I kid you not. They looked just like this![/caption]First, some theme music (take note of the shoes the girl in the video is wearing!). Put it on, and then come back. When I was in college, I wore high-heeled shoes that were chic (at the time) but oh so painful. I prided myself on not limping, even when my feet were actually bleeding. I would walk all over campus in ridiculously uncomfortable shoes, due mainly to the fact that I looked, well, fabulous (humor me--it was the '80s). Ahh youth. Ahh vanity--all, sadly, missing from my life these days. Fabulous? Umm...no. Youth? Nuh-uh. Vanity? Struggling to keep her head above water, but rapidly losing out to comfort.
Every now and then, however, events come to pass where I have to wear shoes that are less than comfy. Or even just on a day-to-day basis, I have a couple of pairs of flats that, while not terribly uncomfortable on the whole, rub my feet a bit, making me very glad to take them off ASAP. So anyway, a recent outing led me
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Similar to this, but mine are black.[/caption]to wear a pair of rather high, platform wedge espadrilles. I knew I'd be on my feet for a long time, so I thought I'd look into some pain prevention. Band-aids are no good here--maybe it's just me, but they slip off very quickly when I try to use them inside shoes. Instead of Band-aids I use waterproof first-aid tape (the white stuff), which works pretty well. But these platforms were peep-toe, and slingback as well. So no, white tape would not work.
Then one day I was in Target and thought I'd take a gander at the shoe accoutrements, to see if there was anything that would be helpful. Lo and behold, there was! Well, at the time I didn't know it was helpful, but I soon found out. It's this stuff called Fab Feet Blisstick.
It is invisible blister protection. It's just beeswax and hydrogenated vegetable oil (wait--isn't that Crisco??) and a little fragrance. The container is like a tiny stick of deodorant. All you do is apply it to your foot anywhere you think there may be rubbing that would end in a blister. Before my event, I tried it with flats. It was fantastic! I wore them all day, for the first time ever, with no pain! So when I had to wear my platforms, I whipped the Blisstick out again, and truly, it was amazing! I wore those darn shoes for about nine hours, with no blisters. 
The Blisstick makes a slippery (but not messy) coating on your skin that prevents rubbing. And I was worried about it staining the leather, but it didn't. So what a find, just in time for sandal season! Highly recommended!
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