 Hey y'all, what's up, my name is Sonali. Welcome to my channel if you guys are new and if you are, definitely hit that subscribe button down below and if you are already subscribed, make sure your post notifications are turned on so that you never miss a video of mine. Today I'm sharing the things that have elevated my life within the last couple of years slash best purchases. I saw this video on my friend Sophie's channel a couple years back, actually, that's how I found her channel through this video and I loved the idea so much that I've had it written down on my to-do list for so long. I will link her video in her channel down below and I would love to do this every single year and just kind of keep updating it because I think it's fun to see just like what products really made your life easier, better, more convenient, elevating it overall. So I'm really excited to share all these products with you guys today, so let's get straight into the video. First and foremost, I am obsessed with any kind of loungewear. If it is a matching set, that is a plus, but loungewear that just is really nice quality makes you feel like you can still kind of like work at home but be comfortable at the same time is so important to me and has been over the past couple of years since we've all been working from home and I'm so thrilled to say that this video is sponsored by Neiwai who produces amazing quality loungewear and I'm so excited to show you guys the pieces that they sent over. April 7th is World Health Day and even if you're watching this video a little bit after, I strongly encourage you to slow down, take a breather and focus on your personal health for a better future. I know for me, I have a tendency to work a lot and some may say I'm workaholic but I'm really, truly trying to find this balance between work and personal life and just trying to find time to be active and stay active while still taking those rest days that are so incredibly needed. Neiwai's loungewear styles are designed to emphasize rest and self-care. Slipping into my comfy clothes after a long day is part of my daily ritual and it kind of like signals to my body and mind that it's time to inhale, exhale and heal from the day that I just had. Neiwai believes in the power of clothing and style to spark creativity, self-expression and to bridge the connection between your true inner self and the person that you show the world. Neiwai also works with top fabric providers like Vita Carbon Zero by Tinsel just to name a few. It has truly made such a big difference in my night routine to have cozy loungewear to just like feel really good in and just kind of have that style of relief at the end of the day. I'm currently in my busy season with photography and it's grad season if you guys follow my Instagram stories you would know and don't get me wrong it's so rewarding taking the photos for such a special moment in someone's life but it is very draining because it's hot outside, you know, I'm being active, walking all up and down campus and at the end of the day all I'm looking forward to is showering and putting on my loungewear, maybe doing some self-care or just fetching out on the couch and not having to think about anything except my personal health. Neiwai is celebrating World Health Day all weekend long and they gave me a code for 15% off so if you guys are interested in checking out their pieces they will be all linked down below as well as my discount code link. Next up on my list is my breast reduction. If you guys didn't know last September 20th I finally got my dream surgery and I've been wanting a breast reduction since college and I tried to get it covered through insurance, it didn't work out how I wanted it to it's very tough to get it covered through insurance it was just a pain in the butt so I decided to pay out of pocket and I have a whole playlist all about my breast reduction if you guys are interested in learning more about the cost, recovery, everything like that I literally went into very nitty gritty details I will have that playlist linked down below and I'm going to post an update very soon, I swear but I'm very very happy that I did it because there's just like no looking back like I have no regrets whatsoever and I'm so happy with the size of them and yes it's elevated my life because I am pretty active especially in the photography industry you know you have to get down into these poses and you know stand up for hours on end and it takes a toll on your back with having a heavy chest you know and physically I remember thinking like you know it wouldn't be that big of a difference but holy crap I look back on pictures and I look so much heavier than I was because of the girls you know so I definitely feel like they fit my frame a lot better and I'm just really happy with it this next one needs to be more normalized because it has changed my life not only has it elevated my life but I am a changed woman because of it it is a bidet Ryan's friend actually had one so he was influenced by one and I think we got it on Amazon or something I'm pretty sure it was under 50 bucks like super affordable at first I was very hesitant to use it and I feel like everyone is hesitant to use it especially when people come over and they see it and they're like what the hell is this I'm like try it out like you have to try it to see what it's all about but now I just feel so much more clean and that's all I really have to say if you guys don't have a bidet yet go get one because I swear your life will be changed too next up we have all my gold jewelry from Goriana and I am obsessed with it all I love having this bracelet stack and I just got a new one over here this one is the Laney bracelet and then I just got two new rings this one's the Laney ring and I don't know what this is called but this is actually their fine jewelry line even though it's kind of more on the affordable side of their fine jewelry but it has like little topaz stones and I thought it was so cute and dainty and even my necklace and my earrings well the first ones are from Goriana whenever I tell people I have jewelry from Goriana their first question is always does it get ruined in the water and I swear I never take these bracelets off and they're totally fine they're beautiful, they're gold and I really don't see them rusting anytime soon so I definitely recommend to like actually invest in your jewelry especially the everyday pieces because if you're gonna be wearing them for so long you want ones that will not tarnish I'll go ahead and link a post down below to all my everyday jewelry from Goriana next on the list is skincare but skincare for my skin not every single skincare product is made for your skin in the past I've watched so many YouTube videos as we all probably do and see really pretty packaging like I mentioned and kind of get stuffed into it but at the end of the day you have to kind of tailor your skincare for what your skin needs also skincare is very expensive these days but it is so worth it to invest in because that is like literally the foundation to a good face and makeup if you prep your skin with good skincare you're literally gonna be glowing for the rest of the day and it's amazing next up on the list are my Bose 700s these are headphones that I got a couple of years ago and fun fact I lost them and had to rebuy them because I was so upset that I literally don't think I could have lived without them and I was looking into other headphone brands like you know the Apple Air Pods or the Air Maxes but I just feel like nothing can beat these headphones the noise canceling on these is insane and what I like most about these headphones is that you can connect it to two devices at a time so I usually have it connected to my phone and my laptop and you can kind of like switch back and forth between them so like if I wanna take a pause on editing on my computer and watch TikToks it'll just go straight to my phone which is really cool also Ryan and I are always together because he also works from home so it's just nice when I can kind of escape listen to a podcast maybe do a little bit of cleaning around the house I just feel like these make me feel so much more productive something that has definitely elevated my life are just beauty treatments in general because now that I have adult money I feel like it's very easy to justify beauty treatments so a brow elimination a lash lift what else did I get done? I mean facials are good too but I haven't gotten one done in so long but definitely mainly brow elimination and lash lift I'm going on a trip in a couple of days and I love to get this done before I go on a trip because especially a lash lift if you don't wanna wear makeup one day it really makes you look so much more alive and then a brow elimination makes your eyebrow hairs kind of just like fluffy and stick straight up so you can kind of just do a little bit less in your makeup routine in general and it just makes it so much more convenient so speaking of pampering yourself I have not gotten my nails professionally done in so long because I've been doing press-ons this is a beauty hack that I wanted to share with you guys because it's definitely changed my life look how good my nails look right now I'm still not over them they are the Olive and June press-ons and they look so good it looks like I got them professionally done with like gel X or I don't even know what they're called but this is kind of like how long they are and they last up to two weeks and yeah, sometimes they kind of pop off which can definitely be a little inconvenient sometimes but I just literally carry the glue around with me and pop them back on and it's so nice because I've literally saved hundreds of dollars not going to the nail salon and just doing press-ons every time I buy one set of press-ons it's like 10 bucks around that so it is so much more affordable and the biggest plus of them all is that it takes you probably less than 30 minutes for your first couple of times it might take a little bit longer just getting used to like finding the right shape and filing them down and all that kind of stuff but I seriously love them so much for my trip I'm going to get them professionally done just so I don't have to worry about them popping off during my vacation but I definitely think I'm going to stick to press-ons because they are just so much more affordable I have tried a lot of press-ons all of them June are by far my favorite and then this is my favorite from all of them June so it's pink sands in the medium length and that's what I have on right now they are beautiful the next two I'm going to talk about are some of my favorite post-grad purchases so we're going to start off with my Bissell robot vacuum I did not get the hype before I got a robot vacuum but it is insane how convenient it is because you don't have to do anything but turn the vacuum on and actually there's an app so you don't even have to get up and do anything technically the one I purchased is actually a vacuum and a mop so it can do both and it's perfect because we have carpet in the bedrooms and then hardwood in the living room so it really just gets it really nice and clean and I don't have to do anything it might possibly be the best invention ever I don't think I could have gone through this video without talking about one of my kitchen appliances and the one I want to talk about today is my juicer I spent a pretty penny on that damn juicer I did get it during Black Friday but it still definitely wasn't very cheap but I love it because whenever I want a fresh squeezed orange juice I can make it instantly and it's so convenient because you can kind of prep everything and then put it in the hopper and then walk away and then it juices itself and basically other juicers how they differ is that the hopper is so small that you have to keep feeding it in so think about it as like a KitchenAid mixer versus a hand mixer so this juicer would be the KitchenAid mixer because you can like step away and do other things while it's juicing for you it is amazing so now whenever I'm at the grocery store I don't have the temptation to purchase a $10 to $15 juice that's this small because I can literally buy fruits and vegetables maybe totaling up to $10 that makes such a large quantity of juice it is insane so having a juicer is just really nice especially for the summer months it's gonna be summer so soon and it just feels so nice to just drink a fresh juice and just get all of your veggies and fruits and take next up I wanna talk about my newest obsession and they are scrunchies I literally cannot live without my scrunchies now I bought so many because I had this like one day where I couldn't find any of my scrunchies and I got so mad I was like I need them I need them so basically I like to use these rather than the black regular hair ties because they don't leave creases and they just feel a little bit more secure in my hair this one in particular is from Invisibobble and it has that coiled hair tie in there so when you tie your hair it is so much more sturdy it's literally not going anywhere and I just love them for my hair I just also feel like whenever I take them out it's not pulling on my hair no breakages really happening so highly recommend to start switching over to silk scrunchies the next thing is something that I got very recently talking about like this past week and I already posted it on my Instagram stories so you might have already seen it but I just went through all my skincare and hair care and decluttered and made it look so beautiful and nice with these acrylic risers I got them off of Amazon it was like a two pack I think it was $35 which isn't horrible and it literally made my cabinet look like I was at a beauty store it is amazing and I just really hope it stays this organized I just need to like tell myself in my mind like I need to put them back after I use them cause I get a little bit bad about that but it is so stunning that I feel like I'm going to want to keep it like that so I'm hoping it stays like this I honestly want to get more of these risers and just put them in every one of my cabinets and honestly just organizational stuff in general I want a couple more like of those fridge organizers I did buy a couple from TJ Maxx but I want to get even more just cause I feel like it's going to make life so much more convenient and easier last but not least I wanted to talk about my IKEA mirror because I had this pretty narrow small mirror from Amazon which I at first when I bought it I thought it was really big but then it always showed kind of like the sides in my mirror selfies which yes it might be dumbing me to justify a bigger mirror for my mirror selfies but I love the look of a huge mirror and I was about to buy a really expensive one on CV2 but my friend Laura was like you need to cancel that order right now and go to IKEA and she told me about this mirror and I love it so much and I definitely saved so much money by buying it at IKEA I did have to get it delivered because it wasn't in stock in the Round Rock location but it was so worth it cause now I have a huge mirror to take all of the outfit pics I want that wraps up this video don't forget to check out Naywise Lounge where I will have it linked down below as well as all the other products that I've mentioned and remember to take a breather today focus on you and your personal health and I will see y'all in my next video bye