 Hi guys, it's Monica. Thank you so much for joining me. I am going to be doing the second part of the collab I did last Saturday with Natalie the beauty diva and Julia's be beauty. I'm going to link both their channels below. I know by now I think anyone that watches me certainly knows who Natalie is and maybe you're just discovering Julia but please I encourage you to hop on over to their videos. Tell them I sent you if you've not been there before but hop on over to their videos, watch their videos, leave them a comment. Both of them are absolutely beautiful beautiful ladies. Natalie has been on YouTube for quite a while and she has I think inspired so many content creators and so many of her subscribers and people that have watched her channel have been inspired by her to kind of stretch out of their boundaries when it comes to makeup and try to do some really beautiful eye looks like she does and her skin is like porcelain. She is absolutely beautiful. Totally amazing. I love love love Natalie. I've known her for a number of years and Julia what can I say about Julia? Julia is just a sweetheart. She is Romanian. She is a makeup enthusiast. She knows all about makeup. She does a ton of product reviews, skincare, makeup, all sorts of different product reviews and she shares the glimpse of her life with us on her on her channel. So she's also an IT manager which always intrigues me when I want to pick her brain. I want to say hey can you help me? But anyways we had decided to do this collab. This was Nat's collab, Natalie's collab and this is the best of 2021. So last week we did foundations and we did you know foundation and contour and blush. This week it is eyes, cheeks and lips. So if you're interested stay tuned. Okay oh my gosh. So eyes, cheeks and lips. Alrighty. So for me I'm gonna start with eyes because that's probably where I have the most products is with eyes. I I love eyes. I mean I love having you know eyelashes. I love expressing myself with my eye makeup and in all of that but I I'm not good at it. I am not at all good at it. I have been learning. I have been teaching myself and over the course of time watching videos that of women my age or close to my age that have put on makeup. I have very very hooded eyes so it's been an experiment in progress. My hoods have lifted dramatically since I started using Retin A but they still need a lot of help. I need to contour my lids. I need to really play with shadows to make my eyes somewhat big. I don't wear false eyelashes at all. So I'm gonna start with mascara because that's usually the first thing I put on when I put on my makeup. So my high-end mascara I am all out of it. I don't have one here to show you. It was in an empties quite a while ago. I decided not to repurchase right now because I have enough mascara to get me through and I just don't want to have a whole lot. So my high-end has always been the It's Superhero and I also love the Lancome. Both It's Superhero and the Lancome the the mascara is beautiful and I love them and I have neither one of those here to share with you but that would be my high-end. Both of those especially the It's Superhero has never let me down. It makes my lashes look big. It holds up to tears. It holds up to all sorts of weather conditions. However, drugstore, since I discovered the Essence Lash Princess and this is the one in purple. I currently have two because I actually have one in my pocketbook that I found. But since I discovered the Essence Lash Princess in purple, I felt no need to go high-end. None at all. As much as I love my It's Superhero, as much as I love my Lancome, I don't like the price. And for this typically at $4.99, five bucks, you know $5.99 depending on maybe where you live. I just you cannot you cannot beat this mascara as far as I'm concerned. It stays on, it doesn't flake. And if I have to throw it out after a month, who cares? It was five bucks, right? It was five bucks. So this is my go-to. I have tried a number of other drugstore mascaras including the Sky High and I have an unopened tuba Sky High as well. But the Sky High when that came out, it was almost impossible to get. I would look for it. I could never find it. Maybelline came out with it. Everyone was doing these awesome reviews. I've got my hands on it. I reviewed it. I loved it. But this still beat it. I liner of choice has to be 100% and this would be high-end. This is the Urban Decay. I absolutely love the 24-7 glide-on pencils. They're super soft so you go through them quick because they are so soft like they can break easy or they can wear down easy because they're soft. So I don't sharpen them a lot. And I make sure that I have a very light touch. Some eyeliners you have to go heavy, right? So you need to know on this it's a light touch. I have a number of different shades on this that I like. I think Smoke is my all-time favorite and I usually top it up with Rockstar and then or one of the other really dark ones. So I start with Smoke. I do my eyeshadow and then I end up with probably Rockstar or Demolition. Anything on that when I'm doing Urban Decay. I also love very much the NYX pencils. I have a number of the NYX pencils. Again I like the soft pencil. I don't like the hard dry pencil. I like the glide on, sort of a gel. I don't want it to tug on my eyes. I want it to go smooth. I love these pencils. So hands-on NYX, Urban Decay for high-end NYX and I have to mention Rimmel because scandalize I use their black. It's sort of like the really thin little tip and it's like the black little tip. Sometimes it's a felt. Sometimes it's a little tiny brush depending on which one I get. I like the Rimmel and I have to scandalize and I usually just buy black in that. So very very inexpensive and what I use the liners. The other thing that I use from NYX and also from Rimmel is I do have their, what do you call them there? It's sort of like their crayons, their their color pencils and I have a white one and I have this really pretty pink one and the Rimmel one I have is pink as well too. I don't remember the exact color on this one but it's just this tiny shiny pink and I put that on. I don't know if we can even see it. I will put that on sometimes in near the center of my eyes just to just for a pop right? Like if Jay and I might be going out to dinner right and I might come home from work and I might look up my eyes and go I need a pop right? My Rimmel and I just kind of like the scandalize this NYX I'm sorry and I also have the Rimmel but I will just put that on in the center of my eye and it kind of gives me a glow. That's all I can say is a glow. So I really really like that. One is the Lorac Pro palette and the other is going to be the Mac. I like the Mac a lot. Again this is a palette I can almost do a full look with. Not quite. The fallout is very minimum. Now with this Mac palette on me it comes it has its its color intensive for me right? Because I I like lighter colors that I can build up. I don't I don't want to put it on and go mmm and take it off right? I want to be able to build up. So this I have to remember to go very very light because it comes on heavier but the fallout is minimum. I don't have a whole lot of fallout. I love Mac products so Mac yeah I like that one. The other one I like an awful lot but this has fallout for me is the Lorac Pro matte. And what I like about this is all Mac shades. There's not a stick of glimmer or glitz in here. These are your basic in my opinion sort of cool warm combo palette where you have a linen shade. You have a bare shade so you've got the shades to go all around your your whole lid to do your brow and then you've got the darker colors to really give you some dramatic pitch. A little bit of a fallout on this so again if fallout is a concern that's something you'll always need to have a little brush with to brush off. So that brings me to I have a number of Huda palettes and I really really like my Huda palettes. Huda I have oh my gosh sometimes I have a high time opening it up. You can see I probably gravitate towards a lot of the purple shades. I love these all the different purples. You can see one broke. I have a replacement already. It was shipped this way from Sephora when I got it was it altered one of them. It was broken they replaced it so I have another one unopened. The problem with this is that I can't this is not a one-eye look for me. I have to have another palette or another shade. I need to have that light color for the all over. I can't just use that. And then I have the mauve obsessions which I really like a lot. And that has more of an all over color but then the problem for me is that the rest of the shades are a bit too dark. And I like I like to go from light to medium to dark. Not to light to dark. And then I have the khaki. And this is probably the one that I've hardly ever used. But I'm only showing I do like Huda a lot. But my all-time all-time favorite palette is still going to be my Viziat Amethyst. I love this palette and this is just beautiful. I can create a whole look with this even though this is a little bit darker for the all-around brow look. I can still create a whole palette. I actually popped these out and put this in a Z palette with a couple of dark browns from Viziat. Viziat to me is going to be the palette that I know is never going to let me down. Right? It's I have no fallout. The color payoff is awesome. I love it. And I have I have probably three or four different Viziat palettes. But this one the Amethyst one is my favorite. I had gone through mine. I was talking about how I couldn't find another one. And Mary Glitzy Fritzy sent me this complimentary, sent me this as a gift. I was so surprised. She wasn't using it and that just goes to show you. You know we all have different skin types. We all have different things that we like. One palette works for me. May not work for somebody else. And that brings me to Stone Cold Colourpop. I'm almost embarrassed to open this because it is it's that paper packaging. So it's hard to keep clean. And I have used this galore. I have used this. So this has probably too many colors for me. But I could grab this and not need anything else. I have a couple of shades of light that I can choose for for the brow. I have some shades for my crease to darken my crease to make my eyes pop. I have plenty of shades I can pick for the outer V. I love this. So yeah. And this one was actually a birthday gift from Maline Fab & Glam. I'm pretty sure it was a birthday gift from Maline Fab & Glam. So I love this palette. It brings us to lippies. I don't know what time it's getting to be. But holy mackerel. It's probably gonna be super long. I have, I'm gonna be the first to admit that I don't have the best lips. I don't like dark lipstick on me. I put it on. I feel old. You know that's just how I feel. So my lips are thin. My lips are crooked. I have a lot of issues with my lips. My husband likes to kiss them though. So that's okay. But anyways. So I don't have a whole lot of lip liners. What I use 99% of the time is, I hate to admit it, I contour my lips with my eyeshadow palette. I take my eyeshadow palette a little tiny fine brush and I contour my lips using a lighter shade in that palette. So if it's my Visiad palette, I go to that medium like you know rosy color shade and I go up and around. And I that's that's what I use 99% of the time. The rest of the time I use Avon Glimmer Sticks. I've used and had these Glimmer Sticks for years. I like Perfect Plum. That's my color of choice. I have several of them. I buy them when they're on sale. They're like dirt cheap. Sorry, no high-end. But if I'm not using an eyeshadow palette or if I start out with an eyeshadow palette and then it whizz off and I'm retouching my lips this is you know what I have in my bag and put this on and then I'll put my lipstick on. But my lipsticks hmm I it's very difficult for me because again I don't like red on me. So my favorite lipstick my favorite lipstick is going to be and I can't I see this. Well my favorite lipstick is going to be actually 450 and this is Romantic Rose and you can see I have hardly any of this left. This is the lipstick I wear nearly every single day. I'll line my lips with my eyeshadow palette. I will put this on. Sometimes I I'll use a darker Becca lipstick. I'll list this one. This is about the darkest lipstick I own that I will wear and 99% of the time I feel that's too dark for me. You guys probably go oh she's crazy it's not too dark. But these are the two that I wear the most and then I have color the world. I would say color the world hands down and my favorite almost out of this one. Love this shade I'll list these below. I don't have my glasses so I can't read the names but I do love these. Oh my gosh look at my hands you know I love these. So I have these lippies that I really love and then for my lip gloss I absolutely love my Sephora and I have two shades and Sephora that I use all the time. I love this. Oh my gosh I hope I didn't hope I didn't mess it up. But my Sephora I love these two lip glosses. I used to get a hard candy. I used to get Rimmel. I used to get a bunch of different lip glosses but this is my favorite and then more recently I was sent from Octoly some lip glosses that I absolutely love from Clarins and the one that I read the most is this app is this clear one. I love it. So yeah I love it and I also have a Moch Japix. This is a really pretty gloss. I'm layering like crazy. A really pretty gloss. I love it. Oh I'm sure I forgot something right but I'm sure this is a super long video so I'm gonna stop here. Okay thank you guys for watching and please go visit both Natalie and Julia and watch their videos and leave me a comment below. Let me know if you use any of these products that I've talked about. I think this is such a fun collab and we're doing our third one. Our third and final will be next week and I'm really excited about that because that's a drugstore so yeah. Anyways guys thank you so much for watching and be sure to leave a comment. Thumbs up the video if you're new to my channel. Make sure you subscribe and ring that little bell. I would truly appreciate it. Bye guys.