to want to tell people to cover up their cracked heels and acres of hard yellowing skin?

[mrsmerryweather]

now that we have all gone tightless and sockless....

it is just revolting when you see a made-up woman then get to her feet and see acres of white/yellow/grey hard skin on her heels.

Have they never heard of footfiles and foot cream?

You need to file it off, Muppet, then apply foot cream. Yes, it comes back but you just keep on top of it. One of my feet is a flakey one.

I just can't get my head around filing my foot. Does it not hurt?

Not at all Goosey. The skin is dead,

Still... foot filing, urggh.... I must say, going right back to the OP, I am not sure that I had ever heard of foot files and I am thinking it might have been better kept like that.

Well I'm afraid the alternative is far more urggh imo!

SD I can't hold a nail file that long I have bad hands - so another thread.

I have tough soles to my feet - leathery

I'm not sure I know whats meant by this yellow business

"Have they never heard of footfiles and foot cream?"

I can't bear people who are so preoccupied with such personal vanities, they are invariably deathly dull

"Wearing hard skin on your heels is not a badge of honour, it is a badge of laziness IMHO."

Actually its a badge of : I'm doing an OU history degree (I have two other degrees already, I just enjoy academia)- where I am in line for a first btw, and I'd rather spend my limited and finite time improving my mind than do something utterly vacuous like 'file' my heels.

I read this post yesturday and looked at my poor rustic white yellow hard skinned lumpy feet and felt.....shame.

So today I bought a PedEgg today from Boots and de hoofed my feet in front of Neighbours whilst DS2 was having and nap and whilst Dh was eating a sarnie (he complained I said shut up)

And all I can say is WOW WEEEEEEEEE!

All the shite gone, lovely soft feet with no crust. And it is so satisfying to look at all the skin you collect.

Get one!

I am trying to convert anyone and everyone I know (with manky feet ) to Ped Eggs atm! (see earlier posts)

It is an unbelievable product. I have waged war on my feet for many years and tried everything avaiable. I have even razored off the hard skin with blades , in desperation. To no avail.

Then - bingo- Ped Egg solves the problem. Doesn't even take that long to do! 2-3 mins and feet are baby soft. It is en-croy-ab-ler

hmc - did you leave your sense of humour in the research library today?

Anyway, Ped Egg only takes 2-3 minutes y'know!

Surely you can find 2 or 3 minutes, perhaps when one of your award-winning essays are printing out perhaps?

Are we meant to be impressed, hmc?

I like my callused feet. They mean I can go barefoot all summer without it hurting.

I certainly don't peer critically at other people's feet - what an odd thing to do.

My feet are not particularly minging - uncracked & nice painted nails - but file the hard skin off the soles? Weird.

Boots must be doing well out of this, as I too went out and bought a ped egg after reading the start of this two days ago.
I didn't know I could sort my hard heels out so easily, and didn't know how some other ladies had such nice feet, and now my feet look much nicer...and it's made me rather happy.

And told a girl at work how good it was and she's off to buy one too...

It only took me a couple of minutes, and walking is more comfortable already, that hard, dry feeling can be quite sore sometimes in flipflops.

I go barefeet an awful lot too but really only on grass and inside. I file my feet every day and don't understand why having soft feet precludes this unless you want to walk on gravel or something.

Hmc, I'm sure I'm not alone on here in having more than one top class degree, 3 children, a demanding job and cyet an still manage to mind 2 minutes a day to attend to my feet. Your feet are incredibly important to your overall health and good foot hygiene is vital.

YABU Mrsmerryweather (and smug).

Some people never have to go near a footfile and have perfect feet. Some people have to file and cream 3 times a week and still have yellowy hard skin.

Do you also think that unless you are a perfect size 8 or 10 you should wear a tent all summer?

HMC
"Actually its a badge of : I'm doing an OU history degree (I have two other degrees already, I just enjoy academia)- where I am in line for a first btw, and I'd rather spend my limited and finite time improving my mind than do something utterly vacuous like 'file' my heels."

Well I have a degree, PhD, work, have twin boys, run youth club, secretary to a parent's forum at school, run, go to the gym, have three books on the go at one time and I always find a couple of minutes to tend to my feet.

How does spending a few minutes a day looking after ones feet detract from improving ones mind? If that is the case, why waste time posting on MN because I bet you spend more time on MN than it would take to tend to your feet.

I probably could find time (and may when I can afford a pedegg) but this do it while/instead of mning thing is annoying me. I mn while feeding the baby.

Ped-egg on ebay costs about £2.50 inc p&p (I have just bought one). You can tend to your feet before you go to bed, whilst you watch TV, before you have a bath/shower etc.

You can easily find the time if you want to.

Well see lissya may have converted me. Not to having lovely feet but to having a new toy and a hobby