Winter is over and it's time to take care of your feet. Warm weather always comes unexpectedly in spring, so it is better to prepare for it in advance. How nice to wear sandals on a hot day! Often warm weather comes in May. It would be a shame not to have time to get a pedicure! How can I perform this procedure at home?
Many are afraid to practice their legs on their own - after all, with insufficient experience, you can easily make a mistake. Indeed, the foot area has its own nuances. Due to the structure of the skin, proper treatment of the heels is important here. Women wearing heels should pay special attention to the habitual calluses. Older people may experience nail fungus.
But the good thing about home pedicure is that there is enough time to solve all problems. What should be prepared to conduct it yourself?
Tools for home use
Before you do a pedicure at home, you should preparethe necessary tools. The pedicure salon uses cutting tools that are undesirable to use at home. Instead, there are alternative abrasive graters and pedicure caps that are great at removing hyperkeratosis.
Pedicure graters are used from less to more grit:
- Solinberg - one side 60, the other 120 grit.
- LUX - one side 80, the other 150 grit.
- Camillen 60 - one side 150, the other 240 grit.
To process the toes, you will need a large nail clipper, which can quickly shorten the nails. To remove the cuticle, nail scissors are used. If you have the skill of working with nail clippers, you can use them. To move the rollers and cleanse the nail plateau from pterygium, a pusher and a scraper are used. These instruments are often made on a single metal holder. An uncomplicated pedicure can be performed with the listed tools. If you have problems with ingrown toenails, you will need pedicure clippers to remove the ingrown toenail.
Materials for pedicure
Now there are a lot of special keratolytics that successfully cope with the loosening of corns and calluses. Some have urea as an active ingredient, others have AHA and BHA (natural acids). These products break keratin bonds, loosen and dissolve the skin, but do it very gently.
Another group of pedicure products contains strong alkalis - NaOH or KOH. They must be washed off the skin in time to avoidchemical burns. They are part of the soap bar, which can also be used to soften the skin. Special bombs based on soda and nourishing oils are popular. With their help, you can do a pedicure at home, as in the salon.
Reliable, proven products are available in the beauty store. These are keratolytics, scrubs and moisturizers. You can make your own homemade pedicure scrub using coffee grounds. While it is still warm, it contains natural oils. This scrub exfoliates dead cells and nourishes the skin. It is used to treat interdigital spaces.
Foot cream usually has antifungal additives and a good smell. We can recommend the “Liquid Blade” cream from DOMIX Green Professional with urea to soften the skin, and the herbal antiseptic cream “Heels” for moisturizing. They fight with corns and corns using a corn patch.
Home Pedicure Equipment
Which device is better to buy for the home - everyone decides for himself. On sale there are many models of various characteristics and price categories. But all of them are united by the following parameters:
- Power.
- Revolutions per second.
- Possibility to replace parts.
To do a pedicure at home, like a professional, you have to acquire knowledge. They relate to the operation of the device and its sterilization, as well as how to use the cutter. This will save you from mistakes in the future.
Usually, detailed instructions are attached to the device, in whichexplains how to use the various modes and attachments. Different areas of the foot are processed at different speeds, the periungual ridges require the reverse movement of the cutter. Therefore, it is good to purchase a device that has a reverse. Nozzles for all devices are standard, you can replace those that have become unusable with new ones.
Indispensable helper for the whole family
But now the device is bought, the question arises: "How to do a hardware pedicure at home?". To remove rough skin, you need to soften it. There are special tools for this, mainly based on urea. They should be applied to the skin and wrapped with several layers of polyethylene. You can take the one that is used in the food departments. After a few minutes, the leather is ready to be burred.
Alternately processing zone by zone, change nozzles from coarser to fine-grained. The speed also changes from high speed to low speed. You should not be too zealous when the skin color changes from yellow to pink - you need to stop working. The area of the fingers is processed, as with a manicure. The direction of rotation of the cutter is important here. The rule is simple: the rotation of the cutter should be from the nail. Therefore, the “reverse” key is switched for processing rollers.
If a family has a pedicure machine, it can be useful not only for one person. Everyone can have their own nozzles in order to avoid the transfer of infection. Such a device is also suitable for removing gel polish, only in this case you need a ceramic cutter. It doesn't get as hot as regular ones and lasts longer.
When there are he alth problems
Specialists are categorically against the use of the trimming pedicure method for people with diabetes or poor blood clotting. Although it is these categories of people who most of all need special hygienic care. Doctors recommend that such patients visit the salon to perform a hardware pedicure. Not everyone has such an opportunity, but many people can afford to buy a device. Even in the case when an elderly person does not live in a family, he can perform some operations himself.
It is very important not to run the skin of the feet. With irregular care, areas of hyperkeratosis, corns and calluses are formed. A thick layer of overdried skin cannot be elastic and cracks when walking. The wounds become infected, and all this can end badly. It is much better to figure out how to do a pedicure yourself at home. Even with no experience or medical knowledge, you can successfully take care of your feet.
There are several principles in pedicure:
- Regular grooming protects against many problems.
- Shortening your nails is a must, and do it right.
- Feet need constant moisture.
- Infections should be treated immediately.
- Better to stop processing than hurt.
Using them, you can always have beautiful and he althy legs.
How to do a pedicure at home: step by step instructions
First of all, you should prepare a place for a pedicure. In the cabin, this is a special chair, but at home it can be a regular one.cushioned furniture. You will need warm water, so it is good to have an electric kettle nearby. The basin to be used for maceration (soaking) must be able to accommodate both feet freely. If it is too small, cramps from the wrong position are possible.
The first step is maceration. This is a foot bath with soap, some kind of alkaline supplement or a special product
If you plan to do hardware processing, s alt is not added to the bath, but s alt and feet are kept in it for no more than ten minutes. S alt does not soften hyperkeratosis, and soap solutions do a good job of this task. Therefore, the composition of the bath will be different for edged and hardware pedicure. If a hardware pedicure is done, both legs are wrapped in polyethylene with emollients after maceration.
The second step is the processing of the fingers. One leg is removed from the bath and wrapped in a towel, leaving only the fingers. They work with one leg, the second is in the bath or wrapped in polyethylene. They are treated according to the principle of manicure: shortening the nails, pushing back the rollers, removing the cuticle and pterygium
If there are calluses, they are carefully removed with skin tweezers. Calluses often appear in the same places, the so-called "habitual calluses". They are not removed completely, only the upper keratinized layer of the skin is removed.
- The third step is the removal of corns. This is the area under the toes and heels. First, they work with coarse files or nozzles. Then, when the skin turns pink, smooth it with a fine-grained file (240 grit).
- Fourth step - applying cream.
After a hygienic pedicure, you can make a decorative coating. On the legs, ordinary varnish is worn well, but it requires good drying. In order not to waste time on this, there is a gel polish. It takes 15 minutes to apply and you can put on your shoes.
The main stages of a pedicure are clearly shown in the photo.
How to do a pedicure at home:
- soften the skin with a bath,
- process corns,
- shorten nails,
- remove pterygium,
- apply polish.
Beautiful design
In the salon, they usually offer designs that are especially successful for the master. Their photos are posted in the album or on the wall. You don't have to be an artist to have beautiful nails. There are many options for stamping and sliders. Magnetic multichrome polishes create an interesting texture. For a home option, it is better to first familiarize yourself with the offer of various professional stores than flipping through the pages of magazines.
The nail industry is moving forward by leaps and bounds. Innovative coatings are constantly being produced. Every girl will find something interesting and modern for herself.
2018 Fashion Trends
Recently, colored foil confetti - kamifubuki - are now widely used in designs. With their help, a 3D volume effect is created. These glitters enhance the depth of magnetic gel polishes using harmonious shades in three sizes. They are applied in layers, so they are, as it were, filled with color.glass. It looks good when one type of kamifubuki is covered with another.
The nautical theme is still in trend, now it's not just white, blue and red. Salmon, black and yellow perfectly complement the classic blue and white stripe. Stickers depicting a tilted palm tree are also relevant, especially against the backdrop of a sunset. The sunset is made using the gradient technique with a sponge dipped in several colors in the form of stripes. You should not take classical tones, it is better to recall the Impressionists. Lemon, coral and turquoise are the colors for the modern gradient.
With a little practice, you'll be advising your friends how to get beautiful pedicures at home.
Common pedicure mistakes
Many do not see anything difficult in doing a pedicure on their own. However, a minimum level of knowledge about the structure of the epidermis, the causes of calluses and cracks, and other foot problems is required. Mistakes are often made due to insufficiently prepared skin. When the feet are dry, the skin has no elasticity. Due to hyperkeratosis, it thickens, and all keratin layers act as a monolith.
If you try to cut off excess volume with a pedicure knife, the blade will not remove a layer of skin. However, many make a mistake and make additional efforts. The skin is cut through, but the movement of the blade is at the wrong angle. This leads to cuts. To know how to do a pedicure at home for yourself, you need to take a course. On thelectures, the instructor will pay attention to the individual feature of each - the time of softening of hyperkeratosis. The prepared skin is pulled behind the blade, and the extra layer cannot be removed.
Another common mistake is to use a foot grater on the border of the plantar zone and the top of the foot. When the legs are strongly launched, the plantar part needs enhanced processing. The skin of the upper part of the foot is often enough scrub, it is so thin. In addition, there are many vessels here, and the extra movement of the grater leads to bleeding that is not easy to stop.
For whom magic socks were invented
On sale there are socks for pedicure at home. It is not difficult to make such a procedure. It is performed at night. On clean feet, they put on socks soaked in a special composition, in the morning they remove the loosened layer of skin with a grater, rinse the legs with water and cover with cream. If necessary, repeat the procedure. The action of such a mask is based on the use of strong keratolytic agents that destroy keratin bonds and dissolve collagen cells.
Pedicure masters warn against the frequent use of such masks: urea-based products can completely dissolve the skin in a few hours. Since its thickness on the entire surface of the feet is different, in order to avoid chemical burns, the concentration of the active substance in the socks is weak. But if such a compress is not removed in time, you can seriously suffer.
And finally
In conclusion, we can say that any care productsfeet require careful attention. Don't neglect reading the instructions. Change your pedicure pads often. Sterilize instruments. Always apply cream to your feet.
Now you know how to do a pedicure at home.
