 Good morning, and happy September. It has been nine years ago when I started using tretinoin. That's the generic name for retin-a. And quite a few months ago I brought you a video that I tried something new, a different way to get retin-a. And today I think I'm just gonna be talking about two products. I'm gonna be talking about tretinoin and vitamin C. The tretinoin is the number one thing that has helped my skin over the last nine years. When I started using tretinoin I was almost 61 and now I am almost 70. And in your 60s, late 60s, a lot of times there's a lot of changes in your skin. I really believe that the tretinoin has helped keep my skin as supple as it can be. Today I don't have on any makeup. I have on mascara and lip gloss and I just washed my face with water a few hours ago because if I would put on my skincare it makes my skin look better. And I just want you to see this is how I am. This is how I always am. Usually I don't wear makeup. I just feel like if I'm talking about skin care I need to have my skin showing. And of course I don't have filters. I don't have anything. I just have an iPhone 7 and a bedroom and you get what you get. So anyway I'm gonna go ahead and get started on the agency. I am not, I don't have any discounts. I don't have any links or anything to the agency. But I heard Tamara from Tamara's Timeless Beauty speak about the agency and the future formula. Well I went ahead and I clicked on her link and I received my first bottle. And then I went ahead and let them send me the other one. And I'll tell you the prices in just a minute. And this was supposed to be a two month supply. I'm gonna talk about dollars and cents first. The first bottle was six dollars and eleven cents. And I started using it January 30th and I emptied it on March 30th. So I got two months use out of this. I did open it up and get everything out of it. I used a spatula and I used every bit of it. So I knew I wanted to try another bottle. And this larger bottle was $60 and some change. And this was supposed to be a two month supply. I started using this and I've used this religiously four times a week. Ever ever since I started back in January. I started this on March 31st and I emptied it on August the 19th. So that was four months and 19 days. I'm gonna put a link to Tamara's video where she talked in depth about this. And she does have a link to do the trial for the six dollars and some change. I don't know if it's gone up or not. But there's some pros and cons to both of them. Okay the advantages to the future formula. You don't have to go anywhere. You fill out a questionnaire online and then they ask you to submit some photos. And you get a online healthcare provider that you know does like the prescription comes up with your formula. Well in my formula it also had two ingredients for that were mainly used for dark spots. And I don't have dark spots. I would not buy that. I don't I will eventually I know I'll get some dark spots but I really didn't need that. So if you need it it's good that it has it in there. And there's also niacinamide in there. Also with the future formula they can start at a very weak strength of tretenoyan. I think it's 0.01 which is 10 times weaker than what I use on a four times a week. So that's another benefit. And then also the thing I thought was pretty cool is when you do one pump that is exactly what you need. So I wanted to tell you exactly how long it worked. You know how precise I am on some things. So I'm now I'm back to using my regular retin A that comes in the 45 gram tube. I get the prescription from my doctor. And then I go to GoodRx.com online and you just search for the medicine that you need. And I just put in retin A and there's drop-down boxes. And you can have say if you want the smaller that 20 gram tube the 45 gram tube is what I get. And then also the strength. So this was 0.1%. And today the least expensive price around here is $47.55. So I can use this for a whole year and it is just so much more cost-effective for me. Okay next month will be my anniversary of nine years of using vitamin C serum. And the two I've used is the timeless vitamin C plus E plus feruleic acid 20% or the skin diva vitamin C plus E plus feruleic acid 20%. I've also used the dermatology and it is 15%. These are like $25, $26 a piece and there's always a discount. I have some discount codes below but there's also discounts online. There's always mean if you kind of know ahead of time what you're going to be needing just start looking for a sale. I think that 25% is probably the most on skin diva and on timeless. I think it seems like about once a year they do 40 to 50% off. But what I always did before and I'm not telling you what to do this is what I have done. I always buy the small bottle the one ounce bottle like when timeless has a sale. I would buy instead of a large bottle I would buy two or three small bottles and I'd put two of them in the freezer and I never had a problem with them at all. A couple of days before I knew I was going to be running out I'd get them out the freezer and put them in my refrigerator but I haven't had any problems. I was thinking about if you want the 15% and you don't want to spend $69 you could use the 10% from timeless. They have a 10% and a 20% you'd be buying two bottles. I think they're $25.95 but again I mean I always I've got a $5 off but you can usually find something a lot better than that. But you could get a bottle like this. This is an old timeless bottle and you can buy these online. You can buy two of these bottles for $6 and something on Amazon. You could mix them both up in here get them mixed and put them back in smaller bottles and freeze one and you could have your 15%. Some people the fit the 20% is too strong but I thought that would be a good way for you all to save money. But I have some good news that makes me happy. I like glass. I mean this is a glass bottle this is the this is a skin diva it's a glass bottle it's a glass dropper. I keep almost all of my glass bottles and droppers and what I do you need to take this apart like on this hyaluronic acid I take this open this up you pop this part off you pop the rubber part out you've got four pieces to wash and just wash them in hot soapy water and I just usually add a little bit of vinegar I put it in a little bowl put a little bit of Dawn and some hot water and I just soak them in there in it and then I make sure they're dry and I mean good and dry I just put the rubber thing back into the cap and then you just work that back in there and you've got a bottle to use you can even use it for anything liquid anyway I do that because you never know if you're gonna need them or not and I have it in a little box in my closet timeless originally had glass bottles they had the dark glass bottles and then they came out with this pump and the very first batch of them did not work they leaked they came up with an airless pump and I use this too I just prefer the dropper I like being able to get exactly how much I want when I want it well they've come out with a glass bottle there's the same amount of product in this bottle as in this bottle they're both one ounces so if you buy the one ounce of the 1.7 there's a glass bottle and better than that I opened it up took out this stopper and I put in a dropper so now I have my glass bottle my glass dropper and I keep it in the refrigerator and I'll tell you I've been a little bit more of a slacker I use it I would say well I know I don't you didn't use it enough to use it up in my last one up in four months it was about five months so I'd say I probably missed a couple of days a week I think by using my red light mask my red light therapy mask I've been a little bit lax on a few products but not many well I had to order something else from timeless I wanted something and I used my five dollars off to get this they've come out with single use packets and I've tried it and it's a perfect amount and I just thought how wonderful for travel how wonderful if you're gonna be somebody's gonna be in the hospital or whatever but they came out and this is a month supply I keep mine in my regular refrigerator because I know how cold it gets and I have never lost to drop the vitamin C serum I've never had to throw any away it's supposed to be clear or milky and I have never even gotten it to yellow even a light yellow is okay but once it gets any darker than that it is no longer safe for use but I've had one in my refrigerator for five months used it up and didn't have a problem but again that's me and I liked the box and you know what I will use I don't buy stuff for like to organize I use boxes I have always done that and I've got had boxes in my drawers for years some of them I put fabric over some of them I haven't but I'm just not gonna buy plastic and when something like this works so I want to share that with you this is Sunday September 10th and yesterday my youngest turned 46 years old she has been so busy with her Sun Place College football and his school is about three three and a half hours away and I've been able to watch it on television I just absolutely love it last year he played about 80% of the time and this year they put him in the starting position and it's just been really exciting getting ready to have basketball season coming up my son's youngest son place college basketball and those games will be coming up soon and they have a lot of basketball games and I'm so excited so excited to watch him both this year it's been kind of busy around here and I'm going to try to do videos every other week but if you don't see me on the week that I'm supposed to be here just know that I'll be back in two weeks I don't want to film videos just to put one up oh if there's something that I think's important something that I find that I like that I think that could be a value to you I have never done a sponsored video not opposed to it I think it's wonderful but there's just been nothing that I ever want to be paid for to do or nothing that I ever want sent to me with any requirements like I have never filmed a video and had to send in to a company so they could approve it just because they sent me something that's why I bought the Omnilex mask myself because I didn't want to have to jump through any hoops I want to tell you the pros and I want to tell you the cons well I am not into redecorating it was unusual I bought that bedside table and the only reason I bought it is I needed a drawer for my CPAP apparatus stuff all the stuff you've got to have and I needed a larger top when I moved I bought this home in 1991 it was a hundred years old when I bought it that year that I bought it and what I brought with me were only things that I loved anything that wasn't important I gave away what I do seasonally or things that I've already owned I just and I'm not big into buying makeup and I just want to want to do something when I have something I want to talk about I want to bring it to you but I'm not good don't want to just come for no reason speaking of buying I did buy something I bought the today's special value QVC today special value I'll show you what was in it the CC plus nude glow I haven't tried it yet I the CC plus cream is too thick for me I just don't like the consistency of it anymore I know I just haven't bought anymore and I don't have any so I thought I'd try this and I'll let you know in a future video it also came with the it superhero mascara and one of these fabulous brushes I have I kept mine you know I told you I got rid of so many of them when I have started using Lisa J BK beauty brushes but this is that dual-ended and it's really a nice one and then it came with two lip glosses and I have this one on I don't know the shade if I can read it I'll put it on but these are both one of them's clear and one of them is this color and I like them they're not outstanding there I have used like the that tart maracuja that was outstanding the lip balm that they had I don't know if they still make it or not but these are good I've had this on probably two hours and it still feels really creamy I don't know if any of you are still here that you that were with me way way back when but one time I was on QBC's PR list and they sent me the whole collection of everything according to shade so I had blush I had foundation I had powder I had all these things and I would do giveaways and I can't tell you how many giveaways that I did with all of it I couldn't believe all the stuff they sent me and then I used to get the today's special value and they quit sending that to me and I don't know what I used to do was I used to receive it and I would give it to do a giveaway with it and then I would buy my own because I just like buying my own to the only PR I receive is from BK Beauty and there's another way so before I could say anymore I want to tell you well if you're still here you are good because only have the people watch my whole video so I like to do I'm gonna do my giveaways again at the end it's a giveaway today I got some wonderful PR I want to do a giveaway with it and it's it's beautiful and since this is a giveaway I will not be able to reply to any comments I will announce this on my next video whether that be September 24th or October 8th but your name will be announced and that's how you will know that you are a winner I close my giveaways in three days because I want the people who normally watch me to be the winners so that's how I do it and because of Mary glitzy fritzy I received the blessed palette and it's a treasure it's a treasure it's a palette that she designed she made up the colors and they sent it to me in PR well I received another PR package and it came with three eyeshadow palettes and I don't wear that much eye shadow and I think you might want to so the first giveaway we're gonna call Sydney Grace and at the end with the I will tell you I'll write it up here which one to say because what I do when I go through random comment picker the first choice the first person gets their first choice then the next person hopefully I mean they'll get so you you might want to put all three in the order that you want them is I guess what I'm wanting to say this is the raspberry kiss palette this is heaven on earth none of these shadows have been touched and this one is love's journey so there's three eyeshadow palettes from Sydney Grace and along with those palettes I'm gonna put in the it cosmetics superhero mascara and the it cosmetics dual-ended brush so that will be the Sydney Grace giveaway and the next one is gonna be the BK Beauty giveaway Lisa Jay came out with this bag that she designed that is really wonderful you can't buy it right now it'll be back in stock in October that it's really a brush cosmetic case and it zips up see how tall it is you can put all your brushes in and then it'll come all the way down and your brushes can stick up and it can set it on your vanity on your countertop if you're in the hotel room perfect place way to store your brushes there's little pockets on the side but also with this clever clever case I've included five lipsticks at least they gave me that I already owned and these are the shades of the lipstick I know you won't be able to see them but there's five of them and I love her formula and also in that I'm going to be giving away the false eyelashes and I tried one and they worked really well but I'm just not a false eyelash person I've just it's been good for me to wear mascara but the lashes are beautiful and they're sold on BK Beauty website this is a collaboration with Risa does makeup and she they did four different types of lashes and so that goes with and this will be called BK Beauty I'm gonna get through this eventually I promise and the last gift is a $100 e-gift card from me to you and it can be anywhere that I get can get a gift cards and I can also if you don't want an e-gift card I can do a deposit to your PayPal account all you have to do is put one of these words in your comments you don't have to be subscribed you don't have to like you don't have to do anything you just have to put at least one of these words in your comment the first is Sydney Grace that's for the eyeshadow palettes and the mascara and the brush the second you would put BK Beauty and the last one just put card and in the order that you want them and it is all good thank you all for being here with me I appreciate you and I will see you in my next video take care and I will announce the and in my gosh I can't believe it and what else but they won't I don't know why they put it in mine I'm gonna be talking about generic