Pedicure
questions, answered

A dry pedicure for the parts of a foot that give trouble: hard skin, split heels, thickened nails. No footbath and no soaking. A nail specialist works with an e-file and hand tools. It is cosmetic care for feet, not medical care.

We look at your feet and ask what has been going on. Then nails get trimmed and shaped, thick nails thinned, hard skin smoothed, the corners cleaned up. Color comes last, and only if you asked for it. Most people walk out and go straight back to their day.

Yours probably starts with a soak and ends with polish. Ours starts with what is wrong: a heel that keeps splitting, nails too thick to cut at home. There is no water in it. The e-file does the work, and color is optional.

It is a real service: a waterless pedicure aimed at foot skin and nails, with color as an afterthought. The name is not a qualification and it does not replace a podiatrist. Worth it depends on your feet. If nothing bothers you, a regular pedicure is fine.

The service is dry. There is no footbath in the room, so nothing gets shared through standing water. Florida sets a sanitation minimum every salon has to meet. What we do between clients is longer than a sentence, so the hygiene page sets it out instrument by instrument.

We do not cut living skin, and we do not diagnose or prescribe. A Florida-registered nail specialist works on the surface: nails, hard skin, the edges. Anything inflamed, infected or bleeding is a podiatrist's job. If we see it on the day, we will tell you and stop.

A Florida-registered nail specialist, working under the state's cosmetology rules. Not a podiatrist, and we never present it that way. Registration is public, so you can look up any specialist by name on the state's licensing site. Who you will see, and what training they hold, is on the about page.

Yes, Florida does not ban the electric file, and the rule it sets instead is that the procedure stays nonintrusive. In practice that is the nail plate and dead tissue only, never the living skin, and our own standard is no redness and nothing sore.

Book online. That is what holds the slot. If you are nearby and want to be seen today, call before you make the trip. We will tell you on the phone whether there is room, which beats finding out at the door.

407 Lincoln Rd, Suite 701, Miami Beach, FL 33139. It is a suite inside the building, so save the address in your phone before you set off. Which door to use, where to park and how to find us once you are inside are all on the contact page.

Everything on the booking page happens at the studio on Lincoln Road. The chair, the e-file and the rest of the setup do not travel. If getting here is the hard part, say so when you call and we will work out what is possible.

Men, yes. The men's page covers what that appointment includes. For children, call and ask before you book. We would want to hear the age and what is going on with the foot first. Sometimes the honest answer is a podiatrist.