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Pedicure Products You will need the following items:
Pedi Preparation Spray or wipe the feet with antiseptic solution, remove polish and place both feet into soak for five mins. Take one foot out of the pedicure bath and towel dry. The nails should be clipped back to the required length using toenail clippers. Do not try to cut across in one piece as this will split the nail. Then use an emery board to file across the top of the toenail. Any corners should be smoothed away to prevent ingrowing toenails. The toenail should then be bevelled and smoothed just like you would with a fingernail. Repeat on all five nails. Apply cuticle cream and massage in with the pad of your thumb using a circular movement. Push cuticles back with a hoof stick or cuticle pusher. Using a cuticle knife, or equivalent, remove any non living tissue around the cuticle lateral nail folds on all five toenails. Take a small amount of foot scrub in the palm of your hand and gently massage, in circular movements, over the ball and heel of the foot. You may want to rinse the scrub off in the foot bath and gently use a pedifile if there is any hard skin left on the heel or ball of the foot. Do not use this tool on any soft areas of the sole. Repeat steps 3-7 on other foot. Keep the first foot wrapped in a towel whilst working on the second to keep you warm. Perform a massage routine on both feet and legs. Squeak the nails if a polish is required use toe separators or winde tissue in between the toes and apply a base coat, two coats of polish and a top coat. Massage routine Place cream, lotion or oil in the palms of your hands and warm. Apply to your leg on either side and working one hand after the other perform effleurage movements towards the knee. Apply slight pressure on the way up and stroke lightly on the way back down. Repeat six times with the palm of your hand, apply petrissage movements up the side of the leg in circular movement. Once your have reached the knee, slide your hand down and repeat on the other side of the leg, repeat both sides six times cup your hands and perform cupping movements on the back of the leg five or six times. If the sound is hollow you know you have got the same movement right slide your hands down to the ankles and circle around the ankle joint with your fingers six times with the palms of your hands, rub from the top of the ankle to the heel in a friction movement. This is a very relaxing movement and produces alot of warmth in the area slide your hands underneath to the sole of the foot and, with your thumbs, work in a scissor movement across the bottom of the foot working up and down the sole 2-3 times. Take your thumb and forefinger and move up the Achilles tendon with a slight pressure. Repeat six times. Move your hands to the top of the front of the foot and, using small circle movements, move up between the metatarsals making sure that you do not apply too much pressure, making it uncomfortable for yourself. Rotate each toe twice then gently pull and release. Take the foot in a firm grip with one hand supporting the heel and one hand on the ball of the foot, and rotate at the ankle joint three times in each direction finish with three effleurage movements up to the knee and bring your hands down to stroke the foot at the top and on the sole, finally bringing your hands together. |
Feet Care
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