 So I have some really great monthly favorites for you this month, for the month of April 2020. I think we can all agree that we're glad that that month is over. So much happened in all of our lives. I hope that you all held up during the quarantine and the different things that were going on. And if any of you were touched by the virus and things happen in your life, please know that my heart goes out to you. So I'm going to be bringing you everything that I used in the month because I had a lot of time to test. And I had a lot of time to enjoy the different products that I have already. And then there were a couple that I had gotten from Ulta's 21 Days of Beauty that I want to share with you as well. So if you're new to my channel, please consider subscribing and don't forget to hit the bell if you do so that you can be notified of any future videos I have. And everybody, if you would, please give my video a thumbs up. It does help the video out very much to get it populated out there. So let's get into monthly beauty favorites over the month of April, 2020 right now. So let's start out with hair care. So the first thing about hair I want to talk about is from Pure Body Naturals. This is the Restore and Strengthen Hair Loss Prevention Therapy Shampoo for Men and Women. It says it has no parabens, no SLSs, which is the foaming agent that is harsh on your hair. And it says no harmful chemicals and sulfate free. So this is basically a shampoo that I am using now to help regrow my hair. After I had my weight loss surgery, I lost a lot of hair from the trauma of that and then also a lot of stressors that I had around that time. And so I lost about half the volume of my hair. But I have got hairs that are about this long all over my head right now. I actually have to take my hair spray and kind of almost comb them down because I've got a ton of them sprouting. But this is helping it, I feel like helping it grow much faster and helping new hairs grow because I noticed that my hairline isn't as far back as it used to be. So this is one that I will go in. I will first go in with just an everyday drugstore shampoo to get my hair clean. And then this is kind of a treatment shampoo. It acts just like a shampoo. You can use it as your regular shampoo. But I feel like if I go in with that initial shampoo first and get everything clean and then go in with this, then I can use this right on the scalp. It doesn't have to get anything clean. It's just sinking into the hair follicles and the scalp is mainly where I concentrate the most of it. And then I will give it a really, really good massage. And I mean, I'm talking like three, four minutes of a really good massage. I'll leave it on a total of five minutes. It has a very vitamin-y smell to it. It's not got a lot of fragrance in it from other things. But I can definitely smell whatever vitamins, whatever herbs they're using in there. So it has a fragrance that isn't offensive by any means, but it's not like other shampoos where you get it and you get them and they're so aromatic with like a strawberry scent or something like that. So this has just been such a good thing for me. I did hear about this from my good friend Sherry from Graceful Beauty and yeah, she loves it. I love it. Now that I've tried it, this is my second bottle and I'm really enjoying it. And I wanted to make sure that I told you guys about it in the monthly favorites. The second thing that I am so happy that I've got, and again, this is my second bottle. I'm almost out of this tube. I'm almost out of this. This is from Provana. This is the Perfect Blonde Pure Toning Mask. It takes down any brassiness that your hair might have if you're blonde or even if you are brunette and you have a lot of brassy in your hair and you don't like that, it will take that down. And what I absolutely love about that is that my hair gets so yellow or even almost to the side of looking orange. But I can put this on and it tones it down and that means that I can do two things. One, I can do my hair at home as far as dyeing it, which has been really valuable during this time. I just use a box from L'Oreal. It's the, I think it's the lightest ash blonde they have. And I can do that at home. It does still leave my hair brassy but this will tone it down. The other thing that it helps with so much is to kind of blend the grow out with the, you know, the really light stuff I have down here. And you guys, this is highly, highly purple. That is like so purple. It's thick and it does the job like no other. I have never run across another product. Even the shimmer lights I used to get from Sally Beauty, anything like that didn't tone it down enough and this does the trick. I put this on after I've used that particular shampoo. I might use another conditioner just for a little bit of condition in my hair because my hair is a little bit dry on the ends and then I'll rinse that out. And then I put this on after I've towel dried my hair and I'll wear this for like 20 minutes around the house with my hair all piled up on my head and then I'll go rinse it out in the sink after I get out of the shower. And you guys, it's great. It is absolutely great and it does the job of bringing it to that ashy color that everybody is so crazy about right now and I love not having the brassies in my hair too. Okay, so for the skin, one of my subscribers, Lori, she told me about this, she's kept telling me about this and I finally pulled the trigger and I went on Amazon and I got this Alpha Skincare Renewal Body Lotion and this contains 12% glycolic AHA acid and that Alpha Hydroxy Acid, it helps to really help with aging skin. It's really good for that, but this really helps with the moisture and you're gonna have that moisture held in all day. The first time that I actually used this, I used it at night and I used it everywhere, all over my body because it felt so good, but I went to bed and I was so hydrated that and I wasn't used to that. I was so hydrated that I got super hot all night long because my skin was holding in all of its moisture and everything. I opt to put it on in the morning now so that I don't get so hot at night, but really truly it is very, very hydrating and I'm so thankful that she told me about this. For skincare this month, I have to talk about this again. I know that I've talked about this like three or four times this month on my channel, but I am so in love with this product from Good Molecules. It's the Niacinamide Brightening Toner. This is my second bottle. I'm getting ready to reorder my third one and this stuff is fantastic you guys. It has Alpha Arbutin in it. It has licorice root. It has vitamin C in it and the Niacinamide and you guys for a long time, my pores looked so huge and as you age you know that your pores do get to looking bigger and bigger, but what is so great about this is mine. I actually felt like after half of the first bottle that mine were looking diminished like they hadn't in years and years, but I just think that this is something that for the price, it is just a really great product for what it needs to do, which is brightening and pore refining and I just think it's absolutely wonderful and I won't be without that one. So my next product is a product that I've never spoken before on my channel. I don't know why because I've used this for as long as I can remember, even when I was a little girl, my mother used this on me and it's Obus Oil. If you don't know what Obus Oil is, it's really kind of something that my mom would use seasonally when we got colds or when we were really stuffy. She would use this to help us breathe like you would use mentholatum or VIX, vapor rub or things like that, but this is all natural, 100% natural and acts really quickly in helping with breathing. So if you're really stuffed up and you use this, I actually will use just a daughter, two of it right underneath my nostrils if I'm super stuffed up and it works so good, but my husband has terrible allergies this time of year and I discovered these. I bought these in a package of three. He has one right now that he carries in his truck, but this is an inhaler. So I know this is gross, but he just puts it up his nose and then you close out the other nostril and then you suck it up and it opens up the nasal passages so quickly and he has been suffering all winter with some sort of a sinus infection and this is the first time that he says that he's gotten any relief at all. So if you suffer with allergies or anything like that, maybe give this a try and the fact that it's all natural is so good. I have never had any irritation from it. Let me tell you what else I do with it. When I get a sinus headache, I will take it and I will rub some that right behind my ears. You wanna be so careful to keep this away from your eyes because it won't hurt your eyes if you get it in there, but it has a very cooling effect. So you're gonna have to like, it's gonna take a while for it to wear off. It's the eucalyptus in it that's gonna do that. So it smells like eucalyptus and peppermint and menthol, all those things that are natural. It has a fantastic fragrance, you guys. I love it. Lots of people say that it's a little bit too strong, but it's just been one that I have grown up with so I love it. It makes me feel really calm and relaxed. I think that's more about the peppermint in it, but I digress. I will take this when I have a headache and I will rub it behind my ears right here on this little cavity right here that is actually a part of your lymph system that will drain and I will put it right in front of my ears right here and then I will rub it on the back of my neck and I'll put it high up in my temples or high up in my hairline up here and I can actually finally go to sleep after this if I've had a migraine because it gets so intense sometimes as if you have ever had those kind of headaches, even a tension headache or a sinus headache, anything like that. If you know what those kind of headaches are like, this can help so much in immediate relief and the being able to breathe in deeply when you have a headache is really important because it opens up everything and you can get a lot of oxygen to your brain which helps heal that headache or helps move that headache along I should say. And one more thing that it does for me is I can get an ache or a pain that I really can't get rid of. Like if I get really tight shoulders or something with my hips, I still have a lot of problems with my hips and I can put that on there and rub it in almost like a icy hot or sports cream or something like that. It just works so good. So I really do love it and I wanted to make sure I talked about it this time. Okay, over to the makeup. We've talked enough about all those other things. Over to the makeup. I have been waiting to show you guys how excited I am about this palette from ColourPop and the accessories that go with it. Accessories meaning blush and lip gloss that go with it. But this came out right before the quarantine happened and right before ColourPop shut down. This is a very cool tone palette and I am absolutely head over heels in love with this thing. It is not like it's super vibrant. It's not that at all. It does blend like a dream. I think that it is just wonderful quality from them but it has all of these cool tone colors in it. Now those are just the mats, you guys. That's just the mats of them. But it also has three very, very beautiful right along here. Three very beautiful super shock shadows. These don't have any glitter in them. They are just that formula that is creamy and buttery and they're just intensely beautiful and they just have that reflect to them that makes everything just look very glowy without having any sort of texture in my opinion. As far as someone that loves these cool tones that we're seeing more and more of now, it just is one that I have just absolutely fallen in love with. And I'm so glad that finally ColourPop was able to open up their shipping center again. Hopefully really soon they'll be able to ramp up production again and we'll be able to get this back in stock. But it is a lovely, lovely palette and both of them. I just think that both of those are just so pretty. Now along with that is the two blushes that came out. This one is Catch My Vibe and then this one is Coast to Coast. So Coast to Coast is very mauve, more along the lines of a very muted rose. And then Catch My Vibe is a little bit more on the bright side. The quality is the same that ColourPop has. They have such good quality in their line. I really loved Coast to Coast for just a very soft mauve color. But Catch My Vibe for the more springy, vibrant color is really beautiful as well. And so let me just go ahead. That's the Catch My Vibe. And then this one right here is Coast to Coast. So both of them are super pretty. I think Catch My Vibe is such a beautiful color for spring. And I just absolutely love that one. So definitely wanted to show those to you. And during Altas 21 Days of Beauty, Cover FX had their blush duos and their bronzer duos that were half priced and I got three of them. I got two blushes. This first one is, let's see, Pink Dahlia. I will swatch that one for you. So on each of these, you have the matte color and then you have the shimmer color over here. And these were so pretty because they just have this, I don't know, they have a brightness to them that I just really liked. This one was kind of a peachy pink color but they complement each other so well. So you can wear the matte one first and then this one over top of it if you want that subtle glow. And then the next one was called Mojave Mauve. So very on the mauve tone, rose-toned on this one. Really liked this one as well. As a matter of fact, this is the one that I am wearing today as my blush. And I really liked it a lot. I'm kind of running out of spots here. But I love how they paired them just with different finishes. So they really truly are just absolutely beautiful with the different finishes as compared to just having two different colors of blush in there. And then this one right here is Sun Kissed Bronze. So this was the bronze one that I picked up. So they had several of these. This bronze is really good. It does have, it's kind of more of a neutral bronze, I should say. It doesn't have a lot of orange in it and it doesn't have a lot of cool tones in it. But it just works so well. And I think it's just such a pretty color. And it is what I'm using for my bronzer today. So again, it has both finishes in there, but the colors are pretty much the same. They've just put a different finish into there. And really nice quality packaging and really nice quality as far as the where time goes and the blendability was fantastic. And then I want to show you another product that I got during the 21 Days of Beauty. And I actually, this is from NABLA. And it's the Skin Glazing and this is in Ozone. And one of you subscribers told me that Ozone was absolutely phenomenal and beautiful and you're right, it is phenomenal and it is beautiful. When I first got it, I thought, well, that's gonna be kind of stiff. And then I was like using it and it is just so high beam. You guys, this is probably one of those glass-like ones that I've, you know, it's so high beam and it's reflect that it's way up here. Hopefully you guys can see that. And it's reflect that it just is something that is just so incandescent on the skin. So let me tell you what I do with this because I was finding that if I was putting it on top of my blush, it was actually so beaming that it was like almost canceling out my blush. So I looked like I just had this super high shine on my face, which I don't mind. You know, if you want to dust that around, it could be really pretty with a light hand. But what I started doing with this is I started dusting it on my cheeks before I put my blush on. And wow, it just gives this candlelight glow to my skin on the cheeks. And I think it's just so pretty. And the other thing I thought about the other day was why not put this on a little bit, you know, even before you put on some of your foundations or things like that. So I did put a little bit down my nose before my foundation and on my decollete a little bit before my foundation. It worked out so pretty because the consistency of it isn't super powdery. It's just super, super high beam. And I just, I think it's so beautiful on the skin. And yes, it is beyond highlighting. It is glowing, glowing skin. Also while we were in quarantine, the balm announced that it was having 50% off. And I did order quite a few products because I've never tried the balm before. I was quite disappointed in several of the products, but these are the two that I really did like. And this one is from the Bahama Mama Bronzer. And I liked it because it was one that wasn't too orange. Again, I have very cool toned skin. So I needed something to be more along the lines of just giving a glow without having that orange high beam in it. So I am running out of places. It's right there, you guys. It's got just a little bit of that tanning property in it that makes it just about perfect for my skin as we're going into summer. So it doesn't pull itself to be cool where it would look muddy, but it doesn't pull itself to be orange where it would look like I was an oompa loompa or something. And then the in stain, this is spring for this blush. This one is called Argyle, but this is so pretty for spring. Oh my goodness. I am just completely running out of places to put stuff. Okay, let's put it right there. So this blush, it lasts a really, really long time on the skin. And see how bright and vibrant it is right there, you guys? I just thought this is so beautiful and it just brightens up my complexion. Matter of fact, let me just put a little bit of it on. It just does really give a beautiful look to the cheeks as far as brightening it up. And I'm just, I really like it, you guys. I just think it's really, really pretty. It's a brightening color. It's one of those ones that you don't have to worry about and it can go with just about any look. And they had some really pretty colors on it and it does last a really long time. So I was quite pleased with that. And if you're wondering about my brush, from It Cosmetics, this is the best blush brush I have ever had in my whole life. It is dirty. Yes, I know because I haven't watched it in about four days. So this brush is an angled brush. It has duo fibers. It is really dense down here, but up here it's very airy. And I adore this brush for putting on blush products or cheek products because I can start out here and I can stipple and it puts on the perfect amount without going too heavy. And then when you want more because there's more down inside of there, you can just start to give a little bit better pressure and just put that blush on. Best blush brush ever, you guys. I've tried tons of blush brushes. You know, the angled ones that have the full bristles, those don't work for me. It ends up putting too much blush down too fast. And since I'm so fair, it just doesn't work. But this is just the way that it lays down is fantastic. I'll make sure that I link it for you guys. Okay, we're gonna talk about three mascaras and then we're done. First of all is from Rimmel and this is the Scandalized On Demand mascara. This wand is a little bit different than the average hourglass wand we've been seeing. It's a little bit thicker down here with that hourglass, but then it tapers down just a bit down here. So I find that I'm really enjoying how this builds, how it layers on itself, even though this is the waterproof one. The other one I think is in an orange tube. I do have that, I do like it, but I prefer the waterproof one because it stays on longer. And I also prefer it because it washes off really easy, whereas the other one just smears. But this one washes off really well with just some waterproof makeup remover, as does the Milani. And I think I enjoy the Milani just a tiny bit more than the Rimmel. This one really lengthens well. The Milani gives a little bit more volume. So I actually kind of like them both for different reasons. This is just your regular, you know, tree wand where it just kind of tapers down to the bottom and wider at the base. And I just really like this one for its waterproof factor. It stays on all day. It's not going anywhere. Absolutely love that. And this does both, it does both the thickening or the volumizing and the lengthening, but it does a really, really good job of the volumizing. So love both of those. And I also got a mini size of the Anastasia Beverly Hills New Mascara. I don't remember what this is called, but I'll make sure that I throw it up for you. And that didn't sound good. I won't throw up for you, but I'll throw the name of this up on the screen for you guys. I really enjoy this one. It really gives you a very feathery like feel to your lashes. And so when you actually, if you happen to touch your lashes during the day, they feel very soft. So I really did like that about it. This is kind of the atypical wand. It's a little bit tapered in the middle. So it's that little tiny bit hourglass, but at the same time it's almost just straight. So I like very much what this does to my lashes. I like that you can layer this like crazy without any problems. I don't have any raccoon eyes or any little dots of black or anything from it. So you know that. And I didn't from either of those from Milani or Rimmel either. That's it for today's favorites. Thank you so much for hanging around. I know this was longer, but I had a lot to talk about because there was so many good things that I had tried and I had had a chance to really dive in, really enjoying these products very much and loving what they're doing for my skin, my hair, and loving playing with makeup too. So if you did enjoy it, please give it a thumbs up like I talked about at the beginning of the video. Thank you guys so much for hanging around. I do appreciate each and every one of you and I appreciate all the comments and the love that you gave me. Some of you know that I had a really bad month with my son, which I'm not gonna go into because I'll end up getting very teary, but it has been a challenging month for everyone. I know, not just me. And I wanna send you my love, my thoughts, my prayers. Tell you all that I am praying and hoping that we have such a better summer than our spring was. So please take care of yourselves. I love you all very much. Stay safe, stay sanitized, and I'll see you in my very next video. Bye you guys.