 Good morning. Today, I'm going to share with you the changes I've made in my skin care routine since I had my 70th birthday last October. I'm going to have a little chit chat and also there is a way you can get a prescription from your doctor for Retin A treten oin and get it filled a lot cheaper here in the United States and I want to share that with you. You may already know but if you haven't it may save you a lot of money and I'm going to give you an update with about Jim and because I'm talking about skin care I don't have any makeup on my face I do have lipstick and I have mascara and eyeliner and just have to glue my brows down because they're kind of wiry I Didn't put even concealer even though I wanted to because I want you to see my skin I want you to see what I'm talking about and I do have dark areas right in here and the last video I filmed was my morning skin care. I want to reduce things as much as I possibly can I don't enjoy skin care But I do think that it has been very beneficial for my skin and the quality of my skin the healthiness of my skin The texture is much better than it was 15 years ago and don't ever start anybody's skin care Where they are because I've been doing this now for ten It'll be ten years in August that I started using red and a but my very first step is going to the bathroom I use a makeup eraser this one. I looked up. I got it in a fab fit fun box in 2018 but there are dupes on Amazon that are really really good. This one just looks like it's I like the size of it It's just like perfect Anyway, I just put warm water on my face and I just Cleans my face without using any type of cleanser I found one that I used to use purity for like 20 some years I'm a copycat and Tamar from Tamar's timeless beauty spoke about the prequel and it is a Glenser G it because it has glycerin in it. I just use a very small amount about that much I Wet my face. I put it on my skin. It takes off my eye makeup my mascara It takes off everything and it doesn't it doesn't suds up But it kind of foams and it just makes my fit skin feel great I didn't think I'd ever find anything that I liked as well as purity But I like this better and I know I spoke about it recently but that's my very first step in skin care and I usually cleanse my face late afternoon early evening and Right after I do that after my skin is dry I used my Omni Lux mask, which will be it'll be two years in May next month And I'll put my Omni Lux playlist below or at the end or someplace It's a mask that looks like this and it's really helped my skin It's made it's been enabled me to use less product on my skin And I think that is wonderful for me because this is so easy and I don't use anything under it I don't take any of the vitamins. I don't I'm thinking about maybe at some point trying a serum That's not from Omni Lux. I might buy that. I'm not sure but right now and for the last almost two years I just do it on clean dry skin and I always do the Omni Lux mask on Monday Wednesdays and Fridays That's how I keep things straight Omni Lux on Monday Wednesdays and Fridays earlier videos I spoke about I turn when I'm done I turn the Omni Lux mask on and put the corner on my mouth for an additional three minutes I used to always use a red light therapy Mask on my lips until it quit and it was several years ago that it quit So I want the extra on my lips now. This is where it is a pretty big change for me I use retin A or the generic is treten oil and I used it four to five times a week At night and I've cut back last October. I started using it three days a week Tuesday Thursdays and Saturdays that I thought I knew I needed something else and again, I'm a copycat I heard Penn Smith from Penn Smith skin care speak very highly of The needle is serum from dermatology and I purchased this myself. I purchased my skin care I don't I don't want I want to pay for what I use So I put the retin A on right before I go to bed is when I usually do so on Tuesday and Thursday I use retin A on Monday Wednesday and Friday I use a serum and I use three drops and that covers my face and my neck every Monday Wednesday and Friday And on Tuesday and Thursdays I use retin A on my neck and on my face And I when I ran out of kakai oil last time it was probably about eight months ago I didn't buy any more it always. I mean, I still liked it But for so many years I had a 40% off discount I think it was 3890 and at Amazon I had a discount that you all so many of you used and you got 40% off But I paid for quite a few that didn't get the percentage off But I just thought well, I'm gonna try something different and I don't know how long this is gonna last I Would imagine it's gonna last six months because I'm only using three drops three It may last longer than that. It may last eight months, but when it's done I'll let you know if my skin feels dry, which it hasn't in oh in a Probably two or three weeks. I will put a moisturizer just a light amount. I just realized something Oh This is funny. I didn't realize I used two dermatology products at night my It cosmetics bye-bye under eye eye cream that I used to use in the morning I ran out of it and I didn't want to buy it again because I don't know if they reformulated it But if they didn't they were probably going to so I moved my nighttime Eye cream, which is a timeless hydrating eye cream. I moved that to morning. I've tried not using an eye cream and I just I need an eye cream So I bought the HPR eye cream. I bought it in the fall and started using it. I Really don't know probably about three months ago and here's how much I use. It's a pump bottle. Oh I always get too much when I'm showing you that amount right there We'll do both eyes and that's not much at all. So I know this is a 0.5 Fluid ounces and that's how much it was in the jar of the it Under I buy buy under eye cream. So I think this will probably last a year But we'll see but that is it those are the three products I use and I do use the eye cream every night and on Saturday and Sunday I don't of course I don't use a retin A and I don't use the needle as serum so I'm off on the weekend So I gotta take the weekends off and I'm gonna mention something that a lot of you that have been with me You'll laugh because I'm gonna mention the floc site 15 times magnification mirror. I've had mine for It'll be 18 years next month. I Examine my skin every morning and every night. Well, I try to I try to but I can see what's going on with my skin I if I needed to I could adjust something But I am so pleased on what's going on now, but I'll just see if it keeps it a stable every day You know, I keep getting another day older, which is a wonderful thing I get my prescription for retin A Tritinoin from my health care provider and I always ask for a paper prescription I go once a year and Get the prescription my insurance will not cover it and a lot of people some people's Wilson some people's down And it's about two hundred dollars for a large tube. It is around here Anyway, so what I've always done is I go get online and I'm gonna type this in these These are no links for me at all when anytime when I write something on the screen and I don't put it below I don't want you to get confused below when I you know on the information where I do put links Those are all things that I could potentially I should earn some money if you click on my link sometimes You don't but that you should so I like to put in the websites on the screen So you can look them up on your own and I so I don't I don't want to muddy any waters You know, I want to do everything like I'm supposed to do it Well goodrx.com is someplace you can go put in your zip code and you can find the best price in your area Just before I filmed I got on my computer. That's what I always do use the laptop I can't do anything on a phone hardly at all But anyway, I went to goodrx.com and I put the word tretinoin and I put my zip code All the different drugstores in the area popped up and it will tell you what the lowest price is Sometimes you can get like an extremely low price like $29 for a 45 gram tube, which is the big tube That's what I get and one will last me a year or over, but it's usually like if you transfer a prescription I don't do that. I just CVS usually has it the best price and it was $56.29 for the 45 gram tube I have been using the 0.05 percent since October in our local drugstores You know around the area you can get the 0.025 The 0.05 and the 0.1 percent and that's the strongest So that's one way to save money and the other way to save money is the mark Cuban pharmacy Which is cost plus drugs. I'll type it up in here I get my generic teakus in there It is I can get it home to me with the shipping and all that for for like a little under $50 for 90 days And if I buy it even with my insurance, it's $407 for 90 days and I go to my local drugstore for so many things But if I can save that much money, I do and it's just for generic medicine Well, I've been looking and waiting for retinate or tretenoy and to be on the mark Cuban website and it is in fact Their website as of today had the 0.01 percent That's the weakest I've ever heard of and they also have the 0.025 so those two strengths are available on their website and You know there you have to send a prescription I've told a couple of doctors about the mark Cuban website They weren't familiar with it and they it's it's a legitimate pharmacy that charges in most cases a lot less But in the case of red and a it wasn't 0.25 percent For a 15 gram tube which which is three times smaller than this for one of them was 37 63 when I can buy three times more for 5629 It's a good thing to talk to your doctor about if you take some generic drugs that are Expensive if you're curious just go to good rx.com or Cost plus drugs.com. That's a mark Cuban pharmacy and you can read all about them If you're still here, and if any of that made sense, this is gonna be a giveaway Today, I want to give away three $100 e-gift cards or a deposit to your PayPal and some places are hard to get a gift card So I'll get it wherever I can that you want Yeah, and you do all you have to be is 18 years older older. You don't need to be subscribed you Just have to leave a comment below and I give a key word and I'm trying to think I Think I know what I would like you to do in a sentence below I would like you to use the word kind KND and there's many definitions of kind what kind of TV do you like what kind of chocolate? Do you like what what kind of dessert is your favorite? Something that someone does is kind so just and then what I do is I put you I search for the word kind and I pay extra for that. I pay $7 a month so I can Look for the word so because I want to wants to be in the giveaway to be in the giveaway And what I will do is I announce it on my next video that I Upload which should be in two weeks, but I'll talk about that in a minute. It may not be well We'll just see But that's all you have to do. Okay. I'm drove to st. Louis. I'm gonna do a really quick recap Jim's had an area on his head that has he has been dealing with for over a year and are a Local plastic surgeon that was going to remove it sent us to Washington University in st. Louis and last video I talked about, you know, I wanted to drive and Jim's son went with us, which was a blessing, but I wanted to drive so I drove there and I did just fine I just went right up there It could not have been a better experience That campus is huge and we went to the Sightman Center Everything we had valet parking. There's someone that I know that works there. I didn't get to meet her But if we go back for surgery, I'm sure I'm sure we will get to meet Somebody I know that I haven't met. I know so many of you and we haven't met yet They thought it was a cyst that wouldn't heal. Anyway, we found out before he went what we were dealing with But it probably has been all the time But what happened is how we understand it Jim's at one of his sinuses. He must have gotten infection in it Well, we found out it is a much bigger deal than what we had anticipated We saw two surgeons specialists when we went last time. We're gonna go back and see two more and It sounds like a pretty big surgery that I'm praying that there is going to be another choice, but Yeah, so I may or may not be able to upload videos, you know that I'll be back when I can and and It'll be okay and my mind has just been all over the place, but it is all good It is all good. I appreciate you and your thoughts and your prayers and your everything just is So important and special to me and I will see you in my next video. Take care. Oh My gosh, you know, hmm. I want to share with you and Since it and because I don't have and Anyway, forget people's own always and you can't in my and I really do. I mean I didn't always