give myself a pedicure

just did it this morning

now I just have to maintain it and get more juicy fun colors for my tootsies.

next: sexy shoes!

I decided to give this my full attention today, and loosely followed this.

I made myself a cup of boysenberry tea and got to work. After a quick snip & nail filing, I started with the footworks mocha soak and then the sea salt & bergamot (20 minutes each). Then a good massage with some coconut/lime lotion and an intensive sloughing with a brand new file. I spent most of my time on this while listening to some music or indulging in a bit of mindless tv, popping back to my soak bowl randomly for a few minutes. I honestly couldn’t believe the difference by the time I was done. Soft and smooth and pink…

After another good lotioning (this time with the mocha footsie butter) I put them up for a bit, then applied a topcoat & then some girly iridescent pink polish to the nails. I feel extremely pampered. I should actually go have a real pedicure some day.

Polish stripped (naked!?). Another salty bergamot dipped soak followed by a mocha massage and a trim.

Last night I was feeling chilled, so I drew a steaming hot bath and climbed in with a tall glass of cold water and a good book. Before I sunk into bathworld I rubbed a magic concoction of bergamot, dead sea salt, grapefruit oil and oceanic clay into my feet with a little brush & rested them comfortably above the taps while I relaxed. Afterwards the difference was incredible.

Not a pedicure, but… let’s call it prepwork.

Poor little piggies, they’re been quite neglected lately, but my brother’s lovely girlfriend gave me a foot spa in a boxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (oops… I wasn’t intensionally being exuberant – my x key stuck) for Christmas. It has all sorts of footsie goodies inside, so I thought it would be a good place to start. Sometime when the rest of the world is napping…

I suppose I should add “get a new computer keyboard” to my list now too.

Bought some new nail polish today and gave myself a pedicure. Toes are painted black to match my little silver & black dress im wearing to the party on the wkend! =)

My back is better, and I can now reach my toes comfortably :)

I gave my feet a bit of a massage and I clipped, groomed, and buffed my toenails. I then polished them pink —coincidentally to today’s flower avatar.

My feet are summer-ready now!

For the last week week I’ve been exfoliating and massaging high quality lotion into my feet nightly and it made a very big difference. Didn’t do any toenail painting or treatment stuff but I’m a guy and wearing sandals all the time with the exception of a few hours at church each week at the moment.

I injured my back three days ago, and not only can I not reach my feet, but I had to rest for a full day. I can now walk, but I still feel pain when I stand up, sit down, or change position, so my pedicure will have to wait a little.