 Hey guys, it's Monica. Thank you so much for joining me and this video I'm gonna share the rest of my vacation a couple of skincare items that I have been using and what my thoughts are on them and Maybe if you want the things so if you're interested stay tuned. Oh My gosh, you know it has I don't know about where you guys are, but it has been hot hot hot hot and humid and In New England, especially, you know, Hampshire, we don't have a whole lot of humidity often but We 4th of July weekend was a total Rain out. I mean we had some torrential rain and then we had some humidity was just Unbelievable. Well, anyways, the beauty about being able to you know have Wigs at my disposal when my when the humidity destroys my hair and I can't do anything with it I just throw a wig on so I haven't won a wig and months and I'm like, wow, you know, I forgot how much I really liked having a ton of hair Compared to my own hair. But anyways so Jane I went away and we went to Booth Bay Harbor and I think you saw some of the vacation number the first part of the vlog and all that We had a great time I made a super post some photos here and at one point I'll add a couple of video clips for you But we had a great time the weather was not the best We ended up having lots of clouds and lots of rain But I have been on probably I don't know since the beginning of the year. I've been trying to really lose weight I've been trying to Get my activity level up walk more so I was bound to determine on Vacation on I shouldn't call it a case. It was just holiday weekend away Because I did do a little bit of work while I was there But while we were away I was bound to determine that I was going to try to get into a walking routine and I was not going to let anything Stop me from walking around the campground. So he has a picture of me Yeah, I walked even with my umbrella. I I walked up just about every single day. So that was really cool I don't have a I don't have a scale in the motorhome Although we are thinking of putting a scale in the motorhome, especially if we go on longer trips Which is what our goal is and so I didn't really couldn't monitor my weight and all that stuff So when I came home, of course the humidity hit right and I don't know about you But I swell up like crazy. So I said, I'm gonna get on the scale It was up a pound from before I had my surgery and I was kind of bummed about that But I also know that after I had my surgery. I was retaining retaining a real lot of water I had olympic to me and I was just holding a lot of water and they pumped me full of fluids during the operation So I kept thinking I you know, this is gonna level off I'm still up a pound from pre-surgery, but I'm thinking that's not Really a pound because I'm just so my rings everything feels tighter. I think it's just the fluid that I'm retaining So anyways, I did I walked every day Jay and I we did we went to some of our tried and true places We had dinner the first night. I think I already shared that with you guys But this just really cute little restaurant in downtown on the other side of booth Bay Harbor on the harbor We'd never eaten at this restaurant before and we both really enjoyed our meal Then we we went on we were exploring we went up to our tried and true places We always go over to whisk asset, and I'm sorry to whisk us at the Damascota the next town up And then we normally go up to Pema quit lighthouse, which we did we did that whole, you know the whole nine yards on that And I think I might have shared that but I'll put some photos in as I'm talking Well, Pema quit lighthouse is just really pretty and even though the ocean and everything was fogged in it's still super super dramatic Beautiful views, you know just looking at the ocean is just it. It's my happy place It really is my happy place, but every single day for the long weekend. We had rain we had rain we had clouds we had rain and more rain and more rain and The day that we arrived we went and bought ourselves boat tickets for our for the fireworks cruise We went to go out on the harbor There's nothing like if you've never experienced fire watching the fireworks over water. There's nothing as Majestic as seeing that in my opinion So whenever we can we try to get by tickets for the cruise to go out on the harbor and watch those fireworks that way I was really nervous because the weather right and I'm thinking both they have or they could end up cancelling the fireworks You never know so They ended up it was like it was unbelievable we had that day you know the day before we had taken a trip and we had gone self and We went to another place. We used to camp. That's get had a doc bae I know I'm saying that wrong the superimposed pictures here J Took some drone shots and we just went and visited the campground talked to them about sites for next year And that's we kind of scoped down a few other different places So on 4th of July itself. We had our friends Mike and Judy come out They had also bought tickets and Jay had picked up lobsters and steamers They were the best lobsters and steamers. Jay drove me down to the water the campground We are out our sites not waterfront, but it's a title Inlet and there's like a little shared place where people put their kayaks and boats out So he brought me down there so I could get seawater filling the cooler up with seawater So we could cook our steamers and our lobsters in that type of water Oh my gosh makes such a big difference In then even though Jay added a little bit of beer to the you know to the steamer water It it was just delicious delicious lobsters steamers and then the Sun started coming out It was like wow we had rain when we were cooking and I'm thinking Good thing we bought trip cancellation insurance We had rain and then boom the Sun started coming out So we decided well we'd go down to the harbor early. We'd walk around maybe get a dessert or something And then see what happens. Well We went out on the boat ride. It was really awesome It was super super awesome. I highly highly recommend if you ever have an opportunity to do that It's if the tickets are pricey, especially if you you end up getting like a trip cancellation I think the tickets were like $58 a person but What it was so majestic and it was so you know I don't know when the sky cleared and the fireworks started and it was Dark and you could see some of the lights on Booth Bay Harbor all around and there were boats all over the place You know, they were waiting for the fireworks and when it all started It was breathtaking It's really really breathtaking. This is a little bit of the finale not the best video there But I had shot it with my gopro. I was trying to Use my gopro. I have a gopro 10 hardly ever use it and I've been trying to really use it a little bit more so but Anyways, I had received This is from current skin and it's a lead hand perfecter And some of you I'm sure you know this you've seen this But this is the current body. I should say you plug it in and this is led for your hands I haven't used it yet. And you know when you get sometimes I'll get pr that sent to me Um, and sometimes people will reach out ahead of time and said would you be interested in trying it? Sometimes some companies want to put stipulation on you, you know You've got to do a video by this time and some people even want to prove their videos ahead of time And I used to go no, I don't do that right because if I'm going to talk about a product I might mention here's what I'm going to be doing Because I think it's important to mention. This is what I'm going to be doing So when I talk about it a little bit you guys will go. Yeah, she did start that So I had to I take pictures of my hands now. I've always been very conscious about my hands my mother One time God bless her Said that I'll never forget it was devastating, but she said it's too bad. You have such a beautiful ring on such ugly old-looking hands and Devastated me. I did a video on it quite a while ago that anyway, so my hands have always been old looking and not not perfect So they said this to me said would you be willing to try it? And I said, oh, absolutely but I'm no I have no interest in your face mask because I am using a led a red light therapy face mask Many of you know from candy way that I have I'm just absolutely thrilled with so For those of you that keep asking the candy way face mask It is pliable It is I can I can lift mine up if I want to try to get you know above my lip a little bit But the between the nose and the lip the line is so thin There's really not a whole lot of space there to have the lights but I use this Consistently and I use it in the morning. I'm in bed Sometimes I fall back asleep. I turn it on and I'm just lying in bed totally relaxing Well the week after I had my breast surgery I had I'd spoken to my doctor because I have noticed such a big difference since I've been using the red light therapy On my skin my skin Probably the quickest thing that I noticed was my skin felt Plumper, you know my face skin felt plumper and I was starting to see Where right here on my mose surgery The scar um, I was starting to see this part of my surgery because it's in my nasal Lobby a fold or whatever and right around my nostril Is puckery and it didn't heal smooth. It's puckery everything else is smooth on my scar. I had quite a big scar And but this is puckery and I noticed that It started to smooth out So I started to really look into it deeper for scars and stuff like that And one of the things that I noticed that they said if you have had surgery or something like that that This is Excellent excellent for healing in fact Let me see if I can find For wound I'm going to read this Wound healing and skin repair red light therapy red light therapy also known as photo bio modulation Utilizes a specific wavelength of light to penetrate the skin promoting various benefits to the tissue Regeneration and overall wellness So if you have a wound accelerated wound healing So when I talked to my surgeon about the red light I was using on my face at that point in time before my surgery. I was putting it down on my chest And um, I said to my surgeon, I would like to Put this down. How soon can I stop that? I said wait a week, which I did I took a picture of my scar and I'm going to keep monitoring it, but I'm telling you I put after I do my face in the morning I take it and I put it right down and make sure that it's over my scar here And I do 10 minutes And I think my scar on my breast Is healing so much quicker Than I I expected it's still there. It's still ugly, but it looks so much better And I noticed that the bad scarring around my nose Here has gotten so much better and I I really really believe it's the red light therapy You guys should do your own research on it. Now candy way this company Yes, this was sent to me Another company that sent it to me with no obligation. I said if you like it, you can talk about it, you know, we think you'll like it Um, but no specific obligation. No, no, you have to do a video in a week. You have to do this You have to do that nothing like that And and I really love their story the brand story I know I've talked about that before and I love the personalized customer attention that you get So anyways candy way this was originally sent to me and I love it. I think it has made an amazing difference on how my The remainder of my face scar from my nose surgery has healed And also I believe that it is helping tremendously on the scar I have here Is it lifting my skin and making it tighter? I don't know. I started up using the face cupping. I talked about that Well, I stopped the face cupping is a little awkward. So I went back to my fubushi And I've been using that here and I've only been back on that consistently You know for about a week. So I'm going to try because this is my trouble I just my droop, you know, I I mean I would benefit greatly from plastic surgery I just can't afford it. So it's not going to happen. It's not going to be in the ballpark for me But I'm going to try the fubushi and and I know enough to know I have to be consistent To make anything work, you know, and the same thing with eyelash my eyelash serum Right out of the blue. I get this box in the mail And it's from blink now. I've talked about blink my eyelash serum. I use eyelash serums Some people, you know, they don't want to use them that much. It's entirely, you know, up to you Do your own research on that But I have used blink on and off probably the last, I don't know, it's been three years So anyways, I opened up the box and it was blink and I was like, oh my gosh So I'm going to do a little giveaway. I'm so close to 20,000 subscribers. I'm not clear yet My channel is growing so slowly, but I'm going to do a little giveaway So if you're interested in the blink, leave me a comment below and just say I would like to try the blink And then I'm going to do a random picker and whoever it is is going to get two Tubes of this again. This was sent to me without any strings from blink So that and they know that I use their products. So I really like that Also, and I didn't bring it in here because I hadn't planned to talk about it But sometimes when you get stuff sent to you and there is no obligation You know, it's like wow, I got an other thing in the mail and it's the pericone md Cold plasma plus. I haven't started to use it yet advanced serum concentrate I um I want to use it. I've heard so it's very pricey, but I know they always have sales I've heard so many good things about that product But I haven't used it yet. So but that's another thing It just arrived in the mail and there was absolutely no strings attached so So while I was away, I bought this this hat before I went away because I'm I'm always looking for Sun protection And I realized that this this was an AD SPF. So I thought okay. I'm going to give it a try It came in a tiny tiny little box folded like this. So I thought maybe that'd be good for camping well, I bought it and It's okay, it doesn't look the best on me You know, it doesn't really look the best on me, but it's it's okay I'm going to continue to use it, but I don't like how the brim fits I don't like it's it's lumpy looking and I think it's probably really because You fold it up and you put it into this little tiny package box and that's how I received it So I had a we had a great time overall Away, it was really an awesome time and then coming back and finding Some goodies in the mail is always really good. I'm so looking forward to trying the hand therapy And I'm so excited about how my scar is healing I'm going to enclose in this video my one-year update For my Moha surgery. So if anyone gets grossed out about scars You might want to shut it off soon, but I'm going to do I'm going to add that one year update because The products that I have been using scar away by aquarium I've been using the the mask, which I think is the candy way mask Milka Magnesia the products that I've been using Have made such a huge difference. I think on the healing of my scar and I was devastated when half my face Was so gross, you know, yes, I'm vain. I was devastated looking at myself in the mirror Just like I was fainted when my band-aid came off They said leave your band-aid on I was taking a shower and all that and it wouldn't come off I didn't want to pull it But when it finally came off, it was in the shower. I was passed out because I was not expecting that huge scar across the top of my breast So that was like such a Shocker But anyways, I'm going to close that video here And I'm going to probably do a little bit more of a deeper dive into my scar care In my next video, but I just wanted to share part two of the vlog Give you a little bit of update on how I'm really liking my Candy way highly recommend if you guys can afford it. There's always sales If you guys save your money if you are if you have the type of person that's consistent Consistent because if you're if you're going to spend the money and you're going to do it once a month It isn't going to help you So if you're consistent and you can save your money and buy something like this It's probably going to be well worth it for you I noticed in a very sharp period of time a difference in my skin A real sharp period of time now granted. I've been doing skincare and maybe that's why But if I notice a difference in my hands From the current body You know mask for my hands. I will be super super thrilled So I'm going to end the video here because it's like going to be 30 minutes before I know it Anyways, thank you all so much for watching and I will talk to you in my next video Bye guys. Happy sunday I can't believe it's been over a year already So the end of june last year 2022. I had most surgery for a basal cell cancer spot and as you can see from the scarring it was pretty intense And as I was going through the process the healing process I didn't think my face would ever ever get back to normal A lot of these photos are of me with no makeup except just some mascara So that you can actually see what the scar looks like. I took onica And I took scar put scar away and biochoreum on my face every single day And slowly but surely It started to dissipate you can see how rough around my nasal lobia folds. It is That was the roughest part of the scar afterwards in the longest part to heal In most of my photos you can see that puckering right there And that is really what has gone away almost completely now There's hardly any puckering there if you take a look at it. This is an absolutely no makeup Nothing on my face. You can see all my redness and all that but the puckering is like Almost gone and you can see amazing with my makeup on and smiling and all of that my hair fixed I I look almost like you really can't even see the scar a year later So as I said, I've been using my candyway red light therapy. That's made a huge difference