 Hey guys, it's Monica. Thank you so much for joining me. I am going to share with you just a few empties a couple of fails in some things that I've bought and The things that I've bought at least one of them. I was influenced to buy From a YouTube influencer. So if you're curious, stay tuned Okay, so It's it's been I don't know. It's been quite a it's has it been like two or three weeks Since I've actually done a sit-down type video. I mean the last few videos I think I've done have been vlog styles because I've been sharing different things. So We went we went to Cape Cod. I think that was in my last vlog. We went down to Cape Cod I had every intentions of shooting a video and having a video go up in advance while we're gone That didn't work out So I put all the footage together and it was kind of a long long video I tried to edit it down and I was successful in editing it down But I wanted to share a little bit of Cape Cod Just a little bit of my work week that I've had at that point in time So during that period of time, I kind of like didn't really watch a lot of videos and when he came home It was like getting caught up and one of the videos I saw was Mary Ellen after a 60 She Mary Ellen just had her birthday. So happy happy happy birthday Mary Ellen But one of the things that she talked about that as soon as I saw it I said, oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I have to have that and I had actually first seen this mentioned on Melissa 55's channel, but for whatever reason, I just didn't order it So I saw it on Mary Ellen's and I said I've got to get it and I am like I've only had it like what three days now Don't you love Amazon? I love how quick things get delivered. It's amazing. But this little oh my gosh And Mary Ellen did such a great job. You you know with it it comes You don't really have to do much of anything, but the reason I wanted this Was I wanted to be able to vacuum my keyboard keys for my Mac laptop and my you know Little cup holders in my car and other little things like in between the seats and stuff like that that really couldn't get to And what I really liked is that it doesn't require much of an assembly production at all You just kind of put this little thing in is pretty well all assembled There's a little dust bag in there that give you a few reusable ones Mine came fully charged, but if it needed to be charged, I would just plug it in It's a USB plug it into my adapter and I'd be good to go Not loud Dissection is actually pretty good. Now, you know, Jay looked at me and he said Do you really need that? I said, yeah, I do so then he used it to vacuum his keyboard from his computer and he was like Yeah, so that's the biggest thing for me is being able to vacuum out my keyboard This the little cup holders in my car that always kind of collect all sorts of stuff And I'm sure in between my questions, although I haven't tried that yet Like I said, I've only recently got this but thank you to Mary Ellen because I had forgot about it when I watched Melissa 55 talk about it and Then Mary Ellen just brought it to the forefront and I was like, oh, yes, I need this And this is the box that came in its mecca mini a vacuum cleaner It's really pretty awesome little device So that was really really cool that I bought the other thing I bought and we were hit we're getting a couple of trips coming up and I've got we have convention in March, but in February in January. We're gonna be going down to Florida It all works out well and we're gonna be spending two weeks in Florida And we're gonna be spending it going and visiting my mother-in-law lives in Venice So we're gonna go over to Venice and then we're gonna crisscross a little bit and and I'll be vlogging that trip But anyways, I wanted to have I wanted to kind of streamline what I'm bringing So I ordered and I haven't got it yet. I ordered a Z palette to read to do my shadows I'm I'm only gonna bring one palette with me and I'm gonna create and make my own palette out of the Z palette So that should be arriving any day, but I also wanted to order this mirror And I really I mean I like I need to have a magnifying mirror So I don't know if you guys can see this is really cool and it's Lights up that's even cooler. So I need to have a magnifying mirror. I need to be able to oh my gosh My skin's a mess I need to be able to you know to do that And I wanted to have one that had ten times and I think three times is this one So it works out perfectly. I had a mirror before That magnified and but it was a much bigger one. So I wanted a very compact one. It is rechargeable I have so many of these little recharge of things. It's like crazy, but it is rechargeable. I really like it. I received this I don't know Maybe three days ago I have not used it because it didn't come in in time to you know to take it with me on my trip to the Cape But it is definitely going with me in my shopping ex in my trip to Florida and also convention. So Because we're gonna be packing light, which of course My husband thinks is ridiculous. It's a joke. I just didn't really want to have a whole bunch of stuff I didn't want to really, you know, take stuff with me and and just be bogged down with stuff. So So sorry, I had to to reposition myself So I really do want to streamline my packing and I thought yeah, why not? I got this perfect ten from patch ology path patch ology it can't even drop and This is I can't wait to use it This is a hand glove And I'm gonna actually use it tonight So this was sent to me complimentary from patch ology from the octaly network in Exchange for review so I could try it. Well, anyways, some of you may remember I don't know how many years ago. It was that I Had had my diamond reset and I had sent a picture to my mother with my ring and she said oh It's a beautiful ring, but too bad you have such ugly old hands and I was pretty devastated at the time And and I know I mentioned it in a video So I am always anything that can make my ugly old hands look a little bit better is Is going to be amazing for me. So I'm going to give these a try. I Can't wait to perfect ten I think what I'm going to do is I I dug out my red light therapy I'm going to lie with that on my face and I'm going to put the mask on my hands I think that's what I'm going to do. I will report back on this just to let you know how how it did But I'm super excited to try this Yeah, if it makes my old lady hands look a little bit better I'm going to be darn happy about that so the other the other thing is I have mentioned fiera and I had mentioned that fiera their concealer I have used that concealer over and over and over again It is hands down the number one the number one best concealer for my skin from my I have a scar that I'm trying to cover I have veins I have all sorts of different discolorations and blemishes on my skin that I'm trying to cover Well, recently they sent me the uh citrus stem Stem stem C serum. I have not opened it up yet I I have a little bit of vitamin C left. I probably should be finished that within a week and then I'm going to be tackling that But they also sent this matte finishing powder and And I'll tell you I really like it now. I'm not a powder gal But there are times when you just really need to have something set in and just need to be finished So they sent me this complimentary Not In expectation of a review that wasn't no kind of strings just sent it to me to try Because I talked about wanting to try this on a video And so I got the finishing powder I may have showed this to you in a couple of videos Before and I got a brush I have the other brush that I used for that they sent with my initial concealers And then at the vitamin C. I am so excited to try these and because the vitamin C. I think will be really awesome I'm a big proponent of vitamin C And I'm super excited to try this because I really like their products a lot. I shouldn't even say that I don't like their products. I actually love their products For years. I've been on a concealer people call this concealer that concealer. I would try it And while it looked beautiful on them, it never worked for me Never worked for me I ended up Going to and I had a little bit of a mini haul if you want to call it that I ended up going to elta And I bought a couple of things than elta that I have really been needing and I wanted to really try the elf Not the elf the morphe eyeliners I put them on my hands in the store. I talked about how much they stayed put on my hands. They didn't come off They didn't rub off and I said if they were as nice on my eyes as they did on my hands I was going to be a happy camper. So I had bought two of them The other ones in the house I bought two of them and what I discovered this is my fail Morphe these these liners They have staying power, but I have to push down So hard to get it to go on my eyes and I don't need to push hard on my I don't want to I don't want to have to hold and and push to get an eyeliner to go on my eyes. So This was a huge fail. The other one was a huge fail. I bought two of them I also at the same time wanted to try their eye Crayon and they were all out in the store. So I ordered it online and um You know, they gave me a tracking number and they said it was, you know, the tracking number every time I checked It was label. Well, I ordered it like october 2nd and Two days ago october, I think it was october 23rd or something Two days ago, I reached out to them and I said, hey, what's up with this? It's still showing labeled to be created. Well, then they said to me Oh, it's lost in transit I was like, okay So I canceled that order. I said forget it, you know forget about it because by that point in time I was sour on this so the morphe The morphe eyeliner the number two Did not do it for me. It it was too hard to apply. It was Not at all It may last a long time, but it was just not anything that I could apply to my eyes No way did not like it at all. I did buy another elf I do like the elf brow Pencil I like that you have the little spoolie on one end and then you can color it in so I bought another one of those I like them. I actually bought two of them Because I do like those products a lot. So when I find something I like I like to have a backup and I have to crack up because Mary Ellen does the same thing. She's a backup for the backup. Well, yeah So I'll get a backup and a backup Because I do like it and then I also bought their make me brow The gel that you kind of put on I've used this before I like it I just haven't found a brow gel that I think is the nuts So if you guys have one that you think is the best, let me know and I'll check it out So the hands the gloves for my hands. Oh my gosh. I'm like so excited about that A number of you ask what I do for my nails. I do absolutely nothing my nails are crappy I bite the cuticles. I'm trying to really do better on my nails right now. My nails are really bad The only thing I use is this glass file and I bought this off of amazon I don't know how long ago I bought a number of them. I have a backup for a backup on these files So I think that the glass file has really helped my nails tremendously It's highly recommend something like that for those of you that are really questioning it and um, you know One nails. I don't put polish on it. I don't wear any false nails right now Although I probably will in the future, but I really like it Um, I ran out of my unseen sun sunscreen. I still have my Trader Joe's. I love Trader Joe's It works just as good as the super goop But I ran out and I always cut my containers and dig in I do the same thing with my toothbrush toothpaste, so I happen to like ap 24. It's a fluoride Wightening toothpaste by new skin. I just I just really like this toothpaste I don't have the best teeth in the world. So Any help I can get I like and again, I cut this so I can dig in I have my replacement I bought like six tubes of it. So I'm all set with that I what else did I do? Oh, I bought a new lipstick It's 140 it's a Maybelline it's mauved I'm not too sure if I'm Gung-ho about it. It's okay I don't know lipstick and me, you know, we're not it can it get lipsticks can be funny for me. So we'll see The other thing I bought was my morphe setting spray. I kind of like this. This is probably The one I use the most so I bought one of these and I'm going to buy the smaller can Right before we go on our trip. So yeah Our trip is going to be Fun because we're going to be done with family and we're going to be doing a whole bunch of different things And I'm just looking forward to it. I can't I cannot tell you when was the last time I went away in the winter time That wasn't work related. I mean in march We have our annual convention and this coming march. It's going to be in vegas and It was cold last year last time we went to vegas jay and I went out and we did the grand canyon And it was chilly out there. So I have no idea but going in january, no florida is not going to be The warmest in january But I am I'm really looking Looking forward to going and and visiting with my mother-in-law and then visiting with a bunch of friends as we just explore around florida It'll be lots of fun. I can't wait to vlog it as well So we did do the scarecrow festival Um, not the scarecrow the pumpkin festival up in damascota, maine and the one And I talked about this i'm sure in my last video But the one pumpkin display that really grabbed me was the one queen elizabeth with her which her corgis Just amazing amazing work of art. It's like amazing what some people can do out of a pumpkin So I was like, oh my gosh But um, but anyways, I think I'm looking around I mean, I do have you know other things that I've bought more of but you know nothing Nothing dramatic. I don't have a whole bunch of empties and I just wanted to get on here and Givered up with you guys for a little bit. I am going to be doing a couple of wig reviews A number of you always ask me. What do I have on my head? Um, I wear many of you know, I wear toppers on occasions. Sometimes I don't And I wear fake buns. So I have a fake bun on the back of my head And then I just have a genre no topper easy easy top Really small topper that I've cut the heck out of And um worn for years. So I have that no wig on tonight. So I just thought I'd I'd mention it And my house. Oh, I got a couple of sweaters. I got this one. This is kind of oversized It's really big which I like because I'm really big and so it hides me I got this and I got a green one and then I got a different sweater It was a blue with a big fat neck with buttons So I thought that was kind of pretty. I think I'm gonna wear that tomorrow night is my 50th tomorrow You won't see this until Saturday But Friday night Is my 50th high school reunion So, yeah, it'll be fine. Anyways, I'm sure this is super long. You guys are probably thinking. Oh my god She's talking about nothing and nothing and nothing And I am talking about nothing and nothing but I'm just talking to all of you because you're all my My friends even though I can't see your faces. I'm just imagining your faces in front of me Anyways, so I've got I've got a couple of wig reviews. I definitely want to do a tag video that Little Susan little Susan little poet did I want to do that tag video. I'll probably try to film that Saturday We'll see. I don't know but anyways, thank you. Thank you all for being here with me and I'll see you in my next video. Bye guys