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    Emjoi Foot Sander
    Product Review

    July 20, 2014 by Karen 128 Comments

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    My feet have been described by everyone around me as cartoon like. I mainly took this as a compliment and in fact strutted a little bit at the thought of it, showing off my feet every chance I got.

    At one point I even took to pointing at things with my toes instead of my fingers to ensure everyone got a chance to marvel at my Betty and Veronica type feet. Betty and Veronica were hot. Cartoon feet were hot. Ergo, I was hot.

    And then one night at dinner the fella commented on my cartoon feet. Just as I was about to pass the gravy with my right foot, I heard something about Fred Flintstone.

    FRED FLINTSTONE? People were referencing FRED FLINTSTONE and not the hot Archie comic girls when they said I had cartoon feet? This changed everything.

    Frankly I knew I had wide, square, unattractive feet. That's why it was so exciting to think everyone around me was so stupid they couldn't see it. They thought I had the slender foot of a rich, snotty, dark haired vixen who starred in her own Double Digest.

    To make matters slightly worse I not only have square feet, I have the feet of a highly ranked African distance runner. Someone who has trained by running through the thorn and rock filled bush for decades, completely barefoot.

    My heels and toes have thick, hard calluses with enough dead skin poking out of them that scraping my feet through a pair of leggings is as horrifying as the sound of nails on a chalkboard, my feet catching and pulling on every fibre of the material all the way down. There are certain rugs in my house I can't even walk on for fear my feet will snag them like super powered velcro and I'll be stuck on the rug forever.

    This is how I imagine my feet.

     

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    These are my actual feet.

     

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    It used to be that this medieval device was the tool of choice for those of us with farmer feet.

     

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    A razor on the end of a stick. The callus shaver.

    And if you leave it in the bathroom cabinet long enough it'll even turn into a rusty razor blade. The idea is you carefully level the razor blade  with your heel and then ... start swishing it across your heel as quick as you can, shaving off all of the dead skin in the process. You just keep doing it until you get too queazy to do it anymore. You'll think you did a good job until you realize you've shaved off all of your skin and you're unable to walk for 3 days.

    Having the cast of Duck Dynasty shoot at your heels with their favourite 12 gauge seems more reasonable.

     

    Which brings me to my product review. (I went out and bought the thing myself because I was genuinely curious about it ... I wasn't paid to write this review and no one gave me any free product.)

     

    The Emjoi MicroPedi. I passed it a couple of times in my local pharmacy but never bought it because I wasn't convinced it would work and it's not cheap. At Shoppers Drug Mart in Canada it's $49.99.

    So when I walked past it last time and saw it was on sale for $29.99 I held my breath and grabbed it. I could handle wasting $30. Not $50. So imagine my surprise when they rang it up and it came up as the original price, $49.99. I misread the price. It wasn't on sale. But it was too late now. I was attached to it. It was mine.

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    The Emjoi Micropedi is a battery operated foot sander. So a hypercharged emery board. The unit has a tube of sandpaper that sands your feet by spinning around at a ridiculous rate.

    In the box you get the device, an instruction booklet and a completely and totally useless plastic brush thing.

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    This is the business end of the device.

     

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    It runs off of 2 AA batteries and you can buy replacement sanders for it, including finer and extra coarse ones.

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    This is my heel before. And I have to tell you. It's actually looking pretty good. But you can see that I'm not the owner of beautiful heel skin. I have wrinkles on the bottom of my feet just like a baby. A baby elephant.

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    The instructions say to turn on the foot sander and run it over your skin for no longer than 3 seconds in one place. So I did that.

     

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    I did it again.

     

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    And again and again and again. It took about 15 minutes for me to get my feet to where I was happy with them. So it wasn't finished in the seconds that the box claims. Mind you, they probably weren't counting on Fred Flintstone buying their product.

    It was amazingly easy to use and dare I say, kindda fun. Really fun in fact, because it worked.  This is after one use.

     

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    Cleaning

    That's what the little useless brush you get is for.  Throw it away, it's stupid.

    The device itself is water resistant so you can rinse it under water.

    The sanding roll is removable so I just popped mine out and brushed it the remaining dead skin with an old toothbrush the rinsed it under water.

    It's not the same as getting a pedicure, because obviously no one is nipping your cuticles, pulling your toes or massaging your calves, but the result is pretty good. Plus there's the bonus that you can do this whenever you have a second and you don't have to wait for an appointment.

    Which brings me to my next point. Who is this sort of device for? Well. For people like me who imagine they're gonna get pedicures but never do. Or people who always get pedicures (Veronica for example) but want something to do little touch ups in between them.

    So basically it's for everyone.

    Do I recommend the Emjoi MicroPedi? Does Fred Flintstone wear a dress?

     

    Rating:
    3.5-cleavers

    Drawbacks

     

     

    The reason it didn't get 4 stars is because of the cost of the unit and the replacement sanding rolls.

    Take a look at your Battery Operated Foot Sander options on Amazon here.

    If your feet are anything like mine, buy one.  You'll love it.  Yabba Dabba Doo it right now.

     

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    1. sj

      December 04, 2014 at 1:07 pm

      Just got my Emjoi (new Nano version) yesterday and it works wonders. You were so brave for purchasing an unknown, and so smart to pick the right one! There will be so many more pretty feet out and about next sandal season, thanks to you.

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      • Karen

        December 04, 2014 at 2:55 pm

        Isn't it GREAT?! I'm so glad you bought it. Don't make the mistake I did. I figured since I did it I didn't have to do it again for ages, then my feet were back in their original horrific condition, lol. Now I've made it a habit to do a quick once over my feet with it before I get in the shower and my feet stay nice all the time. ~ karen!

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        • sj

          December 05, 2014 at 11:31 pm

          How often do you need to replace batteries and the roller?

        • Karen

          December 06, 2014 at 12:33 am

          Hi sj. I haven't really kept track of it. But I believe I've replaced the batteries once or twice since getting it in the middle of the summer and I'm still using the same roller that came with it. I do wash it after every use and I also bought an Extra course roller which I use probably every few times I do my feet. Hope that helps. ~ karen!

    2. magali

      August 11, 2014 at 10:26 am

      I've been so busy this summer I have fallen behind on all my blogs. I am so happy to have a day off and catch up on things like this. This made me laugh!

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    3. Lisa

      August 10, 2014 at 4:46 pm

      I am a Reflexologist. One of my clients gave me this for a Christmas gift. LOVE IT!!!

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    4. Terri

      August 06, 2014 at 4:23 am

      For a while Costco was carrying these I think you got a 2 pack and refills for less than $30.

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    5. Dar

      July 31, 2014 at 11:29 pm

      i received this as a present from my sis, and YES...it is a GOD send- I quess for those of us that have the problem of rough feet(according to the first reading of "my feet are my best feature?!)...my sis even gave me and my sis-in-law refills for the filing down part but I have had it a couple of years and yet had to replace it, only the batteries. Again...YES LOVE IT, great gadget, probably a good thing for guys too, ahem, unless their feet are their good feature too!

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    6. Talia

      July 31, 2014 at 11:00 am

      I bought this a few years ago and it is hands down my favorite thing. Ever. I have awful feet and they caught on every single thing. I use this handy tool almost daily (I know, right?!) and my feet are better. Still not beautiful, but so much better. Worth every penny!

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    7. Ellen

      July 22, 2014 at 12:51 pm

      I can't do pedicures - I shriek with uncontrollable laughter and scare the technician. So - I pumice after EVERY shower. It doesn't take long and I don't tear up the insides of my beautiful hand knit socks.

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    8. judy

      July 22, 2014 at 2:40 am

      You think that's bad,@ 74 I am growing doggie "claws!" I have toe nails that are tubular- I kept wondering what was making my foot hurt-chalked it up to the wonders of old age until I had to take a look at my old feet and discovered I had a toenail growing over and then under my foot. Tried every nail clipper we had in the house, reverted to garden clippers-couldn't get a hold of the darn thing and finally went to the pet supply store and bought a 56 dollar claw clipper. It helped............clipping little bits of it @ a time managed to get it off the bottom of my foot. Yucky I know -just trying to say it could be worse and often is----

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