Your celebrity foot-speration: Reese Witherspoon.
When loyal Save the Date reader mamaworker mentioned yesterday that she'd recently gotten one of those ill-advised treatments where they razor off all the dead skin on your feet, it reminded me of a beauty tip I've been meaning to share.
As a marathon runner and a high-heel wearer, I used to also say yes when I was getting a pedi and they offered to razor the dead skin. Yes, I know it's potentially unsafe and majorly gross, but my unrazored feet were even grosser, in spite of all the add-on "callus remover treatments" that did absolutely nothing.
But I recently found something that keeps my feet baby-smooth, and it doesn't involve letting germ-infested razors near my feet, so hooray!
After getting a hard-core pedi that, yes, involved a foot razor, I was whining to Petra that my feet would never be this smooth again. Her recommendation: Slather on Amlactin Foot Cream—which contains alpha-hydroxy acids—before bed, and sleep wearing socks. She's been raving about her foot-softening solution for years, but I never thought it would be hard-core enough for my heavily callused feet, which were like at, like, Defcon 9 in banged-up-pedness. But I'm thrilled—and SHOCKED—to report that two months later, it totally worked. I'm still running and wearing heels, but I have NO dead-skin buildup.
Guys, I cannot rave enough about this. It takes a grand total of 12 seconds a night, and I can pretty much guarantee it will work for even the gnarliest of feet. And if you add this 12-second habit to your routine now, your feet will be baby-soft on your wedding day. One less thing to worry about. (And one less thing that might go wrong pre-wedding. You don't want an infected foot-razor cut—gag! gag! gag!—forcing you down the aisle on crutches!)
Are you keeping up your feet for your wedding day? Are you worried about having gnarly feet in your wedding shoes?