GIVING MY TOENAILS A MAKEOVER! 🛁

Hello my loves, welcome back to my channel. Oh my goodness, my toenails need a revamp. This is actually embarrassing guys, but as university and rehearsals have taken over my life, I have not shown my toenails any love in so long. They look awful. I know what you're thinking, go ahead and trash my toenails in the comments. It's about time I gave them a complete makeover and I am so lucky that the wonderful people at Germanicure have sent me some goodies to make my nails beautiful again. If you haven't seen my full manicure nail makeover, make sure you go check it out after this video. It's one of my most highly requested videos and I know so many of you have been wanting a pedicure routine, so here you are. Sit back, relax and enjoy. Guys, as I said in my last video, I've been using Germanicure nail files for years and you'll know this if you've been watching my nail videos for a while. I cannot credit them enough for maintaining my nails so well for so many years. Their products are honestly of excellent quality and I would highly recommend them. So I've already done my first impression for most of these tools in my manicure video where I give a lot more information, so I'll try not to repeat myself too much, but of course if you want to see more, go check the video out. The tool I'm most excited to try today is their beautiful glass foot file, which I haven't tried yet, so stay tuned because this could be interesting. Okay guys, so I'm going to start out by trimming these gnarly little babies and I'm going to be using the Phinox 22 two-toned stainless steel and titanium nitrate self-sharpening scissors. Ew, I know my nails are so yellow. This guys is staining caused by nail polish. Don't worry, I don't have an infection or anything on my toenails. It is just caused by the amount of nail polish that I wear. Now as these are not actually designed for my toenails, for my big toe I'm going to use a toenail clipper and then tidy up with the Phinox 22 scissors. And guys, these scissors feel so amazing. They are handcrafted with each screw tightened to the exact tension for the most precise cut. Honestly, top-notch quality and you can feel this in their weightiness, the smoothness of the metal and the sharp and accurate cut that they give. Next I'm going to remove my nail polish using just some good old-fashioned Q-tex nail polish remover. As always, I try to just use one cotton pad each time I remove my nail polish. I'm very supportive of minimalism. So now to give my feet and my toes some extra love, I'm going to be soaking my feet to soften the skin and also to give my toenails a good old scrub. And as I said before, I just use an old toothbrush with some soap to scrub my nails. It works just fine. Okay, so a little bit about this foot file. As with all Germanicure nail files, the file texture is not sprayed or glued on. It's actually chemically etched into the crystal so it will never wear away and it will literally last a lifetime. They are handmade with tempered glass that itself has natural antibacterial and antifungal qualities and it's durable enough to hold in a chemical bath or steam sterilizer up to 170 degrees Celsius, which I did not know. I found that on their website. So they are fully sterilizable and they can be used both wet or dry and they are chemically hardened and tempered to resist breaking. So the file itself has two sides. One is a rougher texture for removing hard skin or calluses and it also has a smoother side to soften and finish the feet. Okay guys, so this is my first impression using the file. I'm sorry if this is a terrible angle. So it's very actually very gentle. It doesn't hurt but you can feel the grit of it. So I'm using the grittier side at the moment. It's quite easy to use because of the shape of it. You can rub quite hard because it's so gentle that it doesn't seem to hurt too much. But it does feel like it's doing something. Oh my god, this is so weird. Yeah, my feet aren't really that bad. I don't really have calluses or anything like that. But just like everybody, I do get, you know, like hard skin on the bottom of my feet, on this part of the toe and stuff like that and here. And then the softer side, oh it feels really different actually. It feels very different. So the softer side, I actually really like the way that the softer side feels because it's so fine that, oh it just feels really nice. I don't know, it's kind of like velvet. I know I said that in my last video about the moon file but it really does feel like velvet on your skin. It's really really weird but it's nice. Do you like my little birth mark? Pretty ain't it? I remember finding that when I was about five years old and wondering what on earth it was. So I'm gonna finish scrubbing up my feet and I will see you in a minute. Oh look, it's got like some weird, I don't know if that's the soap or like, I don't know. But it's got like strange liquid on it that's like kind of white. Is that my foot skin? I don't know. It doesn't feel like it's gonna break. Like it looks very fragile but it doesn't feel like it will break. Like it feels very sturdy. Even when I'm like rubbing quite hard, you can see like that it's very thick glass. It does say you can use this to file your nails as well. I'm assuming just the smooth side. So let's give this a little go. I don't think I would use this but it's nice to know that you can. Yep, that seems to work pretty fine. It's quite big so like for my little toes I'd probably just go in with a smaller file but I like this. But I'm gonna go ahead and now use the moon file. So I cannot believe that I didn't realise that this had a groove in it all long in my last video. I just did not even realise that that was how I was meant to use it. So I'm gonna use my toe. I look so gross. I'm so sorry guys. This is like, this is so embarrassing for me but this is real life. This is what happens when you leave nail polish on your nails for too long without changing it. They go yellow. Lovely. I've got my toenail in the groove. In the groove. So that's super easy. You can literally just do this and it's not gonna go anywhere and it's pretty much gonna round off the corners for you and you can even like sort of go around yourself. Let's see if we can zoom in a little bit. It's pretty much just rounding off the corners for me. I don't like to file my toenails too short because then they can kind of look really weird and it doesn't take a lot to accidentally file them too short but um this one's a bit long so it's gonna snip snip. I usually really like a square shape but I can't really do that on some of my nails because they just grow in like a rounded shape. You could also probably use it even for the smallest little nail which is quite handy. So as it turns out in my last video I don't think I softened my cuticles long enough before going in with the cuticle stick. So today I have soaked my toenails and I'm using a cuticle oil specially designed for softening to make this process a lot easier. Nonetheless I think it still worked pretty well in my last video considering my cuticles were quite dry. So let's give this another try and here is my first impressions. I'm now going to go in with the cuticle stick having soaked my toenails and used a cuticle oil and see if it's any easier than it was last time. So my cuticles are pretty soft already. And yep it's doing the job. I didn't really doubt that it wouldn't because I've already used it on my fingernails and it worked so well. You can see how much like skin is coming off like this really fine powder. That's how fine the grit is on these files. Really gets everything off. It's not only pushing back the cuticles but it's exfoliating it as it goes around and I've got a little bit red nail polish on here from my last video but just ignore that. You can remove the nail polish from it. You can just dip it in some acetone. Your toenails are really small so this little tiny end does a really good job at getting like the little tiny nails. I'm going to start with the base coat and I don't know if this really protects my nails from discolouring but clearly it's not doing the job. But anyway I feel like it at least does something and it helps the nail polish go on smoother I guess. And the colour I'm going to be using is the Rimmel London 60 Second Super Shine and this colour is called Lose Your Lingerie and it's just a really really light soft baby pink. And you'll see that I don't use a toe separator. Sometimes I do but most of the time I don't really feel like I need one. What I do tend to do when I'm painting my toenails because it's quite hard sometimes to get into the little corners, a little tip that I have is to hold your toe, especially for your big toe, hold your toe and sort of pinch it so that it sort of pulls the skin from each side so it allows you to sort of get in there with the nail polish without going over your skin. If you see what I mean. And like always I always go along the edges as well just to seal in the nail polish and give a more finished look. And then I'm going in with my second coat. Now as it's December at the moment I thought I'd give my nails a little bit of festive sparkle. I don't usually use glitter nail polishes but every now and then it's nice to just give your nails a little bit of glamour. This is just a little mini ciate nail polish that I got in an advent calendar a couple years ago and the name of this is called snow globe. It's actually not really glitter it's more like little flakes of like sparkly stuff so it can be a little bit of a pain to like get enough on one nail so I kind of had to like dip in and get the specific flakes to sort of like pop them in the place that I wanted them to go so that each toenail had enough sparkles. With your toenails I feel like they get smudged particularly quickly because a lot of us don't have time to wander around the house all day with no shoes on waiting for your toenails to dry so it's very important with my toenails to use a top coat that is fast drying so that I can just get on with my day without worrying about my toes smudging. I actually didn't include the footage in it but just know that I did use a top coat. One of the uses of the cuticle stick is that it can be used to remove nail polish on the skin. I did try this out in my manicure video but I didn't realize that you're actually meant to dip the cuticle stick into acetone which makes the removal process a lot easier so this time you can see that it's coming off a lot better. I just go around all my toenails and remove any imperfections and just like the finger hair my loves whether it's a little or a lot everybody has hair on their feet and their toes it's so normal so please don't worry about it. Luckily it's really easy to remove. I don't do this regularly but whenever I did I used to use a razor for a quick fix but now I like using an epilator for a better result and also it's more environmentally friendly and it doesn't grow back all spiky so I just prefer this but do whatever you want. So it takes a little bit of getting used to but I personally think the results are worth it and alternatively you can use hair removal cream like I did in my manicure video and last but not least I'm going to moisturize my feet and I'm just using this foot serum that came in a pedicure set so you can use anything you want foot cream would be better and this is just going to finish off my feet and give me that luxury lovely smooth feeling and if you've got places to go like I said it's just nice to throw on a lovely clean pair of socks or whatever time of year it is put on some sandals and your feet will look gorgeous and that's my feet looking lovely clean and fabulous I am so relieved they are no longer in the state they were before. A massive thank you to Germanicure for working with me on these videos I'm always so thankful to work with brands that I truly believe produce quality products honestly love Germanicure nail files. It's especially nice to know that they are a really earth-conscious company no child labor is ever used in the manufacturing or distribution of their products they are big on upcycling their materials using minimal packaging and avoiding cost externalization if you want to find out more about their ethics and how their products are made you can find a link to their website below which has a ton of information about each product and I'll also leave a link to where you can purchase them also don't forget to check out my manicure routine for more if you enjoyed this video show me some love by leaving a thumbs up and leave a comment let me know you're there thank you so much for watching until the end and I will see you all soon in my next one bye-bye