Happy Dancing

[susandennis]

I think I used up a month's worth of good karma today...

Mole on head. I found the name of a guy - a dematologist who looked like a good bet. His office is get-to-able. So I figured I go there and try my luck. First of all I found it easily and there is free, easy parking. This is no small consideration. Then I walk in and the place does not look like a doctor's office - more like maybe a lawyer's office or even an accounting firm and there is no doctor smell.

Then a very nice woman asked me insurance questions without using one single insurance buzz word and determined that I had the right kind and then appologized for not being able to schedule me sooner than 2 weeks!!!

I was ready for complicated insurance questions, a grilling about my primary physician (which, of course, I do not have) and a stall of six weeks or more until anyone could see me plus attitude. Boy, was I disappointed.

Then on to the manicurist where I did not have an appointment. They took me right in and said they were so glad to see me.

Then on to the grocery store where I got all the 'card' discounts and only had to give them my telephone number - no card!!!

And I get home to find that LJ is nearly back to fixed. Life is good today!!

Comments

[cloverbee.livejournal.com]

Yay!! I'm glad you had a good day!
Was wondering what kind of nails you have? Do you have your own, silk, gel, acrylic, other??

[susandennis]

Jes my own... but I do love funky colors... here's today's work.

[cloverbee.livejournal.com]

Cool Beans!!! luv it! what color is that??? sparkling emerald??

(why susan dear - you could join us at the con with those nails)

I recently had acrylic nails put on and hated the way they felt. I'm doing the gel thing now and I like them so far - we'll see how they hold up to the typing and painting...

[susandennis]

Actually I don't know the name... I just picked it off the wall there in the shop - they have one section with a small selection of funkilicious colors - I always pick from there. This color is kind of emerald with turquoise sparkles in it. It's tres wonderful.

Unless I'm going to visit my Mother, I generally work within the blue/green family - an orange now and again if I'm feeling kinky. My mother checks the web cam to bitch about my nail color - it horrifies her.

The manicurists are all about 20 and from Viet Nam - there is about 10 of them in this shop. They think I am the strangest thing they have ever come across. First off - I'm old but I don't act or dress like it. And I don't have a husband or children and I wear all their strange colors. It's pretty hilarious.

I wore acrylic nails for years and years and then stopped when I moved to Connecticut because it was just too expensive and I didn't have time. Since then I've just grown my own.

Gels? This is new to me... Don't know about gels. I think you'd better 'splain gels. I'd hate to think I'm missing out on something big here.

[cloverbee.livejournal.com]

OK! So what is up with all the nail techs being from Vietnam? The place I'm going now has the directory listing as "lisa and steve". But obviously, she goes by Lisa because in the South, everyone has trouble with more than two syllables. I had wondered if it was a big industry push in Vietnam because I have yet to find any in my area that are not. Anyway, here's mine.. I wish to hell I could wear green to work, but I have to stick with the frenchie thing.

::le sigh::

but I bet that DOES drive your mom crazy! lmao!!!

anyway, gels are a "lite" version of acrylic. You know how they put the acrylic on in one big glob of powder stuff?, Gels are painted on in layers and hardened under a UV light. They end up putting about five layers on and they are about half the thickness of acrylics. I've only had these about 5 days and I can already tell they are wearing on the tips. They feel real but cost twice as much. It was 45 bucks to have a set put on. The biggest gain is that they don't have to buff the nail underneath as much so the nailbed isn't damaged the way it is with acrylic. I envy you if you have great natural nails -- mine are thin and peel. Without the surface help, they won't grow at all.



I know my bird finger looks deformed - it's my drawing finger - it has a huge callous that I'm trying to get rid of.

[susandennis]

I asked the folks at my shop (my Lisa is named Cindy) about the Vietnamese nail thing and she said she didn't know but that it was a clean, safe, respectable way to make a living and if you don't know English really well it was no matter.

But, she also said... hey, Koreans have the markets and Chinese have the restaurants, we gotta have something!

I like your french! Seattle is the perfect place for a 53 year old to wear sparkely green nail polish every day.

Oh and before I word acrylic nails my nails were too thin to break - they would tear and split. They grew under the acrylics and, I guess, got stronger because after several years of wearing the acrylics, I stopped and they have been strong ever since. Really. Weird.

[judith.livejournal.com]

That medical thing. That's just freaky. Are you sure you didn't make a deal with the devil??

[susandennis]

You laugh but it had such a Stepford quaility that when I got home I did some more research and apparently this guy is just a good guy. He used to be the president of the state demotology org and he was recently quoted in the paper when that whole get-rid-of-warts-with-duck-tape thing came out. He was quoted as saying that it's a very good way to get rid of warts but that his patients generally didn't take him seriously when he mentioned it. We'll see.