 Hey guys, it's Monica. Thank you for joining me. I'm going to share with you some favorites, things I have really been enjoying in August. I know it's September, but I'm a little bit behind the game. But some of the things that I have really been enjoying and most of them that I've purchased and some of the things that were sent to me. So if you are curious, please stay tuned. Thank you so much for joining me. So in this video, I'm going to share a little bit of makeup, a little bit of lifestyle and just things that I have been enjoying whether or not they're makeup related or not. But one of the things is I mentioned this in one of my other videos that I had bought, a ripped skirt. And I don't know if any of you have seen ripped skirts or not, but ripped skirt Hawaii.com. So I bought a black one because my bathing suit, the one I wear a lot is green and I have a blue one. So I wanted to have a solid color because I wasn't too sure they had such beautiful colors on their website, but I wasn't too sure exactly which ones would look good. And I also wasn't too sure what size because I'm a big girl. So I ended up buying an extra large and the way ripped skirts are, they got like these velcro, right? They got this little cute little pocket that you can, I don't know, it's too small for my phone, but it would certainly be you could stick some money in there. And I got the number two, which is the length that goes to just above my knees. So I really love this. It is super comfortable. It packs amazing. And you just wrap it around your bathing suit. So if you are a bigger girl or if you're a smaller girl, doesn't much matter, right? But if you want to sort of hide a little bit of the thighs, a little bit of the jingle, this is perfect. You put your bathing suit on, you just wrap this around. It's long enough to cover your upper legs if you want. You can go down to the water. It gets wet. It dries amazingly and it feels so comfortable. And because it is velcro, you can adjust it down a little bit if you want. And they have so many pretty, pretty colors. So I got black because that's what most of my bathing suits, you know, wraps are black because I have colors, blue, green, then I have one that's sort of a multicolored top. So I figured black would just go with anything. They were pricey and, you know, obviously Ripskirt Hawaii has no clue who I am, but I really like it. So if you're a bigger girl and you still want to, you know, go to the beach and stuff like that, and you want to have something super comfortable that packs well, this would probably be perfect for if you're going on vacation, at least me. So I love my Ripskirt. I mentioned it in a previous video that I got a Ripskirt. I had a few people go, what the heck is a Ripskirt? Well, you just rip it and it opens up, apparently, or you then you can just close it, go in the water, you can go swimming with it. I think true that it's long enough for me that if I wanted to just throw a top on, I could go out to a beach bar, a beach restaurant right afterwards and sit there and feel totally comfortable in it. So I've been enjoying that. I'm so glad I got it. I thought it was really cool. I loved it. I also, we were, when we were camping, we went to the beach and one day it was kind of cloudy, so we decided we were going to take a day trip and we went from Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, up the coast to Maine and we went to a few places, but we ended up coming down the coast and we went into Sacco, Maine, Benefit, Maine and we had lunch and I'll superimpose the picture here. The deck was beautiful, overlooking. It's in a mill building, overlooking the river. It is absolutely beautiful. It's a beautiful day. We sat there with our friends and we had, I had a hamburger. It was, you know, you can tell a good hamburger, right? I mean frozen patties, no, no, no. This was super, super good. So I had a hamburger that was to die for. It was so tasty. I loved it and we did that. It was like about, probably about, you know, 12 31 o'clock when we were sitting there and no, it was later. It was like 132. So as we had been manned down the coast and we made our way back to Hampton where we were camping, our friend, Mike kept saying, I gotta have, I've just, I've just, you just had a craving, a craving for fried dough. And he had mentioned fried dough a couple of times. He says, we're gonna have fried dough for dessert. I haven't had fried dough in eons, right? So we found a parking space at the beach. You know, we're pretty close to where our camper is, but we found a parking space and we went out and I got a fried dough that was like apple, apple filling on the fried dough. It, oh my gosh, was it delicious. So I had my fried dough, Mike and Judy had fried dough Jane went and had an ice cream and we said, this is going to be dinner, right? Because it's, we ate late and who's going to be hungry, right? So we made a decision that we're going to, that was going to be dinner. So after we were finished, I said to everyone, they were still eating, I said, you know what, I'm going to walk back. Cause well, they liked maybe a little over half a mile, maybe a little bit more from where we were to where our camper was. And I knew they were going to hop in the car and they beat me there anyways. And so they said, okay, you really want to walk? I said, yeah, I need, wanted the exercise. So I walked and they went and they went in the car. But the funniest thing was when I came around, obviously it was going to be, they were going to beat me there, right? When I came around the back end of the motor home to the middle where we were sharing a yacht with Mike and Judy who had their camper, I saw Jay up on a ladder with his butt just about hanging out of the window. I could not believe it. I was like, Oh my God, what happened? And they were all like freaking out. Jay was trying to get his foot in. It was like wedged and all this stuff. Apparently the clicker to the door did not open the door. And I don't know whether the battery was dead or it was just decided at that moment that it was not going to work. And I was like, Oh, how come nobody filmed him? You know, by this time that Jay was inside. And you know, the only bottom thing, the only thing that's hanging out with the bottom of his feet was, it was hysterical to me because I was like, Oh, why didn't you guys film him? Nobody thought of filming him as he was wedging himself in the window. And they all thought it was terrible for thinking, why didn't anyone film him? And then all at the same time, our friend Mike decided to try the clicker again and it unlocked. It's so crazy. It was like so crazy. But oh my gosh, we had a great time at the beach. I don't even know why I'm telling you that story. I just thought it was hysterical. Anyways, I had this, this company had reached out to me and I have the dry eye, right? And they had reached out to me quite a while ago about an electric eye mask, which I use every single night. I love that electric eye mask. So if I wake up like two or three o'clock in the morning and I'm feeling it, I just turned it, put it on, turned it on, it's hanging right by my bed post. Anyways, they reached out to me about a waterproof, whoops, makeup bag. And they asked if I wanted to review it. I probably am going to butcher the name, but it's R-E-S-E-P-L-A-S-S. I will link all the information. Replace, something like that. It is waterproof. I chose the pink. They do have a couple of different colors, another color, they have a tan and they have the pink. But this material is, I think it's called Tyvek and it's sort of an environmental type of a material that has antibacterial, anti-mold, anti-mites. And what I really love about it is that it has compartments. So when I was at the beach, I put all my makeup in here. I had some sunblock in here. I had my powder and zip it right up and it doesn't get wet. So I didn't care right at the beach if this got wet, right? And it washes beautifully. I washed it down. It really is nice. So it's made of really durable material and it held up. I will absolutely swear to you, it held up amazingly in the saltwater environment that I was in and I think it's cute. So I love it. It has two little compartments on the side. I know you probably can't see it. Two compartments on the side and the zipper compartment. You can get it on Amazon. It is reasonable, soft and holds a heck of a lot. So I love it. Sharing it with you. This has been a favorite this month of mine. I'm always on the go Jay and I are pretty active people. So you know, my whole thing is I'm going to be outside. He wants to be outside and this is perfect. I love it. So this was sent to me complimentary from the company. I'm going to link the information from Amazon below and you can check it out. It's lightweight and it cleans up so nice. Trust me when I say it cleans up so nice. It almost looks new. You wouldn't think this went camping with me, but it did. So it was really awesome. Really like it and you can actually do more than you know, you can actually do more than just put your your makeup in there. You can pretty well do whatever you want. So a couple of things that I mentioned that I have, you know, I've been using my eye mask and I'm still suffering from the dry eye. I still have little bouts of it, but I've been so, so careful. So I had bought this lid and lash cleanser. Now for those of you that have dry eye, this might be something you might want to try. It's not inexpensive, but I bought it off of Amazon. I'll link the information and what I do after I take my makeup off, my eye makeup, I spritz this on my eyes and I massage it. And I really think as good as I am about removing my makeup, I really think this as the last step has super helped my eyes a lot. So I love this stuff. I almost want to kiss it because I think it's made that much of a difference in my eyes. It's awesome. So that's been great. This is what my eye doctor had recommended for eye drops and it's Reliva. It's from Refresh. It's Reliva and I've been going through this now. I use this a number of times a day. I really like it. I think out of all the drops that I've been using, this one has worked out the best for me and I have used a number of different drops from the digital to the Optima. I mean a bunch of them. And as much as these little tiny plastic ones are so easy to travel with and they're perfect size and they're sanitized, I can't see when I put this in. When I rip this over and I open it up, I can't see when I'm putting it in. So I have to have someone put it in for me because I've missed my eye and I've actually scratched my eye trying to put it in because I can't see and I have glasses on with this being so much thicker. I can actually see it. So that was really, really, really good. I also have been using and I can't remember and I'm so sorry because I know somebody has talked about this and they use these a lot and I might have mentioned this before but I have been using the ELF and this is the, let me call it the Insta Lift Brow Pencil. I have two of them. I really love these. I love the fact that there's a spoolie on one end and you can brush it up and I love the fact that it's retractable and it's softer. Not soft, soft that it breaks off but softer. I have a hard time with a hard pencil so this has been a true favorite of mine. Highly recommended. It's like three bucks. Sometimes even cheaper. It is awesome. Same thing with my Flower Beauty. I love this. This is the Light Illusion and this is their Perfecting Powder. I've used this for quite a while but within this last month I've used it almost every day. I love it. It just kind of gives me a good finish to my skin, my makeup. I really love it a lot. So that's been a huge, huge thing that I've loved and another thing and this was actually Sheila, simply Sheila, formerly Life with Lily. Sheila had talked about. This is the Smashbox Contour and as you can see this is well loved. I'm going to actually have to get another one when I go to the Cosmetic Company store but I use the contour to contour my face and then I use the illumination or whatever right here and on my lids which I really like. I like the brush and then I have sort of like a bronzer all over and the bronzer is really nice. I do like it. I use it with a big fluffy brush but more importantly I use this eyeshadow. So I have actually done a full eye with these three, a full smoky eye. I've used this one for my V, my outer edge. I've used this just for a little bit of color, this for my lid and then of course an eyeliner right. I can't believe that I can get away with this for an eye look but I can and I really like that especially if you're out and about right. You're always looking for something a little bit more portable for your makeup. I think it's awesome. So where would I be with my red eye issues without my Lumify? This continues to be a massive, massive favorite of mine. I don't use it every day. I used it today. I use it when I'm going out on a special occasion and I just want my eyes to look brighter or if I'm feeling I've got some redness but I love my Lumify. I absolutely love it and while we're on that, while we're on that topic, my blink, my eyelash. So I am getting sent to review a mirror that will help put, that you will help you put on, be able to do false eyelashes. I'm really looking forward to it because I don't use false eyelashes and I want to get some false eyelashes and apply them but I haven't yet. My blink has, it's made a world of difference with my eyes. I absolutely love blink. It's an awesome eyelash serum. I love it anyways. For me it works really, really great. Now I was sent and I talked about this jewelry, right? I was sent from a company called Jonesy, J-O-A-N-C-E-E. I'll superimpose a little bit of their website. They reached out to me and they said, would you like to check out our jewelry? Would you like to talk about your our jewelry? Give us a review. We, you know, they said you can pick some stuff on your website and I've done this before. I've reviewed jewelry before. I really liked it but what I thought was really cool about their jewelry was it's all, it's mostly synthetic sapphires. So it comes so beautifully packed. The top drawer has the two boxes that I picked in it. The bottom drawer has some directions for care for the sapphires and for the silver, the sterling silver. It gives you the care instructions for it and I thought it was really nice. So I picked out these jewelry and I had these rings and I was like super excited because one of the things that I have always liked is stackables. That's a stackable but this one, whoops, it fell out because I put it in. This one came with four round rings. I'm going to put them on. So I'm going to put the blue, in my opinion, more of a sapphire band and then it has this adorable, I mean this is really pretty. Now this is the white sapphire. I don't know if the camera's going to pick it up, right? And then I can put the other blue one on the outside of it so you can see. You see that? And then I still have two white ones, right? I can, if I really want to go wide, I can add that and I can add them both actually to like that. But for me, that's a little bit too wide. It goes too far close to my, you know, my finger. So when you look at rings, I couldn't get this on my middle finger while I could but I don't, I don't want to try. But when you look at rings like these stackables, right? I just think they're, is that the right word? I just think they're so cute and so far I took these to the beach and while we were at the beach, we celebrated our anniversary and we went out with another couple and we went to the Sea Glass Restaurant, which is really super nice. I had these rings on and they looked really, really good. Now I had them on because here I've got the wider band in the middle and I have the blue thin band on either side and then here I just have the two clear bands, the two white bands. But now the one I haven't worn yet, which I think you have to really look at it carefully because I'm going to put it on my finger here. I love this. I don't know if this is going to pick up. It has like amethyst in there and that's my birthstone. So it has some really pretty, I'm going to try to take pictures of this so you can see and oh my gosh, this is so pretty. This is really so pretty. Now I have it on this hand with the other stackables from here. So I know I talked about way to see my jewelry. Well I'll tell you, I love jewelry. I absolutely love jewelry and I have some really nice jewelry. I have some pearls. I have some pretty expensive pieces and where are they? They're in the safety deposit box. So to me, and I haven't won this one yet because it still has the tag on it. But to me, when you go away and you have something and you can put it on and you have something that looks so exquisite and so real and so affordable, it's just, I think, awesome. So this company, Junksy Jewelry, synthetic sapphires, they're chemically, they say chemically and physically, optically identical to natural gems. So when you look at this, you don't even know that these are synthetic sapphires. They have a 30-day return policy. They have free shipping. They have a one-year warranty. They're 9.9, 925 sterling silver. So that is really awesome. I think this is beautiful. This has got to be my favorite, favorite piece. It is so, so pretty. And as far as these bands and the bands go, I think they're perfection. So I know I'm going on and on about this, but I can't tell you how much I enjoy wearing my jewelry and how much when you can get something that looks so expensive. And they're on sale. I mean, check out the prices on their website. I think I saw like 30% off and more. And then they have like a sale section. So these are amazing. I absolutely love it. Thank you so much, Jonesy. And I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right, but Jonesy jewelry. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. It is just really, really nice. I'm going to link all the information. You can check it out. I love the presentation. I love how it arrived. I love the cleaning, you know, the little box here, the little tray. You can just keep it, you know, together like that. And that to me was really perfect. So that was super awesome, super cool. And other thing that I had been loving. And I've talked about these before. This is the apple cider vinegar gummies. When I take these twice in the morning and twice sort of midday, my appetite is, I mean, we went to a restaurant and I could not eat what I would normally eat because of this. And I took more than half of it home the next day we had it for lunch. So these apple cider gummies are wonderful. They're also great for your gut health. They make me feel good. They make me feel full and they give me a little bit of energy. So yeah, these have been a super, super favorite of mine. Another thing is my easy sweets. I've talked about easy sweets in the past and you know what, unofficial sweeteners, pros and cons, it's up to you. But out of all the unofficial sweeteners, this is what I use. This is, it's a Circlos. I can never pronounce that, liquid. So it may or may not work for you, up to you. But this is what I use for my sweetener. I love it. I put a couple of drops in my coffee. I have one in my pocketbook. And now with my new makeup bag, I can just stick it right in there, which is like really awesome. But I love it. And I'm back to really being more religious on that, watching my sugar intake because we've, I've been trying to, you know, exercise a little bit more, walk a little bit more. We're getting ready to buy our, well, we bought our e-bikes. We just don't have them yet. Mine may never come in at the rate it's going. But so we've just been really trying to be super careful with that. Color science. Oh yeah. Being at the beach, I got some color, but I got no burns. So between my hats and my skin here, I use dermatology. I use a lot of the sunblock. I have Kella science. I use that absolutely. Love it. Love it. Another thing I love is my built bars. Now I have just purchased. These two just came in. So they're pretty full. These are just the regular bars. These are what Jay likes. Jay loves the cookies and cream and the mint brownie. These are his two favorites. So what I do is I keep some out. I put the rest in the freezer and I mean one of those will fill you up, right? It's a great snack. It'll fill you right up. And then I have the puffs. This puff is the Banana Cream Pie Marshmallow. I love it. I'm a banana lover. So I really love this. I think they taste awesome. Now I also use the Atkins bars, right? The indulge bars. My favorite indulge bar is the chocolate coconut. Love those. Get them at Wal-Mart. And then the indulge, this is a common, not chew bar. Love those. Get those in Wal-Mart. So they may not be the best choice at times for diet, but when you're on the run and you're working full time and you're always on the go, you know, you get a grab what you can. And I think that beats going to say Burger King and getting a Whopper or something. Yeah, I put one in my bag and it's that I find like midday or later in the day. I'm a little hungry. I want a little bit of something. I'll take the bar. And sometimes I just have half of the bar. I cut it in half, put it in a bag. I really like it. A big fail. Skinnies. These I have seen all over the place and people love them. I hate them. So my battery died. I don't know if I'm in the frame or not, but I ordered, I ordered a ton of them. I would have like six packs of these, right? And this is a Mojito Twist. This Mojito Twist again, Bahama Grita. I've got a couple of other flavors that I got. And I, I don't like them. So you're supposed to be able to mix this like, say with sparkling water or some other low calorie drink, salsa water, whatever. And then you can mix this and you do one package and you're drinking, you add your alcohol and you're good to go, right? Skinnies, cocktail mixes, zero calories. They sound delicious. I know everyone has different taste but for me they were a huge fail. I, I could, I could not stomach them. I, I, I tried three times two, three different flavors to, um, you know, to make myself a cocktail. I could not, I could not. I, I did not like them at all. I had to throw them out. They were awful. They were awful. So if you guys like them, awesome. I don't like them. Other thing that, and I've talked about this guy forever and I don't, I mean there's no name on here. I got this on Amazon eons ago, but this is a little travel thing and it has a magnifying mirror on one side. I think it's, it's probably, oh, it's probably like a 10 times magnifying mirror. I mean really big and then it has a tweezer on the other. So I love this because if you're out and you want to, you see a stray hair or whatever and you want to tweeze it. Oh my gosh. I would go nowhere without this. I'm going to see if I can try to find something close to this so you guys can see it, but I would go nowhere without this at all. I love that. I love it. It's just like been, it's just been huge. I had to get myself a new curling iron. Now I've got like companies that reach out to me and I have like flat irons. I probably have like three different flat irons that I've tried to review and I have reviewed that I've received complimentary, but I just keep going back to my good old-fashioned curling iron and I hate to say it. My curling iron is cheap. I got this at Walmart. I think it was on sale for nine, something under $10. This is con air, instant heat. It's one I've been using for my own hair for Eon. So I just got this. Thank God they still had it because this works good for my bio hair when I have it. Of course what I have on my head is Raquel Welch. A real deal. I always mention it the wrong way. Is it real deal? Real edge. It's real deal and this is in the color shade of cappuccino. I purchased this wig. I love this wig. This wig is just absolutely awesome. Awesome. Great color choice for me. Very, very natural. I think this is a real natural look. When I wear this, no one ever says, oh, you're wearing a wig, you know? And some of you might go, yeah, she's wearing a wig. Now what makes this different that my mother doesn't like is these blood edges, which is kind of trendy. My mother does not like this on me. I have her on video saying that actually. She does not like this on me because of these blunt edges. But that's my mother's generation, right? Not mine. So I love this wig. This has been a favorite. This is probably the one I wear. I've worn the most other than my twists when I twist my bio hair up and I put it in a bun on the back of my head with a clip. Sometimes I'll wear a topper just for fullness. Sometimes I don't wear anything. It's just my own bio hair pulled up and we've seen it that way many a times. But I will have to say that this wig has been a favorite this past month. It is, I think it's absolutely beautiful. I love the colors. More importantly, it makes me feel good when I have her on my head. So I think that's it. I know I feel like I've been going on and on and on. It's probably wicked long, but I've had so much I wanted to share with you, you know, things I love and things I don't love. Like I said, the majority of this stuff I bought myself. The things that were gifted to me, especially this jewelry. Isn't that beautiful? I love it. I think that is so pretty. And again, I've only got, I've got two other bands. I could put in other white sapphire bands next to the blue one on either side. But then it just brings it too close to my neckles and I just feel like I have too much, too much ring on. But yeah, I'm sure I forgot stuff, but but that's it. That's my, that's my favorite. So things I've been loving, things that were gifted to me, things I bought, things I enjoy, the jewelry. Oh, this stuff is so pretty. So pretty. Anyways, thank you so much for watching. I appreciate every single one of you when if you are new to my channel and you've not subscribed, please consider hitting the subscribe button wherever it is, the notification button. I try to upload twice a week. I'm not always good, so I'm not going to promise that's going to happen, but I try to. Yeah, just keep checking back if you don't see a notification from me because sometimes YouTube does shut those notifications off and that's a real bummer. So anyways, thank you so much for watching and I will see you all in my next video. Bye guys.