After a long summer of polish after pedicure, I decided to take off my toenail polish to give my nails a breather. Well, imagine my horror when I saw this...
My heart about dropped through the floor. I was disgusted...
So I immediately went to the drug store and got this...
Are you like me? Does that image on the box lead you to believe that this is a product to get rid of toenail fungus? Yes, well it's not. In tiny print on the inside it says it can't penetrate the nail. Hmm. Fucking assholes.
I used an emory board to file off all of the fungus infected nail. The good news was that it was not so infected that the fungus had penetrated beneath the nail. THANK THE FUCKING LORD! I think I would have to kill myself if I had fungus feet. Seriously disturbing to me. So disturbing that I am taking mercy on your soul and not including any pictures of them. Because they scare the crap out of me. Even before all of this....
Anyways...here is where things get interesting. My heels have been cracked and yucky looking for at least 15 years. I figured that it was part of getting older and grosser, like the whole older = harrier thing. About 5 years ago, my toes even started to crack. These aren't my feet, but this was about my level of cracking...
After filing my nails 2x a day for a week and applying the fungi cure on the nails and around the nails I had the weirdest surprise. I got out of the shower and was drying my toes super carefully. I proceeded to peel the skin off of my toes like peeling a hard boiled egg. I shit you not. So satisfying and so disgusting.
I immediately called my poor, long suffering husband and told him that I thought that the cracking on my feet was caused by fungus, not dry feet. I also told him that I was going to do a test and start putting my fungi cure all over my feet to see if it took care of the cracks. (I then did some research on google that backed up this theory. Okay, hypothesis for the science nerds who are reading this.)
Guess what?? I was fucking right. I am so pissed off at all the stupid pins that are like - just put lotion on and use a pumice. Or soak your heels in vinegar and then pumice them. (BTW, I did that about 10 years ago and never EVER do that. The acid in the vinegar can over-dissolve your callouses and skin and it is fucking PAINFUL.) So even though I was too disgusted with myself to take any before pictures, I do want to share my after photos. They aren't perfect, but hot damn, these feet haven't looked this good since I was 18. These photos were taken after a shower, with no lotion or any kind of anything on my feet.
BTW, if somebody says your heel cracks are from flip flops - my ass they are. It's from NOT wearing flip flops in the shower. So don't rip on me when you see me at the pool wearing these.
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