Cheap Manicure Deals MN : Beauty Schools
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Dollars+Sense: Beauty of a deal
Seven-year-old Adrienne O’Shea, left, enjoyed her first pedicure with her mother Natalie O’Shea at Red Nails. “This is a treat,” said Natalie O’Shea, who only gets a pedicure a few times a year. The two were on a mother/daughter outing.
Life’s little luxuries — manicures, massages and facials — can seem costly when both a gallon of gas and a gallon of milk cost nearly $4. Don’t be glum. Get glam for less.
Great idea
There are quite a few beauty schools and cosmetlolgy academies in the Minneapolos area. Scot Lewis in Eden Prairie is one of my favorites to get inexpensive manicures.
At Red Nail salon in St. Paul, Erin Schumann spent $30 for a pedicure in a whirlpool massage chair. At full-service salons she’d spend nearly twice that, but Schumann can’t see spending the extra money.
“There’s not much difference between a full-service salon and what’s done here,” she said.
Spa visitors looking to nail a bargain on manicures, pedicures, facials and massages increasingly are looking to cosmetology schools or minority-owned businesses, often Asian, for such services. Red Nail, Daisy Nails, Hollywood Nails and Elegant Nails are among the salons offering basic mani-pedis for under $40. Customers at full-service salons pay more than twice that price. Elegant Nails and California Nails in downtown
Minneapolis offer both services for about $31.
When economic times tighten, personal luxuries such as spa treatments are often the first to go, said Robert Lindquist, general manager at reVamp salon in Minneapolis. At best, clients extend a week or two between services or at worst, drop them entirely. He said it’s still a little early to see how much spa business will be affected, but other salon owners are taking no chances. ReVamp is advertising its “Buy four services, get one free” package deal more heavily.
In April the Jon Charles salon in Uptown Minneapolis offered 30 percent off any service for new clients or any client who “lapsed” because of a downturn in the economy. The salon called it the “It’s the economy, stupid” discount. The salon still offers the deal, albeit at a 25 percent discount, to new and lapsed clients.
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