 And we are ready to go Okay Let's focus up. Good morning everybody. How you guys doing today? I hope you guys are doing good. It is September and I don't think I've ever mentioned this But September is my favorite month in the entire year and most people's favorite month is their their birthday month Not me for me. I just love the weather the way this zone is in the sky the freshness It's almost like you're starting a new year and I think that really kind of comes from probably a school year It's like you can do stuff in September, you know, so I'm back with my Friday favorites This is what I usually do on the first Friday or the last Friday of the month So for my Friday favorites, I typically do five categories I have a home favorite a hair favorite a makeup favorite a beauty tool or a hack Which is a new thing that I'm adding in and then a book or a tv show So like I always try and stick to those five. Oh, and I also share something new that I am testing out as well That's kind of how I like to do my Friday favorites. So let's jump into it My favorite thing to do and this makes me sound so boring, but you know what? Everyone has their thing but my favorite thing to do is to deep clean my house. I am really messy I'm naturally a very messy person and so my house is either a complete mess Which is everything in front of me right now. It's complete mess or it's squeaky clean. There are my two things It's like myself. I'm either like super calm Or I don't get out of bed. It's just one or the other and so getting a new product that I love I'm like, oh, yeah, this is the doctor power. It's a solid um Kind of bar I guess and you just scoop the tiniest amount out like less is more with this product Don't overdo it and then you just get a beautiful sparkling clean everything Everything and anything it's very similar to you know pink stuff, which I love as well But they didn't have it so I ended up buying this I especially love it because there's a sponge inside the lid And then it's this It doesn't really smell too strong. It kind of smells, you know, like clean-y citrusy That's what it smells like and then it has a sponge which apparently the sponge has a smooth side and a rough side They both feel the same to me. I don't understand what they're talking about I especially love it for cleaning the hob. So I have a glass hob right Listen, Davey loves to cook and I love that man More than anything he is amazing and he is an amazing cook But the hob is always getting messy and I wake up in the morning and I'm like, oh, here we go again I gotta clean this hob. You have a glass hob. You know how difficult it is to get it clean not now Not with this stuff or pink stuff saves me so much time And I actually enjoy cleaning it because it gets so sparkling clean as if I've just bought it Like it looks brand new every single time I use this or the pink stuff and it's not in the cleaning area It's like in another separate area because it's as seen on tv So you might have to kind of look around for it, but if you can't get pink stuff this stuff works So that's the home category the next category is a book or a tv show I haven't really been getting into that many books recently But I have been watching a few different shows. I've been watching desperate housewives again and I finished it It's weird to watch as an adult because you pick up on things like so differently I think when you're younger and you're watching it you're kind of just seeing what it is and seeing it play out But when you have experiences as you grow older You kind of experience the show differently all the dynamics between the like the different people It's so ridiculous, but I love it. You know, like it's it's like there's so much It's like a murder mystery drama filled thing, but it's just so easy to get lost in so I loved that I I watched the whole thing again. Let me know who your favorite character is because I Oh, I'm sort of like I love susan. I think she's probably my favorite character But I love the dynamic between carlos and gabby. I feel like their relationship. Oh, I love it I feel like they have like the strongest relationship if you've ever watched it Let me know who your favorite character or your least favorite character. Davey doesn't like brie very much I don't think brie likes brie Another show that me and Davey been watching actually is x-files. Oh, I love x-files It's so easy to enjoy without feeling too scared even though one night I got really scared after watching it So there's a couple of episodes that are a bit dicey, but other than that It's a it's a it's a wonderful show and we watch as a couple I have a whole alien story actually because I want to talk about that in another video But I think I saw an alien spaceship once and I sound crazy saying that but I have my suspicions that what I saw Was an alien spaceship. Anyway That's a whole other thing the show that I'm currently watching though is frankie and grace or grace and frankie I love that show. I want to be them these like 70 year old women Who are like taken on the world and and I love it and it gets better with time Just like just like the actresses do they're two of my favorite actresses. Have you seen nine to five? They're a nine to five. So I feel like that's why I'm drawn to that show so much. So those are just a couple of recommendations Oh, I also watch clickbait On netflix. I I hate being negative about anything. I'm just not that type of person But I found that clickbait was like just off the mark if that makes sense It had all the elements, but they didn't mix together if that makes sense the only way I can describe clickbait It's like carrot cake. It's it's carrot cake. Yes, it's still cake But it's made of carrots and if I want to have carrots then I'm going to mash them up with some parsnip And if I want to have cake, I want to have like chocolate cake You know, it's good. It's just not great moving on to my favorite Makeup product. I want to talk about a convenient product that has really helped me with With my chronic illness, which I I talked about in my previous video and this sounds really strange Well, let me just explain it spring water Can it's a very fine Mist but it really soaks your skin But what I use it for is when my sponge is damp We're like not wet enough to kind of like really bounce off the skin And I I can't get up. I can spray it onto my sponge and it dampens it enough to make it kind of bouncy This is the man canvas sponge by the way It's great if you've forgotten to wet your sponge or you just can't get up to go and wet your sponge So I keep it in my my makeup case Which has everything conveniently laid out for me applying makeup is so therapeutic and relaxing for me Particularly when my illness is really bad So I like having tools in there that help make it so much easier And this is this is one product that does that moving on to my favorite hair product of the month. I actually just um Bleached my hair a little bit. I don't know if I'm doing the right thing And so if there's any hairdressers watching, please correct me if I'm wrong But I have like highlights in my hair But my hair naturally has like kind of orangey Kind of yellowy tones in it. This is the purple oil So basically you put two to three drops in your hair use it on your damp hair And then you blow dry your hair your style your hair It's supposed to neutralize the yellow and orange tones in your hair It means that I can really pinpoint the areas that I have highlighted That's one thing that I've really learned about bleaching my own hair is it's a lot about toning Like you can dye your hair until you're blue in the face Blue in the face unless you use the correct tone or like a purple toner You won't get that right effect And toning is just one thing that you can really do for your hair that makes such a difference I'm talking like I know what I'm talking about, but I don't know what I'm talking about I'm loving having slightly lighter hair again Which is nice because I finally got rid of the black out of my hair That was a very long process to get the black out of my hair. Hair dressers wouldn't do it I literally were like we can't help you. I'm sorry. Goodbye So I did it myself and it worked. If you want a video on that, let me know Moving on. So usually at this point I do a makeup tool. I also wanted to add in a hat So this is going to be like a makeup tool slash hat that I found that I really like So this this month it's going to be a hack and it's using tan for fake freckles and on your lip line I don't have it done today because it doesn't fall today doesn't fall on the day that I usually do my tan I use the moose tans because they develop quite quickly and it means I can kind of control how dark it goes You know your your white line that you have around your lips You use fake tan on that area and then you can also add in like freckles using like a little Lip liner brush So I do like my lip line and then I add in some freckles And then I might do a little bit of contouring with a two, you know And then I kind of rinse it off and what you end up with is almost like fake makeup It doesn't last that long. It only probably lasts like three days, you know, especially like the lip liner, but it looks amazing I love it so much. So I'm going to do a video on that really soon. So that's my favorite makeup tool slash hack for this month I love it. I think it's brilliant. And you know where I found it on tiktok Didn't think I'd like tiktok as much as I do, but I like it and this is also one of my favorite tans This is the sun kissed expressed hand and I love it because it is golden and beautiful And it makes me feel great and I only leave it on for maybe like 15 minutes because I'm I'm so pale So if I leave it on for 15 minutes, that's enough for me Which with my chronic illness really helps and finally I always like to end my videos with something that I am trying Which I will review for next month. So these came in PR the Kiehl's retinol skin renewing Daily micro dose serum. It's a very long name of the product. If you're over a certain age Then you should probably start using retinol if you're in your 30s like me I was using one from another brand for a while and I loved it and my skin loved it But I haven't really been out doing much recently going shopping or anything like that So I haven't picked up anything. So this came in pure So I'm I'm excited to try it because it's retinol I love retinol and then I ran out with my spf recently, but it's actually the Kiehl's one It's just the other Kiehl's one But this is the new ultra light daily uv defense and it's the spf 50 got to protect our skin What I love about Kiehl's is that I never feel like it's a heavy product on my skin They're shower gels. They feel so clean, but they don't feel like they're stripping your skin of anything I love that. I just looked at the camera and it looks like I'm not wearing anything. I am I have a I have a sweater on so that is it for my kind of august favorites I might do another video kind of my favorites of september because I love september I just I just think it's like the best month when I look outside. I'm just like everything about september I just think is so wonderful. So I'm excited for this month. I'm hopeful But let me know if there's any favorites that you have had maybe over the summer or since the last time that I talked to you I'm sure you have a few favorites or things that you don't like as well only here from you I hope that you are doing good. If you are having a bad day I'm sending lots of love and remember nothing stays bad forever because that's the thing life is always changing Even when we have something good it changes. So if you have something bad, it changes too And that's what I always tell myself. I'm having a bad day. I'm like nothing stays the same forever The world keeps going it keeps turning when something's bad It's not going to stay bad because everything changes all the time. So I'm sending you lots of love if you're having a bad day I'm sending you lots of love if you're having a good day And I hope that you spread that all around and remember to be kind to yourself be kind to others You're doing the best you can and I'll see you in another video