Manicure
Shape, cuticle tidy, a buff to a soft shine, and polish or a clear coat. You leave with a hand cream and dry-enough nails.
About 45 minutes $55 guide price
Point, and we’ll paint it.
Your pointer is the magnet. Hold it over the nail and the shine gathers under it; press to bring it closer. Leave it still and the gel sets.Your finger is the magnet. Touch and hold the nail, then drag.Set, and it stays. Wipe it to draw the line again.
Manicures, pedicures, gel, builder gel and hand-painted nail art at one long table by the window in Norwood. Every steel tool is steam-sterilised between clients, and every file and buffer is used once.
The same gold, the width of the room. Sweep the magnet across it.The same gold, the width of the room. Hold a finger on it, then drag.
One long table, by the window.
We work at one long table of pale limestone along the Norwood window: four of you on the window side, the techs opposite. You choose your colour in daylight, so the colour you pick is the colour you’ll see outside.
Each place has its own tray, towel and lamp, and each place is reset between people: fresh linen, a clean tray, the lamp wiped down, and a new file and buffer laid out for you.
Pull up a chair. The light’s better on this side.
What we do, and how long it takes.
Pedicure
Warm water, shape, a tidy of cuticles and hard edges, then colour or a plain shine, in the reclining chair by the window.
About 60 minutes $70 guide price
Gel
Shaped and tidied, then painted coat by coat in the colour you pick, each coat set under the lamp, and finished in a glass-clear top. Dry when you stand up. Cat-eye counts as gel: we’ll hold the magnet, or you can.
About 60 minutes $75 guide price
Builder gel
A thicker gel shaped with a gentle curve through the middle, to give a short nail a longer, cleaner line. Clear, milky or in colour.
About 75 to 90 minutes $95 guide price
Nail art
Painted by hand on top of any gel: dots, flowers, French lines, tortoiseshell, fine line. Bring a picture, or let us choose.
Added to gel from $5 a nail guide price
Guide prices. We confirm yours at the table before we start.
Your set
We paint by hand, so no two nails come out quite the same. Here’s roughly how a set of yours might go. Like one? Tell us the shape and the style when you save a seat.
Almond, medium, dotwork. Five nails, no two alike.
One tool’s day.
Follow this pusher. It tidied your cuticles, then it left the table. At the sink it’s scrubbed and rinsed. At the bench it’s dried and sealed in a pouch of its own. Then it goes through the steam steriliser, and it stays sealed until it’s back at a place like yours, where we open the pouch in front of you. You’ll hear it give.
- used at your hand
- washed and scrubbed
- dried, and sealed in its own pouch
- steam-sterilised
- opened in front of you
Files and buffers: yours for the sitting, then gone.
- used at your hand
- washed and scrubbed
- dried, and sealed in its own pouch
- steam-sterilised
- opened in front of you
Files and buffers: yours for the sitting, then gone.
Hands, then feet.
The reclining chair sits by the same window, with a footrest in the same linen. The basin is emptied and cleaned between every client, and pedicures follow the same steel-tool routine as hands: a sealed pouch, opened in front of you.
Colour, or a plain shine. Gel on toes is set under the same lamp, so it’s dry before your shoes go back on.
Sit down, show us your hands.
- Pick a colour in daylight at the window, a few minutes
- we shape to the one you like about ten
- and tidy the cuticles, about ten
- then colour, coat by coat, each set under the lamp, twenty-five or so
- and a last shine and a hand cream, and you’re out the door dry. five
About an hour for gel hands. Allow an extra half hour for art.
Save a seat at the table.
Tell us what you’d like and when suits. We’ll come back to you with a time.