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Naughty Text Messages and Perverted Friends Makes Life Fun

This post is crazy long today - fair warning!

Life is boring and it’s exciting at the same time.  I kind of do the same thing day after day yet it’s pretty exciting!  I started trying to write sexual fantasies in Spanish, but the reality is that my Spanish isn’t really such that I know all the best sexy slang.  I guess I have a new challenge.

I talked to my friend last night, the hot little 23-year-old teacher that I used to work with, on text.  We hung out for the first time in a long time the other night and got all fucked up.  He knew about part of my secret life while we were teaching together, but not all of it.  Now that we are no longer co-workers, I let him in on a few more secrets.  It all happened because he asked me what i was doing for a living now that I’m not teaching and I mentioned being a PR and Marketing consultant, which led to a discussion of my client list, which led to the inevitable question on my part, “once you see the links to my blogs there is no going back.”  But he is a consenting adult and so he now knows.  How much he knows and what he’s read, I have no idea, but I do really value having true friends who know the true you and not just the social mask you present to most of your friends.

So anyway, it changes things a bit that we don’t work together anymore and that I’m a professional sex writer, worker, and promoter.  It doesn’t change things like all of a sudden I gave him the best head of his life, though that has crossed my mind.  He and I already had a perverted friendship to begin with, so it just really is a new level of perversion that we share in common.  Kind of nice, really.  I have a flirting fetish.

So last night I texted him to find out if he was going to go work out today (Sunday) because I wanted to go running, but instead he says he’s going to Mass and then to brunch.  Okay, I forgot that even though he’s a perverted little man that he is a good little Catholic boy.  So I said something about six different responses I started to his text but they were all too filthy.  So he asked me to send them anyway.  Again…  “Are you sure?  Are you sober?”  LOL.  Seriously.  I don’t appreciate it when people can only be sexual when drunk.  So again I realize he’s just being a little naughty.  So okay.  I play along.  Now I have to try to remember them all.

  • Number 1: To sneak off somewhere during mass, one at a time, discreetly, to a place where nobody where nobody would think to look (why would we even be there, nobody would be looking).  A simple lift of the dress and quick fuck and back into mass just as casually and just as discreetly, but with a very naughty secret.
  • Number 2: To park far enough away from the church that you could have a quick blow job in the car and I would go into church tasting cum on my lips.
  • Number 3: To take the nice little Catholic boy and turn him into a filthy slut who has no purpose other than to satisfy me.
  • Number 4: To have hot sex that morning before leaving so that while you’re sitting there in church there is cum dripping out of me into my panties and the subtle scent of my pussy on your fingers.

(He texts, “That’s four by my count, keep going.”)

  • Number 5: To be sitting around at brunch with all the nice churchgoing people while messing around with each other under the tablecloth while keeping a straight face.
  • Number 6: To give you a reason to confess next week after thinking such filthy thoughts about a married woman.
  • Bonus 7: Because I’m competitive and I love cum and know that I am good at what I do.  I figure you’re 23 and so you’ve never had anything like me.  Nobody you’ve ever slept with has ever sucked your cock the way I would and we both know that.
  • Bonus 8: It would make all the rumors from school that we were fucking true, which is hot.

So we met up for brunch today.  It was fun, kind of like old times eating together at school.  I watch him devour thousands of calories while I freak out over how many I am eating.  I give him half of my food and take a bite of his, no matter what it is.  Wait.  WTF?!  I didn’t get a taste of his food today.  Now he owes me! It is nice to be able to be perverted with friends and not have it be weird.  I like that about my friends.

Let’s see, what else?  I set up Nikki’s Altered Aperture gallery on Google Photo.  It’s nice to be able to upload galleries, set them as unlisted, and then send someone the auth key to get into the album.  I like Google for a lot of reasons, despite their invasion of privacy that they don’t even try to deny.  I also used Google Photo to make an album to send to my cookie friend to see if I can get a couple of new banners made for me.  He’s a pro and it’s so obvious in his work.   I love to fantasize about my friends.  I should write a new fantasy for my cookie friend one of these days.

I had a nice talk with Melvin about coming to Charlotte.  I really want him to do my first set of nudes and I really want him to shoot a scene with MDS and I.  He’s the perfect person to do it in my mind.   Then I talked to Nikki about shooting with Melvin - he should shoot her, she should shoot him, they should both shoot me (of course), and Nikki also talked about lining up some models she knows and doing a shootout, which I think must mean that they both shoot the same model at the same time from different angles.  Since neither of them seem like gun people or John Wayne, I think that must be what it means.  Anyway, Melvin would be coming to Charlotte as our guest and would stay with us in our home and hopefully will also join us in our cozy, comfy bed, if even just to hang out comfortably.   Who knows what else…  Melvin has a Sir and I have to watch myself from trying to make him Mine.

I came up with a genius idea for a new blog today and now I just have to implement it (buy the domain and set it up).  I can’t let the cat out of the bag yet, but you’ll soon hear about it.  I’m also working on the Quid Pro Quo website, which will soon be moved from WordPress to its own .com domain.  I am going to make a static page for each of our clients and I think it would be nice to blog about it from time to time as well.  I have amazing experiences and conversations with people that others dream of talking to.  It’s good stuff.  I’m leaving everything as a draft at this point until we move it to it’s dot com address.  It’s soooooo much work to move an established blog.  Just don’t make that mistake.  Learn from my earlier mistakes.  Patience over Populating Your Blog if you have any plans to move it at all.

That’s my Sunday.  It’s 6:25 pm.  Busy day.  How was your day?  The image is from Postsecret.com, which you should read every Sunday - it’s one of my favorite days of the week because of Postsecret!

Analyzing Your Sex Blog Statistics

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Know thy reader!  The 3rd Blogging Commandment.

Earlier I wrote about starting a sex blog, monetizing a sex blog, and maintaining a sex blog.  Today I want to talk a little bit about analyzing your traffic.  Traffic just means how many visitors come to your site.

There are several statistic programs available to bloggers.  My favorites are the WordPress stats that are a plug-in or Google Analytics.  The WP Stats are 2nd grade level easy.  The Google Analytics program is a little more difficult because you need to go into the Header.php file and add the code for it.  Either way, it’s important to take a look at who’s coming to your site, where they’re coming from, what pages they’re visiting, how long they stay, and where they click out to,

One important reason for tracking your stats is for you can keep track of your top referrers.  These are people you want to make friends with - they are sending you traffic!  It’s generally a good idea to be nice to those people - they aren’t sending you traffic by coincidence - they’ve linked you up.  Link back!  You can even add a “top referrers” list to your page - reciprocating some traffic.

Another reason why you should pay close attention to your stats is to keep an eye on your top posts.  What is it about them that draws people to them?  Is it a catchy title?  Is it a particular topic that you could write more on?  Double check your top posts to make sure that the links are all active and maybe even re-link things to direct traffic to another post or another page.

Paying attention to where your visitors are clicking out to is important, as well.  If you are blogging cleverly, then you know that directing traffic is just as important as getting traffic.  If your clicks are all going out to Wikipedia.org, you’re probably not being smart about your outclicks.  I try to set my links strategically to either one of my other blogs, a revShare site, a friend’s blog, or a related post or category within my blog.  The picture above, for example, is linked to the category, “Blogs”.   And please, for the love of God, when you create a link out, give it a target=”_blank”  attribute so that it opens in a new window - otherwise you’ve just lost your reader as they click on to the next page.

Taking note of your outclicks is also helpful if your blog is monetized.  You can easily keep track of how many people you are sending to each site, giving you an idea of which affiliate programs are the best for your blog.  For example, I can see in my statistics in Catalina Says that my most popular affiliate programs are The Collar Factory and VibeReview.com.  That tells me that people like those sites and I should continue to promote those companies.  If, for example, my stats showed just one click out/day to JoeJoe’sPornoBlog then I would probably drop JoeJoe’sPornoBlog from my links page or put his banner at the bottom of my banners page.

Finally, my last argument for being as OCD about stats as I am:  Search Strings!  In my stats I can see exactly what string people searched for when they found my blog.  In today’s stats for example, someone found my blog by typing “slut wife loves to suck cock” into a search engine.   Someone clicked to me because of that.  On Catalina Loves, for example, the term “freckles“  is almost always at the top of my search terms list.  At least 25 people per day find my blog through searching for Freckles in Google (or Yahoo or whatever).  Knowing that, I try to include more freckles into my posts.

Basically anybody can start and run a blog, but it does take some strategic planning and some know-how to blog successfully,  I hope this helps get you on the right path.  Leave a comment here if you have questions.  I check them daily.

Advice about Sex Blogging

I got an email today that said:

Dearest Catalina,

I am a huge fan of Your blogs. After reading Your series on starting, monetizing, and managing your own blog, I decided to start my own sex blog! I just added You as my first link in my blogroll (did You already know that?) I have a question for You and I hope You have some time to answer it: Is there anything that stands out in Your mind as “I wish I had known that a long time ago!”?

Cheers!
g

Dear g:

I made time for it by making it a blog post. That’s maybe lesson number one? I don’t know. Also notice that when I copied and pasted your email into this post, I linked to My own blogs so that our curious reader can see what other blogs we’re talking about. I also linked to the series posts so that the lucky soul who just found my blog for the first time today can go back and get caught up.

One of my blogging regrets so far is not linking better in the beginning. Some of the early posts were linked in a sort of moronic manner. I’ve since gone back through them (I think all of them) on Catalina Loves and re-linked and tagged them, but that was a bitch to do.

Another is that I didn’t always use tags. I only have a category cloud in my sidebar and so I figured using tags also was a waste of time.  I was wrong. And just like re-linking, re-tagging was a tremendous pain-in-the-ass. Not only did I have to check the links in those posts, but really carefully read through each one looking for keywords (tags). Now, as a result, I write tags when I write the post and I do it every time I write a post. There are a number of people who skip from blog to blog via tag surfing. Those things matter! Do it.

I think my best advice to you looking forward is to think about your blog not now, but a year from now. Maybe it doesn’t need its own category now, but after a few months will you have to go back and re-tag it after you add the category? Ugh, that’s a pain. So try to get all your categories established early. Also consistent tagging is useful. Unfortunately, Wordpress doesn’t have a checkbox or dropdown box for tags, so you have to type them in. My reach around on this one is to go to Manage-Posts and then Copy-Paste the tags from a similar post. You can then delete the ones you don’t want to use easily (click the x) or add some if there are more that are needed. I do that for Sugasm, for example. I have a basic template like sex, sex blog, best sex blogs of the week, best posts of the week, BDSM, D/s, erotic fiction, hnt (etc. etc.) and then I can modify it easily after copying/pasting that string. (Always look for the easy way).

I hope this gives you somewhere to start. Find your tribe. A tight network of bloggers can help each other out a lot.

Best Wishes,
Catalina

If you have a question about blogging or Wordpress or… I suppose if you just want to know what the weather is like… email me by clicking on the grumpy kitty. I’ll post your question here and answer it just like this. You’ll be famous (and I’ll add you to my blogrolll even).

Increase Your Sex(y) Blog Traffic

So far, you’ve learned how to set up your blog and how to monetize it, but how to get people to see it is a whole different issue. Clever linking and registering your blog in the right places are key. It’s easy to create a link in Wordpress, so making the link shouldn’t be a problem. There are writers that will say you shouldn’t create links like “Click Here To Read,” but as a reader, I disagree. Sometimes a simple “click here” is all you need. In general, however, try to make the actual link just a part of the text.

Balance is important when linking. You should have some internal links, some external links, and some revShare links (if you’ve monetized your blog). Don’t overlink by linking the word every time it appears. If you link the same word or phrase twice, it should lead to a different link for each one. Nobody wants to click the same link over and over again. As a general rule, link it the first time you reference it and then don’t link it again.

Internal Links: You want to make sure that you create internal links within your blog to keep people reading. When you reference another post, link it. If you mention something that you have a category for, link to the category. If you want people to know about you, in particular, link to your about page. The point is, look for links within your own blog.

External Links: It’s nice to link to your Myspace profile, people will want to make friends with you there. You can also link to other blog posts on other blogs or just to the main page of your favorite site. Usually people keep track of their incoming links and so it’s a good way to get other blogs to notice you and add you to their blogroll.

Blogroll Links: Start your blogroll with links to your favorite blogs. It’s that simple. Who do you like to read? If you want other people to read your blog, then read theirs. Leave meaningful comments. Not only will this increase your chances of having a link back to you in their blogroll, but their readers will read your comments and feel compelled to learn more about you. Leave comments on their blogs every day. They will take notice of you and if they like your blog, they will add you to their blogroll. You can just blatantly write an email and ask for a link exchange, but if your work is good, you don’t need to do that. Some bloggers are just outright offended if you email asking for a link exchange.

Blog Registries: Look at some of the top blog registries like Technorati, Del.icio.us, but stay away from Digg - not only will they ban you for adult content, but they will ban your IP. Also register with specific adult blog registries - Adult Blogster, Eye of Venus, Adult Blog Hub, and Cunning Linguist are four good ones to start with.

And last, but not least, join a bloggers network like Sugasm. Sugasm is a compendium of the week’s best blog posts. Each member of Sugasm submits their favorite post of the week, a complete list is emailed to everybody to vote on, and the results come out on Monday or Tuesday. Thousands of people look forward to Sugasm each week, knowing that they can count on reading the best erotica or seeing the best HNT posts.

Monetize Your Sex(y) Blog

So you read my blog yesterday about starting your own sex blog, you have found a template and a host, now it’s time to make some money to support your new blogging habit.

RevShare and Affiliate are two words you should know. You need to find sites that provide a revenue sharing program or an affiliate program and then sign up. Make sure they are sites you really support and back, because your name is going to be associated with them. There are millions of sites, so don’t sign up randomly just because you can. Pick and choose.

Each affiliate program is different and so you will want to read their terms very carefully. Some will give you a better share if you agree to exits, which means your viewers will get pop-ups. Think long and hard about whether or not this is worth it to you. I personally avoid them like the plague. Other options you might come across are payout related - will you go for clicks or sign-ups? Ultimately, you’ll just have to carefully look at the program and decide if it looks right to you. You can always bookmark it, compare it with other programs, and go back to it if it looks good. Research it well — there are stories of bloggers not getting paid by shady companies.

Joining affiliate programs has a hidden benefit for sex bloggers. Affiliate programs provide content for you. A good portion of the top quality photographs that I use on our blogs are a result of affiliate program content. I make a link back to them and I’m allowed to use their pictures (or movie clips). This is really neat if you want to find pictures that are difficult to find, like braces and food fetish mixed together (which, incidentally you can find on Breathplay.info).

So I’m going to get you started with a few recommendations. The companies below are the top three companies that Marky D. Sade and I work with:

Kinky Dollars: Their content is updated (almost) daily and it’s really diverse. They own Device Bondage, Fucking Machines, Hogtied, Kink.com, Men In Pain, Sex and Submission, The Training of O, WaterBondage.com, and Wired Pussy.

RhinoPays: It’s a funny sounding company, but they really do pay. They also have awesome affiliate content and a ton of fetish sites. Here are a few of my favorites, but they have more: Beauty and Braces, Everyday Slaves, Kinky Zee, Preggolicious, Rope Rookie, and Toxxxy.

Bondage Bank: Some of my favorite Mz. Berlin scenes are at Chanta’s Bitches. They also have Fucked and Bound, and Captive Male.

Once you sign up with programs, you have to link, link, link. Making money is a numbers game. You need x number of people to see that site before 1 will actually “convert”. Clever linking is a topic for another day, though.

Starting Your Own Sex(y) Blog

Writing a good sex blog isn’t rocket science - I’m sure there are plenty of resources for people out there. I thought I’d share my experience with it here, though, and maybe offer a few tips you haven’t seen before. Today’s post is Starting Your Own Sex(y) Blog and tomorrow I’ll follow up with Monetize Your Blog and then Increase Your Blog Traffic, so check back for more.

Like I was saying, writing your own sex blog is totally doable. You should sign up with either Blogger or Wordpress. My personal preference is Wordpress. We use it for all of our blogs. Wordpress is more user-friendly, in my opinion, and I have used both. I think there are also more widgets and themes available for Wordpress, but I could be wrong. And what’s a widget, you ask? Widgets are the options you can add to your blog, like calendars, top posts, statistics, tag clouds, etc. You probably want a theme that is widget friendly.

You’ll want to know what the column size is of your text because you may need to re-size images so that they don’t look squished in your blog. There are a lot of programs that can resize and entire folder of photos at once. For people like me, who have several blogs, this can be a real time saver. Catalina Loves and Breathplay both use 500 wide photos, for example, while The Momme Domme and Mr. and Mrs. Kink (dot com) are sized to 700 wide. So when I choose photos for Catalina Loves, I look for photos that are larger than 400 to begin with, because resizing them from say, 100 wide to 500 wide, will make them look terrible. It’s always better to size down than to size up - just make sure to keep the original aspect ratio, though.

You can host your site with Wordpress or Blogger (that means your site URL will look like yourblog.wordpress.com or yourname.blogger.com). Just because you can host your site with them doesn’t mean that you should. They have limitations on bandwidth, storage space, and usage. By purchasing your own domain, you have more autonomy over what you post (no censorship). You also can choose a URL like yourblog.com.

Finding a host that provides service for adult based sites can be difficult (and how do you know who do host with?!) I highly recommend ExJinn Networks. We’ve hosted our sites with them since their inceptions, and as we go about our business setting up blogs for others, we host their sites there, too. They specialize in adult content and have great start up prices. I could go on and on about them. I love it when people do what they love and do it well!

So dive in, join the sea of sex bloggers. Just beware of sharks.

Catalina says Give a Great Hand Job!

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I have given my share of hand jobs. I think at this point I could safely even call myself an expert at giving a hand job.

My secrets are:

  • Take off your jewelry, your rings and your bracelet or watch. You don’t want to scratch the most sensitive of his parts.
  • Use a good lube. I highly recommend using the JO System Lube.
  • Ask him to touch himself for a while first and observe how he touches himself. If you’re lucky, you don’t have to ask - he’s the type of guy who has no problem reaching down to stroke his own cock and you can just lie your head on his tummy and watch. Notice where he places his thumb and how he wraps his fingers. Does he hold his cock firmly or gently? Does he twist his hand or just slide it up and down? He knows how he likes to be touched, he’s been doing it for most of his life, so take notice.
  • Explore his cock with your fingers. Close your eyes and let your fingers do the walking, so to speak. Respond to his feedback with more or less pressure and/or more or less speed. Don’t be afraid to try new things.
  • Use both hands. Nothing like the feeling of the neverending pussy, is what I’ve heard. One hand over the other over the other and so on. You’ll want lots of lube for a nice experience.
  • When you’re not using both hands, use both hands. What I mean is, even if you’re not doing a two handed stroke on your mate, use your “free” hand to stroke his balls or gentle rub his ass with the tip of your finger. If he’s really adventurous, you can slide a well-lubed finger in and give his prostate a little tickle. If he responds positively that, keep doing it! The end result will be a very intense orgasm.

And if you’re really interested in learning some new techniques to try out on your Man, take a look at this website. It’s really neat. They have video demonstrations of different ways to stroke a man’s cock. I have it bookmarked!

Catalina says Give Great Head!

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In my opinion, few things rival watching a woman give a great blow job. I love giving head. I love sucking cock. It’s true, I’m a cockwhore. When my Husband has his fingers inside of me, all I want is to feel his cock down my throat.

So I think I’m pretty good at it, not just because I like it, but also because I’ve actually studied the art. I watch what other women do, I watch what other men do, I take advice, I pay close attention to His reaction while I’m sucking him, and I have years and years of experience sucking the same man’s cock pretty much daily.

That is why I’m going to share with you my favorite blow job tips:

  • Avoid alcohol. Because it tightens the throat muscles you want to stay away from alcohol. The key to great deep head is to relax your throat muscles enough to take him all in.
  • Drink orange juice. It suppresses the gag reflex as well as thickens and increases the saliva in your mouth. You’ll be drooling all over his cock.
  • If you feel like you are going to gag, swallow. I know this sounds counterintuitive, but try it.
  • Exhale before taking his cock in your mouth. It will increase your oral capacity by 33%.
  • Flatten your tongue and extend it down towards the base of his shaft. Move your tongue around a bit while you’re giving him head, swirl it around the base or the head as you suck.
  • Alternate hot and cold sensations by sipping on ice water and hot tea.
  • Don’t just use your mouth, use your hand as well. You can use it: as a stopper to ensure that you control the amount of cock you take; as an improvised cock ring to keep him hard; to stroke him as you suck him; or to play with his balls, ass, nipples or perineum.

Have fun with it and laugh. Try to be the sexy pornstar. Look up at him while you’re sucking him off with a sexy look across your face. Nothing is hotter than really loving his cock and really wanting his cum (in the moment).

Catalina says Learn How to Give a Good Pedicure

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Reposted with permission from Orgasm Quest (THANK YOU!!!)

I know this is primarily a blog on sex but I was convinced to put this up. A pedicure can be fun for you and a great treat for the recipient (naturally). You can give one to your significant other, a friend, even a family member, or anyone comfortable enough to have you handling their feet.

A professional pedicure at a salon can take about 30 minutes. Expect this one to take 1-2 hours depending on how long you spend on each step, so make sure you have enough time before you begin. There are a number of short how-to’s on giving a pedicure available on the Internet, but what I have written here is almost the whole nine yards, with steps for each step, so be prepared for a read! Skip to any step if you just want the skinny on something in particular.

Things you’ll need for a complete pedicure:

Step 1: Get comfortable

  • You should both be in comfortable relaxed clothing.
  • Sit her some place that the both of you can be comfortable. You’ll need to be positioned so that you can access her feet easily and go through all the steps. The couch or a comfy chair is the best place for her as you’ll need her feet near the floor.
  • Bring her a cup of hot coffee, tea, cocoa, or whatever she likes to help her relax.
  • Light a scented candle with a relaxing scent such as lavender (or her favorite)

Step 2: Soothe her feet

  1. A home foot spa is great if you have one. Most people don’t have this so simply soaking her feet in a tub or plastic wash basin will do. Add the foot salt soak to warm water and stir it a bit to ensure it is dissolved.
  2. Let her feet soak for about 15 minutes. It will soften and soothe them.
  3. After soaking dry her feet completely with a towel. If you’d like, you can heat the towel up by putting it in the dryer for 5 minutes or sitting it folded over an air vent if the heat is on. Going from a warm foot bath to a warm towel will feel even better.

Step 3: Prepare her toes

  1. If necessary, use the nail clippers to trim back her toenails so that there is about 2-3 mm or so of nail past the edge. Cut in a straight line, not a curve, to prevent in-growing toenails. Don’t cut too much….you want enough there to paint!
  2. File her nails with the emeryl file, arcing across the edge to mildly round out the toenail. Don’t use it on the surface of the nail as emeryl files are often too abrasive, not to mention the metal edge can slice painfully into the cuticles. You’ll need to hold each toe steady in turn so be careful not to squeeze it too hard.
  3. Buff her toenails, edges and top surface, with the 4-step nail buffer. This will smooth out the nails.
  4. Brush the cuticle nail oil onto her cuticles. Using your thumbs, gently massage the oil into the cuticle of each toe.
  5. Trim of any bits of loose skin visible on the edges of the toenails using the cuticle trimmer. Do NOT cut the actual cuticles, despite the name of the tool.
  6. Gently push back the cuticles using the cuticle pusher. You do this by sliding it across the back of the toenail against the cuticle. Some cuticle trimmers come with a cuticle pusher on the other end.

Step 4: Massage her feet

  1. Prepare the massage oil by heating it in a small dish if you’d like. I recommend using KY Touch Warming Foot Massage, which you don’t need to heat up in advance. You can activate the heat through friction (obviously) and also by blowing gently on the KY Warming variety.
  2. Rub the oil between your hands to get them lubricated and to ensure it is warm (if you didn’t heat it).
  3. Massage each foot in turn using the oil. This should take 30-45 minutes. There are a number of good how-to’s and videos on the web showing techniques for foot massage. Here are some general tips to keep in mind though:
    • If she is ticklish, go very slow and use pressure enough that the tickling isn’t so bad.
    • You should use smooth slow strokes. This allows the tissue to better move blood.
    • The heel and ball of the foot can generally take more pressure.
    • Be careful how you hold her foot. Don’t let your finger tips press into the tops. Try to hold it with your fingers flat.
    • Don’t forget to massage her toes! Gingerly massage them with finger and thumb as if painting up and down with a brush between your fingers.

ImportantIt is recommend that you not give a foot massage to a woman who is pregnant. Pressing the wrong points can actually cause contractions to start in some women. Also, make sure any lotions or oils used are safe for pregnant women. Check the back of the bottle or box for warnings before use.

Step 5: Exfoliate her feet

  1. Set her feet on a clean towel.
  2. Put some pumice foot scrub into the palm of your hand and rub it around to get it warm before applying it to her feet.
  3. Rub it across the top and bottom of her foot, including the Achilles tendon. Work each toe lightly and individually. Be careful not to apply too much pressure as you want to exfoliate the skin, not rub it raw.
  4. Move to the next foot when the pumice foot scrub starts to create too much traction. The scrub will have broken up the cuticle and massage oil as well.
  5. Using a warm wet wash clothe clean off her feet gingerly. You will probably have to re-wet it with warm water two or three times to completely remove the foot scrub grains. Don’t forget in between her toes!
  6. Use the pointed tip of the emeryl file to slowly and carefully remove any grit that has built up under the edges of her toenails. This is a delicate matter because the last thing you want is to slice into the skin under her nail.
  7. If she still has some thick rough spots on the bottoms of her feet then use the pumice stone to smooth them out.
  8. Apply the moisturizing cream to her feet to lock in moisture.

Step 6: Paint her toenails

  1. Apply a base coat using the strengthening top & base coat solution to each toenail. Allow to dry.
  2. Apply the first coat of nail polish in smooth strokes across the toenails, being careful not to get it on the skin, covering the whole nail. The smaller toes can usually be covered in one stroke. Don’t go back over the coat of polish even it has just been there a few seconds as multiple unnecessary strokes can make the polish gummy and uneven.
  3. Allow the first coat to dry completely. Blowing on the toes will speed this up a bit. It should not be tacky feeling when you apply the next coat or the tackiness will catch the paint brush as it is applied, making the coat look poor. While waiting on the nail polish to dry you can lightly massage her feet some more to pass the time, but be careful not to touch the nail polish.
  4. Apply the second coat of nail polish and allow to dry completely.
  5. Optionally you may try your hand at nail art using a nail art brush on the toenail of the big toe. You can use a cotton pad to wipe the tiny tip to the nail art brush when you need to switch colors. There are also polish bottles available specifically for nail art that have the art brush built in. I personally find that a nail art brush allows for better control though.
  6. After any nail art is completely dry you will apply the top coat using the strengthening top & base coat solution.
  7. Very carefully remove any excess nail polish from the skin around her toenails using cue-tips or the pointed tip of the emeryl file. Optionally she may wait until the next morning and just allow any excess polish to come off in the shower.
  8. Apply any nail art stickers or jewels after the top coat is dry if you decide to.

NoteIf she needs to get up, put some slippers or soft socks on her feet so that they don’t get dirty while still doing the pedicure. As a nice added treat you can heat the socks up by putting them onto the end of a hair dryer for a few seconds. Obviously this can’t be done if you are in the process of applying toenail polish that is still wet unless you have open toed slippers.She should NOT do much walking until the polish is dried HARD. Otherwise the repeated pressing of the skin around the nail from walking can bunch up the polish at the edges little by little making an ugly mess. Stepping mostly with the heel of the foot can prevent this.


So there you have it! Hope it wasn’t too much to take in! If you have fun (and still have a willing participant) you should be able to do more/better on subsequent pedicures…..and who knows, that pedicure could take a more interesting turn for you both as it has for me before. Some ladies just love to put their well pampered feet to naughty uses. ;) Have fun!