Is this you? "Pedicures? Oh yeah, I get them at my local salon. I change up my polish every couple of week."
Have you ever heard of a medical pedicure or left your tootsies alone with a podiatrist? No? Well educate yourself: http://www.sheknows.co.uk/beauty-and-love/articles/967485/the-medical-pedicure
Within the sumptuous oasis that is the Blythswood Square Spa, Sarah Whiteford runs the Primo Podiatry clinic every Thursday from 12:30-8:30pm. This is no ordinary froufrou foot spa, file and polish. Equipped with sanitary medical equipment, she works her wizardry and transforms your lizard-like soles into pillow-like pads. Don't believe me?
I danced ballet (including en pointe) for over 13 years. Thanks to all that training, I have hard feet and am prone to calluses (yum, I know). Expensive diamond foot files, Swedish/Norwegian foot creams, foot socks... I have tried everything, yet my feet just revert to protect itself due to years of abuse.
At the start of my appointment, I joked about asking Sarah not to judge my feet. She immediately went to town with her scalpel, which was absolutely painless as we chatted away about randomness. Being a medically trained professional, she also removed a corn that I hadn't taken notice of, and she was surprised it wasn't causing me severe amount of pain (again high pain threshold from dancing en pointe). Sarah also provides advice on how to minimise certain areas from getting built up again, and aftercare.
After an hour (typical appointments should be 30 minutes), my feet were unrecognisable and I definitely didn't want to stand or walk on them. My feet were unbelievably soft and smooth; for £40 this knocks every other "spa pedicure" out of the ball park. Bonus: the other half doesn't recoil when I try to put my feet on his legs. Win! Thanks Sarah! read more