 Hey guys, happy 2021! This is actually the first video I filmed since the New Year's tag that I did that little poet had started. Since I did that tag I've seen a number of other women also do that tag and I just think it was an amazing way to start 2021 off. Of course as we filmed we all had high hopes and I still have high hopes for 2021. I still do. I would say that the first part of the month has not been the greatest. I think we can all agree on that. However, I am really optimistic that things are going to settle down and 2021 will be ultimately a year of recovery and a hope of rebuilding because we do need to do a lot of rebuilding and I'm talking relationship rebuilding with everyone that you know might have a different opinion. It doesn't matter you know what your opinion is. I think everyone needs to be heard and I think everyone needs to be respectful and I think we need to value and treasure each other. I'm hoping that 2021 will be that year. I chose a word breathe. I chose it wisely. I have many times, many times had to take a deep breath. Just a deep hailing breath because you know why. So anyways a couple of things I want to talk about. I've had some products that were sent to me so I want to mention those. I also want to mention a little bit about my skincare because I'm going to be trying to switch things up a little bit but before I even get into a whole lot of those details a couple things I do want to mention because and you all know who you are. I have gotten the most amazing Christmas cards you know just your messages have been so hard to follow over the holidays and I got this from the UK from one of my UK subscribers and I I've talked about the the number 7. You cannot get the Hydro Luminous here in the States but you can get it in the UK. This is boots number 7. Hydro Luminous this is in the color wheat. This I would have to say is my favorite drug store foundation. I love the Hydro Luminous. I do have dry skin so when I put this on I don't need to add any additional moisturizer. This has an SPF of 15 so what I've been doing when I've worn this because this is a perfect shade for me wheat especially in the summer spring and fall but in the winter my skin gets a little bit paler. So I had I had bought this LA girl pro color foundation mixing pigment that was recommended by Marlene Fab and Glam and I bought the white to lighten and I also bought the blue to add a cooler tone if the foundation is too warm like I have a foundation on right now not not the number 7 but I have this foundation on it's YSL it is way too warm for me so I added a tiny tiny little bit of a drop of this into that foundation and just the tiniest bit do you need. I mean tiny bit you don't need a whole lot and it will cool down a really warm foundation and and I really I really like that. This will lighten up a dark foundation so I don't really want my boots number 7 to be cooled down. I like the wheat tone but this will just lighten it up a notch so that I can wear it comfortably all winter long. So what a fabulous a fabulous gift. Oh my gosh I am so so grateful I because you can't get this here in the States and I really thought last year we were going to go to the UK but then you know everything fell apart. It doesn't look like we're going to go to the UK this year either at this point so it's so super grateful for this gift of the boots number 7 and you guys in the UK if you haven't tried the Hydra Luminous boots number 7 you know this hands down for us older dry skin gals I think affordable just an awesome awesome product I love it and then the LA girl color pigment mixes that Maline mentioned whoo-hoo have they been fantastic so very very affordable absolutely love it thank you so much Maline for turning me on to that one thing that I did receive and this actually two things I'm going to talk about from the octaline network and this first one that I'm going to talk about I have used this for about two two and a half weeks and this is from alpine beauty it was sent to me in exchange for a review from alpine beauty and octaline network when I first got it I was kind of like intrigued and also a little nervous because they say that you can actually do this twice a day and this is what they call their and I'm going to read some of my notes their wild Huckleberry 8 acid polishing peel so I went I wouldn't want to do this twice a day and and the 8 acids kind of like was a little scary in the beginning but then when I looked at the ingredients and you know a little bit about the company clean beauty and it's wild crafted by them they're in Jackson Hole Wyoming and they actually combine a bunch of wild actives into this formula into this cream it's a mask it's a peel it's a polish what they say is you can use this twice a day on dry clean skin that you can put it on you put on a layer of it you don't need a whole lot and then you can let it sit for like five minutes and then if you want you can wet your hands and do circular motions which is what I have been doing when I've used it then I wash it off then I rinse it off you know take it all off with water and it is absolutely astonishing because even though I think my skin is clean I when I wash this off my skin was so smooth and I think it might have been the polishing not 100% positive but I mean this is not an inexpensive number and this actually was launched in Sephora so if you wait to order it when Sephora has a sale it would be much better but this is 1.7 fluid ounces and I think the retail value is about $56 however it is really it's packed with a bunch of really awesome ingredients and I know nothing about natural beauty at all I know nothing about any of that but it's wild huckleberry it's vitamin B potassium it's got and they and everything is from Jackson Hole Wyoming it has that eight acids and the acids are acyclic acid harvested from wild willow bark they have citric malic teratric glycolic azaleic ferulic lactic acids and this is just I think it's the complex is really really good and like I said I've been using it for a couple of weeks now I've been using I mean I don't use a whole lot I've got a good dent in here but I've been using it like once a day and if I haven't used it twice a day although they say you can use it twice a day I've been using it once a day and I think it just gives me a really good canvas for my skin sent to me complimentary from octaly through alpine beauty the other thing I wanted to mention from octaly you guys all know I am really big into sunscreen and you all know that I have my favorite sunscreen that I have worn my favorite sunscreen from the drugstore has been the mineral lotion non greasy Australian gold but I always have to add some some face oil to it because of my skin it is more drying so I have loved this it works well with me under my makeup but most of the time what I've been using out and about is my color science I love color science I buy color science I've had color science said to me and PR and I really really like color science well octaly had as one of their products was the color science and of course I was like I read that and I was like all over it and it was the color science and this is their sun forgettable total protection face shield 50 SPF if you know anything about color science you know this stuff is awesome and Jay and I are going away to a a warmer place and this is going to come in so handy it's slightly tinted I believe I have the natural original formula slightly tinted and it just absorbs so so super nicely into your skin I let it dry in a little bit and then I will start my makeup process so sent to me complimentary color science via the Octavia Network I love this stuff so a lot of people are going to say you know sometimes the skincare product and the makeup products are expensive and my attitude is yeah some of them are very expensive but then I also feel like it's going to be more expensive to take care of your skin after the fact so I'd rather spend a little money yes I do get some for free but I also buy a lot of it I'd rather spend a little money or even a lot of money if you want to think about it that way to take care of my skin in advance now because I never did as a young woman I never did I baked in the sun I did everything you're not supposed to do I never ever ever thought about taking care of my skin so love that was sent to me complimentary every morning I put sunscreen on and before I got the face shield what I have been using was the Termitology Tinted SPF moisturizer 46 I love this stuff works super great with my makeup I cannot highly I mean I can I cannot recommend these products highly enough city beauty skin perfecting daily veil I use this a lot I think SPF 38 39 both of these work amazing with my makeup and I know that this is going to work amazing under my makeup as well so I'm like really excited about that I had received this PR and sometimes you receive PR you have no obligation to do anything but to try it and this is the case I don't have any kind of an affiliate code or any discount or anything of that nature but I receive this this pain relieving gel and it's from a company called Capsivia Capsivia pain relieving gel I have a I have a burn mark right here and it is extremely painful to the touch right now I have a little bit makeup covering it so you probably can't see it but I have been putting this on and after I put it on I don't feel anything it doesn't hurt anymore it's still rad it still needs to heal and but this has worked really well so this is a temporary pain relieving gel you all know that a CBD products this just might be an option for someone who is you know interested in trying another option so Capsivia pain relieving gel ultimate pain reliever there are a bunch of ingredients that are listed here check it out if you're curious I'll leave all the information below for you guys so I am going to try to switch up my skincare a little bit I do think that you have to when you start to do skincare and all that I think your skin kind of gets used to what you've been using so I do like to give it a break just like you like to give my eyelashes a break I use the blink eyelash serum I like to give that a break so I'm going to be doing something different with my skincare just switching up my product based a little bit and to keep my skin guessing so you know I'm going to be really curious to see how it works out for me because yeah you know I'm a tried and true gal I like to use what I like to use and I like to use what I what has worked for me so that's pretty well you know just wanted to talk about that because I'll probably be mentioning that in upcoming videos yes I'm still using my retin A definitely going to be using my retin A going to use that continuously every night as I have been for the longest time another thing I wanted to mention I had talked about how I had bought some earrings from my life with Wendy so I received two earring surprise boxes from her last year and I like that idea I give her a little bit of guidelines and she sends it to me well I got to the point where after I bought the second box that has so many earrings so I had I had to go buy something and what I bought I just got it off the Amazon it's just a very very plain but I thought it would be a great way for me to try to keep my earrings organized and so I started to put about two of them some of you can say Monica how many earrings does the girl need and I'm gonna say I don't have an answer for that question yes I'm not there yet so anyways I started to organize some of the earrings that I got from Wendy not all of them some of them some of these like these I bought you know over a course of time but I tried to put them all together this is just I still have I probably can fill this whole bottom row with Wendy's earrings so I just really oh and these aren't Wendy's these I bought these long ones I bought down at the Cape last year on my birthday so yeah so this is what I've been you know trying to figure out how to display the earrings because they're all mostly dangling earrings and I don't want to just lie them down and you know I don't want to put them in a jewelry box so I wanted to display them I'm gonna put some of my bracelets on here these earrings big hoops I'm also gonna put some bracelets on here because I have some bracelets that I got from that I bought from my lean fab and Glam's daughter so I want to put them on here and just kind of organize this a little bit better so I know Jay goes oh my god he saw this he had a cow he said you gotta be kidding me what do you need all these earrings for you know what does he need those golf balls for me I'm thinking he's probably got way more golf balls than I have earrings that's what I'm thinking so anyways wanted to show you that I'm gonna continue to look for an earring display that's pretty rather than this plain wooden one that I have because I think it would be really pretty to display them really nicely I just haven't found the right one yet so anyways I'm gonna try to get into my schedule of twice a week uploads I I've been sick a little bit I've had not COVID but I've had an eye issue I still have an eye issue but I was diagnosed with dry eye I guess and I didn't know it and so all this eye irritation I've been having was because of that so hopefully my eye issue will will clear up and I will be back in force and I really want to try to vlog we went I started a vlog and the vlog was all about buying a car or at least that you know us driving around buying a car so I just haven't pieced it together I might still piece it together or I might start a new vlog I that's what I'm thinking of doing because there's only so much makeup you can review in my opinion there's only so many empties I can show you quite frankly I don't go through that much product that I can show you all these empties and and I haven't been doing a lot of hauls for sure so little mini hauls and I do like the chatty stuff so I might venture into doing it get ready with me again I don't know I'm gonna try it but in the interim anyways let's hope let's hope that for all of us that the the world settles down the world settles down that's what I'm hoping so until I see you next time take care of yourselves stay healthy keep smiling and take a deep breath love you all