 Hi guys, it's Monica. Thank you so much for joining me in this video. I am going to share with you a couple of things that I have been absolutely loving in January and some of these are not going to be brand new. Some of these are going to be items I've talked about in the past but you know if they if they make my favorites so maybe this is the monthly favorites I'm not too sure but if they they make my favorites if I find myself reaching for them for any length of time and especially if I find myself reaching for them over and over again I know that they are really super super good. So I'm a New England girl as most of you know and we just love our Duncan's and so yes it's January but I love my iced coffee so sometimes Jay and I will make iced coffee at home. We don't have a cold brew set up but we just kind of you know brew it and cool it and all that stuff and it tastes really good but there's nothing like going to Duncan's and getting a large dark roast iced coffee. So yeah I mean really you weren't expecting me to talk about coffee right. One thing that I have really been enjoying tremendously the entire month of January is playing and actually started the tail end of last year. See my hand is still bruised. Anyways I've been playing and playing with eyeshadows and I've been getting more a little bit more daring for me anyways and I've just been loving some of the palettes that I have. Some of the palettes that I've been enjoying a whole lot have been palettes that I've bought that have been gifted to me some from PR some from my beautiful friends but I would say if I had to take one palette and say which which is my favorite that I try to use a little bit of something every day even though it's not a palette that I could say pack and go away with because it wouldn't have enough of the neutral colors that I love but this palette is definitely I love this palette this is Too Faced. I know there's been some controversy over Too Faced and you know all of that stuff but I love this palette this is the them and now and it's to me it's just beautiful beautiful pops of color but like I said there's not enough for me you know really bone colors or super super neutrals to make this a palette that I could just use on my own every single day but like for example today I added two of the plum shades I added Trixie and because I can't read it Trixie and Ice Queen no Trixie and Villain so I added those just on the on a little bit of the outer or an inner just to give myself a little bit more pop but totally on my eyes other than that today is the Tempest Tempest this is from Algae Ego I've mentioned this and shown this in the past so this palette is definitely gone right up there in my favorites I really really like it it is extremely affordable it blends beautifully it stays on my eyes beautifully I love the colors I love everything that I can do with it and I think for this price point the quality of this is amazing I've also been loving this is the Urban Decay Naked Smoky the original one that I have had this quite a while for the longest time I didn't use it because I just found it to be too pigmented and then all of a sudden I said I'm going to go try it again because as your skills get better you find yourself playing with shadows in a different way so this palette I really really like I bought this like I said I really don't know how long ago and then this one I bought under the sort of the directions of Marlene Fab and Glam and I really like this this is the Urban Decay Naked 3 again this is a palette that I bought I have used a number of the colors in here and just to show you how more advanced I am now than I was initially I reach for one of the other palettes to go along with this too dark and I don't know that I'm a smoky person like I go I look at some of the the beautiful women and there's so many of them out there that have that smoky look on their shadows and I really really like that smoky look and Sheila for one has has her shadows are just absolutely beautiful and absolutely she does a great job with a smoky eye and I know a number of others have you know do a lot of smoky eye looks and stuff like that the only thing I haven't yet dug into and I'm really looking forward to this and I'm thinking that I'm going to give this a try because this is this is the Too Faced I got this as a gift I still have the plastic covering over it so I'm thinking as I'm looking at this you get a little bit of a bronzer you know a little bit of a highlight and then you've got some a blush which is more of a mauve color which I really kind of like and then you have a contour and I'm not a big contour person but I'm going to go on a trip and I want to take one palette with me that has everything that I might like and so this is the one that I have been using and really liking a lot and I'm thinking that the browns they're very similar but the highlight in this palette is much prettier I just wish this was not quite as maybe warm colored or whatever if that was a little bit more of a cooler brown but this is the the Visiart and this is the Fairy palette again with the the blush the highlighter and the either contour or bronzer I think it's a contour that's what I've been that's what I've been using it for so I'm going to give this a try just to see how it compares to that but this has been I've been just reaching for this ever since I got this I think I got this in the summertime from Marlene I believe or maybe from Sheila one of them I can't remember now it's terrible but ever since I got this I've been using this like every day so this has been my go to and unless I can get a better brown color this will be what I would pack on a trip when I don't want to bring a whole lot of stuff so I have a number of different shadows and palettes this I've just played with a very little bit this was also a gift this has some really nice colors I really like this these colors in here and this is an absolutely adorable looking palette the gingerbread two faced so I really like it anyways this one the chocolate bonobon this one I've used this a couple of times I haven't really given as much love as I should so I think I'm going to leave this out and try to reach for it all this week and see how I do but I've got a number of palettes that were sent to me that and this is also this is amazing because this is the sea color and look how close they are they're really really close both of these are dupes for the anesthesia sultry palette and I think the the only difference is the shade in the sea color palette is a little bit lighter warmer brown than the one in the temptress alter ego but what an amazing price point they are so I've got a number of palettes that I've been using and probably the z-art for name brand has been my all-time favorite I have huda my huda mob obsession that I've really loved and I just got a dupe for that that's amazing so I've really enjoyed playing with palettes and playing with different eye look I don't know if you can see you know the different eye looks I'm just trying to be really a little bit more creative the other things that I have really enjoyed over and over again and these are the ultra beauty this is the cream eyeshadow and liner I never used this as a liner this is my second one of these and I just really I just really like these this I've already decided can you see the little glow it's giving me for my eyes and this one when I go really smoky I end up using this shade I'm gonna put this next to it just so you can see that's that and that's the more pinky purplish one anyways what I've been doing is I just kind of put this on my eyes just to kind of give me that glow so I love both of these I've been reaching for them all the time they're definitely my favorites and one that I have to replace and this is my this is also ultra beauty and this is the brow highlighter and this is in the matte and you can see I need to sharpen it I really like that sometimes I just go between my lips I just go under here you know to kind of define the cupid's bow a little bit more I really like this and I bought this over and over again and scandalized I don't even know if you can get scandalized anymore from Rimmel this one is kind of really beat I have one in pink that I really really like but more often than not I've been using the white just around the outer parts of my eyes and you have to be careful because if you put it on too hard you get like these white blob sitting there it looks ridiculous so definitely definitely favorites this is sort of like I've tried different concealers under my eyes I have very baggy creepy skin under my eyes and above my eyes so when I wear any kind of a concealer or even my foundation and I go up too high all you can see is my laugh lines my wrinkles this I really like now someone has said to me and I did see it but I didn't buy it physicians formula has a very similar product but this is the Boeing concealer and this is the one and I've won this tech but inside this round rim is a little bit of concealer on the outside is sort of like moisturizing and it feels super super good I just did that here it feels super super good doesn't dry so if I have to do like a spot check or something I use this this lives in my pocket book more often than not this is what I'm reaching for when I have to do any kind of a spot check during the day and I still continue to love the concealer the these oh my god the industrial strength one I love that the best it's in a little pot I use that all the time on my veins so to me that's just been absolutely perfect and then my two cheapy I love love love love my elf pourless putty primer I just keep going to this I just this is like really almost I've hit pan in the middle I'm scraping around the edges I just go to this every day and I love this I love this I love this and then this is still what I've been traveling and grabbing color corrector and you can see I've hit pan in the green I've hit pan in the peach and the yellow and the blue I don't use as much but I do use the peach and the green and I've hit pan so very very affordable products absolutely love them and one of the things that I've recently tried was an eyelid primer I'm not an eyelid primer person but this alter ego this was sent to me along with their two palettes I really like this a lot I put this on and I find that I have I don't have issues with my eye with my eyelids you know like some people have their their eyelids their mascara nothing mascara but their eyeshadows will crease all the time I really don't have those issues with mine because I I don't know maybe my lids are drier but when I put this on it kind of gives it a really nice base and then I put my eyeshadows on and like today when I did my eyeshadow this is all this is all the temptress and then just a little bit of the two faced on the outer edge and then in the center this so that's kind of like you know what I did and this works well so far I have no complaints and again I'm not a a person that uses eye primers in general so I was kind of like really worried about how this was going to to work on me so I really like it a lot and I still am using this essence this is the color corrector but this I use in here I don't really use it on my red veins or anything like that it's very liquidy it's very sheer I just really like it and I use it so those are just like some of my I'm sure there's a ton of other favorites if I really think about it but those are just some of my favorites that I have really really enjoyed and Biltbars you've heard me speak of Biltbars before Biltbars came out with a couple of new flavors this particular one is it's banana network anyways this hands down at the best tasting bar I have loved their banana ones I've loved their coconut ones I loved a few a number of the other ones this is going this has moved into my number one spot I love this flavor and so does Jay and the other new one that they came out with that is peanut butter brownie very very good but to me very very chocolatey it's very very chocolatey but the banana bread that's good the banana cake is awesome so I went to a thrift store and I thought of little Susan little little poet anyways I went to a thrift store and I was by the time you see this the event will either be upcoming or have already happened and so we're going to a wrong 20s I ordered a dress up at the amazon I hated it I hated it it made me look like a sack this very end becoming it was just a long black midi dress you know with flaring out at the waist and so I thought that would hide all your sins and I just didn't like it but I ordered a green shawl see through really kind of really pretty shawl with fringe and all that stuff to go along with it and I put it on and I looked like a joke it was like ludicrous so I found a black dress that I had in my closet sleeveless glitter very straight hugs down which I don't like but it's very long and I can I can either belt it or whatever but I'll probably believe leave it long and so I found that it looks perfect with the the the wrap over it and I'm also going to wear a really silky I've got this like silky black t-shirt quarter so I'm going to put that on underneath it not a t-shirt but a top I'm going to put it on underneath it and then I'm going to have the black literally dress over it and then the shawl with the fringe and the wig I'm going to wear I've realized this is what I think I'm going to wear at this point in time I think I'm going to wear this one because this one is this is Hopper from Envy I've shown this in my my channel before but this is like super super 20s looking you know in the sense that you've got the curls and all that so I think this is what I'm going to wear with the headband that I bought so when I went thrift shopping I ended up finding this really pretty green I'll show it to you here I'll superimpose it you can see it hanging here but there's really pretty string of beads that that has green in it and looks really really nice and then I bought and found these kind of funky earrings that look very 20ish 20 wrong 20s so I'm going to wear that along with the the funky boots let me show you those boots because those boots are now there's the dress these are very bohemian boots I think very bohemian especially with the buttons on the inside so this dress is long and you can see the beads that I got now the pearls that I have here these are pearls that I just had hanging around but these are the ones that I bought at the thrift store and then this is the the feather that I'm going to clip into my hair and put around my head and all that stuff I think it's going to be really cute oh what happened to the earrings oh it dropped them these are the earrings now I took them out I sanitize them see now thrift store right so I sanitize them and I think I think they're going to be absolutely perfect of course this the wig I have on is not the wig I'm going to wear but basically it'll clip in like this go around my head now have that on is that not stinking cute I mean look how cute that is I think it's like it's so cute and it's going to look so good in that wig I could wear this one but I think the bob style of the other wig is just perfect so that brings me to my my final one of my all-time favorites so far has been the ability to explore wigs I have bought wigs I have had wigs sent to me I have wigs I love wigs I don't love I have choppers I have the the buns many of you have seen my hair helpers throughout the whole year so ultimately yes one of my all-time favorites are all the wigs that I have and so much fun that I can have I can almost have almost have perfect hair anytime I really want it this is my Raquel Welch this is editor's pick in the shade um shade cappuccino and this probably has out of all the wigs I have that I own this is probably the fullest probably has the most permatease I love this I love the fluffiness the fullness I love how it flows I just I love it so anyways I I do love the wigs what do you think let me put this on oh lordy lordy anyways whoops so unless I come up with a a different idea for my shoes I think I'm going to wear those boots and just go total bohemian have a total bohemian look and I'm just keep it that way because I think I think that'd be kind of funky and Jay's going to wear tuxedo and we ordered a hat for him not a top hat but another kind of gangstery hat and I'm going to be sort of like a mall and I really debated whether or not to wear the blonde blonde wig or to wear hopper and I think hopper will just look better because the blonde wig is longer and just looks a little bit different so anyways guys I'm sorry I'm going on and on I really thought this was going to be a super short video and here it is long but in my next video hopefully I'll have some photos all done out and you can see oh and I got black gloves lace gloves so I wanted to get a cheesy ring to you know have on my lace gloves so thanks so much for watching guys talk to you later