 Hey guys, it's Monica. Thank you for joining me. I am going to share with you some thoughts about a eyeshadow palette I've been using pretty consistently for the last couple of months and Also give you a quick update on skin care a number of you have asked that What have I been doing and all of that because in one of my previous videos? I talked about the fact that I haven't been doing much of anything. I stopped using Retin-A And all of that so you're curious stay tuned a couple of things that I have been using that I have really really liked a lot and One of them is I'm going to just talk about mascara because I mentioned that I could not find my favorite essence Mascara and so I bought the lash princess by essence. This is the false lash effect this is the black and green tube and I've been using this I think I Don't know it's been like three weeks Something like that And I've been using this every day because I do not there's not a day that goes by that. I don't have mascara on I just I have to have my mascara So I've been using this like every single day and I will tell you that You do have to apply You know like when you put your mascara on I put my mascara on usually before I put my eyeshadow on and then I'll touch my Mascara up afterwards, but I put my mascara on layer layer layer and then I wipe off the residue with oil on a q-tip or something like that and So I put my mascara on while it's all wet I don't let it dry and then go back and reapply so I'm continuously doing it This has worked out really well now granted my eyelashes and not the greatest right now because I have not been using My eyelash serum There's a lot of stuff that I haven't been using the last couple of months which some of you are well aware of so I'm going to be Going back to that. I went to for my my three-month checkup for my mose surgery and Skincare and my surgeon I've gotten this Hitchcock is where I went and had everything done He said I could go back to my regular routine So I'm going to start up with my regular skincare routine again I haven't done that in a while, but I'm going to start all that up but the first thing because my lashes have been so Crappy and I don't I probably I probably would be a lot better for me If I did with false eyelashes because I wouldn't have to worry so much about it But my lashes have been crappy mainly because I stopped really using a lot of the eyelash Serums when I had my dry eye and my dry eye went from one eye to both eyes. So I You know, I have it under control But having the dry eye and then having to do the drops I think of things a little differently when it comes to my eyes So like I don't put anything in my waterline anymore. I'm just really super super cautious with that So I'm going to start up with the eye drops again and see how I do I have the blink eyelash Serum I have been loving that for a long time. It makes my eyelashes really good I really like it so I'm going to start up with that again and hopefully my eyelashes will pick back up It shouldn't take very long to do that, but I will tell you this this If you can't find the essence in the purple and you want to try this go ahead and try it This is just as nice as The one with the purple so I am no longer going to be stuck on Just finding the one in the purple because I have been loving this it holds up. Well, it doesn't it doesn't run It doesn't smudge. It just really is nice. I really really have been loving this so highly recommend it What is it four bucks? It's amazing. So try it. You will like it the other thing and I know this isn't four bucks, but I Think I got this at the outlet store Mac at the outlet store Did I I can't remember where I got it think it was but this is a little cool palette and I think I showed this when I bought this and This is the only palette other than the cream brulee little Wet and wild cream brulee, which I'm all out of and I have to get that I typically use that cream brulee color and I put it all over my lid before I start anything This is the palette. I've been using it's a cool palette I don't know if it's picking it up. It's it's a cool palette. It really it's it's got some really nice It's got a nice dark brown. It's got some other shades of brown has a little bit of mauve and purple I've been using this lighter mauve color one a lot and then this pink or one inside my eye So I've been using this palette an awful lot I know I've not really talked about it other than once but and I keep getting people. Let's say What do you do into your eyes? You know, sometimes I try to do a real dramatic look and I'll post a picture on Facebook But other times I just kind of go for more subtle look but more often than not my Vizia Amethyst palette is my favorite. I am like Nurturing that palette, but this is my second favorite. I am really enjoying the cool tones in this palette from Mac I love the colors. I love how it blends. It is however More pigmented than my Amethyst palette So I have to be careful when I apply it although over the course of time I've gotten a lot better with it I can blend better than in the beginning when I first started doing a lot of eyeshadows And I had such a hard time with pigmented colors So I've been revisiting a lot of other palettes that I have that I haven't used that much because they Were so pigmented because I think my skills are better So I'm going to be playing around with more palettes and I know some of you always say, oh do it get ready with me I'm going to think about doing and get ready with me I just need to set up and figure out how to do it so I can see what I'm doing Film at the same time and not make it so super super boring But this I have really really been liking an awful lot And update on my cave Diablo. I have the other one is in the motorhome. I bought two of these watch bands and They go for my Apple watch and they are a Company that this these are handmade basically so they're not like this mass production They're all a little bit different, but I love it. You can pick the stones. You want the design you want I really love this You do have to be careful when you wrap this on your Apple watch because you need to wrap it the right way So that your Apple your watch if you're using it for an Apple watch Stays connected to the skin so that it can read all your health benefits type of thing But I am loving this so wanted to give you an update on that I'm probably I'm going to order myself another one. That's how much I like it because I thought they were just so pretty and Yeah, they're pricey, but you know I love them. So what can I say? Yeah So if you've been on the fence and you've seen those ads Cape Diablo, I would definitely do it I also got and this is on my GoPro. So I'm not going to take it off my GoPro But I also got this and hold it this way this funky looking adapter To put on my bike so the screws in and then tightens up on the handlebars So for those of you that watched my video, I was having a problem keeping my GoPro because I had it clipped to my front Basket, I was having a problem keeping it steady. So I ended buying this contraption Which I think will work really good and it'll keep my GoPro on my bike Basket when I'm going to be riding because a lot of people like to watch the bike rides Maybe not every single one of you but a lot of people do I also I've been posting the longer bike Type videos on my real estate channel on YouTube so that it doesn't really, you know Kind of mess up with the people that just want to watch for beauty Anyways, after I had my eye issue this year Then I had ear surgery in an air surgery and then I had my most surgery So during when my eyes were really bad I tapered off of retin A even though my eye doctor didn't think it had anything to do with it But I tapered it off anyways because I want to experiment myself. I didn't see any difference I didn't see any difference. In fact, my eyes got worse. All right It's got nothing to do with the retin A but I'm just saying I went from having one eye for one whole year to having two eyes Being being affected, of course, we all have two eyes that sounded really weird But you know what I mean being affected by the dry eye So I tape it off on my retin A the only thing that I was using was washing my skin More often than not I use the DHC oil or I have in the motor home I forgot I have one that I picked up at the drugstore that I like almost just as much So I will take my makeup off and then I will use my peaches Cleanser and system, which I really like I love the exfoliating and I love their their soap. I use that and Then I will do an essence of some sorts and I have a couple of different essence that I was using Stop using anything that had like glycolic acid in it. I stopped using this I stopped doing a whole lot When I had my surgery first of all Pride of my surgery. I you know, I didn't want to do anything to make the spot worse If that if that makes sense. I was really paranoid about it So at 68 I was really nervous about not using my retin A but I haven't really used retin A and In a while so when I was at my follow-up I asked the surgeon. I said can I go back? To using retin A and he said yes He said, you know, you can do everything that you would normally have put on that area now It's gonna take like right now. I'm still swollen. I've been swollen more so, you know here in my cheek. You can see it I'm swollen. That's gonna take a long time. I had a number of internal stitches That's gonna take a long time internally because I still feel a pull and stuff like that But externally I'm healed pretty well now granted It's still I still have a little bit of a split in my scar. The scar is still coming together and But nothing's open. Nothing can be irritated. So he said go ahead and do your normal skin care So I'm gonna be going back and it's not up with my retin A I probably won't be putting it on top of my scar for a while But you know putting it on my nose and my cheeks and you know up around on my forehead and all that And this stop with three days a week. I'm gonna do that. I have been using My for you, you know for cleansing and because I have to massage my scar area I've been actually using my for you on my scar area to help massage it as well very very lightly So I've been using my for you again and my fubushi. I like my fubushi So I've been starting to use my fubushi again all of these things. I tapered off I dropped off with because of my my surgery and But now we said no go back to your normal skin kill skin care routine I'm gonna continue to use the scar gel obviously on my my scar and I have to be super super diligent about Sun protection that's gonna be a big big thing for me for quite a while is sun protection But I'm super excited. So yeah, I'm gonna start up my normal routine I'll let you all know how it goes. But right now. That's You know, that's all I've been doing. I am loving I think I in my previous video. I talked about the phone the Ferrara Products and I've absolutely been loving that the the products especially the concealer the concealers are just awesome So I love that. I think my skin other than my scar I think my skin has been doing really well. So I'm super super happy with that and I'm hoping that next time I do a bike ride this contraption I bought holds up on my head because I know I know sometimes I never mention it on my head is Awake that I haven't really won in a while and this used to be Jay's favorite But I always feel that this is like kind of dressy, you know when I wear this but this is Raquel Welch's editor's pick and And I really love this this particular one was actually gifted to me from Molly Ninshila. This is the hand-tied version and Oh my gosh, I love it now I'll wear this sometimes when I put my hair up if I'm going to some place special a special event It's a lot of hair for me When you don't have as much hair. So when I put this on I'm like a wrong You know, but I love this look. I think this look is really awesome. So other than that Oh, yeah, someone said do a nail care video I I don't do anything to my nails. I have just been filing them with a glass file very very gently and I think my collagen I you know, they're all different. They're all different lengths. I should file them all equally. They're really bad right now But I think the collagen that I take every morning and every night has Really helped my nails. It's helped my hair. Although not that much It's helped my skin and I also think it's probably contributed to how quickly I was able to heal from my scarring From the scour on my surgery because even when I went for the follow-up, they were like, wow, look at you You know, I know when they were taking pictures She goes, you want to see what you look like when you were last in here and I said, yeah, I've got a picture of it She was this unbelievable the difference in you So it made me feel really really good, but I'm gonna get back on my routine Get back on my NT aging aging gracefully That's what I'm gonna be doing aging gracefully. Thank you so much for watching. Bye guys