 Hey guys, it's Monica. I'm going to share with you a couple of things That I have been using and some of my empties and just kind of give you an update on My most surgery so hopefully this won't be a long video because I don't have a lot of stuff But if you're curious stay tuned So thank you so much for joining me for those of you that are here because of the most surgery I'm going to include a sort of some images That That you can see for the rest of you when you might want to skip fast forward For a minute so that you don't get grossed out but for those of you that are really curious as to what happens when your face kind of gets disfigured and Your self-esteem gets blown out of the water Then this is for you at least this part. So I had most surgery on my face on June 22nd and it was right here and The surgery as you can see from the photos the surgery went from the very corner of my eyelid down to the very edge of my nostril and I seriously I Was so grossed out looking at myself. I seriously did not think My face would ever be somewhat normal now They did prepare me for the fact that I would have swelling and I would have you know scar tissue and things of that nature and it was going to take a good year maybe even longer for my face to kind of recover and The hope was that it would recover nicely without having you know potentially a Tenant plastic surgery on the scar so on the June 22nd. I went to an awesome surgeon and They got all the the the cancer cells out and I had clean margins But again, I had all of that scar. I think I had Might have like 12 stitches on the outside and I don't even know how many on the inside but anyways What I'm going to show you is the progression of sort of each month until now five months later It'll be six months right before Christmas. I'm not to show when you're going to be seeing this This is filmed a little bit after Thanksgiving But I just wanted to show you that there is hope I mean even if you if you look at the last photos of My my scar basically without any makeup I do have some eye makeup on on the very last one, but without any face makeup on and You'll see that the scar is still there and I can see the puckering around my nostril And that's where a lot of my scar tissue is and she get rid of that scar tissue It'll break up if I massage it But it takes a long time and that's a real hard spot to massage So I've been using my for you. I have a for you Oh, I think it's for your mini and I've been using that very very lightly on the vibrating Just right in the corner here that I can't seem to get with my finger and so far and I mean lightly I don't put a lot of pressure on it all But so far that's I think been doing really well all I've done on my scar is I've done two scar ways I will link them below of your scar away gel And then I have one that's a little bit more advanced cost a little bit more money But that also has the SPF factor in it So both of them will be linked below if you know anyone that's going through most highly recommend it Until I got Clarence to actually start to do other things on my face. I stopped using my retin A. I stopped using Any you know of the normal skincare normally I would do vitamin C etc. I stopped all of that so I really I really I mean I I'm so happy with the results of my scar and You know, I sometimes will look and I'm going wow I can see the swelling I can see that I'm still swollen on this side of my face and You know, this cheek is fatter than this cheek But I think that will probably settle down It's been five months. So we'll see what six months brings us but have faith and have hope You know, get that stuff off your face use plenty of sunblock That's the big thing for me that they said, you know as I was healing because I had my surgery in the middle of the summer And here I am, you know, I went camping, you know in a way I tried to lead my my most normal life But I wore a ton of hats and I wore hats that had built-in sunblock You know, they have hats where you can buy the material that has SPF in it So we're all sun protective type hats and lots of sunblock on my face And I continued on my my normal routine the first few, you know, the first two months I was very very self-conscious, especially when we didn't have to wear masks anymore I remember the right afterwards. We still had to wear masks in public And I was like really happy that I could go groceries and no one be staring at me because they couldn't see it so I'm really really pleased. I'm really pleased with the results and As much as it beat up my self-esteem Going through that even though it may sound vain, you know And I'm sure there's a lot of vanity and included in it because it's a face, right? We are women and it it it was For me, it was traumatic very traumatic But I'm on that other end of it now The doctor said when I hit the six-month mark, I was really gonna notice and feel a lot better I hit even though I haven't hit this six months yet. I got to that feeling almost in month four I could start to see Wow, this is really gonna look normal again sometime and that made me feel That made me feel so good. It really did. So there is hope now. I'm back on a regular skincare routine I'm right. I'm using my you know, my normal things that I normally do including I'm using my vitamin C And when I wash in the morning very gently because I don't feel my skin is dirty So sometimes it's just a wet hot face cloth But once I started to peel a little bit more from getting back on retina because I was off it Then I started to okay I've got to do some exfoliation and I've been trying a couple of different things But anyways finished up my timeless completely. That's my vitamin C that I've been using I'm using so my battery died But that's probably why I'm in a different position, but I finished my timeless I actually had two of these going and One that I had in my motorhome, which I when I emptied out all the stuff from the motorhome to winterize I found it and I said, oh my gosh, I forgot I had it So I had two of those but what I've been doing is I've been using the fiera since Vitamin C and I I talked about that in a previous video. I really really like it. It's a very citrously citrus smell and It plays really nice with my makeup. So I really like that, but all done with timeless not saying I'm not gonna buy it again I probably will I'll wait until there's a sale obviously. I Also finished up an eye gel and I have been using this eye gel for a long time a couple of years I have a number of different eye products. So I I don't religiously Wear or use just one eye gel or one eye cream I use whatever I have whatever I can buy that I like or that I want to try but I Faithfully use an eye cream or an eye gel. I know some people don't believe in it But I do and I have every day Forever and even before I was into makeup. I was removing wet or into skin care I should say I was using since I was a young girl baby oil to remove my eye makeup So I would always have very because my skin is dry But I always made sure that I had a lot of moisture under my eye. But anyway, so this is Eva Even naturals, I think even international. I don't have my glasses. So I can't read this But this is I'm and I'm purchased this I think off of Amazon and I can't remember who First mentioned this but I bought it and I like it and I have it in my basket to read to buy again I'm still gonna go through some other stuff first, but I I just like this. This has been my go-to I like the way it applies. I like the way it feels Sometimes I'll put this on and I will use my little Jade roller and I have one side of my Jade roller small And I roll along my eyes speaking of eyes. I Well, I finished. This is the Hydra boost eye mask Dr. Denise and I don't know. I really I like it. But to tell you the truth. I Actually started to use and I picked I don't even know where I picked this up and Wherever, you know, whatever eye masks you use if you like eye masks, which I do but I ended up picking this one up Wander beauty and this is baggage claim gold eye masks If I can find a link, I will because sometimes I I buy them in the store, you know Sometimes an L to sometimes in TJ Maxx Wherever I am marshals if I always go to the masks because I love face masks These I gel masks are were awesome when I put them on I Actually feel a tightening under my eyes No word of an exaggeration. I put them on and I let them sit there, you know and sometimes I'll take my Jade roller and I'll roll a little bit but I put them on and I can See a little bit of a difference. That's only temporary, right? It's not anything that's gonna be forever but yeah, I have a few of these and I'm gonna be on a lookout for more of these because If you're going out somewhere, you're tired, you want to just treat your eyes really nice And you like an eye mask like I do These are awesome. These are really awesome. Now. I did like this one a lot, but you know, I don't think Price point, I don't think there's a big difference You know between an expensive eye mask and a more reasonable one and I can't remember what the wonder beauty one was But these were the best. I really really like them a lot Speaking of masks, I have gone through this is far life. I'm pretty sure I've picked up all my spar life masks in TJ Maxx and I've gone through a number of these. These are I I will put these on and Because they're really cold and sometimes it shocks me when I get up and put this on I will sometimes just put it in the palms of my hand before I open it up Just to warm the mask up a little bit but then I put it on and then I will take and I would normally go with my Jade roller or they the The the new thing that I'm doing with the baths this the stone But you know, I just kind of rub it in and then I just pat it in go down my neck I love these so I'm a mask, baby. These are awesome. I'll definitely get more of them This is the smile life hydrating facial facial mask I'm sure it's not picking it up So the other thing I finished is I get a member's mark from Sam's Club I usually buy a huge box of their makeup removers. I like these. These are very very reasonable I don't take all my makeup off with them But there are times when maybe I want to retouch or I just want to refresh or I start to take them off And I will use the I really like these had a number of them in my motorhome, but yeah Love them. Now, I've already replaced this. This is my Estee Lauder double wear. I have it in the shade pebble I buy mine Usually at the cosmetic company outlet store and when they pebbles is a hot pebble For me is a hot shade up here in New Hampshire to find at the outlet But when I was at the outlet last time I think I had showed the bag I was absolutely thrilled to got two bottles of it you get two bottles for I think it ended up between the Cubons and everything to the two bottles probably cost me $28 That's less than what you would pay for one at a store even when they're on sale. So Yeah, that's my that is my go-to. I put it on very lightly It is a full coverage and I do put it on very lightly But I have veins that I really like to cover as much as possible But but I like it a lot I also out of and I have tried a number of different spray mists, you know makeup setting mists This still is my favorite. I really like this morphe continuing setting mist I've never had a problem. I know somebody said that they've had a problem spraying I've never had a problem spraying it. I think it looks really odd works really awesome I have a small bottle for traveling. I also have a few other setting sprays that I'm still using but I'm trying to really finish up what I have before I buy anything else. I have plenty of this This is the elf instant brow pencil instant lift brow pencil I don't think anyone anything but surgery will give me a lift on my brow, but Maybe Botox would I I'm trying to convince Jay to let me have some Botox, you know I could just go do it and he he probably would never notice but We are on a kind of a like a no buy We have some really strong goals that we're trying to work through for this coming 2023 that are super important for us So we're both contributing to you know being really conservative in many ways but I Could just go ahead and do he would never know it, but I'm kind of afraid because I've never had Botox I've never had any anything other than a facial Twice in my life. That's it and I'm 68 So I'm kind of afraid of how it would look but my 11s even though I sleep with a frowny I'm really good sleeping with a frowny. I I'm just starting to really feel that they're there more often Than I like, you know, I can see them they're way more visible. So I'm trying to convince Jay of that, but he's he's not He's not on board yet And I haven't done it yet, but I'm afraid like if you do it like what if I come home and I'm like, I can't Oh my eyes But anyways thoughts, you know things of my these are the things I'm going thinking about anyways, who knows Um, but I like this. I actually have purchased Two more when they were on sale elf is dirt cheap. So and that's probably the best brow Pencil that I have used on my brows not my browser. I've some of you said I should have my brows done They're too light and you're probably right. I just you know, I can't when I really docked in my brows up And and all of that I feel like they're Betty Davis eyes, you know when she had or Was Betty Davis with the really thick thick brows that movie star way way back in the day Joan Crawford That's who it was Joan Crawford and she just had these really big brows and I Just feel on me it looks Ridiculous Well, anyway, so that's a little bit not much of my my finally empty and Just update on my skincare I I probably will do more of a dedicated video on skincare because I am back to using my retin a consistently and my skin is peeling Which I'm actually happy about so anyways Thank you so much for joining me and I will see you in my next video. Bye. Bye