PEDICURES - how much do you pay?

[HipHopOpotomus]

I never get around to doing it at home & my feet/nails need some attention. But the prices where I live/work (West London) do seem a bit steep (and I am a bit tight I guess - I don't really have a 'beauty' budget).

Please share how much do you pay for a pedicure and how long it takes.

£20 and takes about 45 minutes to an hour but they can do it quicker if I say I'm in a rush. I go to a Vietnamese place in SE London.

I only have one every few months in winter but go twice a month in summer. Most places like the one I go to do a nail file and polish change for £5 so it's worth having a pedi then topping up with cheaper option on your next visit.

I think £20 is a good price - I really don't want to pay more than that (great tip re file & polish). I will keep looking out west here.

Cheapest I have seen is £25 though it's usually more. I work in Chiswick which is even more expensive than where I live!!!

I'm a DIY girl -

PED-EGG - £1.99 Home Bargains
Nails Inc Pedi Socks & Nails inc Mexican Lime Heel Balm (£35 from Debenhams)
Crystal Nail file, cutical removal cream, cutical oil, buffer & polish (already in nail kit)

I give myself a pedicure once a week - the products I bought specifically for the pedi cost about £46 a year (1 tube of heel balm lasts me abot 6 months) so that is about 90p per pedicure. The ped-egg takes 5 mins max, then 20 mins of wearing the socks with the balm, then a quick shower, regular moisturiser and you can paint your tootsies before sorting hair and doing make-up/night time skin care (depending on morning or night. My pedicures only take up 10 mins of my time a week and are much cheaper.

Haven't been for a while but £23 for a luxury pedicure in the leather seats that massage you while sitting!!! I don't have to chat, can read Grazia and drink coffee!!

ooooh mrs I like your style. I have all the kit, but never use it - but you have mildly inspired me. Perhaps tonight will be the night :)

£23 for a luxury is good - the cheapest I've found near me is £24 for a mini. Cheapest luxury one is £30 (high rents round here)

my local is £18 for 1 hour in a massage leather chair with jacuzzi style water basin (South London) and the place doesn't smell of acetone!

looks like I paid to much £30 but it was a treat that month. I normally do it myself weekly

HipHop
I go to a place round the back of Goodge St tube station - on Tottenham St. It's £36 for a spa mani-pedi (think pedi only is £25ish). It's not a fancy establishment but they do a really great, thorough job.

I pay £32 for a spa pedicure in North London. It takes about an hour but it's lovely as I can read Grazia and drink coffee. The nail varnish lasts until it grows out for ages.

looks like Londoners north of the river are paying 33%ish more than those south of it!!!

12 quid here in West Yorkshire, and she does a good job too!

I think I might pay MYSELF a nice bottle of RED wine and attend to my own tootsies this evening. Cost about £8 :)

I am going on holiday (to NZ where it is summer) end of the month so will splash out there for a proper pedicure as my toes will be out of shoes and into sandals - SHOCK!

I recently paid 42 pounds at my local SE London place and they didn't even do a great job. I prefer aveda in holborn for slightly less and want to know where this Vietnamese place is!

I'm in the completely wrong area but I go to have all my pedicures, nails, hair etc at the local college. £5 a time and their always so careful and gentle (I have sensitive feet) and don't generally talk as their concentrating. It is always checked by a teacher too before I go. Maybe you could have a trial one of somewhere by you? Even if it doesn't go great, it a learning experience for both of you!

Chandellina and wineandcheese: there is a great little chinese nail salon on lambs conduit street, opposite gt ormond st hospital where I get my nails done. I think pedicures are around £25 (but I usually go there for manis as I do my own pedis).
Flexi nail bar, 30 lambs conduit st, in between holborn and russel sq. They dont have any music, so I can sneak at work time and do work calls (with hands free). The ladies who work there are all clued up and stay silent when my phone rings!!!

In Greenwich Chandellina, but they have similar all over the place in London. It's not a glossy fancy salon but they do a very good job cheaply

Tooting is the place to go round here! Hundreds of nail bars, and they all do a pretty good job. The best is up near balham and costs £18 for a really fantastic pedi.

Don't go to the hand and foot spa in Wimbledon and Richmond...about £67.

Likelucklove where's the college ? For a £5 I'll travel !!!

23£ for a sit in the massagey chair type one..takes about 45-1hr