It is only eleven o’clock on a Thursday morning, but Lexy’s Nails, a nail parlour in Nairobi’s City Centre, is packed and bustling with activity. All the workstations are occupied; ladies with fingers or toes splayed out and nail technicians bent over them, trimming, shaping, buffing, cleaning, coating and polishing their nails.
It might have been an unusual sight in a different season, but not in the final stretch of the year. After all, December is widely recognised as a peak period in the beauty economy.
