Look at all the shoes I have.
Three out of the five pairs are or have been for running at some point.
And one of them's for working out.
How did I get all these shoes?
What's happening?
So today, Nikki's going to do a segment for us that's going to be so gross and I'm super
excited because I thought Nikki did not want to do a video for me, but then she did one
and it's going to be awesome because she's just so perfect and great and I love her
and it hurts to be away from her every day.
I love you.
Well, we are going to talk to Nikki.
Hey, Clary.
So you were here a few weeks ago, last weekend, two weeks ago and you were laughing at my
feet and because of all the little skull sting, which maybe they are a little bit.
I did.
I made so much fun of her feet.
They were gross.
It looks like there is something living inside of them.
She has like a little thing.
It's like the alien from alien, but it lives in her foot and it's smaller.
It's disgusting.
But she's still perfect.
How do you pull that off?
So I thought I would talk about why they're disgusting and ways you can prevent your feet
from becoming disgusting when you run.
Okay, so here we have my little feet.
So here on my second toe, while I was training for the half marathon, the Q Channel half,
it was just last month, I had the blood vessel underneath this toe burst and so the nail
started to die.
So there's actually another one growing underneath it and so like the nail is really thick right
now.
It's also really gross and it's like if you could see it, if it was, I didn't have nail
polish on, which my nail polish is terrible right now.
So I actually got in the habit of painting my toenails black about eight years ago when
I was running my first marathon and it's just always stuck because I feel like my feet are
always in some state of disgustingness.
So I paint them black so you can't tell which toenails are black from blood vessels bursting.
That's caused by my shoe being too tight.
Generally you want to size up a half size or a whole size.
It depends on on the shoe, but some people have even sized up as I've heard of runners
sizing up as much as a size and a half.
So it really is dependent on your feet.
Another thing I have going on here is I've got like, I formed some massive blisters on
this side right here.
It's actually normal for me.
I usually have pretty good calluses.
So this is fine because this is like a giant callus even though it's kind of gross looking.
What wasn't fine was that like a few weeks before my marathon, I decided to like buff
down my calluses on both sides of my toes, which I've always had.
I've always had calluses there and I was like, oh yeah, I should, you know, work these
out with a pumice stone.
So during the marathon, I got a giant blister and then of course now it's been a month.
We got it.
A nice callus there.
This foot, you can see here.
So the same problem with this second toe.
This foot was a little worse for the wear.
This giant thing right here was a blood blister when I, when I buffed the calluses out there,
this became a giant blood blister during the half marathon.
And I used mole skin to treat it and I didn't actually, I didn't lance it because I didn't
want to risk infection.
So it was reabsorbed and now the skin's just kind of dyed a nice purple color from the
blood that was there.
So far I have not had the same kind of foot problems that Nikki has had, but I do have,
I do have them.
So here's my foot.
Yep.
And so Nikki mostly gets hurt right here, right?
Like on her toes and here, as she said, I don't have to repeat that.
I'm going to put my foot down.
I have a ton of space in the toes of my shoes.
I wear shoes kind of big anyway.
I despise having my toes kind of squished up.
So I'm really good about putting space there, but I do have issues with just um, re-breaking
in calluses and things like that.
And so usually when I first start, when I first start running, I build up a lot of calluses
and you can definitely sort of see it on this foot where I, I got a teeny little like totally
unimportant blister here that immediately went away.
But right here, I'm doing all the, this is the most disgusting thing ever.
I, yeah, I have calluses there and I sometimes get them here too.
I mean, it's one giant callus there, but um, I get like little ouch feelings.
Yep.
Day.
Um, I'm also, workout area, I'm also going to talk to you about the shoes that I got.
And actually this will get into how I hurt myself the last time.
So I got my injury last, technically this year, but it started last year and went into
this year.
So I think I got them because of a pair of shoes and we'll get into that later.
These are just comfy shoes that I work out in because I do kind of a lot of cardio jumping
around type working out.
Again, I use the K, uh, something, something, K, Katie, Kayla, sorry girl, It's Ness.
Her last name is It's Ness.
I'll put a link in the description below.
As I have shown you before, I typically run with these shoes.
That actually might be cool.
These are the Meryl V-Brums and I have them in my phone as something V-Brums and actually
another friend of mine, Kaya gave me a pair of Brooks, which I really like.
I had never heard of Brooks before.
These actually provide support for me if the joints in my feet hurt a lot or if I am running
on, you know, an especially hard or very rocky ground, I have to use those because my barefoot
running shoes are just not going to cut it.
These are the Brooks Pure Flow.
That's all I know about them.
And on to my last pair of shoes.
So this is the problem.
I needed to run in the winter and I needed a pair of running shoes.
So I just went to a shop.
This is the first time I, this is like winter running shoes.
And so I just grabbed a pair of Keens, which for the record, I like Keens and I do like
these shoes.
These are not good for running.
They, the support in them made me run funny and it put too much pressure on the outside
of my knee because I was compensating for my feet being uncomfortable and how that they
were going down.
And so, I mean, I got them because they were waterproof and because they were warm and
that's great, but you have to have a pair of shoes that's not going to screw up your
running style.
Right now, I've just kind of come to terms with the fact that I'm probably not going
to run during the winter.
I'll find something else to do and I'm sticking with the two pairs of shoes here.
And I heard, and I'm starting to believe what I heard in this regard, that it is kind of
a good idea to switch off your running shoes every once in a while just because it gives
your, it changes up your stance and you got to, you know, reassess how you're running
and everything and also, you know, depending on the type of place you're running, you need
to be good about the kind of shoes you're wearing.
So, I am really happy with the shoes that I'm wearing right now and I'm feeling really
good about it.
So, yeah, and both of them have tons of space in the toes, so none of my toenails have been
falling off yet.
Of course, I've only just started hitting six miles, so that might change.
I'll let you know.
I'll show you if it does.
Thank you so much, Nikki, for telling me about your disgusting feet.
I love them.
If you ever need a foot massage, I know a guy.
Let me know if you want to hear more about feet.
This is somebody's dream right now.
Bye.
