 I don't know about all of you, but the way that the world is going these days, I am looking for things in my life that help me out and make my life easier, but also make me really happy. And so that's what I'm gonna do today is I'm gonna recap for you the things that made my life super easy in 2022 and the things that made me super happy. So let's get into that video. Hello, my friends. We're gonna go over what I have on today. This is a really fun knit stretch v-neck with cute ruffle trim on the sleeves right here. I absolutely love these sleeves. They got a double ruffle on them and they're gathered right there at the wrist. And I just think they're so cute. This is an oversized shirt. It runs a little bit bigger, which I absolutely love. So I got a large, but it was a little bit bigger. So I had a little bit of room in it and I really liked that. Also, as always, I like to show you my earrings. These are earrings that have all kinds of hoops on them, but what makes them special is that the gold chain in the back hooks on to the back of the earring back. And so you have kind of a dimensional look right here with the front being the hoop and the paperclip design with, and then the back being separated. And so I love that. So we're gonna start with what my jewelry is on today. And this is a company that I found about, I would say somewhere about April. And that's the Lifetime Jewelry Company. They make their gold jewelry a little bit better than just the standard 14 karat gold dipped or overlaid. These are such a better quality. So I got a rhinestone heart necklace that I really love. And what really surprised me is the beautiful, how beautiful the chain was on that necklace. And then also, this is the herringbone necklace that I got that I wear kind of as a layering piece. I wear it by itself too. It's just so pretty. And then I also got one of their bracelets, which is a rose design on it. And it's just so pretty. Now, why I like this company so much is that they have a lifetime warranty on all of their pieces. So say you lost a rhinestone out of this necklace. They would replace it for you, fix it for you, whatever they had to do to make it okay or make it right. And all you have to do is after you receive your piece you just register it. So I'm showing you that as part of this video because this just made me happy. I can wear these to bed. I can wear them in the shower. I can never take them off. If they tarnish it all, which they haven't, and I've been using them for months and months. If they tarnish or anything at all, you can send it back and be able to get either a brand new piece or they'll fix it for you. And I think that's so special in today's world where we have to fight every single time we want a really quality product. Now we're gonna get into a bunch of different things that made my life so much easier this year. First of all, you guys have seen me, and by the way, everything that's in this video I've shown in videos throughout the year except for maybe one product, maybe two that I haven't shown through the year. But the rest of them you guys have seen me talk about probably till you're sick of it. This is the Conair Infinity. This is the hair dryer brush and what it's got my hair everywhere in it. And what I really love about this is it's not too hot. It has the Ion technology that draws the moisture to your hair. So your hair's gonna be super smooth, which I think is fabulous. I really have a lot of frizz in my fine hair and so this helps your hair be very smooth. It has three settings. It has a cool, warm and a hot setting. And even the hot setting, even though it's too hot for my hair, I don't feel like it's as hot as I've seen some of these. Some of these, like I got the Revlon one, I got a Drybar one. I think I got one from Laange. I'm not sure if that's how you say it. But all of those were so hot that I could feel them actually frying my hair. The other nice thing about it is that you can buy smaller head for this if you want to a smaller brush and you can buy just a paddle brush to use this. And when you take this off, you can just use this as a blow dryer. So I love that about it. It has the cool shot right here. This was one of my favorite purchases of the year and compared to a bunch of them that are out, it wasn't nearly as much. Also discovered this year was the Colorwell Dreamcoat. This product completely changed my hair as well. My hair is so smooth. I have no flyaways. I have no frizz in it. My hair is very fine and very straight. But I do have all these little new growth hairs because I did lose a lot of hair through the trauma of losing my dad earlier in the year. And when that happened, I just, you know, my hair looked like it had regular hair and then all these little fuzzballs all over the place. Well, what's really great about this is it helped to tame those as they were growing out. You have to use heat to activate this. You can't let your hair just dry naturally and you can't use, you know, cold air to dry it. You really have to use heat to activate this product. Not a lot because like I said, I'm not using a lot of heat with that hairbrush dryer. So love this product. It's one of those that made my life so much easier this year because I didn't have to straighten my hair after blow drying it because I didn't have any frizz anymore. So absolutely love that. Let's stick with hair really quickly. This also was one, I'm almost out of this one. This is also one that really helped me this year. Matrix Total Results High Amplify Dry Shampoo. Now I showed you not very long ago that I absolutely love the Living Proof new dry shampoo that they have. And I do, but that one you can never hardly find on sale. Occasionally you'll find it 20% off, but as far as finding a really good sale, you can't. This one you can and I like it every bit as much for keeping my hair cleaner longer. And I'll use this right after I do my hair, you know, the first time right out of the shower, I'll blow dry it and then I'll put some of this into my hair. It just keeps my hair cleaner longer and then I don't have to use so many styling products and I don't have to use so much heat because I can go longer in between washes which is so very important as most of you know. Something else that made my life so much easier and this is really a must have for me. If you have seasonal depression, meaning when the winter comes and those dark days come and you either have inversion in Utah, we have terrible inversion and it just, it's like the whole of January part of February you get that dark cloud that sits and you don't see the sun. And this has really helped me. I bought one of these for my mom. I bought one of these for my daughter. What it is is it's a light that mimics natural sunlight and so it helps boost your mood. It doesn't have the harmful rays, the UVA, the UVB rays, nothing like that. It just mimics natural sunlight and then you have whether you wanna turn it up or down so it has three different up and down settings and you can keep it brighter or make it go a little bit less. This has really honestly saved me so much during the winter. You have to have it right towards you. You can't have it turned away. You need that natural light coming towards you so you might wanna have it on the lower setting but you still want it to look at you, right? So this is a great product for me and my seasonal depression and so many of you said the same thing when I showed it to you, you were excited to get it. So I'm happy that some of you got it but I wanted to show it that it was one of my products of the year that made my life so much easier. Another product that made my life easier this year that is not makeup is this mirror right here. Now I'll tell you why this compact is so much different than any of the other compacts that you see on the market. It's a little bit more pricey but I was happy to spend it because of what the features are in this. First of all, it is rechargeable, which is awesome. No batteries needed. The other thing is as you can see there are two sides right there that have the white ring around them and that is because this is lighted on both sides. So you have the one time magnification or the regular mirror and then on the other side you have the five time magnification and both of them, as you can see right there both of them are lighted, which is awesome. The other thing that is awesome about it is you don't have to have both of them lighted. It will light up one side and then it will light up the other or vice versa. I really love this. It just made my day when I found it and one more nice thing about it is it is five inches across. So most of them are about three and a half inches across and I can see my whole face, which is awesome. It makes doing my makeup so much easier and in the car it's wonderful to have that. So one of those things that I was so glad that I got I'm gonna show these next two products together and these aren't new to 2022 but they definitely made my life easier in 2022. If you have not tried the Lumine deodorant what are you waiting for? I mean seriously, if you're a woman and you know what I'm talking about when you get smell everywhere, we get boob sweat, we get butt sweat, we get sweat everywhere when we're going through menopause and we need something that's going to take away the smell. Not only does it take away the smell it takes away the smell. After you shower, you put it, you dry, you put it on and it takes away the smell for up to like 72 hours. I've gone even a little further than that on some days when I absolutely had to like camping and it really helps. It seriously, it's some of the best deodorant I've ever seen. It doesn't have an aluminum or any of those toxic items in it that you're going to have to worry about. Great product. It comes in a lotion. There is another one that you can use just like a regular deodorant in a stick but I use this one all over because it lasts forever. You need such a tiny amount and this truly is a miracle worker for me and I know that a lot of you use this already but if you haven't been one that uses it you're gonna love it. It does because of all the natural ingredients in there. It does have kind of a funky smell but the smell doesn't stick around for any amount of time. This time I chose the Bay Rum. I think my favorite one, it's like a citrus or an orange but don't let it fool you because actually the fragrances, they're not what you would expect for fragrances. So this is great. I absolutely love it. I cannot be without it. I actually buy this in threes because I need it so bad. The next, I've shown this to you so many times on my channel but it goes in a video once a year because this is the Lady Anti-Monkey but Anti-Friction Powder with Calamine Satin Smooth Lotion. Okay, this goes everywhere as well. You know, you get that hot flash and that heat rises up and you get sweaty and I don't know about you but my furnace is hotter during menopause than it ever has been before. I can be at rest, not be cold at all and all of a sudden I'm dying of heat and I'm not having a hot flash. I'm just too hot. Well, this helps with the sweating as well. I have to have this between my thighs. I use it between my toes. I use it other places as well, especially boob sweat and you know, on the butt. I use this everywhere and it's so good. And I did have one of you ladies tell me that you rode motorcycles in the summertime and this saved you from getting chafed and I love that. I think that is fantastic. So this is another product that absolutely saved me. Another product that I discovered this year that is so good is this Arnica gel. 98% Arnica gel. Arnica is a natural product that like turmeric and other things like that that can actually help with bruising and swelling and inflammation. So you just put this on a bruise, you put it on a scrape, you put it on anything and it really does help. If you get a bump, you know, you get really hard bump and you're like, oh my goodness, that hurts. Or you worked out really hard, you can use this and it will give you pain relief. I am shocked at this. This does also come in pills that you can take. I've been doing that too and I haven't had to have my Tylenol like I normally have had to have it. So I have become a true believer in Arnica gel and Arnica products. I absolutely love that. Okay, I hope you didn't notice this because you're gonna go back. I know you will right now. I filmed half of that video without this eyebrow done because I just did a dang eyebrow tutorial. So go back like two seconds here and you'll see that that eyebrow wasn't done. Now it is. Sorry about that. I'm only human. I can't believe I did that. We're just gonna pretend like it never happened. All right, another thing that I've been enjoying this year and I've been enjoying it for years but it comes into a video once a year and that is Obus oil. This is an all-natural oil that has eucalyptus and peppermint, menthol in it and this is my headache medicine. And if you get headaches, I mean the kind of headaches that wake you up in the middle of the night, the kind of headaches that don't let you sleep, the kind of headache where you feel like you're almost gonna throw up and I'm not talking necessarily migraines, although this does help with my migraines as well. I'm talking those tension headaches where you feel like nothing touches it. You cannot do anything. You lay your head down, you're hurt, you stand up, you're hurt. It don't matter what you do, you hurt. This right here, I put a few drops, actually we're a glove because I don't wanna get this in my eyes when I use it. So I put a few drops behind my ears, down my, where you have all of this drainage from your lymphatic system, on my temples, at the back of my neck, right up here in my hairline. And I am telling you, if that doesn't work, I'll do it again in an hour and then it will work. This is a miracle. And if you have somebody that has a really bad cold and they can't breathe, this is also another miracle. You can warm this up in your hand if you're a mom or a grandma and you have a baby that, you know, not baby because you wanna check with a doctor, but you have a grandchild that is older and they can't breathe. You warm this up and you don't touch them, you just tell them to breathe in what you've warmed into your hand. I am not kidding. It will open up their sinuses. My husband had one of the worst sinus headaches I have ever seen. I mean, he was almost screaming. And I did this thing for him, put it all over him. Amazing. This is such a good product. We actually use it on sore muscles just like the Arnica Gel. The Arnica Gel is specifically for swelling and for bruising, but this is for just soreness. And I love this. Don't use this on an open cut because it will hurt. Don't use it on a burn or anything like that, but this, it's really, really good. And I've talked about it a million times and you guys have heard me talk about it. All right, another product that made my life so much easier this year. This is my fingernail polish organizer that I bought earlier this year. It has two sides, so you can put a ton in here. And yes, I have more than one because I'm a fingernail polish nut, but this is such a great organizer. I keep these standing up. They don't take a lot of room. And, you know, I have them kind of color-coded so that I know which one to pull out when I'm in the mood for pink or purple or whatever other color. They're durable and they do have, you know, a carrying case right here. So if you're somebody that likes to other people's nails, you can stick all of your nail stuff in here. So this was one that I was so glad that I found, brought it to you guys earlier this year. And yes, you all made fun of me because I told you I had two and I have three. So yeah, that's me. And now I'm gonna show you something that has made my life so much easier. And I could not be without these. These are sweaters that I bought off of Amazon. And I started buying these last winter and now I have three different colors. I bought my mom one, I bought my daughter one, I bought my sister one. These are the coziest, yummy sweaters. For one, they come down over your bum and you can completely wrap them around you. I use these every single day when I get cold in my house and my house gets cold because we have a really crappy heating system. But I have it in this beautiful mint green color right here. Kind of almost a muted sage color. And then I have it in gray and then I have it in a muted rose color. They wash up like a dream. I just wash them in the washer on a very gentle setting and then I will hang them to dry or set them out to dry, I don't hang them. They are so cozy and so warm and these have made my life easier because I'm not freezing my butt off all the time. And then also I found Cinema Secrets. This is quick drying, rinse free, makeup brush cleaner. Okay, I was so skeptical about this because who wants to spend this kind of money on something that's just your brush cleaner, right? I mean, really, I'm with you, I get it. I don't wanna spend this kind of money either but I'm about to demonstrate this for you and it's gonna take just a second. Now, I did get this little tin. This is from them. You could do this in a ceramic bowl or a glass bowl, whichever one you wanna do and you definitely could do it that way. Now, this takes so very little. I probably actually put too much in here and I don't know if I'm even gonna be able to there. That's how much is in there. So it's barely covering the bottom of that tin, right? Okay, here's my brush and it's pretty dirty. I can't even wipe it off on my hands. So all you have to do is take your brush and you dip your brush down into that liquid and then you just take a rag, an old rag and then you just go across it and you clean your brush and within a couple of seconds, your brush is clean. Look at that, baby. This one is my Mega Powder Brush. I love this thing. It's Duo Fiber Brush. It's amazing. So again, I'm going to pour a little bit. I'm gonna do a little bit more because that brush is quite a bit bigger and I wanna just do it quickly. So now I'm just gonna dip that down in there and it just soft up every drop. See how my brush just soft up everything? Okay, here's the rag. Here we go. The rag is getting wet with the product. Look, can you believe that? And I do need to keep rubbing this one specifically because I had used this for so long. I'm probably, I probably was like three weeks. I was probably like three weeks and didn't clean this brush. So I just, look at that. And I didn't necessarily have to rub that hard but I wanted to make sure there was nothing in there. And on this side there was but on this side it came out pretty clean. This stuff, honestly, you will be shocked at how fantastic this is. It is one of the best time savers made my life so much easier in 2022 and I cannot believe I fought against finding it and using it for that long because man, it has made my life a lot easier because I have a lot of brushes to clean. So cinema secrets, definite must for anybody that does have a lot of brushes. Another product that made my life so easy this year and don't laugh at me but I am here to tell you that when I found these Skechers Go Walk Pants these are the most comfy pants. They are not necessarily like a yoga pant or anything because they have a little bit of a straight leg or a flared leg on them but I first of all I love that they have the pocket on the booty and then you get a little pocket on the side awesome for all of that but they stretch a lot and they're so comfortable around the waist. They're a little bit higher waisted they go over my belly button up a little bit but I have these in purple I have them in a heathered gray and I have them in this black and I'm getting ready to order other colors because I'm here to tell you this has made my life so easy. I don't even wear pants anymore. This is what I wear. Even if I'm going to someplace dressy these are long enough that I can wear them with a boot, a cute boot or if I want to wear my jeans if I have to but these are so nice. As soon as I had one pair of them I went out and I bought like six more pairs. Another product that made my life so much easier in 2022 and this has been shown on my channel before too. These are the nail dry drops so I will do my nails. You guys always ask me are they real? They are real. I will do my nails, base coat, two coats of polish, top coat and then I'll do this and what this does is it saves them from getting nicked. Don't take a look at this hand because it's a little bit chipped up today but this will really help you get your nails dryer faster. I use this, you know, I wait like five minutes between each layer and then I use this after the top coat five minutes after the top coat I'll let it dry and then I'll go in and I'll run my fingernails under cold water for just a couple of minutes and my whole entire manicure is set. Done, no worries. I love this stuff and I have talked about it a million times on my channel. I think you'll love it too if you do your own nails. This baby right here, I've had so many of you come back and say that you love this thing and yes, I love this thing too. This is a glass foot file and sorry, mine is a little bit dirty. Don't be fooled by this. First of all, I don't want you to ever use this on any part of your body except for the bottom of your feet where you have massive calluses. The way that I use this, and it's like serrated, it's almost like a knife on here. So it's glass, but it's got all this serrated surface on here. I like that it's kind of ergonomical and I can hold it with, you know, and it not go anywhere. I will get out of the shower. As soon as I get out of the shower, I dry off, I get dressed, I sit down and I do the bottom of my feet with this and you know, where the calluses are really bad, you will be shocked what comes off your feet. Now you can do it dry, but I do find that when I do it, when it's wet and I do it once a week, I just am like, how in the world did I get that much dead skin from the last week? But it works so good and I am just in awe of it. So if you're somebody that has dry cracked heels and you're just always having a problem with it, get in that shower and you know, do whatever you're doing, let those feet soak in the bottom of that shower, get them off and don't dry them, pat them dry and then use this, you're going to love me. You're going to absolutely love me and I'll come back and I'll say, I love you too and I'm so glad that you love the glass foot file. Now when I show products like these, I always say you have to check with your doctor. So even though I'm showing you a nutritional supplement, you have to check with your doctor before you do this because some nutritional supplements that are herbs or just sold over the counter, they can interfere with any medication you're taking. So please always check with your doctor before you start anything like this. But the reason that I'm putting this in this video where it made my life easier, this is from Nutracost, this is L-glutamine. L-glutamine is amino acid that helps cut sugar cravings. I was absolutely totally shocked. What I do is in the morning, I'll mix a scoop of it that's in here with water and I'll just douse it and it kind of has like a little bit of a saline taste to it, a little salty taste to it and then I have a little cup that I keep next to my bed with just the powder in it and I'll take the powder and I'll put it on my gums and then I'll put it on my tongue and I learned this off of TikTok and it works. It cuts my sugar cravings all day long. For me, it has been just an absolute lifesaver because I am 100% a sugar addict. I have been my whole life but this cuts my sugar cravings. Again, talk to your doctor but I think you're gonna love this. Another product that I've shown, I actually have shown this a ton lately but truly this made my life easier and more happy all year long because what this is, is it's a sleeping mask. I'll show you this side. It doesn't have any indentations for your eyes but it's a very soft mask. It goes all the way around your head and all the way back around your ears but as you can see, it does have some meshing there so it is very breathable. What this is, is it's a Bluetooth and the Bluetooth is right here in this part which is rechargeable, which is awesome, meaning that the speakers that are in the side are rechargeable too. It has an on off button and then it has the volume up and down and then the speakers are right here in the side where your ears sit and you can't sleep on this because it's got a ton of cushioning in there. You can take this completely apart. These speakers will come out. They're a little bit hard to get out which you don't want them to be easy to get out but they will come out and then what happens is the whole thing will come out and you can wash this in your washer on delicate or whatever. Do you have somebody that snores in your house? My son snores, my husband snores and my dog snores. So guess what? I have tinnitus in my ears, ringing in my ears so this saves me all the way around. I was packing a fan wherever I went when I went on vacation. Now I don't have to because now I can get my phone, I can turn on YouTube, they have all kinds of ambient noises there. They have a fan, a box fan noise for like 10 hours you can put on, you can put on your favorite music. Put this on, you block out the light and you block out the sound at the same time and you sleep like a baby. This has saved me so much. So that is it of all the products that made me feel good in 2022 and just made my life so much easier. I hope that you did love seeing all of these because I sure loved bringing them to you and if you've gotten to try any of these off of my recommendations or anywhere else sound off in the comment section so that we hear that or if you have a completely different product we wanna hear that too. I love you guys so very much. Please come back around really soon and we'll be together and we'll have all kinds of fun again and take care of yourselves and I will talk to you in my very next video. Goodbye my friends.