 Hi guys! I'm going to do a very quick video, I hope, and this video is going to be all about some new stuff that I'm using and how I feel about it, and also some old stuff that I've been using and how has it been working out after using it for a while. So I always like to hear, you know, I mean I don't mind watching hauls at all because I like to know what people are buying, but I also like to hear how they like those products after they've bought them. And sometimes, you know, I watch hauls and then I never, never ever find out how they actually felt about the product after they've used it a while. And so I really like that. So I don't have a whole lot because I didn't do a whole lot of hauls, but I'm going to start with the biggest item first for me that I bought. And the biggest item for me that I bought was this Visiart palette. Now I bought this, this is Visiart liaison. I really love, love the colors. I'm going to put the box over the mirror so you don't blind you. But I really love these colors. These colors are me, the scream me. And this palette would be absolutely perfect for me with the exception of one item that I wish it had. And that is it doesn't have an all over a bone color. So I use the Wet n Wild cream brulee. And that's what I have on today, the Wet n Wild cream brulee all over my, my lid, all the way up to my brow. That is what I use as a base. I don't use a eyelid primer or anything like that. And then I started this using the top row. And I'm going to try to because they have it labeled here. And that's another thing. I really, really wish that they would label it on here instead of on the little plastic covering. I used in the middle color blushing. I use that in the crease. And then I used the lighter color over here for my movable lid. And that's embrace. And then I think there's a darker color here is fusion. That's what I did to deepen my crease and also the outer V. When I was really ready to darken the outer V, I used this color here called falling. It just a little bit of a darker purple. You can barely even see it on my lid. And then for the glitter, I went in and I used, this is, I'm sure it's a French name. I can't, I don't know how to pronounce it. But I used every color in here, except these two and these two here, the two, the two down below and the two in the middle. So I used four or five colors in this palette today. And I've used it a couple of days this week. I really like it. I like how it works. But I bought this on Sephora during the 20% off sale along with a few other items. But this was the biggest, aside from the CBD oil that I bought, the Flora and Bastard, the 20% off. This was the biggest item that I bought. I really, really, really like this palette a lot. It is perfect for me with that one exception. So I love it. The other thing that I have, I bought and I know that I've talked to you guys. I showed this anyways and I had a few of you ask me, how do I like the corrective palette that I bought, the concealer palette? It's called Elf Corrective Concealer. It's got the three colors. How do I like this? This, this for me, and the ones I've used, I've used the pink quite a bit. I put a big dent on it and I've used the green. The green neutralizes the red. The pink does a little bit more brightening. I really, really like it. So for me, this works perfect because I have all of them in one little tiny compact. So when I think about traveling or something like that, I think this is like awesome. It, however, and I discovered it when I first dipped my finger in and I put it on, it comes on really thick. So you have to just use a light touch to take your product out. There's a brush that comes with it, which I have not used. I just dipped my finger in and I put it on that way. So I really like that Elf concealer palette a lot and at this point in time, I've used it pretty well almost every single day and I would buy it again. I really like it a lot. I would buy it again. I also have the essence and I've shown them a number of times in the tube, the essence, the essence color corrector that's in the tube sort of like looks like a lip gloss. I really like that a lot and what I like about that is I could just buy the one I want, which is usually the pink and the green. Those are the two that I really would use. So I like those. I will continue to use them. They come on a lot lighter. They're not as thick as this. They're not as heavy duty as this, but I like them a lot and for me, you can't beat the price. You just cannot beat the price. The other thing that a number of you've asked me about is I ended up buying the Elf poreless putty primer. I don't know if you can tell, but I've actually got quite a little dent going on in here. So since I bought this, I've been using it, I think probably every day with the exception of two or three days when I tried the kick-ass primer and I'll talk about that after I use it a little bit longer, but I really like this. This comes on really smooth on my skin, almost silicone-y. It kind of fills in my pores. It does definitely fill them in and it's really kind of a smooth finish. Now, I don't know that it has any kind of a super gripping power. I don't even know if that's the right way to say it. You know, because like if I'm putting on my color corrector, I'm putting on a concealer, say for my nose veins, they still will pop through after a while. So, but you know, I haven't found anything that will keep them contained all day long without having to touch up, to be honest with you. So I don't know whether it, you know, I can't blame the primer other than the fact that I'm still touching up on my veins a little bit during the day. I like this primer a lot and at this point in time, I would definitely repurchase it unless I found something I like better by the time this was empty. I've got plenty in here. I like the fact that I don't have to squeeze it out. I like the fact that I can dip my finger in and that I can apply and dip my finger in and just take as much product. Sometimes when you have, at least me, when you have something you have to squeeze, more stuff comes out than you, than you really want. So those, those are really, are really awesome. The other thing that I purchased and I know I said I wasn't going to repurchase the matricle or I didn't think I would at one point or one of my videos, but when timeless had their 50% off sale, I went ahead and I bought the, the timeless vitamin C, which I was planning on buying because I love, love, love this. And I did go ahead and reorder the matricle 3000. I like this serum. So, you know, these two serums at 50% off, you just couldn't go wrong. So they should be in sometime this week, which is really good because I'm getting quite low in these. And, and, and I love, I love both of them. And I, for me, out of all the vitamin C's and I have used a number of vitamin C's. I have high end, mad hippie. I've tried a few. I've tried pixie. I've tried a number of different vitamin C serums. This is so far for me. The only one that works for me really well. I like how it makes my skin look. And I like the fact that I can apply it in the morning and then I can put my foundation on and I don't have any of that piling or pilling or whatever you want to call it, that a vitamin C, like when I, last I tried my mad hippie and that was, I bought my mad hippie and that was expensive. And, but when I tried that vitamin C, it was a huge fail for me. A huge fail. So I like it. I know many people like it, but it did not work out on the days that I had to put foundation on. If I was just going to beat around at home, I would put that on because I want to finish the bottle I have open. I actually have two bottles of it. One is unopened, which I think is going to go into my giveaway. The other thing I wanted to mention, oh boy. This is the Trophy Skin. Now I've watched a couple of reviews on this, but this is the Trophy Skin and this is the Rejuvalite MD. This is a beauty tool and this was, now you guys know I like Trophy Skin. You know, because I've talked about my Trophy Skin products that I use. I use the microderm abrasion. I bought that, the microderm MD abrasion. I bought that, I didn't know, maybe about a year or so ago. I use that. I love that. I really, really love that. That is a awesome at home beauty tool that makes my skin feel fantastic. I also use the Trophy Skin spatula, the Label spatula. I use that on a regular basis, probably maybe three to four times a week. And to me, it's like an at home spa treatment. It cleans out my pores. It's very, very gentle. It isn't anything that is like an abrasion or anything. It just cleans the pores out super, super nice. So when Trophy Skin out of the blue, mind you, reached out to me. They sent me an email and they had said, would I be interested in perhaps partnering with them to try one of their products? So when they say, when they said partnering, it's not, it's not a sponsored video. They're not paying me to do this, but they have sent me this product complimentary. So they told me I could go check any product on their website. And of course, since I have the other two, this is the one. This is the one I have so curious about. So this, the treatment is like five minutes, you can sit there, you can have it on your face, you can close your eyes, you can relax. But I'm like so super excited about this because I've heard so many good things about this, so many good things. So this is the Rejuvali MD. This is red light therapy. Five minutes a day, you put this on, you sit and you relax. You know, you're just going to relax and veg out. Maybe I'll be listening to an audio book and I'll be giving myself this, in my opinion, ad home, spar like treatment. I'm super excited to give it a try. I just got it. I'm super excited to give it a try. They're also giving me a coupon code that I can share with anyone who might be interested in any trophy skin products. I'll put that coupon code below. But I was absolutely thrilled when they when they reached out to me and asked me if I'd be interested. And it's like to me it was sort of a really a super no brainer because I've spent a lot of money on my trophy skin products. And I highly recommend the trophy skin products that I have bought because I use them. I like them. I continue to use them on a regular basis. And I think they made a big difference on my skin. So thank you so much Trophy Skin for reaching out to me and sending me this. And guys, I will let you know how I like it. The other thing that was sent to me was and this was from a company called ASMRTISTRY. I'm hoping you can see it. Anyways, they sent me in this box with some candy. They sent me an email and they said would I like to give a try on their their lipstick on their product. And I went and I looked at it and it's very much into our mystery, I think it's called. It is very much into sort of like, you know, being in your in your zen in a way, you know, like crystal and silver and, you know, stuff like that, that is supposed to give you this wonderful experience. So fresh and tingly. It's made with 80% recyclable products. This is really nice. I mean, when I opened it up, there's a necklace here. I have not undone this yet. So there is a necklace here. I don't know if it's going to be long enough because I do like longer necklaces. But when I opened it up, and of course the first thing I saw was the little butterfly clip here, which I thought was kind of cute. And then the two pop candies and I said, okay. But then I had really wanted to have the nude lipstick. So I don't know whether or not my order got kind of messed up, but they didn't send the nude lipstick. So I got this red and I will tell you the staying power of this is amazing. But it is for me way too dark. I don't know if you guys can see that. So this is it's just it's just way too dark for me. It isn't going to be anything that I am going to wear. I'm going to see if my mother will take this color because I think it would look really good on her skin. She's got darker hair than me and she might really like this. So this was sent to me complimentary from the company. I'm going to link all the information below. I don't know the price point. I do know that they had a nude and the nude lipstick is what I wanted. The nude looked wonderful, but I got the red and it isn't, does everyone think they call it red? Oh, it's rouge. I like the concept. I like everything they're talking about the product, but the color is not my cup of tea. So what is my cup of tea? And I just wanted to show you this because many of you have asked me about my lip colors and I've been into pinks for a while right now. But this is the one I have on today. You can see it's almost done. But this is the one that I wear off a lot. It is Maybelline 450. This is Romantic Rose. And the other one, and I don't have it in here. The other one that I wear a lot and you guys asked me about the colors is the Blushing Pout, Maybelline Blushing Pout. Both of those colors are really, really, really awesome colors. So I really like them. And you can see because I had tried the darker lipstick on and then I tried to wipe it off and I had a hard time getting it off. When you say it has staying power, it really does. It has some really good staying power once it dries on your lips. So I would imagine if you love, you know, wearing a long-term lipstick and it stays on, you know, I would imagine this would work out really good. This darker color for someone because the blend is super, super nice as far as staying on and lasting. Just too dark for Monica. But on my head today, because I know people always ask that, this is the topper that was sent to me by Uniwix. It was sent to me complimentary. This is the Amber Topper. I will leave the information below. I've already done a review on this. But every time I wear a wig or hair piece or anything of that nature, many of you say, what do you have on your head? So I'm going to try to keep remembering to go on my head today. So on my head today is this is the Amber Human Hair Topper that I got complimentary from Uniwix. I did have to cut it and I can curl it. And right now I'm just wearing it very, very plain on my head. I really like this. I think it looks extremely realistic. Most people can't tell that I have it on other than the fact that my hair looks super thick. I think that it's not something that most people are going to go, oh, she's wearing a topper, you know, or whatever. A lot of my own natural hair is hanging out and the topper is straight. My natural hair is a little bit longer. And a couple of times I've kind of curled it under, but I wanted the topper to be cut shorter because I wanted it to have more of a layered look, especially when I curl it so that I could wear it that way. But this is a really nice topper. I really like it. I'll link all the information. The color is almond frost. You can see it tells like little rooted look. And I really like it. So I think other than that guys, I think that's really all I wanted to mention today because I'm still waiting for some of the things to arrive for my 10K giveaway. My gosh, by the time I get that video up, gosh, only knows. But I'm still waiting for some products to arrive in the mail and I really don't want to mention the products until I have, like, I don't want to pre-film because I want to wait till I have them in hand in case something happens. They don't materialize or whatever. But I am going to be filming that 10K giveaway video and I'm so super excited. I'm so super excited to have hit 10, then 10 great, 10,000 subscribers. Who would have thunk it? You know, I started my channel in 2009 and I know many of you know this. But for many, many years I just talked real estate on my channel. I just shared localism type videos. I did some RVing. I did little tiny video clips. I didn't really have a focus. And then I fell into, because I was searching anti-aging, I'm 65 years old. So I was searching anti-aging tricks and I fell into the mature community. I made connections and I would say that it's been about two years, almost three years. Well, it's been three years since I started Retina in 2016. But it was a little bit after that that I really started to focus in on doing anti-aging type videos or skincare type videos. And I felt that I was qualified to do those types of videos because it was so late to the game. And then I dawned on me, you know, I may not be perfect, but I do bring, I think, a little bit more of like, I'm a real person. And you can, even if you start late, you can learn and you can learn to apply makeup better and you can learn to do skincare better. And yeah. And so I, then I started to think, well, you know what, there's going to be other people that might be interested in watching my journey because I have started late and there's going to be other people that might be thinking the same thing. Oh, it's too late, too late, because that's what I thought. And that inspired me to continue on. Am I perfect with application and makeup? No, no, no. I can think of many, many other mature, beautiful women on YouTube who do a fabulous, fabulous job doing makeup tutorials, eye looks and all that stuff. And they're, they're, they're beautiful. But I'm like, sort of like this fumbling thing in a China closet. I'm trying to learn how to do it, but I'm not there yet. I'm getting there though. And then the same thing with the skincare. I've learned from so many other women on YouTube on about skincare. And to me, that, that really was what it was all about because I was searching for, I didn't want to see a supermodel. I didn't want to see a commercial. I didn't want to see this perfect, perfect person who, you know, has perfect skin. And I also, at that point in time, wasn't interested in listening to skincare from someone who's had a facelift or had, had treatments done, because I wanted to learn skincare for someone that, that hadn't had that done so that I could, it would resonate with me more. Nothing that gets that. And I may someday have that done, but I really wanted to learn from someone who basically had a raw canvas and they were just trying to make that canvas better with color, with skincare, with whatever, but not artificially, if, if that makes sense. So I really learned so much from so many of the beautiful women on YouTube. And it has become a wonderful community. And I have a small circle of super close friends that I can truly call my friends on YouTube. And I never realized that that would ever happen. I never even imagined it. And then the, the added benefit is that I have had so many subscribers that I recognize that comment that support the channel. And I'm so blessed to have them all. I'm so blessed. So I can't wait to do my 10,000 giveaway video because I am so thankful. I'm super thankful for every single one of you. Super thankful. And it's because of you. And you're, and you're watching my videos and you encouraging my videos that I get noticed by some brands, although, you know, not that many, but I am starting to get noticed by some brands, TrophySkin, for example, you know, reaching out to me. It was like, Oh my gosh, it's awesome. So I owe it all to you guys. Thank you all so much. Love to you all. Bye bye.