I used to occasionally get pedicures, more for the making my feet nice and soft than the painting my toenails part (which is easy to do myself if I care about that). One place many years ago then clipped a corner of my big toenail way too short, and it got ingrown, and I ended up needing to get a chunk of the nail essentially cut off by a podiatrist which sucked. I didn’t get another pedicure for many years. Finally went back, got one, and then in the next week, ended up with cellulitis on one of my feet that started spreading super rapidly and needed oral antibiotics (and an x-ray to confirm it hadn’t reached the bone). My podiatrist said that salons, even the super clean one that I went to that has that as their thing, are bacteria traps, because there’s just no way to adequately clean the tubs between customers, so it’s only really safe if you don’t use those (which defeats a lot of their ability to get the excess skin off) and (this may not be relevant here) you should never ever use their polishes since those aren’t clean at all, but bring your own. So that was my last time ever doing it, and I have a good foot scraper at home, and soak my feet and do it myself when I need to. That said, plenty of people use salons regularly with no problem—I imagine I just had really bad luck of the draw twice. But neither of the experiences I had were worth risking it IMO.
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