hands are a mess. So why do I neglect them, and not my feet?  More people see my hands than my feet, and my hands will always be seen. So last night I decided to throw a coat of nail polish onto my tired broken nails before we went out for dinner.   What a sorry sight!

 It perked me up though, as I could see the potential.  I instantly felt more elegant and more confident.  But I did a quick slap-ass job of it so my nails and hands are still in really rough shape.  I decided right then that I would start to have manicures. I will grow my nails just a wee bit and before the month is up, I will go see the lady who does my pedicures and have her perform magic on my hands and nails.  I feel I have just grown up.  I shall get manicures for any reason now, be it monumental moments or bad days.  As a working woman, I will now extend manicured hands when I shake hands with colleagues or other business professionals.  I will feel more beautiful, more confident, and more powerful with my nails done.

Even though it is such a tiny and minimal thing, it changes the way I think and feel. I will take on the world in 2015 with these ten fingers painted in the color of my choice.