Prevent blisters

[Dora-Satya Veda]

This is a little trick that I used when I competed that might help some of you ladies/gentlemen.

Rub your feet in “Rubbing Alcohol” every day for a month, then do it once a week after that. This way the skin on your feet gets tough enough to withstand the rough edges of the shoes.

 If anybody have other idea please share.

Dora-Satya Veda

[SwingWaltz]

Haha I'm too late for that....

Got new shoes shipped in from Italy last week, felt great! Wonderful shoes I must say, but as all new shoes, they are also great at giving blisters. I think I clocked up 4hr the first time I danced in them. Then the next day, had another 4hr of bush walking. Now my feet are really suffering! Well they get 1 week off, I need my feet for the Championship on sunday!

Band-aids?

[elisedance]

I actually have the opposite problem!  Any pressure on my skin and I grow callouses.  I have to take care of my feet by shaving (sanding is disasterous) these off else the skin will eventually crack.  Its a fine art since one has to leave some to protect the foot - sort of like sculpting a sock!

[QPO]

I have not had too many  blisters or feet problems to date, but I have some have awful issues with feet. I will review later the good advice :-)

[Medira]

Something that has helped me when I get a new pair of shoes is to stick adhesive moleskin (kurotex if youre buying Dr. Scholls and looking for flesh tone) to the spots that are usually those that would be susceptible to blisters for the first couple of times that I wear a new pair of shoes.  That way, I can protect from blisters and friction burn until the shoes get broken in a little bit.

[Becca]

I've found that if you get a blister  New Skin works wonders. But also if you don't have a lot of time to soak your feet and you need a quick fix to prevent blisters from happening spray or brush new skin on lightly where the shoe rubs most. That's what i used to do for pointe anyway and it holds true for ballroom shoes as well... it's worth a shot 

this is what it looks like if you haven't heard of it....

[Rugby]

Thanks for the info.

[emeralddancer]

I do not get blisters. I get terrible calluses from dance. Used to really bad from when I was doing pointe many moons ago!