 Hey guys, it's Monica. Thank you so much for joining me. Oh My gosh, I wish I could say I've got a ton of stuff to to talk about but I don't I did do a little kind of like for me A mini haul because I really haven't done a whole lot of shopping. So I'm taking up a couple of things at the cosmetic company store and A few other different things. So and I'm gonna just give you an update on what's been happening with my My surgery my scar. So if you're curious Stay tuned at the time of this filming. It will have been a month four weeks Since I've had my most surgery and I think that even though when I look in the mirror Especially, you know, when I'm washing my face and all that and I see the scar quite vividly I'm still very swollen and when I say that I'm swollen all under here. It's very hard to the touch My eye under my eye is still swollen. It's not puffy swollen as much at all Sometimes in the morning, it looks worse with the swelling and then as the course of the day goes on The swelling goes down. So I've been using the scaraway gel the hardest thing for me and When I wash my face It just it It just grosses me out to look at my scar to look at it. So when I wash my face, they usually take my I Makeup off. I've been using all perfect time to talk about this, right? So I've been I've been using the the deep cleansing oil from DHC and I really have liked it and I have bought it a couple of times and It's pricey so even on Amazon So I wanted to try the Burt's bees cleansing oil Which is a little bit more. I'm not too sure if you know if you're into into all of the The different things like cruelty free or all that I don't I don't really know the status of this I would have to really look it up but It's a lot more affordable than this. So I wanted to try it I wanted to see how it would do and I figured well worst-case scenario I could pack it in my motorhome type of thing, right? Well, I've been using it. I really like it I I I can't tell you a difference one night I did one eye and the other eye with this. I couldn't really tell a difference. They both kind of really cleaned My eye makeup off really nicely. The Burt's bees had a slight scent to it Not overwhelming not harsh nothing like that So that would probably be the biggest difference, but other than that it took my mascara off I took everything off the same amount of degree that the the DHC cleansing bomb The cleansing oil has and I really like using an oil to get all of that off so bought this quite I Think maybe $18 $17 and because I bought it in Walgreens I often have Walgreens points and sometimes it's by one get another half off, etc So I'm always watching the sales on Walgreens. So I bought it. I really so far really like it So it's going to go camping with me in the motorhome the other thing that I have bought repeatedly and Is I buy the members mark? makeup removers And it comes in these are cleansing towel lats to removes waterproof mascara all of that stuff. It has a very I think it has a very sun very light scent very soothing hardly at all I don't notice it at all. It's but it's really nice. I really enjoy this and Extremely affordable. So I have several little packages. It comes in you know comes in this big box and they're all like these little little packages and I really like it So I use this I use the oil and Then I use one of the wet ones right, you know, and I wipe it off and then I'll wash and then I'll wash with my regular cleanser Which is peaches, but I'm not I don't bring my peaches cleanser on top of my scar yet. It's just It just the idea of that just really Freaks me out. So that's what I've been doing really really like the way that I've been cleansing So I go around everything with my peaches then I do some gentle, you know If I have to exfoliation on the rest of my skin, but I've been doing nothing on my scar about washing cleansing Then doing this the silicone scour away I have ordered another silicone scour away that Sheila had told me that has an SPF factor in in it I haven't got it in yet at the time of this recording I don't know when you're gonna see this but at the time of this recording it has not come in yet So I have been just on a mission, right with trying to keep my skin protected My face protected so I'm loving the fact that we have all these large sunglasses that you can get I just ordered these And I can wear the sunglasses without really bothering me because I can sit them low on my nose and then I cut these from Amazon. I think these are stinking cute. I really like them and But I can wear them low on the bridge of my nose and then I have my my you know regular hats So many of you have commented when I wear a hat They would you really like some of the hats on me This is the one that I wear the most because it's the flat back and I can I can wear it driving I can wear it when Jay and I are going somewhere Right now I have a banana clip in my hair. So it doesn't really work that well, but you know, and then I can put my My My sunglasses and I do feel that I'm sort of kind of protected a little bit, but my hat My visors now my visors in my hat are 50 SPF or 50 I don't know if it's SPF when it's closed. It's another it's named something else But I look for the sun protection. I think it's called UPF I think it's called UPF So and this one is a 50 plus and and I have some that are 30 I've some that are a lot less, but I've been wearing a lot of visors I like the visors because if you are going out somewhere and you have a visor if You are going out somewhere and you have a visor on your head and you take it off you don't tend to have all the Hat hair that everything else has these two I bought last year. These are also with the sun protection For clothing and I'm not too sure if this is the 50 or the 30 It's 50. I just thought these are really pretty. I like the I like very much the Little ribbon What I wish I had this year was that this was a broader brim Because it really doesn't cover my face as much as it should cover, but I love the look I love the little bows the little whatever but I bought these last year This was before I knew I was gonna have mows surgery or anything anything like that So but now it's like the bigger broad were in the half now what I really need to focus on I also ended up buying. I Don't know. These are sketches. These are machine wash of all. I wanted a closed Slip-on, you know a closed-toe slip-on that I could wear riding my bike and I'm gonna see how they work. I don't know how good they'll be Technically for riding my bike, but I figured they'll give me a little bit more protection Then if I'm wearing my t-shirt sandals because sometimes with the open sandals, you know The toes can get hit on your pedals and can scrape yourself up So I bought those for my bike ride. We are going to at one point We're gonna be going up to Bar Harbor, Maine, and we're gonna be camping up there This is where we camp every year in August and we love it up there So you'll stop to see some pictures and some different things from Bar Harbor, Maine So I'm trying to be as proactive as possible. I want to be able to ride my bike I already know which bike I'm bringing and I want to make sure that I have plenty of sun protection I have ordered and I got the new super goop and I talked about this in my last video This has been working really well for me. I have been trying to find the dupe for this That Trader Joe's has but they're sold out everywhere. So I am still using the super goop so far this year And the fact that it is that almost siliconey feel on my face like a primer This has been a huge huge hit. I put my scour away on I let my scour away dry Then I put my sunblock on I put my super goop on just go right over the whole the whole scar It just like freaks me out. It's like, oh my gosh, it does it freaks me out put it I just put it right all over that and And then I let that dry and then I haven't really been putting anything on top of it for a foundation Because I've just been I don't know. I just get a little weird weirded out about it So I've been wearing the SD lot or the Lancome Those are the ones that I have right now. I would have always said that the SD lot or I think is my favorite It gives me full coverage if I wanted I can build it. I can take it down I can you know do an awful lot with it covers my veins, which I really like So I've been I just use a very light foundation. I don't don't use a whole lot of it I put a couple of dabs on my face and then I might have some on my hands that I use lately I've been using a brush and so I brush it in and then the last dab I Go over my scar just a little to kind of like neutralize. Maybe the bold redness. I'm just really freaky about it Anyways, the last year Maybe even a year and a half right my Estee Lauder. I this last one. I bought I had to buy in in Sephora But every time I've gone to the cosmetic company store and there's like three of them near me or closer to me Then you know like within an hour right all these cosmetic company stores Maybe time I've gone they have not had my color and that's usually where I get my Estee Lauder foundation because it's so much cheaper Anyways, I on a lark. I was up in the lakes region with the co-worker of mine and I said, oh, you know She goes, let's go in. I said, they're not gonna have it, but let's go in. Oh my gosh I could not believe it. There were two of my shade on the shelf pebble I grabbed both of them. I couldn't believe it and they I think everything was 40 40% off and I had a coupon and I paid For two for two bottles of this and I got a lipstick I'm trying to go a little bit darker For two bottles, I paid less than I would have paid for one forty I can't really see forty forty dollars forty two dollars. I think for both of them and And and I was just so I mean I would have bought three or four if they have them right because To to buy, you know for twenty dollars twenty one dollars or something ultimately for my Estee Lauder Is to me a big savings so and I really do like this so I get my back up in my back up I'm all so happy because of this and to buy it Sephora and even though I had a it was a coupon sale, too It was still a lot. Oh a lot more money. So I got that and then I went to try a lip balm So anyway, so I got this Mac lipstick. I Can't read it. I know my glasses so I'll leave the name down below and I thought it was I thought it might work for me But it's it's actually too dark for me So I have it on now. I have a I have a neutral topper on which is I'm almost out of this This is the Rimmel Katie look at it. Got hardly anything left in that That's like my favorite nude so About this I do need to keep it topped with my nude because other than that I think it's just Too dark for me. I I'm just a light lipstick gal So I got that anyways, and I'm trying to get used to darker lipstick So I don't look so so terribly washed out So I got that and I got the two SD lotters I was so so happy and then I also I love the wall flowers. Do you guys use the wall flowers? This is the body works Sometimes they're on sale really awesome and sometimes usually the best sales you can get to these are like Right around between Thanksgiving and Christmas while they had a sale a couple of weeks ago I bought like 20 of them. They were so stinking cheap. I couldn't believe it. I love these I have a couple of the little the little ones you plug it into I love the sense of them So I go in there and I smell and I go I like this one. I like that one Well, I ended up buying like 20 of them and I got a couple of their their foaming hand soaps Which is my my basic my favorites. So Yeah, I mean other than just trying to maintain my scarf and Keep myself covered up. Gosh as much as I possibly can. I That's really what I'm doing. I'm working. I'm start trying to Loose weight have any of you seen Marlene Fab and glam. Oh my gosh, if you haven't watched her video late, you should go check out her latest video She's like down 90 pounds. She looks absolutely Phenomenal absolutely phenomenal. I am so envious. She looks beautiful. Oh my gosh Anyways, she's been doing the Weight Watcher. So I have not I've not I don't think I would be successful on that But I have not tried anything quite seriously other than to just cut my calories and be a little bit more active Well, obviously, that's not working too well for me But anyways, so that's it a little bit of this a little bit of that a little bit of a haul If you have a cosmetics company stored near you and you're an SD lot of girl They have all sorts of other brands. They have Mac. They have Tom Ford clinic clinic Bobby Brown Smashbox Smashbox. Yeah, and I mean they really do carry a ton of different cosmetics But it's hit or miss whether you're gonna get your shade and like I said, I've gone several times and my shade has been gone So I was Stinking so happy. This is so happy to be able to get that Oh, and I also want to tell you I have been still using the Ferrera This is that the neck cream that I did the review on they sent this to me complimentary via the octaline network I also ordered their concealer So I'm really hoping when the concealer comes in before I leave town because I want to be able to see how it how It covers my scar the biggest thing for my scar is sunblock. Yes, that's the biggest issue I have to keep it covered sunblock sunblock sunblock, but anyways this stuff I mentioned that I just started to use it. I really like this and it makes for some reason It makes my neck feel really supple really good. So I'm super thrilled with this so far. I really am and Yeah, I like it I Really do I like it. I think my neck looks for an old lady, you know, I think my neck looks okay It's not going to be perfect. I'm 68. I don't expect to be perfect But you know that that I really have enjoyed and I know I mentioned those glass nail files to you guys, but seriously Seriously, I still don't have any polish and I know I'm letting my nails You know kind of like get get healthy and all that between my collagen and my nail files My nails have been awesome. They're strong. They're hotly breaking the files that I love the glass nail files I love the glass nail. They're just really awesome. So anyways, that's it for me and I'll see you in my next video. Thank you so much for all your support Be sure to like the video leave me a comment and if you're new don't forget to subscribe