PEDICURES

A pedicure is a therapeutic beauty and massage treatment for your feet.

What is a pedicure?

A pedicure is a beauty treatment for your feet. A pedicurist removes dead skin, softens hard skin and shapes and treats toe-nails, and also massages softening and soothing oils and creams into your foot to make it feel as though you are walking on air.

What is a pedicure good for?

Good foot care treats and prevents skin problems such as callouses, as well as in-growing toe nails and related infections. A pedicure can help your posture by enabling you to walk more comfortably. Combined with massage, hot stones, a herbal or aromatic rub or a soak in scented oils, a pedicure can also soothe and relax you generally.

Your choice of footwear is really important when you go for a pedicure. Ordinary shop-bought nail polish usually dries completely within five minutes or so, proper pedicure-standard nail polish may take up to 12 hours to dry completely! You don't want to have to push those nails into socks and runners. Whatever you arrive in, make sure that you have flip-flops or open sandals to wear when you leave.

Different kinds of pedicure

These are some examples of the different kinds of pedicures you can get:

French: this classic pedicure includes expensive, long-lasting nail varnish for the cosmopolitan lady, whitens the tip and squares off the nail

Intensive paraffin wax: this pedicure includes warm wax being rubbed into your nails, feet and lower legs to moisturise and soften.

Deluxe/luxury pedicure: this whole-foot treatment includes a foot massage, softening paraffin wax and heated towels or a wrap which warms and soothes your feet, and softens and hydrates your nails.