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cirocco
10/13/09

In reply to Feet First
One of my former places of employ kept a saltwater tank with several cleaner shrimp. I always enjoyed putting my hands in the water and letting them clean out beneath my nails.

Colonics are "gross." Highlighted hair is "unnecessary." These adjectives are not good reasons to suck down legislators' time with weird statutes banning colonics and highlights. I don't understand how anyone can get that het up about fish pedicures.
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KimberleeJean
10/13/09

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I once experienced something similar, only with a goat and my hair.
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CherriSpryte
10/13/09

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I'm really suprised so many of these comments are so negative - I really want to get a fish pedicure .... if I had a spare $50 and the means to get out to the place in VA that does it.
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UrbanAchiever
10/13/09

In reply to Feet First
Finally, *fin* to the finny goings on at fishy foot salons.
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Friday
10/13/09

@UrbanAchiever: What are you carping about? Things were going swimmingly until now.
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FroderickFronkensteen
10/13/09

@Friday just keeps knitting, and knitting...: I think you've missed the boat on this one.
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pink-india-ink
10/13/09

@UrbanAchiever: Holy mackerel! I sense a real sea change in city pedicure practice.
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UrbanAchiever
10/13/09

@Friday just keeps knitting, and knitting...: Salons are always angling for new customers, and people are gill-able.
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BabyJane
10/13/09

@UrbanAchiever: You're right, it's just a hook.
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applejuice
10/13/09

In reply to Feet First
I don't need no fish, I got myself a nice little cheese grater, uh - I mean "ped-egg", that grosses everybody out just fine thanks.
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sampagita
10/13/09

@applejuice: I saw a knock off ped egg at Bed Bath and Beyond ... and noticed it was the same brand as the zester just a few aisles over. Ew.
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applejuice
10/13/09

@sampagita: Ha ha, that is pretty funny. I know someone who actually uses a ped-egg to grate parmesan cheese nice and fine.

I have a "Revlon" brand ped-egg knock off that I bought at Bed Bath and Beyond. It actually works better than my brand name ped-egg. (Yes, I have more than one.)

My friends and family think they are all disgusting, but I'll tell you what - some Flexitol cream (or the Target brand equivelant) overnight for a couple days under socks and a good warm soak and I was able to take off all the horrible old cracked skin in one day with a ped-egg that I had been always in the past been unable to get rid of over several weeks. Gross it may be, but I now have lovely heels I am not embarassed of! (Which I have never had, it seems to be the way I walk.)
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applejuice
10/13/09

@applejuice: My point remains - who needs fish when Flexitol and a ped-egg work so well!
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sampagita
10/13/09

@applejuice: Oh, not knocking the ped egg - I also have rough heels. That's hilarious that someone actually does use it for cheese though! Because I think the foot shavings do look exactly like parmesan.
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artyfarty
10/13/09

@applejuice: My husband bought me one of those so he could use it on my gross feet as part of his "4 step process." He calls it the grater and when he's done, he's covered with disgusting skin shavings but if he's not, he doesn't consider it a job well done. I haven't paid for a pedicure in years thanks to him.

Even though it's my own dead skin it still grosses me out way more than him.
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adoringava
10/13/09

@applejuice: Ive always wanted to try one of those, but I actually need some of my calluses for dance, bleh for dancer feet
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applejuice
10/13/09

@artyfarty: Try it with using the Flexitol for a night or two first. I have tried it with and without and it totally works soooooo much better with the Flexitol! Seriously, flexitol overnight for a couple nights and then a soak and you won't believe it!
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applejuice
10/13/09

@adoringava: It really does work! Again, with Flexitol overnight first it works even better.
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applejuice
10/13/09

@sampagita: They so do (look like cheese). My sister and I were amazed when it actually looks like the stuff the lady dumps out in the ad! And I always want to show someone else! It is this overwhelming urge. Invariabley they are totally disgusted and tell me to go away. (I need to learn to control the urge!)
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LazyHippo
10/13/09

In reply to Feet First
I don't know, if it's good enough for hippos . . .
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morninggloria
10/13/09

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This was a piece of cautionary legislature put in place to prevent the inevitable future rise in popularity of the barracuda bris.
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Devonna
10/13/09

In reply to Feet First
Why pay for it? Just go to a freshwater lake with sunfish and those babies will munch away for free. I never called it a pedicure, I called it "summertime at the cabin."
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LazyHippo
10/13/09

@Devonna: But then you have to take the fish out to dinner, they expect you to make conversation and then call them. Sometimes it's just easier to pay for it.
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rixatrix
10/13/09

In reply to Feet First
When are women going to learn to stop using parasites for beauty rituals? Leeches, tapeworms, fish pedicures - seriously, when does gross trump pretty?
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cate3710
10/13/09

@rixatrix: "when does gross trump pretty?"

I'm gonna go with "never", as long as people are willing to pay.
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dissolver
10/13/09

@rixatrix: I would put "removal of already-dead skin" in a different category than "blood loss" and "intestinal parasites". I don't really think this is that gross, I think it's sort of neat -- fish get a snack, I get happier feet. Why does it automatically have to be about pretty?
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cate3710
10/13/09

@rixatrix: What sort of beauty ritual involves leeches? Olde tyme medicine used it, I know, but for beauty?
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rixatrix
10/13/09

@cate3710: Demi Moore has said she uses leeches as part of her beauty regime. For what, I don't care to find out.

@Sadako: There are ads from the early 1900s that encouraged women to buy tapeworms as a way to keep their girlish figures. At the very least, they were being SOLD, but who knows if they were very popular.

@dissolver: What is a pumice stone for if not for that very thing? Parasites are parasites; gross is gross. Also, how are your feet "happier" when you have dead skin taken away? As far as I know, it is about the aesthetics of feet - how pretty they look, how smooth they feel. I can't imagine letting something feed off me to get results I could get from a $5 drugstore callus shaver and a bottle of lotion.
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HarpMadness
10/13/09

In reply to Feet First
Can't we just use that razor-blade egg thing?
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LaFemme
10/13/09

@HarpMadness: I hate that egg thing. Liquid callus remover and a pumice is where it's at.
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whynotshesaid
10/13/09

In reply to Feet First
Has anyone had this done? I am so intrigued by it, in a perverse way.
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lilbobbytables
10/13/09

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See, I don't want to encourage our fishy friends to develop a taste for man. I read Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, I know what will happen next. And as much as I like the Cthulhu mythos, I have no desire to meet him.
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Norton
10/13/09

@lilbobbytables is a la-di-da feminist: It's my fault Buster lost his hand! I gave the seal a taste for flesh!
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Friday
10/13/09

@Norton: Buster's just been so depressed lately...

Maybe it's because a seal bit off his hand, Mother.

...I don't know what it is.
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SaturdaysChild
10/13/09

In reply to Feet First
This is about my worst nightmare EVER. Seriously, thinking about fish nibbling on my feet makes me want to vomit.
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HarpMadness
10/13/09

@SaturdaysChild: I seriously, honestly have a phobia of fish. I can't really imagine anything worse (that is a real thing -- my phobia-clouded mind can come up with all kinds of scenarios, mostly when I'm at the beach). I am going to have nightmares about this.
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Mayonegg
10/13/09

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ah yes, something that was discovered in order to eat burn patients delicate dead tissue, and appropriated by expensive salons is of course unsanitary.

If the fish are treated well and kept properly there's no cause for alarm. It's not like you're dipping your toes into Jaw's beach!
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cate3710
10/13/09

@Mayonegg: Okay, now I have a mental image of a burn victim submerged in a tub of water with little fishies munching away. Highly useful, I'm sure, but also really creepy to imagine.
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inabook
10/13/09

In reply to Feet First
Awwww, but it can totally be done in a sanitary way! and its sort of cool! fish clean your feet and get to snack while doing it!
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yvanehtnioj
10/13/09

@inabook: I want to do this so bad, and they banned it in DC like 2 days before I visited. Now it's banned in NYC when I didn't even realize we had it here. I don't get the hate, it's pedicure + petting zoo + the food chain + slightly creepy in a fun way. As long as it doesn't smell like dead fish in the salon I'm SO. DOWN.
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