 Good morning. I'm Mary Ellen and today I'm going to be talking about what I have really liked or not liked for the rest of the summer I won't be putting out any more favorites until autumn and I love that this isn't there's no beauty a little bit of skin care There's some lifestyle household things So first I'll do my favorites and then I want to talk about some sales that are going on I'm filming this on August 27th So I'm going to tell you some places to look for some sales over Labor Day, which is tomorrow Then I'm going to talk about my fails Some safety and then as usual a little chit chat at the end. So I'm going to go ahead and get started One of the things I've absolutely loved is something that my daughter got me and I could not find it anywhere and it is by OHME She picked it up at CVS and What it is it's a long body scrubber and what I love it for to put behind my back What I'm taking a bath. So if you're interested in this look for the brand I think it's OHME and I'll see if I can find it on any place on the CVS website or whatever But it's I really really like it. So I'm going to use this for a couple months. I wash it afterwards I use them, you know antibacterial whatever soap and rinse it out and hang it up and and I really do like it I like to keep be one ahead in most things that I know that I really like and then I want to keep using Well for a long time. I could not find this product. I wasn't out In fact, I have one in my in my use ups that my trash But I wanted an extra and it is a nutrient ox and it's a treatment for your scout for thin hair I've used this ever since I started derma rolling and the only time I use it is after I derma roll on When I wash my hair because I only derma roll my scalp right after I wash my hair and I wash my hair like Leave three days between the time I wash it and then in three days and then wash it again So I don't use this real often But but I want to have it and I might do fine without this But I've always used it and I think it's been about four years since I started derma rolling my scalp for thickness Is why I wanted it. I don't care if my hair grows fast at all I just I just wanted it to be a little thicker when I place my last order to Timeless I wanted to buy I bought two of their derma rollers and I think I told you about that I hadn't tried them yet and I really like it. It's less expensive. It's 1099 This is what the one I use From skin diva. I think when I use my 20% discount This is about $14 and some change. I do prefer the shape of this. I'm gonna hold it up and hopefully you can see it This is straighter, but this this that works They never carried the real needle derma rollers until now So there they work just fine, but I'm just used to this one. I will use them But I'll probably repurchase the skin diva the skin diva is made exactly like some of the quite a bit more expensive brands And it has skin diva has a point two five millimeter the point five point seven five millimeter and the one millimeter and To my knowledge right now timeless just has the point five and the one millimeter and I use my point twenty five Every Sunday, but once in a month. This is kind of good news. I don't know if I'm gonna take advantage of it I don't think I will to tell you the truth. It it cosmetics made me mad when they discontinued my Miracle water, you know, I've used their secret sauce for some time and I've purchased and I've purchased a couple of different Moisturizers because like right now I'm not using a moisturizer and I will use it when my skin needs it when it gets colder But the it cosmetic secret sauce is back. It is now vegan. It's always been cruelty free Okay, that's my skincare and now I want to talk about my household favorites. I decided This year last couple years if something makes my life a little bit easier I'm gonna get it and Jim thought I was kind of crazy, but he went along with me I got a new refrigerator for my laundry room and I knew exactly what I wanted You know, I had that chest freezer in there. I got so sick and tired even though I had it organized I got so tick sick and tired of lifting everything and lifting everything and I decided I wanted a side-by-side I went into a home depot in June and I looked at him and I thought I never wanted an ice maker I've never had an ice maker. I've never had a side-by-side refrigerator So I went in and I found one that the ice did not take up a lot of the space in the freezer A lot of them I wanted the freezer space, but to make a long story short It didn't matter what color I have because I have a white washer and dryer But I ended up with a chrome and I'll put a link to it in case you want to see it or put a picture up here And I really do like it a lot. I'll tell you what really surprised me. I anticipated putting the things from my chest freezer Into the side-by-side and then needing to keep my chest freezer until everything was gone I I put everything in my chest freezer in that freezer side and then it was empty So I gave it to my daughter. Yeah, I'm real happy with it But when I come home from the grocery store, I can just put what I want in there and anyway I'm it's a little extra, but you know what? It's okay I had asked your opinions on a Kindle and when they had Amazon Prime Day I took all your suggestions and looked at what they had and I ended up buying Let's see. I don't even want to know what the name of this one is but it's this size I thought well, and I think it was $50 and I thought well I'm gonna start with a Kindle that is smaller and then as I read more then I will go to something larger and and This won't go to waste at all and I did read a book and I'll tell you Well, I'll go ahead and tell you about my book It was a book by Amy Harmon, and I think it's where the lost wonder and they wandered all over going out West And I really enjoyed it. She did a great job in describing the people, you know, you really thought you knew the characters I don't know why I picked that one when you get a Kindle you get three months of their Kindle free books and and I found out you can go right into your Amazon page and Cancel that because I'm I don't really want to have a 999 subscription to Kindle e-books so I went in there and I Cancelled it, but I still have the use of it for three months So I didn't know if you could do that or not So I enjoyed it what I have trouble with is when I sit down to read it takes me so long To get my mind where I can read but that's all I want to do I don't want to do anything else and I think I did real well with this I allowed myself maybe an hour every day and I read it in a few days and and I enjoyed it I haven't read another book, but I know I will I'll tell you something that I loved but I won't be able to get it again probably until After I have my after I can get off blood thinners and I'm hoping that's going to be next spring I'm supposed to have an amulet device Implanted and then I won't have to watch all my greens But this is from farmers fridge and I'll put a picture in here of what it looks like I love them. They're salads and they're they're 999 It's makes one meal for one person or it makes two really nice side salads Well, I love the dark leafy green and I'm only I'm limited to how much I can have because I'm already on 10 milligrams of my blood thinner and Jim wasn't crazy about him because he likes iceberg lettuce What my favorite salad right now is from Wendy's and it's the apple pecan salad I ordered an apple pecan salad from farm farmers fridge and it was delicious But it wasn't as good as Wendy's but Wendy's is a 20 mile round trip The only thing I'll tell you what I didn't like about it is that you have to have your box 83% full They have yogurt. They have Thai noodles. They have a lot of different things. It started out retail They you know, they have kiosks different places and they have them in stores But everything stayed so fresh the way they have it packaged I was very impressed and I will do it again. I'll put a link down below It is a link that you will get if you order it and what it does It gives you ten dollars off and it gives me ten dollars credit Once you if you order it, then you'll get a link and you can give it to your friends It's that kind of sort of thing. I heard about it from Emily Noel 83 They will last in your refrigerator. It says two to four days The ones I had there was like a five-day window and everything the way they store them They say fresh and crisp and then their containers I will use again and again on sales like I said today's August 27th The only sale I know about right now is from dermatology and I have a dermatology link and I have a 20% discount well what they have I think that I'll leave the codes below if you use their code You can get ten dollars off fifty dollars Well, if you use my link my code you'd get 20% of that which is the same you'd get $20 off a seventy five dollar order or thirty dollars off of a hundred dollar order And I know time us will have a sale I'm sure skinned evil will any brand that you really like Check on their website and usually they start a few days before and like I know the dermatology Ends tomorrow night Monday night at midnight and anytime you use any of my discount codes If they have a better deal than what my code is You can always put it in and I get credit and I never know who orders for me But I want to thank you anybody. He uses my links. I don't try to push them and But I appreciate it a lot I'll test 21 days of beauty. I haven't ordered anything yet And I don't know that I will and it goes through the 17th. I know on September 9th They have the superhero mascara and that's the only mascara that I use Anymore that's I've been sold on that for a long time for like half price and it's 13 dollars And I think I still have to I have two backups. I change mine every season I think I can get a better deal on QVC when it gets closer to the holidays I can usually get quite a few of them get a great deal. So I probably won't order that So if you're interested in makeup look every day on the altar website Because they will have an online only deal and sometimes they'll have special deals Like I know Buxom has one September 2nd Which has not happened yet But when I load upload this video it will be yesterday and I'm interested to see if maybe they have their blush I love Buxom blushes. Okay. I've got to talk about my fails and and I had one big one I have used grande lash for Several years and I use it three days a week had to use it every day when it's when it started that Just to keep the lashes away. I want them Which is kind of almost a little and they need to be a little bit longer But anyway, I thought I'd try something that had a ton of Five-star reviews from Amazon and I think it was called V Beauty and I'll type it in up here Well, I started using that and I wrote the date on it. I think it was June 6th There's something like that and I put my grande lash aside I used it for a month and I will show you I'll put in a couple of my photos that are my thumbnails I couldn't believe how quickly I lost my lashes when I quit using the Monday lash like anything else You need to do your research. I started using the generic latees on my eyelashes And it was a prescription and I got it Through good Rx. Well, you know, there's a whole lot of things that Side effects like if you have light eyes that could change the color of your eyes So before you start using anything that I recommend or anybody recommends Check and see. I mean, I've got dark eyes So I'm not gonna be worried in any way just wanted to kind of let you know that I started back on my grande lash After one month and I've gotten them back to where I am just using it three days a week So when I do my empties whenever it's not empty yet I'll tell you how long it lasted but I'll have to remember to subtract one month in the meantime I don't I never know when my grant when my products I use a grande brow and I use that eyelash I never know when it's gonna be empty. So I always want to back up. I had a backup brow, but I did not have a backup lash I Saw that Grande cosmetics had 25% off of one of their products and it is the lash and the brow It says it's a $70 value for $45 and they had a percentage off So I spent $33 and and some change and got this Whatever they say this will last I Think these will both last me 16 weeks because when I don't go back in and get more and I just start on my lashes About right here and go out I don't put it all the way across the you know the lash line and I just use it three days a week So I got two of them and I'm glad I did because I thought for sure also would have them on their 21 days And I haven't seen them unless it's gonna be a surprise. So the fail of the V beauty Made me happy. I could get a deal on some products that I like Okay, I ordered some rattan Paper plate holders or even a dish holder if your dish is too hot you can put your Food in here. This is what I used for years and years and years and you can wash them and put them flat I mean I've had these since my kids were young and they're also really good If you want to send a plate of food with somebody you can just send it and put it in here I mean in addition here and cover it. Well, I got down to like having two of them I probably started out with 24 and I thought well, I'll order these on Amazon. Look at this. I Mean you can see right through it. I was I'll use them But I'm gonna be looking for some good ones So if anybody I've tried to look so if anybody knows where I can get some good ones that you can't see everything through Just let me know on safety a friend of mine told me she had gone to the grocery store She and she had her phone just like I do with my credit cards and my Driver's license and she was in the parking lot and some man got her attention and then somebody else came up and took her Her phone so she was spending the time trying to cancel all her credit cards You know driver's license so on and so forth Her recommendation is to carry one credit card and your driver's license and a shoulder bag I'll add something to it. You can buy shoulder bags that are razor resistant. I mean that yeah The bag and the strap and what I do, of course, I always know when I'm going to the grocery store I don't ever just stop by the grocery store What I do is, you know, I take my phone that I always carry the only case I've ever used I've just bought new ones when I've gotten different phones and when I get to the store I always make sure I have pockets so I can put my key fob in one pocket and when I get to the grocery store I take my debit card out and then I put my phone under my seat and then I go in and I lock my car I've got my debit card. I've got my list and then I have my fob So you just have to be really really really careful even more so these days. I've never seen anything like it Also watch for scams in your email. I'm going to put one up here That's a scam and then you can see I circled the address. It's not it's not real And I get these all the time when I get something from Amazon or from PayPal or something The address is small and you can tell it's theirs and it's just very frustrating So just to be really careful. They want you to click on something. They want information there I think they're called phishing P H is hing not sure but just be really careful also be careful if you get gasoline I'm gonna put a picture up here There's a seal on every pump and I always look at the seal and make sure it's not broken Because that's something else people can do and with the price that gas has been and probably will be it's better now But it's not where it should be Somebody can pull up there in a van. They can spend a little time and put a card reader in there But they can't put a card reader unless they break the seal so that's something to watch out for and From this point on I I have not been wearing foundation at all in my videos And I'm not going to do it until after the after I do my 16 week comparison I have on mascara navy eyeliner in the upper waterline lip gloss and or lipstick and then I have powder That I use just two fingers put it in powder and put it right here So I don't have any makeup on and I'm hoping that I can compare some of these two also now on September 20th I'm going to film my face and I'm gonna try to get some real good Comparisons it was I think it was May 31st when I started using my LED mask and On the 20th of September I will film it But it probably won't go out until the first Sunday in October Want to let you know that gym surgery is gonna be in October can't don't want to say the date But I will let you know when it's over and I appreciate your prayers and your good wishes And as soon as I finish filming I'm gonna go back in see if I got a video. Sometimes I don't and And I'm gonna reply to all your nice notes from my last video, but it is all good. It is all good I appreciate you more than Then you can really imagine I I tell you I've been getting a lot of comments on old videos that people are watching and And it it makes my day. I will see you in my next video and you take care But I wanted one and I Send it with my daughter this there the next day I mean and I haven't read it read it and it almost made I started subscription Cruelty, I mean it's always been cruelty fit free