 Hi guys, it's Monica. Thank you so much for joining me. Oh my god I wonder are you guys all going crazy with Christmas shopping and you know just prepping for the holidays? I know it's like an incredibly busy time of year anyways, I am going to announce the winner of my Gouache Device I can never say it in a little bit But I wanted to first of all open this video up by wishing you all a very very happy happy holiday and I will probably do one more video with Jay because I do want him to talk about that foot massager I mentioned because he uses that like twice day He does like twice a day. So I'm gonna you know probably add back the beginning of the week Something like that, but I wanted to definitely just pop in here and tell you a couple of different things a number of you Have asked me about my necklace when some of you have seen that I wear this necklace And I hope it's picking up it's a gold heart and it's a gold wedding ring and it's a gold chain. I The heart Here was given to me. My birthday is on Valentine's Day. So hearts Stars purple those things always have meant a lot to me and this was given to me by my mother and My mother and father. I don't even know how many years ago it was and as the gold chain and after my mom died and We were we were cleaning out Stuff I found her wedding ring and I kept the wedding ring so I put it on this chain and I wear it next to the heart that she gave me and This is the wedding ring. My dad gave her is just a plain gold band and After my mom my mom and dad were married an awful long time and you know, they came to America went and in Germany You know, my dad, they couldn't really afford much. So it was just a plain gold band But a solid gold band and then they came to America and my my dad, you know He got his he got his first job in America and then he went on to school My brother and I went to school. We kind of learned how to speak the language and but my dad ended up getting a job he was a tool maker a tool and dye maker and very quickly he Started to really do a lot of side jobs He did jobs for NASA. He did a bunch of different jobs and And so over the course of a couple of years He was able to save money and they bought a parcel of land in Salem, New Hampshire Where we went and some of you know the story and we would go on weekends and we would clear the land and Slowly my dad built the house when we just sold that house this year. It was it was the hardest closing I have ever Ever been involved in because I couldn't even go to the closing I had to have a separate closing because I knew I would just sit there and ball And I sat there and cried even though there were no buyers in the room but anyways This gold band means more to me than anything and as my mother and father, you know got You know more money and and you know as kids grew a little bit My mom used to make all my own clothes and stuff like that and she would perm my hair when I was little Stuff like that, you know So as we got older and all of that my father made more money and my mother then got she got a lot of pearls So I have a lot of her pearl necklaces, but my mother was always into jewelry And I think maybe that's where I get it. This little diamond starfish or star is a gift to my mother and father white gold with the white gold neck chain and Just little tiny little tiny diamonds and I wear this all the time and Lately I've been wearing this a lot because it was that gift my mother and father and sometimes it's those little things You know like they're gold wedding band. I touch it and I and I I Overcome with emotion because I can I can picture my father Giving it to my mother I can picture my father getting it and I can picture my father giving it to my mother and my mother putting it on her hands You know and my mother wore this I mean for all she really wore this all the time even when she got Diamonds and and all that she always wore her her band So that's the story behind this necklace and I do mix my jewelry I'll have a gold yellow gold white gold. I'll have you know silver. I'll have pearls. I do mix my jewelry up I don't really care. It doesn't have to all Match for me. So anyways Prepping for the holidays and prepping for other things right after the holidays and we have a lot of stuff going on and I'm like I'm just like overwhelmed with it all, you know I had a couple of doctor's appointments and I actually have a doctor's appointment next Friday. I Yeah, this past Friday. I had my primary then I had to go back to the oncologist to the For the medication that I'm taking the anti breast cancer medication that I'm taking and the some of the side effects So I had that visit and then I went to my primary care And so Friday They recommended and I got in really quick So it's really surprised because I thought I wouldn't get into like maybe April, but I got a call from a It it's basically ob-y gen Gynecologist basically and the doctor that I'm going to see was something I really wanted to see but she's booked up So I didn't think I would get in but I think there was a cancellation. So I got this cancellation for next Friday So I'm gonna be doing that next week and then I think I'm done for the year I hope with doctors. I wanted to show you I have been really antsy for Just really antsy I have been wanting to get a new curling iron. I've looked at a few of them I had a couple of flat irons. There was one that was sent to me. I cannot use those flat irons I'm just a curling iron girl. I really need to have the you know the little cover on it So anyways, I got a gift certificate to Alta and I won't mention names But you know who you are. I didn't even spend my whole gift certificate So I got a gift certificate to Alta and I had 20% off on this. So I picked up the baby bliss pro and I've really been wanting this. I've seen it I just haven't really wanted to spend money. So it's got the barrel This is the one is it the one in the one and a half inch So it's gonna be the bigger Kind of curls the looser curls that I really like I didn't want a one inch and I didn't want the two inch I just think they're really big but this is really nice. It's not too heavy I can set the heat. It also has the cool So you can set a curl when you give it a little burst of cool. I really like it and They it's sort of like turbo in a way, right? It's it really can heat up quick Goes up to 450 degrees. Not that I would ever ever Want to do it that hot but baby bliss pro That's what I got And I'm super excited about it So I probably would not have spent the money and Got this but for the fact that I had that gift certificate. So thank you. Thank you so much two other things that I bought when I was in Elta and I have not tried this before but this is their eye serum and I've actually heard some good Reviews on this. I if you use it, let me know in the comments below what you guys think but I got their eye serum and most of my eye creams I was running out of a lot of the eye creams and I really want to I have a lot of crows Nests not cross Cross feet, you know coming down here. You probably can't see it too well, but I can I can see it So I really want to use this I've been using the Nano and I've been going around my eyes and I've been trying to go around here and along with that. I've been you know using the Michael courage and my red light, you know, so I'm in I have my whole routine, but I got this So I'm really excited to give that a try. I was like, okay And I got another bottle this will be in my next empties unless I threw it out But I got another bottle of the ordinary. This is their hair care. This is their nourishing moisturizing It's got a bunch of it's hyaluronic acid, but it is it is for your hair and I've had this before It's a drops you shake it up. It's very cloudy looking you shake it up really good and Their recommendation thing is that you use this at night I have to be super careful because I don't wash my hair every day So when I put this on before bed, I'm gonna massage it I have one of those round comb things and I put that in so I'm gonna I should probably do a video on just what I do for my hair because I've got this whole system That I'm doing for my hair between the hat Between the special shampoo and all of that and the reason I'm doing all of that is Because the I have thinning here to begin with but the medication that I'm on also One of the side effects is thinning hair So if your hair is thinning and then you're taking medication that'll make it thinner You know, I'm hoping that you know everything that I'm doing at least maybe Makes it so it isn't so severe That's what I'm hoping. So yeah, we'll see. I'm hoping I'm I'm hoping I'm lucky with it I really don't know I'm gonna keep trying but I ended up picking up some thermal rollers I had a older set that had different sizes But then I saw these thermal rollers these black ones. So I picked up this package in Alta. Do you guys ever? Do you guys ever do that use that but what I do with these Because they've got the this has ceramic. I think Yeah, this is ceramic thermal and I this is I don't think these my old ones are not ceramic, but there's the same idea But I just never had enough of the right sizes So I on you know on like I'll just put some of these rollers in the top part of my hair Just up there. I'll spray a little heat protectant on it My hot sets actually and then I'll put a few on the side and in the back And that's kind of what I do with them But I just like I said didn't really have the enough of the right sizes for those I have the regular ones but not the ones that you could heat up so then you put it on then I take my hairdryer and I put it on low and I Warm up those rollers my hair is dry I may have the heat protectant on it and I'm just like warming up. I probably you know, I don't spend a whole lot of time It's like me depending on it on Maybe five minutes. Maybe maybe a little bit longer So usually I'm doing that in between layering something on my skincare And then I shut the dryer off and I just leave the curlers in and then I put the wrong do whatever And until they cool sometimes I leave it in if I'm not going anywhere or if I'm not gonna be on camera for love teaching Your class or anything like that. Sometimes I just leave them in for an hour. It doesn't much matter So when I take them off Then I'm going to have those curls and I really kind of like that a lot. So Yeah, so that was my my curlers the ordinary and that awesome curling iron Whoo now we don't decorate so I haven't had to struggle with any decorations here And I miss that sometimes but when we go to my sister's we decorate and the last night we had an event we went to at my office and then after the Opening ceremony the ribbon cutting for the location in Salem We went down to this place called Tuscan Village and they have restaurants and this is sort of a work play community Work live and play community. They have kindos and it's it's like this whole whole community So they've got a couple of restaurants. They've got a medical center. They've got banks. They've got grocery stores They have an altar. They have a ton of stores and a lot of it is they have especially in the summertime They have music They've a little square area overlooking upon where they have music and it's just a fun fun place So this winter they decorated for Christmas and they had all the holiday lights So Jay and I walked through there for the holiday lights. I'm in a superimposed some of the photos I don't know why I did not take any video clips Shame on me, but I did take a lot of photos. So I'm going to superimpose those I think I just yeah, I just I just loved looking at the holiday lights and We're probably I don't know if we'll do anything this weekend or not But if we do before this is published, I'll put it in but if not, I'll go into my my next video Which I will have one more video before the holidays and then you might not See me for a little bit for about maybe a week or so. I'm not sure yet but so I'm I don't know I'm really excited about this holiday season and I'm really excited about 2024 this year has been a tough tough year. I know for many of us and And yeah, I'm just like I'm so excited for this holiday season and then next year anyways Thank you so much for all your support and and if you don't catch my next video I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season but I do hope you catch my next video and stay tuned for the winner and make sure you leave me your information and Direct message me so that I can get that in the mail for you. Thank you and have a have a wonderful day whoo, so you knew I um, I Definitely wanted to film it and I and I couldn't so I'm just gonna tell you who it was that won my giveaway so we talked about this in my Empties video where I had received this phone candy way and they actually had sent me to and There's a QR code here in the directions here And I'm going to send this off to One of you that entered into this little giveaway. So please send me your address So I can actually send this off to you Before the holidays and hopefully then it'll get to you pretty quickly, but you know, I don't quite know where you are so anyways, the winner is Wanda Ross 9031 so Wanda, you know, you're 69 same age as me And and I'm hoping that you can really enjoy that I've done this a number of times and you just do the face massaging is really so nice And it really helps you with the puffiness and stuff like that So anyways Wanda, make sure that you either reach out to me My email address is going to be in the description box below Send me an email if you because I I know people don't want to put their address publicly But send me an email with your address So that I can send this to you if you send me the email with your address Just make sure you acknowledge it here. So I know to go look In the email and all that so but anyways, congratulations. I'm super excited for you And I'm super excited to send that out now For those of you that have been with me All the way through this video and you might be wondering what's going on with my hair while I went ahead of perm No, I wish I did But this is actually a wig that was sent to me from a wig studio one So I am going to not really do a review but a look see so if you're curious about this piece I'll tell you this is so Comfortable I have had this on All day. I have been in I have been out. I've been doing stuff this is just it's just super comfortable and This is the way I used to wear my hair a little bit longer And I just love it. So stay tuned for a little look see on this wig Other than that, you guys have an amazing rest of your weekend and your week and I will be back before the holiday with Jay and We'll talk about his foot massager Amazing that thing. Anyways, thank you so much guys. I'll see you in my next video. Bye. Bye So this is going to just be a quick look see at Ellen Villa's Scala Scala This is a heat-friendly mono part Short wig and this is in the color light Bernstein Bernstein rooted I received this complimentary From wig studio one and this is something that I have had forget. I actually have two wigs or had two wigs on my wish list And and this was one that I was just really curious about this is a newer release from Ellen Villa And I'm going to show you the cap. This is a closed Closed wefted cap really comfortable cap The thing with I think these types of caps if they don't have as much stretch So I've not put this on my head yet Um But I have a 22 inch circumference We will see how this fits what I like about this Is that you've got a lot of loose waves I'm not too sure how this color is going to work for me. I have I have two toppers in this color and in the toppers The color was perfect and I have found that from piece to piece You know and I've mentioned this before in different wig Manufacturers that you can get the same shade and it can be slightly different or very different So I'm going to put Scalar on my head And share it with you There we go. I have no idea how this is going to Look or fit Pull it down Pull it up Whoa Oh I'm feeling um, I'm feeling kind of like young and um Sassy if that's the right way to describe it With this holy moly This is going to be one of those pieces that when I wear it, I won't be able to stop smiling because my hair I used to wear my hair like this Except a wee bit longer, you know, I used to have perms And I would have all sorts of crazy waves And then when I blow when I used to blow dry it out I would blow dry it sort of like it almost would look like a ferro faucet style But I had all the different layers And um, I can't stop smiling I've done nothing to it. I just took it out of the box You know, I have um, I combed it. I used a wide tooth comb and um, I haven't spritzed it with water I have done Nothing with it I'm in a superimpose and outside shop you Right now so you can see what it looks like in the outside Unaltered I've done nothing to this. Oh my gosh So isn't she cute? I think this is I think this is adorable. Oh my gosh. Thank you so much, Andrea Wix studio one. I I love it. I love it. I do. I love it