 How are you guys doing? This is gonna be a different type of chitchat video. I am going to be just basically doing a year-end review. You guys see my Christmas 90? I got this from Walmart. Y'all already know. I know some of y'all have it too. We're gonna be doing this while kind of sort of flat ironing my hair. It's already straight but I'm gonna do so a little bit more straightening into it but we're gonna kind of do this like a chitchat but like I said it's gonna be more of a year-end review. More so of my personal life. Things to expect for new for next year the new year on my channel and I'm gonna open up the floor from suggestions for you guys to keep in mind. I know I say this a lot but unless you in case you are new to my channel I no longer do product reviews for lines that are relatively new and believe you me girl there are several lines that I'm interested in but if it is a line that I'm familiar with which is a lot. I have reviewed a lot of products so everything from small businesses to the bigger brands that are you guys I'm gonna take all my hair down to show you what it looks like that I'm gonna pin it back up. I know let me get me a drink of wine girl. Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate Christmas. Shalom. Happy Hanukkah. Happy Kwanzaa. Happy Yom Kempore. I think that's still Jewish girl. I'm gonna take all this hair down you guys. I'm gonna put it back up. My hair has been straightened out for a hot minute but not no longer than a week. Look at that. Real pretty. Real soft. And so I to avoid any type of build-up or anything like that. I don't use a lot on my hair. I use the Garnier Fugtis. It's like this anti-frizz serum just a little bit and then I use the Chi silk infusion just a little bit. So we're gonna run a comb through her. Very very healthy. I have some gray as you can see. There is some gray coming through there. So yeah this is my hair. This is what the back looks like. I kind of did some short search and destroy but I need a trim. I was hoping that my aunt would trim my hair but she's afraid of all my hair. She's afraid of all my hair. My Aunt Gladys. So she won't do it. I'm like okay Aunt Gladys. Let's put this all back up girl. All right y'all and then once I'm done kind of straighten out my hair I'm gonna put on a cute little dress and then go in the living room and sit down. We ain't going nowhere girl. Look the way that this new COVID is going around but besides that the flu this year is no freaking joke. I mean my mama is actually getting over COVID right now. Bless her heart. My daddy texted me a couple of days ago to say that they had went to the ER because she had a hard time breathing. She's doing a lot better. With that being said even my mama said that the nurse was like you better be glad you don't have the flu because the flu this season is no joke at all y'all. No joke. So all right I'm just combing it through a little bit more. Yeah I need to get those ants together. Look at that. All body. All body. All right. Oh y'all so let's just go ahead and get into this personal life. We are in the middle of winter wonderland. It is cold as hell. It is our first our first winter here in Texas and I'm loving it. I was raised here. I was born actually in Ohio. Just born there. Immediately came here like two years later but I was raised here in Texas so I am familiar with the weather. By the way I'm doing one pass since it's already straightened. I'm not chasing it because I'm not trying to get it bonus straight. You understand what I'm saying. Anyway so girl a couple of days ago it was freezing temperatures like 14 16 degrees and we decided to spend a couple of days in Dallas at the Amato and we had to leave our faucets dripping and we took off the precautions necessary to make sure that those pipes don't burst right. Girl what's going on? Okay right here. So I know those of you who were on the East Coast and up north some I'm pretty sure you had some crazy weather. Y'all this light is kind of flickering. You see that? Yeah you can probably see that. Hold on y'all. Just making sure that we have everything that we need so that we don't be cold. I'm one of those type of moms that I shop in the off seasons. So I make sure that JB had all of his little jackets and coats and uniforms and stuff for school. I did all of it in the summertime. Okay and so yeah so we were prepared. So anyway you guys just real quick a year in a review. You know this year has been such a whirlwind. A lot of highs and lows. A lot of surprises. Of course the biggest thing is finally moving to Texas. So I have been bothering my husband every now and then while we were in Phoenix about moving back to Texas. I never liked living in Phoenix. I found that Phoenix is great if you are Phoenix is great if you have family there if you have friends there. If you're relatively young in your career and you're just looking for a change but I would not make that my permanent home again unless all my family is there. I also found it very trying raising a black child in Phoenix due to the demographics and it's primarily Hispanic and white. There are several times where and let me let me just say this I'm used to being the only one in the room sometimes just due to the type of work I'm doing but for my child to be in that was very very eye-opening and I'm not just saying the only one in the classroom I'm seeing the only one in the entire grade that was half everyone there was mixed with black JV was the only one there that was like you know and so and he experienced unfortunately his first bout of racism in a school there was a child that basically said give us his first grade a black kids aren't allowed on the playground besides that we did have a great time you know with my career and being able to travel being so close to California being close to Vegas being close to Sedona we really did enjoy that he always told me that no he's not he doesn't want to move back and so the whole thing was you know let's let's think about the area and so we both decided on Farny at the end of the day and we worked fairly fast to get everything together to get all our ducks in a row and actually one of you called it I went back and looked at me and caught me as moving back I went back then was looking at a couple of videos and one of you was basically like I don't know who you were I do apologize but basically since you were like are you sure your husband isn't getting the house ready to be sold he was but his ass didn't tell me cuz you know I'm driving crazy but he was but you know so funny we did a lot to the house you guys a lot to that house everything from having it painted inside outside see me inside outside we had new carpet new floors new the bathrooms both of the bathrooms are remodeled and y'all know the fiasco we had with that we had marble put down in the front with that being said and and solar panels which was a big mistake with that being said the number one thing that really would have helped and it was something that I had talked to my husband about was having the kitchen redone yeah the kitchen was a big one or even having the outside redone another big surprise is I'm not really surprised but with it being for me I thought it would be better I knew that Dallas had a problem did I did I SD has a problem because I know so many people that live here and actually I know quite a few people that home school here in Texas or in Dallas but anyway this child is interrupting me we thought that for me maybe a little bit better not taking into consideration that a lot of people moved here from Frank and Dallas a lot of people moved here from like mosquito something's flaking up child a lot of people moved here from California and so when I tell you this little public school right next to us was so full of it I didn't tell y'all this another teacher not another parent said that in her kids class there was a child in there how should I say it making sexual noises and by the was funny and the other kids were laughing they were using the n-word back and forth and we don't talk like that in our household you guys we just don't we ended up finding a great private school for JB he absolutely love it he's gonna be there for the next year and a half until fourth grade and then he's going to be moving to a charter school and in fate which is right next to Heath not bad at all besides that I ended up finally getting a promotion you guys when I told you this promotion had been long time coming and I was waiting waiting waiting for it to happen and it finally happened I have no idea what the monetary doubt or what the increase in salary it's gonna be because they haven't told me isn't that something look at that anything I need to trim my ends you see that right there needs to go where's my scissors like seriously I would do this my scissors went around but oh well um so yeah got a promotion gained a new skill set so yeah that's personal like year in review as far as my channel now it's very very clear to me and I know I'm not the only one my views her so ridiculously low like this is the lowest they have been the entire time I've been a youtuber my view counts are down by 20,000 20,000 over 20,000 like almost 25,000 and I know most people come to my channel for hair related videos I get that I understand I really do my camera has decided not to work it stopped working when was it like gosh off it on it actually has stopped working last year off and on I'm a basically long story doesn't read memory cards now for some reason it just stopped reading records so I've been recording on my phone the thing is also sometimes I forget especially with my when I'm vlogging I forget to take my phone or just not necessarily take it but to pull up my phone and love I'm just been forgetting which is you know all on me so I'm just gonna have to suck it up and buy another camera you guys it is what it is not to say that I think that's going to increase my views but I think that that will help my channel to stay steady to keep steady you know what I mean so I'll get another camera like at the beginning of the year or so as far as hair related videos there are some video reviews that I still have left to do for the rest of the for the I'm not gonna be able to get it to this year but I still have left to do I have that cream of nature marshmallow root I need to do and I think one of the reasons why my views are low is that I've been telling you guys that reviews are coming and I haven't been doing them I know you guys I've just the only thing I could say I just really busy I've been really busy with personal life I really have so but they are coming another idea I have as far as hair related videos and this is something that I had put out in the atmosphere I'm a couple of years ago I want to recreate some African hairstyles but I want to do it in a tasteful way like there are a couple of hairstyles there's one from the Falani women there's one from I believe they are in Madagascar and I think that Rihanna actually we did one of those hairstyles from Madagascar it looks a little difficult to do but I think I can pull it off there's at least three or four African inspired hairstyles that I want to do I want to recreate I should say that it also I want to start doing more wash day videos but I want to focus on entire collections you know what I mean so like as I am a wash day all right let me take this hair down and let me run some cheat through it so see it just gave me a little that's it girl okay come on girl alright that's actually a little bit too much okay that's a little bit too much so let's bring it down so now what I'm gonna do I know you're gonna be like what because I gotta finish talking to y'all and I'm going to do a lip okay so yeah but let me know what y'all thinking but like I said African inspired hair related videos and more wash day videos look at that health and sheen that's really what I want to do but you know I know I'm not the only one whose views are low true crime looking at that the socialite TV that's who I was gonna talk about before whose views are when her kids I came across actually one of her videos came up as a suggestion and I used to watch the videos when I used to watch that channel primarily I'm gonna do my lip when her kids the babies which are not babies anymore about six years old five or six years old as really read they are so adorable still would that being said her views are ridiculously low when those kids were baby babies she was getting over 10,000 10,000 views now she's getting a thousand two thousand here now I'm gonna deepen that and the way to deepen I'm one that always mixes lipsticks and to a way to deepen that is I'm gonna add a burgundy or a purple on top to deepen the red so yeah watch a little bit of socialite Sandy girl there are a couple of free movies on YouTube also and there are certain movies that I don't care to watch a second time hotel will wander is one of them just because the boy in the strike pajama was another one heredity I watched heredity it was because it's free on YouTube right now I watched it and it's another thing when I watched it it is a totally different version of the one that I originally saw that's a little too dark I didn't mean for it to be that dark so that's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna wipe that off and then I'm gonna go in with I guess I'll use this so I'm guess that's okay I don't know sorry that's the lip yeah that's cute so okay heredity yeah that's one of them that this is only the second time I've seen it no no no I've seen clips but this is the second time I've seen the entire movie and it is different like the one shocking scene they didn't show everything and the one that's on YouTube also that ending of this one is different and of the one on YouTube sorry y'all just right here just went out child there's a couple of free movies on there's a couple of free movies on YouTube there's another one I'm gonna watch called the host besides that I went ahead and purchased all black and all black is exactly what it says although you know what's on all black that show with what is her name she was the god what is her name the babies name they're in the south honey months and what is that sugar muffin honey bear honey boo boo honey boo boo that show in June is her mother in June has lost a lot of weight she had surgery she had lost a lot of weight their show is on all black which I think is interesting but there is another series that I'm starting to watch on YouTube through all black called Tara Lake Drive Tara Tara I can't talk like try check it out looks good all right I want to know who little TV Netflix okay I know girl one of you guys had recommended Kendrick let me tell you something I'm one that really can't get into the trauma I guess you could call it like almost like trauma porn I can't do the slave movies too much you guys like I've seen Django Unchained as another one I've seen it once now my husband will watch it multiple times in here getting my nurse I can't watch slave type of it I understand that it's based on a book excuse me it's based on a book and it's a really good book I can't do it like I I've only watched Beloved once because I can't I can't do it I can't do the slave type of movies and I thought there was someone that in it it corrected me if I'm wrong so yeah thank you for recommending it but I just can't do it I did watch this Christmas which I've seen over and I just I thought I would be more so into Christmas movies now that is Christmas ain't we ain't we crazy now watch my as me into Christmas movies come August I'm gonna try to sort from some but anyway I watched this Christmas but I didn't watch any more else I'm anywhere else I didn't watch any other Christmas movie I watched a movie with Richard Greer here the Thomas Cronk not Richard Greer no no it's Pierce Bronson but anyway I watched the Thomas Cronk affair I love Pierce Bronson he is such he has so much sex appeal I actually followed him on Instagram and he still has it you guys and I love that he is so smitten with his wife but I really do like the Thomas Cronk affair he was 46 in that movie yes y'all but speaking of Richard Greer somebody has said something about him being nude and jiggaloo I haven't seen jiggaloo I think that was a little past my time so I looked up the new scene cuz I'm grown and I can do that and I was like he was like it's rare that a man is frontal nude in a movie oh Richard Greer was frontal nude anyway I'm talking about Richard Greer in his package I'm sorry y'all anyway Netflix I rewatch I think this was on Netflix I rewatched the remake of Rebecca I love Rebecca we read it in school is one of the classics I saw the original and black and white girl was it even in color I don't even remember so I watched the remake it was good but it does not hold a candle to the original Rebecca I'm sorry it doesn't I'm watching this series I am a killer you know it's very interesting to look at the point of view of the actual killer and then in the series I am a killer they often time they focus on the person that's did you know the heinous murder because that's why it's called I am a killer but they also interview detectives and if they can the person's family so it's really interesting I like to watch I am a killer for child that was one of the last one I couldn't even finish you he was like he basically was like I have no regrets the one I did they need to let my ass out but I have no he literally said that like I'm maybe three ain't got shit else to do I'm not a threat but in the same time I have no regrets I'm like oh you know you're asking me now you're gonna sit there for a long time sir you are not getting out sorry I'm I've started to watch the watcher looks very interesting and the watcher is based on a true thing although I honestly think the watcher I think it's an inside job like almost I think that the family is in on it we'll see but I'm watching this series I started to watch Uma was Sandra old Sandra old Uma which means Mama in Korean there's another series that's on Netflix called glass onion and it has what is his name Edward Norton and the latest 007 it has the singer Janelle Monet is that her name it has her it's just like an all-out cast and glass onion is a murder mystery which I'm digging I like that type of stuff so I'm I like this like y'all let me finish with my hair while y'all on the line I'm gonna do a vintage of do if you don't know by now my style is because this is just who I am my style I didn't even wear like pants I wore skirts dresses I I dressed in a very vintage 19 I would say late 1950s to early 60s that's how I dressed I remember even when I was in school now it's weird when you're a child because you're thinking okay what's wrong with this child it's only it's cute to adults but the other kids they're like what the hell is she doing but I've always been this way so when I was in I don't know what grade I was in but I had this dress no it was a skirt that was layered and it seriously had layers and it had a peppy coat and I would wear it to school and I would I had these lace gloves that I would wear with it and I will walk around and my mama would let me wear it cuz she's like do you baby the teachers ate it up anyway what I'm not trying to say so my my style has always been this retro look so for a while there even in high school I wore only dresses I remember one time this guy asked me he's like he's very religious I said no why he's like because you always wear dresses so I know so this is my hairstyle very retro right cute let me put my dress on you guys okay all right you guys I'm not trying to flash you anything let me show you that you guys have seen this dress before I did a spring haul of dresses I got online and so this is a dress the sun it goes all the way it's so yeah it has these I guess you call these bells please that is it you guys thank you so much for watching thank you as always so all the way to service take care 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