Sixty minutes in a pipe free tub with a fresh liner. Soak, exfoliation, proper callus reduction, nails cut straight across, and ten minutes of massage that is timed rather than trimmed when the diary runs late.
Feet are the one place where a beauty treatment genuinely overlaps with health. Tell us if you have diabetes, reduced sensation in your feet, poor circulation, varicose veins, a history of blood clots, or have had recent surgery on your legs or feet. Any of those change the treatment, and for some of them we will leave the massage out entirely and keep everything gentle.
If a toenail is thickened, crumbling, discolored or lifting, or if there is an ingrown nail, an open cut or broken skin, we will not work on it or polish over it. Covering a possible infection traps it and hides it. We will say so plainly and suggest a podiatrist or your doctor.
A Fresh Liner Goes In Before You Sit Down
A classic pedicure is forty minutes of maintenance. Soak, shape, cuticle work, a light pass over hard skin, polish. It keeps your feet tidy and it does the job perfectly well if nothing much is wrong.
A spa pedicure is sixty minutes and adds the three things that actually change how your feet feel rather than how they look. A longer soak with a proper softener, real exfoliation and callus reduction, and ten minutes of massage through the foot and lower leg.
That massage is not a garnish. It is the reason people book this appointment on a bad week, and it is the first thing cut short in most salons when the diary slips. Ours is timed, and if we are running behind you will be told at the start rather than quietly given four minutes.
Sixty minutes. Stage one and stage six are the two that separate a pedicure that helps your feet from one that only decorates them.
Nails, skin, circulation and any problem areas assessed before anything starts. Health conditions discussed, and the treatment adjusted or stopped if needed.
A fresh disposable liner fitted in front of you into a tub with no internal pipes. You should see this happen and at most salons you do not.
Warm water with a softener. Rushing this is why callus work elsewhere feels rough. Softened skin comes away easily and hard skin does not.
Trimmed straight across and filed lightly at the corners, never curved down into the sidewall. This is what prevents ingrown nails from forming.
Softened, pushed back, dead tissue cleared from the plate. The living seal at the base is never cut, because cutting it is what lets bacteria in.
Foot file and pumice over softened skin, reducing thickness rather than removing it entirely. No blade, no shaver, no cutting of living tissue.
Sugar or salt scrub worked from toes to knee, then lifted off with hot towels. This is the point where most people stop talking.
Foot, ankle and lower leg, worked upward toward the heart. Skipped entirely if you have a clotting history or any condition where it would not be safe.
Plate cleaned of oil from the massage, then base, color and top coat, or gel if booked. Skipping the cleanse here is why polish lifts within days.
Cuticle oil at the nails and written aftercare handed over, including the honest answer on how long polish will realistically last in shoes.
Every so often a news story appears about a group of people who developed serious skin infections after pedicures at the same salon. It is not a scare story and it is not rare, and the cause is almost always the same piece of equipment.
A jetted footspa circulates water through internal plumbing to create the bubbles. That plumbing is behind the tub wall, it never fully drains, and it is extremely difficult to disinfect properly no matter how carefully staff scrub the visible basin between clients. Warm, damp, dark and undrained is close to ideal conditions for bacteria.
Our tubs have no jets and no pipes at all. There is nothing behind the wall for anything to sit in. On top of that, a fresh disposable liner goes in before every single client, so your feet never touch the tub surface itself.
Plenty of salons take hard skin off with a credo blade, a foot razor or a shaver. It is fast, the result on the day looks dramatic, and it is cutting living tissue. In many states that is outside what a cosmetologist or nail technician is licensed to do at all, and the risk of cutting too deep is real.
There is also a reason not to do it even where it is permitted. A callus is your body's response to pressure and friction. Strip it away entirely and the body reads that as more exposure and rebuilds it thicker. This is why people who have hard skin bladed off end up needing it done again sooner every time.
Three lengths of pedicure plus five add ons. Everything is quoted before we start, never added at the desk afterwards.
Soak, shape, cuticle work, light hard skin attention and polish, in forty minutes. The extended soak, full callus work, scrub and massage are all left out.
The full ten stage treatment. Long soak, callus reduction, scrub to the knee, hot towels and ten minutes of massage. This is the standard appointment.
Everything in the spa pedicure plus an extended callus treatment, a foot mask under warm wraps and a twenty minute massage. Eighty minutes, and worth it after a hard season.
The same treatment weighted toward callus work, ingrown prevention and nail thickness, finished with a buff rather than color. Fifty minutes.
Gel instead of regular polish. Lasts four to six weeks on toes rather than two to three on hands, because toenails grow at roughly half the rate. The best value on the nail menu.
Extended softening and a longer filing stage for heavy build up or cracked heels. Best booked as a short course rather than a one off, with cream at home in between.
Warm paraffin wrap after the scrub. Genuinely effective on dry, cracked winter skin, and comfortably the most pleasant twenty minutes on the whole menu.
Hand painted detail on toes, priced per nail exactly as on hands. A single accent toe costs five dollars rather than pushing you into a full set price.
What separates a pedicure that genuinely helps your feet from one that only makes them look tidy for a fortnight.
Pipe free tubs plus a fresh liner every time. This is equipment rather than a cleaning promise, which is why it holds on a busy Saturday as well as a quiet Monday.
File and pumice over softened skin only. Slower, safer, within what a technician should be doing, and it avoids the rebound that makes callus return thicker.
Straight across, never curved into the corners. It takes no extra time and it is the single biggest preventable cause of ingrown toenails.
Ten minutes, protected. If we are running late you are told at the start of your appointment rather than quietly given four.
Diabetes, neuropathy and clotting history all change what we do. We would rather do less and send you to a podiatrist than take a risk with your feet.
Toenails grow at about half the rate of fingernails and your feet do far less to them. Thirty five dollars for six weeks is the best value in the building.
Often Booked Together
Six things clients describe about a pedicure somewhere else. Two of them are comfort issues and four are genuine safety ones.
Water circulated through internal plumbing that never fully drains and cannot be properly disinfected. This is the specific piece of equipment behind the infection stories that reach the news.
Here InsteadPipe free tubs with a fresh disposable liner for every client, fitted in front of you.Fast and dramatic on the day. It is cutting living tissue, it is outside what a technician is licensed to do in many states, and the callus returns thicker each time.
Here InsteadFile and pumice over properly softened skin, reducing rather than stripping.It looks neater for a fortnight, then the sidewall skin closes over the shortened corner and the regrowing nail digs in. This is how most ingrown toenails start.
Here InsteadCut straight across with only the sharp corners softened by file.The diary is full, so the soak is shortened. Hard skin never softens, so the filing has to be aggressive to achieve anything, and it feels rough because it is.
Here InsteadA full ten minutes with softener, which is what makes the rest gentle.Four minutes instead of ten when things run late. Nobody complains about it at the time. They simply do not come back, and the salon never connects the two.
Here InsteadTimed at ten minutes, and you are told at the start if we are running behind.A thickened or discolored toenail painted over rather than mentioned. It seals the problem in and the client finds out months later how long it had been developing.
Here InsteadWe tell you and suggest a podiatrist. We would rather lose the polish than hide something.Two or three appointments four weeks apart, plus a urea cream nightly at home. One visit brings it down but will not fix it, and we will say so rather than overselling.
It needs a good hour to harden fully. Closed shoes straight afterwards will dent it. Bring open shoes, or add gel at $35 and the problem disappears entirely.
Ingrown nails needing removal, suspected fungal infection, verrucas and anything painful are medical. We will treat around them or stop, and tell you where to go.
If you have a clotting history, varicose veins or recent leg surgery, we will skip it. You still get the full treatment and the price does not change.
Starting prices including the foot health check, a fresh liner, sterile tools, callus work and cuticle oil. Add ons are quoted before we start, never afterwards.
| Service | From | Time | Includes Massage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nail Art, Per Toe | $5 | Adds 3 to 8 min | Add on |
| Callus Intensive | $15 | Adds 15 minutes | Add on |
| Paraffin Foot Treatment | $20 | Adds 20 minutes | Add on |
| Gel Removal From Toes | $20 | 20 minutes | Free when you rebook |
| Gel Toes | $35 | Adds 25 minutes | Add on, lasts 4 to 6 weeks |
| Classic Pedicure | $45 | 40 minutes | No |
| Gentleman's Pedicure | $60 | 50 minutes | Yes, 10 minutes |
| Spa Pedicure | $65 | 60 minutes | Yes, 10 minutes |
| Deluxe Spa Pedicure | $85 | 80 minutes | Yes, 20 minutes |
| Gel Manicure And Spa Pedicure | $100 | 110 minutes | Saves $10 |
Very little preparation is needed, but two of the items below are worth reading properly because they affect your safety rather than your polish.
You can request anyone by name when you book. If they are unavailable on your date we will tell you rather than quietly reassign you.
Joslyn runs the nail side of the salon. She is strict about the soak time, which sounds like a small thing until you have had callus work done on skin that was never properly softened. She is also the person who will tell you a toenail needs a podiatrist rather than a coat of polish, which is not a conversation most technicians are willing to have.
Tia founded Erothots seven years ago and is fully qualified and insured. She does not do nails herself, but she chose the pipe free tubs and set the standards on this page: a fresh liner every client, no blades on living tissue, nails cut straight across, and nothing polished over that needs a doctor. If something is not right, she wants to hear it directly.
A classic pedicure is forty minutes of maintenance at $45. Soak, shape, cuticle work, light hard skin attention and polish. A spa pedicure is sixty minutes at $65 and adds a full ten minute soak with softener, proper callus reduction, a scrub to the knee with hot towels, and ten minutes of foot and lower leg massage.
A spa pedicure starts at $65 for sixty minutes. Classic is $45, deluxe is $85 and the gentleman's pedicure is $60. Gel toes add $35, callus intensive $15 and paraffin $20. A gel manicure with a spa pedicure booked together is $100.
They are pipe free, which is the part that matters. Jetted footspas circulate water through internal plumbing that never fully drains and cannot be reliably disinfected, and that is the specific equipment behind the infection cases that reach the news. Ours have no jets or pipes at all, plus a fresh disposable liner for every client.
No. Credo blades and foot razors cut living tissue, which is outside what a nail technician is licensed to do in many states, and the risk of going too deep is real. We soften properly first and then use a file and pumice, which cannot cut past the dead layer.
Every four to six weeks. Toenails grow at roughly half the rate of fingernails, so the rhythm is naturally slower than for a manicure. If you are bringing heavy callus under control, four weeks apart for the first two or three appointments works considerably better.
In most cases yes, with the treatment adjusted. Tell us at booking rather than on the day. Callus work is kept minimal, cuticles are not cut at all, water temperature is checked carefully and we work gently throughout. Anything clinical, including ingrown nails or reduced sensation, should go to a podiatrist rather than a salon.
We will not file or polish a nail that looks infected, because sealing it under polish traps it and hides how it is progressing. We can still treat the healthy nails and the skin. Please see a doctor or podiatrist first, and come back to us once it is being treated.
Four to six weeks, roughly double what it lasts on hands. Toenails grow at about half the rate and your feet simply do far less to them. At $35 added to a pedicure it is the best value on the entire nail menu, and it is completely set when you stand up.
Always. Curving a toenail down into the corners looks neater for a fortnight, then the sidewall skin closes over the shortened corner and the regrowing nail digs into it. That is how most ingrown toenails begin, and cutting straight with only the sharp corners softened prevents it.
Generally yes, and many people find it one of the more welcome treatments late on. Tell us at booking so we can keep pressure light around the ankles and adjust your position for comfort. If you have any concerns, particularly about swelling or circulation, that is a conversation for you and your doctor rather than for us.
If it is red, swollen or painful, that is a podiatrist rather than a salon and we will tell you so. If it is early and simply uncomfortable, we can relieve the edge and cut correctly to stop it worsening. What we will not do is dig at it, which is how a mild ingrown becomes an infected one.
Two to three days before you travel. That gives any callus work time to settle and means polish is fresh for the whole trip. Add gel toes and it will comfortably outlast a two week holiday without a single chip, which is why most people book it that way before flying.
Tell us about any health conditions, whether you are arriving with gel on, and whether callus work is the main reason you are booking. We will set the right length of slot so nothing is rushed.
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