Wart Remover Pads - Part 2

Ugh, so after having my pedicure and my foot looking oh-so-beautiful, after about a week Ed is rearing his ugliness again and making my soft skin callused. WHY!? So Ed is still definitely rooted in my foot and his mission in life is to make my foot ugly! So I decided to buy another brand of wart remover pads to see if I would have any different results, went with Dr. Scholls and it contains 24 treatments. These pads aren’t waterproof this time, which is a shame, but I find that they stay in place on my feet MUCH better than the Compound W ones. With the Compound W I found that after about a half day of walking and whatnot, the pad would shift to other parts of my foot moving the salicylic acid pad around too…not good! These new pads stay in place. I placed one wee salicylic pad on Ed, and then covered it with the larger cushy pad. Same instructions, leave on for 48 hours and then remove. I was impatient to see if the new pads were working so I ripped it off after the first day and yep, they’re working! It’s pretty gruesome, but here’s a pic so you know the epic battle I’m fighting. For some reason Ed is having a party with 5 of his friends (notice the 5 dots + 1 to the side? Wth). Pumice stones just aren’t cutting it to remove the dead skin so I bought one of those mini cheese-graters for your foot, that works like a charm! Dead skin flaking off left, right and centre! My new routine will be to leave the pad on for 2 days, remove, soak, dry and grate off the dead skin in hopes that eventually I’ll be placing a salicylic pad directly on Ed and be rid of him once and for all. If there’s any more progress on Ed as I move throughout the package of pads I’ll post some updates. In the meantime, try to get the picture of my foot out of your head and we’ll see you kiddies soon :)

Compound W Wart Remover Pads

Let’s face it, the things we must do for beauty aren’t always pretty.

I’ve had a wart of some sort on the bottom pad of my right foot for as long as I can remember, it was only this year that I decided to “improve” the area so it looked like a normal foot. No, my right foot was by no means hideous or unhuman-like, but over top of my wart (let’s call him Ed from this point on) was a mound of callused skin that protruded ever so slightly (and by ever so slightly I mean big and hideous). Unfortunately, I don’t have the gory pictures that I had meant to take during my journey to normal-footted-dom, but I think this review on the Compound W Wart Remover Pads will do.

So the callused area was approximately ¾ of a centimetre long and then more thick, callused skin surrounding it. I’ve tried soaking my feet then filing off the dead skin but the skin was so tough that all my efforts were thWARTED (get it? Haha). I ended up going to a podiatrist and he sliced off the callused skin covering Ed, then stabbed Ed with a q-tip soaked in liquid nitrogen. Apparently my body doesn’t take pain all that well decided it would be better to pass out three times (not even joking! I wish!). Anyways, I ended up limping around for about a week and a half, and it was suggested that I come in every 2 weeks for a treatment…riiiight. I decided that the insanely painful route just wouldn’t cut it for me, and on top of that, it’s not even guaranteed that I would be completely Ed-free after however many treatments!

Thus my quest for a non-painful way to remove Ed. I settled on these pads as it’s non-invasive and had a high concentration of salicylic acid...40% to be exact. Twenty pads, one pad per two days. It was actually neat seeing the havoc that these little pads had cause my feet. After removing the pads, soaking my feet and then scrubbing the area, you could tell that the acid was eating away at my dead skin, let’s face it…it was actually pretty gross. At one point (I must have been through at least 12 pads) the skin area was all white and flaking off, I decided to peel at my dead skin (no I don’t condone this as I’m sure it could cause damage…but I’m impatient!) and then eventually peeled off a giant piece of thick thick thick dead, white skin (seriously, the skin was at least 3mm thick, gag)…showed it to my hubby…he was not impressed :p

I got down to two pads and decided that my foot was almost home-free of Ed! Decided to celebrate with a pedicure and was informed that the wart may still be under my almost-normal-foot-skin *sigh*. Which makes sense because apparently the roots are black and would fall out had I gotten the whole wart. Anyways, long story short, I’m going to buy another box of pads and continue on in my quest to completely rid myself of Ed. Here is a picture after my pedicure, looks meh, but trust me, it’s a HUGE difference from when I started! I would imagine that these pads would be more effective on someone with a wart that doesn’t have a bajillion layers of callused skin on top.

If you’re in the market to rid yourself of Ed’s family members, do give these a try, cheap and pain-free! Will write an update after I complete another box. Happy Ed hunting!

Review on Circle Lenses

Well I’ve realised that this beauty blogging stuff is more work than I originally thought. Especially when it comes to posting videos on YouTube! There’s the initial filming, then watching and editing and cutting, then uploading, then adding annotations, then reviewing…OI. But if people watch it and it actually helps them with any decisions…I suppose it’s worth it then :)

So on to another review…circle lenses! After countless hours of watching YouTube videos, I noticed the eyes (particularly those of the Asian beauties blogging) of some bloggers and became intrigued. Found out that the contact lenses they are wearing are called circle lenses, basically contacts that are larger than normal to enhance the “doll-eyed” look or “anime” look. I WANT! So after reading some recommendations I decided to place an order at Lenscircle.com. They have a special where you get an Anna Sui inspired lens case with the purchase of two lenses so of course…I bought two lenses! Totally worth it in my opinion :)

The order itself arrived roughly a week and a half after I placed my order, here’s a picture of everything after I tore through the package.

Because my order was late by a few days, they ended up including a second Anna sui lens case, woo hoo! Anyways, this is the first type of contact lens of any type that I’ve ever ordered/worn so the install was interesting, took about an hour and a half, I’m sure it would take a personal with normal sized eyes a lot less time, but I’ve come to realise that I have fairly squinty eyes and the lens is bigger than my normal eye opening, took a lot of manoeuvring but finally got the suckers in! I ended up googling a bunch of videos and instructions on how to insert contacts which were semi-helpful, just so you know, care instructions are also included with the lenses for us newbs :)

The lenses are very soft and didn’t feel uncomfortable at all (unless of course you manage to get some debris on the lens when inserting, OUCH!), wore then for about 2 hours so my eyes could get adjusted. I found that they felt a little dry after the first hour or so, put in a drop of solution in each eye and I was fine afterwards. Taking the lenses out were a little challenge because a) I have long nails and b) did I mention my eyes are really tiny?? Thankfully in the Anna Sui lens kit they included some plastic tweezers, used those to prod the lenses out…otherwise I would probably still be wearing them to this day!

Anyways, for those of you looking to wear circle lenses, beware that it’s recommended to keep them in up to a maximum of 6-8 hours. These come with or without prescriptions but in my opinion, are strictly fashion lenses, these lenses aren’t as porous as regular contacts and don’t allow your eye to breathe as much so prolonged use/duration could have some negative effects on your eyes, so on a more serious note, I would advise you to do a little research on circle lenses before you consider them. That said, I LOVE mine! I have the Geo nudey blues, and the Geo angel greens. Below are some pics for comparison of my regular eyeballs with and without the lenses in. I prefer the blues, they look a bit more dramatic and I imagine that’s what I would look like if I were ever a vampire *queue Edward*…enjoy!

Here are the Geo Nudy Series in blue and a comparison with my natural eye and one contact in:

Here are the Geo Angel Series in green and a comparison with my natural eye and one contact in: