I came across a nail salon techs online discussion the other day and there were a few threads on the topic of how to give a pedicure to the clients who are really ticklish on their feet.
The problem was that those pedicure ladies preferred using electric nail file machines to remove all the hard skin and calluses on the bottom of the client’s feet. Although convenient, this rotary tool seemed to tickle most of the clients like crazy, and those pedicure techs were willing to share their experiences as to how to avoid getting kicked in the face when the client is flinching away during the procedure.
‘But, as a rule, they react so violently to the electric device. Brushes and files usually produce less dramatic effect.’
‘When clients see the device for the first time, they warily ask “Does it hurt?” And no one realizes that it’s so much fun!’
‘All my clients are laughing, especially when I get between the toes.’
Some pedicure techs wrote they try to draw the clients’ attention away from the tickling feeling by making small talk, or tell them to take a deep breath for relaxation, or give them a fiddling toy during the scrub phase, but all the techs agree it doesn’t help much when a salon goer is really ticklish on her feet, so they usually have no option but to tighten their hold on the client’s foot to get the work done.
One nail tech’s report is so intriguing it looks like something dreamed up by a tickle fetishist, but it’s a real account, and is worth quoting in full.
‘I usually firmly hold the client’s foot with my hand and start grinding the bottom of the foot with the machine. They are roaring with laughter like horses. The chair is of a special design so the clients are sitting with their legs elevated high enough and it’s hard to kick me (but they have tried). I remove the hard skin between the toes with a special grinding bit (the fine-grain one, 5 or 7 millimeters in diameter). There was one woman, we had to give her a pedicure like this: the receptionist was lying on her legs while I was treating her feet (she asked for it herself). She was screaming with laughter at the top of her lungs, but you should have heard how quiet it became in the hairdressing room…’
About few years after that post, the same pedicure tech, who lives in Saint Petersburg, the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow, wrote another account on the similar topic:
‘There are two young women frequenting our salon who just can’t stand the electric foot file treatment, they are laughing and kicking out of control because it tickles too much, so we found a solution: our receptionist lies across their lap and then she gets the casual chat started with them, so they can’t bend their legs in the knees or pull their feet away while I’m doing the treatment, and it’s always such a tremendous laughter going on, but there is no other way they can get their feet done.’
This is the very model of an electric nail file she actually uses on her clients’ feet in the photo. The pedicure ladies describe the skin grinding technique they use as a series of quick and light strokes of a fast-spinning abrasive bit along the arch from the heel to the ball of the foot and on the toe pads, so looking at this machine it’s easy to believe that there is hardly a woman who can hold her laughter during such a procedure at a nail salon.
The problem was that those pedicure ladies preferred using electric nail file machines to remove all the hard skin and calluses on the bottom of the client’s feet. Although convenient, this rotary tool seemed to tickle most of the clients like crazy, and those pedicure techs were willing to share their experiences as to how to avoid getting kicked in the face when the client is flinching away during the procedure.
‘But, as a rule, they react so violently to the electric device. Brushes and files usually produce less dramatic effect.’
‘When clients see the device for the first time, they warily ask “Does it hurt?” And no one realizes that it’s so much fun!’
‘All my clients are laughing, especially when I get between the toes.’
Some pedicure techs wrote they try to draw the clients’ attention away from the tickling feeling by making small talk, or tell them to take a deep breath for relaxation, or give them a fiddling toy during the scrub phase, but all the techs agree it doesn’t help much when a salon goer is really ticklish on her feet, so they usually have no option but to tighten their hold on the client’s foot to get the work done.
One nail tech’s report is so intriguing it looks like something dreamed up by a tickle fetishist, but it’s a real account, and is worth quoting in full.
‘I usually firmly hold the client’s foot with my hand and start grinding the bottom of the foot with the machine. They are roaring with laughter like horses. The chair is of a special design so the clients are sitting with their legs elevated high enough and it’s hard to kick me (but they have tried). I remove the hard skin between the toes with a special grinding bit (the fine-grain one, 5 or 7 millimeters in diameter). There was one woman, we had to give her a pedicure like this: the receptionist was lying on her legs while I was treating her feet (she asked for it herself). She was screaming with laughter at the top of her lungs, but you should have heard how quiet it became in the hairdressing room…’
About few years after that post, the same pedicure tech, who lives in Saint Petersburg, the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow, wrote another account on the similar topic:
‘There are two young women frequenting our salon who just can’t stand the electric foot file treatment, they are laughing and kicking out of control because it tickles too much, so we found a solution: our receptionist lies across their lap and then she gets the casual chat started with them, so they can’t bend their legs in the knees or pull their feet away while I’m doing the treatment, and it’s always such a tremendous laughter going on, but there is no other way they can get their feet done.’
This is the very model of an electric nail file she actually uses on her clients’ feet in the photo. The pedicure ladies describe the skin grinding technique they use as a series of quick and light strokes of a fast-spinning abrasive bit along the arch from the heel to the ball of the foot and on the toe pads, so looking at this machine it’s easy to believe that there is hardly a woman who can hold her laughter during such a procedure at a nail salon.
. Did you find any ticklish pedicure videos from russia on social media? Also, do you mind sharing where you found the posts from the pedicurist who has her receptionist holding down the clients feet?
