toe separators

How to make Toe Separators for PedicuresBy MarmaladeKiss

You will need:

2 pieces of fabric 3 inches x 12 inches2 pieces of wadding 2 inches x 10 inches

Iron down a 1cm border on each side of the strips - don't worry about the ends.

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Place your wadding along the centre of the fabric strip, and bring each side together, stuffing the wadding in half, and pinning securely so that you end up with a fat sausage about 1cm wide.

Sew a seam to hold this sausage in place securely - i used my zipper foot for this.

Now you have a secure sausage, you can choose a nice ornamental satin stitch to finish with. You might want to mark the finished length of each sausage with pins before you sew the next bit. Mine are 11"




The sausage isn't very thick or firm, so your machine foot will be able to rest on it while you sew your nice edging. I used a scalloped edge which I tapered off at a diagonal at each end of the sausage.

When your satin stitched edge is in place, you can cut off the surplus fabric and the toe separators are ready to use!

See the next page for how to use them ......




How to do salon quality toe-nail painting

For a good toe polish which will last at least a month even if you wear boots every day, follow the steps below - trust me, I'm a beautician:

1. First of all, keep all toe nail beauty tools separate from your finger nail tools - par-ticularly nail files. Otherwise you risk spreading fungal diseases.

2. Clean all old nail polish off the nail plate with nail polish remover.3. Trim the nails by cutting with a nail trimmer (as pictured), straight across. Do not

shape them.4. File the toenails, straight across to remove any snags. You can round off sharp

corners but leave them as straight as possible.5. Push cuticles down gently with an orange stick (this is easier after a bath/foot soak)6. Buff the nail plate very lightly and gently with a buffer - paying particular attention

to the base of the nail plate - this will slough off all that annoying skin which sticks to the nail and give the polish a good “key” (like when you gloss paint some wood-work)

7. Now insert your toe separators as in the picture.8. Go over the nail plate again to remove dust and any last traces of polish/grease

with nail polish remover - when the nail is ready it will squeak - like when you know your hair is clean.

9. Prime the nails with a base coat, follow with 2 coats of your colour, then a top coat. Let each coat dry before applying the next.

10. Put your feet up for at least 15 mins, then wear flip flops or bare feet for as long as possible afterwards in order to ensure a hard finish. I always do mine in the evening before relaxing and before bath and bed time.




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