 Decided to play around with my Lancome. This is the eyeshadow blush palette that I got in the Christmas Kit, I don't know many of you probably have seen that Christmas kit where you you buy a product and then they give you this palette So I thought this is pretty cool. I ended up wanting the glam look and this is what the what the colors look like and I did pretty well everything that you're seeing on my eyes granted, it's not the greatest look because I certainly don't have the best skills, but I did everything with the exception of my eyeliner, which is just I think my Urban Decay black liner. I know creature habit and my eyebrows, so that's really about the the only thing I did separately, so I used the foundation that I have on. I have not opened up. I did buy the Lancome foundation So I could get the gift, but I have not opened it up. So the foundation that I actually have on is my CYO I'm trying to finish the two bottles that I've got open. They they're almost gone And then I do have the CYO Replacement, which is the kick ass soap and glory kick ass So I've got that still and I'm trying to really get through some of my open bottles before I open the Lancome But I am going to compare my Lancome to my Estee Lauder and Also to my YSL. So my YSL and Estee Lauder are my current high-end favorites And I have I have a couple of other high-ends that I have that You know, I didn't I wasn't really happy with but my Estee Lauder and My Lancome are the two foundations that I have bought and the Estee Lauder I bought Repeatedly I'm gonna do that But I wanted to sort of like I was thinking like kind of like maybe a look and I'm just playing around today So I'm like, okay, you know, let's see if I can create a look with it and on my head by the way Is my Henry Margu this is my Henry Margu Hayden wig and you know, I Haven't worn this wig in quite a while and I always love this wig I really always have loved this wig. I just haven't haven't worn it in quite a while You know what I like about this is kind of a really casual look. You have the beachy waves It is the blonde. I really I like it a lot. It it's very comfortable on it does have the permatease But all of the wigs I currently have have permatease I think any future wigs that I get I'm gonna really go for something. That's very Low density as far as permatease because I think that the for me anyways a a wig that doesn't have a lot of permatease is is the More natural look anyways So but yeah, so I'm just kind of fussing around and doing that and I don't know I figured at start of log and we'll see where this brings us I don't have anything major going on this week, but I did decide I wanted to try to vlog and I'll probably Share this or bits of this who knows in a video, but I wanted to kind of I'm really not getting any better with my eye looks. I want to tell you something that's really bizarre the other day in one of my videos Maybe it was my morning routine. I used the Tati palette on my eyes and You know, I know there's some people that I'm surprised that have high skills and makeup They can't seem to make the Tati palette work for them But I don't really think it's the palette so much as I just don't think they put maybe like the colors or the consistency Or whatever because I just can't believe that some of them That have such great skills can't make it work when someone like me who has zippo skills can do something with it so I ended up Using that palette. I actually loved the look I got I wore that look all day long I had a number of compliments on my eye look that day now I am the type of person and you know, maybe it's not age-appropriate But I happen to like glitter glows and sparkly things on my eyes This palette the Lancome palette. I actually kept digging into the shimmery pots of it to try to get more of a shimmer pop and I mean, I did okay with it, but I would like it to be a little bit more shimmery That's that. I mean, that's what I like So and that's the one thing when I use the Tati palette. I Used the Tati palette and I used a couple of the the I should have probably identified in the video what I did But then I used a couple of the colors from the LA girl palette and then the Tati palette And I did a mixture of them both and I thought that was real. I thought the look came out really good Anyways, so, you know me with no talent But darn it, you know, I paid money for it. So I wasn't going to let it go to waste Yeti means so anyways, that's that's it for now. I just wanted to maybe Start a vlog and see what I do with it. Who knows right? Maybe this will never see the light of day Well, welcome back yesterday, I I talked about well, I wore this wig yesterday And I also wore it in the vlog yesterday the stat of my blog But I did a lot of instaclips yesterday and I had a number of people ask me about the wig I have two of these. So this one is sort of like a blonde with You know, like a wheat darker blonde with wheat colored highlights So I really like this one. The other one I have is 88 age Which is supposed to be more of a strawberry now I find this one to be a lighter color and And I'm not too sure why they're so very similar But this is sort of a strawberry blonde with light lighter wheat highlights Where this is sort of a weak blonde with lighter highlights. So yeah, so this one is really nice I mean, this is Hayden. These were sent to me. I look this one up. I received this in December of 2018 So in this one, I know I got probably quite early or maybe about four or five months beforehand Anyways, Henry Magoo Hayden wig what I like about this is this is a very casual Beachy look and it's super super comfortable. The cap on this is really nice It does have a monofilament top right here And it does have a lace front and you can also cinch these So you can size the cap down, which is super nice I just find it to be very comfortable very casual easy to wear and on my lips So I have received a and and this is all through the Octoly network So I just want to mention this because I did get this lippy quite a while ago Givenchy via Octoly. Listen, it's just a really I don't know if you can see it. It's just a really pretty rose color and I'm gonna go on my arm only because I've been swatching and if you can see that I like this a lot. I Wear this a lot. I love love love the bullet. I love the application. I just think it's like so super super cute So when they had another one and I've reached when I requested it. This is a I'll make sure I list the colors. This is a darker pink I'll put it on right next to my hand My arms so you can see this is the darker pink. I really like them now. I'm not used to darker colors Hmm on me, but it will tell you I know this is a luxury brand and I know that they're very pricey But I've got a few high-end lipsticks that I've been using and There's just something special. I think every now and then you just have to indulge yourself in something like that so They were sent to me by the Octoly network now because I'm a light Lipstick wearer. I usually chop off anything I can with a very light color in this particular case I'm chopping it off with a hide candy Number 1391 I think it's a nude color. It's a real pale pale pink color I think it just gives me a little bit more of in my comfort zone anyways of a lighter look I really enjoy indulging myself in a Luxury item and to me a lipstick. Oh, yeah, it's just really special So I really like that lipstick a lot. I mean it looks really pretty even though it's a darker Than my comfort zone. Those of you know that I love my bill bars. I've talked about bill bars. I Really enjoy bill bars. They're low carb low sugar. They taste good. They're filling They're they give you energy They give you a whole lot of different things and I'm an isogenic person, but I don't like my isogenic bars I don't but these bill bars. I love I bought them. They were sent to me complimentary. I've bought them I bought them. I bought them I decided to go ahead and join their affiliate program because I love the products So it's up to you whether you want to use my link or not, but if you do I will get some pennies But these bars are fabulous and they came out with these two new flavors toffee almond and This one is the German chocolate Holy cow and a half Delicious delicious tomorrow's a snowstorm Huge huge snowstorm. We are looking to get probably they're saying 12 on above inches of snow the line in New Hampshire is If you're like the 15 miles off the coast where that imaginary line goes down It could be 12 on up inches of snow if you're on the other side of the line It's 8 to 12. Well, we are right over that line So we are probably very comfortably in the 12 inch mark. Oh my gosh So anyways, I have no idea. I did not do a great job vlogging this week I had really good intentions to vlog on a regular basis, but I just didn't we had that snowstorm and It was like it was insane. It lasted for two days. That was Monday and Tuesday I'm gonna insert a little clip here so you can see me showing you my bathroom window You can see the snow when I film in the bathroom at times. You'll say, oh, I like the trees I like the green. I like the flowers. No more green. It's all Snow out there, but on Friday. I went up north and I taught out of our Belmont, New Hampshire office And then I on the way home. I stopped at the outlets in Tilton. They had a cosmetic company store there It is a really nice cosmetic company store that great sales some items were like 80% off and My sales click was just really exceptional. So it's a beautiful store Lots of name brands and great buys. So I did I did some damage in that store And I'll share some of that with you and another video and I got the most amazing a gift in the mail From simply Sheila and it was just it was just really awesome I'll show you that in an upcoming video too, but I'll insert a little sneak peek here So you can kind of see what it is, but I was like absolutely thrilled I thought I would sort of end this vlog on Attempting to answer the questions that I got from many of you after my last video When I talked about retin A and I know that there's a lot of people out there that there's really concerns about using retin A or buying it overseas or you know just being sure that you're getting good stuff and you know when all that you're not Going to get ripped off and stuff like that. Well, I'll tell you that I started using retin A in 2016 and I have a prescription from my dermatologist. I see my dermatologist every year So he gave me a prescription. I filled my first one up in Canada This is in 2016 and the Canadian pharmacy that I used had great prices much better than here in the States It's still pretty pricey so shortly thereafter I discovered reliable Rx pharmacy in India and That the prices hands down in India were fabulous Unbelievable to me even today So what I did and this is to answer one of the questions. How do I feel secure buying? I just opened up a separate checking account and I have that separate checking account with a limited amount of money in there $50 hundred dollars and I use it just to buy Stuff like this overseas and I pay by e-check now I was really nervous about that in the beginning, but then I figured you know There's only X amount of money in this checking account e-check is just like if I was going to pay a bill online I give them my writing number and authorize what's being taken out. I've never had a problem. However, that said I Think you need to do whatever is your comfort zone as far as where you buy your retin A There are people that'll go on vacation and buy it in Mexico or other places My last retin A that I bought from the pharmacy in India the Johnson and Johnson was the manufacturer. I couldn't believe it, but yeah, it's significantly Significantly cheaper. I just purchased the hydro canone 4% and tretinoin 0.05% and it was like $14 plus shipping The last time I bought my 1% gel It was $7 plus shipping 7 us dollars so to me that was amazing What I'm currently using right now is my 1% tretinoin This the cream was actually gifted to me from one of you and I think this is fantastic Fantastic and most recently I got the 0.05% as a gift from the same person So thank you. Thank you so much. So between the cream and the gel have I noticed a difference? I really have it. I think the cream I used to think that the gel probably applied easier But I actually think the cream applies a little easier. I enjoy the cream I don't notice any kind of a big difference, but if I can't get the 1% cream from reliable RX I will go right back to using the gel. I have no problem with that at all So I started using this in 2016 I'm 62 years old. I was really nervous But I did start out slow and I started With a over-the-counter retinol first Before I went to the prescription retin A and like I said I bought my first One through a Canadian pharmacy and then I went in a used reliable RX I have a prescription. You don't need to have one, but I have one I see my dermatologist once a year I just saw him not too long ago because he removed a spot that's come back So I have to go see him again But when I saw him I talked about my skin I talked to him about the different results the CBD oil and stuff like that He said to me that my skin The texture of the the you know my skin is the best that he's ever seen it And I thought that was pretty impressive. Yes, I have discoloration. I have dark spots I have veins. I have age spots, but all that aside the the texture of my skin the wrinkles the smoothness He said it was he said it was what he said what you're doing is working for you. So To answer some of the questions It's was a slow slow process for me I tried to rush it and to me really going low and slow is the best advice I can give you Take a take a get a lower dosage If you're going to order from reliable RX for the very first time go 0.025 and get 0.050 Then you'll have both and you can kind of play around with them I would not jump in really quick. Let your skin get used to it get acclimated See how it reacts because to me I I have to go to work each day and I went through my period of total Uglies and every now and then I still have an ugly although, you know I've been able to really contain it with my CBD oil, but I went through some really ugly phases with it Overall though, however, there's and I always say this even in real estate even when I'm teaching classes and New concepts and stuff like that, you know, there's the there's the pain and the pleasure in everything So the pain is going through some of the ugly phases. The pleasure is the end result what you have afterwards So tretinoin is turning over your skin. Obviously, so you want to slough off the old dead crudcy skin and Exfoliate gently really super important, but more important is protecting your skin Sunblock Sunblock Sunblock UVA rays UVB rays UVA You want to make sure that what you're using protect you from UVA. That's the aging rays That's the that's the stuff that penetrates deep in your skin. You don't notice it because you're not burning UVB is the burn. So you definitely want to make sure you're really well protected, especially if you're using this So now that I've been using it three years beginning. I thought oh my god, I'd never see a difference But now after three years, it's amazing the difference that I see in my skin. Has it stopped my aging? No No, is it like a miracle? Well, I think so to me it has been because it's made such a huge difference And it's also been in conjunction with other products as well But it really has made such a huge difference on my skin that It is a holy grail item for me It really is and the fact that it is Something that is affordable where in the beginning I thought you know I'm not going to spend $300 for a tube of cream to put on my face $7 $15 Absolutely is so well worth Doing and if you don't ever want to do the medical grade retina do the retinols Do all of the over-the-counters Do something and if you have 35 and you think and you sell my get plenty of time guess what? You don't you don't Because one day you're gonna be 65. I mean you're gonna be like me and you're gonna say wow I wish I'd started earlier. I wish I'd started when I was 35 36 38 And if you are 35 36 38 and you're starting this go really slow at that age You don't need to be on the big guns You don't need to be at the 1% But can you imagine if you started that young and then by the time you're in your 40s and your 50s and you increase You increase and then by the time you're in your 60s Your skin's gonna be in my opinion. It's gonna be so much better than it would have been If you'd never done it So it's not too late to do it if you're already in your 60s. I'm a classic example I started at 62 and when I was 62 when I started it. It wasn't like I had done a Number of different skin care things they didn't I mean I did about maybe three months of a Over-the-counter retinol to try to get my skin used to it. I never did sunblock I never did. I mean I would just wash my face. I Take my makeup off wash my face put some sort of cream or oil on and that would be it for my skin care So that the difference is you know a lot of people will go on that throwback ten years ago You know ten eight pitchers ten years ago The difference in my skin is amazing and it isn't even so much the wrinkles because I have them You know, I'm not it's not gonna make the wrinkles go away It'll hopefully continue to stop them from getting really bad bad or Allowing them to get bad slowly if that makes sense But it's the tone and the texture and the brightness of my skin that that to me has been the more overall It's almost like my It's almost like my skin feels alive It's like a book corny But truly so you you're never you never too old to start this routine at all And those of you that asked the question about the reliable RX obviously do your own research But I feel totally comfortable ordering from them and yes, my link is below and yes It's an affiliate link already explained that in my previous video. You don't have to order through that link It's entirely up to you Whatever you choose to do, but if you are Holding off because of the affordability. It is so affordable. Can you imagine paying seven dollars for a tube of retinae? When down the street here, it's three something Three hundred something so affordability Yeah, it's it can be very very affordable and you're not too young to start and you're not too old to start And yes, they're the ugly phases. You do have to exfoliate Please don't over exfoliate. Don't rub your skin raw and don't jump into it and go Ganghou full force go slow baby steps Slow baby steps. You will eventually get to where you want to be I remember when I started and I'm thinking I'm gonna go five nights a week I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do that and People will say no, no do that. No, no, no, don't do that and then you know, I'm still gonna do it my way and I think I set myself back because of it. I did I set myself back I think if I'd gone slow and low and Did it the right way? I would have had a my first year would have been a lot smoother And it would have been a lot more ahead of myself at the end of that first year Anyways, I don't know if I addressed the questions you had and many of you asked that same question about reliable Rx and then oh the other question was how often am I using it? I Think as your skin gets to a certain point you may not have to use it as much anymore or whatever I'm roughly three times a week every other day sometimes Not even but usually three times a week very rarely is it four times a week But every second application that I do I'm going to be using the hydroquinone I use that on either like a cluster of like age spots right here on my cheeks So I use it there and I also use it on the corner of my eye over here And and then when on the night that I am using it, that's where I'll put it on But then I'll also spread it throughout my whole face and going down my neck I've been using 0.05% mixture with my rosehip seed oil tried many different neck treatments and My neck is not all that great. It is not all that great But I think that what I have been doing with my rosehip seed oil With my tretinoin going down my neck and then I use my CBD oil my whatever CBD oil you use It's going to be again up to you, but make sure it's The right mixture make sure you're not just buying into something called hemp and this hemp in you can buy Hemp anywhere it isn't going to be the CBD So just be careful of the product that you are using, but I use that as a moisturizer and I that has my flakes my ugliest Bye bye truthfully because this lake it's like made the huge huge huge difference huge difference So anyways, I don't want to keep babbling But I wanted to address those questions that so many of you had and hopefully I answered them all Thank you all so much guys, and I will see you on my next video if you have not already done So please consider thumbing giving me a thumbs up. Please make sure you leave me a comment I upload as you know, I try to upload twice a week Thursdays and Sunday nights I like to premiere my videos because I enjoy the engagement in the chat room So if you hear during a premiere jump into the chat room if you haven't done it and chat with us I truly truly enjoy that engagement So thank you all so much, and I'll see you on my next video if you have any other questions Let me know and I'll address them in a video as well. Bye guys