 it's Monica I went to very quickly just I'm gonna start all over again I am sick and tired of saying I'm gonna do it very quickly when I never do so hey guys it's Monica thank you so much for joining me today in my video I am going to share with you a couple of my February favorites now I'm not gonna go into any kind of a great detail on my February favorites because I could go hours you know I mean I have favorite makeup I have favorite skin care I have all sorts of different favorites but what I really wanted to do is shed some love onto some products that I have that I really really love that I may not talk a lot about so I'm gonna talk a little bit about jewelry anyways that wasn't what I was gonna talk about but I had many of you have you're aware of the fact that I was sent some really pretty pieces of jewelry from a company called Julia and they have some diamond look they have a lot of really beautiful stones a lot of beautiful necklaces beautiful bracelets they have a ton of different types of jewelry anyways I was fortunate enough to have received two pieces of their jewelry and this one this is their daisy ring if you can see that they were a little daisy this kind of reminds me of spring they were a little little daisies in there the stones are beautiful they're clear they're bright they hold up really well this one is sort of a very close to my wedding band except I think is a more brilliant but very close to my wedding band I wear this one a lot I I particularly love wearing these pieces when I travel now when Jay and I go away like we went to the cave I just put all my good stuff in a safety deposit box at the bank that is the best way so when I travel I try not to go with my any of my good jewelry but this definitely so I hate to even say that it's a February favorite but because I took it with me down to the cave on my birthday weekend and loved loved loved having them I definitely am gonna call this these pieces one of my favorites in February so the other thing that's a favorite and this is actually a birthday gift and I just have to I just have to share this with you this is these are brushes now a lot of you know that I have some Sigma brushes but other than that I don't really have a lot of it or any high-end brushes the Sigma brushes I don't have that many of them but I really was I really enjoyed using them and really enjoyed having them but most of the brushes I have have not been any kind of high-end brush but this was a birthday gift so my birthday was in February as you all know and this was a joint gift from Simply Sheila and Marlene Fab and Glam on YouTube and I tell you I was I was like me on Tickle Pink when I opened the box and got this I was like oh my gosh I just really could not believe they sent this to me so I've never really had the luxury type ooh I've never really had the luxury type brushes but all these are these are beautiful they're they're beautiful I absolutely love them so that has a definitely in February been a unbelievable favorite of mine the other thing is that I have discovered thanks to my close friend Marlene the some of the dupes for some of these beautiful palettes so I just want to tell you is that sometimes you don't have to spend a fortune to get really nice high-end quality now there are all sorts of different palettes you can get at the drugstore some of them are nice I have a whole stack of drugstore palettes some of the colors look spot on they look really beautiful they look like they would just totally work but then I go to apply it and nothing but powder all over my face and I hate that so the sea color this one is the color three obsessed this is a dupe for my Huda palette that I have that I got as a gift last year so not only have a color spot on but the quality is spot on so these apply just like the Huda palette applies the other one that I have from sea color is feverish and this one talk about gorgeous you want to talk about gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous and cheap cheap money unbelievable then I have some from alter ego temptress I've used this a couple of times you know I do like pops of glitter or pops of shimmer or shine or whatever in my eyes so I've used this a couple of times I really really like this I think these palettes I mean the sea color ones I mean I don't think I think the two of them cost $15 unbelievable the price of these particular products they really are amazing and alter ego also has a really nice eye primer eyelid primer so if you like to put on a primer on your lids that's translucent that really works nice I really like this you cannot beat the price so my palettes that I have discovered through my friends here on YouTube really really have ended up being a favorite this month I really like them a lot and I just have used them over and over and over again the other thing that has been a favorite and I know recently I've talked about these but they've actually been a favorite for quite a while and these are the Alta these are the Alta cream eyeshadow and liner pencils or crayons I like to call them and they're made in Germany and Alta I think the black I use the black most every day I just bought a replacement I use the lilac all the time too if you can see it and the plum one I use a lot this one I don't use as much this is the nude one I don't use it quite as much it is very very nice I don't know if you can actually see that or not but these are like just an amazing value so oftentimes Alta if you have an Alta near you they have these buys where you spend $19 or so on Alta Beauty you get a gift and so I like to really stock up on my Alta stuff I have a couple of eyeliners I have a couple of other Alta Beauty brands that I like I've got a couple of their blushes I haven't found any of their blushes that I would rave about that I would call a favorite but I do have a couple of their blushes and I like them the other thing that I've really enjoyed this month I didn't think I would when I first got it I was like bust but Carol from the old Carol show had raved about this this is the one-to-two perfect selfie she raved about this and I was like thinking hmm I don't know you know I don't know but I got it and you know is it really does it close my pores I don't think it really closes my pores but but it kind of you know like when you're doing selfies or you're doing photos you get a lot sometimes you get flashback or not flashback but you get really heavy shine this is I think really pretty for your perfect selfie so every time I do a selfie I can't give myself a little dose of this before I turn the camera on to myself so this has been a favorite thank you Carol from the old Carol show for sharing this I really do like like this a lot one thing that has been a continuous favorite and it just has to I just have to mention this because often when I talk about skincare and makeup and things like that I kind of forget this and that is my collagen so I have been using and you can use whatever collagen supplement you want but I have been using a collagen supplement since 2016 the one I've been using and at the time when I was really following keto this is the only one that was keto approved back in the day it is not full of all sorts of other stuff it's pure collagen joint care they do have you know this is kosher beef but they do have like a marine version of it we take this all the time so day in and day out we take two scoops every day so I take some in the morning sometimes I mess up at night but I make sure I have my two big scoops every single morning I put it in with my coffee or my tea or I don't really like it in water but I'll mix it in with a protein drink and sometimes in the afternoon I mix it in with my protein drink if I'm having that for lunch this is for me I think this has really helped so much on my skin over the time because before I was using this I used to have very very dry elbows I mean to the point where my elbows would catch on my clothing and it was just really hard it was really awful because sometimes my elbows would bleed sometimes it just be really bad so this has the collagen I think and I've told the story often it was sort of like about maybe two months into the college and when all of a sudden I realized holy mackerel I do not have any bleeding dry elbows so I think if you're going to be taking collagen if you're gonna be doing skin care if you're gonna be doing all this stuff you need to think about taking care of you from the inside out I think that's makes a huge difference and I think collagen it's putting a collagen cream on while it might feel nice isn't gonna really in my opinion sink in quickly or at all so this has been a favorite for my body for my hair for my nails for everything and Jay swears by this as well he takes it every single day now I in my last video I talked about retinase and you know CBD so I'm not gonna go there but I will tell you that I have recently been sent as PR this from City Beauty now I use City Beauty their face masks all the time I happen to love their face masks but I'm not gonna talk about the face masks because those I love and have used and I talk about them often but the under eye recovery this this has been absolutely fantastic what you do every morning just drop my little thing every morning what I've done since I got this after I wash and I tone and sometimes you know it's it's even sometimes before I get under my red light therapy which is a my trophy skin the red light therapy that I do every morning is definitely favorite I use that every morning sometimes at night I just just to lie there five minutes under that light letting that all sink in it's awesome so anyways a little dab I know and I really don't want to put it out it's white creamy I don't want to I don't want to waste it and I just dab it under my eyes oh my gosh I love this and then at night I use the advanced eye cream I use this now many of you know that I have for many years used the the timeless eye serum and that has been my eye cream of choice I love the timeless eye serum but this is replacing it for me I like actually like I never thought I would say that I never thought I would say that I actually like this cream better than my timeless I don't know I don't know whether it's working in conjunction together or whatever but these have definitely been a February favorite I'll let you know how I continue on with them but I was thinking a couple of weeks ago my eye cream was getting low I wanted to order some when timeless had the 50% off sale life got busy hectic crazy I forgot all about it I didn't do it so now this has taken its place I really have really have been enjoying that a whole lot and then my other favorites which I look at that which I definitely want to tell you that I have enjoyed is my Serenity bracelets my lean fab and glam's daughter Stephanie does that has created these in memorandum in memory of her brother and these are just so pretty I love wearing them this is it not my this is a different bracelet but I love wearing these Serenity bracelets the beads are really pretty I just absolutely love wearing them so jewelry yeah yeah and the fact that I'm in my bathroom and it's brown season so you know the snow is starting to melt and it's mud out there and it doesn't look pretty out there but the fact that the snow is starting to melt of course it's still early by the time you see this I think it's gonna be next week I'm not sure but by the time you see this we could have a snowstorm I really don't know but I'd like to so I'm so excited that most of the winter is over and I'm looking forward to spring so spring is definitely one of my favorites when it happens I really love spring so that's it hopefully not too long but just wanted to share a couple of these favorites with you and then tell you that the biggest favorite of all is every single one of you out there that watch my videos all the time or watch most of them all the time because I know everyone I know you can't watch every video that every creator puts on all the time just like I can't as much as I want to watch every video that my friends you know put put out there I try really hard but I know that I can't watch every video that every creator publishes so you know it's difficult at times I appreciate that you spend these moments with me on my channel I appreciate that you visit me all the time you thumbs up and that you leave me comments so you guys you guys have all been my favorites not only for February for the year and I know you'll continue to be so anyways that's it for me thank you so much guys bye bye