ex: repurchasing a moisturizer, primer, etc). With a checklist, I find that I rarely go off course and play with makeup in the stores to (potentially) waste money on makeup I won’t use. This one might be common sense but always use the tester to try out the product - don’t go for the new product unless you have asked a SA if there is a tester available and they say no and instruct you to open a new product up as the tester. 

As for samples, Sephora, MAC, and Nordstrom are great! At Sephora, you will have to ask a SA to decant product for you into a little container or provide you with a foil packet. I believe they have a limit of 3 samples per day. At MAC, I normally just ask if I could get a sample of some product and get a foil packet or premade decant. Nordstrom has the best samplers in my opinion where you can decant your own product. They have little containers dispersed throughout their beauty counter area and you can fill them up with whatever product you want to try out. I have read on here though that some SAs at Nordstrom pick on customers for making samples, so just be careful you’re not around a picky SA. Just a word of caution with samples - be careful with what you get a sample of. Samples at Sephora and Nordstrom are made from floor testers and if the product is an open jar, avoid getting a sample of it because you don’t know who has touched the product (stick with products that have pumps).Skin problems are one of the most common things we deal with here at Lane Ends Podiatry. When you think about how much time we spend on our feet and how much we put them through every day, it’s not surprising really that so many of our patients have skin related problems.
Here are some examples of skin problems we have seen in the practice recently. We can treat most of them quickly and painlessly, sending our patients on their way with a spring in their step.
I love this one, I really do! Every summer, without fail we get tons of these, when people ring saying “I cant wear my sandals with the ugly, dry, hard skin on my heels”, or, “they are laddering my tights”, or, “they are really sore and they bleed”.
This is the problem where I try to make myself redundant. I have a strategy that works brilliantly for this and if you get into a regular routine of doing it (just like you brush your teeth twice a day because the dentist says so), you can make a MASSIVE impact on improving this.
As part of our bodies defence mechanism our skin becomes thick (also known as callous) when it is put under repeated pressure, this helps by protecting the structures underneath, but when we develop patches of hard skin, they can become uncomfortable or painful to walk on. Which is not good.
Corns are skin problems that develop when a lot of pressure is applied to a very small area of skin repeatedly over a period of time. What they actually are are very small plugs of extremely hard skin that are cone shaped with the sharp end pointing into your foot. This is why they are so blooming painful when you catch them or stand on something small. It’s like a pin sticking into your foot.
They are most common on the top or ends of toes and on the balls of feet.
This lady came in with a sore “thing” on her second toe, you can see in the top picture that the toe is bent upwards at the toe joint, so that means that her shoe will press and rub that part of her toe more than the ones next to it.
She has an office job which requires her to wear smart business clothes and court shoes. Unfortunately court shoes are notoriously ‘shallow’ in the front, so prone to pressing and rubbing on toes.
To help this patient I reduced the thickened skin and made her a ‘custom made’ silicone toe cover to deflect some of the shoe pressure and friction away from the toe joint in the future. This will slow down the build up of the corn again and may even prevent it coming back altogether.
I find these much better than felt padding as they last for several months, can be washed easily and removed when not walking about in the shallow footwear.
If you think you have a corn and are thinking about using a corn plaster to treat it at home, PLEASE read my blog post before you do.
Remember I said I love a challenge? Well sometimes our patients present with mystery skin problems, it isn’t immediately obvious what the problem is without further investigation. This example shows one such case.
Is it a verruca?
This lady came in not knowing what this flaky discoloured patch of skin was on the side of her toe, and frankly, initially I was unsure myself. However the clue came when she told me that she had worn a pair of sandals that had rubbed on it 2-3 weeks beforehand, then this ‘thing’ came up and she thought it was a verruca so she started using ‘Bazooka gel’ on it.
It was encrusted on the top, quite spongy to the touch and seemed filled with fluid, I decided to remove the plug of hard skin and see what was beneath, which revealed a blood blister and small area of skin breakdown (or ulceration if you want to use fancier terms). Happily it was clean and free from infection, I put a sterile dressing on it and followed up a few days later by phone to ensure it was healing (which it was)..good news for the lady concerned as she was going on holiday the following week.
It’s been a week of sickness in the geek household this week, with the geekson being poorly at the start of the week, and then the geekdaughter going down with something very nasty in the middle of the week. I’ve already written a little bit about all this, but I hope you’ll forgive me talking about it a little more, as a number of my photos from the week are related to these events.
The geekdaughter went on her first school trip on Wednesday – a class outing to Wonderland in Telford. She was very excited, although I think the thing she was the most excited about was having to take a packed lunch with her rather than having a school dinner! This was my first go at preparing a packed lunch for her, and she was really pleased with it. Apparently she had to go to the toilet mid-way through lunch, and when she came back they’d cleared up already so she didn’t get to eat the yoghurt or the chocolate, which she was very upset about!
I can’t remember exactly how long the shower in our en-suite bathroom has been out of action, but it must be in the region of a year. We do have another shower in our main bathroom, but it’s over the bath and not as good, so I’ve been looking forward to getting this fixed for a while. This week we finally got our new shower, and it’s lovely!
The poor little geekdaughter has been proper poorly this week. She started being sick on Wednesday evening, and continued through to Friday. It left her very wiped out, and she spent a lot of Thursday and Friday lying on the sofa watching television (and preventing us playing with our new Wii-U!). Elliott thought this was a lovely plan and enjoyed snuggling up with her.
Due to her inability to keep even fluids down on Friday we ended up being admitted to hospital so that they could check the geekdaughter out. After a lot of hanging around and a general check-up it was decided that she didn’t need to be in hospital and we were sent home again. Thankfully she is now keeping the fluids down and has even managed a few mouthfuls of toast, so we’re hoping she’s on the mend.
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 Loving the look of the Wii u – didn’t every know they had a new one coming out!Humans sensory and motor neurons forming a complex network. THAT’S WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT.
My main intention to write this post was to teach a valuable lesson of life derived from the understanding of our own biological system.
Strength is not in the individual, but in the connections we make with the other individuals.
You may become the best at your work (like the sensory and motor neuron), but it is your connectivity (interneuron) with others that gives your strength meaning. meaning you attach to yourself becomes the only purpose of your life.
Unity
I hope people unite for common good rather than against a common enemy.
The intention to stay together is true when it comes from within and not when forced upon us by an external force.
Legacy
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