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Mumsnet Discussions: Style and beauty : YOU HORNED HOOFERS (90 messages)
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Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Mon 12-May-08 09:58:52
oi i haev seen some shit heels over the weekend
sort out those dry heels please
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By ladytophamhatt on Mon 12-May-08 10:00:45
<hides thread as mine are soft and peachy>
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Twinkie1 on Mon 12-May-08 10:00:50
Yes - get a pedi and buy some heel balm - will set you up for rest of summer!

Bleugh - Dh brushed his foot against mine last night and it was like sandpaper - he is getting them sorted today or is in the spare room!
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Mon 12-May-08 10:01:20
i have just made an appointement wiht our chipodist as depite a lot of creamign my heels need shaving
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By lazarou on Mon 12-May-08 10:10:29
Mine are really bad, dh's feet are more feminine than mine. I've got one of those little knives so I usually do it myself. Jessica have got some lovely things in their range for nasty feet.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By largeginandtonic on Mon 12-May-08 10:11:48
<< hangs head in shame >>

Will get on that, what magic cream is there to sort out my heels then?
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By SugaryBits on Mon 12-May-08 10:13:27
I was recommended Flexitol on here the other day. I have ordered two tubes of heel balm. I am expecting great things!
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Mon 12-May-08 10:13:50
yes flexitol form boots
on a bogof atm

or oprah wink says this emeis tbh if its reall bad and htere are crakcs go to a proper chiropodist not a woman who did a correspondence ourse and get it shdave off
your feet are UNRECOGNISABLE
tis so cleansnign and you slip abotu in you shoes for days and haev LOADS of sex.

one bit of that is fiction.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By ladytophamhatt on Mon 12-May-08 10:14:38
You need a foot file and some neurtogena foot cream.

File them when dry and the hard/dry skin comes off like powder (I had a BIG pile of it in the bottom of teh bath...EWWW) then apply lots of nuertogena foot cream -after filing and morninag d before bed.

My feet are lush...
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Mon 12-May-08 10:15:21
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By lazarou on Mon 12-May-08 10:17:11
And for those on a budget, a cheesegrater will do
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By Heifer on Mon 12-May-08 10:24:16
do you seriously notice people heels!

Bloody hell, there is just too much for me to worry being judged on! grin

I wore my flip flops and shorter length trousers yesterday and had to go back upstairs to sort out hairy ankles/toes and reapply nail varnish - that was effort enough...

Heels, whatever next!.....
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Mon 12-May-08 10:24:50
yes no use in pretty shoes if eheels shit
and it was my v glam SIL
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By ahundredtimes on Mon 12-May-08 10:27:23
Yes, I think I notice heels and nails. And I'm a scruffbag, so I don't know why I'm eyeing up other people's feet.

I have booked an appointment at chiropodist too. This is largely because woman came up to me on Saturday and said 'I always look at your feet. You always wear such nice shoes.'

This isn't true, I mostly wear Converse. But now I know she's looking.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By largeginandtonic on Mon 12-May-08 10:29:50
Ok will get some when i'm out, car knackered so that may not be for some time.

Will put socks and boots back on in the meantime. That may be fiction too grin
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By lazarou on Mon 12-May-08 10:31:01
I love going to the chiropodist. I love my feet being messed with, it's so relaxing. Anyway, check out the jessica nails website. I used to use their products when i was a beauty therapist, and they really are brilliant. They smell nice too.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By MrsBadger on Mon 12-May-08 10:33:19
blush

[makes appt with chiropod]
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Mon 12-May-08 11:13:47
GOOD GRILS

100 i fear htis woman may end up like the chloe bag woman

why do you attract nutters
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Mon 12-May-08 11:14:26
lazarou its great
adn maybe thesex thing is true
dh normally comments on the softness of my feet d till they descend into crapness again
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By lazarou on Mon 12-May-08 11:32:21
http://www.jessicacosmetics.co.uk/catalogue.asp
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By lazarou on Mon 12-May-08 11:32:39
bugger, hang on...
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By lazarou on Mon 12-May-08 11:33:15
[www.jessicacosmetics.co.uk]
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By lazarou on Mon 12-May-08 11:33:43
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By CocodeBear on Mon 12-May-08 11:38:21
Flexitol makes all the skin on my heels flakey and more rhino-like than ever.

Have yet to find a way of improving my munting feet.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Mon 12-May-08 12:08:45
NO IT DONST YOUNUTTER
you need to apply more
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By cadelaide on Mon 12-May-08 12:13:21
I always notice feet, and some of them are appalling.

Quite apart from looking hideous, surely it hurts, all those cracks and hard bits?

Some bits of me need attention, but my feet are always good.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By BarefootShirl on Mon 12-May-08 12:19:48
Regular attention with a foot file and moisturising cream keeps mine looking OK, although I have to admit they do sometimes show the effect of a regular lack of footwear
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By SixSpotBurnet on Mon 12-May-08 12:25:31
I have been filing and creaming away at mine but they still look dry. I think I need to call in a professional sad.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Mon 12-May-08 12:26:16
go and get em done
if they only need LIGT work go to scholl
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By CocodeBear on Mon 12-May-08 13:42:53
embarassed to go to a chiropodist.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By CocodeBear on Mon 12-May-08 13:46:23
Flexitol also leaves slime everywhere
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By MrsBadger on Mon 12-May-08 14:01:20
coco they have seen far worse than yours
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By CocodeBear on Mon 12-May-08 14:12:14
does it hurt?
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By lazarou on Mon 12-May-08 14:15:00
Coco, they don't chop your feet off. They just scalpel, very gently, the dead skin away and it feels really nice.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By CocodeBear on Mon 12-May-08 14:18:18
hmmm
is it a medical thing or a beauty place thing?
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By doggiesayswoof on Mon 12-May-08 14:19:47
Had a pedi today.

I have already been filing and flexitoling.

She said "you don't have much hard skin, you just need some hydration"

<preen>

when I go to the chiropodist I do find the scalpel really tickly though.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By lazarou on Mon 12-May-08 14:21:12
If you want a nice pedicure, with a massage, nail varnish etc, go and have your feet treated properly by a chiropodist first.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By doggiesayswoof on Mon 12-May-08 14:21:32
Coco, start with a state reg chiropodist - not beauty salon. Or scholl shop as cod says.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By lazarou on Mon 12-May-08 14:25:31
Doggie, I like that tickly feeling. Am I weird? The scalpel is the one thing I look forward to, and sometimes it catches a little and I like that too!
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By JackieNo on Mon 12-May-08 15:29:46
Have to say, I don't really feel the scalpel at all, but the power sander thingy really tickles.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Mon 12-May-08 15:40:04
i loevt eh roating sander
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By expatinscotland on Mon 12-May-08 15:41:46
i stocked up on Heel Balm last week.

now available in a larger tube.

use Flexitol at night and then wear cotton socks to bed.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By JackieNo on Mon 12-May-08 15:41:57
Makes me squirm, it tickles so much. I always have to apologise to her/him (it's not that I'm not sure what sex they are, I'm just never quite sure who I'll see till I get theregrin).
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By JackieNo on Mon 12-May-08 15:42:32
(that's the rotating sander that makes me squirm, not wearing socks to bed, btw)
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By CocodeBear on Mon 12-May-08 16:09:57
Is the talk of rotating sanders real? Or just to strike horror into my heart?
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By JackieNo on Mon 12-May-08 16:11:23
It's real, but it's just to make them extra smooth. Honest - none of this hurts - it's dead skin, so it's like having your hair cut. No feeling.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By WilfSell on Mon 12-May-08 16:14:50
I thought dry cracked heels were because of some kind of nutritional deficiency (no idea what though grin)

I never have dry heels. But then I rarely get em out. I will refer back after the pedicurist tells me off tomorrow.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Nero on Mon 12-May-08 17:11:14
Ooh - next time I am in KL for work I am going to the fish pedicure place where the fish nibble off the dead skin on your feet grin

Til then, I am making do with Waitrose Bottom Butter.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Mon 12-May-08 17:11:50
seriously a sander!!
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By CocodeBear on Mon 12-May-08 19:27:46
Nero, is bottom butter good for feet? have stockpiled some tubs that i need a use for.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By lazarou on Mon 12-May-08 20:08:13
Oh my, I forgot about the sander. Lovely sander.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Nero on Mon 12-May-08 20:16:50
oh yes Cocodebear. I had some dry scaly bits between my toes - like athlete's foot. One application of Bottom Butter and its all gone!
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By gomez on Mon 12-May-08 20:21:33
The best use of that left over Lansinoh I have yet found... gorgeous soft heels within days.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By missblythe on Mon 12-May-08 21:39:47
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By triffictits on Mon 12-May-08 22:33:22
sorry to sound thick - but does anyone know how to find a Scholl clinic? Cant see it on their web page.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By moondog on Mon 12-May-08 22:39:32
Sanders???
Bloody hell, what is wrong with you lot?
I thought heavy duty machines only for over 70s.
I used to work in a community clinic with a very camp chiropidist. Waiting room would be full of little kids waiting to see me (salt) and oldies waiting to see him. He would mince out and order them all to remove shoes and hosiery before entering. And they did.

Would be rows of 'em with bare feet.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By Katisha on Mon 12-May-08 22:45:33
Can you just go and see any chiropodist? Aren't they going to think you are wasting their time and they'd prefer to get on with some proper hard core medical type stuff?
What do you ask for?
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By triffictits on Mon 12-May-08 22:46:58
you can go to any one katisha - just ask them to remove the hard skin on your feet and away they go.

I have tried all the products, and nothing is as good as going to chiropodist for a trim grin
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By TooTicky on Mon 12-May-08 22:50:01
My feet are working feet, not flimsy couch-drapers. Not cracked though.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By Ceolas on Mon 12-May-08 22:50:59
You have never seen anything as bad as my feet at the moment blush blush blush

Not just the cracked heels. They are so bad a chiropodist wouldn't touch them!
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By maidamess on Mon 12-May-08 22:55:20
Forget chiropodists...what you need is
these
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By lazarou on Mon 12-May-08 23:13:46
maidamess, they are gorgeous!
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By RedFraggle on Tue 13-May-08 11:26:40
I have been trying Cod - honest! But the vaseline foot cream doesn't seem to be making a dent in the urgh-ness of my feet...
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Tue 13-May-08 13:18:44
i ahev been
god its great
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By CocodeBear on Tue 13-May-08 16:41:07
do you have to pay them? are they like private foot doctors?
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Tue 13-May-08 16:41:50
£27 50
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By bundle on Tue 13-May-08 16:43:44
apparently with calmurid you DO NOT NEED TO FILE FIRST

ahem
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By CocodeBear on Tue 13-May-08 17:08:48
ok am going to try and find a foot man.

what is the difference between a podiatrist and a chiropodist and a chiropractor?
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Tue 13-May-08 17:11:07
think pod is a new term but also more mehcanical
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By CocodeBear on Tue 13-May-08 17:14:09
MORE sanders etc. you mean? shock

We need a scared emoticon. It'd come in useful on the childbirth threads too.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Tue 13-May-08 18:01:47
no
lol
liek for walkign or bone issues
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By triffictits on Tue 13-May-08 20:20:50
help me find a scholl clinic pleeassssseee or i will have to walk around with my horned hoofs all summer!
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By cocolepew on Tue 13-May-08 20:26:14
This months Marie Clair have a free tub of the Body Shops Coconut butter body cream - I have discovered it's great on dry heels.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By cocolepew on Tue 13-May-08 20:27:46
Marie Claire
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By JackieNo on Tue 13-May-08 22:17:14
Triffictits - look on the right on this link - under the 'product of the month' it has a drop down list of the chiropody clinics - click on find and it'll give you the details.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By CocodeBear on Wed 14-May-08 09:15:46
3.30 saturday

aaaaaghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

and is costing me £38 shock
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By MaloryTowers on Wed 14-May-08 09:20:03
o thanks for this threasd

its reminded me to book an appt

but my local scholl shop has a farkin 6 week waiting lst

angry

sad
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Wed 14-May-08 17:50:55
if oyu cant do shcoll go dto a chirpodist
better imo
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By cornsilk on Wed 14-May-08 17:56:03
Put loads of flexitol on
Stick your feet in tesco bags
Put socks on
Wander about for an hour or so (inside - don't go out to the car by accident)
Take 'em off and your feet will be gorge.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By CocodeBear on Wed 14-May-08 17:56:50
on the phone booking the appointment i didn't know what to say, so i jsut said can i book an appointment to have my feet looked at?

is a chiro/pod place. Do you think they would know what i meant from what i said?

I didn't want to say can i make an app to have the thick hoofy skin slaked off my feet pls? as it sounded too disgusting. At some level I though they might say no way, FGS take them away woman.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Wed 14-May-08 19:57:29
no when you get in say" a genreal check over and also get rid of hard skin"

oyu may find oyu haev corns shock under your toe nails - mine used to be rubbed by tights wheni worked
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By lazarou on Wed 14-May-08 21:03:13
I can't afford to have my feet done now. I bought dh a suit today for a wedding we're going to. Don't know why I bothered though, the happy couple are being a right pain in the arse.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By CocodeBear on Wed 14-May-08 21:04:13
thanks cod. will right your example sentence down on flash card.

will report back at weekend grin
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By CocodeBear on Wed 14-May-08 21:04:33
FFS, write
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By GrumpyOldHorsewoman on Wed 14-May-08 21:20:13
Reading this thread I am so glad I have lovely feet.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By CocodeBear on Wed 14-May-08 21:22:08
smug cow

angry

or should that be

envy
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By GrumpyOldHorsewoman on Wed 14-May-08 21:25:05
wink
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By triffictits on Thu 15-May-08 10:41:23
thanks Jackie - just reading about the knife that Soph bought before deciding whether to book it
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By CocodeBear on Sat 17-May-08 16:34:18
I have BEAUTIFUL feet grin

smile smile smile
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By CocodeBear on Sat 17-May-08 19:45:37
The chiropodist said "I knew I shouldn't have got changed" when dead skin started flying off my feet blush.


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