 Hey guys, it's Monica. I am going to do a sort of a vlog, maybe, but I'm going to talk about some makeup products that I bought, something that was sent to me, which I really like. I went out on a couple of hauls, Ulta, Sephora. Yeah. Yeah, I wasn't a good girl this week. It's on your register. Stay tuned. I think what I'm going to try to do is do a little bit of a, I don't know, this and that type of a video because this is our anniversary week. Jay and I celebrating our 30th year together and I'm so excited. I can't believe we made 30. I can't believe it. I can't believe the time went by so quick. I mean, I remember when we met and I remember our wedding and, you know, in our honeymoon and all the highlights that we've had along the way and the lowlights too. You know what I mean? It hasn't always been pitch and perfect, but 30 years. So yeah, he made reservations for Saturday night. We're going to go out to dinner, early dinner at a place that I absolutely love. So I can't wait, but I mean, also I've been really thinking about diet. I've been really trying to get back on track my low carb. I really, really want to lose some weight. I really had a year of bad weight gain. So I got these chips sent to me that I want to review and I had to hide the last bag because Jay's just been scoffing him up. So I'm going to talk about that maybe a little bit later in the video, but I'm going to share a couple of things that I bought. I went out a couple of halls and I actually got sent something. So the one thing that I want to mention right now is that I get sent this curling flat iron from Irresistible Me. Now I have received a flat iron from them before and it was, it was really nice. It was a black one, a little bit heavier than this one. This is a red one. They, when they said to me, do you want to look at our new flat iron? I said, well, I already have one that I really like. She goes, well, this has been redesigned and it sure has. So what I really like about this is you've got the temperature gauge right there and big, big, big so you can see it. So you can adjust the temperature and then has this like them little, you know, where you can stick your thumb so your thumb doesn't go off the barrel. Anyway, so I've been using this pretty well all week and it's done a great job. It's also really good for if you have hair extensions or hair pieces that are human hair or even, you know, heat defiant hair. It's really good on straightening that. So I have been really liking this twist and twirls. That's pretty, pretty little red color. And yeah, you know, these are not, like when I first looked at it, the original one, I have the original one here actually. It's black, looks a little bit different. But when I first, and there's no, there was no place to put your thumb in this one. So I think the redesign is really much better. When I first looked at them, I thought they're probably real expensive, but you know what they really are. Because the other day I was in Walmart and I was looking at a couple of hair things and a lot of their curling irons and things of that nature, like 30, 35 dollars. And a lot of them didn't have any, you couldn't see the heat. It was not, it was not easy to adjust. So I think this is a great buy. And I'm really pleased with it. I've used it. It's very light, which I like a lot. So I'll give you more of an in-depth look at that. But I did want to mention that because that was sent to me and I just have been using it and really liking it. I'm going to try to do and get ready with me, but I totally stink at those things. But I'm going to try. But I had picked up this Smashbox contour. I struggle with contours because a lot of times the contour will turn orange and muddy looking on me. So I want something that was more of a cooler color. Now you're looking at me at the end of the day, you know, it's nighttime. I've been going all day. I really didn't do much of anything except touch up my lipstick. But this contour I really like. And I love the fact that it has this picture perfect brush. The brush is really, really, you know, the right angle and everything. So I've been doing the contour and I've been just kind of playing with it. And God knows what I'm doing now. But I mean, I think it's really nice. I've touched the highlight a little bit, but not very much, just a little bit. So I purchased that at Ulta. I did an Ulta haul and a couple of other things at Ulta. And then I went nuts in Sephora. So I did, you know, I did the, I think I already shared a lot of this on Instagram, but the Natasha Denona glam palette. This is what I want to try to do and get ready with me. We'll see, or I could actually pull it off. But this I think is really nice. I love these colors. And the amazing thing I've been wearing these and using these, these colors, they blend really nice. They go on really nice. I'm like super shocked. I know this is expensive. And I can't believe I bought it, but I did. And so some people are going to say, I, you know, this time of, you know, how can you be thinking about shopping makeup? Well, I think we have to do what makes us feel good. Makeup makes me feel good. I like wearing makeup. I like playing with makeup. I, and as long as I can afford to buy something or I have an opportunity if something is sent to me, I'm going to latch onto it because it makes me happy. So I bought this and if I don't lose my nerve, I will do it, get ready with me using this. Don't hold your breath. It may never see the light of day, but I'm really impressed with this palette. I also bought another palette, which is the Huda Obsession Purple Haze. Just reminds me of Jimi Hendrix, you know, Purple Haze. So I got that and some lip glosses that I'm really excited about. I don't know if I'll add them on to the end of this, but I just wanted to, you know, really just kind of like say, hey, hey, hey, howdy, howdy, howdy. This is kind of a vlog thing. I'm really kind of excited about the week, you know, 30 years. Granted, I know many people have married a lot longer than that, but for me, 30 years is pretty, I'm pretty big. So I'm really excited about that. Anyways, I'm going to piece together whatever happens the rest of the week. When we go out, I'm going to piece it all together. And then at one point I'm going to talk to you about those keto chips that I got. Oh yeah. Yeah, I really like them. What? What are we doing, honey? You are such an old dude. We're going out for our wedding anniversary dinner. Number 3-0. 30 years. Yeah, unbelievable. Can you believe it? No, I deserve a medal. Yeah, I do. You deserve a medal too. Yeah, I think so. But I think we both, I think, you know, we both compliment each other to a certain degree. Yeah. I love you. I love you too. Happy anniversary. Happy anniversary. Bye guys. Bye guys. Always ruins my lipstick. So we're on our way to our anniversary dinner. Jay is listening to this news report about Tom Brady, you know, our New England Patriots most famous quarterback lover. We all loved him, right? We all love Tom Brady. I mean, he was like an amazing football player. Well, he kind of like sniffed the money game and he went to Tampa, Florida. Right? Yeah, I think he went there because Patriots felt he was past his prime. I didn't think he was past his prime. Oh, he's 43 years old. Does that make me a dirty old woman? Yes, I'm talking about that. Yeah, and so what happened is that the coach from the Tampa, Florida team criticized his performance. In the press. In the press, you know. Which is a no-no. It is a no-no, even for a manager in real state. Just, we don't, we know that. We do not do that. So that anyways, Jay and I are on our way to a, we're having like an early dinner. Yeah, but by the time we'd sit and have a cocktail or advertise, you know, with three cocktails. But anyways, we're on our way. After buying picture frames and coals and waiting in line for 15 minutes because they didn't have any help, even though it seemed like an hour. Took a little detour. We came over here to Salisbury Beach, where we've gone camping in the past, but it's in the state of Massachusetts and due to COVID, this year our reservations were canceled. So Jay took me into the park and drove all along. Right, baby? Yeah. Yeah. While we're waiting to go to the restaurant, we're going to the Seaglass, which is an oceanfront restaurant that I really like. So I have mussels. Jay has one of those oysters, right? Celebrating our 30th here. He's over in the west. Of course, this is Salisbury Beach. Is it a Bob Marley tribute show? What is it a Bob Marley tribute show? Is Bob Marley himself? Yeah. Is he alive? Bob Marley's a comedian. Oh, the comedian. I was thinking the red gay singer, the 30th babe, while it was our 30th, we went out to dinner and we celebrated. We talked about where we would want to spend our golden years. Which are upon us. Almost. But mostly I think the funny thing was that couple next to us saying, can you give us the secret for 30 years? And we kind of looked dumbfounded, what's secret? They looked as old as us. We're like, what can we tell them? But they've only been together a year, I think. Is that what you said? It's either a year or 29. I thought it was a year. No, I wish it was her birthday, so I wish her a happy 29th. She wants a 29. So I can't tell you how many times we've got camping here and walked the beach, but COVID shut us off this year. We had a win. We had 10 days here in June that we had to not come because Massachusetts and COVID canceled us. Is it a beautiful here? Oh, look at the sliver of moon. Jay's pointing to the moon up there. It's a sliver. A sliver. A sliver counts. Sliver. So when you can't go camping, you just yeah, he's just set up a campfire. Look at that. So 63 degrees here in our yard in Hampstead. Crazy week. I thought I would do a little bit more vlogging, but I really did. I'm going to share my birthday present with you and I'm going to share a little bit of my thoughts on diet. So I think I mentioned earlier on or in one of my other videos that I really want to lose some weight that this past year has just been really horrific as far as the weight goes. And I just got totally derailed. I can make all the excuses in the world. I think my excuses are valid, but yeah, some people find comfort in food. Some people find comfort in other things. And I find comfort in food, unfortunately. So anyways, I've recommitted to low carb. I'm not going to do isogenics. I stopped doing that several months ago. I think in the beginning of the COVID phases, I stopped doing it mainly because I was really concerned about the budget, paying for it and all that stuff. And I was really worried that because I was spending a lot of money and I'm thinking if I'm spending all this money just on what I'm eating, you know, I kind of felt kind of guilty. It's like going out on my own for dinner. But I know this sounds kind of weird. Anyways, so I can't go back to Keto. Keto, I 100% believe, contribute to me for some of my hair thinning. And while I can't blame it all on that, I do believe it was a big factor in that. So I am recommitting to a low carb lifestyle. That said, you guys know that we do the built bars. They are just like so. They're such a great snack. They're such a great boost throughout the day. They're low carb. They taste good. I love them. I wanted to show you some of them here but Jay has, he threw out all the wrappers and he threw out the box and he ate them all so I have more on order. But anyways, I love my built bars and I think that they really help get me through those kind of lulls, those low points. But the other thing that I got, which really totally cracked me up, was Quavos. And this is, I mean, I really think this is pretty cool because these are sort of Keto friendly crackers or chips or however you want to call them. But anyways, they sent me a whole box. Probably, gosh, I don't even know. I put them away because I wanted to open them up so I could do a review. I forgot about them. Jay found them. Jay opened them up. He ate them all. I yelled at him on the phone. I said, save me a wrapper. He saved me a wrapper. I went and took this one and hid it. So now, I'll be able to give this to him so he can eat it. He loves these. They have something like four net carbs in most of them. I mean, you can read the ingredients list or the calorie and all that. Carbohydrate count. They're pretty low carb. They're definitely keto friendly. So, in the end, they taste surprisingly good. And the Dill Pickle or La La. I really like that. So, yeah, they reached out and offered to send these. And I said, sure, why not? And I'm really glad I did because I really like them. And I will order them. I will order them. I think they, I think you can get them right on Amazon. I'll link all the information below. But they really taste, they taste really good. You miss the crunch factor and you want something that tastes super good while you're on keto or low carb. I highly recommend them. So, I would check them out at least. The other thing is when we went out to dinner on my birthday and I showed all those clips earlier, I got three pairs of earrings. One is the earrings I have on. I don't know if you can see them. They're kind of like crystal. They're kind of blue and glittery. And I just really like them. I think they're so cute. The others are these. And of course, they're blue too because they kind of remind me of the ocean. You know, and I do love that. So, they're blue and they're sort of like freshwater pearl, blue. And then there's a little blue, clear crystal stone. They're small. They're not like big, big earrings. I wish they were a little bit bigger, but I absolutely love them. And the third pair that I got, freshwater pearl with sort of like a starfish on it. Now, if the starfish had little diamonds, they go to really been like, oh yeah. Because it matches many of you, you know, comment on the necklace I always wear. This was a necklace that was given to me. Little tiny diamonds, a white gold chain. I have to take it off and clean it because I know it looks horrible, but I wear it day in and day out. It was given to me by my mother and I very rarely take it off. So, but these earrings, I know they're hard to see. They're a little longer and I thought they were so, so pretty. Aren't they pretty? I love them. So anyways, that was, that was my birthday present. Three pairs of earrings. Basically, Jay said, get something you'd like honey. So, of course, we were at that gift shop, so I took advantage of it. But I have, I have gone in a little bit of a shopping spree this week. I talked about what I bought in Sephora. I'll tell you, the more I use that Natasha Denona palette, the more I love it. And the Huda, the one that I have is the Huda Beauty Obsession Purple Haze. I haven't dug into it yet, but I, I don't know, it's something about the colors. And then I have a craving for a Dior palette that I saw. I think it was Nisha had reviewed. It was so pretty. Of course, she is beautiful and she does a great job with her eyes, but I do like her eye looks a lot. And that is just so, so pretty. So, I haven't got that in a basket at all. I haven't, you know, pulled the trigger on that, but I am very tempted. And I'm going to do a twern for you because last time I wore this wig, this is, this is sort of a, it's kind of now, if you, you know, it's kind of like a blunt edge cut, which is probably not the best age appropriate look, but I'm going to turn anyways. Now you guys have seen this, I've worn this wig a couple of times. So this is the Raquel Welch Real Deal. I think I've reviewed it. Gosh, I can't remember. I think I have, but I love the fibers on these wigs. And so, you know, this may not necessarily be age appropriate, whatever age appropriate is, because of the blunt edges I've been told, but tough cookies. I actually like this a lot. So this is Raquel Welch and Shady Peppuccino. And I bought this beginning, was it the beginning of the summer? Middle of the summer or something like that. I had, this is one of the wigs I brought with me when I went to Bar Harbor. And I actually filmed it out on the rocks and the wind was blowing. And I think one of you mentioned it looked like my hair was wet, but the wind was blowing and all that stuff, but my hair was not wet. And even if my hair did get wet when you have a wig on, not bad. So anyways, yeah, this is Real Deal Raquel Welch Shady Peppuccino. I don't like it. So, yeah, I know many of you probably don't want to hear about the hauls, but I'm going to show you a couple of things in my next video that I recorded. Just don't know when it's going to go live, but I also don't know when this vlog is going to go live. They don't do well and I really didn't have a whole lot to share. But, so, that's it for now, guys. Thank you so much. I appreciate every single one of you. Please thumbs up the video. Please leave me a comment. And if you haven't, please subscribe. It would help me out so, so very much. Thank you, guys.