 Good morning. I'm Mary Ellen and I'm here today to do a one-year review of the Omni Lex contour mask. I purchased this a year ago in March and it was, I paid, to get it home to me, I paid $377. It retails for $395 and I used a 10% off. And I've done several videos and I am going to put those at the end of this video and put a link below. I did the 8 week, 16 week and 32 week. So I'm going to try not to put as much information in this video as I did in the others. I'm just going to try to give you my thoughts after using it a year. And I have to say there is nothing that is a must-have in my life, I mean, except for God, but I mean in my family, but I mean as far as things, there is nothing that is a must-have. But this is good enough that I wanted to share this again with you after one year. I had some friends that's eyes are sensitive and I found something that will help and in like the kind of the goggles flying and I'll show you that later. But I think it will be helpful. This is the only device I use on my face with the exception of just the plain derma roller and I've been using this for years. I use this once a week and maybe once a week I will use my Clarisonic just because I still like it. But this is my only gadget because I'm really not a gadget person and my skin is mostly normal. I am 69, I'll be 70 in a few months and my skin, there's been a little dryness in the winter but not much. I don't have sunspots yet. I do not have melasma. I had a tendency for an even color skin, especially redness. I do not have rosacea and I do have fine lines and wrinkles and I've never had any type of procedure, injectable, surgery, laser treatments. I haven't had anything. I'm not opposed to them but I don't want to do that. I just wanted to have my skin be the best it can be, the healthiest it can be for as long as possible. For the first 32 weeks I did not change my skin care at all. I did exactly everything when I was supposed to and use the same items. After 32 weeks I've been changing around a little bit with my water, the morning water that I like, trying to find the perfect one, and a moisturizer in the evening if I need one. But I didn't do any changes the first 32 weeks because I wanted to see what this would do on its own. First of all it is expensive. I told you I paid $3.77 to get it home. I figured out if it lasts two years, which is the guarantee for two years, so I know I will have two years use. If I divide that amount by 24 months that's a little less than $16 a month. If I divide that amount by weeks, 104 weeks, that would be like 350 or so a week. The more popular these become, I am really hoping they go down in price. At some point I will put the specifications of this mask on the screen so you can see the wavelength, the type of bulbs I have. Because what I will do when this after my two years, I will shop around and I'll see if there's something that I like as well that has the same specifications. I don't like it that there is no lights above the lips. I think most women I know they would like to have lights above the lips. I think it could have been made differently and included lights above the lips. This is the inside of the mask. They have a 30 day guarantee and I don't think that's good enough if you try because I don't think anybody, maybe some young people that have a lot of collagen left in their skin, may be able to see a difference. In fact, I've read where people see a difference immediately. I did not. It probably took four to six weeks for me to see any positive changes. I wish that would change. Like I said, the mask is two years guaranteed and the charger is guaranteed for one year and if it goes out it's a $15 charge. I think this should last as long as the mask does. So there's just a few things that I don't like about the mask and I'm now going to tell you my pros. It is comfortable. It is flexible. It has two straps, one that goes here, the other, I mean both of them you can change but it goes behind your neck and it will draw the mask close to your face. It does not get warm and I like that. I wouldn't want anything warm on my face. Several people have asked me if I'm gonna get that. They have a neck and decollete and then hand mask and I looked and the light wave is the exact same on all three and they use the same lights. Each bulb is an infrared and a near-infrared light so there's no need for me to do that. If I cared about my neck I would have put it right here. If I cared about my chest, you know, I do here. I'm not doing that. If you get your hands in here I don't see any reason for me to ever buy the hand any of the extra masks and I don't buy any of the vitamins or any of the masks that you put on before and during the treatment. My charger has been doing great. I still charge it once a week on Fridays. It's just when I charge it because I never use it on the weekend and I use it 10 minutes a day. Clean, dry face, nothing underneath it. Should I need an extra boost later? I know there are things I can use. I know there's teas you can use. There's several things you can use to put on your face but I just want to see how long this is going to keep giving me good results. I started out 10 minutes today, five days a week. The company says there's no proof if it will help using it more will help or not but I just have the routine. I use it on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday and that's what I do and it's just really easy. I'm someone who if I don't do it I can like think oh heck with it I'm not gonna you know. I am a slacker. I truly am a slacker but this has been easy. After I use it 10 minutes I set the timer on my phone for three minutes and I put it on my lips like that because my lips do need it. I think they are just as full if not fuller and I still don't have the lines above my lips so I'm really pleased. Before I purchased this I asked my doctor about using retin A with it because if I had to choose between a red light mask and retin A for me I would have chosen retin A but he said if I did this and did the retin A later that there wouldn't be a problem. There could be a problem with the retin A and then using the mask but you need to do your own research and talk to your own doctors that's what I do. I do my mid-afternoon and I use my retin A at night. What I have seen after using this mask for a year and I am very pleased. I mean I'm a year older than I was when I started this and my skin is better. My 11's are better. My nasolabial folds are better and my marionette lines are better. My skin is plumper. It's smoother. The color is... I have no makeup on today and I haven't done skincare. It's early in the morning and I wanted to film this while the sun was out and it's kind of come in and kind of gone out. I've been sitting here touching my face and I'm somebody if you touch your skin it will get red. I can't believe how smooth the color is on my face. I examine my skin in a 15 times, a floc site 15 times mirror. That's kind of a joke because people have been hearing me talk about that for nine years and I was starting to get some little lines right through here and they're gone. I was starting to get a few little lines right in here you know like when you smile you get those gross feet but like when I quit smiling they're gone and there for a little while they were kind of there so I'm really pleased with it. My skin stays exfoliated. You know I use a cheap wet washcloth in the morning to exfoliate. I shave my face when it's important to and I usually do that every two weeks and I still love shaving my face. It's my favorite thing to do. I have to remember once a month and I do it the first day of every month. I use the dermatology pumpkin enzyme mask and you put this on and you let it get warm and then keep it on for 10 minutes and I really do like it. I started using that when my skin became too sensitive to the ordinary the red AHA 30 BHA 2 I think I'm not sure but I used to use that all the time and then it burnt my face so I just went on to something else. I called around and in our area we don't have anybody who does red light therapy no med spa or dermatologist office a dermatology office is at least an hour away from here 45 minutes to an hour but the price I got for each treatment I mean I it was hard to get a price from people. They'd want to make an appointment at me come over and I said you know I'm not gonna waste your time and waste my time in coming driving for an hour just to find out how much a treatment is and they're anywhere from $50 to $200 and they said that you know you can you may require a lot you may require less. This omni-lex mask is not near as strong as in a dermatologist office but I wouldn't go I would not go if it were free I wouldn't drive an hour sit there and have somebody do something to my face you know I just wouldn't do it. I've been watching some of Dr. Sam Ellis I don't know if you all are familiar with her but I watched her review on the omni-lex mask some time ago and she doesn't use eye covering either and I know there's some people that's eyes are sensitive. You can walk around with this mask on this mask gets charged from right here you plug it in it has a cord I have it in there in the living room and you charge it and you never use it it says don't ever use it while it's charging so I could be walking around if I wanted to I usually just watch television or I close my eyes. I had done a lot of research on using eye coverings with the LED mask and the company omni-lex said there was no need to it met all the regulations but I know there's people that's eyes are sensitive and and they want covering well I had some of these that I had and I know when I bought them I know I bought them when I got the LED lip mask and I had two pairs of them and I cut them I threw those others away I'm not gonna throw these away and I could not get it smooth so I found these from Amazon and they do work they're single and I think they were probably made for something like that and I'll show you how they work so if you're looking for eye protection you can just put these in right here and kind of sit back and use your red light I I think that would work it's something to look into and if they're $5 I've been very happy with the results I have never done a sponsored video I like to buy what I use and then I can tell you the pros and the cons because I think that's really important I did call them after I knew I liked it and asked if I could get a discount code for my viewers and they said yes and they also gave me an affiliate link and I want you to know that if you use that affiliate link and my discount code that I will earn a commission you can use my discount code without the affiliate link you'll get the discount and I won't earn a commission and that's fine with me but I just want you to know that's how that works and this is going to be a giveaway and since this is a giveaway I cannot reply to comments on or questions on this video but you can go to any video that I have uploaded since I've been here and the reason I can't is since I'm gonna be loading all these comments and random comment picker so but all you have to do to be entered in my giveaways is be 18 years older older you don't have to subscribe you don't have to like anything you just have to be over 18 years old and to enter this video you just need to leave a sentence below this video and do you want to know what you're going to be winning last week I did an eye look using one of these palettes and this is what I'm going to have in my giveaway my dear friend Mary from the channel Glitzy Pritzy she did a collaboration with the company Sydney Grace for beautiful eyeshadow palettes it has a mirror and I'm going to go ahead and bend it back but this is called the bless palette and this is the light palette beautiful beautiful eyeshadows great consistency they go on smooth love them this is the light and this is the deep and I will link her video below where you can see the colors in depth I've got one that's kind of named after me in there which is pretty cool so I am going to be giving away six of these palettes I will buy them from Sydney Grace and have them sent to you and in the comment below just use the word light or deep and if you've already purchased this palette I know I can come up with something else but I'm just I am thrilled for Mary I am going to be taking the month of July for off of YouTube and uploading videos I plan to be back by August 13th I will be watching all of the people I normally watch I will leave a thumbs up and an emoji because I've been watching my a lot of the videos from my television and I can't comment there so it is all good I want to thank you so much I appreciate you I will see you in my next video and take care but I think this has been pretty as long as it can I am that the more will be back because if I couldn't if he did not give me but my my cut might