 Hi guys thanks so much for coming back. It is December 29th when I'm filming this video. I'm hoping I get this done and finished and all the links put in that I need to put in and be able to upload it either tonight or tomorrow Sunday. So this may be the last video of 2018 for me. I'm not sure and in case it is I'm going to wish you a very very happy, prosperous, healthy and safe New Year's. I don't know what your plans are for New Year's Eve, even if you have any plans, but Jay and I are going to get together for an early Chinese food dinner. Take out of course with my mom, dad, my sister and her husband. We're going to go to my mom's house. It's going to be low-key but it will be definitely fun and then afterwards, depending on how late we stay, we may go try to catch the fireworks up at the beach or up in Portsmouth. We're not too sure. Sometimes we do do the fireworks and sometimes we go to a movie. More often than not we're home and in bed in our jammies by 9 o'clock. We're all fiddle-farts I guess. But I thought I thought I would do the anti-aging gadgets. Some people will say gimmicks that people love to use or buy or in some case fall for for you know anti-aging efforts and being a woman I'm 64 maybe 65 it's so hard for me to believe I'm gonna be I don't feel sick. There goes my heat again. I don't feel 65. I really don't. I feel so much younger. I wish I looked a lot younger but I feel so much younger than my age and so I am like many of you I am on a quest to try to obviously stall the aging process naturally to a certain degree as much as possible. So I thought I would sort of summarize the 2018 gadgets that I have bought tried some of them I love some of them not so much. Now one of the gadgets I'm going to talk about I bought in 2017 put it away and then started to reuse it in 2018. I wanted to see if I looked back at it would it make a difference would I feel differently about it and I consistently used it for quite a while and did not notice anything in that. And that particular gadget is and this was not inexpensive I bought this this is the skin clinical reverse anti-aging light therapy so I bought this I did use this pretty consistently in 2017 gave up didn't notice any kind of a big difference tried it again in 2018 I think I went three months using it every day and then stopped again didn't notice any kind of a difference and it's very very time-consuming it is very time-consuming because you're going over each area for until it beeps and it's a long time and then you cover your whole face so I found a time-consuming I didn't find it to be of any kind of beneficial it didn't give me any results that I could see at least nothing noticeable at that point in time so that to me is more like a huge huge bust. The thing that is really positive is two products that I bought that I've talked about and I'll mention them again because 2018 gadgets was that was the infamy where I went and I bought gadgets so the first one was my trophy skin now this is the microderm abrasion microderm MD you might say wow this looks like she hasn't even used it because it's still so pretty late pretty pretty Lee packaged I do try to put it back in the original container when I'm done using it because my thought process is that this would travel well in the motorhome this summer etc so what I've been doing this now granted this is new to me I've only used it three times three times to date and the reason I'm only using it so sparingly is because of the retina use so I use this and I have it I have a Google Calendar you should see my Google Calendar it kind of reminds me when I'm doing everything otherwise you know what I just want to keep track of it I wouldn't be able to remember so I use this roughly every three weeks on my skin and before I use it I drop off my retina use for two days I'm using retina consistently probably five times a week and it really all depends because that will shift depending on how my skin looks what my plan is etc so the trophy skin microderm abrasion it was expensive I bought it at QVC it was on sale I did the three pay where's the five pay well whatever I did the the multiple pay option I'm glad I did it I'm glad I have it because when I use it when I do the deep exfoliation with it especially when I do the the expression with the little tip around my nose and all that stuff I I see and feel a big difference the next day so for me this is a win an expensive win but a win for me I'm glad I bought it the second thing I bought it's also from Trophy Skin and this is the Labelle ultrasonic skin spatula I've used this a number of times I've had to charge it a few times it holds the charge really well I really like it you have the trick to this is to use it with wet skin and as you are going along your skin it is like deeply opening up and cleaning out your pores this is to me a game changer I really really am so happy that I ended up buying this it was expensive I hemmed and hard I said do I really need this I bought the trophy skin the the microderm abrasion do I need the spatula I went back and forth finally I said yeah I'm gonna go ahead and buy it I bought it I've used it a number of times I love it now I've used this in the morning I've also used it at night more often than not I will use it at night after I've done all my cleanse everything is nice and clean then I will keep my skin damp and I will go over it with with the spatula it's amazing to me when I see the things that pop out so gross but it is amazing to me so I use that an awful lot the other thing that I am in this is a gadget is not new in 2018 but it's still a well-loved gadget it's a very much a well-loved gadget I I actually bought a dupe of this last year for Christmas Jay bought me too so I have one for the motorhome but this is my for your mini and it's silicone I clean it very easily I use this at least once a day if not sometimes twice a day and I love when I'm washing my face and I putting on my lotion my my skin cleanser and my face is nice and wet I love that I just smoothing this out very gently into my skin cleaning my skin with this the dupe was less than $18 and the dupe works just as well as the original dust in my opinion of course that's just my opinion you guys are gonna crack up this is called face cupping so I bought these little face cuppers and what you do is is you you depending on the song it's like it's like exercising your face is basically what it is exercising your face so it's kind of funky sounding because when I and I looked at us all bad but you put it on your skin and then you squeeze kind of works the muscle so when it first got it and I said well is that gonna hurt but it really doesn't so it has a few different sizes so that you can use it in other areas if you want and it basically this is just sort of like an exerciser for your face it's a gadget do I know what this is going to work no I don't does the concept excuse me does the concept of it make sense it does you know you exercise your body why not exercise your face muscles and maybe it'll have a very a very loose skin a very jelly skin maybe it'll help with that back on this I used to do my derma rolling you know every week now I'm doing derma rolling probably once every two weeks and I have I've said to I use the gin amber derma roller I really like the medical grade derma roller but you do have to replace them frequently so it's not inexpensive timeless has one it's not medical grade but for disposable if you're not going to go deep it's probably just fine but the thing that I've been wanting to do is the derma stamping is that what it's called derma stamping so right about the time that I decided it wasn't going to use the roller anymore that was going to do my strength stamping I was contacted by a company called banish banish.com and banish.com said to me you know would you be interested in trying their sort of derma stamping and their vitamin C and their skincare products so I said sure I would give that a try so I've only used this this is this the derma stamp their company is be it's very and it's an interesting company I'm going to link all the information below for anyone that's interested but mainly they are well known for acts and acne and acne scarring and so most of their promotionals everything is a lot that you see on their website is all about acne and they this concept obviously works for the anti-aging so this is what their derma stamp looks like and I like that it's very protective you keep it in your little container you have to wash your face before and sanitize and all that stuff then they have a banishing oil it's it's a vitamin C oil it is really really nice it's a thick oil it isn't a thin oil at all so what I've done the first time I used this derma stamp afterwards I put the I followed the protocol I followed what they say in the kit that I have and they have a really luxurious vitamin C cream that I really like a lot but the thing I like the most out of the product the their oil is very rich the vitamin C oil is very rich very different than my vitamin C serums that I have been using which are a lot more watery but I love their vitamin C elixir I've taken this to work I've sprayed it and just when you need a little boost this is perfect and it's a perfect size so this I'm really enjoying they have an awesome pumpkin mask this pumpkin mask even I've only used this once and I don't want to dig in too much but this pumpkin mask smells 100% like pumpkin it is like amazing so I really like this a lot so my plan is not to do a role but to do the derma stamp I'm going to find out more information about banish I this is not something you can continue to use long-term you have to replace the head anyways because you know although you're not dragging it you're just stamping lightly just tiny tiny tiny redness nothing bad at all doesn't even hurt compared to the derma roller so I really like that so I'm trying that out the other thing that I am trying and you know in my favorites I talked about a face oil I talked about some of the face oils that I like and there's a face oil that I have been using and I've only been using it about a week so I can't give you any kind of long-term but this was actually gifted to me from the company via the Octoly Network I'm going to try to pronounce the name of the company and of the product Joharan Joharan it's an Indonesian skin care line and it is a luxury skin care line when you read the product information it talks about how this was formulated originally way back you know for kings and queens because they wanted to have luxury type skin care and all that stuff and so when I saw this being offered I said I'm gonna give it a try I love you you all know I love my face oils Radiance Vitality Oil I'm going to link all the information and I'll put the product you know contents up here in the description because I'm going to tell you this is an oil that is it's absolutely correct it is Radiance Vitality Oil this is an oil that has so many awesome oils mixed into it it's all you need so every morning that I've been using this now I've again I've only been using it for about a week but every morning I've been using it the first morning I put way too much on you this you have to use just a tiny tiny bit and then you just pat it on my makeup I mean I can go straight from putting the oil on and letting the oil sink in and dry and I can ply my foundation and I never have any beating nothing at all it is it is beautiful if I mean this is a luxurious oil I think this retails like $70 Johara it is beautiful that's all I can say I love the combination I love the mixture it is absolutely beautiful and I'm so thrilled to have tried this luxury brand so yes this was gifted to me from the company via the Octolene Network but it is it is simply simply a beautiful beautiful oil so really truly beautiful and that's going to bring me to a few other items because gadgets don't have to be things that you put on your skin it can also be for your hair so one of the things that I have loved for my hair has been some of the little hair pieces if you've been following and watching my videos and seeing me on social media and other sites you know that often I put my hair up and often I put it up in a fake bun and so or a hair piece whatever you call these little things so these little things are just cheap little little hair pieces so the three that I have right now in my hands these three are my original three you can see they're getting a little bit frizzy looking but they're they're all basically scion sheet type things so you can put this on your hair you can double it around and you can have a little bit of you know that's how I do it a lot of times I'll put it up in my hair I'll add it on with you know with a ponytail type thing I'll wrap my own hair underneath it and wrap this around it and then just fluff out the curls it looks really good most people can never tell I have anything on so those were the three that I bought originally from Sally's so then I found the same same type of a wrap in Ulta and I like the one in Ulta better because the hair is straighter not as curly as the ones from Sally so the two that I have actually have three from Ulta one I haven't even opened up the package yet because I bought the second one or third one I should say when they had one of their 20% off sales and it was just a really good buy I figured I'm going to buy it while the color was there but these I like better because they're a little bit longer and you can wear one or two you can put your hair up really be very creative you can take the top part of your hair put it up put one of the buns there put a second one a little bit lower it's really really nice I really like how you can do that I also bought this little braid thing little braid piece so I put that sometimes in my hair when I put this up it looks really cute I think so oftentimes I will take either my hair and a little Invisibobby and tie it up and then put the the fake bun on top of it or I'll take a claw clip and I and that's why a lot of times these are stretched out because I'll put a claw clip in my hair for example and then I will clip this around the outer edge of it so that when you're looking at the back you're seeing that and a little bit of a claw clip in the middle and that kind of makes it a different work so I either can pull it up in a bun or pull it back in a claw clip I also bought the pony and I'm kind of sorry about the pony because I've really never used it I tried to use it a couple of times and I thought it would be kind of a fun thing I think I used it once in a video and it's sort of like I was trying to be like do a throwback thing you know by having a pony the color is almost perfect for me I mean you know there's a little variation of the color but you know who knows I mean when I put my hair up my ends are a little bit different colored anyway so this is like a really cool cool ponytail only used it once I don't know if I'm ever going to use it to be honest with you a couple things that I bought that didn't work out for me and I never returned it and this was one that I bought from Paula Young this is a clip clip on I can't remember what I paid for it but I want to say and I've never used this never use this get a little claw clip and you clip it on now I I'm bringing this closer so you can see that this color is just too light for me I thought of selling it on eBay but you know I don't have patience for that so if anyone is a blonde this is the color I think it's 14 slash BBA and this is wispy curls clip on from Paula Young so if anyone has this color and you want to enter to win it just say I want to I want to win the Paula Young clip on obviously if your hair is not the right color don't bother entering but I just figured it'd be you know try to get rid of it I also have these are just a little bit off for me they're darker but not much but a little bit but I also have this ponytail that I never used I think see I could almost get away with this but I never really used it this is sort of like you clip it and you put it on so I don't know I might buy it still I just felt that the colors were a little off they were too Auburn for me and is that I don't know if it's Auburn but too you see a little bit off but I have these I just haven't used them yet I keep thinking I should do something with them too but but I haven't so I think I think that's really awful my my gadgets I'll let you know how I like the face cupping as I continue to do that in case this video is the last video which I think it will be this I just want to make sure that you all like I said in the beginning have a wonderful wonderful New Year's and be safe be happy have a great year and I just want to thank you all I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for always being here and being so supportive I truly truly appreciate all of you YouTube for me continues to be a fun place I love every moment I spend on YouTube and I enjoy creating my videos I'm not perfect gosh I do know that and my videos are not perfect I'm just me and I'm just sharing little bits of what I do and what I know and share it with you all you know I think that together when we share things we all learn so I've learned so much from every single one of you those of you that have left comments that have made suggestions I've learned a ton from you and I know some of you've learned from me and I just want to thank you so have a wonderful wonderful new year and I will probably see you I think next in 2019 unless I sneak in my blog I still have a Christmas vlog video but I'm starting to think like I don't know you know I don't know so anyways perhaps bye guys