 Hi guys, it's Monica. I'm going to give you a little bit of an update at the end of this video and I'm also going to share my favorite lippies. And this is in response to some of your questions because I know that I'm very lackadaisial about listing my lipsticks and I always seem to get questions on that. And it always kind of surprises me because I don't have gorgeous lips, they're thin, you know, stuff like that. But so that's in a minute address and then I'll do a little bit of an update on my dad at the end. Thank you so much for joining me guys, I'm going to share with you some of my tried and true lipsticks. I am a creature of habit when I find something I really like, whether it's a color, whether it's the consistency, I kind of really stick with that. So I'm often asked what lipstick do you have on? Well, it is, it's hard for me to identify a lot because I am a lipstick layer person. I do, I layer a lot. But I normally, you know, I typically will use a little bit of a lip liner and it is usually the all about mob lip liner that I'd buy from Avon. That has been my lip liner that I've used for eons, eons. I absolutely love that lip liner. I also use some of their brow products but that's really about it from the Avon line that I use. But I've used the lip liner for a long time I really like it. I always gravitate to that lip liner no matter how many other lip liners I have in my collection at that moment. So that is one of my tried and truths. And then normally it depends on what I normally do. I should backtrack a little bit. Normally when I get up and I do my skincare, I also do a gentle lip exhalation and currently probably for the last, well before COVID anyways, because I think about this in maybe February or even January, I've been using the ELF and it's a sugar scrub and I put that on my lips. It's kind of rough. One side is rougher than the other but I just go through my lips and I kind of exfoliate a little bit every morning because at night I'm using lip creams that I put on and all that. So in the morning I exfoliate my lips. Once I'm all set and I'm all ready for my makeup, my lipstick is usually the last thing that I add. The first thing that I add when I'm getting ready for my makeup is my mascara. I do it very wacky. I do my mascara first and then I do my eyeshadows and all that stuff and then I do my foundation. So while all that's going on and drying, my sunblock is drying and all that stuff, but then I use my lipstick. So I have for a long time been using one particular nude brand of lipstick and it's actually Rimmel and it's Kate and I know that it comes in a different packaging now but I have just reordered mine and the only place you can see I'm almost empty. I love this. This is the only nude that really works well for me and I'm not willing to spend money to experiment on a ton of different nude lipsticks because every time I've done that I've been disappointed. This nude works well for me. It doesn't turn orange. It makes my lips look nice. I like lighter lips rather than darker lips on me. It's my preference. So this is typically my nude. Now sometimes I use this as a topper more often than not. So if I'm going to be like for example today, I have a darker hair today. So I used, this is one of my favorites. This is I think it's Orchid by Becca and I've had this for quite a while too. I use this. This was originally sent to me complimentary via the Octoly Network. I have, I love this. This is a perfect shade. It gives me some color. So if I want to have a darker lip, this is what I start out with. I line my lips. I color it in with this. Usually if I want a darker neutral lip and then very, then often I'll top it with my number 45, my Rimmel. I like that. I like the Rimmel a lot. My lip gloss of choice, I have two that I use all the time. One lip gloss I will use typically when I'm not wearing any lipsticks and that is my City Beauty. This was also sent to me complimentary at one point quite a while ago. This is the only lip gloss that I like to wear without anything else on. So if I'm not having, like I'm home, I'm doing stuff like that. I don't want to have a bunch of makeup on or lipstick on, but I like to have a little lip gloss. It's my City Beauty and this is the shade. Let me see if I can grab the shade. It's called City Lips Clear. This isn't a shade. City Lips Clear. This is really what I like. Now typically on top of my lipstick because I like to add a little shine no matter where color I'm wearing, I used to always get the Buxom in. I would say for high end, the Buxom White Russian has been my go-to favorite for a long time for high end. I ran out of that before COVID hit and I haven't replaced it. But what I have been using consistently along with the White Russian all along has actually been this hard candy and I actually like the hard candy glosses a lot. So I had like four of them. I finished two. This one is pretty well almost gone and this is the lightest shade which I happen to like the best because it is so light and it's called Girl Next Door. I really like that a lot. I'm going to definitely when I next get to the store I'm going to pick this up because I really like this. This other one I also like. It's just a little bit of a darker shade. It's called Barely There. I mean I actually like both of them but I just prefer the lighter one on me. Then I have and I bought these. I love these lipsticks so depending on what I'm doing I absolutely love the color of the world lipsticks a lot and I have just replaced them. The ones that I really like is called Flawless and Independent. This is what they look like. Now with the color of the world lipsticks they have a very soft formula. So I'm almost gone on this one. I love this one. I just think they're so pretty and this one is flawless and this one is Independent. They are just my colors. They are really just my colors. I really like them a lot and I have bought them. They don't go into your lines so you know I mean I really like them. Are they long lasting? I'm not too sure. I don't think you can probably tell but I have Flawless on the top, Independent on the bottom. I just really really like them and I will probably order them again. I just got another order in so I'm probably good. I mean these are almost gone so I'm probably good for one another six months or so but on top of that I normally like to have and these are Maybelline lippies and my two favorite on my Maybelline is Lust for Plush and that's $6.65 and the second one is Romantic Rose. Almost gone. It's open as far as it'll go and definitely will be repurchasing. This one has a little bit more but not much so you can tell that these two are the two that I grab all the time. So you know when I'm talking about lipsticks that I continuously use those are it. Two things that I carry around with me all the time is a lip gloss during the day and this is actually this actually hangs on my my bag and this little cute little key chain or little holder I think. I don't know initially what it's supposed to hold. I think just a lipstick. I have my lip gloss in there. I actually got this as a gift when we did the girls weekend in Atlanta from Matta Cyrus. I almost I'm going to link her channel because I always say her name wrong but Matta had given this as a bunch of and some other things too as a gift but I use this all the time. So when I go to put my lip gloss on I always think of Matta. Thank you Matta. And my lip gloss that I have in here is just the Bigelow. You get the set bath and body works very very reasonable. I have this in Pearl Mint. I really like it Pearl Mint. The other thing that I carry around it I it's kind of weird how I use this. This is actually from Radiant Labs and this was also something that was sent to me a while ago via the Octoly Network Complementary in exchange for review and Radiant Labs and this is their CBD Bomb and it's a stick Phillips. It says hydrating stick Phillips. Well when I first got it I said it's so thick. You know it really is it's thick but I I use this probably four or five times a day and I love the fact that it is thick because if I don't have lipstick on I go right above my lip. I go into my lip lines and I give it all a good surge of moisture. I've also been known to dab on the corner of my eyes during the day. I love this stick so I know it says it's for lips but I actually use it for a lot of things other than lips on my face. So those are my tried and true. I have a stack of lipsticks. I really do but I gravitate to those. I like those. Those are the ones that I'm always putting on and depending on my mood whether I want to go darker which for me you know this is my comfort zone dark. Every time I put darker darker lipstick on I feel weird. I just don't I don't like it on me as much. So that I wanted to share with you. I also wanted to share with you this product that was sent to me from Octoly not about lips I know but it's from Billion Dollar Babe. I was like the packaging was so cute when it came in. So this was sent to me from Octoly in exchange for a review complimentary Billion Dollar Beauty and they put this little note in here BDB Billion Dollar Beauty their team and they even spelled my name right because a lot of people spell it wrong and it says enjoy your products. We can't wait to see your content. So what they sent me was a and I'm really excited about this because this is so travel friendly. It is a highlighter and a concealer stick and they sent a really nice brush and so this brush is charcoal infused. It's vegan and it's called a concealer. Now what I like about it is that it's so small but so nice that for me it's going to be when I use any kind of things concealer around my eyes. This is going to be what I'm going to use. I haven't really dipped into the brush so to speak yet but I'm bringing it with me. However this concealer stick and highlighter stick is the nuts. I really like it. So you get a concealer very very emollient for me. I really like it. It's not drying so if I'm touching up a dab here or there it's not at all drying and on one end is a creamy highlighter and I'm liking the highlighter. I'm liking the cream concealers. I like the fact that they're creamy and they're not. I don't know you probably can't see it but I just put them on my hands. They go on super super super super nice. So I've been using this. I just I thought the presentation was really awesome. Love their love the way they did the presentation and a personal note. I am whenever you get a personal note like that and your name is felt right. I think it's like super super super cool. So that's it for my lips and I really wanted to to give you that information. I also wanted to tell you that you may have seen some videos come you know be published. Many of you know that my dad passed away. Many of you know that it was extremely close to my dad. I still have a hard time believing that he's really gone even though I was with him when he passed and I know he's gone. You know I I know he's gone. I get that. I understand that it's just really hard to imagine a world without him after all these years and I know I'm blessed guys. I know I'm blessed to have had him for as long as I've had him and to have had a dad that was so good and caring. But anyways what I wanted to say is that you may have seen videos come after my father's passing. Some of my videos have been pre-recorded. I don't even know sequentially when this is going to be published this one but I just want to tell you I have gotten so many so many cards and messages from you. I just I don't even know where to begin. I have a stack of cards. I've read them. Some of them have long notes in them and I'm like oh my gosh and I know we haven't met you know. We haven't met and for you to take the time out of your life to have sent the cards and the notes and the well wishes and some of you have gone onto the obituary for my dad and left notes there. It's like heartwarming. It's so totally heartwarming and when we're going to have my dad's services still going to come I'm going to be working on a few things to say for his when during his service when we come back. So I'm going to be working on that Jay and I are going to Bar Harbor Main. When you see this we might already be there. I'm not too sure but my dad's services is going to be in mid-august. We're waiting for my niece to be able to come up and just waiting for a few other things to have aligned into the right order to be able to to do the type of memorial service that we really wanted to remember my dad and all that but I just wanted to tell you that even though you're seeing videos that might be out of order and all that and I just want you to know that I I am reading all your cards and all your well wishes and and the things you've sent it's just it's so touching and so heartwarming and I just want to thank you all so so very much. I also want to tell you that I have worked on my smile every single day. I think on one of my some of you read it or heard it where I said I didn't know if I would ever be able to smile again and for my dad I'm a smiling and YouTube all of you just touched me. I just wanted you to know that. I just wanted you to know that that I read all your messages and I'm touched beyond. I've also shared them with my mom and she's touched as well and so anyways I'm getting weepy aren't I? I didn't mean to be weepy. I just wanted to because I know that when it's when you have videos that are pre-recorded sometimes you don't want to you know you don't get a chance to say what you might have wanted to say if it was recorded in real time so anyways I just want to thank you all. Thank you.