 Hey guys, it's Monica. Oh My gosh, I have not been sleeping lately. I've had I think it's probably really because of all the stress in my life I just have really had the hardest time sleeping. So I've tried a couple of different products to You know kind of relax me and all of that and I was using a CBD product and and I found one that really works So in this video, I'm going to talk about this and that and maybe a little bit of everything So if you're curious, stay tuned so first of all I Jay and I have been working in the machine shop Which was my father's machine shop, which is attached to our home It's like on a big we have a barn that my dad converted Like 50 years ago into a machine shop and you all know my dad passed away to it would be two years in July So we've been working on emptying that out and getting rid of the machines and just doing a ton a ton of work I mean cleaning scraping lots of this black carbide dust that have that's been in there It's just been an astronomical job So I've been like my hands have just been horrible. I haven't had a manicure. I haven't gone for a pedicure I haven't had any of that since like last year sometime and My hands are just really awful and my nails are terrible so I was watching this video from Mrs. Melissa M and I Don't know how long ago it was now. Maybe a month or I actually first started on Facebook I don't know when she published it on YouTube, but where she was talking about some glass nail files And you know when I had remembered quite a while ago Somebody had talked about what a big difference it made using a glass nail file on their nails rather than an emery board that tears them up more and All of that but I just I looked at the time I looked at the glass nail files and I thought they're just Too pricing so anyways I I was listening and actually reading what Melissa had said on Facebook How her nails have never been better since she's been using these glass nail files and I said I'm gonna go check it out so I followed her link and it brought me to Amazon and of course once you start looking at nail files you get a ton of them and The one that she ordered I want I wanted to order the one that she ordered because I thought well She's used it and I know her although we've never met in real life, but I feel very comfortable with her So I went on of course her purple ones that she had loved they were like at the time that I ordered $8 more than the plain silver ones right the plain colored ones So I ordered a set of the plain colored ones now. It has a full file their glass Right. It has a full file a little point You have to be really careful when you put it in because you don't want to really damage this So it has a full one then it has a smaller one this size except silver I just ignore the purple for now and then it had a round For the cuticle for shaping, you know really pushing the cuticle and so it came in three three pieces three sets Okay for your cuticles a larger file and a smaller file So I took the smaller file and I put it in the motor home because we went camping and I wanted to because knowing me Right. I I need to have something there when we're away So I took the smaller one I put it in the motor home the bigger one I kept it home And then I liked it so much that I knew because all of a sudden I was having one in my park a book and then I didn't bring my pocketbook one time and I had a snag and I said oh my gosh So I you guys are gonna crack up. So I knew I needed one for my car and went for the office So I ordered a second one now the time I ordered my original one only the silver one same thing check glass Made by the same company. I think the company I Look at it. It's a bona fide beauty and it's made it from check glass and It's really Awesome So I'm not gonna tell you have to get this brand because I'm sure there might be tons of others That might be more affordable or you might like better But I ended up ordering two sets the original one and then a second one because I wanted to have The extras so I wanted to be able to have one in my pocketbook one in the car one in the motor home and One at home So hence, that's what I've been doing. Anyways, I think I got this the first one. I think I ordered it. My gosh Maybe about maybe about a month ago or three weeks ago or something of that nature hasn't been all that long I don't remember when I actually saw it on Facebook and And and then I ordered the second one. Well, I'm telling you I would've been working like crazy out in the barn that we're trying to fix up and Get back into, you know, barn shape condition, you know, can that my nails have just been anyway It's not so sharp my nails have been in chemical solutions and Degreaser's and this and that and I've been sanding and I've been filing and I've been painting and I've been moving heavy Furniture and my nails have been like really beat up. So I don't have pretty nails. I don't have a pretty manicure I really need to have my cuticles. I need to take care of them. I don't have any nail polish I bite my cuticles a lot So I haven't gone anywhere, but I am so thrilled if you are a natural nail person And I know not everyone is but if you are a natural nail person meaning that you're not going to go and have a lot of polish put on or or where, you know, it go to the swan and have them the The powder dip I used to love my powder dip I miss it every day because my nails look so beautiful But if you don't do that if you if you're you know, your lifestyle is a number one It's you don't have the time to do it or maintain it or it's it's expensive, right? You don't have that time frame and you have natural nails and you just want to be more natural nails If your natural nails have been like mine that have been like crappy and oh my gosh Have they ever been crappy think about a Glass nail file and I'll put the link below. It probably is gonna bring you to miss Melissa M. I'm not too sure If I did it, I don't know. Anyways, I'll put the link below and I got it from Amazon just so You can check them out if you like so it's been crazy since we came home We came home Memorial Day weekend. We went away and went to Bailey's and up in Old Orchard Beach, Maine We had a great trip It was a long weekend. So it wasn't when I think of a vacation I think of somewhere when we go for seven ten days and not have a care in the world That wasn't that type of a trip But we had a long weekend and I still had a lot of cares that I had to take care of But we just had a long long weekend and it was really lovely at up in Old Orchard Beach while we were up in Old Orchard Beach, we did a lot of biking and I have been on a quest for you know sun protection and sunscreen and all that trying to be super diligent and Mainly because of I have most surgery coming up and then I've recently have two other spots that popped up It seems to be the way it goes Which I have not had tested yet. They're putting me on a prescription cream that I'm going to put on those two spots I'm waiting for it to come in because the at the at the drugstore. It was like even Even with the insurance paying for a part of it. It was still astronomical So I ordered something from my from my my dermatologist So that should arrive in a couple of days and put that on these two spots and treat that for four days But anyways long story short I've been really super diligent about trying to protect my skin with sunblock and all that To the point of when I ride my bike I wear a helmet I might look so gorky and deaky, but I have two of these sun Visors that are I think they are 50 SPF Think it's 50 SPF. I have to look it up I have a black one and I have this blue one and I love them. They are so Stinking comfortable. You can put them around your head and you have a little you have you can tie them tighter You can pull a ponytail out. You don't need to put a ponytail above or below But I actually put these on and put the helmet all in sort of picture in here I know I look good geeky weird But that's what they do and it gives me my I have my black one I think in the picture it gives me a ton of shades if I can find a link I will but I believe I bought these in a store And I just don't remember which store but if I can find a link I'll put them I'll put the link in there So I've been wearing those and I've been wearing a ton of sunblock And then because I wear my hair up a lot my bio hair up a lot and my bio hairs very thin I've been struggling with wanting to have like just pull it back and have a ponytail But I get I pull it back and have this little stinky stump and then when I my wraps, right? I have the big wraps that I have this there's too much hair for me to pull a ponytail off And when I buy a ponytail, it's too long too heavy. It just slides out of my hair So I have one long ponytail that I've been thinning and thinning, but I still it's it's too much hair So I took one of the smallest wraps that I have right hair wraps and I maneuvered it so I pulled the elastic out so it's an elastic. I don't know if you guys can see that It's an elastic So I put this in my ponytail and I can wrap it around and I can have it as a ponytail hanging off The back of my hair and I can still if I want to I can still put a claw clip underneath it But I don't need to because this does not weigh down My bio hair and it does not slide out. I just do have to wrap it twice So I don't know how long this is gonna hold on hold up But this is sort of a custom job. I just took a regular the smallest Bun wrap that I could find because there are some that are smaller or lighter And there's some that are more curly or more voluminous and I took the smallest one and I played with it I thinned it. I took some hair out and then I pulled it like this with the wrap and I didn't want to do it I didn't want to take the the elastic off completely But I wanted it to be able to go and wrap around and be like a ponytail I'm super happy with it. Super happy with it. So if I'm riding my bike Whether or not I have this on or not, but if I did have this on in the summer I could just have this like cute little stinking ponytail hanging off the back. I love it So I did that I created that myself But you're wearing the visor under my and I have a really good helmet of a helmet What is it MP3? It's rated really high rating for if you fall and you have a head injury and all that So it was like a little bit concerned if I took a heavy visor and had too much play in my helmet the safety So this is just super thin and of course the visor part doesn't affect the helmet at all But that's what I've been that's what I've been wearing and I I love it So I did that and I'm loving the glass nail files. I just think they're so they're so this so cool I have I Have been under a ton of stress, right? I mean, I know I've been under a ton of stress. It's just been really everything it's been super stressful and You know my most surgery was postponed. It was just be June first. It's been being put It's been postponed. I have a new date June 20th And then I had a concern with a spot on my lip and a spot up here where I had treated before So the dermatologist doesn't think it's basal cancer. It's like a precancerous thing. So the screen It's a prescription That I have coming in and I'm only gets going to spot treat for four days twice a day and what it does It brings it out. It's scaly and then it goes away if there's nothing there Nothing will happen if there's no precancerous or whatever like if I would just put it on a piece of my skin And there was no issue there. Nothing would happen apparently So I'm going to try that for this and then on the 20th I go for my Mohs surgery assuming it does not get postponed of course, that's the worst time for me because my mother-in-law's coming for a visit and Then we have 4th of July, right? I didn't want to go away right before I didn't want to have this done right before 4th of July. I Know that for at least a while I am not going to be able to wear my glasses and I wear reading glasses So, you know, and they're actually bifocals. So I I wear my glasses a lot in my everyday life and Not only to read but to see but I'm not going to be able to wear them because of where the Mohs surgery is going to be so I just didn't want to have to Do it in a very busy time frame in my life beginning of July we have a run a university at work where we where I teach a lot and You know, it's important that I can see what I'm looking at So I'm going to have to adapt Apollo be sitting there with a magnifying glass or something of that nature But it's been crazy. So anyways, I have um, I Know I'm a major major Advocate for CBD now right now. You see everything CBD CBD gummies CBD oil CBD hair stuff, you know CBD is everywhere everywhere Was it last year or two years ago when I first started talking about CBD and YouTube actually took my video down It's still down because they thought it was promoting something That I should have been promoting and I did dispute it. I said, you know what? I'm talking about CBD oil That's it. So anyway, since that time, I've of course experienced a lot more CBD products I buy locally from a Store that sells CBD sleep tincture and I put that in a little bit of water and drink it and that's really really helped Well a little bit ago On the Octoly network. I saw something from a company called Vita Optima the ID a O P T I am a Optima Vita Optima and what they did is they have a bunch of CBD products So this CBD is called a dream CBD and it's a thousand milligrams It's comprised of CBN and CBD oil and it also has something in there called and I'm gonna put you this name I have the paper in front of me Asha Wakanda. Anyways, it is a It is an Indian winter cherry or Indian agensing and it's from an evergreen shrub And it's found in India, Africa and parts of the Middle East Research has shown that this can help normalize Cortisol levels and you know cortisone levels right can really cause a lot of stress if they're out of whack So by normalizing quarter cortisone levels, they are reducing stress responses. So I Was like, oh, you know, because I had heard of that ingredient even though I can't pronounce it I'd heard of it and I've heard about the benefits of it for your cortisone levels for stress So I looked at it and I said hmm. It's got CBD and CBN CBN is an other cannabinoid that you know has a bunch of different therapeutic effects It says there's a ton of research out there, but there's still a lot more to be learned about this So I just thought I'm gonna try it. So I requested it. This was sent to me complimentary from the Octolene network from Vita optima in the Octolene network complimentary in exchange for a review So I got this gosh, you know with Octolene you have to do your reviews in 21 days And sometimes that's really super hard for me, but I got this it's been about two weeks so I'm coming up against the gun and I took this with me camping and now usually I don't have a ton of problems falling asleep camping But I've had a lot of worrying stuff happening So I took it camping. I took it when I came home and it has totally It's a game changer. I for me This has been a super game changer as far as falling asleep It told I could it didn't start like the first few nights. I didn't really feel any difference. I'm like, oh, man You know not gonna work but Slowly it started to I could feel my body starting to adapt to it and adjust to it And I increased my dose slowly you take it you put it under your tongue and you hold it there for 20 or 30 seconds And then you swallow and I could I could really feel it. So anyways, what I'm what I'm saying is this a dream? CBD oil CBN CBD oil and Maybe it's the combination of the ingredients that they have in there But there's a ton of research and what I really like about this too is that you can read their lab results So I'm gonna link of course the octal e information But going further go on to their website read the lab results because that's really the super impressive thing for me So I love this again sent to me complimentary from the octal e network from up from the video Vita Optima Don't say in it right and I really like this I think this is a from and I know we're all different right? I mean you could try this and it might not work for you I know somebody who who tries the gummies you can buy on the counter I cannot think of the name of them now and swears by them, but they don't work for me They never put me to sleep So we all react to products differently, but this has been really cool This has been a game changer for me. So I really like it I'll leave all the information in my my link below so you can read it if you like I do have some empties that I'm gathering and I'll probably do that as a separate video But I just I wanted to do this quick video Hopefully not too much editing because I'm gonna go out and finish a paint job that we're doing But I wanted to share the results of my ponytail because I had mentioned this that I was doing this right now this is a little bit I Typically this is an older piece, but typically the hair is a lot softer This is a little bit on the crunchy side. So I'm gonna give it a little bit of a silicone bath and I'm not too concerned because when I have a ponytail Right, it's not I mean it's it's contained It's not like I want something that's gonna be long and fly away and flow way and you know in slow motion You see the ponytail bounce So my hair is short and so having a smaller Ponytail or something that I modified into a ponytail just seems perfect for me because I haven't been able to find one I find some that are lighter That I could work with but if it's a pure ponytail no matter what I do even the ones with the combs And I have some of those they just pull down on my hair. They're too heavy for my little stinky ponytail so that's that so On my head I have I have a review video out on this and I haven't published it yet But on my head, I think this now granted I have this tucked in behind But I think this is I Think this is awesome. I love the angle of this wig. I love the back And I and you can pull both forward one forward you can wear your sunglasses You can put it under a thizer. I really love this way This is a Henry Margot wig and this is Katie and Katie is I mean really cool. I just love love the stacked chick look of Katie I loved how the neckline is feathered. It's got very very soft bangs It has a little bit of a monofilament. It has monofilament. It has lace front. It's just really a pretty pretty wig I think for synthetic this this is just Throw-and-go so that's what I have on today I've actually worn Katie a couple of times out and about and she's held up super well and she's so cute now She's a little blonder than I like for me So I'm seriously going to look at the colors and see if I can pick this up in another color But this is the color 25 gr In this I'm reading a golden blonde highlighted blend with hints of strawberry, and I think you can see that Now what I did is Let me show you what I did I sprayed her with divine dark petite divine dark Just to try to bring down some of the blonde. It really doesn't change the color much, but that's what I sprayed her with This is a dry shampoo. Sometimes you use this to take out the shine, but the divine dark I think just gives you a little bit more dimension, but I just feel this is a little bit too Blonde for me. So I would really like to you know to Look at this in a darker color because I really like it's got a monofilament great part a little bit of a lace front Fits perfect and Henry Mago. What can you say about Henry Mago? Their lace front is awesome and Henry got Mago makes some awesome products awesome products So this wig was said to me complimentary and you can find her Probably in most retailers. I'm gonna link a few that I know below and Yeah, check her out. I think she's so cute. So anyways, that's it for me. I hope this isn't too long Thank you so much for coming back and joining me. I know I've been not very responsive Just a whole lot of stuff going on Love you all. Thank you