Like garden weeds, nails continue to grow no matter how frequently you nibble on them. Tend your digital plots with today’s Groupon: for $48, you get a chocolate mani-pedi package at Lulu’s Hair Parlor in O’Fallon (a $100 value). The package includes:

• 30-minute Shellac manicure
• One-hour Shellac pedicure
• Homemade chocolate scrub
• Plate of chocolates
• Hot chocolate beverage<p>

Inside Lulu’s Hair Parlor’s ’50s-inspired studio, nail tamers revamp digit tips during sweetly scented 90-minute mani-pedis. Clients sit back in one of the effulgent orange plush chairs with a steaming cup of hot chocolate and nibble from a plate of chocolates as the nail whisperer files finger faces, removing jagged edges and remnants from last week’s pie-eating contest. Under the sparkles of a hanging disco ball, excess cuticle skin along nail borders gets a shaping before epidermises undergo a revitalizing homemade chocolate-scrub exfoliation that sheds dead skin to aid the appearance of younger-looking hands. Foot fingers receive all the same pampering treatments of the manicure, including a scrub that rids pavement pounders of the rough skin and barnacles acquired from barefoot frolics. A splashing of Shellac polish in the client’s choice of hue dances elegantly across nails for a digit-prettifying finale.

Lulu’s greets guests with a plethora of vintage wall hangings splattered across the salon’s interior. Eyes wander, lingering at each nostalgic piece before noticing the mural-painted floors and homey individual salon stations. As patrons receive pampering services, they are reminded of a simpler time when Elvis tunes ruled the radio and scientists hadn’t yet discovered the fifth dimension.

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