The Necessity of a Mani Pedi

Okay, it took me 21 years to realize this but I am telling you now it has changed my life. A mani pedi is necessary. There I said it.

 When I was a child, I was drug to the nail shop with my mother and three sisters. I would DESPISE it. From the smell, to the heat (it always seemed hot in there), to the outdated magazines that were thrown in my lap. It was like hell on earth. But every time my mother would try to coerce me to sit in the chair and just get a massage...from the chair… I know lets just leave that there, and my nails cut. But there was this innate feeling that I should not do it. Now that I am older I realize it was because of the negative stigma on males getting mani pedi’s. You walk in and it is only the “ladies who lunch” who are in there sipping on white wine and chatting with their daughters. Very rarely did I see a man, especially a black man, unless he was sitting in the waiting area on his wife.

As I grew older I realized that the stigma is just another one of America’s falsified notions that supports this unachievable level of masculinity. How was soft, clean hands and nice looking feet going to make me less of a man? It wasn’t. But it took me 21 years to figure that one out.

Now, I go once a month to get a cut and buff on my nails and feet and I have never felt so confident! It is something about having your nails be pristine that makes you want to show them off.

 So for my guys out there, try it out! Honestly, it is worth it.

 If you are in Atlanta, go to Serenity Buckhead! Best place ever!