FOOT CARE JOURNAL 12
Why It’s Worth Leaving
Callus Care to a Professional
Feet washed, skin softened, the foundation laid. Next comes callus care, and here there is no rule that says you have to do it all yourself.
Callused skin varies in thickness and hardness from one spot to the next. Filing the whole sole while trying to see it is awkward at best, and judging pressure by feel alone is harder than it sounds.
A professional switches between tools and reads the skin one area at a time, so there is no risk of pressing too hard.
Hand and foot, in one word
In Britain, a foot specialist was long called a chiropodist. The word joins the Greek for hand, kheir, and foot, pous, because early practitioners looked after both. Care for hands and feet has always gone together.
The moisturizing that should follow comes as part of the same treatment. Washing, smoothing, moisturizing: when the whole sequence is in one pair of hands, the result tends to last longer.
On weeks when there is no time to sit down with your own feet, or when something just isn’t working, handing it over is simply another way of taking care.
So once your feet are smooth, how should you keep them moisturized day to day?
Try, just once, the comfort of leaving it to someone else.
At Colors Hiroo Nail Lounge, foot care is a treatment of its own, never an afterthought. Over the years, we have kept refining how we care for callused skin and heels.
It can be done in the same visit as your gel manicure or pedicure: an unhurried hour in a modern Japanese house, two minutes’ walk from Hiroo Station.
Reservations are made through Hot Pepper Beauty, an external Japanese booking site. English-language plan details are listed further down that page; please scroll down to find them.
Colors Hiroo Nail Lounge
5-3-8 Hiroo, Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo
Mon–Fri 10:00–21:00
Sat, Sun & Holidays 11:00–20:00