How to Do a Pedicure at Home for Soft, Smooth Feet

It's been like a year since I did my last pedicure routine now in that article I did a dry manicure or like a machine manicure using an e file so I'm basically taking it back to basics so today I'm gonna show you how to do a simple pedicure so let's get started now disclaimer my feet don't normally look like this this is a judgment-free zone so the

Soaking

first thing you're gonna want to do is to soak your feet and I just happen to come across this tub on Amazon which I like because it's collapsible so it saves room and when you get older you can appreciate things like that because we ain't got no space but also feel free to go to Target and just buy this in the kitchen section which only cost you a dollar ninety-nine and while you can just use warm water ideally adding other things to it is going to be more beneficial and usually my go-to is apple cider vinegar if I don't have anything else so I will add that to my water or you can just use epson salt this one is actually the mustard soap that I use in the first article I do find that some type of sodium or acid is going to actually help break down the dead skin faster or you can even take this opportunity to use the facial and bath tea that are made in the DIY self-care routine article you want to soak your feet for like at least 10 to 15 minutes depending on how bad they are if they're not too bad then you can do less but if they are more like a mine than you might want to do more so then I'm gonna take this callus

Exfoliating

remover this I also picked up on Amazon as you guys know I generally use the diamond cell number 20 but I wanted to find an alternative for you guys that was a little bit more affordable and this one is great because it actually is dual sided so it comes with one side that's more coarse on the other side that's more fine and the files are actually removable so it comes with replacement stickers for each side I think about five of them the thing that I like about the diamond cell though is that I don't have to worry about any of that because it is sanitized Abul so I can just keep using the same thing over and over again and I don't have to keep buying replacements and you know creating more waste I think you guys get the drill you just you know lightly file you don't want to put too much pressure on your skin so you do want to stop periodically and just kind of check your progress and a good indication that you are actually done with the specific area is that the skin will be nice and pink the color is an indication that there is blood flow to the surface of the skin so that means that you have reached healthy soft tissue usually at that point or even slightly before is when I will turn my file over to the finer side and just kind of go lightly over the foot and basically what this is doing is essentially polishing the skin so because you've used a file that's so coarse you want to take down the grittiness so that you're not left with anything kind of jagged or rough this dust is a product of my feet actually being too dry but this is just kind of something that happened because that takes me time to set up the camera and stuff like that nor was I able to actually soak my foot for that long however after I resold it I have a much different result the skin will actually come off much easier and it'll even make this process a little bit cleaner because since the skin is full of water it's heavier it will just drop to the floor rather than flying around in the air and landing on your clothes your hand and everywhere else notice the difference between soaking your feet for a long time versus soaking your feet for a short period of time my second foot which was still in the water the entire time that I was doing my first you'll see that the callus has actually turned white which is exactly what you want and how you can easily identify what skin is dead and what's not the fact that skin is so ready to come off that even if I just rub it with my finger you'll see that it balls up and it removes itself so I'm not sure exactly how long my foot was sitting here but let's just say it was like 15 to 20 minutes so yeah basically soak your feet as long as you possibly can here I had to be a little bit quicker because I was fighting daylight and if you're not able to get all of your debts getting off at one time it's fine you can do this every few days if you want to especially in the summertime because this is the perfect way to keep up the sandal weather now since my soles are

Cuticle Work

the most work that's why I do them first to kind of get them out of the way and also it gives the adequate time for you to soften your cuticles it seems like a lot of people are not comfortable with pushing their cuticles back because it actually hurts and that shouldn't happen so if you're soaking for a good amount of time you will eliminate that discomfort because you've actually allowed the cuticle to lift from the natural nail I'm using this tool which is a cuticle stone it's basically like a pumice stone but specifically in a perfect shape for pushing back your cuticles sitting really nicely into the lateral folds and proximal nail fold so if you're a beginner and you have a lot of dead skin but not comfortable with cutting it and you can use something like this because as you can see it gets rid of a lot you can just use a regular cuticle pusher this one I found at five below for like three dollars and I like it because the other side has this little spoon shaped end so this is perfect for going underneath the free edge to clean under your nail you can also even use this side as a cuticle pusher as well so you can see that it really helps lift any dead skin off of the nail plate and make sure that I'm just like freeing up all of that extra tissue or my proximal nail fold is so just a reiterate if it is white and or very translucent then it is likely dead tissue and can be removed and I know a lot of people find is controversial but like I said I do get a lot of dead skin so I do prefer a cuticle cutter to get rid of everything now also in my first article I didn't actually trim my toenails and I did get some questions about how I achieved this shape so what I do is if they're long

Shaping

enough I will take a straight draw nail clipper or I will just take a pair of cuticle cutters so these are not the ones that I actually use on my cuticles and I use that to get a really straight free edge then I will go in with a fine grit file this is a 240 and I will clean up that edge a little bit but also go along the sidewalls to make sure those are nice and straight and at a 90 degree angle and then I will just lightly soften the corners so that I don't have really sharp edges because we don't want to be tearing through socks that ank you something totally optional this is the

Scrub

final step I like to go in with my o RG mineral pillow if you've been following this Website for a while you know I absolutely love this stuff it's been years now and this is my ride-or-die and I just take this just to go as a final exfoliation I do this on the bottoms and the tops of the feet I will even go up my legs if you don't have this product or anything similar you can just use the scrub but really it is optional so here

Waxing Toe Hair

I'm taking my sugar paste which is a little firm so I'm just kind of kneading it in my hands to warm it up and then I'm gonna use this to whack some of the hair on my toes and the reason that I do this and I don't just like shave it is because you can always see like little black dots where the hair is kind of just sitting right under the skin and if you guys want to know how I shook her then that article is probably popping up on the screen right now but I'll also list it in the description box and I'll also list my article on how to make this sugar wax if you want to make it yourself so now that we have gotten rid of all of that we have exfoliated we now

Moisturizing

need to rehydrate the skin so while my feet are still damp I'm gonna take some mobil oil and apply that directly to the nail and the surrounding skin and yes you can substitute this for any oil that you would like the only thing I don't recommend is baby oil because that's not actually oil and then for the rest of my skin I'm going to take my soothing balm which I also DIY I'm adding a couple of drops of the jojoba oil but that's totally optional and just in case you're curious the reason I'm using this is because I want something thick like a butter or a balm that's actually going to just sit on top of the skin and really hold the moisture into my feet and at this point I would actually wrap my feet in saran wrap like I did in the

Polish

first article cuz you guys probably noticed in the beginning I broke the corner of my toenail so because they are shorter than I would normally like for them to be this is what I would normally go for a new because it kind of camouflages that this shape isn't perfectly square and here I'm using a color from Bernadette Thompson this is Kashmir and at the moment this is literally like the perfect brown girl nude for me as a matter of fact this brand is black owned and the crazy thing is I've had this polish for a while now you guys can't tell because I shook it up before that it would look more even but really there's only half of this bottle left and the application of it is still so freaking smooth like I don't understand how it's not streaky or lumpy or anything so needless to say I will be

Results

purchasing more hash tag and not sponsored because this is only one coat guys I was even actually thinking about maybe trying an extension so if that's something you guys would be interested in just let me know so yeah that's it I hope you guys like this video if you did don't forget to give it a thumbs up and also Pin because I am thinking about doing like some more pedicure articles I think I thought it might be fun to just do like more of a nail art series on the feet because it's about to be sandal season y'all and like I always got a pair I already have a ton of my wish list and I know you guys like the ones in my last article that were from Free People I'll see you guys next week bye.