Hot Spot: Tenoverten’s New Nail Salon Caters to Career Women
Tenoverten’s new salon in New York City’s financial district has a private meeting space, so women can get pampered while they work. (Photo: Tenoverten)
The Treatment: A mani-pedi at Tenoverten’s new salon in New York City’s Financial District at 121 Fulton Street. It’s the fourth and largest salon (2,600 sq. ft.) in New York City. (There’s a fifth salon opening in Austin, Texas next month.) In addition to nail polish changes, this salon also offers brow and hair removal services (waxing and sugaring) in the salon’s two treatment rooms.
The Lowdown: The Financial District has always been a bustling part of town, but thanks to an influx of companies like Conde Nast moving into One World Trade and the new upscale Brookfield Place mall, the neighborhood just got a whole lot more stylish. Some special amenities have been added to the company’s largest salon yet to accommodate the busy career women of the neighborhood so their ten fingers and ten toes (that’s where the name comes from) will receive much needed pampering without fully interrupting the work flow. Co-founders Nadine Abramcyk and Adair Ilyinsky have really outdone themselves this time.
Tenoverten has comfy arm chairs and clean basins instead of those weird bubbling massage chairs. (Photo: Tenoverten)
The Backdrop: Unlike your average salon, with a strong chemical smell and walls lined with bubbling massage chairs, this feels like a swanky loft, with not a hint of fumes in the air. The main room has has 18 pedicure stations and 14 manicure tables. The extra-sunny front of the salon has more tables as well as shelves of favorite natural beauty and lifestyle brands like are RGB, Earth tu Face, Soapwalla, Grown Alchemist, Further, Rahua, Woodlot, and Fog Linen. But the back of the room the really exciting innovation — close the two old casement doors and you have a private meeting space with a large conference table that quickly pulls apart into six manicure stations. Accommodating up to 20 people, it’s the perfect place for an off-site meeting or team building events.
The Scoop: If you’re looking for gels or acrylics, go elsewhere — these involve more potentially hazardous fumes than Tenoverten is comfortable with. What you will find are on-trend designer polishes as well as the house brand’s vegan, cruelty-free, 5-free lacquers (they’re free of formaldehyde, dibutyl phthalate (DBP), toluene, formaldehyde resin, and camphor). You can pick up a bottle to DIY for $18.
Tenoverten’s own line of polish is available for use or for purchase for $18. (Photo: Tenoverten)
All the manicure tables have iPad drawers with charging stations built in — ideal for the working women of FiDi — and the salon will be adding a television and telecommunications technology soon. The comfy pedicure chairs are actually fancy armchairs, designed extra deep so your bag and belongings can nestle in beside you. The pedicure stools are incredibly unique: The cork top is actually a stand to lift the basin to a comfortable height, and the bottom is a stool for the nail techs to sit at your feet.
The Experience: After the eye-opening New York Times expose on nail salons this year, it’s worth paying a bit more to know that the health and safety of both employees and customers is top priority. Once seated, you’ll be asked if you’d like a beverage, and ever step of your treatment will be handled with the utmost care.
The Results: A signature manicure or pedicure costs $25 and $40 respectively, but is more deluxe than your average treatment. A pedicure takes 35 minutes and your feet and lower legs will be thoroughly exfoliated, massaged, and moisturized before getting painted with a lacquer that will likely last until you remove it.
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