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You tell us: Are you cutting back on salon visits this season?

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Over in our business section, Times staffer Andrea Chang checks in to see how long the wait is at local beauty salons. We learn that walk-ins are more than welcome. She chats with 28-year-old Santa Monica resident Katie McCranie, who describes how she’s cutting back on beauty treatments:

‘I do everything myself -- I’ve been doing my own hair, painting my own toenails,’ she said. Instead of getting a leg wax, ‘I just went back to the razor.’

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Are you DIY’ing your manis and pedis this holiday season? (If so, here are some tips). Or are you going all out, perhaps hoping it’ll be a sign for more nail salon visits to come for 2010?

-- Whitney Friedlander

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