 Hey guys. You know I've been meaning to mention these for quite a while. I'm a firm believer in sleeping on silk pillowcases. I don't sleep on silk sheets but I do sleep on silk pillowcases and I probably wouldn't mind sleeping on silk sheets. I bet you that would be a nice experience too. But I've been using silk pillowcases for quite a while because I'm a side sleeper. When you're a side sleeper you kind of crunch your face up and things of that nature and I normally wake up and I've got like indents and I've got you know my hair is all over the place. It's like hysterical. I started using silk pillowcases probably hmm I'm gonna say maybe about four years ago and I really really like it. Now I just use the silk pillowcases on my pillows not on poor Jay's. He gets the regular pillows but I get the silk. So because I love silk pillowcases I sleep on silk pillowcases and I really believe in them. I jumped at the opportunity to try and review the MYK silk, my kind of silk. This is a really really nice product. They reached out to me a couple of months back and they said would you like to try our silk pillowcases. I could go on their website. I could pick the ones I wanted. I picked two. I didn't do king size. I just did like the queen size pillowcase with the zipper. I wanted it to be silk all the way around so I got the zipper so that my pillow wouldn't slide out and I took two of them. I got a pretty pink and I got a pretty black and the black I thought would be perfect because in my motorhome I have black sheets so I said yes and even though the pink would look really good in the motorhome too. So I jumped at the opportunity and I said absolutely so they sent them to me and this was months ago and I really haven't even mentioned them but I've been laundering them. I've been using them. I can't tell you how many times I have washed these since I've had them but at least I would say probably 8 to 10 times because I usually do my sheets once a week and I've had this for over two months and I'm going to link you all the information because I also have a discount code for 15% off if anyone is really interested but these are really really lovely and if you are a woman or even a man of a certain age and you really want to get a good night's rest and indulge yourself in the sense of sleeping on silk so that you have the opportunity to not make your wrinkles worse overnight maybe. This is definitely something you want to look into so this is the MYK silk and it is just absolutely beautiful. It's I think based out of New York and again I will list all the information so all these washes they've gone in to dry or even although I don't usually like to dry them. I usually like to hang them on the clothesline. They have held up so nicely. Highly highly recommend this to anyone if you're thinking about you know going on the silk bandwagon because silk sheets and silk well I shouldn't say silk sheets silk pillowcases cases feel absolutely divine in my opinion. What this video is really all about is trying to answer some questions. I get a lot of questions in some of my comments. I get them both on my YouTube page and also on my Instagram so every now and then I do dedicated videos to answering your questions and one of the questions that I've gotten repeatedly since I've done a few retina videos is what about summertime? You're using retina you're doing all this stuff what are you doing in the summertime? So quite frankly I I don't stop using retina in the summertime. I may dial it down a bit depending on how my skin is and if I'm doing a microdermax exfoliation that week you know it all really depends on what my routine is for the week what I do what I do with my retina use so I may dial it down a bit and I may also dial it down a bit when we go away so if we're going say to the beach for a week I may only use my retina once during the week or twice during the week instead of three or four times so I dial it down a little bit but what I ramp up major major ramp up is sunblock and that's the question I get a ton a ton of questions on sunblock. I am not a chemist I'm not an expert I don't know one thing about another on sunblock and I'm still in the stage of willing to try anything people recommend so I've been using I think this is the second year maybe the third that I've been using the Australian gold I have mentioned this a number of times on my channel I use this this is my cheap go-to excuse my nails I really need to get them done they're really ugly looking try to hide them this is my cheap giving up on that this is my cheap go-to every day this is tinted it's not a bad tint for me this is men role and it if a me the only way I can make this work because my skin is drier is to put a heavy-duty good moisturizer on before I do my sunblock so what I normally do in the summertime because I'm ramping up my son coverage is after I do my serums in the morning I'm going to go in with an all-over sunblock and it's usually this because it's tinted gives me a little bit of color but it gives me a lot of protection but before I even do that most of the time I'm going to use one of these two oils and more often than not it is the the square lean oil I don't know if I'm saying that right this is the one from the ordinary I have a bottle in there from Timeless I like them both and so the square lean oil is a really lighter oil for me it goes on really nice it absorbs into my skin the other oil that I really like but this is a heavier oil is the carrot oil and I'll make sure that I link this the carrot oil I think I really like that one more at night but in the summertime because it's time for me to really ramp up that sunblock protection because of my retina if I don't put an oil on my face this is hard for me to put on because it's drying so if I do a nice base of oil and I have a nice smooth moist canvas then I put this on and I'm going to put it on just so you can see well used the color because it is tinted so I just want you to see the color of this and I put a whole lot on my hand I don't know if this is picking it up at all but this is what I put all over my face and yes on my hands in the morning so I normally will put this on all over I let it dry in really good now again I'm not going to do this until I put the oil on my face I just I just can't so I have to put like some sort of oil some sort of really good moisturizer on my face to make this work for me otherwise I am not going to be a happy camper with my sunblock so then I will let that settle in this is 50 SPF and this is the Australian Gold mineral lotion non-greasy which is why I need to get some grease up now the caution when I start layering my sunblock at the end of the day is really a difficult process to take it off sometimes I have to do three and four washes on my face just to get rid of it all but it's the price I gladly pay to have the protection so I let this settle in gives me a nice overall tint if I'm home for the weekend or I'm just going out that's sometimes all I put on with a little bit of blush maybe a little bit of contour or something like that but in general I need a little bit more coverage during the day so after that dries I use the Shashado this is the BB cream 50 SPF and this is in the shade medium so that's the 50 SPF in the shade medium I'm going to show you that on my hand so you can see it's well used you don't want to use a whole lot because I don't want to waste the product so I'm gonna put that in my hand it just really blends into my skin so if it's a sunny day that's going on next I said don't really put it like all over my face my Australian Gold it goes all over my face into my neck down into my cleavage area cleavage cleavage area but the Shashado goes around my nose goes around my cheeks goes on my forehead and then that's about it so that's how my morning starts on sunny bright days in the summertime these are the two go-to products that I have then in my pocket book I have and I will say that the color science was sent to me initially but before it was sent to me I bought my own so I have two color sciences now some people will say how do you know you're actually getting any coverage you know well at this point in time when I'm using it I'm using this more as a touch up during the day and I can pretty well tell if anything is coming out you know I'll shake it really good and I'll just put it on so I have two of these one that was sent to me by the Octolene Network from Color Science quite a while ago I already talked about it I've already reviewed it but I also have one that I bought and I will tell you when they're gone I will continue to buy them because it lives in my purse and so during the day if I need a quick touch up this is what I'm going to use 90% of the time now if I'm inside and I'm going out and I'm going you know maybe I'm going for you know somewhere where I know I'm gonna be outside a while and I want to just make doubly sure I'm covered this was also sent to me quite a while ago from a more Pacific and this is actually in the shade medium pink and this is a 50 SPF compact I've already talked about this I will tell you I have two of these I like this is an expensive product but it also comes with a refill so you get a little little poofy thingy and then you have the cushiony base so this is a cushion SPF foundation sunblock I'm putting it on top and can you I'm gonna have a heck of a time washing my makeup off tonight I like this it's moist it's not drying it lasts on me when I've used this during the day it's last on me all day it's expensive and yes this one's free for me however that's not tainting my opinion because I already reviewed it and I already did a first look at it now I'm just gonna tell you because the questions that come up about sunblock I really like this a lot I like this a lot I will most likely continue to use this unless something better comes along it kind of reminds me of a couple of years ago was using a physician's formula cushion SPF foundation and I used to like that when I dipped it in there that I had a lot of product that I could put on my face the difference between this and that is the physician's formula did not cover nearly as well as this this this is like a really nice solid coverage it'll last on me it doesn't look bad it doesn't get creasy it doesn't get icky looking it actually looks really really good so this is a big win for me so I start with my cheap I also have the Nutrigena clear face and this is a 30 SPF I also have another Nutrigena I like the Nutrigena face SPF so I'm not talking anything for the body that's a whole different story guys but I like the face SPF a lot but this is sort of like when I'm having you know beating around a mountain a bike ride or something like that I just want to put something on and put it right over my makeup and that's what I use but 99% of the time this is every morning in the summertime followed up by spots for the BBB the Shiseido BBB 50 SPF and then touch ups on the road on the go is going to be my color science and my beloved a more Pacific I really like this this I am treating very gently because I don't want it to run out I really really like this a lot and that's all I'm really doing now none of my sunblock would work on my face if it wasn't well lubricated so again I need to start with a nice canvas and then I let everything dry and I put that on now when I'm using the Shiseido BB Sport SPF I don't need any primer I don't use any primer I just put that right on top of my sunblock and it goes really really well the the Shiseido is a lot more expensive than the Australian Gold so the Shiseido is just for those spots that I want additional more coverage or more of a foundation look and the Australian Gold is the all-over for me that's what's really working for me at this point in time I really like it a lot that's my go-to summer protection and yeah I still use Retina y'all summer guys all summer and then I have hats I get all these ball caps that I've been wearing a ton of ball caps I have straw hats so when I'm outside now in the sun if I'm working around the house I'm gonna have a hat on outside I'm doing yard work if I'm at the beach I'm gonna have a straw hat on I'm gonna gravitate to an umbrella there's all those little proactive things that you do to try to protect your skin a little bit when you're out there in the sun and I drink a ton a ton of water I stay totally totally hydrated so that I hope that answers the sunblock questions in the retinae so if you decide that you want to stop using retinae in the summertime that's fine it's up to you but I figure you know what I've been using it for this long and my skin is doing so well I'm not gonna stop using it for three months I'm not now if it's gonna go away to Hawaii for 10 days I wouldn't be using it every night either you know I'm gonna really pay attention and if I'm in a real humid you know climate I might use it a little bit more because the humidity probably feel really good on my skin so that's the scoop guys I hope I answered your questions thank you all so much for supporting my channel I can't believe how many of you have been visiting me here on a regular basis I so appreciate it every single one of you thank you so much oh and don't forget the silk pillowcases check out the link below thanks guys bye