Pointe shoe padding for street shoes

[Yaffa]

I was just asked which types of pointe shoe padding might protect toes in high heeled shoes which apparently fit well but tend to rub/pinch. My first thought would to get rid of the high heeled shoes, but apparently that is not an option....

[Nicola H]

depends where rubbing  / pinching, also  ouch pouches  etc will add  to both length and width of the foot ... 

getting the shoes on a  shoe tree more likely to help or perhaps pre-emptive microfoam / hydrocolloid  taping  of the sore spot ?

although to be honest  i'm not sure  of street shoes benefiting from point pads  (  vs   wearing ouch-pouches in soft  shoes  to protect  delicate  toes if you are doing  lots of  jumping in a none pointe piece , or the use of  pointe shoe padding  techniques in 'specialist' / 'cosplay'  footwear which has  you in  equinus / demi / pointe )

[Jan McNulty]

A friend of mine always used to wear elastoplast on her toes to preempt rubbing.  I don't know if those gel tubes you can get to put over fingers/toes would help but as Nicola says they could increase the width of the foot.

[Nicola H]

1 hour ago, Jan McNulty said:

A friend of mine always used to wear elastoplast on her toes to preempt rubbing.  I don't know if those gel tubes you can get to put over fingers/toes would help but as Nicola says they could increase the width of the foot.

 plasters  / microfoam / hydrocolloid dressing all much of a muchness  just the latter are a bit more high tech ...   i'm a big fan of hydrocolloid stuff esp once skin is raw / broken as it promotes a better  'micro climate'  for  the  wound ....