Trend Alert

FISH FEET

The latest pedicure trend is sticking your feet in a fish tank and allowing tiny carp to eat away at the dead skin. At least, that's what's been occurring at the Yvonne Hair and Nails salon in Alexandria, VA for the past four years.

Apparently word is spreading about the benefits: "I'd been an athlete all my life, so I've always had calluses on my feet. This was the first time somebody got rid of my calluses completely," Tracy Roberts of Rockville, MD said. You can read more about the fishy trend here.

Product Shout-Out

SCRUB A DUB DUB
KEEP BOOTHS IN THE TUB

I love Booths products, particularly their scrubs. I've been using their Ginger Sugar Scrub for a while now and I always return to it when I run out. It's cheap (nothing is over $16.99) but very effective, and the company has been around for over 30 years. The scrub is fantastic for sloughing dead skin off elbows and knees, especially before self-tanning.

I recently bought their new Peppermint Foot Scrub. It's like pudding for your feet. At first, I thought it felt a little weird, but when I used it again today, it gave me a fresh tingle between my toes as if my feet were chewing peppermint gum. They also make a load of other fun products including their new Limoncello Body Cream and Tahitian Monoi Dry Oil.

You can find Booths products at a lot of place including Drugstore. com (where the Peppermint Foot Scrub is now on sale for $4.09) and Ulta.com.

Yes Please!

BUTTERED UP

I just found out about a nail salon called Butter London. They make nail polish in fun shades and are known for having salons in airports and not using any toxins in their products. Lucky for me, they've just opened one up in Dulles Airport in D.C.

The website is gorgeous (love the crow in the crown!), but I can't figure out if they're actually a British company and have salons IN London. The founder is from Seattle and most of the salons are in Washington. In any case, this is the description of Butter London from the site:

butter LONDON is famous for two things: Our rapidly growing chain of airport nail salons, and our stunning, non-toxic product line. Our stores are like no nail salon you could ever imagine, with huge black chandeliers, nail stations hand-made by carpenters, and privately commissioned wallpaper from a famous British company. You might expect to pay a fortune for a treatment at one of our stores, but our manicures are $20, and pedicures only $40!