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?

mal

Ca va mieux?

An hour in the bath! Don't you have a telly?

bon.

I never watch TV, no.

You can listen to the radio or read a book or magazine in the bath. While drinking a glass of wine, preferably

Foot file. Moisturiser. Vaseline (thick layer). Cotton socks. Overnight. 3 nights. Sorted.

A word of warning, don't smother your feet in cream and then walk on a wooden floor, you will fall on your arse.

Yep - done that

cocolepew-not to mention collecting loads of bits of fluff, grit, threads, teeny-weeny beads etc on the soles of your feet....

(note to self- must sweep more often)

French tv is not up to much

hour in the bath I would fall asleep and drown (if I wasn't so tall)it wouldf take me well past my already missed bedtime

Some people have a life. If you don't like it, don't look at it. And consider that some people simply have a harder job to look good than others. I have very dry feet. I also get the odd spot. Other women suffer from adult acne which is far worse than spots and has nothing to do with healthy living or otherwise.

I suffer from urticaria on my feet/heels, it's very painful and itchy. I cannot put anything on my heels, wearing shoes can be painful too. They are very dry and cracked. Using a foot file or ped egg would hurt. A lot.

YABU

Do I think we have a social responsibility to stay fragrant? No, actually, I don't. There are too many situations, jobs and unavoidable circumstance that makes it impossible to smell of nothing more than scent at every waking minute.

I don't know how you spend your days, but if you're working on a building site or in a foundry then you're going to get hot and sweaty and you may not have an opportunity to bathe until you get home. As teleports have inexplicably failed to be invented yet (and here's me thinking it's the 21st century already!) then there is a fair chance such workers are going to have to use public transport.

I like to think that, the vast majority of the time, I smell of nothing more than deodorant and maybe a bit of aftershave. But there have been situations (eg, a long weekend away on a motorbike, camping in a field next to a pub) where I probably did end up smelling a bit ripe. Did it matter? Nope. Did society, polite interpersonal interaction or civilisation as a whole collapse around us? Nope. We rode home and had showers etc as soon as reasonably practicable. I bet there are a good few thousand people in Glastonbury right now who have smelled sweeter but it's not a crime against society.

Being surrounded by nothing more than a waft of fine scent is a frippery and a privilege of those who don't do manual labour or other, smelly jobs. It's nothing more than that.

I have quite nasty, dry, yellowish skin on my heels unless I can remember/be arsed to have a go with the pumice and Burt's Bees cream after my super-quick showers every morning. Often, I don't have time. Am about BonsoirAnna's hour-long baths. Surely real people, with small, time-consuming children, don't have time for those?

I don't like having hard or cracked skin on my feet, but there it is. If I have time, I deal with it - if not, it's not the most important thing in my life. I'm not into excessive grooming but I don't get any complaints from DH or friends, so why on earth would I care about offending some judgey-pants stranger in the supermarket?

The only way forward is a burqa, elbow gloves and knee-high Doc Martens. That way we less than perfect females can offend no-one.

I think I need one, Scorpette. Apparently.

To me it's not a matter of not having time. I mean, we're all sitting on the net right now and have time for that.

I worked FT and had two young children and a husband who worked after I came home from work.

So yes, some things just had to go by the wayside.

But it doesn't take that much time to slap on some moisturiser IF it's a bit of a priority for you.

If not, well, then we make time for things we consider important.

I have nice feet because I find personal grooming important to my mood, but others may instead chose to devote time to something else.

Ahaaaa.... now.....

Feet sleep socks.
You can moisturise and soak your feet all night using that under utilised sleep time.

SOme people [like me ] just have minging feet: My toenails grow thick instead of in length, constantly fighting fungus, moisturising, talcing, painting nails [when the time allows] and they are still minging.

However...they are veiled in shoes.

Thanks Cocolepew! LOL..Feel like I've been hailed across a crowded room with intmate foot advice there Aha.. so it's an exfoliating cream I need then .

(I wondered about an industrial sander - could hire one and do the floors at the same time.)

I run so my feet need that think layer of skin as cushioning.

My feet are so bad they just scared everyone away

I think with feet it's that you need extra time to make them look good because you can't walk when your doing nice things to them (soaking, filing etc.) - so you need to be able to take the weight off for half an hour a day and who can do that?

I have dry heels which don't look great but then i never really wear shoes only when i'm out and about. They're the first thing that come off when i get to work (i work from home btw).

Another small point - i've seen mentioned the escalator here at least once - there is an advert for expensive heel cream which features someone looking in horror at the back of a woman's heels on an escalator - becasue, lets be honest, when are you ever going to see someone's heels otherwise? Either the poster genuinely does this or she has been sucked in by the particular marketing of that advert - which we all do. I mean, who had even heard or thought about bingo wings 5 years ago?

My feet became manky about twelve years ago when I was working in retail and wore crappy shoes with no socks all summer. They've never been the same again.

I do find it embarrassing, and I have made periodic efforts to get them into better condition. But I have to say, all of you proclaiming that you can fix things by filing/moisturising/wearing socks for 3 days... that's still only a temporary fix! Sure, they can look nice then (or niceR) for a few days but you have to do this for ever and ever to keep them that way. There is no respite. And whatever my good intentions, they always fall by the wayside in the end, and my feet go back to their manky state. Once they've been ruined like mine, it's a permanent work of hard labour to keep them even halfway decent, and to be honest, however embarrassed I feel in the summer, it's one I don't always want to make time for.

If the sight of my feet upsets you so much, I'd suggest you look at something nice instead. I'm cheered by the thought that now my gorgeous DS is here no-one will ever look at my feet again

portblacks- are you terribly young?
My mum and gran used to talk about bingo wings decades ago -my mum is now 82 and my gran died 30 yrs back.

I think I have seen the advert to which you refer once.

I am just very observant- if someone is in front of me in a queue, and showing their heels, then I notice everything. I'm a writer, so it pays to be observant!

you can run, be a dancer, be even a climber and a hillwalker and not have horrible feet.

modern sports shoes mean you don't need thick, hard skin to cushion or heavy calluses to do these things.

it's a matter of time, tbh, and not wanting to take such time as it takes to keep feet up.

and that's fine.

but seriously, don't make excuses.

i always saw my feet as a tool. i remember when i was 15 and got my first job, in retail, and my supervisor saying, 'always be kind to your back and your feet, it's hell when they go!' and just sort of took it to heart.

i've had blacked big toenails several times, i just painted over them with nail varnish .

but if it's not such a priority for some, hey ho.

flexitol cream is not expensive. a little goes a very long way.

personally i don't want cracked heels because that looks fecking painful, but if it doesn't bother people it's a free country.