 Hey guys, it's Monica. I'm going to share with you a couple of embities and a couple of new things. So I want to really dig in deep into my thoughts on the Dr. Brand neck sculpting treatment that I did and I showed in a previous video. I'll link that video below in case or above in the cards or something just in case you didn't get to see it. So I really want to talk about this and I want to share with you a couple of new products and some empties as I said. So let's get right to it. Thank you so much for being here with me today. And I hope this will be a fairly short video, but you never know. So anyways, first of all, as many of you know, I did the Dr. Brand eight week neck sculpting treatment and I pretty well documented and I did it religiously. This is empty. I mean completely, completely empty. So there's nothing in here. I used the entire, the entire treatment tube and all of that. And I posted the photos and I sort of said you guys be the judge and I had some people that were very polite and said, I think I see a slight improvement and other people saying not so much. So and then I had a number of questions and also emails that said, well, what have you been doing to your neck because your neck doesn't look all that bad? So I just thought I would address that really quickly. As far as the Dr. Brand, let me tell you, I absolutely enjoyed very much the neck sculpting and of course my stone is broken. I really enjoyed very much this cream and the whole process of massaging my neck and keeping my neck in declatage area moisturized. I enjoyed it. I did it twice a day and I thought it was a lovely process. However, this is $95 and unless you catch a sale, it's a pricey pricey number and for me and my skin and my neck, I didn't see the dramatic differences that I thought I would see or that they even indicated that I would see. I never saw that, but that doesn't mean that you won't see it. You know what I mean? There's been a number of other reviews in this product. I've seen some really positive ones. I've seen some really negative ones. So I think this is going to be something that if you choose to use it and you use it exactly as they describe twice a day, you may see results. It all depends on your neck, what you've been doing for your neck. It certainly can't hurt, but for $95, did it make an impact and I would say, no, I did not see in the mirror any differences. I didn't see anything in my photos. So what I have been doing up until I was using this treatment is I was using my weakest version of Retin-A 0.025 percent Retin-A cream and I had been mixing it with Rosehip Organic Rosehip seed oil. Most of the time the Rosehip seed oil I buy from the ordinary. It's affordable. I like it a lot. You can use whatever product you want. Obviously, it'll be your neck, but that's how I've been using this for near two years. So I use the Retin-A. I mix it in with the Rosehip seed oil and I put it all on my neck and I go down here. And I was doing this every night, not twice a day, but just that night until I started the doctor brand. So any kind of a good moisturizing system that you use on your neck and your consistent and the massaging techniques, I mean, I just wonderful. So I think that's made the biggest difference in my neck. So, you know, maybe if I hadn't been doing that, maybe if my neck had been in worse shape, drier, et cetera, maybe I would not have, maybe I would have seen more results with the doctor brand. It's a lovely cream. I enjoyed the opportunity to try it out. It is, though, however, for me on the pricey side, and I didn't see the type of results on my neck that I wanted to see. That said, it may be completely different for you. So I wanted to give you that feeling because that's my empty. It's going in the trash, bone dry, completely empty. The other thing I wanted to tell you is the ordinary. There's my Michael Icolic. This is the toning solution. This is my toner. This is empty. I already have my replacement. I should have pulled it out. I didn't. I already have my replacement. I use this probably more often than I should. But, you know, like many of you out there, I'm experimenting to a certain degree with my skin. If I have a reaction on something I'm doing, I'm going to stop like right away. I'm not going to keep doing something if I'm seeing a lot of redness, if I'm seeing a lot of issues. I'm just not. So my skin seems to be dealing with this quite well. And I really like this is my toner of choice. I do have a witch hazel toner that I use often as well. So I alternate, but I'm probably using this probably five days a week. Anyways, and I like this toner. So I have my replacement. It's my empty. I've really, really liked it a lot. The other thing that I have in this is also a toner. And this is the Klairs. This is the Korean skincare. I bought this. I like this a lot. I really do. I like this a lot. I'm not repurchasing it only because I do have my other bottle of my ordinary. And I really like the glycolic acid toner better than this. This is a lovely toner. If you need something milder and toning on your skin, you might want to consider this. I bought it on Amazon. I don't remember the cost, but it's empty. I'm not repurchasing it and not because I don't like it. It's just that I don't need it. So that brings me to my brand new and this I talked about before we went to Vegas. This is Gin Amber's Dolphin. If you, if you don't know Gin Amber, she is a fellow YouTuber. She is also an esthetician. She's a beautiful, beautiful woman. I'm not sure how long she's been on YouTube, but I think about a couple of years anyways, I first fell upon Gin Amber when I was researching dermarollers. I had been dermarolling and I wanted to know more about the process. And she was talking about medical grade dermaroller. Her videos on dermarolling was an eyeopener for me. I mean a total eyeopener for me. When I saw how she took apart the regular dermaroller that you buy and toss and her medical grade, the differences in the needles and the quality of the needles, I said, Oh my gosh, I am, if I'm going to dermaroll my face or dermaroll or anything of that nature, I am going to use one of hers. And I started to use her dermaroller. I have three of them. They, I will tell you the difference between the medical grade needles in the ones you buy on Amazon or even timeless, cause I have a few of the timeless ones and like night and day, the medical grade are a lot sharper. You know, you can really feel it. You definitely need to use a numbing cream. But anyways, Jen Amber sells a lot of medical grade dermaroller. Dermaroller is very affordable. She is a wonderful, wonderful lady. She is also on Instagram connected up with her over the last couple of years. She's answered all my questions. She's been extremely responsive. And she reached out to me. I didn't even know when it was, month and a half, two months ago, something like that. Asked if I would be interested in reviewing one of her, her products and I, and knowing Jen and respecting her, I immediately said yes, but I didn't know what it was. I thought maybe it would be the Aqua stamp or a dermaroller or maybe even some of her skincare line. I wasn't too sure what she was going to want me to review. And then she told me about the dolphin. I had never heard of the dolphin. I said, what is this? And she said, it's like, it's, it's this little, take a look at this. Isn't this, I mean, this is really cool. So she said that this is sort of like a face lifting device in the sense that it, it massages your skin. So I said, okay, I said, send it to me. And we kept talking. And I said, you know, want to use it before I do a review? I certainly will do a first look at it. She was fine with that. She goes, take your time, use it. You know, when you do your review, be honest, present your findings and all of that stuff. So I went to Vegas and my one regret was that I didn't bring it to Vegas. I was worried about bringing it to Vegas. I thought, you know, maybe this device in my luggage, I mean, who knows what TSA would think of this, right? Did they think it was a pistol or whatever? So I didn't bring it to Vegas and I'm really sorry I didn't bring it to Vegas because by the time I came back from Vegas, it was about a week or so before I got settled in. And then I started to use this, this, this device. Now when, now Jen calls it a face lifting dolphin. I think this is an amazing massaging system. And I'm going to link all the information below because I, I'm not really good with the technical aspects of it, but the power button is here. You put your thumb on the power button and you hold it, it beeps. You can see this little red light. That means it's going to go hot. If you want it to go cold, you can just, you know, hit it again. It'll go blue. It'll be cold. Oh, and so what I do with this is I literally have been, and now I've got nothing on my face. So I'm going to be very careful, but I have literally been shut it off. I have literally been applying my skin care, not all of it, but my skin care. So in the morning I use this for my under my eye area. And I think, and you don't have to use it with your creams, but it just goes better. It's flows better in the sense it's smoother when you have cream on. So I put my under eye cream on and then I am massaging my bag areas. And, and I've had some, I've been sick this week. I haven't slept sometimes, but three, four nights. And I have bags under my eyes like you would not believe. And I really think that, and I put it on cold when I'm working on my bags. And I really think that when I am massaging in my cream, it is helping reduce the puffiness under my eyes. I also, I have deep marionette lines here. I also have those of, that's a major issue for me. When you put it on this side, I actually work right into those lines. So what I've been doing is I've been putting my serums on, my matricle, excuse me, my matricle. And I have been really kind of doing the pulsating points into those lines. I've also been doing it all around my lips. It doesn't hurt. She says it's like little tiny acupuncture while I've never had acupuncture. So I really don't know what that feels like, but this does not hurt at all. It actually feels really, really good. So I've been going up on my 11s. I've been going over. I've been going all, now I will put serums on. I will put cream on. I will do, or nothing, if my skin, but you have to do this with your clean skin, you're not going to, I'm doing it with my makeup right now. So I'm not going to really demo it. This right here, this curvature, perfect. Perfect. Perfect. I've been able to work this area. So I've only been using this about two weeks now because of Vegas. And I've had it for over a month, but because I went to Vegas and then I had that week delay, I didn't really start it. So it's really too soon for me to say, go out and buy this. This is a miracle, but it is not too soon for me to tell you, I've seen a big difference in the puffiness under my eyes. And I do use a caffeine cream. I use the 100% pure cream and I put that in here. And I've used that cream probably for about a month and a half, maybe two months now. I noticed that it, it will work really good on my puffiness. But when I'm using it in conjunction with this turned on in cold, it works a heck of a lot faster. I look a lot more awake. For that reason alone, I can, one had to be from what I'm seeing in my puffiness, I can tell you 100%, I love this. Now, I believe this is $99, not on sale. It's a pricey number, but it is, I just thought it was delightful and I am going to continue to use it. I will tell you if I noticed any lifting, any tightening, I'm very jolly and oh my gosh, if something could, without being surgery, actually help tone that area for me, you better believe I'm going to be all over it. So this actually comes with a little USB thing for charging. It comes in a really nice box. She has a little cleaning cloth. It is not waterproof. So you don't want to be sticking it in the water. It is very intuitive. You turn it on, you keep your fingers like this, depending on which way you're going. If you release your finger, it knows you're pausing. It'll stop. It has little tiny, tiny pulsation. When I have it on cool, I can actually feel the coolness coming out. When I have it on hot, like when I'm waking up and I really have washed my face and I want my serums to go in really good, I might be having it on hot because I want my pores to be more open and all that stuff. I can really feel that. Now, I haven't started to use it in my hair. She has used it in her hair and it's helped stimulate her scalp area, et cetera. She doesn't suffer from hair loss. So I don't, I've not seen anyone that has touted it for that. She has mentioned that it would stimulate the collagen and the hair regrowth. I'm going to start using it in those areas as well. And then I'll report back. So I'm super excited about the opportunity to try this again. This was sent to me from Gin Amber, who I have known on YouTube for a long time. And I just trust her. I think she's a wonderful, honest person. I absolutely trust her. So I am really thrilled to be taking a look at this. And I'll let you know how it goes because so far, you know, my puffiness and even, you know, sometimes the puffiness is all over the place. It's like a really cool deep puffer. I love that part of it, but we'll see if it's going to do any lifting, if it is going to be doing a whole bunch of other things. I'll link all the product information for you guys below. But I also wanted to tell you about a couple of other things that was the one thing I like. And now I'm talking a mile a minute, right? I should take a breath. Jay would say, take a breath, honey. But the one thing I really like about the Octolete Network is that I can sort of choose what I might be interested in reviewing. Before we went to Vegas, a lot of people had checked, had suggested that I check out the color science, particularly Marlene Fab and Glam. She said, check out the color science, the brush on sunscreen. And this is the 50 SPF. This is the powder. So I bought it and I use, you shake it up and then you pat it on, you cover your face and I used it in Vegas. I love it because it was, it's not messy. It sits in your bag. You can have it. It can be in a pocket. It can be anywhere. So I really thought this was awesome. I did try some other sunscreens, which I will talk about in another video. But I really thought that was awesome. I absolutely loved it. So when there was this opportunity to request a color science product on Octolete, I decided I was going to do it. Now I had been reading up on the Pep-Up. The Pep-Up is a, it's a peptide. I mean, I'm going to leave you all the information, all the ingredients. I have not started to use it yet. This just came in. So this is definitely just a first look exposure on this product. But I am going to be using this Pep-Up in conjunction with the dolphin from Gin Amber. So I love the ingredients and I thought this would be the perfect thing to use in my skincare routine along with the dolphin. This is called the Pep-Up Collagen Renewal. It's a face and neck treatment. I'm probably going to use it down my neck in the morning because at night I'm going back to my rosehip seed oil with my retinate since I finished with Dr. Brant. So I'm going to be using this in the morning and I'm going to be putting it all over my face. It's full of like, it's a, it's really, really good ingredients. Peptides, it's just really a nice, healthy mix of ingredients. And I'm really excited to give this a try. So when I saw it, I said, I'm going to request it. And a lot of times when I request, I mean, not all the time. When I request certain products sometimes you don't always get approved. And I've been not approved for products that I really wanted to try. So I was like keeping my fingers crossed and they actually approved me. And then when they sent it to me, lo and behold, this is what I expected. The Pep-Up and I really, the collagen renewal face and neck. This is what I expected. And instead I got this little box. This is really cool. Whoops. I got this little box and I got the powder, this that I bought in a smaller size as well. So I'm like, I'm all set for summer between these two products. So this was a total surprise. And then they gave this cute little headphone. So, I mean, the idea is that you're protecting your skin in the morning. You're using this and at night. And when you're going outside, you're using the sunblock and you're listening to your, you know, to your phone or whatever you're listening to, you get a little impact. So I thought this was really awesome. And I was super, super thrilled to have received this from Color Science via the Octoly Network in exchange for a review. I already know I love this. So we'll see how I love the Pep-Up. But I think I'm going to like it, especially the plan that I have for using it. So that was like super, super exciting. And like a lot of people have said to me, well, how are you going to use all of these gadgets? A lot of people know that I have the trophy, the trophy skin system that is the deep exfoliation system. I use that about once every five to six weeks. I love what it does to my skin. But because I'm using Retin-A and I'm using a lot of products, I'm very, very careful on how often I use it because it's super, super strong. The other thing that I have, and you can, there's a couple of different versions out of, and I shouldn't say versions. I have the LaBelle spatula. You can get this on Easy Pay or on Amazon, but I have this spatula. I believe Tammy from Upi, Upi's Beads, I know that's not her channel name anymore. She has talked about having a spatula as have it has a few other ladies. There are off brands of this spatula that you can use that is a more affordable, I think around $50. But I got this one and I must tell you, I probably use this maybe three to four times a week on my pores. It is, it is a deep vibe. This is completely different than the Dolphin. So they're two, and it's completely different than the TrophyScan exfoliation. This, you have to have wet, wet, wet face. And I just usually have water, distilled water or, you know, some sort of water on my face and I just keep it wet. I spray it. And then you turn this on and you just go up and you can see the water being pushed into your pores. And when you look at it really close, you can see that water just being pushed into your pores. And oh my gosh, you can see gunk coming out of your pores. So for me, this is a, you know, four times a week or it depends on my skin. I'm going to listen to my skin. This is what I'm going to be using that. And then the Dolphin, the Dolphin is more of a massager. So they don't conflict with each other. Neither does this conflict with the TrophyScan micro, microdermabrasion. Those are my three, if you want to call them gadgets that I've been using. And Spatula has gotten the most use. The Dolphin is fairly new. Obviously I'll report back. I also wanted to mention that there's a company called Saturday Skin. I have, I actually love Saturday Skin. So I have their, this is sort of like a gommage. And I have a Mizon, I have a few other gommages. But this one I got quite a while ago. It's almost empty. I really, really love the Saturday Skin Skin Care. So also when I was on the Octoly Network, I saw that they had an eye cream and I have been using my timeless eye cream. I'm all out of it. I have not replaced it because I said I want to try something different and I have another eye cream that I've been using, but it's too heavy for me. So when I saw the Saturday Skin and they have this eye brightening cream and they were promoting it on Octoly, I said, I'm going to see if I can get this. So I put a request in and they accepted me and I received the Saturday Skin. Now I've only used this because it came in this week. I've only used this like three times in the morning and I've had no issues at all with my makeup or anything of that nature. I, I like how it feels. It's very, very moisturizing, but not heavy. I could also use it. You have to just use a tiny, tiny bit. So you have to, it's a pump like this. It's a little pump action, so you just have to put a little bit on and dab it in or massage it in. Yeah, baby. I massaged it in. I said, I really like this. So they sent this to me and lo and behold, when they sent me this package, they also put in some extra products that I've been using for a long time. This package, they also put in some extra products in here. So I was like, oh my gosh. So I got, I got the, and they sent me a beautiful mask. I haven't opened up the mask yet, but this is Saturday Skin. I'm a sheet mask person. I love the ingredients of Saturday Skin products. They are, they're really good ingredients. I believe they're cruelty free and they're just really good ingredients. So I'm going to give this a try. This I'm already liking. Thank you so much, Saturday Skin and the Octolene Network. I really think this is so cool. I really like it. So those are just a few of the things. I have no idea how long I've been talking, how long this video is, but those are just a few of the things that I wanted to mention. I do want to talk to you about sunscreen because I've gotten a few different sunscreen products and we are going into spring. So that's going to be my next video. I'm going to talk about my sunscreen. I'm also going to share with you. I'm going to wash one of my wigs and I ended up buying this Henry Magoo. This is their cleanse shampoo specifically, specifically for wigs. So I'm going to, not this one. This is completely different fiber. So I'm not going to be doing it with this one, but I'm going to be doing it with my head and wig just to see how it comes out. So I'm going to be sharing that in a video as well. If you have any video topics you'd like me to tackle, you know, please let me know. Leave a suggestion in the comments below. I, you know, I just want to tell you, if you don't know this, I am, I'm just like you. I'm like every single one of you. I am 65. Well, not everyone 65, but I am 65. I have a combo dry skin, especially in my T zone. It's a little bit oily, but a combination, but mostly dry skin and, and I'm just trying to stay as healthy and have as good skin as I possibly can have in my 60s. I know that there's going to be things that if I want to have a lift that it's going to have to be surgical. I'm not ready for that. So I'm just trying to do whatever I can with the resources available to me. And because I'm able to get products from Octoly and share them with you, I just want to say thank you to every single one of you because it's because of you that that has happened to me. It's because you've watched my videos, you've shared my videos, you've thumbs up my videos. And because of that, companies like Octoly and Dr. Brandt and some of the other companies that are sending me products and PR, like Sigma, Holy Moly, who would have thought, right? But because of you guys, that's happening to me. And I so appreciate every single one of you. I'm just a real person, like you all are. Struggling every day, trying to go through this maze that's called life. And sometimes, you know, I'm unsure about what I'm doing. You know, I am, I'm unsure. But every day I try to make it the best possible day it can be. So I've always been blessed with that attitude of being a bit more positive than negative. But I've also been blessed with a big, huge dose of reality. And the reality is, I know I'm not perfect. And I know every single one of you has choices. And you could spend your time watching someone that is perfect, someone that knows a lot more than I do, that shares things a lot better than I do. And does product reviews better than I do? So I totally appreciate the fact that you're here with me, helping me, supporting me along this journey. So thank you all so much, so much from the bottom of my heart. Have a great day. And until my next video, bye.