Moving to Beacon from "The City" (by way of Manhattan) I needed my nail fix. And not just any fix. Must be able to accommodate a pedicure with ingrown toenail removal, and leg and chair massage, like More Nails on Broadway and W. 99th, where there are at least 4 chairs with hardly any wait, dedicated staff who know how to kindly but swiftly dig out an ingrown (where the corner of your nail slowly and throbbingly embeds itself into your skin), and who offer a chair massage. The kind of chair massage where you sit upright, leaning forward on a padded chair and have your back expertly kneaded. And, for my own personal oddity - where you don't have to do a lot of talking to your (what are they called?) nail person, where you can be a little anonymous and zone out to a couple of magazines.

Love Nails on Rt 52 behind the CVS and next to Golds Gym is such the place. And they have a cute rewards points program, where you get points with every purchase and can cash them in for payment toward more manicures, pedicures or massages. Or waxes!

Are you a mom and can't get away or don't want to justify a sitter for your baby? Here are some tactics you can take to escape to the nail salon if you have small children who don't feed themselves yet:

- Go on a Saturday when hubby is watching football. I call this Football Saturday. It's a fair trade. That's if he watches college football. Same applies to NFL on Sunday because Love Nails is open 7 days.

- Go when hubby or friends take their kids to Jumpin Jakes right next door. Then your ride is there!

- Have your hubby and baby do an errand to Babies R Us, and make it for a really specific thing that he'd need help finding, to prolong the trip (or that could backfire, maybe make it vague, although, if you do that, he may text or call you a lot during your pedicure or manicure).

- Bagel Deli is also in this strip mall, so the family could get lunch while you get worked on.

Enjoy!