Bastien Gonzalez: the best pedicure in the world

A treat for the feet at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park

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“Bastien Gonzalez? He does the best pedicure in the world!”. So exclaimed a friend of mine, when I told her I had booked a treatment at London's Mandarin Oriental to see the renowned Prince of Podiatry.

Pedicures, for most of us, are about prettifying our feet and embellishing our toes with a pop colour –in other words, we regard salon treatments focused on this, the southernmost point of our bodies, as purely cosmetic. More often than not, we like to sit back and let the beauty therapist get on with the business of scraping, scrubbing, clipping and painting without a second thought.

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