 Just about every time you sit down and watch a YouTuber do monthly favorites, they're like, oh my goodness, this month's gone by so fast. I don't feel like that. I don't feel like that at all, but I do have monthly favorites for you guys. And I'm going to talk a little bit in between this about how things are going for me and what's been happening. And we're going to start out with a really great bag. OK, the reason I'm doing this and starting out with this is because I am moving this month into a different house, not anything better, not anything special. We're just moving into another house. And so I had to get something to carry my laptop with. And this thing is huge. My laptop is huge. It's 17.3 screen. And so it's big. But what I love about this holder for it is that not only is it super cushioned so your laptop is completely protected, but you have a bunch of pockets that you can put other things in like your adapters or your SD cards, your cord for charging. And this holds a time. You wouldn't think it would because it's got a really slim footprint on it. But this really does hold a lot. You also have the nice strap that goes across you in order to carry it, which is great. And of course, I had to get purple. Hello. I knew I was going to get purple. You knew I was going to get purple. I also touched on how light it is. The only thing that's heavy here is the actual computer itself. So I really do love this bag. My point in starting out with that bag and telling you about my move is that I have all these bags around me and they are for my move. But also I just kind of stocked up on things that I wanted to travel with. This is the time of year when so many people are going on vacation. So I definitely thought I'd share with you a few of the bags that I have been enjoying this one right here. This one, again, huge bag. I'll stick a picture up here because I know you're not going to be able to see it. By the way, I'm not getting up today because I just don't feel that great. And so I do a lot better just sitting down and showing you products. This bag is a weekender bag and I have fallen in love with it. Now, there is a white one that I showed a few months ago and I happened to have packed it away. I love that one because it does have chargers on it. If you do need one with chargers, I'll make sure that I link that one below. But I like this bag because it is super super lightweight material. It's a vinyl material that really washes up really easy nylon material, not vinyl. Also on the very bottom, you have your shoe compartment, which is awesome when you're going somewhere for the weekend. Maybe you need a pair of pair of heels. Maybe you need a change of sandals. It does also have the clip here where you can clip those together, carry it that way. It also has a big huge strap on it. I love this bag. It's so, so roomy. It has an extra bag right here that you can take with you. And it also has a smaller bag, which I have stuffed full right now of makeup. So these two bags come with it at no extra charge. And you're able to do a little bit more organizing inside the weekender bag. So that's the second one about travel. Now, I also did pick up another handbag. You all know that when I do a favorites video every month, I'm going to show you a handbag. I am so into these quilted bags. They're all the rage right now, but I love them. I think that they just look a little bit more posh, a little bit more elevated, but they don't cost you hardly anything compared to all of the name brands. Now, this one looks like it just has a handle on the lid right here or on the flap right here, but it's not just that. What you do is you stick down inside the bag, the long handle that you have for it, which, by the way, is so pretty with the gold accents. And it's just it's a gorgeous bag. And this will do a double strap, which is so nice to be able to use it over the shoulder. It's also great if you want to go ahead and pull it up like this and do a cross body. And it's really roomy compared to a lot of bags that I've been getting lately. And I just really have fallen in love with this. This comes in some of the funnest colors for summer. It comes in a pink and a yellow and a green, and it's just it's got some really great colors. So if you are in the market for a bag or if you just love bags like I do, go ahead and check this one out. It's a really great sturdy bag. By the way, I will list and link my earrings and the shirt. And I'll put up a picture of the shirt right here so that you can see it. It's a great shirt for dressing up or you can dress it down with a pair of jeans. It's just a really pretty shirt with the polka dots on the sleeve. But it is short sleeves, so it's kind of nice for summer. And then the earrings are just a gold hoop with rhinestones. And I think they're gorgeous as well. Actually, they do have the little rhinestones inside of the earring, too. So I thought those were really pretty, kind of a little bit of a different look to the hoops instead of just the regular rhinestones. OK, I have to tell you about this. Have to have to have to. This is called Amino Lean, and it's kind of a complete amino acid formula. If you don't know what amino acids are, amino acids are the building blocks to our muscles. They are also part of the collagen that gets built in our skin, those peptides, that kind of thing. So this is any time energy, weight loss management or weight management, not weight loss, mental focus. There are 70 servings in here, which is really good. And the other thing is this gives me energy like no other. And that's why I wanted to bring it to you today. I've been taking this for about 10 days, and I thought that it was just because I was feeling a little better after surgery, that I was getting more energy. And I looked back and sure enough, I started taking this about the day that I felt better. I'm somebody that in the afternoon always has to take a nap because I'm so tired. And I've been taking this and I don't have to nap. Which is unheard of for me. I mean, I've been taking naps for probably 20 years in the afternoon because it gets so tired with my fibromyalgia, but this is really helping a lot. Now, it doesn't take away pain. It doesn't do anything like that. And as far as weight management goes, I think because you have more energy, you have less time to think about eating, you're doing more things. I haven't really been that hungry. And I have that tendency to be hungry all the time because that's my mental outlook, forgive me for saying this, but it's my drug of choice is eating or sugar. And this really seems to be helping with all of those. And I'm really looking forward to the mental focus. And hopefully by the time I get a ways into this, that will kick in. Because since my surgery, I have felt a little fuzzy. I know that that's all about being in pain and everything. But this really has helped. And I can highly recommend it. Now, I will tell you that it says to take it in about eight to ten ounces of water, two scoops of it, but that those two little scoops in water, just eight ounces is terribly sweet. I mean, there's no way I can get through it. So I just put it in my water in the morning that I drink a lot of. And I try to get done with that one before noon so that this doesn't interfere with me sleeping at night. Although I have taken this in the afternoon and I haven't noticed it disrupting my sleep. And please always look at your ingredients, always talk to your doctor. I am just sharing with you what's working for me and nothing else. These natural supplements, sometimes they can interfere with the medications that you are taking. So please talk to your doctor, talk to your pharmacist and make sure it's not going to interfere at all. But this has been so good for me. And I'm really excited about using it. I've been watching a lot of hair tutorials and these women are talking about the longer your hair is, the better a bore hair bristle brush is. And this one was recommended and it does have the plastic bristles in it as well. But what those other bore bristles do, and I've been noticing this a lot, is they're super smoothing on your hair. I'm just shocked at how smooth it makes my hair feel. The other thing is at night when you're brushing your hair before you go to bed, if you start at the crown of your head or at the top of your head, you're brushing the oils through to the ends, which really does help with your hair growth also. And if you have color-treated hair or if you have damaged hair, the oils on your scalp are really important for helping the rest of your hair help. So this came with a comb. It came with another smaller one that I'm carrying in my purse. And I don't remember what else it came with. Doesn't seem like it came with much else. But I'm really enjoying this brush. I've been bringing you a brush just about every single time that I've been doing my monthly favorites lately. This is my latest favorite and I like it because of being able to brush those oils and help the ends that might be a little bit more damaged than the rest of my hair. Capari sent me their new SPF and I couldn't be more excited about it. It is the Sun Shield Soft Glow Daily Face SPF 30. And what I love about this is instead of it being just an SPF that I have to put on after my moisturizer and let's sink in, this is not just an SPF. This has turned into my primer as well. When you put this on, you're going to feel the silicone in it and it fills in the pores and it creates the barrier between your makeup and your moisturizer so that you don't have to have an extra primer. I've been using it as my primer and it's been working so well. It is slick like a primer normally is with the silicones in it. And yet it sinks in so nicely that I just really enjoy it. But yes, this is a very slick product. So if you're somebody that is oily, I don't think that you will like that this very much. And again, full disclosure, Capari did send me this. But you know what, Capari has been sending me things for a long time. And this is the first thing I brought to you. So you know that it's good when I bring you something that I get in PR because I don't bring every single thing that these companies send me. I only bring you the best of the best. Also, if you're going traveling and you're getting on an airplane, I found this really great kit for TSA because you can only take a certain amount of ounces, right? And this is just perfect for me because there are a lot of containers in here, a lot of different containers in here. And so for me to be able to put it all in a compact container like this and get it all in there, it's great. So if you've been looking for something that you can carry on to the plane and easily show the gatekeepers, then this would be a really good one for you as well. This is another SPF only. This one is super hydrating. Now this one is new from the inky list. This is the polyglutamic acid. This is their Dewey sunscreen SPF of 30. I will make sure I put up on the screen whether Capari's was mineral. I'm not sure about it, but I'm pretty sure this one is mineral. You'll be able to see that right away. But what's really cool about it is it sinks in so quickly. That's one thing that I check immediately about SPFs is do they sink in? You're always going to have a little bit of that slick feeling, right? I'm enjoying this one because it is very hydrating. It is the one that I use today, but I also put some of the Capari on right in the middle right here where I get my oils breaking through partway through the day. So this is a beautiful one. I'm really excited to be bringing it to you and showing it to you today. And I did purchase this with my own money, inky list. I would love to be on your PR list so I can bring these lovely ladies the very best of the best. This is a really, really good SPF. I want to mention this just very, very briefly because this is a five piece LED magnet telescoping pick up tool. This has a bunch of different tools in it that are telescoping. OK, this is a mere one right here. And they just pull out to where I think that they're about well, the little handle came right off of that boop. So they just pull out to where they're I think they're about 30 inches. If I'm not mistaken, they also have one that's a flashlight. You have one that is just a magnet to have one that has another tool on there. And then you have this one that is a bigger mirror that is lighted. Now, the reason that I'm telling you about this is because you got special guys coming up in your life that are going to be wanting a different gift than a tie. One of my videos I did, I don't know, it's probably like a year and a half ago was all about gifts for him. I thought that everybody would really want to know about gifts for him, but that video flopped. So I'm definitely going to put it in the first comment pinned below along with all these products, but I'm also going to put it in the description box of this video. This is a great gift for him. It's something that he will use over and over again. But those two videos that I did, they did not do that well, but boy, they are so full of the coolest gifts. And I can tell you why they're so cool. My husband and my son helped me pick them out. So really great gifts for the guy in your life. One of the things that I get asked in almost every single video is about my readers. I buy all of my readers on Amazon. Now, this is probably the plainest one that I have, and it's the dirtiest one too, because this one is the one that my husband was using of mine. This is just a plain one, but this comes in a bunch of different colors. They come in sets. You can get whatever strength you need. I have to have a pretty good, you know, reader to be able to see anything these days. This is a fun cat eye with the bling right here. I just thought that was so cute. I don't remember whether this comes in three to five, something like that. I know that this next one, this is the one that I wear all the time and I get asked every time I wear it on on camera, what this reader is. And this, again, is from Amazon. I'll make sure that I link it below. It's got the bling and the tortoise shell. This comes in four different colors as well. And yeah, I just I'm one of those people that I have, like 10 readers laying around all day long in every part of my house, because otherwise I'm going to be chasing a reader down. I also want to share with you these little blushes that I got. These actually come in a three pack and one of the other one is actually the one that I wore today is over with my other makeup. But these are a liquid blush. They're a little bit messy. I wish that the delivery system was just a tiny bit better. The blush itself, though, it's really pigmented and I am enjoying them very much. You do have to be careful because if you get too much on it, you're going to be blending forever, but they are really nice. I use a makeup sponge to apply them. I actually just go and put it on back of my hand and then I'll dot it around my hand until it's blended out just a little bit and then I'll put it on my cheeks. These are really great. And like I said, I do have one on today and I've been enjoying them so much and just a little bit goes a long ways. This is like the blush that Nars has. And I do feel like it's every bit as much pigmented and it has a really nice lasting power. All right, this one was a blast from the past for me. There are four of these. There's a silver one that comes in this set as well. And you would think that they would be pens, but they're not pens. What they are is lip brushes. And I used to have a lip brush all while I was growing up doing makeup and then way into my married years, I had a lip brush. This is a great lip brush. So you have first the one that has a little tip on it that you can outline with. And then on the other side, you have the one that you can fill in with it. I love these. I think they are so good. They're retractable. They work really well on my lips to blend out. You know, if you have a lip liner that you use, it's hard to blend. You know, using that paddle brush right there before you go in with your lipstick might really be the ticket for you to be able to get that blurred out look. And I love that this one has a cap on the one end. And then the other side is retractable and you just push it back down. I used to have these brushes and then they would open up in my purse, make a mess in the bottom of my purse. But since this has a cap and it's retractable, I haven't had that problem at all. And there are four of them. You could put it in with anything to make a really nice gift and or just give all four of them if you want to or keep all four of them for yourself because they're so pretty. I also want to talk to you one more time because this month, the Benton fermentation essence has saved me. And the reason is because I burnt the crap out of my face, not on purpose, but I did with some Retin-A product and it really did a number on my face. I mean, my eyes, my eyelids peeled. That's how bad it was. I had my chin peeling, my neck peeling. Everything was, you know, sloughing and turning over. And it was because it all got kind of burnt and irritated from that extreme product. And by the way, it wasn't the product's fault. It was user error. So I won't even tell you what the product is because it was a really good product. I just used too much and I used it too soon together in consecutive days. But the Benton, this was almost the only thing that I could use. This and what I talk about with the Sukoyaku Suhara, those two products were the only things that I could use while my face was healing because it was so sensitive. But this with the fermentation products in it, it's Bifidate and Galactomyces. Those two are such soothing products. They also have a little bit of anti-oxidants in them. And I just wanted to mention it again. I talk about those all the time, but I'm going to forever stand on my soapbox about them because when you buy Lancome Genophique or Estee Lauder Night Repair, you're purchasing what the product is in here. However, it is nowhere near as potent as this is. This is the strong percentage of it. It's something like 50 percent, 60 percent. And in those other two products, they might get up to 10 percent. Some of them are at 8 percent. So this is wonderful, soothing, saved my butt. And I'm just so glad that I had it. And again, I wanted to talk to you about it. Lastly, I want to leave you with the hat that I show every year. I just love this hat. It's so cute. It's got a wide brim and it's really going to help keep you out of the sun. Keep those harmful rays off of your face. Wear your SPF, wear your wide brimmed hats and really protect your skin from those nasty UV rays. I hope that you did enjoy this video and I hope that you're having a great day. Are you enjoying any specific products this month that I should know about? Let me know that in the comments section. And like I told you, there will be all of these products pinned in the first comment and also down in the description box. Hope you're having a great day. Take care. I love you so much. Goodbye, my friends.