"I never see the public," he said, adding that he is meticulous with his appearance and even gets a weekly manicure.

By using the gym and getting her weekly manicure and pedicure at Orly's Treehouse, she could do other things, she said, when her baby sitter came once a week.

"I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure," she said, adding that with her schedule, it's getting harder to do that.

A female prisoner who provides weekly manicures for a camp commandant.

She also plans to make "one personal call each day to a friend just to chat," and get a weekly manicure and pedicure.

Artificial nail tips or acrylic nails rate more highly than the home-grown variety, but in all cases a weekly manicure is de rigueur.

"They are used to having the best," Kim Kaminsky said, referring to her daughter's circle of friends, who normally go for weekly manicures and pedicures.

If I wanted a weekly manicure, I'd be glad to have the cheaper Vietnamese option available.

These low prices are a boon to the many women and more and more men who have weekly manicures not just to look good, but also to feel good.