 Hey guys, it's Monica. Thank you so much for joining me. I'm gonna try to do a instead of a quick video because I had oh My gosh, I bought some I Shadow palettes Yeah, I know I said I was gonna be on a low-bye, but if you want to know my thoughts on these Stature Okay, so this is like super Super crazy, right because I did say that it was not gonna buy anything and I was not gonna Do anymore, but then I so I mean I like the stone cold palette from color pop You can see I'm almost embarrassed to show you how kind of grimy it looks because it is well used and I really liked it for You know, I I guess I'm just totally spoiled on palettes. I really like the colors I like the fact that it was cool tones I like the fact that it went on really super light that I could build it up I thought it blended nice Although I thought it was powdery. I thought it was I thought it was really powdery But that was the stone cold fox. I like that went a lot um I would just brush Off the powder residue and I figured okay I love my busy art palettes. I have a number of busy art palettes and I have to say hands down So far out of all the palettes I've ever used those have been my favorites so That said I kind of compare everything to that, you know, I bought like Drugstore, I have a whole stash of drugstore palettes that over the last Three or four years that I've bought that I've like used once or twice and like have them on my chin And sometimes I give them away. It's just like incredible. But anyways I saw the smoke and roses palette and I thought I really like these colors. I don't know if you can see these. I'm sure by now you take that the protective film off I'm sure by now you've probably seen these palettes and seen the colors and all that And I've only worn I've only used this twice So I thought hmm I like the colors just a little bit more of a pop of color than the stone cold one the stone cold one seemed to be a little bit lighter Uh, this had a lot more pinks, which I kind of really like the idea of the pinks compared to the other one Let's see if I can hold them this way again. I'm totally embarrassed by the condition of the one I've been using But it also shows you that it is very powdery So I thought I would really like this. So I bought it. It came with the brush set I haven't even opened up the brush set yet, but it came with the brush set and I also bought the quartz This one I've worn three times. I've used it during courses this week three times. This gives me a very Smoky look, which I think I'm gravitating more towards a smoky eye look I haven't yet ventured into the greens or into the real blues I have done the purples and the mobs and I think the purples and the pinks are my favorite But this this is a really cool palette for me and has given me Some really nice smoky look. So I've used this three times but The smoke and roses I have to tell you it It was one it's probably The first palette when I that I put on That had to wash off I hate to say that because I hate to really be negative because I know Just because it isn't working for me or didn't work for me Doesn't mean it's not going to work for you. It might be perfect for you But I ended up having to wash this off I couldn't get the the first time I tried it. I couldn't get it to blend I couldn't get When I when I got some depth of color and then I tried to blend it. It would blend off So then I decided well, maybe I have to dampen my brush a little bit because it's very very powdery. I mean my cheeks It was just all the powder went down So I dampened my brush a little bit and I tried my second application With a damp brush tried to put the eyeshadow on while you can imagine, right? Yeah, you can imagine it came off Really muddy on me and I was like, oh my gosh I ended up having to wash it off the second time the third time I used a little bit of the base I used a little bit of Uh, some of the the color some of the brown or shade to go into my crease And then I just grabbed my busy up palette and I did my pink and my purple And that's kind of like what I have now. It was a combination of both but I was just really I mean the colors are beautiful and I was so psyched. I'm thinking these colors are gorgeous Everything that I like, you know from a nice neutral, you know all over bone color To the different shades of pink and the and the more darker Docker colors I really like this and you know if I'm going to have a complaint about a palette Why do they have to have so many glimmers and glitters in their palettes? You know shimmers I mean one or two shimmers and then just give me some solid colors But it's like most of the palettes have so many how many shimmers do you need, right? How many I don't need very many. I am too old for that so smoke and roses Now is it bummer that was a disappointment. I actually like the stone cold fox better And maybe because it's a lighter and I didn't have to You know play around with it as much. I don't know but I have been wearing darker. I look so That's been it's just been kind of really crazy really crazy And the quartz the color pop quartz. I really like that. It is powdery though And I know I'm being too fussy too subjective right because I prefer not to have a powdery palette. I prefer to have more of a I don't know my this yeah, it isn't powdery like that. It doesn't go all over my face So I literally had to wash my face So my my face try to clean it up and it was a real bummer when I ended up having to Basically remove it and start all over again So what I have on now is a combination of the of that and My vizier palette and I just use my purple and my darker purple just to try to I don't even I don't even know if it's going to pick up just to try to give a little bit of I'm depth of color so a number of you have asked about My hair buns and my hair wraps and the things that I wear in my hair a lot A lot of these like this curly one I really I mean I like the curly ones this I have to replace this I got this in sallies I don't know how long ago the one I have in my hair is a little bit shorter And I also got that in sallies. I'll turn around so you can see it So you can just see that there's a little bit of curls I don't even know how it looks but I've got a little bit of curls. I've got a clip And that's how I mean I think I and I have this is like my own the shorter hair is coming up on the top of this Is my own my own hair So when I when I put my hair up, I normally put a top or on I have a top or on just to give me some fullness Some depth the one I have on is my john minow easy part eight, which is The perfect amount of coverage for me because I have my own bangs pulled forward my own sides I just need a little bit more volume And I like it because it gives me that volume and it gives me that height It's super easy to put in especially when I'm going to be putting doing my hair in an updo So you can see it's blended in now because It's getting to be that time of year, right? And I have been like playing around with my ponytails I have a couple of different ponytails and the problem with my ponytails is they don't stay in my hair They tend to slide down and I don't remember if I got this one at alta or if I ordered it online, I don't remember I've had it for a while. This is the 18 inch simply straight wrap around pony I want to get a wavy one. Um, but this is an 18 inch and This is in the color buttered toast This is by hairdo and when I ended up doing Because it's a little shorter right now But what I ended up doing was I thinned the heck out of it I probably took half the volume off and I'm not done yet I probably took half the volume off and I want to make it a little bit shorter so that come summertime When I wrap this around my own ponytail and then I you know, you wrap this part of it around and you pan it So it looks like that So when I wrap it around the weight doesn't pull it and slide out of my own skimpy little pony So that especially I like to wear these when I'm wearing a ball cap Right if I have a ball cap I like to have something come off and buttered toast. It isn't the perfect match for me But it's a pretty darn good match So I've had this a number of I don't know maybe three years two years something like that And this is the first time I've tackled cutting it. So what I did is I thinned it with my my my scissors I thinned it And I'm still gonna thin some more I probably took Almost half of the The density off of this. That's how dense it was. I have no idea what the weight was on it at all But I have another one that's a little bit longer. This is a 23 inch. This one you guys have seen me wear But this is the 23 inch and this is in The dipped purple edges you want to talk about fun So this one I'm not going to make shorter because of the dip, you know, the purple edges But oh my gosh now it's ginger blonde and dark purple This I got via the oculine network. I'm remembering it now And I think this is so cute. I wore this a couple of times again I've got a lot of issue with the weight pulling it down But when I put it on and I have it on a ball cap or something like that Or I can clip it secure It'll work. It will work. I love the purple So wanted to just share that with you. I'm not going to be able to really cut that one up But so many of you have been asking when I wear my hair You know when I wear my hair up when I'm you know doing Doing how do I do the ponytails and how do do I do the fake buns? I also have these this set of clipping bangs Which I think Would be really super easy if somebody wants to do an updo And you want it to have you know hair hanging down when it's not clipped in it's just sitting there But I don't want to pull my own. I just did pull my own hair But it has the three little clips and this is this is also I think instant bang buttered Buttered toast. I believe I don't have glasses on But it's true to life fibers. It's hairdo, you know, the fibers are really pretty and it's just a bang So if anyone if you guys if you ladies Looking for something and give you a bang and you've been looking at this and you're going how how much Coverage does it have take a look at that? And you could cut this if you wanted, you know, the bangs are pretty short But you could cut this it does not have a lace run So you can put this behind your own bangs if you want and it does come in a few different colors So I kind of thought that was really cool. I can't remember what I paid for this But it was pretty cheap. It might have been on sale and I and it might have been like maybe $15 or something like that Not expensive at all. So I wanted to share that because you guys often ask About my buns and and since I was doing the project on cutting my ponytail I thought it'd be perfect to show you what my ponytail What I've been doing So getting ready for summer I have to really I'm going to be on a hunt for replacing these two buns because they're getting pretty beat up And I haven't seen them anywhere, but of course, I haven't gone into a Sally's beauty Supply shop in a while and I got these in Sally's and they had the curly ones and Then they had a little bit more of a straighter one. I have two of them and I don't know Which one is You know, which one was the curly or curlier one and which one was just wavy But this you can see the little The little ringlet. So anyways, just wanted to share that with you disappointment in my Disappointment, but this one I think is really nice. I'm kind of liking the quartz But so powdery Just so powdery so Anyway, I wanted to pop in and tell you that and hope you all are having a Wonderful wonderful wonderful day. Talk to you later. Mwah