Eeeww! Fishes giving you a Pedicure

From Cuteoverload:

According to CNN, the hottest new spa treatment in the Washington, DC area is fish pedicures, where tiny, toothless carp nibble away all your dead skin, for the nom-nom-nominal fee of $35. According to customers, the treatment produces just a tingling sensation: "It kind of feels like your foot's asleep," says one. It's all happening at Yvonne Hair and Nails salon, where the elite meet to become a fishy treat.

Next hot thing: Leaches!

And you all mocked me PedEgg. Bet the PedEgg grated cheese is looking not so bad now, huh?

Subject: Re: Eeeww! Fishes giving you a Pedicure

the fish spa was shown on the abc's reality show "i survived japanese game show" before, it looks weird.

Mamacita wrote:
Next hot thing: Leaches!

i think i saw demi moore in one of the talk shows talking about using leeches to "detox" herself. ew.

Ah Flexi, we mock the ones we love.

yes, I rather shave a pile of foot parm off my feet then have fish eat it off.

I knew they did that! I was once in rio frio in west texas and was kinda like "er, why are all those fish eating my skin?"

sure enough, even though I only hung out in the water for like 20 mins, my calluses were nicely nibbled away. but. um. I didn't know that would happen. grody. it's weird.

Diane Sawyer submitted to (? experienced? investigated?) one of these fish pedicures on her morning news program yesterday....I have no idea how to post video, or I would link to YouTube.

Sad for Diane. :-(

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I kinda wanna try that.

dapearl9 wrote: ...

I kinda wanna try that.

Me too. Looks cool to me. Rather have those little guys eat it, then shave it off and gross out everyone on the message board!

j/k, flex!

I think Long John Silver tried that once.

The big question is, what happens to those poor fish after they service a client ,are they forced to endure a lifetime diet of hangnails and foot funguses or are set free ,or sent to a Sushi Bar and sold as Shashimi.

Hamilton wrote: The big question is, what happens to those poor fish after they service a client ,are they forced to endure a lifetime diet of hangnails and foot funguses or are set free ,or sent to a Sushi Bar and sold as Shashimi.

One man's garbage is another fish's gold.

The fish are flushed down the toilet, eventually landing in the Gowanus Canal where the mix of human skin cells, fish cells, and a 100 years worth of toxic waste transforms them into some sort of chimera that bears a hybrid likeness to each of the clients whose toes got the nibbling.

http://jezebel.com/5027735/diane-sawyer-fearlessly-faces-flesh+eating-fish

arches wrote: The fish are flushed down the toilet, eventually landing in the Gowanus Canal where the mix of human skin cells, fish cells, and a 100 years worth of toxic waste transforms them into some sort of chimera that bears a hybrid likeness to each of the clients whose toes got the nibbling.

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Wasn't that made into a 50's movie called The Invasion Of The Foot Snatchers.