Pedicure Special for Professionals

Comprehensive foot care should be part of our usual personal care and beauty routine all year round, but the reality is that spring/summer is when pedicures are most in demand at beauty salons.

What is a pedicure?

The first thing to bear in mind is that when we talk about pedicure, we mean a foot treatment that goes far beyond polish, especially since feet tend to be neglected during the winter season.

There are many options we can offer our clients, not only to beautify their feet so they look good with summer footwear, but also to treat more specific issues like cracked heels. In this article we want to gather the different pedicure options that can be offered at beauty salons and how each one is carried out, so you can include them in your service portfolio.

Types of pedicure

Express pedicure

The express pedicure is the most basic of all. The main goal of this pedicure is to tidy the nails to prevent ingrown toenails and remove dead skin that has built up in the area. It includes cutting and filing the nail, and applying cream and cuticle oil.

With this type of pedicure we'll remove all the basic imperfections found on the feet, since it's an express service designed more for maintenance.

Hydration pedicure

The hydration pedicure is a more complete pedicure, recommended for clients whose feet are very dehydrated. It's carried out using socks containing a series of ingredients that provide intense hydration for deep foot repair.

This pedicure is one of the most requested at beauty salons. It involves treating the feet more thoroughly than with the express pedicure; we cut and file the client's nails. Once the nails have the desired shape, we remove calluses, for which we can use the electric file or the foot file.

Next, once we've completely removed the calluses and hard skin, we place the foot into the hydration sock. As mentioned earlier, these socks contain ingredients such as keratin, glycerin or urea, among others, so they provide intense, deep hydration.

We can take advantage of the sock's active ingredients working by tending to the cuticles, making a small hole in the sock over the toe area. This is the moment to push back and remove the cuticles. Always do this step carefully, as it's a very sensitive area.

To finish this pedicure, we remove the sock and, using the remaining product on the foot, give the client a massage so they relax at the end of the service.

Spa pedicure

This type of pedicure is conceived more as a moment of relaxation focused on the feet, rather than a care or repair service for that area. The client who books this type of service expects to relax (it's their moment!), as well as leaving with pretty feet.

This pedicure is similar to the express pedicure, but we'll add several steps and actions, making it a longer, more relaxing pedicure. We start by placing the feet in aromatherapy water before starting to work on the area.

Then we continue the treatment, filing and cutting the nails, removing calluses. In this type of pedicure it's common to place the feet in paraffin or mud, and also to use hot stones that we run over the soles of the feet to relax the area and our client. To finish the treatment, we can perform a relaxing massage with essential oils that release built-up tension, improve circulation, and help drain the area to reduce fluid retention.

Complete pedicure (with specific callus-removal product)

We recommend this pedicure for clients with a large amount of hard skin, since we'll use a specific product to remove it quickly and painlessly.

To carry out this pedicure, the first thing we need to do is soak a cotton pad in callus softener. At Seena Owell we recommend the one from the Premium Lacquer brand, available on our website:

We apply the cotton pad soaked in this product to the areas where the client has hard skin or calluses, and then we wrap the feet in cling film, leaving the nails uncovered. We leave the product to work for 10 minutes; that's when we cut, file and remove the nail cuticles.

After the exposure time, we remove the cotton pads and we'll see that the hard skin has turned whiter than at the start. We remove as much hard skin as possible with a spatula. To remove it completely, we need to gently run the foot file over it until the feet are completely smooth.

Once the hard skin has been removed, it's time for exfoliation; we recommend the hand and foot scrub from the California Mango brand. With this step we remove all the dead skin cells from the feet, leaving them soft and hydrated.

To finish the service, we'll give a relaxing massage. For this massage we recommend the Extreme hand and foot cream from the California Mango brand, which not only hydrates deeply but also smells like summer.

Special treatment for cracked heels

We may come across clients who only want to improve the look of their heels and aren't looking for a full pedicure, either because they don't like having their feet polished or for other reasons. For these cases it's advisable to offer a treatment specific to the heels, in which we'll only focus on removing hard skin from that area.

To carry it out, we apply the callus softener to a cotton pad which we place over the area to be treated. We wrap the foot in cling film and leave it to work for 10 minutes. After the exposure time, we remove the dead skin with a spatula and finish removing it with the electric file, always set to low power to avoid burns. To finish the service, we apply a cream so the client leaves with a comfortable feeling.

If the client suffers from very dry heels, it's advisable to offer the California Mango Mend Dry Skin Balm, which is formulated for extremely dry skin and is wonderful.

Nail polishing

The final step of all the treatments we've explained is polishing or painting the toenails, either with regular polish or with a gel/permanent polish, which is the most used due to its long-lasting finish. Polishing is the perfect finishing touch so your clients' feet look flawless.

For feet, we should also bear in mind each season's trends, even offering decorations for the more daring clients.

Although the trend of matching hands and feet still holds, it's very common to match the polish to the footwear or outfit worn for a special event, or to use neutral colours that go with everything.

Besides the colours we'll see most this summer, orange and pink, which are so flattering, there's a trend we love and can't leave out, and that's applying pastel colours but in a matte finish, like this example we're showing you:

For everything related to polishing and decorations, we recommend visiting the Decorations section of our website: https://seenaowell.com/es/82-decoraciones

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