Peeled the skin from a healed blister, and oh god, I regret it.

This is pretty gross, guys, so prepare yourselves.

I've never been much of a foot person - as in, hated feet - so I never really took care of mine. Washed them, sure, clipped my toenails, did the very basic things, but I never did anything like used a pumice stone, filed them etc. Didn't see any need to, and as I didn't like feet anyway I certainly didn't wanna spend any extra time on mine.

Enter my partner whom I met last January, who... well, he likes feet. Let's leave it there.

Suddenly it became my mission to not only look after my feet. but to make them as bloody gorgeous as I possibly could. I bought one of those spinny things to file the hard skin and make them a little softer, painted my toenails, moisturised them every day... soon I started to realise that feet really aren't so terrible, and now I quite like mine. To an extent. Or I did until TODAY!

I got a massive - and I mean HUGE - blister on my left foot a couple of weeks back and, as it had now healed, I decided today to remove the skin left behind in the hopes that it'd be easy and fuss-free. Now what I've done is taken away a rather large layer of skin and around the new, pink skin that has been left behind is a horrible edge of the years of hard skin, along with varied layers of very thin skin on the baby pink skin. There's hard, flappy bits from where I'd been tugging on the skin (but obviously reached a point where I couldn't remove any more) and it just looks god awful.

I hate it. It looks disgusting, ugly and makes me feel really self-conscious now about the underside of my foot. Uncomfortable to walk on, too.

What do I do?! Moisturise it? Keep pulling and end up bleeding to death, in a mass of pain? I've tried using my spinny thing to get rid of the hard skin flaps/ridges, but it's not doing a thing other than making me frustrated. 

Please, advice, experience, miracles - anything you can offer. 

- Feetsies

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