 Good morning. I'm Mary Ellen from the channel Mary Ellen after 60 and I want to wish you all a very happy Mother's Day. It doesn't matter if we've given birth to children or if we have little furry pets that we care for, we are all mothers because mother not only is a noun it's an adjective and the adjective is I think it's to care for and to protect. So all of us in this that are watching today I want to wish you a happy Mother's Day. Today I'm going to do a quick update on the area that I included using the derma roller on. I think that was the end of October. I want to tell you how I assess if the skincare product is working for me. I want to announce the winner of my last giveaway and that was $125 gift and I'm going to change that up for the better for the winner and since it's Mother's Day you might want to hang around because it just may be something special. Almost five years ago I started using the derma roller on my lips and that's all I used it for was my lips and I did it to maintain or increase the fullness of my lips and also the lines around my lips. I hadn't really been bothered with them yet but I really wanted to make sure that I was a little bit proactive because lipstick is my very favorite thing to wear and I just wanted as much real estate to put my lipstick on as as I could get. Going on three years ago I included my nasal labial folds my marionette lines and I think that was it and that's going on three years ago. Over two years ago I started derma rolling just the top of my head because my hair was getting thinner and it has been very helpful for that. Over a year ago I included the tails of my eyebrows because I wanted to get them back and I did and six months ago I started on this area around here the little bunny line and the two elevens right here and here and I don't have any pictures to show you I tried to find something so I could compare but they have improved. Not a huge improvement but they have improved but it's only been six months and I tell you I'm very patient even on 66 I'm very patient with my skincare. Before I talk about my routine that I do on my forehead if you have any skin conditions any acne or if you're prone to fever blisters I wouldn't attempt derma rolling I would talk to my physician my dermatologist I'm just talking to you like a consumer just anybody who is trying something that wants to keep their skin in the best condition that they possibly can. You know I usually refer to it as derma rolling it's microblading it's collagen induction therapy and they're basically the same thing only this is what I do at home and I will link any videos below if you want more information and I'll try to put a card above so you can click on that or just go to the information below if you want to need more information but I just want to make this as brief as possible. First Sunday of the month I use a 0.5 millimeter derma rolling the rest of the Sundays I do a 0.25 I could do the 0.25 more often but I just want to keep it to Sundays and it takes me I last time I did it which was a week ago it took me four minutes to do it so I am willing to do four minutes to try to help my skin look as good as it possibly can. I have never used anything to numb my skin I don't find it painful at all but you really have to be take care of your derma roller and this is a derma roller of mine and I don't have any makeup on I have on mascara Navy eyeliner my upper waterline and lipstick I haven't even done my skin care yet today but I just want to show you I've had people ask how I hold my derma roller and this isn't right or wrong it's just what works for me I put this part in my hand and my finger right there and then I'll go like this I want to have a little bit of control and I'm not pressing in very far I'll do an area right here I haven't started doing that yet but it's just makes little tiny tiny channels and I do this in the afternoon and I don't put makeup on until the next day also I've been asked so many times how often do I replace my derma roller when it starts to feel differently you have to really protect the little needles and I'm going to put a picture here of real needles and what I call discs I use the discs needles for oh probably two years and once I found the real needles I do like them better when I place it in the holder I'm very careful not to touch the sides I just drop it in there after I've cleaned it and I clean the container and then I let mine dry for several hours and I put the top on it and I store it I really think if you didn't do anything else you would see the results of the collagen and the last in building but what I do I just use the matrixal 3000 probably about I put it all over my face and a few hours later I still use the kakai naturals kakai oil and I use a total of three drops I put it that includes my neck because I use it I only use this on my face once a week and that's on Sunday but I use it on my neck every other night but I don't think those things I don't know I'm not willing to give them up but I have a feeling that it would work without it I had purchased one of those manual derma stamps and I didn't like it and I threw it away and I was sorry I did because I was going to show it to you they're about this big in diameter and what you do you just stamp your face with it well what I've chosen to do when I do my work on my bunny line I go like this move it and go in and I have had good results if you want a more and I'm going to say the word aggressive but I don't mean it in a bad way I'm just kind of muddling through I'm just adding things as I need to which isn't very often but I'm just wanting to do the least amount possible and get the best results I can I'm going to put a link to Penn Smith skincare she has she talks she speaks a lot about the pins that you charge that go in and out I think you get really good results with those but for right now I am just happy with what I'm doing but Penn is a master esthetician and she really knows what she's talking about but so far I've had that question am I going to get one of those pins and I don't think so but you never know and who knows one of these days I met I may start using that derma roller on my other areas of my face but for right now I'm just staying in this area right here I buy my derma rollers from skin diva I like them they're very affordable and I have found them on Amazon but I like the hundred and ninety-two stainless steel needle that are actually real needles I've had quite a few questions recently about that 20% are garylene I think that's how you say it I have only tried the one from skin diva and I'll tell you why it's 20% are garylene it also has hyaluronic acid and matrixal 3000 but the questions I get is how much I use well this one I've dated it's 3 15 20 I went back to look on my orders to the last time when somebody asked me how long it lasted I thought it was about a year but I always try to keep a backup when something when I open one thing I buy a backup so I'm going to know exactly how long this lasts but I'm going to show you how you can use one drop in all the areas that I use I'm going to put one drop right there I take my finger and put it down here just dab it in and I hope it looks wet on TV and I hope it looks wet right there and with then there's still quite a bit left and I just put it in these areas right here and then I've had it in and one drop does cover the areas that I want to and I don't use this after derma rolling I've just gotten in the habit of the Mcplain matrixal 3000 but I wanted to answer those questions for you and it's still wet I don't know if you can see it or not but it is still wet on my face the company did send me the first one I requested it from the company but in everything that I use if if the company sends me the first one I always buy my own with the exception of timeless I have never received an item from timeless I have they sent me something but I gave it to you it's anyway we'll just go on to the next topic now I want to talk about how I assess my skin every morning when I wake up I feel my face I want it to feel normal I don't want it to feel dry I don't want it to feel oily that's the first thing I do in my assessment is I feel my skin the second thing I do after I go into the bathroom I get a cheap nubby washcloth and I go over my face and then I go into my dressing room and I brought this out to show you this is the floc site 15 times magnification mirror and I don't know if I can show you it's six and a half inches in diameter and it has a light here I bought mine over 13 years ago and you can replace the bulbs and I had to replace above once I ordered mine from Bed Bath and Beyond there were four high school friends and we all went to one of our friends vacation home in Santa Fe New Mexico and she had one of these and I tell you what after I looked in it I knew I had to have one it's not anything that you use to put on your makeup but I tell you what you can really assess your skin this is 15 times magnification so it is 50% stronger than a 10 times magnification mirror well when I really want to assess my skin I want to see it there's 20 times magnification mirrors but I've tried those and they are so distorted when I assess my skin a lot of times I don't turn on the light it depends on what time you know I have the sun is coming out and I think since I'm an RN I have really good assessing I have really good assessment skills so I will look at my skin in the morning just to see how it's doing where this has come in handy for several years I just use retina at night and that was all didn't use anything else then I decided I needed more and I started using an eye cream and the one I started using was from timeless it's the hydrating eye cream well I use this absolutely every single night and I used it for probably two years at night and I decided I needed something else so the first thing I tried was the it's secret sauce so the first time I used it I used it on both eyes for like five nights in a row and then I used it for one on one eye five nights in a row and I just would look at my eyes to see if they made any difference and this wasn't enough and I still use the hydrating eye cream on my eyes every night and on my lids and within the last year I've added the it cosmetics confidence in an eye cream I don't know if this is I'm going to finish this up but it's not doing what I had anticipated that it would do I'm patient I'm going to keep using it but but I may switch it up I may use my my bye-bye under eye this is what I use in the morning and I can tell a big difference so what I probably do is I'm going to probably use this on one eye for five nights and have this on the other because both my eyes are about the same in the amount of wrinkles so I just kind of that's how I do things I try something and I keep looking in the mirror I fill my face and then I see how my makeup looks on over my skin and that does tell me a lot I'm going to put in a couple of pictures as I'm talking I found one from 2010 and one from 2014 the one from 2010 I probably weigh 30 pounds more in that photo than I do now and the one from 2014 I probably weigh about the same I had to really look hard to find the photos so I could I know even when I smile really big that my wrinkles aren't as bad as they were six years ago and when I get when I get big wrinkles I'm fine I don't think I look young for my age I think my skin looks good for being 66 years old that's what I think and it's not DNA because I don't know where my DNA was 15 years ago it's just having a routine whether you like it or not and just keep doing it and and I think it's exciting the skin can actually get better in the beginning of April I placed an order to on Amazon and I ordered the new timeless vitamin C plus E plus fruic acid I opened at April 13th and so far so good the packaging hasn't leaked and one pump will do my whole face so I'm going to see how long this lasts I you can't read anything on the packaging I don't like that I just have to wait and see but I do like the delivery system and the reason I ordered it on Amazon is it was $18 I always have a 25% off coupon code in my links below and it was less expensive on Amazon than it was using my own link and I only needed one thing so I missed out on the Mother's Day sale because I did not need anything I've got everything that I need I'll need another one of these but I think I've got everything I need for the rest of the year and since we're speaking about timeless I want to announce this is going to be a giveaway I contacted timeless to see if they would be interested in giving away to two people their Mother's Day gift box and I'm going to show you a picture of that some of the items in there I haven't tried but I probably need to at some point but it has the 20% vitamin C plus E plus fruic acid coenzyme Q10 serum vitamin B serum hyaluronic acid and the squalene oil so two of you are going to win this before I talk about how to enter I want to announce the winner of last week's giveaway and I'm filming this on Monday so I will have this filmed and on Wednesday is when I close my giveaway and I put up the winner but before I so I haven't even chosen any names yet I haven't done random comment picker but I decided after reading the comments what I was going to do is I'm going to keep my points and the winner is going to receive a 125 dollar e-gift card to anywhere they want well it's Wednesday and I just went to random comment picker and I have the winner for my giveaway I did want to tell you I mentioned that we were going to be getting a dollar tree it's not a dollar tree it's a family dollar so in our little town we'll have a family dollar and a dollar general store and also I wanted you to know I did not derma roll the Sunday night before I filmed this on last Monday because that was the first Sunday of the month and I didn't want to derma roll the night before because your face is a little bit more swollen the next day and I just wanted you to see what my skin looked like and now the important thing the winner of the 125 dollar either gift card PayPal whatever you choose is Della Hill or Hile I'm not sure but congratulations Della congratulations to the lucky winner just make sure you leave a comment below so I can let you know how to get in touch with me and we can decide what kind of e-gift card or if you want to have PayPal deposit we'll work out whatever it is that you want so okay this is another giveaway so I won't be able to reply to comments anybody that's entering the giveaway and I think it's a really nice and I think it's a really nice giveaway it's international you just have to be subscribed to this channel before it goes live you have to be 18 years older older and this giveaway will close in three days it closes on Wednesday morning I go in and I put closed on it so I know that you want to be in this giveaway in the comment section below just tell me something you like about the month of May I love we have beautiful dogwood trees it is it's beautiful around here that's my favorite thing about May and I tell you it's gonna be a long one Illinois is still shelter in place through the end of May and it's become very very interesting I want to thank you all for watching for commenting for giving me the thumbs up I appreciate your support more now than ever because it hasn't been the easiest to sit down and film videos it hasn't been for me but I put on some clothes and one there's some things I wanted to talk about some questions that I needed to answer and anyway it is all good you take care and I will see you in my next video but history of my or like I'm you know it's just being just tell me something you like about May