 Good morning, I'm Mary Ellen from the channel Mary Ellen after 60, and I'm here today with no makeup on my face to talk about skin care I was tagged to do this video by a dear friend of mine Her name is Kathy from the channel Kathy's Beauty Care Chats, and if you're not subscribed to her you are missing out on joy She is just a bright spot in my day, and I enjoy her videos She did this tag and it was originated by Penn Smith from Penn Smith skin care And I watch Penn. I think she is so generous with her knowledge She is an advanced esthetician, and I just really enjoy her So I'm gonna link both of their channels below and I'm gonna go ahead and get started First of all, I am 66 years old and that is important because what I do for my skin is different than somebody That is younger. My skin is still normal. It is not oily, and it's not dry But I can see it becoming a little bit more dry, but hopefully that'll change when it warms up just a little bit I am in my pajamas, and it is the wee hours of the morning. The sun isn't even up today But there are quite a few questions that I'm supposed to answer in this tag, and I'm gonna do them To the best of my ability I didn't bring any products in and I'm not gonna put any links below for the products But I will put my most recent skin care update if you're really interested in checking anything out in the show more section And I'll put them in the cards above somewhere however that works The number one question was my favorite Inexpensive skin care brand and that would be timeless I like how the products work on my skin the items that I use from timeless I know that they are fresh. I like that one bottle may have several different ingredients in it instead of having to get You know niacinamide in one and you know, you know how that is But I really enjoy their products. They're cruelty-free. They don't add fragrance. I'm happy with all the ingredients I really don't look for the claims in the product I evaluate what it does for my skin and how I evaluate I look in a 15 times magnified Lighted mirror and I have to get really close to it And I can see whether my skin likes something or not and then I also go by the way it feels and the way it looks That's kind of my criteria Usually several times a year timeless will have a 50% off a 75 dollar order. So if you spend 75 dollars You can get it for 3750. Sometimes I don't need that many items. So either I use I have a 25% off discount link and under my videos and Sometimes I use that and sometimes I order from Amazon, whichever is less expensive any of the timeless products I've ordered from Amazon have been excellent. So it's just whatever is your preference and whatever my preference is the second question is my favorite high-end brand Well, my favorite is Kathy and Penn's least favorite and it's it cosmetics, but I don't like everything I looked at all their skincare items today online before I started talking about it And there are six products that I tried from the it skincare line that I did not like it at all But the five products I use I really like it works so well with my skin What I count on from it cosmetics number one, it's not going to break me out With milia that is what I am prone to get and My skin likes it and it's really actually my skin the skin on my face Feels so much better when I use the products that I use. What is my least favorite brand? Well, it would have to be philosophy miracle skincare line The first skin care I used consistently was when I was 57 and for over three and a half years I used that line and it was rather expensive and it truly didn't do anything for my skin Once I started what I'm doing now and I'll put a link above and below on my first two years of what I call anti-aging skincare My skin looks better in four months after using that than it did three and a half years after using that Philosophy miracle skincare line and this may work so well for you, but it just didn't do anything for me Is fragrance okay in skincare or not? You know what? I'm okay with fragrance. I don't seek it out I've probably been using fragrance in all my cosmetics products for 50 years I'm afraid that if I would go fragrance free if I ever I came in contact with fragrance I might have a reaction, but it doesn't bother me. I don't want anything highly scented, but I'm okay with some scent is Alcohol okay or not? If it's high up in the ingredient list, I'm not interested. There's good alcohols There's bad alcohols or some that are used and they're low in the ingredient list And that doesn't really bother me if I liked something and it had alcohol in it I would see how my skin reacted, but I wouldn't use it consistently Chemical or manual exfoliation or both well what I like for exfoliation is I like the ordinary AHA 30 and BHA 2% peel and I use that about twice a month I like any of the fruit enzymatic pills that are very very gentle I order mine from Amazon and they're they're no more than like $12 and the ordinary of course is very inexpensive And I like shaving my face. I don't like anything that has granules in it because of my age my skin You know, I don't need to be Scratching the surface of my skin. Do I have an extensive or simple skincare routine? Well, I'll tell you what my nighttime routine it could not be any easier My morning routine actually takes about less than five minutes But I use several products in that so I would just say I am average. I don't enjoy doing skincare I mean, it's better than it used to be But I want to use as few products as I possibly can and get the maximum The maximum results for me My favorite skincare ingredient would have to be vitamin A and in the form of retin A or tretenoyen Tretenoyen is a generic name for retin A. I also think vitamin C plus E plus frulic acid is important, but Vitamin A I would have to go with the tretenoyen Next one is tretenoyen or over-the-counter retinol for me. It's tretenoyen, which is retin A and If I ever had any type of reaction, I would quit it in a minute, but I haven't One of the common side effects is dry eye syndrome and And I wouldn't risk my eyes for anything What is the most effective skincare brand for me? Well, it would be timeless or skin diva the timeless vitamin C plus E plus frulic acid and the skin diva They have the exact degree ingredients in the in the same order And skin diva makes the argyraline that I like that take helps with my wrinkles. That's when I use one drop a day And I like all the ingredients in it So those to me would be my most effective the least effective skincare brand for me It's philosophy and if you love it, that's you know, that's all that matters is what you love and like I love the purity made simple And that's how I cleanse my face, but the rest of the stuff didn't do well for me Favorite skincare gadget would be my shishito razor and I love to shave my face and I love the way this is Made and it's not like a straight razor. It has a little bit of perforation in it And I order these from amazon and I just I love shaving my face Botox are fillers. Are they okay or not? Of course, they are okay Some of my best friends get botox and fillers Well, probably if everything was available when I was in my mid 40s I probably would have done it that I figure I've gotten this far and it's just kind of like been a challenge to me to Take good care of my skin myself. So I'm fine with it, but I just don't think I'll ever have it Favorite in office treatment the only in office treatment I ever had was probably 10 years ago and I had a group of broken capillaries right here And I never really noticed him and one time my brother-in-law He walked in the back door and I was probably 12 feet from him and he said, oh my gosh Did you bruise your face and I looked and they were just very very obvious So I had one laser treatment on just that area, but that's the only in office procedure I've ever had What is my favorite at home treatment? It would have to be derma rolling I do it once a week All I do is I use a derma roller. I use matricle 3000 And a few hours later. I use kakai oil. And what is the one treatment? I can't live it without Well, actually there's nothing I can't live without but I would hate to give up my retin A And that's it. So if you're still here, this is going to be a giveaway and I'm excited about it In fact, I'm going to have two giveaways the first giveaway Are products that I purchased and then the second giveaway is something that was sent to me And I'm going to go ahead and start with the first and then I'll let you know What you need to say to enter in the first giveaway. This is from color pop. It's called proof is in the pudding I don't think it's available anymore. I'll show you the shades in here It's never been swatched and here are the shades I have been super impressed with color pop this year and I have no affiliation with them I also have a set of three lip flushing hydrating treatments from it cosmetics that I purchased My favorite Spatulas to get the rest of your makeup out. I really I love these I have I have four different spatulas and I use all of them This came with something that I ordered and it's a jumbo size of the it Bye bye makeup. It's a cleansing balm A lot of my viewers love this. It was too emollient for me. I've never opened this But I have tried it in the past. So that is Giveaway number one and this is giveaway number two and this has never been open And these are bk beauty brushes from that lisa j made and I'll show you the brushes she sent me a set She sent me two sets and I used one and I'm giving one away and prior to her sending this to me I bought a set of her brushes and then I brought bought two more But here are her brushes and they are lovely. This is the precision brush set There's a flat brush a powder brush a shading brush a pencil brush And I got to bring this close to my face so you can see it is a an angle brush It's the tiniest angle brush I've ever seen and I've I've demonstrated how you can make really great little wings with that So this is my giveaway number two And the brushes were provided to me by bk beauty and a portion of her proceeds Go to the kindness campaign and she's just it all and I will link her channel below too So, you know, this is going to be an international giveaway and the reason i'm doing this Well, because because I like to give away But I know how to do the usps.com and they came to my they come to my home I don't have to go to the post office And I can mail these to you and because this is a giveaway I cannot reply to the comments below But you can go to any video Prior to this and ask me a question and I will get back to you And in order to be in the giveaway, you need to be 18 years older older subscribe to my channel before this video goes live And I always close my giveaways in three days So if you want the number one, which was the eye shadow the spatulas the Cleansing balm and the lip awakening treatment I want you to tell me your favorite skincare brand in the comment section And if you're interested in the brushes I want you to tell me your favorite brand of makeup And if you're interested in both just put your favorite skincare and your favorite makeup And put the one that you want most first because when I pull them up from random comment picker The first one that comes up gets the first thing they mention I really appreciate you watching me. It has not been easy to sit down and film. It really hasn't been for me Thank you for watching me. So, you know giving me the thumbs up I know this too shall pass and I sure hope everyone Is doing as well as they can in coping and we will get through this and you know what? It is all good. It really is And you I will see you in my next video and you take care And it's a Because I've had really good products with because I've had But I just think you know, I've been using Frank Frank little I've been using And I've just never had any desire to oh, maybe I did when I was They on So, um, thank you for putting up with my I know there are