 Welcome to my nighttime routine. It's actually 4.30 p.m. and I'm already in my pajamas. That's because I'm a fitness girlie. I did a berries class this morning and then I taught to yoga classes. I'm also a yoga instructor at Poor Power. So, and I'm ready for bed. I've been up since 6 a.m. I'm trying to get up at 5 a.m. for 5 a.m. February. So I thought, why not share my little nighttime routine for my early, early, early morning? And then I figured when I just start with my skincare. Typically, my nighttime routine, which you can see here, starts with dinner. But I just feel like it's a little too early to eat right now. Do my hair. I wanted to show you guys this outfit. How cute is it? I honestly, I got it from Amazon. So I'll put the links down below. And I just think it is so cute. Like a nice flowing robe. And then the silky set came in a set of three. So I actually have a color that matches this robe. And then I have another pinky color. So, flowers as well. If I bought flowers for myself. If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else? That's always wanted. Get it for yourself. Don't wait for the guy you're dating, or your boyfriend, or your husband, or anyone to get it for you. The thing that I think is so, so important when it comes to cultivating self-love and just really being content with where you are in the moment is truly cultivating a routine that like helps you love yourself. That helps you challenge yourself. I think I love myself the most. And I feel the most like safe and secure and who I am when I'm continuously challenging myself to be better than also rewarding myself for being better as well. I'll even take today. Like, oh God. I go out and buy myself flowers every Wednesday. And that's like a way that I treat myself. But I only buy myself flowers if I take my berries bootcamp class. So then I'm like, hell yeah girl. You're getting flowers. Like you worked hard for this, you deserve this. And sometimes even when you didn't work hard you still deserve nice things. But you know, like that just being able to treat myself and reward myself or pushing myself to that next level. Like one of my goals for this year is just to be healthier and stronger than the girl I was yesterday. So I love to reward myself when I do things that help me fall into that mindset. Another thing that I feel like really helps with just challenging me and getting me to be the girl that I wanna be. It's also just like routine. Like I am in love with my skincare routine. And I also use it as a way to like reward myself as well. Like I am just obsessed with the results that I see when I know I'm on top of my skincare. It's like nature in my body is like rewarding me for being consistent and like taking care of myself. You know, and I am obsessed with this moisturizer. It smells so, so good. It's like I mentioned it. And like I wanna say it was like a day and night life New York City vlog. I'll put the link up even though I think this video might go live before that video. But don't intimidate yourself or like challenge yourself too much. Like it should be an easy, easy thing. Like I wouldn't recommend someone who barely, you know, washes their face or takes off their makeup before they go to sleep to do my like 500 stuff, night time skin routine. Like let's start small, let's just wash our face and put on some moisturizer and then go to sleep. And then once we get that down, let's wash our face, add on a serum and then go to sleep. And then once we get that down, let's wash our face, put on some toner, do a serum, add some sunscreens. Don't challenge yourself too much. Don't fight off more than you can chew. Like your night time routine should be easy and it should be rewarding, like but it should not be intimidating. One of the yoga sutures of Patanjali is actually your yoga practice should be pleasant but firm. And I feel like that's a great way to live life. Like your routines, the way you challenge yourself, it should be pleasant. Like don't do anything you don't wanna do. Don't do anything for the sake of like grinding and for the sake of doing something for the sake of working 50 hours a day. Do something because it's pleasant to you or it helps you become the person you want to become. But also because it's firm, like it helps you ground in yourself. I mean, you're getting a little too spacey here but if you know, you know. God, my face is kind of red after that quash up but I think that means it's working. One thing I did realize I forgot to do was massage my scalp. I am like a little paranoid that I'm balding and like thinning here. So I like to just put this serum on my edges from the ordinary. I'm not seeing the results that I truly wanna see but I am noticing like more hair growth. I'm like, can we grow more hair where I feel like my hair is thinning? I'm saying like more hair growth like around here. Like I feel like there's more hair that's like growing towards my eyebrows and I'm like, oh well, that's nice I guess. I'm going to have a burger and fries because you know what, why not? Let's get into it. I deserve, you deserve, we deserve. Do you guys know that meme of like. Anyway, I'm embarrassing myself. The food was done a long time ago but I just wanted to get this done before I ate. An authentically empowered person lives and loves. I use this cashew cheese. I'm really excited to try it. It's my first time. I'm not really a vegan but I just like to, you know, eat a little healthier every once in a while. So, vegan mayo, oh my God. I swear to guys, I'm not vegan. I just don't even like regular mayo. I think vegan mayo just tastes better. I will use like Miracle Whip. I do really like that but I don't even know where to get it in New York City. This is what they have at Trader Joe's and I like it. So, so I use it. Okay, so I'm feeling pretty good. There was a lot of things that I wanted to do before I sat down and had dinner like my homework for psychology of my nation's and I never sat at the inclusion seat at the New Hope Center and I also went to get a YouTube video on time. Hi, cat. Part of being at peace, San Tosha, that contentment energy and just really loving yourself is acknowledging that, you know what, hey, maybe tonight I've done all I can do and I do have the space to do more tomorrow. Also, I got the poppy pop that I've been seeing everywhere and it's okay. It has like this really weird, artificially like sugary taste that I don't like. It's also pretty flat. I don't know, maybe if mine is just flat. But I'm like, wow, I'd rather would have Kampucha. I also don't really like pop but I'm trying not to drink wine. So this is helping. I also feel like every YouTuber ever does this. So yeah, drinking things that aren't wine inside of a wine glass. If I had wine, I would have wine, honestly. I'm not that type of like, treat yourself girl. If you want a glass of wine, have a glass of wine. Who cares? All right, well, let me watch greats. Over Izzy and Danny, you've had a love story. Like it's so good and I know I've seen it before but oh my God, Shonda. Okay, so we are hearing off towards the end of the night. I've nearly finished everything on my nighttime routine checklist and it's time for one more thing. I prefer to use red lights at night. It just helps to like cue to my security and rhythm that like it's nighttime, it's time to go to sleep. So I'm gonna turn off the other lights that I have and it's just gonna be red night lights. I'm hearing out guys, it's literally 7.47 but I'm so tired. Like I just, I worked out so much today. My tea is going and as soon as it's done, I'm probably gonna snuggle in bed. Bed time. One of the last things I do before I go to bed is practice my language. I'm currently trying to learn Ebo which is an Algerian language that my father speaks and I never really learned it going up so I'm trying to learn it now as an adult. I use the app to do it. It's recording though. Oh, I think it is. Okay. Izzy? No. Izzy? No. Izzy? It's all blue. It's all blue. Nine. It's all blue. It's all blue. Eerie? Eerie. Eerie. Izzy? Izzy? Izzy? Don't know. And do do. And do do. And do do. Eerie? Eerie. It's 8.30 now. I set my phone to charge and actually I wanna turn on the lights because I wanna talk to y'all about something. We need to have a conversation. Right now, I'm reading The Silent Partner. So good. Love it so far. I'm only 20 pages in. But I had read It Ends With Us and it starts with us, January and y'all, y'all lied to me. These books? The hype was so astronomical and the way I was let down, the way half of these books are journal entries written to Ellen, the generous. I believe you guys went so hard for these books. Like I, It Ends With Us was by far the butter of the two. I would rate it like a seven out of 10. The English is very basic. If English is your second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth language, then like you will not have a problem reading this book. But for someone who's a native English speaker, I was like, I don't know. When I like to read, I want to Google words. I wanna learn a new word. If it's a professionally written book and I know all the words, I just feel like that's a problem. Like I just don't like stuff like that. So it was good. Trigger warning, if you don't like like domestic violence, there is some stuff of that in here. But overall, like would I recommend this to a friend? No, and I cannot believe y'all recommended it to me. This book is a continuation of that and it just leaves a lot to be desired. I mean, I was already disappointed by this one, but I'd already bought it. So I was like, let me just read it and yeah. Half of this book is this book. We're just reading the journal entries again from now the point of view of someone else. Why are we reading the same journal entries? Can we not get new journal entries? Like it just seems so lazy to me. But I mean, honestly, good for her. Get your bad girl. Cause you literally copied and pasted this, put it in here and like made a coin. I mean, honestly, she didn't have to put much work into this one. The ending was sweet, it was nice, but I did find myself staying up really late cause I just wanted it to be over. Like I did not want to spend another night reading this book, but it's cute. So if you liked this one more than a seven, I guess. Cause I, did I give it a seven? Yeah, I think I would give it a seven. Maybe a five, maybe a five and a three. I don't, it's, there was one point and I think it was this one where she was like, I don't want a ride or die friend because a ride or die person means they're not going to tell you when you're wrong. And I'm just like, why is this white lady using like African, vernacular English? Like that's not what ride or die means, but because you're now co-opting a phrase that doesn't belong to your culture and now giving it a new meaning. I'm totally not with you. And maybe that was why I didn't like it so much. It just seems so, it was just gross. If I take these gummies, I love them. I think they're so good. Okay guys, thanks for hanging out with me. We really did my entire nighttime routine. I think it's truly like, I don't even think it's nine o'clock yet, but I'm gonna try to wake up at five. So let's see if it happens. Today is the day. I'm going to bed like an hour earlier than usual, but I'm also very exhausted because I worked out so much. So, I'll see you guys in the flip side. In like five seconds, hopefully it's five a.m. and I'm waking up by night and both you too. It's 5.19, counting the size of success.