 Hi guys, it's Monica. Thank you so much for joining me. I Filmed I don't know if I'm gonna use it, but I filmed a sort of a I Just don't have the settings the setup I should say to really do or get ready with me, but I tried to do one in my bathroom So I'm gonna superimpose that so you can see what I did to my face this morning I am like so far behind on a ton of stuff But I wanted to record this video really quick and share my week with you I went to the oncologist. I had guests and I thought I would show a little bit of how I created Sort of my everyday log. I probably look like an idiot because I haven't really been able to You know play with it because normally I play with my makeup until I get to the point where I think it's blended Good and I like it and it takes me a while, right? So even after I'm somewhat done I'm still doing what I'm doing now. I'm blending out. I'm trying to make sure that the colors are at least somewhat equal Which oftentimes they really not but anyways J and I okay, so if you're interested to stay tuned intro So anyways J and I had We had guests this past weekend. So that's why I'm a little bit behind on a lot of this stuff but we had guests this past weekend and It was I mean these these are folks that we see every year. They come up from Maryland They spend two days camping in our yard They have their own RV and then they head on up to Bar Harbor and then in August we meet up with them Which is what we we've done. I don't know has it been 15 20 years that we've been doing this Probably closer to 20. Anyways, so Bill and Ada, they're older than us But they're super nice people and we met them when we first started camping up in up in Bar Harbor actually and Super helpful people and we just kind of you know, they kind of adopted us I guess if you want to call it that way so Anyways, they came up and as we always do and I didn't take a picture this time But typically we go out with our other friends Mike and Judy who also can't and we normally go to Chinese food Which we did and I normally take a group photo, which we did which I didn't do but Saturday yesterday the humidity had broken it was just super super nice out and it was awesome and We ended up going up to Portsmouth We made an early reservation because that's really the only way you're going to be able to get into any of those Places in Portsmouth is having an early reservation. So I made an early reservation and We ended up going to the deck restaurants and a superimpose some photos here we ended up going to the deck restaurant and Martin Gilwath and it was really I was really awesome It's the first time we were able to take Bill and Ada there and for them to go out on the deck and and Enjoy the views of the Pisa Carquate aqua river I always say it wrong when a superimpose the name of the river which goes out to the mouth of the ocean Portsmouth is just really an awesome in awesome Town I would love to live in Portsmouth. I'm blessed that I'm close enough that we can go visit whenever we want But I would love to live in Portsmouth. It's a walking community It's got so many different shops. It's so many different restaurants Got the nautical feel because it's on the river. It's at the mouth of the Atlantic It's just an awesome awesome community So if I ever were to sell and buy and afford to buy in Portsmouth because you know the old saying So I don't like the way my wrinkles look in here sell sell high by low, right? So Not gonna buy right now But anyways, I would love to live in Portsmouth and as you can see from the photos We just had a really lovely relaxing Relaxing time and then we came home and they left just a little bit ago So I decided I was going to talk a little bit about my week But I'm in a superimpose right now so you can see a little bit of my sort of get ready with me And all I have on in the beginning here is I've done my skin care with the exception is I have not done my my Fubushi and this is a This is just a dude a dupe for the new face It works the same you get the micro current and I usually really focus in on where my skin my face is The most droopy and I've only been using this for two weeks again because I stopped a lot of stuff and came back on So I've been using my new face gel Although I have aloe vera gel that I use as well as a conducting gel and then so you can see I'm just doing using this I love this. It's a fraction of the price of the new face device. It works just as good I am I don't even know if you can still get it But if I if I can I'll link it for you But so I I put that on and I have been using a Supergoop I've been using super goop the unseen which you know you can buy anywhere, but it is very very pricey But in my empty here I have the trader Joe's and I I always cut them to get everything out, you know, because there's So much product in there that you just can't even get out so I have that in there and I is in my empties. I really love it But it is a perfect dupe and much much more affordable than the super goop unseen but it the super goop and the trader Joe's works phenomenal with my foundation which I which to me is really really important and So I have all of that on in my sunscreen and then I I typically I've already done my mascara, but then I typically start to play with my With my eyeshadows and I have a combination of the altar little altar things and some of my Visiat in here. This is kind of dirty. I'm just gonna show you this is sort of like my own little my own little palette that I made and And then I use a combination of brushes, you know I do love my my Sigma for my crease. I love this. I also use the Sigma. I've got to this one was sent to me from Mary glitzy fritzy But I have two Sigma brushes that I use to to blend So these are probably my three favorite and then I just have I just have a few others That I really really like this is is this Sonya Sonya G I have a number of brushes that I really like So I started with the all over a lightest shade of a bone or neutral all over And then because I've already get my mascara on you can see here I'm just kind of building a little bit of the color the foundation the base and then working in the darker into what I believe to be my creative crease created crease because I really don't have one and Then I I have to look at myself a couple of times because I can tell I've got more of a point here So I can tell I have to blend a little bit more but I Try I do one eye and then I do the other eye and then I go back and I go back and forth I cannot complete one eye and then go to the other eye I just can't I just cannot do that So I did that and I'm gonna let this this place so you can see a little bit of it I have no foundation on nothing, but my sunblock at this point in time. So my my skin looks pretty pretty sad I had my oncologist visit this week and That that was interesting because what She has decided to do is to put me on medication Because of my risk factor. This was my second lumbeck to me And even though it was pre cancer not cancer It had it had to come out because it turns to cancer. So Screening going for your mammograms doing all of that stuff is so so super super important But one of the things that she did or she has and I have the prescription. I just haven't picked it up yet She wants me to go on medication She says it would reduce my risk there are some drawbacks to it Irritability, you know hot flashes stuff like that weight gain hair loss There there's a bunch of different things that side effects and I have to so I'm gonna experiment with this. This is a much lower dose and It could still give me some side effects, but more people can tolerate this so She called the prescription and I'm gonna pick it up She also did blood work. They drew blood. They're gonna do a complete metabolic Panel for all the cancer genes not just the barco one and two I'm probably saying that wrong but all there's a whole panel of any any hereditary gene or gene that you have in you That is Predisposed to certain types of cancer It doesn't tell you whether you have the cancer or not But it's gonna tell you whether you've got the gene and then of course if you do have the gene say for a certain Type of cancer you can take a look at it because or a deeper look or whatever because lately There's been so many You know between Babs take control of beauty right here on YouTube and then a personal friend of mine My hairdresser's husband just like that, you know just like that stage 4 cancer unbelievable and You know My my hairdresser's husband had the build-up just like You know Babs were started with back pain and trying to really come up Come to grips with what was going on and then just never really having that solid diagnosis of you know cancer That metastasized and stuff like that so I Really feel I feel that this test is really good I don't know if Medicare is gonna pay for it and if it pays for it great But if not it's so much more affordable today to have this test than it was in the beginning because I think when they first Came out with it years ago. It was like three grand something like that and Now it's like two hundred and fifty dollars. So, you know, I said to Jay. That's gonna be the best money spent two hundred and fifty dollars Just to you know to know whether or not I am predisposed where I am more high risk of you know having anything like that so anyways, that's what that's what we did and She's gonna monitor my progress to make sure that Where's my thing? She's gonna monitor my progress to You know, and if I if I do have the side effects on just to call her right away So that was Thursday. I was a little bit Bummed out, you know, it was a little bit taken aback because I didn't want to get that news and about the medication I just wanted to hear you don't need it type of thing So it's really bummed out about that But I also went Because my job has changed. I think I might have mentioned that I'm working. I sort of semi retired I'm sort of working part-time now. So I'm doing about 20 hours a week, which gives me a lot more flexibility and freedom to do things that I really enjoy but It may because of that I was able to go to the beach one day this week and the weather was really hot and humid and the beach was there was a number of people I went with a girlfriend met her up there and Just enjoyed the beach tremendously They had a little dinner on one of the deck restaurants there and then came home But it it's been it's since my last video closed on my mother's house Highly emotional event for me. I had a total meltdown and we did a two-part closing Because I knew I wasn't gonna be able to handle it Well, so Jay did the buyer-end closing with the buyers and I just signed on my own the day before so that I wouldn't have to You know, you don't have to deal with it. Anyways New beginnings, right new beginnings. So I had bought this when I had gone up to The cosmetic company store. This is SD lot of futurist hydro rescue Moisturizing makeup broad spectrum SPF 45 and that's what I have on my face. It is very moisturizing. So it I'm probably looking very very shiny Because it is moisturizing. So if you have like say oily skin or whatever, this probably would not work for you My skin tends to be drier but lately Since I've been doing the red light and I've been you know, I've been doing my collagen obviously for quite a long time Lately, I've noticed my skin has changed and it doesn't seem to be as dry and I don't know if it's Because of the red light therapy that my skin is thickening and becoming more plush That's probably the biggest thing I noticed on that. I love I love I love my candy way masks But anyways, this is what I put on very very little after I did my super goop obviously So I had my my SPF then I put this particular Foundation on and I really like SD lotter, but this is like I said very very shiny. I used color pop today for my blush This is Vogue I've had it forever So use that for my blush and then I ended up having to and I use Mali poor defender I think it's called I ended up having to powder down If you want to call it that I still have to Mali poor defender without giving me a powder look will take down shine So, you know, I ended up putting that on to try to take some of the shine down And the shine is obviously worse because of the lighting I'm in and then I end up using Morphe SPF 30 now This has a high the alcohol count and it's like the first ingredient, which is not not at all good but I was talking to Shayla and Simply Shayla formerly life with Lily. I love Shayla. I absolutely love love Shayla She's that she's one of the kindest people that I know and a true friend just an absolute true friend anyways, I was talking to her when I was buying this and She just kind of you know because I was hesitant because of the high alcohol count and she was just kind of saying to me, you know You have so much when you put that on it's a finishing spray when you put that on you already have stuff on your face So I said that's true. So anyways, I've been using this I don't put it on naked skin obviously because it is a finishing spray setting spray and It's called Sunsetter SPF 30. I happened to like Morphe I use a lot of the Morphe setting sprays. I really like this even with the high alcohol count now You have to use it very lightly now granted. I have super goop 40 on my face. I have Estee Lauder What is this one 35? 45 on my face and then I topped it off with SPF 30. I know right? I know I do not want to get any kind of an other reoccurrence of Skin cancer issues. I meant my most surgery my scars looking really super good Which I probably should say that I don't know I think I might have showed it normally when I get to a certain point in my skincare and my routine I put on a cajole on my scarf because I'm still swollen the side of my face is still a little swollen So I usually put that on but anyways It's been a week It's been a crazy crazy week because of everything that's happened But houses sold friends have just left to go on to their journey in Bahra bird is Sunday morning I'm hoping to get this video without much editing Up and I've superimposed as you can see some of the beach shots earlier some of our deck restaurant and A little bit of a funky get ready with me I'm going to go ahead and film a couple of wig reviews and Because I'm so far behind but Jay's golfing today So I'm just going to be staying at home doing that stuff But before we do that, I'm going to edit this and I'm hopefully hopefully hopefully you'll see this very shortly It's Sunday. Have a wonderful Sunday and have a fabulous Rest of your week. Love you all