Looking for a gift for my wife's birthday and I want to get it right this year

Good morning. Looking for a gift for my wife's birthday and I want to get it right this year. She has been doing her own nails at home for years and has mentioned more than once that she would like to learn properly, but she also just deserves to be looked after for an afternoon. So I am torn between booking her a treatment and paying for some kind of short course. Do places that do both exist, and which would you go for in my position? Budget is not tight but I do not want to buy something that sits unused either.

Places that do both exist and they are usually the better bet, because the person teaching is doing the work daily rather than reading from a curriculum. On which to pick, I would book the service first. She gets the afternoon, and if she likes the standard of the work, the course conversation becomes easy rather than presumptuous. Why Not Nails https://whynotnails.us/ in Brooklyn runs the salon and the academy in the same space, so she can do one and ask about the other while she is in the chair. There is a short one day course as an intro if the full thing feels like a big commitment. If she does end up wanting the course, book the intro rather than the full program first. It costs a fraction and tells her whether she enjoys the work or just the idea of it.