 Hi guys, it's Monica. I was actually tagged to do this video by Beauty and the Bargain. If you don't know who she is, hop on over to her channel. I'm going to link it below. Now she tagged me and I found this to be an extremely difficult tag to do. She said, imagine if you could only take two beauty items and two skincare items and you were going away and you couldn't buy anything anywhere and you just had to grab those two beauty and those two skincare items. What would they be? I have a pretty solid skincare routine and for me to think about whittling it down to two items is almost near impossible. And the same thing with makeup and it's not going to have a lot of makeup but two items. I found it to be a very difficult question because number one for makeup, I go nowhere without mascara. I've tried a number of different mascaras but my ultimate favorite mascara has always been the It Cosmetics superhero. I love how thick that comes on. I love how it lasts. I love how it just makes my eyes go, whoa, here I am baby, take notice. And I've also tried the L'Oreal lash princess that every, I think it's lash princess that everyone loves but I always go back to my It Cosmetics superhero or what I consider to be, maybe it's not a dupe as far as most people are concerned but for me the measure of a dupe is how does it apply, how long does it last, how easy it is to take off. So I compare it all to the holy grail of my It Superhero and so for me it would be the essence lash princess. These are just a couple of bucks. I think you can get these sometimes on sale at Ulta and you can, I mean you can really but they're also usually the first bin that's sold out of the essence mascara. They have a ton of mascaras but the lash princess especially the false lash effect and if I was going to be thinking about going somewhere and maybe limited budget I would take the essence. Yeah, I would take the essence. So essence mascara black lash princess that's one of my makeup items that I would take if you can believe it. The next one for me I alternate between two foundations that I really, really love. I love, love, love the number seven lift and illuminate. That's just an awesome foundation but it doesn't have the SPF factor that I really like. It's great for me. I wear it but I wear it along with my sunblock and just take a look. I don't even know if you can see my sunblock behind me. So I wear my Australian gold a mineral lotion sunblock every single day but if I was going away somewhere and I could only take two skincare items and two makeup related items I would have to select my old and this is kind of beat up my old it cosmetic CC cream and this is my CC plus cream illumination. It has the 50 SPF. This is I've used I've used this a lot. So if I you know again because I'm only limited to two items and makeup I figure this is going to kill the SPF factor 50 SPF so it's going to just take that right off the list. It'll give me some coverage. It'll give me some color. I probably will be walking around with much more makeup on my face than normal because if I were to just use this I would really, really have to apply it. Again it depends on you know I mean where am I going? She didn't tell me that. She just said I had to select. So for my makeup items the Essence Lash Princess. I really like this mascara and my it CC plus cream and it's the SPF factor. If it was if the SPF factor in my number seven if it would have been the same I would have grabbed the number seven to be honest with you because it just blends the coverage just a little easier for me. It's not as heavy as this. So that's my two makeup items. Now for skin care I hemmed and hot a lot. I mean I really went back and forth. But retina is going to be in there so it wouldn't be a surprise to you that retina is in there. I have three strengths that I have been working on. So it's like if I can only take one of these which one would I take? So I kept thinking well you know if I took my 1% which is what I've been using the most lately and I couldn't take too much other skin care the 1% might be too strong for me. So I decided my best bet would be my 0.05%. I could continue to use this weaker dose every night and be okay with it. I could even go around my eyes like I've been doing. I could even go down into my neck a little bit because I've been actually doing that. Whereas if I took the 1% which is almost all gone guys but I do have my replacement. If I took the 1% I would be much much more limited and if I took the 0.2025 the weakest I don't think it would accomplish what I needed to accomplish. So my 0.05% retina would be the number one skin care item that I would take. My next one this probably won't be a surprise either but and and this you know I went back and forth. Now I don't know how I'm going to be washing my face. I don't know how I'm going to be doing any of the other things I need to do to my face but hey two skin care items I'm going to assume that I can get soap and water wherever I'm going. So my my second skin care item was my bee venom face mask and this is by Lanakream. I will make sure I link this. I've been using this since November of 2016. I use this every night. Sometimes I use it in the morning. It all really depends on my skin but I use this every single night. I don't think I have missed a night. I love this stuff. This stuff has a little bit of a smell I guess but to me it smells really good. I really like this but the problem with this is when you apply it on your face at least for me it stings like all get out and I know I've said that before but so obviously if you're allergic to bees you're probably not going to be taking anything like this but I find this to be all I really need for a moisturizer. Yes I use all my face oils and yes I use a whole bunch of other things but if I had to choose one of my face oils and this this would give me more bang for the buck in that sense meaning that I would get more use out of this cream for a variety of reasons. A number one I do believe it might help stimulate collagen. I do believe it turns over your skin cells. I think it works great with my Retin A application and I think if I was going somewhere I'd be covered during the day with my sunblock because I won't go anywhere without sunblock nowhere. So I would be covered with this. I would have really good looking skin with this. I would have sexy eyelashes at least for me you know sexy eyelashes. I don't know how long my eyelashes would last because I did not take my care pros which is my eyelash growth serum so I would hope that wherever I'm going I might find maybe some black castor oil I don't know anyways but yeah so who knows how long I would have really good long eyelashes if I stopped using the care post but I would still be taking this mascara my It CC cream and my B Venom face mask. I absolutely love this along with my Retin A. Those are my four items Tara. I don't know what I don't know what you've picked. Tara's a little bit younger than I am so I'd be curious to see what her four items are. Oh wow this has been super challenging but super a super super fun tag to do. I'm going to tag three ladies but you know what there are so many wonderful women in our mature community and even the younger gals that if any of you want to do this tag please do and in my description box I have two links for lists for mature women so if you're looking for other women to follow please check out those lists and please help support our mature community. I would truly truly appreciate it and I am going to tag three lovely ladies and if you are not subscribed to them please check out their videos. The first one I'm going to tag is a woman named Sarah and her channel is the retro anti-aging channel. She is what I call a deep deep person. Do you ever meet someone when you say hey wow look at the suns out it's really beautiful. Sarah would be the one that would go yeah it's really beautiful and look how it glistens on the tree and look at how it kisses the grass and the flowers. She is a deep deep person. She uploads on a regular basis. I just really really enjoy her. The second channel I'm tagging is Stephanie Giesen. I know I'm pronouncing her name wrong so I'm going to make sure that all these channels are going to be linked but if you are not following Stephanie please check it out. Stephanie is a newer channel. She's a very small channel. She is a truly beautiful beautiful woman. She works in an oncology department and she just switched her job which she's actually doing some training. When you watch her videos, she always says it's going to be another short video but her videos are actually long. Sorry Stephanie. But when you watch her videos you cannot help but smile throughout the whole video because she just has that infectious I think personality and I think she's one of those women that's beautiful on the outside but more beautiful on the inside you know and you can see her kindness her soul shines through in her eyes and I love that. And the third channel I want to tag is Pauline Just Living. So if you want fun engaging, uplifting it's Pauline's channel. She has an amazing sense of style. She can put something on and just make it look like it is like unbelievably fantastic. She does a lot of do-it-yourself videos and the poor lady is always getting lost. Sometimes I just want to jump in the other side of the camera and help her find her way. She's always getting lost but I love her dearly. So these three ladies showed them some love. Please go over and watch their videos. I hope they do this tag. I really really do because I'm really curious to see what they would bring if they could only bring those four items and I think it would be kind of cool. Can you imagine if we all like sort of met up on a deserted island and we had to share each other's products? Oh, that might be another tag. So anyways, guys, thanks so much for watching and again, please, please, please make sure you like, subscribe to the channel, ring that notification bell and leave a comment. Help us support the mature community. I would truly appreciate it. Have a wonderful day and thanks for watching. Bye, guys.