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Cake day: September 27th, 2025

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  • Are you jogging with a toe to heel motion, or a heel to toe motion?

    From what I’ve seen, most people have no idea what proper form is for running. I was the same way until I thought to myself, “maybe it’s not just my body being shitty.”

    It helps to not think about running as taking steps, because it’s not. When you take a step, it’s basically a controlled fall. You step out and lean forward landing on your heel and rolling to the ball of your foot

    Running is pretty much the opposite. You’re pushing yourself forward with what’s basically a small jump. You want your feet to start off nearly directly below your hips, push off with the ball of your foot, and land on the ball of your other foot with your heel off the ground, as close to under your hips as you can.

    It’s hard to explain the full movement through text, so I’ll leave this video about it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=entUXhcgt3c

    But once I changed my form, even my old meniscus injury doesn’t hurt.












  • No one can really answer this for you because everyone’s skin and hair growth pattern are different. You have to try stuff until you find something that works.

    For me, the process is this:

    1. After showering I use a dermaplaner that takes half of a safety razor blade to scrape my pubic (not my scrotum) area against the grain. The blade edge is almost perpendicular to the surface of the skin. This exfoliates the skin, lifts up any hairs that might be starting to get ingrown, and most importantly makes my skin very dry.

    2. I then use a Panasonic arc 5 to shave everything. Doesn’t take very long if I do it once a day. I’m waiting for the Arc 3 to go on sale, because the head on the 5 is just too big for the area. My skin basically needs to be ashy for it to glide smoothly (wet shaving with it didn’t get a close shave)

    3. Back to the dermaplaner to first shave with the grain at a 45° angle to smooth things out, then against the grain with the blade perpendicular again to lift the end of the hairs a bit.

    4. Spray it with an ingrown hair alcohol spray meant for waxing.

    5. Apply unrefined shae butter to the skin to moisturize and protect the skin.

    I shave in the evenings, so in the mornings I repeat steps 1 and 5. I used to throw step 4 in too, but it didn’t help enough to justify the cost of twice a day.

    The important thing to remember about foil shavers is that your hair and skin have to adapt to them, so things might be uncomfortable for the first few weeks. But if you do it every day and your skin gets used to it, the whole process takes less time than shaving my face does.

    I’ve also had good results with an epilator, but you need some serious pain tolerance, and you have to be careful your scrotum doesn’t get caught in it. It’s happened a few times to me, but it never caused any damage because the motor stalls as soon as it grabs it.