 Okay, okay, no. Now, about 28% of you, when I asked if you wanted a Sephora V.A.B. sale recommendations video, said no, I get that, 28% didn't wanna see it, but the majority of you did, and so that's why we're here today, and I'm going to be giving you about 10 or 11 of my favorites. I decided that I wasn't gonna try to do every category or everything that I loved, it's just too much. But the one thing that I did do in this video was I tried to stick with brands or products that you can only get at Sephora. You can get them on their websites, particularly, but at the Sephora sale, you couldn't get them at, say, Ulta or Target or that kind of thing, so I tried to stick with those. And ones that I really look back on and I go, you know what, those are truly outstanding products that I've really enjoyed. So this is your Sephora recommendations video. Hello, everyone. My name is Melissa and I'm 55 years old, and I love all things beauty, makeup, skin care, hair care, fashion, everything that goes along with it. Before we get started on those 10 recommendations, I always get asked about what I'm wearing, so I always show you a glimpse of the shirt that I have on. So here's the picture of this shirt. I really have been enjoying this chiffon, very lightweight springy shirt. It's just one that's really easy to wear, it's flowy, and it just looks really pretty and feminine, and I love the sleeves on it. They're kind of just a little gathered with a ruffle on there. Just fun. So that's what I have on, but the jewelry, the rings, the makeup, everything. If I don't show it today in the video, that will be listed and linked below, along with the press on nails too. So always look out for that. So in no particular order, here we go. The first thing is a foundation. And I always get asked, what is my favorite foundation for mature skin? What lays very pretty on mature skin? And I forgot how much I love this Shiseido Synchro Skin Self-Refreshing Foundation. And I'll tell you, I did some research on this little baby, and you are gonna be impressed as I am. That is that not only does Shiseido have special technology that moves and flexes with your face, it has something like seven different dimethicones. What does that mean? That means that it's going to be able to go into your pores and your wrinkles, your fine lines, and it's gonna look very smooth. The technology that flexes and throughout the day, when you smile, when you eat, anything like that, it's not going to settle into fine lines. It also includes a special technology powder. Yes, I said powder, that helps with the coverage of it without it being thick. It's a medium coverage that's very, very buildable, because I need a little bit extra in through my cheek area, and I did that today, and it's just absolutely gorgeous. So I am re-loving this, and I wanted to make sure that I put it in here. I know that every time everybody wants a recommendation for a foundation, well, I'm throwing it way, way back to a foundation that I have loved for years and years, and has been in my makeup stash for a very long time, and I'm excited to use this this summer. This primer from Cal Aray, I am kind of impressed by as well, and it is the So Blown Primer, and it's a blurring primer that mattifies your skin. Now, if you're a dry skin girl, you might be thinking, well, I don't wanna be matte, however, this is different. It still plays well with foundation, as a matter of fact, it's absolutely gorgeous with foundation, I have it on today. The difference is, is that it does give you the property of blurring, but it doesn't feel that slick dimethicone. It just sinks in, and then you're left with this very smooth feel. Is dimethicone or silicone based? Yes, but it also has niacinamide in it. It has collagen peptides in it, and it has another technology that can go in and really blur out your pores and your fine lines. And with the skin loving ingredients in it, it gets my thumbs up, and I find that this just never looks bad. It doesn't matter what foundation I use it under, it just never looks bad, and really have been enjoying this. It's extremely smoothing. Even feeling it on my hand right here, and it's gonna be a little bit hard to see the difference in the two hands, but this hand right here looks smoothed out. It looks almost luminous compared to my other hand. It's beautiful, beautiful primer. I had to give a mention to these two products right here, which is the Brazilian Crush Beja Floor Elastic Cream and the fragrance. And this is my favorite fragrance that they have ever put out. I put the fragrance in here because I love to spray this through my hair and on my clothes, and I just absolutely love the fruity floral, slightly sheer vanilla fragrance that this has. This easily became my favorite as soon as it came out. But what is great is this is the Elastic Cream, and I've been using this, and I really feel like I'm seeing firmer skin on my arms. You know, right here I have the most creepiness where I really sag because of the weight loss, and I really love this cream and how it hydrates, how it holds the hydration, but over time I'm seeing improvements. It's a really thick body kind of buttercream, and I just really love the fragrance of it. I will layer these two on top of each other for an extra long fragrance. Love this, and I definitely wanted to tell you about it. I do have another fragrance that's going to be in here, but I'll save it more towards the end. For a highlight today from Rare Beauty, I have on her Powder Highlight Enhancer, it says, and this one is in Enlighten. Look at the glow that is, that's underneath my blush. That's not even on top of my blush, but look at that glow. This is very soft and creamy feeling on your skin, and it is just a highlighter. No glitter particles, nothing that's chunky, they're just gonna accentuate texture or anything like that. The other thing is it's a glow. It's a beautiful glow. On this one it's a very light toned glow. They do have several colors on it. I am looking to get like the pinkish one to kind of blend in with blush for the summer, and if any of you have these, and you have a specific color that you love, let us know down in the comment section so that we can find it as well. But this is really beautiful, and it has a very nice lasting power to it as well. Now the blush that I just said is on top of it is the new blush from Lys. That's the Stick Blush, and oh my word. This is so pigmented, it's insane. And I know that this isn't the darkest one, but this is crazy pigmented. I fell in love with this so quickly because of how pigmented it is. Very, very small amount is going to go a very long way. You can sheer it out, obviously it's what I have on today, and you can sheer it out, but if you have deep skin, you're going to be able to build this up, and it's just beautiful. I also love the way that it has a little bit of luminous property to it because of the creaminess. I just think it's gorgeous. They have several different colors. I did order one that didn't make it here before this review. But I do love how creamy it is, and I love how saturated it is. And I know that if you're a mature woman that always looks for cream products like this, you're going to like this because a very tiny bit goes a long way, very easy to blend as well. Now this product right here from Give Beauty by Gwen Stefani is exceptional. And I'll tell you what happened to me yesterday. As I'm preparing for this video, I always swatch what I'm gonna do. This is her eyeliner, and this is the purple color. So I always swatch what I'm going to use, right? Well, what's beautiful about this is it's got this smoky undertone about it, but it also obviously is the purple color. So I'm wearing it on my under eyes today and blended up into the eye look completely, kind of brought it out a little bit for a little bit of a wing look, even though it doesn't really happen on me very much. But what's cool about this is I put this on, and then I put another one on right next to it. I think it was from Makeup Forever or it was from the Sephora line itself. And then I was like, whoa, that's insane. Because this sat down and I had this on there and I kid you not, I had this on there all day long. There was, I washed my hands, I even scrubbed the rest of the stuff off and it was still there. So not only is this a dual chrome color where it's shifting between the smoky gray and then that purple kind of chromey color, it's just long lasting. It just looks beautiful. Now this is one that you do have to sharpen. It's not an automatic, so that might be a drawback, but I'm telling you the product in there is great. As far as water line, I haven't been wearing this in the water line at all, so I can't really give you a good review on that and I apologize for that. I should have done that. And the reason being is because when I put something in my water line, I don't really like it to be too dark. I actually like it to be quite bright. So I hadn't really tried this in the water line, but as far as how good it is and how much it really sticks around when you're using it, it's amazing. I mean, I'm getting a little bit off. It hasn't quite set down yet. So you do have a little bit of time to work with it, but wow, I was just so impressed with it. And I did just talk about Kulfi. I love Kulfi too. I'll put it right underneath this one. Kulfi works in my water line better than any, but that's the blue that I love so much. But this one, it really is that no budge formula. And you know, Gwen Stefani, she is notorious for wearing black anyway and she doesn't want it to run obviously because she's in front of the camera all the time. And this one is just, it's particularly beautiful. The next product, I kind of have to disclaim her a little bit because this one you can get at Ulta too, but I wanted to put it in here because I just recently got sent this from Smashbox and I'm really impressed by this mascara. It is the Superfan Mascara from Smashbox from Mascara from Smashbox and I do really enjoy using this. It is obviously, again, what I have on today, this is very buildable. The brush is a silicone brush, but the little silicone tines or the little brush are really close together, so it does help to separate great volume, great length. And what I really love about it is no smudging underneath my eyes. And at the end of the day, there's not a bunch of flakes and I feel like I'm taking it off with my remover. So this is very long lasting and I definitely wanted to tell you about it because it really is just gorgeous. They sent me a whole package of stuff and this is what I picked out of that package that really stood out to me and I really love. So this is a beautiful mascara. The eyeshadow palette that I have on my eyes today is from Hooda Beauty and it is the matte one and this one is supposed to be the cool mattes. Now I do feel like this is not a true cool tone palette. It is quite warm as you can see that it's on my eyes today. These are burgundy colors, very pretty. All of them are creamy mattes, not cream based, but the powders are quite creamy and buttery and I like that about it. Very easy to blend, very easy to wear. Many looks out of here. I love that they gave you the very lightest to the very deepest. That's how I work my looks and I really like that there is some true cool tones in here. Like I would say that these two up here are true cool but these right here are fairly warm. So you have a good mix of both but I like this one because it was all matte and I love working with mattes and what I did today was I put this pink on my eyelid and then I took the Rare Beauty highlighter and just dusted it a little bit across my eyelids on top and it just worked out really good to give a little bit of highlighting across my lid without having to have half of the palette shimmers. I love Hooda's formula. I think she does a great job and I love that she did all matte palettes and for me, the mixture of cool and warm tones in here really works and I really love it. What I have on for lipstick today is I lined my lips with the Makeup by Mario lip liner in Kevin. This is one that I've been talking about forever. It's not part of the lineup today but I also put on top of it from Give Beauty and I didn't realize that there was gonna be two Give Beauty products in this but it ended up working out that way and this is her lipstick. She doesn't have very many colors. It's kind of like these are my iconic colors that I wear all the time and here you go type thing with her and I kind of like that because she's not out there reaching for everything she can get. This color right here is called Screen My Phone Calls. It's medium saturation, it's just really pretty. It's what I have on. I have a little bit of a gloss over top of it but it's a clear gloss so the color that you're seeing is 100% this lipstick and I like that these are a little bit on the more matte side. There's still a little bit of satin in there but they really are a little bit more on the matte side and they're just beautiful. They're just a great formula. I know that she has a red in there. I'm still like working up the courage to wear reds all the time but this one is really pretty and the color is really beautiful so I wanted to tell you that this gets my thumbs up. One more fragrance and this is a good time to buy fragrances because you get the 20% off and you don't normally get anything off of fragrances no matter where you shop but this is from Clean Reserve and this fragrance is called Skin and what I love about this is it really has that musky scent to it. I'm somebody that loves the musky fragrance but if it gets too much it can become overwhelming. They balanced the musky fragrance in this with a little bit of a clean fragrance so it smells a lot like if you took musk and you took your favorite laundry soap and you mixed them together and then you would have it. That's what it smells like. So there's not a fruity fragrance in this at all. It's just a very clean fragrance with that musk in it and this is one of my favorites and whenever I put this in my hair my husband will smell my hair all the time when I have this in my hair because it's one of his favorites. So I love Clean Reserve anyway. They're a great company and I love that they have such different fragrances that really can fit just about any woman and or a man because I really feel like a man could wear this and it would smell really good on him too. So this is a great fragrance and I wanted to make sure I put it in this video and we're gonna wrap it up and I'm not gonna take a lot of time because I've talked about this so many times but Tower 28 has this concealer and if you're somebody that is prone to breakouts this is a non-commodic... This is a non-commodogenic I'm probably saying that wrong concealer but it's really beautiful on my mature skin. This concealer ticks every single solitary box that I need. It covers really, really well. It takes care of the troughs that I have that make me look darker. It is a great tone as far as not being too cool, too warm so it's not too yellow if you have a cool undertone and I can let this set just a little bit and have to powder it very minutely. I have crinkles and I have wrinkles and smile lines and all of that and it's really hard to find a concealer that doesn't settle into those fine lines but this one doesn't. When I say this in every video let's get real, let's not say that you don't have to set concealer with something either powder or setting spray. You have to do that because if you don't you're gonna get that creasing throughout the day. I sweat, I have power surges, hot flashes and I'm gonna get some settling unless I powder it. So get out to pretty little powder puffs and do what you gotta do there and realize that we all do it but if you're looking for a fantastic concealer this checks all the boxes for me and I love it. There you go, that's all of my picks. I hope it wasn't too painful for those of you that voted that know you absolutely didn't want to see this Sephora Recommendations video but we did it and those of you that really wanted a Sephora Recommendations video these are really, really good products so I hope that you did enjoy this. If you wouldn't mind giving it a thumbs up on your way out of here, I'd really appreciate it. By the way guys, I just learned that about 65% of the people that watch my videos they aren't even subscribed. So if you watch my videos all the time and YouTube just keeps recommending them if you wouldn't just take a minute and hit the subscribe button it would help me so very much because the more people we get in this community the more the channel gets built up and then I get excited about things and I want to share more with you. Hopefully you did enjoy this. Tell me what some of your recommendations are. I always love to hear that. You know I do. That is my favorite thing is to read your recommendations and get a little bit of a chat going down there in the comment section. Everyone, I hope that you're doing well. Please stay happy and stay healthy and come around and see me very soon again right after you've subscribed and you've smashed the like button and take care of yourselves. I love you so very much. Bye my friends.