Have you neglected your feet all this while? 
Remember that a pair of well-cared feet is an integral part of a well-groomed appearance. A pretty pair or healthy feet is a definite plus! Just because our feet are not as visible to the scrutinising eyes of others as are the rest of us, being for most part of the time clad in either fashionable pumps, elegant stilettos, or soft bedroom slippers, that doesn't mean that our daily beauty routine should stop at our knees or our ankles. Getting a firm foothold on proper foot care techniques, besides completing our head-to-toe beauty appearance, help us guard our feet against minor foot ailments such as corns, callouses and athlete's foot and also other problems relating to them. While healthy feet put a smile to our lips, beat feet do sometimes put us in a rut! Proper foot massage, a regular pedicure as well as daily foot exercises all add up towards making pretty feet our footprint.

Setting foot on a pedicure
The time spent on a pedicure should be relaxing and unhurried, after all it is your private time, a time to be devoted to you alone, a time to be spent in the most enjoyable way. Start by turning on some soothing instrumentals to get you to unwind and get ready for the pedicure. Squirt some nail polish remover on the cotton balls and remove old nail varnish, clean edges of toe nails.

To trim toenails, use a specially rounded nail clipper and clip nails straight across, making sure that they are even with the ends of your toes, not too short (as the skin underneath the toenails is very tender) and not too long (this may give rise to ingrowing toenails). Do not cut down into corners. Use the coarse side of the emery board, smooth rough and jagged edges. Keep your movement to one direction, towards the centre of your nails.

Put some warm water in a big basin and if you prefer, add a few drops of fragrant cleansing gel. Soak your feet in water for ten minutes. Scrub round toes, underfeet and heels with a soapy nailbrush to loosen dirt.

Dip pumice stone in warm water and then rub it gently on rough skin and callouses especially at the soles of feet. Dry feet with clean towel. Apply cuticle softner along cuticles. Ensure that undernails are scrupulously clean. Now wash feet. Apply moisturiser. Then apply base coat and nail polish and voilˆ the world will be at your feet !