Your toes take a long time to get replenished as it remains under your shoes for more than 10 hours in a day. During the winter season, toes remain imprisoned under the boots. Now, you have ways to pamper your feel at home in a natural way. Even you sandals will look really beautiful on your feet once it is properly done with pedicure activity. You don’t need to feel ashamed to show bare feet while get a pair of sandals from the shoe show room. You can get a treatment at beauty parlor. But, it might prove to be very expensive at times.
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Pedicure is the process for the care of feet and toenails. The word pedicure is derived from two Latin words –‘Pedi’ meaning foot and ‘cura’ meaning care. The purpose of pedicure can be for medical cosmetic or for treatment reasons. It helps to prevent most foot diseases and nail problems. Pedicure is a common beauty regime followed regularly by most women in the world. Pedicure involves the process of trimming nails of the foot, removing dead skin cells from the bottom of the foot and giving a massage to the foot and legs. Feet need extra care during the summer season when their beauty is visible with open footwear, flip flops and chappals.
Types of pedicures
- Regular Pedicurethat is commonly taken by women at home or in the salon includes foot soaking, foot scrubbing , nail clipping, nail shaping, foot and calf massage, moisturizer and nail polishing.
- Mini Pedicure focuses mainly on the toes, nail shaping and applying of nail polishit does not involve long soaking of the feet or massage of the feet. It is normally performed between regular pedicures for maintaining the feet.
- Spa Pedicure that is mostly done in salons include the regular pedicure and in addition gives a paraffin dip, masks, mud or seaweed treatment to the feet.
- Paraffin Pedicure is a treatment of the feet with paraffin wax to moisturise the feet after a regular pedicure in a salon or at home.
- Stone Pedicure is massaging of the feet and legs with different essential oils with the help of hot stones.
- French Pedicure is the use of white nail polish on the tips of nails and pink nail polish on the base after a regular pedicure.
- Ice Cream Pedicure is the using of a “bath ball”, which looks like a scoop of ice cream in the soaking process. After the soak the feet are exfoliated with a scrub that flavoured vanilla, chocolate or strawberry. They are topped with a whipped moisturizing lotion or cream.The toe nails are usually polished with cherry colour.
- Chocolate Pedicure is another pedicure which includes a chocolate foot soak, chocolate foot mask and a chocolate moisturizing lotion followed by chocolate colournail polish.
- Athletic Pedicure is close to regular pedicure which can be adopted by men and women both. This pedicure uses products that have a cooling effect like peppermint, eucalyptus or cucumber.
- Champagne or Wine Pedicure is again a regular pedicure using grape-seed scrub, grape mask peel, and final massage with a grape seed oil. This is an effective remedy for pedicure without applying chemicals.
Tips for best pedicure for ladies feet
Ingredients needed
In order to start a process of pedicure, you must have few thing handy. The ingredients needed in this purpose include nail polish remover, cuticle oil, a bath towel, large bowl, exfoliating foot scrub, nail clipper, hand towel, a foot callus file, base coat, foot lotion, nail file with fine grit, foot lotion etc.
Remover usage
Generally, ladies leave nail polish in their feet for long and forget to remove it. The left over nail polish makes a clumsy appearance to their feet. You must use a mild acetone nail remover by putting it in the cotton pad and applying the same on foot nails. It is important to use acetone remover than those of non acetone remover as these does not harm your nails.
Soaking
Another step in pedicure for ladies is soaking feet on a large bowl with Luke warm water. It is better, if you can pour some salt in the warm water. This will reduce every pain in your feet that might took place due to over walking or strain. It is also important to keep the foot towel underneath so that it catches the debris or pills from the pedicure.
Cuticle
The next step for an effective pedicure will be to drop some cuticle oils on your feet just after bringing out your feet from the warm water. You can message your nails with the oil over and by using the cuticle wooden stick. This way you can easily push back you’re the dead skin that is associated around the foot nails.
Exfoliate
Now just after massaging with oil, you must also apply the scrubber to not only your feet but also to your entire legs. It will be really effective if you can use a granular foot scrub. You must massage the scrub from the bottom of the feet till the knees. You must give more pressure to the places where dry skins are maximum.
Filing and hydrating
You must use a very food filer to shape up your toe nails. Start the filing process from the sides of your toe nails and cover the whole nails but keeping a tip in the middle. Hydrating your feet will also be very effective and one of the best process in pedicure treatment. You can do this with few drops of peppermint oil.
Steps for proper Pedicure
Step 1 Firstly remove the nail polish and soaks the feet for 20 minutes in a tub of warm water to which liquid soap is added. A pinch of salt, ammonia acid and baking powder can be added to the tub for soaking.
Steps 2 The rough spots on the foot need to be rubbed with a good exfoliate to remove the dead skin cells. Salt crystals or sugar granules can be used to scrub the feet. The scrubbing must be done from the toes, to the ankles and up to the calves in circular motion. Remove the residue with warm water.
Step 3 Most of the corns, bumps or calluses become soft by soaking by this time. They need to be smoothened with pumice stone or lava rock. The scrubbing must be done in back and forth gentle movements while scraping the heels and the bottom of the feet and places between the toes.
Step 4 This is the step to trim the nails with a steel clipper. The nails need to be trimmed straight and then filed with a nail file to make the edges of the nails smooth. Care is a must in cutting the nails as any error can lead to the painful condition of ingrown toe nails.
Step 5 The soles need to be given a proper massage with a good moisturizing lotion in circular movements. The massage is done all over the lower legs and feet. This massage will relax the feet and improve circulation of the feet.
Step 6 The last and final step of pedicure is to paint the nails with the desired shade of nail polish. Apply nail polish after inserting finger separators made with rolled tissue paper or cotton wool or foam pads. Always ally a base coat before giving the final coat of nail polish. Leave the polish to dry for at least 20 minutes.
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