Gosh I have prob had a professional one 5 times my whole life. My mom goes to that same lady I think every 2 weeks. She works out of her house, and is really good snd sanitary. I just would rather do it myself. Which I dont much. Although they are growing out, so I put a nail hardner on them. Sometimes I use a really sheer polish so you cant see the chips, mine chip really fast. I used to paint them I swear every like 4 days in college, I had about 10 polishes, and they all looked almost the same color. Once I had acrylics put on, never ever again, they werent even long, but they annoyed me, and I would smash them in stuff like the dishwasher. Doing those by myself look horrible. As for pedicures, I had one, I hate them, I hate people messing with my feet. I just trim my toenails, and use scrub cream. I dont paint my toenails anyways b/c I never wear sandals or flip flops.