[BEAUTY] Gelish Manicure + Pedicure at CL'athena Nails Salotto

When was the last time you did something for yourself? Time away from working for others, time away from helping others get things done. I guess I've been spending most of my energy on others and it's time to make sure my own well-beings are taken care of. 

I decided to start from my nails by going for a full gelish manicure and pedicure session at CL'athena Nails Salotto. Everything was done within an hour and this one hour was simply a relaxing time.

Checking out some of the nail arts the lady boss and the manicurist did. The lady boss goes for a more gentle, sweet and flowery kind of style for her nail art design. Whereas, her manicurist, Bel has a more fashionable style, that inspired Bao Bao Issey Miyake nail art is an evidence to bring the point across.

*** PEDICURE TIME ****

My feet photo, taken after some soaking and removing of dead skin. Bel is very attentive to check through my nails and the area around my nails to ensure that they are healthy. Some customers have foot rot or other feet issues and may need special treatment. And after this closed up photo did I realized that the little strand of hairs on my big toe looks really ugly, but luckily Bel helped me to pluck them off later on.

Dedicated Bel doing her job!

My nails ready to be painted with colours now! No more strands of hair.

All done. Now I look down at my feet and all I see are the pretty nails. As my nails are too small, I didn't request to do complicated nail arts on them. So I just go for this classy type.

*** MANICURE TIME ****



For my manicure, my friend sent me this video for reference and I took a few screenshot of the nail art which I prefer.

I chose this design in the end. It's simple and colourful with bold black stripes. A bit like rebellious on the sweet side. Haha.

So while Bel is working on my Pedicure, she's doing my manicure at the same time, saving me a lot of time.

Completed nails. The base colour is white and the four pastel colours were individually dabbed on with her finger thus the smudgy effect. Seems easy to do but I definitely do not have that kind of patience to do this myself.

Mirror reflection with EXO music video playing in the background.

This is how the inside of the shop looks like. It's a small and cozy place. I felt that the price is pretty reasonable too. Express manicure cost just S$25 and with nail art will range about S$40 to S$100 plus depending on the difficulties level and design.

Yeah, this type will cost about S$100+. Look at that amount of bling and was told that it was a 10 different tone glitter nail art, meaning all 10 nails will have a different glitter colour. Very cool but not for me as I'm too rough.

Pretty nails and pretty snapchat filter calls for a pretty selfie! Thank you for the pampering nails treat. 

CL'athena Nails Salotto

Address: 180 Bencoolen Street
The Bencoolen
#01-27
Singapore 189646

(Nearest MRT : Bugis)

Tel : 6884 5403

Opens Daily : Mon - Sat : 10.30 am - 7.30 pm
                       Sunday : 11.00 am - 6.00 pm  

Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/CLathena-Nails-Salotto-224556167589249/


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Manicure + Pedicure at Juup Nails AND dinner at Greenhouse cafe

She has a wedding to attend and I have my birthday to celebrate so the two of us make an appointment at Juup Nails (Devonshire road branch) to have our nails done nicely for the occasions!

Big TV but no sound

It was kind of hard to find this place as it's not inside any shopping centre but is within a shop houses by itself behind somerset. 

Love their butterfly clock

When we reached, we were surprise to find that the whole place was empty! There's only two mani and pedicurists too. Unlike, if we go to Far East Plaza or other places, usually the shop would be full of people. Perhaps, due to their locations, there's not much walk-in customers but more often those who made appointment so they are actually able to control the crowds by blocking appointments. 

Cute sleeping cats!

With only the two of us, the whole atmosphere is rather calm and there's no need to rush so I felt quite privileged. We were given a menu to decide on what drinks we want and I had a ginger tea. I've learnt to drink ginger tea from the massage sessions I had. 

That's my cheerful colleague cum friend, Missy Tini. Glad to have her to accompany me.   

That's me!

OPI - Shrek series

Missy recommended me this series of colours. I was thinking of getting the light and dark purple but I recall that the dress and blouse I'm going to wear for my birthday is blue so I picked blue instead.

Ta dah! The finished product. Bright and cheery. I like. Hope it can last long. Hehe

This the dark blue colour for my feet.

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After our manicure and pedicure, it's time for dinner. Was deciding where to eat. Initially, we wanted to walk to Plaza Singapura to have cafe cartel. However, we were tired and hungry to walk over so we settled from this first cafe/restaurant that greets us called the Greenhouse Cafe (Pocket Full of Poises). 

It's another peaceful place the outside is a florist, and inside cafe. Not sure why, it's not too crowded too. It's a Sunday but like no people in the places we visited one. 

Nicely decorated. Felt like eating in an indoor garden

This is their menu. They served Western food.

While waiting for the food to come, I imagined myself as a flower. Hah

My friend wants to show off her nails colours. xP

The food came, we both upgraded to set meals by topping up a few dollars to get free soup of the day and ice-cream for desserts.

Take photo first before eating.

A photo of us sitting on the bench which is actually a swing that we can swing back and fro, left and right while eating! Overall, today we went to two new places that we've never been before and the two new places both have a very nice atmosphere that makes us relax and just chill. 

For more photos of the food and my review on Greenhouse cafe, please visit this link : http://sg.openrice.com/singapore/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=8835