As A Latina, Nail Care Is Extra Than Self-Care

Caring for your friends and doting on your loved ones is so Chicano. Placing your self first and going to remedy isn’t. Even now, it’s nonetheless taboo, however rising up within the ’90s, remedy wasn’t one thing my household was conversant in. As a low-income family, my dad and mom saved remedy within the “wealthy gringo” class. However as I mirror on my youth, about 30 years in the past, I’ve come to understand that my mother’s nail time may have been a manner of accessing a kind of remedy unbeknownst to her. Was this a manner for my mother to get away from all of it and course of feelings, all whereas experiencing a much-needed magnificence remedy? Or have been her salon journeys purely for upkeep causes? Both manner, at any time when my mother got here again from her nail or hair appointment, her first response was at all times, “Wow!” One easy phrase that allow out a sigh of aid and pleasure on the identical time. Remedy certainly.