No says they have to do. It is a nice bonus. I am curious why or why not ladies do it part of the year or all year.
Unless you enjoy the experience of pedicures and/or painting your toes, why would you bother if people aren’t going to see them? It would just be an unnecessary chore.
Sure, the water park is an exception, but how many people get dressed up fancy to go to a water park? You’re going to look pretty unkempt after getting wet anyways. They aren’t counting on people to specifically look at their toes. It’s not as if they get those things to be attractive to foot fetishists (unless it’s their girl/boyfriend).
“Me and my friend are gonna go to the water park. You wanna come?”
“Sure, but I’ll have to get pedicure before we go. Don’t want those guys to look at my nasty feet that will be under the water most of the time!”
“…see, this is why we don’t tend to invite you places.”
BTW, are water parks in the late autumn/early winter really a thing? I’m sure it’s indoors and possibly even heated water, but you still have to be 100% dry (including your long hair) before you’d want to leave.
As far as I’m concerned, sandals weather and waterpark weather coincide.
Wanted to toss this in.
I once worked at a camp for special needs kids on the autism spectrum. We had a special “spa night” for the girls (ages about 9-16) where they all got pedicures and what was interesting is that these girls who all had issues such as a low tolerances for being touched and had ADHD and such so could rarely sit still for even a minute - well they suddenly turned into little “princesses” and sat perfectly still while having their toes done up.
Off-topic digression on extreme cold.[spoiler]
So let’s put this back in context – Jacquernagy’s examples of humans tolerating exteme using mind of matter are of people going around in exreme cold without heavy winter jacket and pants, or swimming in near freezing water.
I expect that where he and I differ is on what constitutes “extreme cold.”
What then constitutes “extreme cold”? There is no absolute definition – “extreme cold” is a relational term. For example:
Where I live, the “extreme” comes into play where °C and °F meet, but even that nowhere near as “extreme” compared to where my cousin works at the top of Nunavut, where “extreme” starts at −55 °C (−67 °F).
I submit that Jacquernagy does not know extreme cold, that near freezing water is not extreme cold, and that humans are not capable of tolerating extreme cold.
For air temperatures around freezing on a windless sunny day, you can wander about in shorts, T-shirt and running shoes for quite a while at no risk, and x-c ski in your skivvies until you run out of bean, but let’s not confuse benign cold conditions with exteme cold conditions.
For water temperatures around freezing in a pond, you can swim about for couple of minutes in only a bathing suit while at almost no risk because the water temperature is not that extreme. It gets rather hard when it is extremely cold. (My “almost” proviso arises out of the dive reflex and hypothermia.) Heat from your body transfers to water far faster than to air, so the more you pre-warm (e.g. sauna) before hopping in, or the more you create your own heat by swimming very aggressively, or the more insulation you have (body fat, a full-body bathing suit etc.) the longer you will last.
Yes, people can run between heated cars and heated buildings in relatively extreme cold wihtout being all bundled up to the max, but that is not a matter of mind-over-matter toleration of extreme cold. That is simply a balancing of slight discomfort for a very brief period against the embuggerance of dressing and undressing. Mind over matter (the issue) of balancing slight brief discomfort against embuggerance is one thing, mind over matter (the physics of heat transfer and it’s effect on one’s unprotected body in truly extreme cold) is quite another.[/spoiler]So as to bring this digression back onto the thread’s topic, let’s look back to Saturday, when at my place it thawed to a bit below freezing. I walked barefoot out to my vehicle a couple of times. I’m a guy and I live in the woods, so no toenail polish. My neighbour installed a retractable screen and built a heated video projector cabinet. He’s like me – no toenail polish. That evening he and his wife enjoyed in their outdoor hot tub while watching ski videos, with the snow and trees in the background, and the stars above. I came over to chat (wearing boots etc.) utterly oblivious as to who was or was not wearing toenail polish, let alone what the condition of it might have been if it was in use.
None of my business. Why would I even care? Folks who are concerned about that sort of thing should take up a hobby – perhaps visiting somewhere where the cold is truly extreme, and experimenting in controlling their hypothermia by (a) mind over matter, or (b) toenail polish, or (c) dressing for the conditions by balancing safety, comfort and convenience.
I once asked my gf about this. She spends an hour or so nearly every Sunday evening doing her own pedicure. Turns out she just likes having pretty feet. Damn shame I don’t have a foot fetish.
(ETA: she buys expensive shoes once a year or so at a store in downtown Pittsburgh. The sales guy there is known to be turned on by feet. He cradles/caresses and comments. Talk about a dream job for a guy with that fetish!)
I think you guys up there in the frozen north have a different definition.
Long ago, when I took my lifeguard test, in a lake, the test administrator (who in retrospect I realize was a 17-year-old kid who didn’t know a lot more than I did) said we would not test if the water temp was below 65F, because that was too cold. The water temp was 67F so we did it. This was on the top. It was colder at the bottom. I thought it was pretty damn cold, myself.
We also had indoor recess in grade school if the temp was below 55F. Because, cold! Might get frostbite!
Sounds like somebody’s buying me a drink. 
All of the indoor water parks I know of are attached to a hotel; however, if you don’t stay there, there is a locker room to get showered/changed before you leave. How is leaving a water park in the winter to go to your car in the parking lot any different than a swimmer who leaves the pool on a regular basis after practice. Is your hair really going to freeze in the 30 seconds you’re outside?
Hah, I have one turquoise patch on my big toe, from June. We almost match!
(I think that was the only time I’ve ever had a pedicure).
Originally, yes, but indoor waterparks have become a thing in the north, particularly in “family vacation” areas.
The Wisconsin Dells is such an area, located about midway between Chicago and the Twin Cities. Traditionally (i.e., until about 20 years ago), the Dells’ season was purely Memorial Day - Labor Day, and very few of the attractions (including the waterparks) operated year-round.
But, all of that changed when several big, new resorts were built, featuring large indoor waterparks. Now, there are at least four such resorts in the Dells, and even if the outdoor attractions (miniature golf, rollercoasters, Duck rides) are closed, the area is busy with tourists year-round. I’ve been up there over MLK Day weekend in January, when it’s -15 F, and the resorts are packed.
And, to answer your thought about “being 100% dry” – at these resorts, you can rent a room at the resort, and never have to go outside as you go from your room to the waterpark, and back.
The point of this isn’t extreme temps and tolerance. It is why a the majority of women get pedicures/polish toenails in summer then the vast majority don’t do any maintenance once it starts getting cooler.
Not really concerned about polar bear plunges or snuggling in igloos in Alaska.
Yeah, in Florida they have this over-the-top mad fetish about indoor air conditioning. It’s at all the hotels/motels too. I had some occasions to visit there. The rooms are walk-in freezers. Getting from door to bed, from bed to bathroom, is an obstacle course of icicles. I had to put tape over the A/C control knob to keep the maids from cranking it back up every day when I wasn’t there. (Well, actually, IIRC, I just put that “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door.)
Coming home each afternoon, dripping sweat from the hot muggy outdoors, I had instant icicles hanging from my nose.
That’s why I never got pedicures during my visits to Florida.
I get pedicures once a month year round. At $23, not expensive. I also wear sandals year round. My feet get and stay colder in socks and closed-toe shoes than they do in sandals. I know I’m strange; it’s part of my charm.
It’s the same in Texas. I have a whole collection of shawls and scarves that I use more in the summer than winter due to frigid air conditioning.
Cartoon I saw (I think in Playboy) once:
Man sitting at a manicure desk, opposite the manicurist. He’s got bandages on nine fingers/thumbs, and the manicurist is working on the tenth.
Customer to manicurist: “We can’t go on meeting like this, Louise.”
Yep. It’s in the seventies outdoors, but I’m sitting here at my desk turning blue and losing control of bodily functions.
I fully understand the perceived need (= want) to reduce the indoor humidity in summer. The simplest way to do that is to cool the air down until the excess water condenses out. OK.
But then at least they should heat the air back up to a livable temp before pumping it into the room. The defroster in your car works that way: the AC runs to dehumidify the air and the heater runs to heat the air and hence the glass. Now all we need is to extend that to buildings.
I can just see the greenies going wild:Q: You run the AC and the heat at the same time?:eek:?
A: Of course we do. Comfort is good. 
<- Miami shades guy
Back to the pedicure theme - I get a pedicure once a year. Nail clipping, cuticle trimming, nail buffing, and callus removal. No nail polish - Sorry!
Oh, I forgot to tell you I’m a guy, and I do it to reset my baseline for the rest of the year of self maintenance and foot health. If you saw my feet you wouldn’t know that I am a secret pedi-man. They don’t look all that much better.
And like a lot of the posters here, I do it for me, even though my wife appreciates it.
So lets all do what suits us, and not worry about what others do.
I can’t believe you are asking this.
A woman can put her sandals back on before the nail polish is totally dry w/o any issue; can’t do that if you’re putting on socks &/or closed toed shoes; it’ll smear/streak/get fuzzies from the sock stuck to your toenails. You need to sit there even longer to not mess up your fresh pedicure. If she’s wearing socks / stockings / closed toed shoes/boots no one is going to see her (un)painted toes anyway. Do you think most women get up on Sat morning & put on makeup if they’re staying in & doing domestic projects? Sure, some will because they like it but a lot of [del]women[/del] people won’t bother taking the effort to look nice if no one’s going to see it.
I’m a guy & have never had a mani or pedi but I wouldn’t want to waste my time or money on something to make me look nice that no one will see. Do you lounge around your house in a suit?
Depends on just how cold it is but… yes, where I live we typically have at least a few days a year where your wet hair could freeze that fast.
Heck, I remember one notable day when the windshield washer fluid in the car froze. “Good down to -25 F!” Yes, and not one degree lower!
Because it’s a waste of time and money when no one’s going to see your feet most of the time. Yeesh. I can’t even afford to have it done in the winter time. Plus I have really brittle nails from the meds I’m on, so getting a manicure is pointless anyways.* 
(And I loathe having long toenails – I have them as short as possible.)
If I know I’m going somewhere my feet will be seen, I’ll probably paint my toenails, but I generally don’t bother with my toenails during the winter. Nail polish is expensive, too. Jesus.
*I hate this. I loved having my nails longer and painted, but they peel and break nowadays. I tried those “Hair Skin and Nails” vitamins: I ended up having three seizures. Fuck.
Literally freeze? No. “Freeze” in the sense of being unpleasantly cold? Definitely. And why does the car matter? It’s just as cold as the surrounding air and will not really warm up for 5 to 10 minutes. Plus I would assume something big enough to be called a “water park” rather than “hotel pool” would be a big enough attraction that you wouldn’t all be parking right next to the building or one row over, so 30 seconds seems quite short.
Now the idea of having a hotel attached, or it being part of some other entertainment that you can do as you dry off? That makes sense to me. But going outside in the cold when your hair is wet? I literally wash my hair hours before to be sure it’s dry enough before I go outside now, when it’s 40-50F in the evening.
Sure, if you have short hair, it’s probably dry enough after you towel it and wait a bit. But, otherwise? Brrr. And my hair is just shoulder length.