Sandal season has arrived! Moisturize those feets, get a pedicure, and ... record scratch ... welcome the blisters. It doesn't have to be that way though. Luckily, comfort and cuteness now go hand in hand, and shoe designers are making super cute styles that won't make our feet feel like they are on fire after we wear them.

The rule of thumb for comfy sandals is often a small heel or little wedge, but I found some that break those rules and still keep your feet happy. Like these -- the Earthies Amalfi sandal ($169) in bright red from Zappos. Crochet shoes! And there's more in even better prices.

It was a lovely thought. Just put on a pair of shoes and you too can have an ass like Kim Kardashian. That's what Skechers ads for its shape-up shoes seemed to imply, and good lord, people wanted to believe. So they went out and bought their shoes, but alas, their asses were no better.

Oh well, just another case of consumers doing wishful buying and not so much of that bewaring we're supposed to do, right? Wrong. This time the government has stepped in to debunk the implications and claims made by Skechers, and the company now has to pay $40 million to people who bought the shoes and don't like their butts any better. Ka-ching.

The surreptitious shoe change is skill worth perfecting, ladies. At the world premiere of Snow White and the Huntsman in London this weekend, Kristen Stewart wore Nike sneakers under her gorgeous, gorgeous! Marchesa gown and changed into heels at the last second, behind a bush. We all know KStew's more comfortable in casual clothes than couture gowns, and that down-home attitude carries over to her footwear, as well. She'll avoid wearing any sort of heel until she absolutely has to, hence the quick change in some shrubbery.

Even though Kristen's on the cover of Elle this month and has been slowly morphing into a fashion inspiration ever since her W cover, the girl still likes her ugly sneaks. A lady after my own heart.

Just when we thought we'd heard it all as far as wacky plastic surgery procedures go, the growing trend of women getting "foot jobs" has us shaking our heads. Apparently some ladies just aren't willing to give up their favorite pair of high heels -- even if it means having to alter their feet in order to fit into them. Wait a minute -- didn't Cinderella teach us anything when we were little girls? If the shoe doesn't fit, then you probably shouldn't be wearing it?

These foot procedures, which have affectionately been dubbed "Loub Jobs," after famous heel designer Christian Louboutin, involve getting dermal fillers injected into the heels, balls of the feet, or even the toe pads. And oh yeah -- some women are even getting full blown "toe tucks" (actually having the sides of their pinkie toes shaved down) in order to cram their feet into trendy heels. (What the heck?)

Am I the only one who finds this idea really extreme, not to mention pretty creepy and gross?

If a fairy godmother showed up and told you that you could have anything, what would you wish for? A million dollars? A house on the Riviera? A pair of shoes that fit you so perfectly it's like they were made for you?

Now you know why Christian Louboutin has signed on to design a pair of official Cinderella slippers for Disney in honor of the movie. It may be the classic rags to riches story. But we live in a world where women are expected to spend something like $16,000 in their lifetime just on shoes. Let's call the movie's popularity what it really is.

You know that thing where a famous Sports Illustrated model throws around a football in stilettos? Yeah, here's Kate Upton doing that. She appeared on Fox & Friends yesterday with the Giants' Jason Pierre Paul

File this look under: Sh*t Guys Like to Look At. Girl in heels + Football = HAWT.

But I'm not mocking Kate! She's obviously onto something. Take notes, ladies. This is What To Wear when throwing a football. For one thing, stilettos make your legs longer. And for another thing, they kind of lower everyone's expectations for your athletic performance so you can get away with some truly girly throwing. (Kate, I bet you can throw better than that when you'ren not balancing on stilts.) Watch her in action.

On gravel even...what a badass!There’s something instantaneously empowering and uplifting about sliding into a pair of stilettos. Flats are cute. Sneakers are hot. And may the good Lord rain a heap of special blessings upon the comfort-minded geniuses who invented flip-flops. But nothing but nothing accentuates our natural, inborn, get ‘em girl sex appeal like a pair of sky-high skinnies. Slide a foot into them and they offer up an effortless boost of confidence and, unless you haven’t yet mastered the balancing act of remaining vertically upright and walking in them, a stroll that commands attention.

I am admittedly a shoe fiend. I love them across the gamut—except Crocs, clogs, and Uggs or any knockoff derivative thereof—but my heart percolates over heels. And guys love us in stilettos, which I don’t mind because I love stilettos, too. For different reasons, of course. 

Sometimes I don't know what I find more offensive: the price tag on a pair of Christian Louboutin stilettos, or the height of the heel. They're both so absurdly high that I can't afford to, monetarily or physically, take a pair of his famous red-sole shoes home with me. And that's fine. If I had my heart set on a sexy pair of heels that looked like Louboutins, there are plenty of fakes out there to choose from. But even though they may be cheaper, they're still insanely high. And that's where they lose me. There's nothing less sexy than a woman teetering in stilettos all night, taking baby steps, and looking at her feet when she could be walking confidently in a pair of heels not quite so towering.

Funny part is, Louboutin himself agrees with me. He told Grazia magazine that if women can't walk in heels, they shouldn't wear them. A to the men.