Shop FitFlops for Figure Friendly Fashion

Summer has well and truly arrived, and with it has come every woman’s worst nightmare; a desperate struggle to get ourselves fighting fit by the time we slip into our holiday swimwear!

Well have no fear ladies, help is at hand in the form of the FitFlop.

The FitFlop is much more than just a run of the mill fashion flip flop; it is a mean, lean toning machine!

FitFlops are biomechanically made to absorb shock, lessen joint strain, improve posture and re-create the natural gait of barefoot walking.

The clever design of the FitFlop sandals means that they help tone and trim all of your wobbly bits while you walk – genius!

So forget about the weights at the gym and the salads without dressing, girls; just pop on a pair of FitFlops and walk your way to a healthier, more toned body.

Available in pretty much any colour that you care to choose, check out Shudoo’s generous range of FitFlops here

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How to get your feet ready for summer the Shudoo way…

Being fans of all footwear, whether it be towering heels, comfy Uggs or fashionable flip flops, we know the importance of variety…

You probably won’t get away with wearing soaring heels all day everyday without some uncomfortable consequences, perhaps developing bunions, corns or calluses, none of which you want when you’re beginning to invest in some stylish summer footwear.

For many women, the trend of super-high heels, as worn by the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow and Victoria Beckham, is too tempting to resist, however it’s going to take more than a lick of colour-pop nail polish to get them in tip top condition for summer.

A recent report has claimed that more than half of Brits have experienced serious foot pain in the past year. If you combine a love for killer heels with the work-hard play-hard mentality of many young women, surely this is a recipe for disaster?

Don’t get us wrong, we don’t want to put a dampener on all you heel-loving fashionistas (we’re just as guilty), we just want to equip you with the knowledge of how to get away with wearing your much-loved heels without any ugly repercussions.

Like most, you may have neglected your feet all winter, keeping them wrapped-up in socks and boots, and be worrying about what state they’re in for the start of the sandal-wearing season…

Here at Shudoo we want to get you loving your twinkle toes again in time for all those fab gladiator sandals now available, click to shop Gladiator >

If you’re determined to wear your high heels come what may, here’s five simple ways to minimise the damage…

1) Variety is the spice of life
Try alternating between high heels and flats by wearing different shoes every day.

2) Functional fashion
Lace-up brogues are still hot and very foot friendly, follow in Alexa Chung’s footsteps with this comfy trend. You don’t have to completely say goodbye to a heel, a 1.5 inch heel is great for supporting foot arches as are hidden platforms.

3) Cushion the blow
Choosing a shoe with a cushioned insole or buying gel pads when wearing heels will lessen the strain on the balls of your feet, we’ve all experienced that excruciating burning feeling, right girls.

4) Travelling flats
A great tip when on a night out, or if you know you’re going to be in your heels for a long period of time, is to carry a cute pair of ballet pumps in your bag. You can wear them whilst travelling or when you walk home (a great alternative to walking home barefoot clutching you heels).

5) Sensible straps
Women sometimes buy ballet flats that are too small for them to avoid them slipping up and down or falling off, however there should always be room for your toes to wiggle. Opt for the right size shoe but with straps to hold your feet in place, plus strap detailing is huge this season!

You should now be ready to face summer with your best foot forward!

Remember to check back with shunews as we’ll be testing some top foot products soon and letting you know our favourite brands for getting your feet ready for summer.

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Cheryl Cole, Fearne Cotton and Kimberley Walsh finally reach summit of Mount Kilimanjaro

Fearne Cotton, Cheryl Cole, Kimberley Walsh and fellow celebs have finally reached the summit of Kilimanjaro.

The famous group, which also included Gary Barlow and Chris Moyles have raised £1.4 million pounds for Comic Relief.

Cheryl Cole, who swapped her Jimmy Choos for hiking gear said: “It has been the most mentally and physically challenging experience of my life. Nothing could have prepared me for it.”

Both Cole and Cotton had collapsed with exhaustion, and were treated for altitude sickness.

But despite the grueling conditions – minus 15°C, strong winds and the staggeringly high altitude – they went on to conquer the highest mountain in Africa.

We’re very proud of their mammoth achievement, but we bet their feet will need some serious pampering before they can squeeze their feet back into their trademark killer heels!

We recommend a very long foot soak, followed by wearing lovely pair of Uggs from the new Spring collection to help their tired feet recover.

But in the meantime we’d like to say well done on raising all that cash for Comic Relief!

P.S Get Cheryl Cole’s footwear style with Apepazza boots, see here>

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The Shudoo shoe-lovers Spring workout

Spring is nearly upon us! Gone are the days of tea-time darkness, and in a few weeks the (waterlogged) fields will be blooming with crocuses, snowdrops and bluebells.

This time of year we spring clean our houses and get our wardrobes in order. It’s also the perfect time to get into action, shed those pounds and get fit for the Summer. After all, you’ll want killer pins to wear the fantastic 2009 trends with style and panache.

Here are some of our favourite calorie-busting exercises, with the right shoes to match!

Running is by far the best fat-burning exercise. You don’t need to spend hours on the treadmill, which works but can get a bit boring. Make it more interesting, grab a pair of decent trainers and your iPod, listen to the Shudoo Top of the (shoe) Pops and get out there! A quick 20 minute run will burn around 200 calories, and make you feel amazing afterwards.

Believe it or not, cleaning your car burns more calories than doing a 40 minute run! This is because you use all your muscle groups and perform a range of actions – squats, lunges and stretches.

It tones your legs, abs, and arms, and your car looks sparkling clean afterwards. We think that Crocs and Fitflops are perfect for this workout, they’re waterproof and will obviously make you look fantastic, especially if you’re wearing hot pants to match!

Skipping is another fantastic aerobic workout. You can do it alone or with friends, and take yourself back to the playground! Try skipping non-stop in your Golas for 10 minutes, lifting your knees as high as you can. Make sure not to trip up on the rope though!

If running, skipping and jumping isn’t your thing, try power walking. A 40 minute brisk walk will burn fat, tone the legs and bottom, and strengthen the heart muscle.

Drive to the great outdoors and march up some mountains! The fresh air will work wonders for your complexion, and the stunning views will soothe the soul.

So what’s your favourite Spring workout? Let us know, we’d love to hear about it!

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Loosing weight in the New Year - Shudoo’s top tips to get you moving

This is the time of year when dieting clubs and gyms across the land rub their hands in glee. After at least four weeks of pure over-indulgence, we’re all starting to feel the strain. Especially around the waistline.

Do you have to pries yourself into your skinny jeans? Is getting dressed now like trying to put toothpaste back into the tube? Can you not walk up stairs without collapsing into a wheezing wreck?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, and we suspect that most people are in the same boat right now, then there’s only one thing for it. Get on yer bike (or treadmill) and work up a sweat!

There are so many advantages to loosing the fat to get fit – you’re healthier, you look fabulous and you feel great – and it needn’t be a chore, there are hundreds of fun ways to shape up.

Of course you can grab some cut-price trainers in the sales and head on to the gym. But why be predictable?

You could embrace your inner Billy Elliot and start dancing. Ballet is great for toning up your muscles, and it gives you the excuse to slip on a pair of beautiful French Sole ballet pumps, and the passion of Salsa will have you shaking your booty like Beyonce. Just imagine taking to the dance floor in some vibrant red Roberta Botella Lipstick Peeptoes, Alesha Dixon eat your heart out!

But if dancing isn’t your thing, you could simply do the housework in a pair of Fitflops, which are designed to tone your muscles as you walk. Or you could take to the slopes in some Snowjoggers, part trainer, part snowboot, with these babies you’ll have no excuse for not getting out and about this Winter!

So what’s your favourite fitness regime? Share your tips, we’d love to read about them! Leave your comments below…

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Victoria Beckham buys shoes a size too big to fit her bunions in!

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Image conscious Victoria Beckham is certainly no stranger to sky high heels; however this has come at an unsightly cost…bunions!

It seems that the former Spice Girl has put up with unsightly bunions on her feet through most of her adult life, well if you will wear 8 inch Louboutins!

Madam Beckham now believes she has found a do-it-yourself treatment; she has tracked down a device that is worn over night, resembling a foot splint…sounds painful!

This splint slowly moves the toe joint back into place whilst you sleep, or lay awake with pain as the case may be, I guess the pain of not being able to wear her favourite heels is worse.

She is determined to fix this painful condition, which means she has to wear shoes a size bigger to make room for her bunions…lovely!

If the shoe-mad fashionista cannot fix her feet on her own then she will have to go under the knife, which means she would have to stop wearing her favourite heels and the thought of having to wear flats through-out the recovery period is said to terrify her, just send your Louboutins our way Vic!

The flat-o-phobe should try a fab pair of French Sole Ballet Pumps, to look stylish in flats whilst her feet recover, we can’t wear our fab Steve Madden’s 24/7 as much as we’d love too, think of your poor tootsies.

Even better, why doesn’t Victoria take a leaf out of fellow celebs books and get comfy in Ugg boots?

If Sarah Jessica Parker can put her Manolos and Choo’s to one side for the school run and be cosy in Ugg Australia Boots then why can’t Victoria, too posh for Uggs ay?

Missy Beckham really wants her feet in tip top condition for strappy summer sandals next year, it seems she has had a spot of foot envy, eyeing up fellow celebs feet.

Women tend to get bunions more often than men as they wear pointed high heels which isthe main culprit for this joint swelling condition. Dancers, waitresses and athletes are often the most prone…so what’s your excuse Victoria?

However Posh may take comfort from the fact that she’s not alone, as fellow fashionista Paris Hilton also has unsightly bunions on her feet, perhaps this is why Paris seems to favour her sheepskin Love From Australia boots at the moment?

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Injection in your heels to numb the pain from wearing sky-scraper stilettos…Ridiculous or genius?

We all love our heels, especially at this time of year when the office party dictates that we girls have to outdo each other in the heel height, shape and sheer audacity stakes. But our love of sexy stilettos comes with a down side – heel pain.

One enterprising US doctor claims to have found a cure for the sweet agony caused by a high heel habit.
Podiatrist Albert D’Angelantonio is offering women bespoke foot treatments – a mixture of dehydrated alcohol and numbing medication, injected straight into the heel. Ouch!

Robert explains; “It short circuits the nerve so the person doesn’t feel the pain. It makes the nerve wither like a plant and shrink in size.” This, he says, gives fashion conscious women the freedom to work those heels without being in agony.

Before treatment, his clients complained of sharp, stabbing pains that “took your breath away” when they wore heels, but now say they are stepping out in style, stilettoed up and completely pain free.

One happy client, Sheila Verillo exclaimed, “It’s like getting my life back. It’s incredible!” That might be a little gushing, but perhaps Sheila had very sore feet. Another happy customer, Felice Fina, thinks that the injection is pretty amazing.

“I started wearing heels in the sixth grade and I’ve had pain ever since,”  she confessed. “And now I don’t have it anymore.”

It’s claimed that the injection starts to work almost immediately. Some people need just three jabs to get total relief, but it can take up to seven treatments.

Of course, those of us who hate injections might just decide to lay off the heels for a bit, but if the lure of sexy Steve Madden heels is too hard to resist, or you just can’t help wearing your favourite Roberto Botella’s everywhere, it’s worth hoping that the jab makes it to the UK…

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The odds of a white Christmas increase - Shoeshine boy, we need you!

It’s that time of year again where we’re all dressing up and partying hard. And there are many reasons to celebrate, what with the new Steve Madden designer range here at Shudoo.co.uk, and the whopping 2.5% reduction in VAT . Now we can all splash out a tad more!

Not only that, but this year the likelihood of that all elusive white Christmas has shot up, with Ladbrokes slashing their odds for snowfall. There’s nothing more romantic than a white Christmas, especially when you’re dolled up like the Christmas fairy.

But all the dancing, partying and icy cold weather can take its toll on your shoes.

Picture this. You’ve had a great night out, strutting your stuff on the dance floor in your killer Roberto Botella heels and pulling moves like John Travolta.

At the end of the night your dancing garb might look a bit worse for wear. Well, these shoes are made for some serious dancing, and you were really giving it some welly!

Not only that, but outside it’s snowing and icy, which threatens your fabulous footwear. You’re not taking your shoes off, and your spare flatties would probably give you frost bite. You’re truly a damsel in distress!

Back in the day, (well, in Dickens day probably) the streets were filled with plucky little street urchins who would shine your shoes for less than a penny. The shoeshiners would polish and preen your Apepazza’s to perfection, and your shoes would return home in better condition than when they left.

How good would it be to have a shoeshining service situated outside every nightclub and bar in the land? Your Christmas party seasons wouldn’t be tarnished, and neither would your shoes.

And, just out of interest, some famous ex-shoeshiners include James “The Godfather of Soul” Brown, and Malcolm X. Now ain’t that something?

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Diana Vickers, Jennifer Aniston and Cameron Diaz have all had their feet read, apparently feet are the new windows to the sole, excuse the pun!

Foot reading is the latest trend to stamp its mark on the UK health scene. Forget your eyes, apparently it’s your feet that are the windows to your sole. Erm… soul. Sorry.

So what do your feet say about you? According to Jane Sheehan, foot reader to the stars, people with long feet are attention seeking limelight hoggers, whereas flat feet indicate that the person is happy to people watch before joining in.

Jane has read the feet of this year’s Big Brother contestants and has appeared on ‘This Morning’ and ‘Today’ with Des and Mel. She has also read Hollywood A lister Cameron Diaz’s feet and Royalty in the form of Princess Diana both simply by looking at pictures, genius!

If your toes curl inwards then you tend to hold things in, and people with high foot arches are very independent. Even the presence of a verucca says that you are harbouring a ‘deep rooted’ problem. Hmmm…

Bearing these tips in mind we couldn’t resist reading the feet of the rich and famous.

Take Jennifer Aniston’s feet. They may be pedicured to perfection but from her long toe we can see that she’s a creative ideas person, although judging by her curly pinkies she’s clearly quite shy about expressing this. One thing’s for sure, if you could read her feet when they’re snuggled up in a warm pair of Ugg Asutralia boots®, they’d be sure to say they’re happy!

And what about quirky X-Factor contestant Diana Vickers? We’re all familiar with her enormous, flipper-like feet after her barefoot TV performances, although off stage she hides it well with her grey cut out design heels.

Our analysis shows that her flat footedness means that young Diana is very sociable and craves the company of others, and her long, never-ending feet hint that she needs to be the centre of attention. Perfect qualities for an X-Factor contestant!

We think it’s amazing how feet and toes can reveal oodles of information about our personalities. It’s a shame that some people feel the need to surgically enhance their pinkies just so they can shoehorn their way into killer heels.

Instead, why not check out the ShuBoutique for stunning designer shoes? There’s something for everyone, and we’re sure you can pick the right heels for your personality!

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