While a pedicure is a must-do regular summer activity, the expensive, scrub-your-feet-like crazy version is a once a season treat for me. I go to Rescue Beauty Lounge, which for my money still gives the best, most thorough pedi in this zip code. And while I was there over the weekend I discovered the new perfect color, called “Bruised.” (My political activist friend was horrified by the name but frankly when I find the right color I really don’t care what it’s called). I know everyone is wearing that grey color made popular by Chanel but light-ish grey on dark olive skin doesn’t work. It looks fungus-y.  And I’m not going to wear blue. But I will wear this sort of ’70s reminiscent raisiny color — its darker than it looks in the bottle:

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