Pedicures are more than just beauty treatments; they’re also good for your feet! A professional pedicure will remove odor-causing bacteria, dead skin cells, and calluses while increasing circulation for improved blood flow and enhanced foot health.
At first, trying your own pedi at home may seem daunting, but the process is much simpler than expected. Just follow these simple tips for a spa-quality pedicure for your feet.
Prepare Your Supplies
Do your best to prepare before arriving at the nail salon; doing so will lead to more satisfying and effective services. Have your supplies, including candles and soothing music, to create an ambiance for a DIY pedicure station at home.
Fill a tub or foot spa large enough to hold both feet with warm water and add soothing ingredients—like sea salt and eucalyptus essential oil—for extra relaxation. Sundays’ founder recommends this.
Soak your feet for 10 minutes or so, and use a manicure stick or orangewood stick to gently push back the cuticles with your manicure stick or orangewood stick. Don’t cut your cuticles; doing so could result in damaged or ragged nails; leave this task for professional nail techs instead. After massaging some cuticle oil, such as Essie Apricot Cuticle Oil, to keep nails healthy, apply a base coat to prevent chips in the polish later.
Soak Your Feet
Starting any good pedicure is with an effective soak, designed to soften tough skin and cuticles for easier grooming steps ahead. Fill your favorite pedicure basin (or regular bathtub) with warm water, adding soothing bath salts or essential oils like tea tree oil for an enhanced experience.
Once soaked, use a gentle soap or foot cleanser to scrub away dirt and dead skin cells that have accumulated after soaking. This will aid the next steps more smoothly while also helping prevent infections or fungal growth between salon visits.
An alternative option for at-home foot soaks is mixing vinegar with warm water. This antimicrobial foot soak leaves skin feeling fresh. Just be sure to rinse away and dry completely afterward!
Trim and Shape Nails
Trim your nails to the length you prefer using nail clippers and file. Choi recommends trimming long nails to resemble their natural shape (usually somewhere between round and pointed) to reduce the risk of ingrown toenails as they grow longer.
Once your nails have been trimmed, use a nail file to gently soften their edges and prevent any bumps or snags from forming under your polish. Doing this will also help avoid any unwelcome bumps emerging during painting sessions.
Once filed, use a cotton ball saturated in non-acetone nail polish remover to cleanse each nail of any oils or residue that could prevent its polish from adhering properly. Although this step is optional, it will ensure your pedicure lasts as long as possible. Finish it off by applying a base coat that prevents any color from chipping too soon before adding a clear top coat; one that contains shea butter and avocado oil might even make this more durable top coat option an even better idea.
Care for Cuticles
After completely drying your nails, apply a thin coat of cuticle oil. This step helps prevent your polish from chipping prematurely; nail oils can be found at beauty supply stores or drugstores; however, basic vegetable oils (olive, jojoba, or apricot oil are suitable alternatives). Using darker nail polish hues is essential since staining or yellowing could occur otherwise.
Cuticles are small strips of skin found at the base of your nails between your lunula and eponychium that contain living skin cells. It’s important to properly maintain and care for your cuticles to avoid bleeding, ingrown toenails, or infection from cutting them or over-filing. Instead, Yankee recommends gently pushing back skin with a soft pusher; any too harsh could cause microtrauma; gentle pumice stone scrubbing can also be an effective alternative to harsh grater styles like harsh graters – gentle pushers don’t hurt either!
Exfoliate and Smooth Skin
Pedicures may be best known as relaxing spa experiences. Still, they also serve a practical purpose: pedicures can trim and shape nails, remove calluses from feet, and clean both skin and nails simultaneously.
Regular pedicures can help protect and promote the health of feet by helping to avoid infections and detect any changes or abnormalities in their appearance.
Avoid overexfoliating your skin to protect its delicate structure. Exfoliate only as needed to shed dead skin cells and soften your feet; excessive exfoliating could result in irritation, redness, and even cracking of the foot skin.
Use a foot scrub or exfoliating brush to eliminate dead skin and calluses on your feet. Beware of using razors or other tools that could cut into the soft skin of your feet! Once exfoliating is complete, be sure to moisturize your feet using something such as Adessa-30 Heel Liniment, which contains shea butter, jojoba oil, and other essential oils to hydrate them further and maintain their suppleness.
Moisturize Your Feet
While you soak your feet, apply a thick body lotion with rich nutrients to your toes and ankles to keep skin hydrated after all the scrubbing and soaking and smooth rough spots and calluses. This will also help soften rough patches on callus-prone spots!
If you’re in a rush, an esthetician such as Leanne Fagan suggests using a nail polish remover pad saturated with rubbing alcohol to quickly clean each nail surface, suggesting this product is a quick, safe, and efficient way to use at home.
Once your nails are dry, Brittney Glass recommends applying a layer of cuticle oil. This will hydrate your cuticles and extend the color of your pedicure – it should also help hydrate feet that may have become rough over time! She suggests choosing one from a wellness brand packed with essential fatty acids for soft, healthy feet.
Prep Nails for Polish
At-home pedicures require polish as the last step, with several layers applied before proceeding to prevent clumping and streaking. Applying cuticle oil before painting your nails can also help keep them from lifting, explains esthetician Sana Dhanani.
She recommends applying oil with a cotton pad (not a ball) and leaving it for 60 seconds before pushing back cuticles using either metal or wooden nail pusher sticks. You can also use nail nippers to cut away dead skin around nails–just be careful not to accidentally damage live tissue!
Filing your nails properly means filing them straight across rather than rounded, which could lead to ingrown toenails. If you have trouble with calluses, try using a foot file that will smooth away rough skin without being too harsh on your nails. Once finished, seal off your pedi with a quick-drying top coat for protection and long-lasting beauty!
Apply Nail Polish
As the final step of your pedicure, apply a top coat. This will extend its durability while giving it an exquisite, shiny finish.
Provided you have all the supplies, performing a DIY at-home pedicure is as straightforward (if not simpler!) as getting it from a nail salon. Lin recommends keeping nail clippers, files, cuticle oil, polish remover, and some beautiful springtime nail colors handy to complete this experience.
An extra bit of preparation goes a long way: before painting your nails, use a cotton pad soaked in rubbing alcohol to wipe down each surface and remove any oily residue that could prevent the polish from adhering properly. You may also add cuticle oil as part of this step to extend its effectiveness even more.
Once your feet are clean and dry, apply a generous dollop of moisturizer. Massage them for several minutes to promote circulation and help the moisturizer absorb into their pores faster.
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2023FIBA世界盃籃球：賽程、場館、NBA球員出賽名單在這看
2023年的FIBA男子世界盃籃球賽（英語：2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup）是第19屆的比賽，也是自2019年新制度實施後的第二次比賽。從這屆開始，比賽將恢復每四年舉行一次的週期。
在這次比賽中，來自歐洲和美洲的前兩名球隊，以及來自亞洲、大洋洲和非洲的最佳球隊，以及2024年夏季奧運會的主辦國法國（共8隊）將獲得在巴黎舉行的奧運會比賽的參賽資格。
2023FIBA籃球世界盃由32國競爭冠軍榮耀
2023世界盃籃球資格賽在2021年11月22日至2023年2月27日已舉辦完畢，共有非洲區、美洲區、亞洲、歐洲區資格賽，最後出線的國家總共有32個。
很可惜的台灣並沒有闖過世界盃籃球亞洲區資格賽，在世界盃籃球資格賽中華隊並無進入複賽。
2023FIBA世界盃籃球比賽場館
FIBA籃球世界盃將會在6個體育場館舉行。菲律賓馬尼拉將進行四組預賽，兩組十六強賽事以及八強之後所有的賽事。另外，日本沖繩市與印尼雅加達各舉辦兩組預賽及一組十六強賽事。
菲律賓此次將有四個場館作為世界盃比賽場地，帕賽市的亞洲購物中心體育館，奎松市的阿拉內塔體育館，帕西格的菲爾體育館以及武加偉的菲律賓體育館。菲律賓體育館約有55,000個座位，此場館也將會是本屆賽事的決賽場地。
日本與印尼各有一個場地舉辦世界盃賽事。沖繩市綜合運動場與雅加達史納延紀念體育館。
國家 城市 場館 容納人數
菲律賓 帕賽市 亞洲購物中心體育館 20,000
菲律賓 奎松市 阿拉內塔體育館 15,000
菲律賓 帕希格 菲爾體育館 10,000
菲律賓 武加偉 菲律賓體育館（決賽場館） 55,000
日本 沖繩 綜合運動場 10,000
印尼 雅加達 史納延紀念體育館 16,500
2023FIBA世界盃籃球預賽積分統計
預賽分為八組，每一組有四個國家，預賽組內前兩名可以晉級複賽，預賽成績併入複賽計算，複賽各組第三、四名不另外舉辦9-16名排位賽。
而預賽組內後兩名進行17-32名排位賽，預賽成績併入計算，但不另外舉辦17-24名、25-32名排位賽，各組第一名排入第17至20名，第二名排入第21至24名，第三名排入第25至28名，第四名排入第29至32名。
2023世界盃籃球美國隊成員
此次美國隊有12位現役NBA球員加入，雖然並沒有超級巨星等級的球員在內，但是各個位置的分工與角色非常鮮明，也不乏未來的明日之星，其中有籃網隊能投外線的外圍防守大鎖Mikal Bridges，尼克隊與溜馬隊的主控Jalen Brunson、Tyrese Haliburton，多功能的後衛Austin Reaves。
前鋒有著各種功能性的球員，魔術隊高大身材的狀元Paolo Banchero、善於碰撞切入製造犯規，防守型的Josh Hart，進攻型搖擺人Anthony Edwards與Brandon Ingram，接應與防守型的3D側翼Cam Johnson，以及獲得23’賽季最佳防守球員的大前鋒Jaren Jackson Jr.，中鋒則有著敏銳火鍋嗅覺的Walker Kessler與具有外線射程的Bobby Portis。
美國隊上一次獲得世界盃冠軍是在2014年，當時一支由Curry、Irving和Harden等後起之秀組成的陣容帶領美國隊奪得了金牌。與 2014 年總冠軍球隊非常相似，今年的球隊由在 2022-23 NBA 賽季中表現出色的新星組成，就算他們都是資歷尚淺的NBA新面孔，也不能小看這支美國隊。
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FIBA世界盃2023新北熱身賽即將在8月19日、20日和22日在新莊體育館舉行。新北市長侯友宜、立陶宛籃球協會秘書長Mindaugas Balčiūnas，以及台灣運彩x T1聯盟會長錢薇娟今天下午一同公開了熱身賽的球星名單、賽程、售票和籃球交流的詳細資訊。他們誠摯邀請所有籃球迷把握這個難得的機會，親眼見證來自立陶宛、拉脫維亞和波多黎各的NBA現役球星的出色表現。
新莊體育館舉行的熱身賽將包括立陶宛、蒙特內哥羅、墨西哥和埃及等國家，分為D組。首場賽事將在8月19日由立陶宛對波多黎各開打，8月20日波多黎各將與拉脫維亞交手，8月22日則是拉脫維亞與立陶宛的精彩對決。屆時，觀眾將有機會近距離欣賞到國王隊的中鋒沙波尼斯(Domantas Sabonis)、鵜鶘隊的中鋒瓦蘭丘納斯(Jonas Valančiūnas)、後衛阿爾瓦拉多(Jose Alvarado)、賽爾蒂克隊的大前鋒波爾辛吉斯(Kristaps Porzingis)、雷霆隊的大前鋒貝坦斯(Davis Bertans)等NBA現役明星球員的精湛球技。
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