Health & Swellness tries the fishy pedi

September 16, 2011

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(So it’s not exactly a nail report here, but I think a foot treatment qualifies.)

When I was vacationing in Mallorca, Spain, last month and my friend I was staying with asked if I wanted to try the Fishspa, my answer? Hellz yeah.

For years I’d been curious about this foot treatment that originates from Asia, but had never come across any spa that offered it. If you don’t know about it, basically you immerse your feet in a tank filled with toothless carp fish, which eat the dead skin off of your feet.

So we each plopped down 12 euros for 15 minutes of quality time with the fishies.

We were all howling with laughter the moment we immersed our feet — it’s crazy ticklish, but not painful. And I guess I’m particularly tasty (or have feet with lots of dead skin for the fish to snack on) as they swarmed my feet the entire time even though my girlfriend was fishspa-ing in the same tank as me.

I found myself getting squeamish watching — the fish were reminding me of insects attacking my legs (don’t they look like insects?) — so I mostly just focused on not focusing too much–thinking happy thoughts of lounging on a beach instead. I also had to move my feet every so often to get the fish to scatter a bit when the ticklishness got unbearable, even though this meant I was losing out on precious dead-skin-be-gone time with the carp.

The result? I didn’t find my feet much softer. The staff at Fishspa had recommended 30 minutes since it was my first go-round ever but I wouldn’t have been able to withstand another 15 minutes. Plus, it wasn’t exactly super cheap.

But it was more about fun times with friends, anyhow. And for that it was worth every cent and then some.

Filed under: Beauty Swellness,Healthy Swellness

Tags: carp, exfoliation, fish pedicure, Fishspa, foot treatment, Mallorca, Spain