 Hey guys, it's Monica. I'm going to do a quick update on my hand anti-aging endeavor and I'm going to announce the winner of my Blink eyelash serum giveaway that I did in a previous video. One of you won three bottles of Blink and I'm telling you whenever I do a giveaway or a contest and the person that wins is someone that has repeatedly commented and supported. It makes me feel really good when I recognize a thing so that's like super super awesome. So I'm going to announce that at the end but before I go there I want to talk a little bit about my hands. In the summertime in August I was approached by a company that sent me an email about you know having old-looking hands, how your hands age you and all that stuff which I totally agree because my hands age me and my neck and my upper lip. Those are my three aging difficult parts, guess for a lack of a better way. So difficult parts, yes hands definitely age you. Now I have done a lot of things to try to take better care of my skin and all that as many of you know. One of the things that I really think has made a huge huge difference in me and I think will make a difference in anyone that does it is since January of 2016 I've been using a collagen powder. I use a pure collagen powder it's not mixed with anything else there's many many different collagen powders out there many of them have different ingredients but I wanted the collagen to be 100% I wanted it to be the biggest part of what I was using. So I have been using Great Lakes collagen and I'll link that below for you guys but I've been using that since January of 2016 and I really believe I've always believed that you take care of your body from the inside out that if you feed your body collagen if you feed you for your body fuel you will feel better you will look better all around. So you know good food good nutrition not that I'm an expert in that but I do feel that taking that internal collagen supplement has really helped not only my skin on my face but my skin on my hands certainly my joints my mobility it's really helped an awful lot has it been a miracle for my hair no has it helped my hair yeah has it made my nails stronger yes so I mean I'm a firm believer in a good solid collagen supplement so that said I've been doing that type of a treatment since January of 2016 so I feel that my hands have slowly improved over time as has my skin because my typical habit is whatever skincare I'm putting on my face what's left over goes on my hands it's always been that way you know so it's something that I've done so when hand MD reached out to me and they reached out to many other youtubers too because I've I've watched a couple of review videos on the product so when they reached out to me they said this is an eight week program and what you do is you take a pump in on one side of the morning and you and you just like this I'm going to take the pump put it like this and you just put your hands together and you rub and you rub it nice and gently and then you can go like this too but I usually just take the you know the two bottoms of my hands and I just put it together then you take the second container it's a dual chamber container and this is sort of like a hand lotion I really love how this feels I mean this feels really awesome on my hands now I love the ingredients it is a retinol it's got antioxidants it's got hyaluronic acid acid in hyaluronic acid it it says it is a daily dual repair hand MD so they sent this to me for review I started the end of August now I am not an expert photographer I did four pictures which I'm going to insert shortly but I took before pictures when I started in August I took them in my kitchen with the only lighting was my kitchen light coming in in August the light in the morning was a lot brighter than it was in October so when I did the comparison photos in the end of October it was fall and the light was was not as bright but it was still in my kitchen I tried to duplicate my pose as much as I could so here it is when I started the end of August and you can see the first group of photos and then it's going to go to the end of October and it's going to have a couple of different poses I'm going to like you be the judge because this is not an inexpensive product so I still have some left I'm you know I I probably could have gone heavier on it but I did one pump I did not do more than one pump while I was going through the treatment I like how my hands feel and I'm not I mean I have some age spots you know they didn't go away does say that it will diminish the age spots after time it'll make your wrinkles look less I think my hands look okay for my age they're not the best they could get better I like how they how this feels when I put this on I like I liked how it felt a lot but will I buy it I'm not sure you know you be the judge and whether you think there's enough of a difference to kind of warrant the price so again if my hands were worse there might have been a more noticeable difference than what I got but as you can see from these photos there's not much of a difference on the photos however in real life I do like how my hands look and I don't know if it's going to even be picked up on the video camera at all but I do like how my hands look in real life so I wanted to share that with you the results after eight weeks I was trying to get this video up but before this but I've just been so crazy I went I've been to Boston I had a convention I was just going all over the place so it's like really nutty so now when I stop using this I might see a difference I'm not too sure because many of you know that for the longest time in fact I gave this away as a giveaway Nevea Nevea Nevea I think is the right way to say it so I've been using this for the longest time on my fat pockets like you know right on the fat pockets in my eyes it's the only place I use it I don't use it here I don't use it here I just would dab a little bit on and then just put it on my fat pocket and it seemed to after a while shrink my fat pocket but then I also knew they stopped making it I also knew I couldn't get it I had a backup which I gave away in a giveaway and about that same time I started to stop using it I wanted to see you know if there would be a difference and I stopped using it for almost three months and I kind of I kind of never even gave it a thought and then one day I was looking at myself and I went ugh I could see my it seemed like my fat pocket was like especially this one eye was a lot worse than it had been before and so I was like looking really careful and I said son of a gun my fat pockets were coming back so I went right back to my my uh navia and I put it on and I started to use it again so um I have no idea where I'm going from here with it because it is discontinued they're not selling it I don't know if you can get any I'm not going to pay um a hundred dollars for it but I just want to tell you I am back using it I did notice a difference when I stopped using it after a while and I will probably maybe notice something when I stop using this I I don't know the other thing I just wanted to update you on is my um living proof perfect hair day body builder I have mentioned this in a couple of videos I really like it I've already bought a second bottle this so when I do my own hair and I keep it down this really helps an awful lot with my hair and right now qvc has a great sale on it and they actually have a payment you know you can do five easy pay and all that I'll link it below where you get the the travel size and you get the full size I think for twenty nine dollars or something like that which is pretty cheap because the travel size is like 18 bucks it's not cheap to begin with if you go into alta so I really love this guys I really really do and I want to update you on the hand MD I like it a lot I mean it just my hands feel really really good with it but you know I don't know if there's been a dramatic difference at least not on my hands so I think that's really about it I just wanted to come in and tell you that I also wanted to share with you the winner of my uplink eyelash serum and I'm going to include that video in a second or so so that you can see and I just want to say thank you all so much because I'm coming upon 8000 subscribers now I'm not there yet I still have a ways to go but that's sort of my next little goal on is my eight to bring it up to 8000 I could not have gotten there without you every single one of you that have supported me that have subscribed that have rung that little bell that have left comments or likes every single one of you have made that possible for me and I just truly truly appreciate all of you I do have a goal after 8000 I'm not too sure if I'm gonna make that one but I can't believe I'm gonna be had 8000 pretty soon that's like wow for me so yeah so that's my update I think I'm gonna do a vlog video and share some of my Boston trip because it was it's been a hectic couple of weeks so Boston was wonderful and just a really cool city so that's it I'm gonna insert my winner clip and I will talk with you all later thank you all so much for all your support bye have a wonderful day I just love using this random picker what you do is you put the youtube URL in and then you say find a winner and then it goes through it at 226 unique users and now I'm gonna select a winner and who's it gonna be Lynn wow awesome so Lynn please reach out to me let me know your mailing information and I will send you your blink