Easy Steps To Do Pedicure at Home

It won’t be fair to ignore the feet, while hands and face are getting pampered by beauty sessions. Since feet are the most exposed area of our body to dust and dirt, they demand a regular attention and care to keep them soft, beautiful and shiny.

Here Is An Easy Step-By-Step Pedicure Tutorial At Home For Beginners. Do Have A Read.

Pedicure Bucket

The first step to do a pedicure at home is to get a pedicure bucket/tub ready to soak in your feet. For this, you have to fill half of the bucket with warm water and add some bath salts. If you don’t have then you can also for shampoo as well. Add salt and keep lemon pieces aside. Salt and shampoo make sure to remove the dirt from your feet and foot nails.

Remove Nail Paint

After you’ve soaked your feet for a while, the nails would have become soft and now you can easily remove the existing nail paint from your nails.

Trimming Nails

Now trim your nails just like you do it during manicure. While many women prefer to keep the foot nails short, there are some who like to all the nails stylish and beautiful. However, while filing the nails, make sure you do not cut them too short.

Scrubbing

After soaking the feet in warm water, the heels would have become soft. It can help you easily scrub the heels. You can use a pumice stone to or scrub brush to rub the feet. The scrubbing helps remove the dead cells and rough skin from the heels. Pedicure for cracked heels is extremely important.

Exfoliating

Now again soak the feet in the warm solution for 10 minutes. Use the foot scrub to exfoliate the feet. After scrubbing, apply foot mask but leaves the toes open.

Dry The Feet

Now remove the legs from the solution and wipe them with a dry towel.

Prepare The Cuticles

Now it’s time to push back the cuticles. Use a wooden nail stick to push back the cuticle. After filing off the nails, gently push back the cuticles but make sure you do not remove them completely, as it may lead to infection.

Cleaning

Unlike hand nails, foot nails easily store in dirt. Use the end of the filer to remove the dirt from beneath each nail. Make sure you clean them gently as you may injure the nails.

Massaging

Now that you’re done with filing and scrubbing, it’s time to massage your feet using a moisturizer. It will help your feet from drying.

Paint The Nails

Use the base coat first and then after the nails are dried, go for nail polish to paint the nails. You can also check our mani-pedi chart for great color combinations for the hands and feet.