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Fish Pedicure
07/23/08 - 03:04 PM
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A beauty salon in Alexandria, Virginia is using an unconventional pedicure treatment to get rid of dead skin on their client’s feet.

If you’d rather hide your feet than show them off maybe you should check this out.

Pedicure customer Larry Greenblatt says “it’s not icky at all it feels like a tingling machine.”

At Yvonne Hair and Nails salon in Alexandria, the pedicures are the rage and they don’t involve razors.

Larry Greenblatt says “I watched other people do it first. Watched and listened to their experiences and knew that I was okay.

This may be the only salon in the country where all it takes to get rid of your dead skin and calluses is bubbly hot water and fish.

Salon manager Julie Nguyen says “Doctor Fish. What they do is nibble in your dead skin around your feet and give you very good, relax.”

They’re called Garra Rufa, also called “Doctor” fish. They have no teeth and don’t bite. But they feed on the dead, flaky skin of your feet.

Pedicure customer Shannon Otto says “it was a little tickley at first because it feels like there are like little suction cups on your foot but it was really nice after it got going.”

There are 100 fish in each pedicure tank.

They swim and feed together until the feet are nice and smooth.

Shannon Otto says “the first time I came I just stuck one foot in for a few minutes just to try it and you could see the difference, like there was less dead skin on the one foot than the other and it really was a lot better.”

These fish, first used in Turkey and popular in some Asian countries, are the perfect alternative to razors, now more closely regulated because of concerns about sanitation.

There are no state regulations that apply to using fish on your feet, but the county does require that the water in these tanks be changed for each customer.

Julie Nguyen says “they love it and when they take their feet out the cubicle they turn and say oh my god is this my feet, it’s turned to baby skin and stuff like that.

So move over pumice stones and razors, we’ve now got fish to tickle our fancy and our feet.