I know it is colder and women aren’t wearing sandals, but why not keep up with pedicures and painted toenails?
I was at a water park this past weekend and almost no woman had sexy toes.
“it is colder and women aren’t wearing sandals”
You’re dangerously close to ‘she shouldn’t do that thing that she’s doing because it’s not attractive to me’. Most often seen as ‘why did she cut her hair short?’ or ‘why doesn’t she wear makeup?’.
ETA, upon rereading the OP, you actually did do it. You want women to pay whatever it costs to keep their feet looking the way you want them to look 24/7. In the words of all the SJWs that I can’t stand, ‘ew’.
You offering to pay?
Just to reiterate, some random women didn’t have ‘sexy toes’ so now you wonder why all women don’t keep their feet pedicured all the time so this doesn’t happen again.
That’s just, where to even start…
Because it’s cold and there isn’t any point due to wearing socks. Because when we have a pedicure we can’t wear socks for at least several hours afterward and it’s freaking cold. Because with tip it can cost from $25 to $40 so why bother when we’re wearing socks, anyway?? Because women don’t owe you.
OTOH. My toes did not come sparkly and special. I have sexy feet anyway, in my opinion. But I do like pedicures. They are fun and festive. I do it when I want to, not when some jerk wants me to.
My best friend is a manicurist in a salon. I can assure you that many, many women have mani pedi treatments throughout the year. My friend makes a good living providing them.
You will no doubt be startled to learn it has nothing to do with the men they see and mix with, and everything to do with their personal preferences. Shocking, right? They simply like it. How it looks, TO THEM. And how it makes THEM feel.
Actually, UCBearcats and any others are entitled to think whatever they want about what females ought to be doing to look sexy for them, and all those females still aren’t under any obligation to oblige.
What I’ve always wondered is how females manage to wear the fairly skimpy clothes they often do, in cold weather, without freezing their asses off. From mostly-bare feet, to bare legs from ankles to mid-thighs, bare midriffs, and low-cut tops with bare shoulders (ETA: and short sleeves or no sleeves) and a certain amount of boobage hanging out —
Forgive me if this is a bit too personal, but how do you do that on cold days and stay comfortable? If I dressed like that on cold days, I’d be shivering me timbers off!
I get pedicures year-round, BUT, it can be a problem on cold days, for sure. You don’t want to mess up your polish by putting on socks and boots.
If it’s warm enough to go to a water park though, it’s certainly warm enough to get a pedi and wear sandals home.
How often do you get a pedicure? You surely aren’t subjecting us to your gross toes, are you?
Most humans are capable of tolerating extreme cold and going around in cold weather without heavy jackets and pants. We’re culturally conditioned to feel like we “need” a lot of layers of clothing during cold weather, but most people are overdressed during the winter. Most of the time that human beings are outdoors during the winter, they’re in transit either from a heated car to a heated building or vice versa. It’s generally more trouble than it’s worth to bother with all kinds of coats, hats, and heavy garments, in my opinion. Really, tolerating cold is more of an issue of mind over matter.
I don’t know about other women, but i seem to have an unusually high tolerance for cold ( and low tolerance for get).
You don’t know extreme cold.
People routinely swim naked in holes in frozen ponds in Russia, Finland, and other countries near the Arctic. A healthy human in decent physical condition can withstand it. Standing around outside a bar for 20 minutes at a time wearing clothes that cover most of the body, even if it’s revealing clothing, is nothing in comparison.
I can think of about a million things I would spend money on before a pedicure.
You and me both.
I would just like to note here that virtually every time I appeared in evening clothes, fairly skimpy, thin fabric and not so much of it, I ended the evening wearing my husband’s jacket. Not a great look. This happened even in warmer months because there is usually AC. Note that I gave up wearing such clothes.
At my one of my son’s graduation ceremonies, I was wearing a sleeveless dress with a short-sleeved jacket, and halfway through the ceremony they ratcheted up the AC so once again I ended up wearing his jacket, and I was not the only woman so attired.
BUT, there are some areas of me that are less pervious to cold. From my ankles to slightly below my knees, I can’t really feel it unless it’s bitter. I don’t know if this is from years of wearing short dresses or if I was comfortable in dresses because that’s a less sensitive area. I can go jogging in virtually any weather that’s fit for jogging in capri-length leggings without feeling it. Also, as long as my neck is warm, I can do any amount of boobage, as you so charmingly call it (I would call it cleavage, I guess). Shoulders, arms, back get cold, but cleavage is fine if I have a scarf or something around my neck. The breast area is well insulated and stays warm. Not that I have really tested this in real cold.
I love them. One of the last things I would ever give up. It’s not about the polish. I can do that myself. I can also give myself a foot massage and sand my own heels, but it feels sooooo much better when someone else does it.
Jacquernagy, near freezing water is not extreme cold.
My mother gets pedicures year round, for medical reasons and from an actual podologist. The podologist uses the procedure to check the state of her nails and skin, specifically searching for small wounds that Mom won’t have noticed; this is a relatively commmon consequence of diabetes and it can end up in amputations. My sisters-in-law and I also check for small unnoticed wounds when performing other personal care for her, such as applying body milk.
For the same medical reasons, she does not paint her toenails.