 Good morning. I'm Mary Ellen and today I'm going to share with you my favorites, my fails. I'm gonna announce a secret giveaway winner. I'm gonna tell you how I got duped and gonna talk about television. Today is September 2nd. It is a beautiful day but I haven't used the color well in my hair so if it's frizzy that's why I haven't washed my hair this month. And I've been getting a lot of compliments on my skin. I really have and there's a couple of reasons for that. It's still humid, it's still hot, even though it's lovely and I retain water in warmer months just like with my ring. I usually wear it on this finger. I used to wear it on this finger and then I lost weight and in the winter a lot of times I have to wear it here. So my face is a little fuller plus I think my skin's really been liking the derma rolling. Thank you very much and I always do put what I'm wearing, what makeup I'm wearing in the information area below this. And if it's not listed that means I don't have it on. I have never enjoyed shopping and I just about order everything online and I know now kind of why. I had to return a package to CVS in the next town over and I thought you know I'm gonna look at their makeup. Well the only cruelty free brands that I saw were Covergirl and Physicians Formula and Wet and Wild and some of the products that I wanted to try they didn't have any of them but they had they had tons of other makeup that wasn't cruelty free. And today in my favorites I do have some makeup and a little bit of skincare. And the first thing I want to talk about is a brush and I had given two sets of BK Beauty brushes away and one of them had this one in it and my friend Mary Glitzy Fritzy said oh my gosh I can't believe you gave the 102 brush away and here's the 102 brush. She said it was her very favorite powder brush and I think it's really meant for loose powders but hopefully I'll give you a demo of doing a light coat using the CC Plus Powder. I do love this brush. It just it feels so good on the skin and a lot of times all I really want is just a very light coat of powder and if I wear anything so this was a winner and I'm really glad I bought it. I bought it during I think she had 20 percent off. I do have a 10 percent discount code but if you sign up for her email anytime she has a sale she will send you an email. And speaking of Mary she did an excellent excellent video on all of the Sigma brushes she owns. I found it really fascinating. You don't have to own Sigma brushes to watch it but you may see a certain brush and you may have it from a different brand and if you know what that brush is intended for you you could put it to use but I really did enjoy that video and I will link it below. I placed an order to It Cosmetics. They had I think a 30 percent off sale and I was very happy to know they still have the CC Plus Airbrush Perfecting Powder. They don't claim that it is an SPF. They don't claim any SPF. The first three ingredients are mica, titanium oxide and zinc oxide. I guess I just didn't want to put the claim on there but I love that and that's what I'm wearing today but I'm wearing more than I did in the demonstration video that I showed you. I used a smaller brush and I filled in the areas here with a little brush. I bought this several months ago in an altar order and it is the Anastasia Beverly Hill Brow Freeze and I'll do a little demonstration. I absolutely love this. I've been using hairspray on my brows and that's something I do pretty well every day is my brows and I was noticing that there was a little bit of flakiness underneath my brow and I thought that's that alcohol in the hairspray so I had really been on the search for a long time for something good that freezes my brows. I don't have to use anything on them but something that's clear like this and and I love it and I anything that's in a pot I always store upside down and I and I don't have things dry out on me. I was talking to my friend Natalie the Beauty Diva. I was looking for some different eyeliners and I know I can get drugstore eyeliners and I know some of them are really good and they are really good but when you're a little bit older I just want to be I just kind of like with my eyes I want to use the best stuff that I can and she reminded me that if you order makeup from Nordstrom that there's no shipping and handling well I think if you order anything from Nordstrom there's no shipping and handling so I was wanting a powder eyeliner that you use with water and of course it has to be cruelty free and I found one from Trish McAvoy. I had to depot it and put it in this little container right here because it just came in a plastic thing but I really do like it. I've worn it on and off for a couple of months and I don't need to have I don't have to wear any eyeshadow any primer anything on my lids and it does stay all day and this is the brush I was using this little tiny brush right here I was using to apply it. I just squirt water right in the on the mirror and then get my eyeshadow and I like it. Something else I bought that I really like it's a Hello Lights Creme highlighter and I'll tell you this is gonna be a giveaway so just wait till later on and I'll tell you about it. Here it is I watched and demonstrated and what I do with it I don't have any on right now but I just use my two fingers on the bottom part of it and go like this and touch wherever I want to have highlighted and I don't know if that's gonna show in here or not but oh man it shows in my mirror here if I want to put it on in the inner part of my eye I would take a small brush and just put it there you know if you want to highlight your upper lip or above your eyebrows or your eyebrows but I do really like this so I got this from QVC and I better put some on this other side but I just kind of go like that and use it wherever I want just a little bit of highlight until this past year until this year I was a huge fan of the ordinary AHA 30 BHA peel and it just became too strong for my face well when I did my extras video and I shaved my face I just was so shocked on how much stuff came off I really was I almost didn't show it but I thought I'm gonna add something in and on June the 2nd I started using this and this is the ordinary glycolic acid 7% and it's a towing solution and I've tried it many ways and here's how it works for me I absolutely love this Shade O'Cottons and I cut them into four pieces so about a couple of times a week I will put this on my face and a little bit on my neck and I avoid the eye area and I will let it set for probably five ten minutes and then I go in with the miracle water the miracle water and I take it off if I leave it on too long it it kind of bothers me but what it does it really does help loosen any dry skin and I've noticed when I'm shaving even though I use my enzymatic pills every other Sunday this really has helped a lot and I know it's less than $10 and it's just been well it's been part of my routine since June 2nd and I still have a whole lot left I always wait a few months before I talk about something just because I want to see if it is as good and this is what it works for me it may not work for you but it works for me and I ordered it from Amazon and it's right here and Jim took a picture of me the other morning and if I can figure out how to put it in here if it were if it worked I'll show you what it looks like on it's made of rayon and spandex and in the description when you look at all the information it you know it says you're supposed to wash it and let it drip dry well I'm a good size 14 is what I pretty well wear and you would normally get an extra large well because I knew that I was not going to drip dry this I was I was going to dry it in the dryer and till it was almost dry and hang it up I ordered an extra extra large there's only one thing I don't like about it it comes up higher kind of like a princess style waistband and I'm fine with it I would have preferred it if it was longer I don't know if it's because I was bestie I really like it it's comfortable I can sit down without it opening up and and the color is just okay I prefer a pinker pink than this but I am really happy with it and I've been I don't know how many times I've washed it and it's held up just really well when as soon as I got it I checked all the seams and everything looked good I found some good elevation protein meal bars chocolate peanut butter I found them at Aldi they have 12 grams of protein 10 grams of fiber and I think they're 12 grams of carbs which you know I like them to be a little less low carb than that but I really do like them so I did find these and they're good and I got to read something to you I got a comment on my video and it tickled me to death and then I'll talk about something else and I'm not going to say who wrote it but she's a very nice woman who wrote this she said I love your videos and follow everyone that you do no offense to you of course but we tried three different flavors of built bars and it's like chewing rubber rubber tires glad you enjoyed them though I read that to Jim and he went well they are really chewy he said but they taste like good rubber tires but that's just like everything you know there's three flavors that I love I love the cookies and cream I love the peanut butter and the coconut almond those are my three go to they did send me some samples of the raspberry cheesecake and I don't have any left they were delicious but I will tell you they have seeds if your doctor told you not to eat anything with seeds there are seeds in these but they're delicious they had something new I think they'll come again they're called protein balls and this is the package that they were in and there were two of them and I really liked them I bought some I'm in fact I've got an order in right now the puff bars were back and I bought three boxes of those and with that I could buy a box of these for $14.95 I don't like them as much as I do the built bars and I love the puff bars so if you get their emails you're already aware of it and they'll probably be back I don't know that's one thing I don't understand things not everything's always available when you want it that maybe they'll eventually get it that way dermatology sent me their vitamin C plus E plus ferulic acid and I've tried it on this half of my face I guess for the last six weeks and I've used my I'm back to use I use timeless or skin diva is what I use and they're very affordable I think this sells for $69 and I do have a 20% off discount so I think it'd be like $55 I can't tell any difference at all I'm gonna continue trying it but if I know that I would not repurchase it because I'm liking what's going on with my skin at way under half the price of that so that's okay now I've got two fails when I place the order for the CC plus powder powder foundation I thought well I am gonna try one of their new no-tag gel eyeliners they replace their they reformulated they had it in blue it's when you have to sharpen I am fine I don't care if you have to sharpen them or if they're already you know the kind you roll up in fact sometimes I really do like a pencil better because I don't want a sharp tip because only thing I do with this is my upper water line it was horrible it was chunky I mean when I say chunky it would skip I don't know what they did but it does not work anymore it works very well for an eyeliner above the lashes but I don't I prefer other types I'm not one that has ever liked pencils above my eyelashes so this is a fail when it came to a upper waterline but if you use eyeliner above your lashes or below your lashes it was good but for my purpose it wasn't and then you know I've been wearing my Apple Watch 11 my Apple Watch I'm not having any problems at all with the stainless steel so I thought well all I can wear is 14 karat gold earrings I can get by with wearing sterling silver for a few hours but you know I don't have a lot of earrings well I thought well I can wear stainless steel so I'm gonna order some and I ordered two pair and I like both of them I wear a lot of huggies these little tiny huggies I put them in and within 15 minutes my ears started bothering me so my daughter isn't doesn't have any metal allergies you would think that stainless steel would not bother your ears but it did so I'll just keep wearing my gold earrings and I'm not gonna try anything else not going to now I want to talk about television we have internet and we have cable and there is absolutely no way that I can get rid of cable Jim there's so many shows that Jim likes he and he likes to DVR shows so all you people that were able to cut cable I am impressed for you if I lived here by myself I wouldn't have it I mean I really wouldn't I would have internet and I wouldn't have all those shows because I don't watch that much TV I watch TV when I come in the bedroom at night and normally it is on it's on some streaming device I always have Netflix and I do the one that just for one TV and I think it's 899 a month and then I rotate different ones and right now I have peacock is my other app that I use I heard about this from Melissa 55 and I tell you what it was called doctor death and I could not believe it I I couldn't believe it if you're going to be having surgery don't watch it because it's a true story about a doctor that caused death and harm to a lot of people but what was interesting is how they finally got him it was very scary very eye-opening and very well done so I mean I did enjoy it and so I thought I'd pass that on to you I am watching the ninth season of call the midwife love that love sister Monica Jones love sister Julianne I love the whole cast I think they're great I went to a Catholic school and we didn't have any nuns that had those pretty names our nuns were the school sisters of Notre Dame and we had sister Ann's Bertha sister Salisha and sister Ignatius it's a nice show if you haven't watched it it's I think it's very good something else I enjoyed was dirty John the Betty Broderick story and I'm not sure if it's on USA I had a hard time finding it and once I found it I watched it and I thought it was very interesting it kind of showed a little different side to what Betty Broderick went through I thought it was very good I finished two episodes of Yellowstone and I stopped it I mean there was killing and everything everything that you can imagine but it was a show what I like is something that grabs me that I want to watch the next one and I want to watch the next one so I watched one episode every night and I stopped at the end of the second season I know something surprising happens at the end of the third season so I thought I'd start watching it again once the fourth season gets aired I want to share with you and this may surprise a lot of you I want to I want to share with you my very favorite episodic series that I've ever seen and this was from my best friend since brownies she lives in Springfield and this was I mean years ago she said there is a show you have got to watch she said the character development is unbelievable the storyline is great I know you will love it and she told me the name of it so I searched it out on the internet and I watched the first episode and I said I don't think this is one I'm gonna like at all because it had everything in it she said keep watching well I tell you what that hooked me and I watched every episode and the name of it was justified in fact I told my friend Pat the one who passed away last on January 1st I was telling her about it and she loved it so much when she they bought a home out in the hills which Pat always wrote wrote horses and that she could go and ride her horses and the name of their cabin and their land is justified but it's not for everybody but it was one of them that grabbed me and it actually ended there was an ending to it there was a beginning there was an end you know I live in southern Illinois and we have a couple of counties that are south of us that if you get on the wrong gravel road people come out on their front porch with shotguns you don't know what's going on there so a little of that was realistic to me before I tell you about how I was scanned I want to announce the secret giveaway winner and that winner is Rose J Rose be sure and leave a comment below and I'll let you know how to get in touch with me congratulations okay I got to share something with you I was duped and I've got to make some changes my last video that I had announced the giveaway winners I put it in the title plus three winners I will never do that again what happened is within the first hour three people claimed their gifts and I was so excited that all three people watched within the first hour you know that that was like wonderful to me well one of them said PayPal and one of them said they wanted an e-vanilla gift card it was like a Visa card and then the other one the first one who said they want to PayPal sent me back and said can I change it well I said sure you know so I went ahead and went to this even Ella my vanilla gift card calm and I put in both of their information and I put in my debit number and it said it was declined so I emailed them back and said we'll have to do something different so they both wanted Amazon this was early on Monday morning didn't think anything of it my third winner claimed her gift and she wanted PayPal later in the day after all this was said and done later in the day I had comments from what I believe were the true winners you know I am so excited to win anyway it was a mess all of them ended up my $150 giveaway ended up being a $300 giveaway I had to close my bank account because not only was it it it wasn't accepted but it did it deducted the amount from my account and I called the bank and they said you need to get a new debit card close out that debit don't use it which causes a lot of problems because I have a lot of things automatically taken out of that checking account so then I opened up a new Gmail and that is only going to be for winners so what I'm going to do moving forward I am going to you know that when I do a giveaway the next time I upload a video I announce the winners so I'll never put winners in the title anymore and I'm going to wait for 24 to 48 hours before I send the gift I like to do it just like that I love that but those times are gone and I guess they just needed the money so after all that I want to let you know that today is a giveaway and I am excited it is international and you just have to be 18 years older older and I'll let you know what I want you to say after I talk about what I'm going to give away and because this is a giveaway I cannot reply to comments but if you go to any other video and if you need to ask me a question I'd be glad to answer it there the first gift that I have to give is the hello light cream and the brush and this has never been opened and I'll show you what the brush is like it has a tip like this and it would be great for lots of things so I'm this goes this isn't it cosmetics brush and it goes with the cream that I demonstrated earlier this one right here so this is what I'm going to call the set just the other day I received in the mail from dermatology their needle is serum and I got two bottles of it I am not going to use it and I'll tell you why I am really happy with how my skin has been behaving and I'm next month I'm going to be 68 so I've got to really be careful what I put on my skin and plus I mean like these are $69 even with my discount they're $55 and I'm just I'm just if my skin takes a turn downward I will buy some because I my oldest sister really likes them so I have two bottles of these so that is my giveaway for today and if you want to be entered in your comment below in the sentence if you want this is if this is your first choice use the word set and if you want this to be your first choice just use the word serum and I will know what you're interested in the first name that comes up gets their choice the second name that comes up if they've mentioned both of them they'll get the other so there'll be three winners it is all good thank you all for all your support I appreciate it more than you will ever know I will see you in my next video and take care and warmer and I was and she and because I will put it your you know the CC plus cream so that was one of my favorites in