Pedicures???

Yes I do great pedicures on myself - but I prefer to have it done to me as a treat.

Remove polish
shape/trim nail on one foot
Apply cuticle cream, soak foot
Do nails on other foot
Apply cuticle cream and soak
Do cuticle work on both, you need the right tools
Use foot rasp
Massage iin moisturiser
Remove cream from nails and paint as usual.

Polish lasts ages on my toenails so when it needs replacing I often do the whole pedicure again.

It was my profession.

I used to but now that I have a toenail fungus I guess I won't be going back for a while.

i tried it and will never be good at it. now the most i will do is remove the polish. i don't even like doing that. i hate the time spent getting the pedicure but i like the results.

I’m great at painting my fingers and my toes. I practiced a whole lot. Mostly because I can’t afford to go and get my nails professionally done every other week, but I still want to have pretty nails.

I suck at the other aspects of pedicures though.

Wanted to add - I use this top coat that makes it easier because it’s fast dry. My usual routine is to polish late in the evening before Or during watching a tv show for the night and by the time the show is over they are completely dry, no problem.

I do it myself, but only in the summer. I only work with polish in the bathroom, as I can get any spilled polish off the tiles. (thank God DD listened to this--she spilled an entire bottle when she was 12 ish and it all wiped up, but a little encouragement from polish remover. If that isn't an option, but sure to use a towel under your foot.

I put cream on my feet nightly and don't worry about any calluses, so I don't buff them away (but I also don't have anything horrible to write home about.) I trim my nails when I'm changing polish, but that only needs to be done every other month or so. Other than that, I just apply the polish and go. It looks fine. They are feet! I'll touch up the polish once, then remove it and reapply. Probably once a month or so.

The tip to get a pair of cheater glasses to use for applying the polish is good. Your regular cheaters won't work because the distance is greater than where you would hold a book.

Now is the time to practice--your shoes will cover up any mistakes and by summer, you will have mastered the skill.

I do mine sometimes in the summer and will need to do them before we go on vacation. I’m not great at it though. 

My sister trained to be a manicurist years ago and used me as her practice dummy.  I had to go with her for her licensing test as well.  Just having her do mine so many times, I picked it up.  

I prefer going to a salon salon as a treat, but only if they speak English.  With my Fibromyalgia, my shins have trigger points on them and while I love a foot massage, I jump out of my skin with pain when they try to massage my shins.  Especially since it is typically their thumb digging into the shin with a lot of pressure as a byproduct of their grip for a deep massage on the calf muscles.  I have had a few technicians that didn’t speak English and I couldn’t get across to then to use all the massage time on my feet.  I end up with no massage at all.  I finally learned to talk to the front desk person and just tell them I had an injury and not to massage my legs at all.

I’ve been doing my own for years. I invested in quality tools and have become really good at it.

I honestly would just as soon do my own as I do as good a job or better than most places. I've also been nicked or over-abraded before at salons and that really turns me off.

I'm far from having tried very place in town, but of the ones I have been to, none really impress me. I had a wonderful pedicure while down in Charleston with girlfriends recently, but that's a little far to go every six weeks. Lol.

You get good with practice.

I do the following:

1. Cut nails to desired length
2. Remove old polish (I do this after I cut my nails because the whites of my nails sometimes don't align with how short I want my nails to be)
3. File nails, if necessary
4. Put on cuticle remover. Push back cuticles. Wipe away cuticle remover.
5. Use cuticle nippers if necessary. I have really dry cuticles ALL THE TIME, so I almost always need to do this. I know people say it's bad, but I need it.
6. Use pedicure razor on calluses (I don't do this every time. Just maybe once a month/every two months, when I really need to.)
7. Buff nails with foam filing block
8. Use acetone to clean surface of nail
9. Use base coat, sometimes.
10. Polish and use quick dry top coat.

The end.