 Good morning, I'm Mary Ellen and I have now been on YouTube for nine years today. I want to talk about my Experience doing YouTube videos for that long. I want to review a few skincare items I purchased I want to announce the winners of my last giveaway and throughout this video I'm going to put you know a few second screenshot Hopefully side-by-side of the last eight years that I have you know been filming one thing I noticed in all of them. I am never perfect. I am I have always have something wrong and It's okay. It I am like in real life. I'm a perfectionist But since I started doing YouTube, I really have given myself a break I have there were there things that I have put up that I thought you know what that was the best I could do that day another day. I may do better, but I have given myself a break I know in 2014 2015 and 2016 and these are going to be put up in order I don't know if I'll be able to put the dates with it But you'll know that the first one is 2014. I was coloring my own hair and I hated coloring my hair I had done it for probably since I was 45 and in 2017 I have on pink pajamas and I don't have on any makeup And my hair was cut short That was the first time that I had my hair done at the salon And I have not done it myself since and she does a much better job than I ever did I go four times a year I go every three months and she does my roots and then once a year. She she does highlights, but I'm really happy with the color of my hair from 2017 on. I'm happy with the color of my hair That happened to be of the videos I picked out That one was the only one that I didn't have makeup and there was something I noticed My eyebrows I have gotten them so much thicker since I started using grande brow and also derma rolling my brows I noticed that and then this scar Is probably 65 years old because I got it when I was four years old I don't have any makeup on today besides mascara and lipstick and Navy eyeliner, that's all and it's just so much lighter than it was My most popular videos on YouTube are skincare and they're my very least favorite to film It all depends on like today. It's sunny out. I have to have my door shut So my light is never consistent So it's really hard to do comparison photos But I know and I think you'll be able to tell through some of these some of these videos I look younger some of them I look older, but I really feel like the skin care I've done and done pretty consistently has paid off. I Was 60 when I started filming and I'm 69 now. So I think that's Pretty cool. I also noticed that with when I have the longer hair in 2022 and 2021 my hair was too long for my face and this length or even a little longer or shorter is a better length for me Figured that out. You know, I you don't ever really stop and look at yourself I don't anyway and I noticed that my very favorite videos to film are When I talk about really good deals I get on things I like to use what I like to use but I don't want to pay as much for it And I don't have to speaking of good deals. There are gonna be good deals around Memorial Day They'll have something on Father's Day. They'll have good They'll have sales on 4th of July just around any holiday So those are the times that you need to be looking for great deals I loved filming videos using Ulta reward points because I haven't gotten since the pandemic I have not gotten a 10 times points from Ulta, but that's how I could get some of my very best deals I'm sure they're probably having problems, but I have gotten some for five times points I also like to share with you just really random things that have made me happy And I brought one in here to show you today. I use half and half and this is a carton of half and half and For the last few years when I open it It's kind of hard to do so I always just hold this back like this and then I can open it Well, lo and behold, there's somebody out there that realized That that can be a problem and this is how they make it. This is a Brynn dairy half and half But just look they already have that taken down and all you have to do is reach it and go like that So I save these cartons so I could show you but things like this really do make me happy today Is my 665th video that I've uploaded on YouTube and there are 663 still up I've only removed two videos even though I would love to remove a bunch of them I just thought that's who I was that's what I thought at the time and and I'm not going to take them away It was when in the beginning before I started using retina and the skincare that I use now I used philosophy and the two videos were about morning and evening skincare and I was getting questions on them I thought well, I don't do any of that anymore So I'm going to remove that so I'm kind of proud of myself that I haven't deleted more because believe me I'd like to Now I'm going to talk about some of the skincare items never in my wildest dreams that I ever think I would pay For water for my skin. Well, what I love is discontinued and I still have a Bottle without that much left in it. I mean, it's almost full I have a few of the smaller bottles but I was wanting to find something that was very similar to this because I'm afraid that even if it cosmetics comes out with a Reform related miracle water. It may not be the same and this is called a three-in-one tonic Well, I have four items. I purchased trying to find something similar to this The first thing I ordered was from refer our e PHR they're known for their brushes I had never tried anything from that company and they had some skincare and this is called a Rebalancing essence and I'm not going to go into what's in these products and when what isn't but what I will say is This did not take the place This is kind of a creamy formula It feels wonderful, but it is something that I don't want to put on my face in the morning And I will use it up. I mean, I've put it on sometimes in the afternoon after I've done my red light therapy and It just it feels really good, but this is a knot in the running the rebalancing Essence, but it was good. It and it also was the same cost The it was thirty eight dollars. This is thirty eight dollars and they both had the same amount of ounces The it miracle water is four dollars and forty seven cents an ounce The retail was thirty eight when it was her sale and that's the same here I bought this for half price, but I'm not going to go into, you know, that part I'm just going to talk about the retail price This one I heard about from so many people and I've heard about it for years It's a bioderma the sensitive which is a pink cap. It's a micellar water And I liked it and what I would do is I would put the it miracle water on one half of my face And I would try these for several days at, you know, do it day by day by day And just see how it made my skin feel and how it made my skin look. This is a very reasonable price I think you can get it for about thirteen dollars for the eight plus ounces, which makes it a dollar some per ounce Which makes is the least expensive. I liked it But it did not make my skin feel as good as I wanted it to the next one I know who I heard about this from and this is from Laura Ray Beauty is When I heard mention this what it says on the bottle is time revolution the first treatment essence And I really liked it it came as close as anything I've got one more item I like to talk about the time revolution is $27 and it has like 5.07 ounces in it So that brings it I think to about $5 and 32 cents if that's not right I'll write the correction in here So this is the most expensive but it's good and I heard about this from Penn Smith it is a Skin conditioner made in Japan. It's a urea Moisturizing serum and I haven't used this as much but I really like it I think I've used it probably for a week at a time I used it on one half and I used it on this half for one week and I think this is the one I'm gonna go with I'm not positive that all of them are good and what made me happy I spent $20 for this there's six and three-quarter ounces and that made it less than three dollars an ounce I'm really pleased with that. I'm not gonna have any trouble when I'm done with this I'm gonna go ahead and rotate these that I can tell you the time revolution and The urea moisturizing lotion are my favorites Okay, leave it to it cosmetics to change something else For years I used the it secret sauce and I loved it It just whenever I needed a moisturizer. It was perfect for me I believe the retail price used to be sixty four dollars and of course I always caught it on sale They have reformulated it and now it's eighty four dollars or eighty two dollars And I'm not really interested in trying trying the reformulated version I don't really have much luck with it So I'm and I'm not willing to pay that much if I can find some things that I like a bit or less expensive So the first thing I bought and I bought this oh Last fall or longer the dermatology peptide night cream No scent whatsoever When I need a moisturizer, I will use this at night and I really have enjoyed it I think this is forty six dollars for two ounces, which is the same size as the it I Always have a twenty percent off coupon code and I can get it for less than thirty seven dollars and sometimes when I say watch for sales Sometimes they'll be having larger sales. I'll sometimes see twenty five percent or thirty percent So but I know I can always get it for twenty percent off Well skin diva came out with a moisturizing cream and this is called the hydrating diva moisturizer no scent I Don't know I've used this probably for a couple of months and I don't use moisturizer every night And but when I use moisturizers, I've used half and half and to see which one I like this one I believe is my favorite. I think it's around twenty five dollars I can always get twenty percent off. So that makes it twenty dollars for two ounces I will use both of these, but well, I'm not gonna spend eighty some dollars. Even if I can get it at half price It's more expensive than these products and I really do like them This past winter. I really did anticipate that my skin would start getting drier That I'd have dry patches when I ordered the previous skincare item from refer. I saw this tube of intense hydrating cream 1.0 Has a little key on the end of it. I Really liked it it very very emollient But I won't repurchase this because if I get dry spots, I like to use the aqua for advanced therapy healing ointment It does better some people can use just plain old Vaseline It tends to clog my pores I can use to use a very small amount of this or I always keep some timeless squalane oil pure squalane oil It's derived from olives those if I have a little dry area somewhere. I can use oh so I'll use this But I won't repurchase Now I want to announce the winners of my last giveaway and I have three winners I went through random comment picker. I can't pick a word anymore It won't unless I pay for it So what I do is I just load the names in random comment picker and then I hit select and Then I'll look and see the word was happy that was supposed to be in the comment that that was left So I'll kind of just have to change my qualifications what I need for you to do later And I'll be talking about that in just a few minutes the very first name that popped up was Peggy s Congratulations Peggy The next name was Cindy Forrester Congratulations Cindy And the last winner is Shannon Flannery Congratulations Shannon Make sure you all leave a comment below and I'll let you know how to get in touch with me and those prizes Were are being sent to you from skin diva and from dermatology So you'll get two separate boxes So I'm excited for you But I'm more excited right now about my giveaway for today because I think this is the biggest giveaway that I have done Pretty sure it is. I always put back a certain percent of money that I have made from YouTube So I can do giveaways because if you didn't buy things from my links or you didn't watch my videos I wouldn't make a cent so I do love having giveaways and I think you know what well I wish I could give away $900, but I can't but I can get I'm gonna give away $500 I'm gonna have five winners and you're gonna be able to get a hundred dollar e-gift card To wherever I can buy them wherever if you want it and I can buy it you can get it from there Or I can deposit a hundred dollars in your PayPal account Since this is a giveaway. I can't reply to comments here on this video, but you can go to Absolutely any video and you all have been doing that and we've been having some good conversations And you can leave a question or a comment there and I can easily get back to you no matter how old the video is I get notifications of Comments on any video and all you have to do to enter my giveaway is you have to be over 18 years old I think we are pretty safe and What I want you to do in the comment section and this will not have any bearing on who wins or not I'm just kind of interested in how long you've been watching me If you know how you found me that would be nice because there are people that I remember how I found them I remember who mentioned them or what I was looking for So if that if you happen to remember that fine if this is your very first video just say this is the first time I've watched you. It is hard to believe. I've been here nine years Everything I learned I learned from YouTube. I had Well, I won't go into that but I mean everything I learned about doing a video. I learned from YouTube How do you do this? How do you do that it anyway? I just So thankful so many of you Have chosen to watch me and you know what it is all good as long as I have got in my life It is all good and it's been such a pleasure getting to know so many of you. I appreciate you I thank you and I'll see you in my next video. Take care To super and what else do I want to do and throughout this film and there's always you know After from 20 But I have a few that white with You take care and