Manis and Pedis

Given how often one has to inspect their feet (inadvertently) while practising yoga it is no wonder that the women who regularly attend sport a variety of nail varnish colours.

It can be very disheartening to see yellowed toenails, in need of cutting when one should be focusing on their practise - but this is a regular distraction that even prompts our instructor to say "stop looking at your manicures".

I tend to favour bright pinks and oranges.

My instructors, from what I can see of their feet without being labelled as someone with a foot fetish, tend to go for the classic black cherry colour that the female population is eternally indebted to Uma Thurman and Karl Largerfeld for.

Hands are inspected less often but occassionally a flash of red on the fingernails can relieve an otherwise tortuous squat.