 Good morning, I'm Mary Ellen and today I am just really basically going to be chatting with you I'm not going to be talking about anything I purchased. I did receive something I literally want to share with you and I just might do a little venting and I hope you understand With all that being said happy October. It is my most favorite month of the year I am filming this the Wednesday before it goes up this next Sunday And right now our weather isn't cool yet But I heard a rumor that it is supposed to be getting cooler And I love it My most favorite time of year is when you get up and you need to throw something over your shoulders And when you go out you need to put a jacket or a sweater on it is just my Most favorite time of the year it pleases me so much when the Humidities down and the dew point is low. So anyway What I want to talk about first is something that I received from BK beauty. It's Absolutely wonderful. You all know that I watch Lisa J makeup and I think the world of her She has a wonderful company a fabulous mission and she donates a Percentage all the time to the kindness campaign be kind beauty. It's what it stood for BK beauty Well Angie from the channel hot and flashy did another Collaboration with Lisa and what she did was a travel set. I'm not gonna touch any of the brushes that are in here I'm not gonna touch them. I already own these brushes and I'll show you after I talk about them I'll show you the ones that I own but it comes in a pouch like this. You just zip it up and You can set this on your counter But why she did this a lot of people need her needed short handle brushes and they like a travel set Well, there's a place to slip every brush in here and you can add more Angie chose the five brushes that she thinks are the most important. This is the 101 I call it the foundation brush. It's the only brush. I've ever used that. I like to put on foundation or powder Pat well, I've kind of liked a few others for powder, but not for foundation. I've always used my finger So I really do like this brush. The next brush is the concealer brush I I own two of them all the brushes that I that I own I purchased myself Because if I don't purchase it myself I put a little star by it in my show more section and I had just found that I do better Giving you my most honest opinion if I put my own money behind it Because I know I found out early that if somebody sends me something I am not as likely to point out what I don't like about it So that's why I have purchased things like all the brushes because well I haven't found anything negative yet except for some of them are kind of expensive like this set sells for $130 and I do have a discount code At 10% off but a lot of times you'll find something better if you click on my link and you go and she has a sale You can always put in the other code that is better And then the next brush is the 501 shader brush And that's the one that I use today to put on just the eyeshadow that's on my lead And then when you turn it around this is the angled blush brush You can use it for so many things other than blush And I think it's 501 and the next one is the crease shader now I'm going to show you what I have these are the same brushes They're not short and this is a basic link. They come in when I said I did my eye shadow today This is when the shader I just went right in here and Gently put a brown color in my crease and then I just kind of brought it up And I you can just kind of work it in and blend it in They're so easy. This is perfect if you want to like contour, which you know, I don't do that or Highlight well, I have a little bit of highlighter on my cheeks today But I didn't want to touch the brushes that I'm gonna give away and I'll talk about that later in the video But when I was when I bought this home I was 38 years old and at that time when I was washing my brushes, which I did not wash them as much as I Needed to I never would have washed a brush before I used it and now no matter who makes the brush Before I use it. I cleanse it But when I moved here what I remember doing is what I would put my brushes in a I think what I used was the Tupperware cell re-container. I put hot sudsy water. I put my brushes in them I'd let them soak and then I'd rinse them off and and a lot of times My brushes didn't last too long Well since I learned and it was after I moved in here long before I knew YouTube. I was probably 39 years old I was reading something in a magazine about brushes and it said you should never get this area wet Because that is where there's glue down here that holds the brushes in and other things But if you keep from getting the water beneath this area your brushes will last a long time So what I do I and I'm not saying I am right or I am wrong and this is the brush I used I have on powder foundation today. I think it's a Laura Geller But what I do I wouldn't be in a hurry to go wash this, you know, I'll wash it In a week and two weeks But when I wash it what I'll do is I'll just run it under the faucet and I put it on my soap I have soap. I have a something that lifts the soap a soap lifter and a little tray But I just take the soap out put this under the sink work this in and I have the big Things to you know to do this with but all I ever need because I never have a ton of brushes is I use this and It could not be easier. I'll start with this and run it under water get it like that Things along this side and then what I do is I make sure you know kind of squeeze the water out and I just lie it on My counter on a towel and let this hang off and I've never had any problems with it whatsoever I also use like if there's a little bit of shampoo to left. I'll put a little water in with it and Put some in a bowl and do the same. I mean I or facial cleanser But what I do I don't want to make it a big job But if I would use this for liquid foundation I would go in and clean it more quickly probably if I used it a couple of times I'd go in run it under water get the soap on it rub it on this and It would be fine and it dries overnight. So It's just it's my slacker ways it really is because if I keep up with it and I started doing that with eyeliner brushes because I like to gel eyeliner and I still like gel eyeliner But if you don't get that off right away, it's work and if you go right away and do it It's not work Lisa's brushes are synthetic But the way they are cut and the fiber that she used makes me not want to use any of my real hair Makeup brushes because they take a lot more trouble and with those if you have them like dawn and a little olive oil or Yeah, olive oil is what I used usually used to use and a little water and clean them just the same way But that you've got to reform them You've got to you really need to have brush guards to bring it back into shape And they're just a little bit harder and yeah, you know me But I don't think I'll ever need another brush the rest of my life and even if I was 40 I believe these brushes will last me forever and a lot of the brushes you can buy one at a time But my hero brushes that are my heroes are is this brush? You've heard me speak about this. You can see a little powder. I don't use concealer I use powder and I use this and I go right here and go underneath there just with powder and Occasionally Maybe once a month. I might use that pixie corrector. It's in a little jar It's been around forever, but it does a real good job if I'm extra tired of so it does I will use another one. I have two of these so that's the one I will use for cream I keep this separate. I keep this in the drawer that I have powder So I only use this for powder. Well, here is my venting. I cannot tell you how hard It is for me To film a video the actual sitting here and filming the video is not hard What is hard is editing I am so Critical of myself. It's the only time. I'm really truly not a perfectionist I always have 21 seconds of bloopers at the end But what I what you don't know, there's probably 20 minutes that I screw up I will lose my train of thought. I get so sick of hearing myself speak I hate it when I make a mistake and it makes the grammar wrong Also, a lot of times when I make a mistake I'll be like talking and my voice will be going up instead of like, you know We were taught at the end of a sentence your vote voice goes down And I just don't like all that stuff all the mistakes I've made but I am going to continue to make YouTube videos because even though it's really really hard It's not hard to talk about what I want to talk about again. It is in doing the editing listening to yourself seeing yourself being Hypercritical and I shouldn't be hypercritical. Do you know? This is the last video you will see that I will still be in my 60s and I am so excited to turn 70 and that is later this month And I've got quite a few of you that are turning 70 and October birthdays also So that's another reason I like October But I I think no matter when my birthday would fall it would be in October So it's time for me to not be so critical of myself And I want to ask you all something and this may sound so petty But when I was growing up You use the word often like Soften if you said often I mean I got corrected and nuns would correct me my mother would correct me if you would say these ones Oh My gosh, I mean and when I first heard somebody say this was gifted to me that a gift It was always a noun it was not a verb and I still can't say This was gifted to me. This was given to me it was a gift and I used to do that oxily a long time ago and I would I did like doing that because They truly wanted your opinion and I could give the pros and the cons But they wanted you to use in your dialogue. This was gifted to me By the company via the Octoly network. Okay, and I wouldn't do it I put I would put this was given to me and because I had to use the word gifted. I just thought heck with them I'm not good. I don't want anything and I haven't taken anything From them for years and oh my gosh, I can't believe I'm just venting here, but anyway, I'm gonna keep filming I'm gonna keep trying to not be as hard on myself And if you're still here, this is gonna be a giveaway and what I'm gonna give away is the beautiful set of travel brushes Made by BK beauty in collaboration with Angie hot and flashy and I'll make sure I put their channels below I'm sure you know both of them and since it's October. I'm also gonna have two $100 e-gift cards or deposits to your PayPal account. I never know where my Winners are from and a lot of times when they're from out of the country It's a little bit challenging, but sometimes I've said and if you're out of the country will work something out well who talks see one and she's from Australia and So I thought oh my gosh, how am I what am I gonna get a gift card because it's not as easy to do as what you would think and She opened up a PayPal and I tell you I went right to my PayPal I put it in a hundred dollars and All that you need is just the email address PayPal is so simple I've had it for like 25 years when it first came out and I love it and It calculated US dollars to Australian dollars And she got it just like that. It was wonderful and she was surprised how easy it was to set up a PayPal account But on the two $100 winners, it can be a gift card. It can be PayPal. I Might even do Venmo. I know how to do it and because this is a giveaway I cannot reply to any comments underneath this video But as you know if you go to any of my videos I always have some listed below or you can just look up Mary on after 60 and go to any video except for this one and Ask me what you need to ask me or tell me what you need to tell me and you know, I'll get back to you I've had some wonderful conversations with people back and forth and I've always gotten back to everybody I'm behind on my last replies, but I will get them done. I Always close my giveaways After the third day, I put at the very top give away closed And then I will put the name all the names in the comment picker So I know You know 11 days before I upload my next video who won I'm planning on announcing the winners on October 22nd If by some chance, I don't upload a video on October 22nd And I should I should be able to I will on November the 5th I think it is it's two weeks from them So what do I want you to do in order to I know what I'd really like to do Okay If you're interested in Angie's brushes in your comment below in a sentence just use the word brush and if you're interested in the gift cards or deposit just use the word cash and If any of you have a favorite saying that you use on a frequent basis I'd love to hear it because I'll tell you what a couple of mine are a stitch in time saves nine Idleness is the devil's workshop. Those are two of mine that I use a lot and that stitch in time saves nine I think that should be probably written on my team stone. I Want to thank you all for hanging in with me. I know I mean, I know I have not been Spot on especially the last couple of years It's just been a little bit harder, but I'm gonna keep doing hard stuff. So it is all good I appreciate you and I Don't know what else to say. I just think you're awesome. I will see you in my next video and take care And I might It's not like greasy. So I'm a huge fan. I just think you're awesome to hang in As a rule, I don't know use my truck and It is not it So but I still It's a