 Hey guys, it's Monica. I'm gonna give you a quick update. Well I always say quick and it never ends up being quick but I'm gonna give you a quick update on because so many of you ask and it's like I'm repeating the same thing in the comments a lot and I know some of you hate retina videos and many of you love retina videos. They are my best videos so I'm gonna go ahead and talk a little bit about the retina and the CBD that I'm using and how I'm using it etc. So I just had my 66th birthday for those of you that are new to my channel. I have not had any kind of facial treatment done. I've not had any fillers, facelift, Botox or anything of that nature. I'm not against it. I may end up having something at one point or another but currently I have not had anything done to my face. So what I've been trying to do is kind of like be trying to catch up because I was a child of the time frame when you know my teenage years, my early 20s, my 30s, you know nobody, nobody cared about sunblock. It wasn't anything that was on anyone's sort of mind. In fact it was baby oil, bandage, and baking is what we did. At least what I did and then I used to put the sun in in my hair and all that stuff if you kind of remember that era. Anyways I just turned 66 and I started on my skincare journey in 2016. So I've been using retina going on for years now and it's been a process. It's has been a learning curve in many ways. I've had ups and downs. I've had awful reactions but I've had great results. I really have. I looked at a picture of me that I found that was taken six years ago and I looked younger today than I did in that photo and so it's amazing to me. So to answer some of the questions or to address some of the questions on my skincare I use retina and I do use my retina you know probably at least three maybe four times a week. I don't use it every day anymore every night anymore but I use it very consistently. When I use my retina I normally will mix a little bit of the CBD oil and my squalene oil together and I use that as my face oil. I've gone from marula oil, foam, all sorts of every imaginable oil that you can get for your face. Very expensive oils, very reasonable oils but since I started to use CBD on my skin in conjunction with my retina my skin has reacted so much better. I still peel, I still have you know the dryness, the flaky but it is probably oh my gosh I'm going to say it's probably about 90% better than it ever has been so I'm believing that the combination of the CBD and the oil that I mix it with has really helped to make my retinae work better in the long run and better I mean that I have less reaction, I have less sort of uglies than you know you normally would have with your retinae so that said I do use my CBD oil most of the time not all the time I switch it up. I use my CBD oil after I wash, after I tone at night only and then I let that sink in and then I apply my retinae at night only that's how I normally do it there have been an occasion when I've done the retinae before the CBD but I my skin reacts better I think with it I think everything I've read about the CBD I think it helps your product sink deeper into your skin so you may or may not want to do that you may want to you know use your moisturizer your oils if you're going to use that after your your retinae it all depends on your skin I'm not a dermatologist I'm not a doctor I'm not anything but a 66 year old woman hoping to not stop the aging clock because I know it certainly is better than the alternative the alternative is that I'm not here to be talking to you but to slow it down and but to make it and I use the phrase anti-aging and I know Mary Ellen after 60 years at this uses the same phrase because to me it is anti-aging and it's not that I'm against aging I just don't want to age any faster than I have to or any worse than I have to so I don't mind saying anti-aging because that's what I feel like I'm doing so I I really believe the CBD oil in conjunction with the retinae has been an amazing amazing made an amazing difference and I have used a couple of different CBDs the fluorine baths I started using that um and the fluorobatin baths was made to be a face CBD but it and I know many of you love it and that's okay everyone has different skin different budgets different whatever but the fluorine baths to me the CBD amount is far weaker than say what I'm using so because I'm currently using the McCoo CBD and this is the 2,500 milligram bottle in full disclosure my initial bottle of McCoo was sent to me complimentary in exchange for a review which I have done and talked about this is the second bottle of CBD the problem with this is that my husband Jay is using it as well so I go through it a lot quicker but when I use it for my skincare I usually take a drop and I in the squalene can be right now I'm using the timeless I've used many different brands I've used the ordinary but what I normally do when I use this in my skin is I put squalene on then I do a dab a drop or whatever and I just mix it and I I use it that way because Jay takes this internally for many different reasons the main reason is the aches and pains that he feels like for example the other day he was going up and down the legendary staircase and he would never have been able to go up and down those stairs with his knees and not feel feel the effects of it but because he takes some of this it's really helped him with that in fact I'm going to insert a little clip because every time I look for this it's gone so I'm going to go catch Jay he's outside what you doing Jay doing a little shoveling yeah yeah boy I sure hope spring comes soon I'm so sick and tired of winter you've been shoveling so much I don't know how you get the energy to do it I'll tell you this is how I get my energy my coup CBD oil this really helps there was a time when I had gone like three days without using this and all my joints and I just all my little aches and pains came back but when I take this which is the 2500 milligrams this this will get me through the whole day and no aches no pains so I'm really surprised at how well it works because when I went three days I could feel everything just hurt you know I know I probably should exercise more but I just feel that this has really helped those little nuances that you get so I mean it's not a cure-all but it for me it just gets rid of those aches and pains yeah every time I go to look for the maku to put it on my face because I do use it I mix it with my moisturizer I use it on my skin it's like it's gone because mr. Jay has it yeah see I'm only going to take about that much and that'll last me the rest of the day a little drop under my tongue and then you'll be able to shovel away a path to the motorhome our friend's motorhome over there and you'll be able to shovel my parents out and oh yeah aren't you not supposed to swallow it not yet okay so you're holding it so that's pretty cool all righty I'm going to take it because I'm doing a video and I'm going to bring it inside thanks so much Jay so anyways now you can see why this always disappears because he does take it and he's an avid golfer so he really likes it this is expensive it costs a lot more than your flooring baths or anything of that nature however even like I have a coupon so you can I'm not I'm not going to I don't make anything if you buy anything so that's no worries there I'm just going to share the you can get some you can get a discount should you buy it so but this lasts me even with Jay using it for me for my skin a lot longer because I'm doing 2,500 milligrams of CBD mixing square lean which is giving me a lot more I hope this makes sense it's giving me a lot more potency per application than any other CBD and that potency for me has made a huge difference on some of my wrinkles I still there guys I know but some of my wrinkles but more importantly how my skin I think is reacting to my retina and this is these are I mean my retinae stash I used to keep my retinae in this little container and you can see I have an A313 this by the way is the French equivalent this is the you know all the rave everyone's saying this is the next this is better than retinae this is whatever it's more affordable it's more this it's more that I do have a tube of this that has the real ingredients I guess there is some controversy over some of these not having the real ingredients I have the real ingredients and truthfully if your skin is anything like mine if you're my age and you you know if you want it if you want to spend I think it's going up but if you want to spend about $30 and get this go ahead but truthfully I would just tell you don't don't bother I really don't feel that this has made any kind of an impact on my skin I just think it's like focus focus or whatever I just don't think it matters to me now it may matter to you it might work perfectly for your skin and that's awesome it does give you a lovely feeling on your skin of of being very thick and being very moist but at the same time it can also feel very greasy and I'm not too sure if that feeling that you can get with this is not anything you can get with a super super heavy-duty rich emollient moisturizer you know I really I mean I really think and I think somebody I can't remember if it was Sheila if it's Marlene if it was somebody else that had said they felt this was sort of similar to Vaseline a more spreadable Vaseline maybe but in either case I'm sorry if anyone loves this stuff that's great I'm glad you love it I um I just don't think it's worth the money and I I don't think and I'm okay with having tried it now for six weeks I just don't think it would ever in my world replace my retina my retinae my tribe and true my tretinoin I love my tretinoin I also have the hydroquinone which is for the darker spots both all of these I get on reliable rx the link is below I am an affiliate member of that but I recently became an affiliate member you know meaning that I make some a few pennies if you buy one but I've been using this for so long and I've been using that site for so long I feel totally comfortable with it so I really like that my retinae wouldn't be without it my Olay pro retinal this is the UK version the white version that you can only still get at least I think you can still get it I'll find out soon in the UK so if they no longer carry it in the UK I'll be a bummer because I really like this for my eyes and there's many other eye wrinkles things you can use to go up near your eyes but this is what I've been using and I use it all around my eyes and you can get I mean just check out over the count of retinol product if you want and just check it out and see but I'm sure you can get an equivalent product for your eyes so the other thing I wanted to say that I thought was just absolutely I'm going to insert a photo I just thought it was absolutely awesome I got the this is from the octaly network via for real and you know I love my for real many I have the mini I have the mini 2 for you to I love using it as a cleanser I've talked about it before as a way to clean my skin but I was totally fascinated by the UFO the for real UFO and so I I requested it and actually got approved for it so I've only used it a couple of times you all guys you all know I love my face masks I love my face masks so I have a number of masks that I use but this is kind of really cool you have to download the app and then once you have the app downloaded you and you have this the hottest thing for me was taking this out of the initial packaging but you take the protective ring off you can then it comes it came with a a mask but then you can put this little mask if it's daytime if it's evening and you can put it on and you put the ring the protective ring back over it and I'm not going to turn it on because I don't want to but you press the power button right here and then you would then just glide this when it turns on if you do in the night mode or the day mode it's going to go for 90 seconds and so it is a quick I think a super super quick way to do a face mask and I'm I think this will be awesome for traveling and because it's small it doesn't take up a whole lot of room I really like it so this was sent to me by the Octoly Network and I will tell you this this has been really interesting I also like going down my neck because you know your neck is like the first thing that ages you so even though there isn't anything here that specifically says neck it doesn't matter everything I do on my face I'm going to go down my neck so I'm gliding all the way down into my I can never say that way declutage area and for 90 seconds I'm just getting a really nice nice high intensity face mask quickly other than that I a lot of times when I mask I do the sheet masks I have some clay masks and I just leave them on for 20 minutes but on the run on the go that's an awesome awesome mask and then I top it off at night I'll top it off with my rose hip I'll make sure I do my rose hip seed oil I use my rose hip seed oil every day going down my neck into my declutage I think I said it right I love this stuff so yeah I love this stuff I don't use it on my face though I just use it going down my neck so I'm hoping I'm hoping that that kind of clarifies the questions that so many of you have had about how I am using the CBD oil so I use the maku you can use any CBD oil you feel comfortable with the one that I use like I said is high high potency so I mix it and I also use it before I apply my retin A I also if I wasn't going to apply my retin A before I use my retin A on wet skin you know and people say don't use it on wet skin well the reason you use it on wet skin is you know those people that want to is that it absorbs faster or deeper into your skin so in fact I think it was Cody I'm going to try to see if I can find his video where he talks about the retin A and link it below but I think he was one of the first people you know like sort of dermatologist or skincare experts that that actually said yeah go ahead put it on wet skin everyone else was saying no no wait till your skin dries I've been putting it on wet skin all along and I've I thought I thought it was I thought it's been fine so um yeah so the retin A three to four times a week there are other things I do on skincare I don't want to I don't want to make this an hour long video so I don't want to go into it all but that's pretty well how I'm using the CBD in conjunction with retin A and I use the retin A only at night obviously and I use the CBD at night and in the morning so I will use it completely different in the morning than I do at night at night it's just you know it's to enhance my my retin A and what other treatment I might be doing at the time so butt face masks anything I can do to moisturize my skin helps with the anti-aging effect of my skin so anyways hope that clarifies guys thank you so much for being so supportive and for those of you that are new here please be sure to subscribe to the channel thumbs up the video leave me a comment and hit that little ringy ding bell so you'll be notified when I update thank you guys so much talk to you later