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Your skin's trouble spots could appear to be an annoyance, but they might be there for a reason. Your thicker skin on the bottoms of your feet and heels, which you desperately want to remove with a pedicure, is actually evolution at work, protecting you as you walk, according to Anolik. The elbows, for example, are a different matter.