 Hey guys it's Monica. I thought I would jump in here and kind of give you a sort of quick update on some of the products that I've been using in some new products that were sent to me. So let me start by saying that I was this was gifted to me from Lancome and I got this I don't know maybe two three months ago and I did a beautiful in my opinion well a beautiful review on this product because I would say beautiful because I really like this perfume and I know it's a very much of an individual type thing but Jay really loved it too and so when I had requested this I was thrilled to get the opportunity and I've won it like almost every single day a little goes a long way since I received it. La Vie est Abelie. La Vie est Abelie. La Vie est Abelie. Anyways I can't pronounce it but at the same time I had also seen a little bit afterwards the roller bottle and I thought oh that would be so cool to have in my pocketbook you know to carry it with me when I'm traveling and all that and I got approved and they sent this to me and I'm telling you because I love this fragrance to begin with and I have had so many compliments on it that I'm absolutely thrilled so this was gifted to me from Lancome via the Octoly Network for my honest review and I think you all know I love this but more importantly Jay loves it and if your husband or your significant other loves the scent you have I think that's a really really good thing so I am thrilled to have received this as I said and I love it and I am still wearing this one so this is just going to compliment this is going in my pocketbook because I'm going to use when I'm traveling absolutely love it this I love so thank you so much Lancome. The other thing I wanted to mention is I had reviewed the Tan Luxe now when I requested this I requested the body and the face drops the face drops never came in I was really disappointed because I really wanted the face drops more than the body drops but for whatever reason the face drops never came in I reached out to the brand I don't know anyways so I reviewed at a first glance the body drops and a number of other people have been reviewing this as well so what I've done is I've used this mainly on my legs maybe sometimes on my arms but mainly on my legs what I do is if you follow the directions you'll be okay if you don't if you're not careful I'm not too sure if this is going to pick up but I want to hopefully I don't know if you can see the discoloration it's really um maybe hard to see but if you don't follow the directions or you have a miss-up and it spills you're going to get globs of color like I have going down my arm right here and I didn't catch it it's very oily I didn't notice it but I will tell you if you use this right and that means you put it on and you have a circular you have a washcloth of some sort to damp circular and you do circular all over your legs it just gives you a really nice at least it gives me a really nice golden color I love the color actually and I'm getting it without being outside I don't love when I have a mistake but that's totally totally my fault so yeah I would I definitely would continue to use this and I'm really kind of bummed I didn't get the the one for the face and I'm thinking maybe I'll probably try that because that was really what I was looking for was to get that added color to my skin the other thing that was sent to me from a grandi cosmetics and I had basically requested this a long time ago and then they sold out and I never got it and I finally they finally restocked and they sent it to me so this is the grandi lash serum this is grandi lash md haven't tried it yet those of you that know know I've been using a product called blank on my eyelashes and I love love using my blink I still have a few bottles of blink to go through I'm having a lot of success but so many other women have raved about this Kristen 1 2 3 Ms. Kristen a number of other people have used this and absolutely loved it so I really wanted to get my what almost matches almost matches I wanted to get my hands on this so I got it it was sent to me free for my honest opinion and I'm going to think about how I'm going to actually start to use this product because right now I'm in the middle of a bottle but I've also been talking to my sister and my sister is really curious about this so if I can get a before and after maybe she might be the best person to test this out so anyways super exciting about this product the other thing that I got in the mail from octaly and this is from pure cosmetics and this was their on point eyeliner pencils and they're on point I shouldn't say on point but yeah it's on point eyeliner pencils and I liquid eyeliner I got they sent me five of these I love the shades I absolutely love the shades so I am wearing the let me get you the right color here today on my on my eyes I have now I must tell you this is this is a good six hours of wear time right now just because so I put this on my face six hours ago I did my waterline with it and then I did an eyeliner along my eye you know very very close so normally I wear stock black this is that down to earth brown I'm actually kind of really liking it but more importantly I really like the staying power of it I haven't used the other shades but it's really cool this is sort of a maline fab and glam shade here so when you twist this off and unscrew it then you get the if you can see that I'm going to put this on my hand you probably can't see that anyways but you get this really fine pointy line and it has a lot of staying power so if you need to sharpen it you twist it one way the point is is soft so I would imagine if you press hard it might break knowing that I went in and I used my first one I had no problem at all putting it on at all it went on smooth I didn't press it really hard it certainly didn't break and then I put the lid back on the cover back on twisted it the other way so I was like really excited that they sent this to me free no obligation in exchange for my honest review I'm going to continue to wear it so far this is definitely a goal for me for the sense of application ease how it felt when it went on and so far how long it has lasted on me this is long lasting and I think and I'll leave the description below I think with all the different shades here I can I'm pretty sure I can get some really cool looks and maybe kind of wean myself away from that dark black although I did get a black liner so thank you so much Pure Cosmetics I'm really really liking this so I put this on just a few moments ago a moment ago and I'm already I can't now it's it's on it's dried I don't know if you can see now if I took a wet thing and I rubbed really hard I'm sure I could get that off but the important thing is that it stayed on my eyes so far the other thing I wanted to mention is the Nivea skin firming soothing concentrate now a lot of you have asked me questions about this especially lately because this is a discontinued product I have no idea why it's discontinued but it's a discontinued product and I was using this every night I never used it now I do have bags and I probably should have but I never really used it on my bags much at all maybe every now and then and every now and then I would think about doing my jowls very jolly skin I'm looking into some face exercises to try to really see if I can tighten some of that up but I never really did a whole bunch here and here like some other people have done and I just took a tiny dab of this every every night and I would put it right in this inner corner of my eyelids you know with I have just these fat globbers that sit there on my eyelid and I would put that on there and it did start to make a difference on that after a while I also put it on my brow bone so those are the two places that I put this on right here and on my brow bone I now have stopped using it every night and I stopped using it every night because I wasn't seeing any more of a difference in my fat pocket so I think I might have hit my saturation point you know the point of where it's going to get as good as it's going to get without doing something else so I dropped down and even all the other ladies that have talked about this you know they use it once every now and then so I am now using this every Sunday night and Sunday nights only so once a week I am putting this on now because I use my Olare pro retinol I'm doing that experiment as I talked about in one of my previous videos I don't use the Olare pro retinol I don't bring it down to that spot where this goes at all I do the Olare pro retinol when I put it on I put it on my deep lines here and then I go across here and then I go up here across my brow bone I did it in the very early phase go down on my eyelids I stopped doing that but I go very very close it is a retinol product and I think anytime you use something like that on your sensitive skin especially your eyelids you've got to be really really careful I only had mild flaking and then I backed off when I had that mild flaking I was using it twice a day when that happened I just backed off and started to use it once a day so now I've been using it twice a day of course I'm using the UK version and the US version and the UK version I am using on the side of my face where I have my my big veins and so the UK version pretty well gets the left side of my left eye and the US version gets my my right eye and you know and I'm just very very careful with how I do it so do it twice a day I'm really liking that but the application of the Olare does not interfere with the application of the Navier because they're going on two different areas and this I'm down to one night a week yes it's discontinued I this is probably going to last me forever I do have another bottle of this because you know I buy backups when I have something I really like so I do have another bottle of it just in case so that's the scoop on that the other thing my hair my hair my hair my hair it's getting kind of long you like my earrings these earrings I think I think I got these earrings when I was 16 I kind of remember the fair I went to when I bought these these were in my little vintage box that I found with all my old earrings I did a video on that a while back but these are those they're like really really old they're really they're really cool I really like them or these the ones I got in Hawaii now I have to think about that but anyways so some of my vintage earrings so I bought when I was starting to grow my hair out many of you know I bought these little fake hairy things I don't know whatever you call them these little fake hair pieces and I bought them and I bought some in Sally's and I bought some in Alta and the color I have is like a mocha frost almond frost or whatever color it is and it kind of matches my hair pretty good so when I bought these I wasn't too sure how that long they were going to last or anything of that nature and so this I think I think each of these are like three or four or longer months old now I've been combing them out a little bit and so you can get a little bit of a frizzle at the bottom but the way I do it is I just clip my own hair back and then I stick this on it or I stick this clip in it and then clip my hair you know back so that it just kind of looks like my own hair pulled up into this clip and and you know my hair is long enough and I say that kind of like funny because it really isn't long yet but it is long enough for me to get it up off my neck and clip it back on its own but when I add one of those little fake button things it just gives me a little bit more you know more more volume I guess it makes my hair I think look better when I have the little fake piece on it so I the surprising thing is I think these were like when I bought one of these I bought they came in a pack of two I think it was this one I still have the second one I've never even used it they came in a pack pack of two at alta for like 20 bucks 19 something you had two of these they were just these little rubber you know ponytail type things so you can easily just wrap them around your own you know own hair to create a bun if you have it up there or clip it so I did buy I did buy two and I bought the more curler ones at Sally's and I wasn't too sure how long these were gonna last I thought you know you know well maybe maybe they wouldn't last long at all you know I mean it's not real hair it's not really high quality you're paying 20 bucks in fact I think the ones at Sally's they paid like 10 bucks nine something each at that point in time so I mean really how how long would these last and I figured well if they didn't last long I didn't care I'd have fun with them and I have had I've have had a ton a ton of fun with them so I love wrapping my hair up in these little buns and I'm like yeah my hair is long enough to do a lot more with it now I can even if some of you might remember that long ponytail I bought I can even wear that and that I think I'm going to wear under a baseball hat when we go to Canada so anyways I just wanted to give you that kind of update I definitely want to tell you pure cosmetics I am so so loving these eye pencils and I'm absolutely thrilled that they sent this to me via the Octoly network I will let you know how it goes how it lasts as I go through using them more often but yeah it's really good Grandi Lash sent me this but oh my perfume roll the ball I love it love it so anyways guys that's it I just wanted to give you that quick update and I am back in my office right now I I don't know why I hadn't really planned on doing this video I guess and you know I figured well you know my camera was in here my tripod was in here it didn't look too messy behind me too messy behind me actually it does look pretty messy behind me but um I figured why not you probably get sick and tired of looking at the my bathroom window when the season's behind me maybe maybe not so anyways guys thanks so much for watching and I will see you in my next video bye guys can't have no fear nothing broke bye guys thanks so much hey oh and if you are new to my channel please please subscribe leave me a thumbs up leave me a comment I truly truly appreciate it bye guys