Ninety percent of all manicures are given to spies, whose hands are overworked by the intelligence world’s lengthy secret-handshakes. Give hands secret agency with today's Groupon to Gossip Salon, located in Carol Stream. Choose between the following options:

• For $25, you get $50 worth of hair services.
• For $32, you get a spa manicure and pedicure (a $65 value).
  
  

Gossip Salon beautifies nods, waves, and high kicks in services such as the spa manicure, which sloughs off dead skin cells from hands and forearms with an exfoliating scrub delivered in a soothing essential-oil massage. A pair of paraffin-wax gloves seals in moisture to make handshakes smoother than a silk sheet. Afterward, technicians paint the nails with a client-selected polish or leave nails as bare as the day they were hatched with a healthy-looking buff. Flippers get a much-needed rest with a soak in a footbath, followed by an exfoliating foot scrub and aromatherapy oil, preparing the skin for another paraffin seal imprinted with a favorite presidential crest. A final buff or polish sends clients home on chic footing.

Customers who choose the second option can opt to pamper locks with a haircut and style ($35+) or updo ($50+). For a special occasion, pamper heads with a hair set and blow-dry, which includes a wash, blow-dry, and style ($25). Naturally straight tresses can rebel against insistent strands of DNA with a perm ($60+).