New York Magazine
Holiday Gifts / Buyers Guide
"Perennial Beauty"
November 25, 2002
By Beth Landman Keil

There must be some link between sinking stocks and the need for pampering - new salons and spas are popping up all over. Sweet Lily (222 West Broadway: 212-925-5441) which opened this month, offers only natural manicures - no acrylics and formaldehyde free polish (along with the traditional Essie colors). There's a honey -walnut pedicure which starts with a warm milk and almond oil soak, followed up with a mask containing walnuts ground on the premises. There's also a cooling and soothing fresh cucumber and pepper mint pedicure and a hot lavender manicure, which uses a lavender scented sugar exfoliant.