The summer is almost over, and when would be the best time to stop worrying about covering infected toe nais and get them treated?
I know, this is not the most romantic topic to talk about. On the other hand, how many of you have suffered a fungal nail infection or other toe nail issues at some point in your life and have felt embarrassed by it?
Fungal nail infections (onychomycosis) usually start as a white or yellow streak under the tip of your finger or toenail.
You may begin to feel uncomfortable or experience pain as the infection spreads – your infected nail usually changes appearance and becomes brittle, discoloured, and crumbles easily.
Fungal nail infections are contagious, and although it can be embarrassing it is important for you to treat it as soon as you spot the symptoms because it will not clear up on its own.
They are easy to catch in places where you’re barefoot, such as changing rooms or swimming pools, or via unsterilised equipment in nail and beauty salons.
If you touch someone who is infected and you forget to wash your hands, it’s easy to develop an infection. Sharing contaminated objects such as towels, bed sheets and clothing can also spread the infection.
Common symptoms of fungal nail infection are :
- White or yellow streaks on the nail
- Thick, rough, or brittle nail
- Loss of luster and shine
- Crumbling or jagged nail edges
- Loosening or lifting up of the nail
- Change in nail shape
- Debris trapped under the nail
Last year I also suffered with a toe nail infection. It was not nice, and I did paint over it over and over again. It was my pedicurist who suggested I really had to treat it, as it was a fungal nail infection.
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“When did you last hide your toes?”
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I don’t like my toe nails..they look yellow at the moment. The sea is good for my toe nails.. make them stronger and whiter.
My toes are never painted beautifully . I’ve such dry feet and toes I’m always hiding them
I always try and hide my toes.
I have hairy big toes so i try and hide them!!
I always hide my toes
When I was trying on sandals in the shop
I was at prom and with the whole hustle and bustle of everything I forgot to paint my toes, I realised in the car on the way. The one thing!!! Thankfully I chose a long dress and they were covered.
My feet aren’t that pretty, but I only hide my toes if the toenails aren’t painted!
Ive always kept my feet well hidden however 2 months ago I was encouraged to have my first pedicure – im so glad i did ! It didn’t tickle as much as I thought it would and she said shed seen worse which I was grateful for !
My second toe is considerably longer than my first
when on holiday first day in mexico had storm in the night and water came inthe hotelroom and i slipped and broke my toe had to use crutches and a wheelchair all week got a free holiday though
I always hide my toes! I have a medical condition that affects my circulation and causes my big toe nail on my left foot to constantly crumble, fall off and turn a funny colour so my toes are always hidden xx
My toes are like my dads and not attractive lol so I like to keep them concealed where possible unless it’s compulsory to wear sandles in summer
Never really hidden my toes as I like my feet and love wearing sandals etc.
My toe nail came off a few weeks ago due to fungal nail and i had to hide my ugly toe for a while!
I never wear open toe shoes and choose closed shoes instead
I did a sponsored walk & both of my big toenails came off, I hid my feet for a while after that!
Im always hiding my toes, my feet aren’t pretty at all lol x
Just yesterday – in the pool of the hotel I was staying in as my nail varnish was so chipped!
After I got a spray tan and it started coming of it has left my toes looking a nicotine yellow colour it’s horrible . Thank goodness it’s winter
I have been hiding my toes since the summer of 2006. Towards the end of a beautiful september night, after a days long pub crawl, on which i was wearing a pair of sandals, my best friend starting to call me ‘tiffeny toenails’. Neither of us can remember why, but the nickname has stuck! x
Ha I had an accident I was in work 6 weeks ago, I slipped and twisted my left ankle and when I got to our first aid room.. to my horror I had a big hole in my socks.. and my big toe was poking out of it!! Lucky it was nicely polished a few days before otherwise would have been so much more embarrassing as it little discoloured like I have been smoking 40 a day!!
When trying on shoes in shops
I never show my toes – i hate toes and feet with a passion!
I hid my toes just a few weeks back when it was a little warmer….im a photographer and was meeting some potential wedding clients at their home to discuss packages and to show them what i offer. I’d flung on a pair of sandals and it wasnt until i arrived at their front door that i looked down and noticed i had the MOST chipped, terrible looking nail polish on! I sat with my toes curled under my feet the whole time!! Great news was that i got the job though!
My grandson asked me very loudly why I hd hairs growing on my toes whilst by the swimming pool and ever since I have wanted to hide my toes!
Lots of times in the summer I have been about to put sandals on and realised my toe nails were missing half the coloured varnish so have had to put shoes or trainers on. Same with wanting to put a dress on and last minute noticing my hairy legs! I am just useless!!
I think when I actually lost a nail in an accident it looked awful
I don’t think I’ve ever hidden my toes.
i trapped my big toe in a door and the nail fell off. Hiding time for months.
This summer when I walked into a sun bed my toenail went black then fell off ouch so painful!!!!!
I can’t remember. Never I think 🙂
Only when its winter and too cold to show them. In the summer I live in fit flops
I broke my toe a few weeks ago. There’s a pool of dried blood still behind the toenail, so I’ve very much been keeping my feet under wraps.
I even took a pair of slipper socks to change into at a friend’s party as I was wearing flats and didn’t want to have bare feet when I left my shoes at the door…
I hate feet! Mine are aways hidden in shoes and socks and if I go out I have to spend time on making them beautiful or I just wear shoes that hide them haha
Yesterday at the gym – my toenails are shocking! Could do with a pedi
When I ran over my foot with a wheelchair, completely killing the nail! It looked awful for ages, came off and thankfully did grow back “healthily”
i have a manky big toe so ive not been able to wear sandals all summer, would love to get rid of it.
I’m always hiding my feet. They need some serious TLC but I am too embarrassed to let anyone near them!
I’ve never had pretty feet but last year in hospital, a nurse informed me that they were running out of veins in my arms so would need to insert a canular in the top of my foot, this was until she took a look at my feet. She proceeded to ask if my feet had always been so “oddly shaped” before declaring she couldn’t possibly use my feet for a canular,as she couldn’t guarantee the veins would be in the right place! Foot shame is the kindest way to put it, I was mortified!!
I used to have feet I wasn’t ashamed of until I got my foot run over by a taxi! Tyre marks on my feet for years! Finally fading now!
everyday
I don’t have any toe stories. However my husband once let our 4yr old daughter paint his toe nails bright pink. That eve we ran out of something and he popped to our local supermarket, he said he got lots of odd looks. He went in sandals and forgot all about the pink toes!
I like my feet so I never really hide them but I once went for spur of the moment reflexology and realised just as it was about to start that I’d been painting the day before and my feet were covered in paint. she had to clean the paint off my feet before she could start. OOPS! :s
I have really long toes so I hide them all the time
Luckily I quite like my toes so I don’t hide them at all x
I had a pedicure for a wedding…….3 months ago…..there is still evidence of the bright pink nail polish, My toes look awful, so glad its winter, they in hiding.
I haven’t shown my toes for at least two years – they are getting old and gnarly 🙂
As a kid I had scaly feet that shed skin every night – fortunately I grew out of it . Still hate my feet and now getting a bunion !
Ive got size 9 feet and so i have big toes im always hiding them 🙁
I dislocated and fractured my little toe a few years back when I was rushing around the house with no slippers on – have to have gas and air to put it back :-0! Now it permanently sticks out a little bit which I always try to hide in the summer!
I have horrific feet. At 27 I’ve already got purple and blue feet from veins (doctor says no avoiding it–genetics) and the most scraggly, stubby toes you’ve ever seen. I get medical pedicures just to keep them afloat every six months, but generally they’re just tucked away.
I’m staceylmelia on instagram 🙂
I have a stray hair on my big toe which I quite often forget about, it is very embarrassing in the summer!
Okay, so my father always says that us as a family have defamed ‘digit’ genes. This is probably because our toes and fingers are slightly ‘odd’. My feet are awful and I never ever want to get them out – this is because my little toe is what’s called a ‘slug’ in my family. I cannot separate it from the next toe, bend it or move it – it’s tiny compared to it’s neighbour! So, during the summer of 2016, we had a BBQ and I built up the courage to wear flip flops – I wish I hadn’t because one of my sisters kids shouted ‘Yuck look at your toe’ and this made everyone turn around! Never again will I get my feet out!
*deformed
I have really long toes so I hide them all the time
Danced so much in unsuitable shoes at a wedding my big toenail went black and fell of, had to put my sandals away for the rest of the summer.
When the nail varnish hasn’t been done in ages and so it’s half way down the toe, lol
I hid them mid-pilates session after I realised the varnish was all chipped from my holiday!
I hid my big toe when it went black, my fiance dropped a heavy suitcase on it! Ouch! It was meant to be a romantic weekend in Paris, but it was far from that!
i have a verucca which hasnt gone away for years!
I wanted to look good on a night out wearing strappy sandals, but noticed my feet were dry and calloused from running, so I changed my outfit completely and wore high heeled boots instead to cover them up.
getting ready for my goddaughters wedding tryed pulling a long nail on my toe off went to far and ended up sore and bleeding so had to put a plaster on ,so the nice sandals i had bought had to be replaced by some court shoes by the end of the day my feet were killing me
I always hide my toes
My friends openly laugh at my feet and say that I have the strongest toenails ever, in fact, they talk about my mingin toes far too much!
I always hide my toes, they are horrid, I have proper frog feet
When i went to my toddlers music class without socks on forgetting i had to take my shoes off
My toes are ok and was wearing flip flops until 2 weeks ago 🙂
I’ve actually got really nice feet & toes. However I hate peep toe shoes as my toes really hang out the hole if they’re heeled shoes haha
I quite like my toes except that they’re a bit long. I don’t tend to hide them in summertime though.
I dropped a jar of jam on my foot OUCH ! I had two black toes for months so hid them away all Summer !
It was two years ago in Egypt I went to the spa for a pedicure and manicure and forgot not only were my feet filthy I took to walkingbarefoot cos the floors were so slippy and all my shoes slid and I had black chipped polish on top of orange neon . Was too lazy to take it off . The guy that did the pedicure gave me a look and I was so ticklish I kept pulling away . He said these are in a state I was mortified . I told him to stop and he said madam I never stop . Omg I hated it . After carping off a ton of dry skin and cutting the nails they looked okay . However I fell over exiting the beauty parlour and landed I top of the boss going in ooops . Never again .
I have no nail onm uy little toes and it looks really weird and two of my toes are bent, so they are rarely seen in public, so I hide them all the time.
I hate feet. Mine are very dry and need a lot of attention to ensure they don’t become painful. I hate summertime when everyone has their feet on show, especially those that have long, discoloured toenails, dry cracked and even grass stained feet. I would go as far to say that if I didn’t need them to walk on I wouldn’t want them. My partner says they are just like big hands. That’s made my foot hatred even worse lol.
never! i’ve always worn sensible shoes!
I last hid my toes when I had a fungal infection like the ones described here. It looked really nasty! Normally I hide them with nail polish, but that was what caused the trouble in the first place. Thankfully it cleared up in a few days with treatment.
When i took the children swimming a few weeks ago.
In the summer, I had to wear pumps rather than flip flops when my electric foot file run out of battery & my feet looked awful
Last year I had a horrible ingrown toenail so I definitely covered them up then! It looked disgusting 🙁
Very pleased to have stopped over at your blog. I have been following you Twitter but I only now realised have never been to your blog. I look forward to reading the Tuesday fitness link ups. I need to get back into my routine to have something to share.
I hate feet and had to give up beauty therapy coz of them yuk…. worse thing I was on tv last week on the doctors programme coz I have bad feet due to circulation problems.. thank god they didn’t show them
I’ve had both my toes operated on for ingrowing toes so I use nail varnish to camouflage the nails. It works really well.
I don’t mind my feet, lol, except when I managed to stub my foot against the kids sand pit – I had feet a lovely shade of purple and a dislocated toe (which I put back myself), other half’s feet and toes make me cringe, he has lovely soft skin but ugly toes – yeughh
I hate my crackled heels, look bad in high heels
Okay so i have a confession… sometimes when i haven’t maintained them i have hairy toes… They are like something a hobbit would have and have to be hidden.
I don’t normally have a problem with my toes but once forgot I had nail polish that had chipped on all of my toes once and completely forgot so that was embarassing. But my main issue with my toes are that being half Indian I do get long, dark hairs.
I once forgot that I had shaved my legs but not on my toes so my toe hairs had grown a bit long, forgetting about it I noticed someone make a disgusted face looked down and to my horror my toe hairs were sprouting EEK!! I will never live that down especially seeing as it was my partners friend and not a stranger HAHAHA!!!
I always hide my toes! my big toes are misshapen and horrid!
I hate feet, especially mine
A few weeks ago when my toe polish was manky and my hard skin had returned
My first attempt at skiing in Banff but my boots a little bit tight. Aaargh how I suffered, big toe nail never been right so toes always painted. Lesson learned. Also bunnions ugly things so had them both done its took 3 years in total and now my feet are on show more often. Lot to be said for flip flops.
Fab blog!
I had my first pedicure in Singapore in July and it was so embarrassing!! My friend had her feet and hands done with gel nails. I only wanted normal polish on my toes. My friend was finished before me – there was so much ‘grossness’ on my feet!! YUK!!!
That would be when I had a post 10km run pedicure as a treat, and my big toenail came off in the hand of the Beautician!
They haven’t been out all summer 🙁
When I took my little man to the swimming baths last week and had spray tanned the night before and forgot to do my nails- they were all yellow! uck! x
I broke several toes last winter when coming back from the doctors wearing tight sox and loose boots. My foot slipped on ice and my foot shot forward onto the inside front of the boots and broke them, I just thought at the time I had stubbed my foot but when I got home and took my sock off the toes had gone black and swollen up to fat little sausages and were agony.
I had to “Hide my toes” for several weeks (and wear hubbies nasty brown slipper) as they were so painful and gross to look at, and I didnt want to take the risk of people coming near them, I was truly feral 🙁
The most ridiculous moment, was when I opened the door to a friend. I wasn’t wearing shoes or socks, and the door was at just the wrong height, and it lifted my big toenail. Yuck! Rather painful, and my friend was very squeamish, so she was near fainting. So stupid! Okay, so this is a more yuck story than embarrassing, but it’s what I remembered when I read you wanted a toe story.
I always hide them – especially with my long second toe – hate them
At an impromptu dinner outing.
I don’t usually show my toes, they look odd.
I always hide my feet . I walk a lot so they aren’t that nice to look at
I don’t mind my toes, it’s my actually feet that are ugly. I don’t bother hiding them.
I hide them when i go to the beach by wearing trainers on the sand instead of a pair of flip flops
On the beach – under the sand when I realised I hadn’t cut my toe nails!
I never worry about hiding my toes but my ‘hobbit’ feet are a little embarrassing as they are quite ‘chunky’…but there’s not much I can do about it – mum says it’s in our genes 😉
I hide them at the moment!
I don’t mind my feet, but I find my toenails embarrassing
I like to keep my feet well hidden i have discolored to nails & there ridged i recently went on holiday & had to keep them covered up i was so warm it killed me
I have a confession to make…I had a pedicure – including polish – a few months ago….and I’m still wearing the remnants of the nail varnish from then as I’m too lazy to remove it! I don’t look after my feet at all, and always hide my toes!
I’ve got clubbed fingers and toes due to having Cystic Fibrosis, so I hide them quite often!!
My toe nails are badly ridged so I always try to keep them covered as even nail varnish doesn’t hide the ridges.
I always hid them due to the hard skin that builds up on the outside of my big toes.
when I dropped a glass on my toe – about a year ago, and it had a very purple colour
My tenth birthday was a ‘toe’tal disaster! I had a beautiful new dress and felt like a princess, and couldnt wait for my party. But 10 minutes in my (very tall) friend John stomped heavily on my foot and broke my toe. It promptly turned purple and I spent the rest of my party hobbling around in agony… not so princess like now!
My toes aren’t too bad, just short and chubby, its my feet are dislike, they are squarish and the toes are virtually all level – weird I know!
This week as I was on holiday 2 weeks ago and have awful tan lines off my flip flops and blisters!
I last tried to hide my toes when trying on some sandals in the shoe shop! I had badly chipped nail polish on them and felt so embarassed.
i hate my toes, when i was in hospital about to have emergency surgery last week on my stomach i kept appologising for my disgusting feet, they weren’t going anywhere near my feet.
My feet are not too bad – although my little toe nails go a bit thick and triangular when I haven’t cut them for a while!
I have wide, flat horrid feet so I always hide them
my toes are ok so long as the nails are painted, underneath the horror lies! mainly from dropping logs on my feet when chopping wood
At my fertility investigations appointment, I kept my socks on haha
I have very very dry skin on my feet so I never let people see them.
I hide my toes when I go for long walks otherwise my feet get rather warm.
My feet are not too bad, maybe a little stinky 🙂
I never drwa attention to them. hate my feet
I hide my toes in shoes all the time and tend not to wear open toe sandals
I had to have part of my big toenail removed and that was not very pretty for ages afterwards so I hid it away until it became more normal looking. Otherwise, I love my toes and I make a big effort to have painted toe nails and nice moisturised feet. In the summer I’m nearly always to be found showing them off in fit flops or sandals
have a broken toe so always hide them!
When a student trod on my toe making the nail go black and then fall off!
I always hide my toes as I have eczema on my feet and toes so they don’t look nice
My wife says I have hobbit feet! So I never wear sandals 🙁
I always hidenjoy mine, there hiding just now
I hate my feet and always wear closed toe sandals. I don’t really look after them that much either. I really do need to start taking more care!
My toes aren’t too bad except a little short! But the last time I hid them was when I fell down the stairs & broke my big toe & it went quite purple!
I don’t so much hide my toes as I hide the whole sole of my foot because I was unfortunate enough to catch 3 verrucas when on holiday 10 years ago and even though I had them frozen off they left the skin looking odd. So I’m always burying my feet in the sand or putting my bag on top of them when I’m sunbathing.
I hide my toes all the time because they were damaged by my walking boots and my nails look terrible.
All the time now as an adult due to the fact that when I was younger I constantly wore the wrong shoes and it’s given me nasty looking corns on my toes! If only I knew then what would happen.
My toe nails are very odd! I always feel embarrassed of my feet & toenails so where possible I will wear closed in shoes even sometimes like my recent birthday when I wore proper shoes to the beach! Embarrassing!
Last week at work its so warm but i wore trainers instead of sandals!
After I ran my first half marathon, I took of my trainers to find that all of my toe nails had gone black! Over the next week or so I had to just watch every single one fall off! It took over a year for them to grow back properly and they were not a pretty sight. The next race I did I made sure I was wearing correctly fitted shoes!
I think I could have this Fungal Nail problem. I have brought something to treat it with. But I’ve been hiding my toenails under nail polish all of August, whilst I’ve been wearing sandals. I thought I’d treat it when the weather cools down.
I dropped a paperweight on my toe last year and the nail eventually fell off leaving me with no option but to hide them away during the summer
I’ve kept my toes hidden all summer, thank goodness for pretty summer coloured ballet shoes, I couldn’t have survived without them
i went to a funeral in Devon and later on they all decided to go to the beach, which i didn’t expect and yes i did have to hide my feet. i was glad i was up and ready with 3 kids
my nail got caught under a door and went all black before I was off to visit my sister on a family trip to America – black nail on my fancy holiday!
I have horrid black hairs growing on my toes, and there are times when I forget to shave them off, then think everyone is looking at my toes….
My last 2 toes on each feet are not straight and bend into 3rd toe -I always try hiding my toes