 Hey guys can you believe 2019 is almost over? I know I can't and I have been thinking I've actually been reflecting on my year and I know it isn't like New Year's Eve and it really isn't time to really think about all of that but I've seen so many videos where people have talked about their favorites of 2019 and I kept thinking well geez you know I really don't have all that many favorites to to really talk about for 2019 and I thought what can I share what can I really talk about and then I kept thinking about it and I'm going wow I actually do have a number of things that I can share that have been extra special to me that have really meant a lot and some of that is my skincare and some of that is lifestyle so if you're interested in that stay tuned so anyways guys before I before I really go full force and heavy into products I want to say the number one thing that I have so so appreciated in 2019 is every single one of you and I mean that from the bottom of my heart because I swear I know everyone says that they have the most wonderful group of subscribers but I think mine are the best absolutely the best so many of you have reached out to me so many of you have sent prayers for my dad so many of you have been along this journey with me and just shared parts of yourself with me and it's so it's it's like overwhelmingly I don't even know how to say it it's such a warm feeling such warm and fuzzies that every single one of you I mean you're subscribers to the channel in most cases but you're way way beyond that your people and you've contributed to me in the sense of sharing parts of you that have helped me become better or more understanding or more rounded or whatever but I so appreciate every single one of you and secondly in 2019 I had the I think early on in 2019 I had a goal of meeting a few particular people a few particular YouTube content creators and two of them stood out very early on because we had been talking back and forth and we've been trying to plan something back and forth and we we were to the point where we talk every single day on a technology called Voxer and it's like a it's sort of like a walkie-talkie app but it's really it's really awesome it doesn't go against your minutes it you know it doesn't cost you anything it's free I really love it so we had been talking and then we talked about how come can we meet up you know because we felt like such a good closeness and such a good bond a solid bond so one of the huge I mean huge highlight was planning my first trip to meet up with these wonderful two youtubers and I know you know exactly who I'm talking about Sheila with her husband David and Marlene with her husband Wayne and my husband Jay and I we all met at Sheila's beach house in North Myrtle Beach South Carolina South Carolina get those Carolinas messed up and we had we just had the most amazing long weekend there it was a really we went Thursday and I think we came home on Monday and they surprised me with a 10k anniversary cake for YouTube and it was it was just the most amazing weekend I absolutely love these ladies to death meeting them in real life was like just the best of the best ever and then another trip that was planned for me in 2019 was meeting up with an other group of youtubers so two of them I knew I was gonna meet I just didn't know who else because there's a couple of other people thrown into the mix that we thought we were gonna connect with so the first a first one was gail random life production I've met her before but she was coming over with Bella and Bella beauty on the budget she she had never been to the States and so we were first planning a meet up in New York and we thought maybe we could connect up with two other people in New York and then we talked about meeting in Tennessee so when Bella and Gail came they went to New York I couldn't make New York it was too close to the birth of my grandson so we ended up connecting in Tennessee I tried to connect up with them in Massachusetts because they had met up with Kathy a and Kathy a has a channel I'm sure you all know who she is but that didn't really work out Kathy had them for I think two days and and she's had a really tight schedule and then at the same time I had a really tight schedule so that coordination did not work out but Tennessee did so I met up with and met Bella and Gail in Tennessee and then we had Marta who is a vlogger from Florida join us and then we had Kristen miss Kristen 3 2 1 and in Melissa they drove hours the two of them to come to meet us in our where we were in Nashville and I just amaze that they took all that time for a short day basically but they came and they had a great time and Marta flew in from Florida but she was there for a few days with us so it was really really good so in 2019 I met a number of youtubers and those that I didn't get to meet you know who you are I know we're gonna meet in 2020 because that's definitely in the plan so 2020 yes absolutely so I have to say that was my favorite year all of you my subscribers and the youtubers I met just absolutely absolutely priceless I need to have a drink so of my favorites I think for me it'll be pretty easy to narrow it down I have probably the number one game changer for me was in my skincare and also in I guess pain care I guess if you want to talk in that sense but was my CBD products and the CBD products that I had that I I got early on was the very first one was a Dory I absolutely adore a Dory now they have a number of products they have a number of different products this is a woman-owned indie company and Holly who owns a Dory is absolutely a fantastic this cream is called oh so nice it is a CBD cream it is kind of funny I know Marlene uses this now too and I know that it's helped with her pain level and all that and I've been I use this almost in a completely different way I've used it actually on my face I don't know if it's supposed to go on your face or not but I've used it as a little bit of a especially when I get close to my eyes here and if I have a little bit of a soreness from my retina it takes it right away it's not too heavy it's not too greasy at all it feels really good it's cooling it's healing I've had bug bites disappear I've had a rash from poison I always say this wrong IV ivory IV IV poison IV IV whatever you know what I'm talking about I've had that go away I've used this on my skin as well as in other places so this was initially sent to me I can't recommend this enough and I know Marlene talks about it too for different types of product relief the second one that has made a huge difference to me was the actual face oil the very first one I got was the flora and bath I really like the flora and bath a lot it was like $88 for a bottle and milligrams the CBD the makeup of the composition of the product is just excellent I really like that a lot I however started to use the McCu which was a so the flora and bath I bought the McCu initially was sent to me for review and what I do is the McCu is a much higher and this is the 2500 milligrams now that's in the entire bottle of course so you have to take the intuitively count the dropper and then the drop size but this is a much higher potency so to speak so I usually mix that with a little bit of an oil or even you could do a cream but I usually put that with a little bit of oil and I put that on my trouble areas and then spread around my face I really love it it does have a woodsy smell a stronger smell but I it's been a game changer the CBD face serum fake oils that I use has been a game changer now one of you one of my subscribers is now in a has now joined a company I can't remember the name of it that sells CBD products and she's talked to me back and forth about a CP I have not tried her brand I have looked at it but I have not tried her brand once I'm done I have no problem trying another CBD but I'm hesitant because I'm very particularly about the ingredients and you know what's worked really well that I've used on my face I I feel really comfortable with the third CBD and this is the one that Jay really uses the most I mean absolutely is the realm we have the recovery stick this is the second one we're on this is like a deodorant roll on you open it up and you just you just you know use it just like a deodorant roll on roll on on your pain this has helped me pain is it going to take away pain forever no it's it's more like a really wonderful temporary relief depending on the level of the pain obviously so when Jay uses this on his back on his knees on his hips especially when he's golfing there's one called the active there's one called the recovery and there's one called the calm I haven't used the calm yet I have that's unopened but I'm I think I'm going to have to look into exactly how you would use the calm and then I have aside from the roll on they sent me some of the little recovery creams these are perfect for traveling so I have to say my stash of CBD products have been absolutely amazing and all-time favorite next for my all-time favorite I I couldn't go anywhere without this and I don't use this every day but I do use it a lot and I really love this this is called the Lumify and these are the eye drops that brighten your eyes up that lighten your eyes up especially if your eyes are bloodshot like say if you if you're not sleeping well and your eyes are bloodshot and stuff like that the Lumify really lightens your eyes up and and I think I think that looks absolutely beautiful so next would be my fill-in powder for my roots I do have the wow a lot of people have talked about the wow and I like the wow a lot this is a fill-in powder sort of like when you have gray roots showing and all of that stuff but what I prefer is the fill-in powder and it's actually called fill-in powder and I'll have to look at the name for you but I much prefer this small one you can see I've hit pan in it I have it's a lighter brown and a darker brown and both work really good with my natural shade so I have a little brush and I just brush it on my roots when I need to and so either one of these would definitely be something I cannot be without without 2019 brought built bars into my life and built bars is a company that you know they're not just standing still they've got it they're not just like okay I got a couple of products I'm finding success they keep trying new ingredients new flavors you know energy drink and new men they're expanding but they're built bars are awesome and I've talked about these before so these are a game changer for me in 2019 because there is I can I usually cut them up because they're very gooey and I like a gooey bar they're very filling but I usually cut them up and sometimes I'll leave them in here when I cut them up or sometimes I'll put them in a little baggy as you put them in in refrigerator or my freezer or in my cooler bag so when I'm on the run and I just want to grab one of these and they're cut up they're so delicious you have to stop yourself from eating them all you really do they're so delicious and I am I think I'm a snob when it comes to energy bars low carb low sugar you know they're just really super good so these are definitely a game changer for me without a doubt I love my built bars the other thing that I love and I've got a whole stack of primers I've been trying primers and I still have more primers to try so I'm not done trying primers but I must tell you out of all the primers that I have ever tried and I should bring that basket it's in the other room I should bring that basket in winter and you can freak out I've actually given a lot of it away but the only time the only primer that I really love that I keep going back to is this little stinking drugstore primer and it's called the elf poreless putty primer this is my second one guys I just keep digging into this and digging into this I just keep going back to this I love this this is to me actually does fill in my pores it actually does keep my makeup on that my trouble spots this to me is just absolutely perfect perfect I love it so I would not be without that and I still would not be without my benefit this is the Boeing I still have the little container one that I really like this is the concealer the industrial strength concealer you can see I love this one and I also love the new one which is there this is the benefit this one is really good in the dough fit applicator I never bring anything up really close to my eyes I sometimes if I have to brighten I use this essence in the pink and so I guess this is also a favorite it was out and I will dab a little bit to you know around my eyes too bright and if I need it but I never bring a whole bunch of foundation or concealer up under my eyes I just think everything including this I haven't found anything that and I am unfortunate enough that I'm a smiley person so when you are a smiley person you get those lines big time and I say unfortunate because I'm always smiling so those lines are always there so I'm very conscious about not having anything up there that's going to accent them because every time when I've done that and I've looked at like a picture of myself I just got like these tree box growing out of my eyes you know when there's like going this way all these branches and ridges and all that stuff and I go gross so I'd rather have the discoloration than the one colored skin that's rutted with wrinkles I'd rather have the discoloration what can I say so on to the rest of my favorites I think I had received one of these as a gift from Sheila I don't know she sent it to me I think I know I think I won the initial first one in one of her giveaways way back and I've talked about this before this I have several of these lip tints and this is the one I got most recently but I have several of these and this is cinnamony oh my god I love these you get these in bath and body works and I love them so much that when they go on sale I buy a stack of them on the same hand on bath and body works I love their three wick candles I don't have one to show you because my order hasn't come in but when they had that big big holiday sale where you could get them the candles are normally 24 dollars you get it for 950 so I ordered a ton of them so that brings me to my eye cream this has been hands-down the eye cream I've used for the last and kept going back now I do use the pure 100% coffee bean under my eyes and I've been doing some other eye treatments and all that stuff but this is the cream I keep going back to so to me this timeless this is the eye serum hydrating eye this is just to me the best the best the best so this is the best for me in 2019 I believe it also was the best in 2018 I really love it foundations has to be hands-down if I'm gonna go high-end it's gonna be my Estee Lauder I have two backups in the color 3C2 because that's my color I do want to try one of the different colors but I haven't got it yet and this is the current bottle that I'm on if I am looking for a foundation that's gonna be a no-fail for me for my skin then I know how it's gonna hold up how it's gonna last I haven't I have a number of foundations at YSL I have a Lancome I've got a Kevin Aquan I've got some high-end foundations but I keep going back to this as my favorite for more all the time almost very consistently so a lot of times if I'm doing high-end this is what I'm grabbing if I'm doing a drugstore hands-down my CYO has beat out every drugstore foundation I have ever tried including my boots number seven I have several bottles of this you see I'm almost out so my CYO has been my everyday beat-around drugstore foundation and then they have this stopping they're not making it so I have the kick-ass in the number four and the kick-ass in the number five which is the exact same thing as the CYO it is I've used it already it applies the same it lasts the same it looks the same it covers the same everything is the same it's made from the same manufacturer it's owned by the same corporate corporation as the CYO the only difference is they don't make the CYO anymore and this is three times the price if it's not on sale so it was a great way for boots to increase to take what is a cult favorite which is the CYO a cult favorite repackage it and into soap and glory and to kick-ass and charge a heck of a lot more so I thought well okay thank you so much yeah but that's what they've done so anyways I know I'm probably rambling on a little bit about my favorites and here I started out with saying I'm not gonna have any favorites and I'm probably close to 27 minutes of favorites but but yeah I I do have some favorites so anyways I am going to try to do maybe a series the best of you know a few different items as I go through I know maybe not but I don't know I'm thinking about it so I hope you enjoyed this video I'm sorry it went so long on my head today is my this is my John Rino Kristen this is a synthetic wig and I am going to be recording the wig chat video next so you should see that coming up next after this video I think this one this video should be published before Christmas I think and I'm gonna have a vlog for after Christmas because Jay and I if everything works out coming away so I'll have probably more of a log style so this will be published before Christmas and anyways I'll stop babbling thank you all so much and if I don't see you before Christmas I wish you all a very very happy holiday and I hope that you celebrate it in whatever manner you choose and I just hope that it's happy that it's healthy not should say healthy drink if you want and I'm just drinking tonic I'm not drinking booze although the idea of adding a shot to this is pretty darn appealing anyways happy holidays everyone merry Christmas happy Hanukkah happy you I don't know I know there's many however you celebrate have a happy happy happy happy cheers happy happy