 Hi everyone. I have a very exciting vlog for you. I have a parcel, I know. So today's vlog is all about nurses feet and shoewear because this is such a common question that I get asked all the time. What type of shoes should I buy? What's going to be the best for my feet as a nurse? 12 hours on my feet all day. Well, I've got something new for you today guys. So I have teamed up with the guys over at Toftalinn. I still have no idea how to say the word but these guys here at Toftalinn have given me some shoes to do a review on and yeah let you all know how that they are because as you know if you're already a nurse in your healthcare it's really hard to find the right pair of shoes but these guys have teamed up with Salford University. They've done a study on footwear and how to optimize the right shoe for a nurse and I think that's amazing. So yeah all the details of course are going to be below in the details. Have a look at the website things like that but let's get started. Also not only do they provide footwear in a range of different sizes and colors. You can have white, you can have black, you can have a mixture of white and black but they also do a few sets of insoles as well because they realize that not everyone has the same foot so you get a choice of insoles for your footwear which I think I haven't seen that anywhere so I'm loving this already. I haven't even opened the box so let's get to it. It's come out the other end but this is the box guys and these are my shoes oh my god it's like a ready meal. Ready shoes in 10 minutes. Yeah so this is the box. This is all the information on the back of the box if you can see that I hope so. Right so I know this is exciting guys this is like Christmas okay how do I get, oh here we go. This oh my god like you guys have seen these before me. Where are they? Oh here's some insoles so this is set one of the insoles. This is set two of the insoles and there is a little guide as well to what insole you should have for your feet. Fabulous how to choose your insole. Research at the University of Southwood showed that contact made between the bottom of our feet and the inside of our shoe is a game changer. Dun dun dun. This is why this range offers you the choice of three removable insoles wow. So here we go if you've got a low arch I was even got little pictures here. Low arch medium arch high arch might probably medium I reckon so how do you prefer your shoe to feel under the arch of your foot? Soft material less support medium firmness with some support or firm material with more support so you either have the soft insole medium insole or the firm insole and it says on here look soft and I'm assuming inside they are medium let's have a look medium yes okay so this is the shoe as we know in nursing shoes are ugly shoes are always going to be ugly yes these are very much black these are a six and a half because I am a perfect six and a half so I'm hoping these fit me but think what I might do is try each insole for my feet do you think that would be a good idea on each shift and then I can tell you but yes this is the shoe unisex so it doesn't matter whether you're male female non-gender gender fluid I think these shoes are just as good for everybody so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to put my trousers on and see what they look like with my trousers if that makes sense I'll be back really comfortable so I don't know how to show you with a matte little walk these and they fit nice when my trousers actually reach my feet however if you wear maybe a dress I usually wear trousers and tunics so these are perfect but if you were to wear a dress I don't know how they would look let me have a look so let's just pretend I've got a dress on here we go this is if you have a dress and you're showing your legs so they look like that these are a six and a half as I said Europe size 40 these are really comfortable I absolutely love these and just actually just walking around but I am at work today so I'm going to wear them to work and see how I go and should we try that actually should we try the other insole now let's just test them out now and see how each one feels and the differences oh yeah so I've got the soft one on at the minute and you can notice the difference between the soft and the medium with the medium one I feel like I've got more support in my arch than the soft the soft one feels a little bit more flatter so if you're more flat footed I think maybe the soft one would be a better shape for you maybe I'm not an expert in bone structure or feet or arches so please don't quote me on that you might have to just try for yourself and work out what's the best for you but for me right now the medium's winning but I'm gonna try the firm I'm literally just walking up and down so I've got the firm on and you know what the firm I don't know why maybe it's just me and my feet are weird but the firm to me doesn't feel as firm as I thought it feels like it's a combination between medium and soft on my feet so the medium for me feels like it's got a bit more of an arch this is the medium this is the firm so the medium feels like it's got a bit more of an arch so it kind of supports my feet better and I think for me it feels like I'm a medium because that's what feels right for my feet and I notice with my clerks my feet sort of slammed in now I've been wearing them over three years I must have a strange arch or maybe I just walk funny I don't know I think to solve that problem because the medium has this more of an arch on this side these are going to be perfect for me and not only when I'm looking for shoes there are two issues I always have one is comfort and two is a good grip on the sole so these if you look these I've got an amazing grip on the bottom they're really sort of rubbery and these are going to just be perfect especially on certain surface areas like when you're on the ward it can be quite slippy these are going to be I know they're going to be fantastic and I will try these out in clinic because we have that very slippy surface in clinic as well in GP so I'm going to be trying these out so my two things today test them out with the rubber get through the comfort and assess the comfort so right now before I've even tried them on shift these are getting a 10 out of 10 from me these are perfect I'm not bothered about fashionable I'm not bothered about the way I look I want to be comfortable at the end of the day I don't want to end up with sore feet blisters achy legs as well because I haven't got the right footwear I want comfort over any of that so for me these are absolutely perfect so now I'm going to get ready go to work and I will see you after my shift hi everyone so I've just finished my shift I'm really sorry it's really dark and my feet feel amazing these shoes are perfect my feet are so comfortable they're these are really good these just fit absolutely perfect the the sole everything about them is amazing so massive 10 out of 10 these shoes are the ones the only downside I would say with these shoes I think they are a little bit on the higher priced side as always the same as Clark's as well you're going to pay like 60 65 pounds for a decent pair of shoes but they will last you for a long time they feel like a very good material but we shall see as we time goes on I will let you all know for now that is it from me thank you so so much to the company for let me review these and just giving me the opportunity to do this because it's absolutely amazing it's something that needed to be done in nursing because we all need good footwear and as always the links are below just to remind you in the details have a look have a look at the website have a look at the different shoes they have they have more than one pair of shoe as well they have crocs they have wellies all sorts of things so have a look and make your choice