 Hey guys, it's Monica. Thank you so much for joining me. I am so far behind. I'm like so far behind. I had, I had, I shot a video while we were on vacation from Barhaber for my cell phone and I had explained that I had lost some footage and all that. So anyways, I haven't reshot that footage that I lost which was my plan when I came home. But when I came home, I had another adventure and waiting for me. So I'm gonna share some new products, a little bit of my adventure, a little bit of my vacation. If you're interested, stay tuned. So Jay and I came home from Barhaber on Tuesday and for some reason I thought I had a company event on Wednesday morning and the company event was way up in the mountains, the white mountains of New Hampshire. So when I came home Tuesday, I did a little bit of laundry. I packed my bag with some business clothes and I planned to leave super early because it's a two and a half hour ride to where I was going. I couldn't sleep of course. So three o'clock I got up and I said, okay, I'll stay up because I was afraid if I fell asleep I'd oversleep. So by five o'clock I left the house with my overnight bag and I decided I was gonna go to my office in London Dairy and do a couple of things there and then be on the road by 5.30 so I could get up there in time for the breakfast and the meetings that we were going to be doing. And so I did that. I lugged my bag into the resort that we were gonna be staying in. It was just me, Jay, I stayed home but the resort that the event was held at and it was a company event and I walked up to the desk and I said, I'm here for the Varani event this morning. Can you please direct me to the crystal ballroom? And she said, oh, she said, there's no event today and I'm like, that's impossible. There has to be an event today. She was, no, I'm so sorry there is no event today but let me double check. So she went and double checked and in the interim I opened up my email and I'm looking through my agenda and I look at it and I go, oh my gosh, it was the next day. It was the Thursday morning, not Wednesday morning and I was like, oh no, I drove two and a half hours. So I made a decision to just drive back to Londonderry, try to find a place to stay for Wednesday night because I didn't wanna go home and repeat the two and a half hour ride. So I drove about an hour and a half to two hours to Londonderry, worked, found a place to stay closer to the event and turned around and did the trip again. But I couldn't believe it. It was the butt of the joke at the meeting because I made a joke of it, I was so excited to see while it came a day early but I will never do that again, unbelievable. And so that was sort of like my misadventure that I actually misread that whole thing on my email and arrived for this event and then this was a beautiful event. It was held in a gorgeous resort area. I'm gonna superimpose some pictures as I talk and this was just some pictures I took outside at the resort area. This is in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and it's called Mountain View Grand and there was really a mountain view all around. It's just beautiful, way up there in the mountains and we had the most amazing sunset so I'm gonna include a couple of those pictures here. But it was a wonderful event and then I came home and I said, oh my gosh, you know, it's been humid, it's been hot, I'm behind on everything so I figured today I would try to shoot this video that I'm going to work on the others. But what I wanted to share with you, one thing that is like really exciting is that, and this is actually gonna be a launch and from City Beauty and for a short period of time I actually have a discount code for you where you can get 30% off but it has to be during the launch which is August 19th to August 24th only. So if you're interested in this product, definitely check it out. This is a lid lifting treatment. So when I was approached by City Beauty to review this and most of you know I do use a lot of City Beauty products. I love their eye cream. I love their neck firming oil that it's used consistently. I just think it makes a big difference on my neck and a number of others, they have lipsticks, they have all sorts of different products but anyway, so I use a lot of City Beauty products but when they reached out to me about a lid lifting treatment, I was intrigued because I have very crepey eyelids and I have droopy eyelids and over the course of time, if you look at some of my earlier pictures or videos my eyes are definitely way, way more droopy than they are today and I'm often asked if I've had any kind of surgical procedure which I haven't but people always wanna believe that anyways. So I've used Retin-A closer to my brow bone and I've used other treatments and all that. So when I got approached about this particular product I was all over it. I'm gonna link all the information below but it really, really sounds intriguing and I thought I'm gonna put my glasses on and read some of this for you. I thought this sounded really good. It has a number of really good ingredients which I can never pronounce but the way you are supposed to put it on and it says that it will, the results have been pretty good that you tap it on. It's a tiny, tiny product. It's not inexpensive but with the 30% off coupon I think it is well worth trying if you have crepey eyelids. Now I started to use this while I was camping because I got it before we went away and it's white, it's thick and you just put a little bead on your ring finger and you tap it on, that's what I did. Tap it on and then you do it again on the other eye and I don't know if you're supposed to do it this way but this is the way I did. I just let it set. I didn't do anything else. It says you can use this as an eyelid primer. Absolutely did not and this is crucial for me because so many, I don't use eyelid primers because so many eyelid primers interfere with the application of my eyeshadow. It'll make my eyeshadow harder to blend. It'll make it just more difficult. This did not interfere with my eyeshadow whatsoever so I put it on and I just let it sit there very, very nicely. Let it dry, tapped it in and I, one thing that I noticed and this is gonna be hard for anyone to visualize but one thing that I noticed is when I was applying my eyeshadow because I tapped it on, it didn't rub it in but when I was applying my eyeshadow I felt my lids did not move around as much. I definitely felt a little bit of a firming of my lids when I was applying my eyeshadow. Now I would let it sit. I'd put it on, tap it on after I've cleaned my skin and I just would let it sit before I applied anything else. So maybe five minutes, maybe 10 minutes depending on what I was doing but I noticed that the normal application of my eyeshadow where the crepiness, and my lids are still crepy, don't get me wrong, this hasn't cured them but I noticed that the normal application of the eyeshadow and the crepiness of my eyelids moving all around was diminished, greatly diminished on the application. Now you can use it twice a day. I've so far only used it once a day when I apply. I haven't used it at night but I'm gonna continue to use this. I'm super impressed so far with the difference that I'm seeing in my lid. Just like I am super impressed with the neck oil and when I first started using the altered firming dry oil for my neck, I liked how my neck felt but I didn't visually see a difference. Now I believe I'm starting to see a difference in how my neck skin feels, reacts, it looks, I think, more supple. So I'm gonna treat this, this lid lifting treatment plan. I'm gonna do it the same way as my neck oil because right out of the chute, I'm seeing a difference without a doubt and I am liking the difference that I'm seeing. I think this is pretty cool but I'm gonna keep it up. But I wanted you guys to have a chance if any of you want to order it, I'm gonna link the information below. The ingredients are awesome and like I said, a big test for me. I can apply my eyeshadow without an issue using this and that's pretty well unusual and that was also the thing that I was super afraid of. So it is white, you just put a little bit of a bead on the tip of your ring finger and you just tap it in. It dissipates, it looks clear, you don't see anything sitting on your eye but I can feel a firmness in my upper, you know, in my droopy lids, in my crepey eyelids. It also says it'll give you a smoothing effect and I think that is definitely happening. Is it long-term? Is it gonna continue? Is it temporary? I, right now I'm gonna say, I believe it's temporary. I haven't used it long enough to be able to say long-term that there would be any difference but the reviews are really great. People that have been using it, what they have seen, the results they've seen have been really, really great. So I'm super impressed. Take advantage of the launch. City Beauty Lid Lifting Treatment, 30% off. Lift 30, I think is the coupon. I'll leave it all below and I'll leave all the information so you can check it out. While I was away, I used a new and I'll superimpose some photos but I used a new sort of daily moisturizer. Now, I was camping, I was outside a lot. I didn't vlog the trip as far as having a lot of videos or anything of that nature but it was super active vacation, super active. I was outside in the wind, in the sun and I wore a lot of sun hats and I wore a lot of sunblock. We were right on the edge of the ocean. Check out some of the views. I'm gonna superimpose this video so you can see. The views are beautiful. The location is beautiful and we spent every day outside. We're in a camper so we're not gonna be inside. And one of the things that I really, really like is from MD Solar Science and this is their daily perfecting moisturizer and it's an SPF of 30. And I will tell you that this really made my skin feel good. It was moisturizing. It had broad spectrum protection. It's full of antioxidants. It has ingredients that are really awesome. It was developed by a dermatologist during develop, they say, and highly recommended. So what I did is after I did my skincare in the morning and I would do my normal skincare and my skin would dry, I would load my face up with this. It is a moisturizer and then I waited and I waited maybe half hour or so before I put my first, if I did, any kind of makeup, foundation. Now while I was away, I had the one foundation that I used all the time, which is the, I used my Estee Lauder. I brought that because I was trying to work my way through it. I would put that on and it played super, super, super nice because this is a moisturizer. I have dry skin, so for me, this was awesome. This was sent to me complimentary from the Octoling Network from MD Solar Sciences. I also had talked about their eye cream that I received that I really like. They've been a ton of products. Who knew? I never really heard of them until I requested their eye cream because I'm always, always looking for eye creams. I'm always trying to experiment with eye creams and I saw that on Octoling. I said, let me grab it. I've already reviewed it in a previous video. I love it. I brought that with me as well. And then when I saw this as an offering, I said I'm gonna give it a shot and they sent it to me. This is awesome. So it's only a 30 SPF, but it comes out white, right? But it also dissipates into your skin and it just feels so moisturized. It feels so good. No beating. No peeling up of your foundation underneath it. I really like it. Key ingredients is chamomile seaweed extract, niacinamide, and even caffeine, which it says helps the appearance of brightness and promotes a more even type of complexion or look. So antioxidant, vitamin C, rosehip grape, rosemary green tea extracts. It does not clog the pores. It's natural lavender essence, reef safe, animal test-free, vegan. So a whole bunch of benefits to this. I really like it. Again, sent to me complimentary via the Octoling Network, via and from SD Solar Sciences. This is a brand to keep your eyes on guys because the products are super, super good. So I really like that. Now, while I was away, I had a number of you reach out and say, because I was posting some pictures on Instagram. I was posting some of my pictures on my Facebook and a lot of you kind of follow me on Instagram and we're connected on Facebook. Well, I am probably a sunblock, a sunblock fanatic. So I'm always using sunblock and I'm always using when I'm outside, sun hats and visors. So I use a lot. I have a lot of visors that I wear. I have full sun hats that I wear, especially if I'm gonna be, say, beaching it for the day. But if I'm gonna out and about and we're gonna explore a Katie or we're doing this or that, I tend to go for more of visor. I have a number of visors and a number of you have asked about these visors. You've seen me wear this one. You've seen me wear this one. This is probably my favorite color of all. It is just a super, super cute. This is called Wall-A-Roo. These are washable. These are comfortable. They're adjustable. They just give a super, super protection. Now, on the website, this particular company, Wall-A-Roo says that their hat is basically, I don't know if they use the phrase sun safe, but it has sun protection or shade protection. I love these. You know, when you wear a visor and you get the metal in it, sometimes they're just really uncomfortable. These are so comfortable you forget they're on. I'm gonna link the information below, but I'll tell you the first two I bought were there was in a store called Remi's in Maine. I don't know if you have Remi's anywhere, but that's where I got them and they were $24. I got this one and I got this one because I love this color. And I wanted a black one, right? And so I looked on Amazon. I looked on the company's website and I bought the black one on Amazon. So in Remi's, they were $24 a piece. They offer some sun protection. I can't tell you for sure if this is SPF of anything, but they do offer some sun or shade protection. So I ordered the black one. And $31 on Amazon, 24 at Remi's same company. I think you can also look it up and find out, you know, on their website. I think they're the same price as Amazon. Then I also wear these. These I will definitely link. These are in my Amazon store straw, wider brim. So you have more protection. This is a more narrower brim. So if you're like shopping, this is really comfortable for shopping or anything like that with these wider brim hats, sometimes block your vision. And while they're awesome to be outside lying at, you know, or at the beach, they're sometimes harder if you're gonna be, you know, in a store or something like that. But I got these on Amazon. And I think the straw, this is 50 SPF protection. So this is definitely a sun protection hat. And I think this was like $17.99 or something like that. And I also bought this one, which is a 50 SPF as well. And this one is, was $20. But these are comfortable, but again, they're the wider brim. So if I'm taking a walk at the beach and all of that, I'll wear a full hat with a full brim or I'll make sure I have a lot of sunblock on my neck. But if I'm sitting around at the beach, whatever one of these visors do perfect for me, I also have one, this one I've worn an awful lot. This is also a 50 SPF. So you guys have seen me wear that one, but I wear a lot of visors. And all of these visors I've purchased, I have a number of hats that I've purchased. These companies don't know I exist. I have these, which I think some of you saw last year that I bought. I bought these in a gift store in Maine, and these are 50 SPF as well. I've not been able to find these on Amazon, but this is sun, sun and sand headwear. Sun and sand, not and, but sun and sand. I love these visors. 50 SPF, I've worn these a number of times. These are probably my favorite, favorite one. So these are sort of like a little, you know, a little hat show, a little hat show, but yeah. So I am a firm believer in covering up. And I'm gonna, while I'm talking to you, I'm gonna superimpose some of my vacation shots. My kids came up, one of my sons came up and my granddaughter came up and they stayed with us in the motor home. And that was so, so super special. We had a blast together. And then we also hung around with our friends and we discovered this one area in Acadia or sort of in Hancock outside of Acadia, an area where there's a fall and or a natural falls or whatever. And we found a picnic area there. It was just really nice. And depending on the tide, you can go there and you can spend a day. They had beautiful, you know, beautiful views. It was just, it was just amazing. We absolutely love the coast of Maine. So vacation was awesome. Totally protected with the visors that I've bought. And if you, if you like this type of the visor, Wallaroo, I love this. I think this is really a great option. Again, I'm not gonna tell you this is going to give you any SPF. It says it is sun, there's sun protection, but it is not listing it. So I suspect it's the sun protection is the shading that you might get and not necessarily any kind of an SPF, but I don't care. I think these look cute. These are super stylish in my opinion and super comfortable. And again, $24 at Remy's 31 on Amazon. For me, they were well worth it because I do wear a lot of visors and hacks and all that to add to my glowing, growing collection. As Jay says, you know, he thinks I just have way, way too many, way too many. And he's probably correct. So it's been super hot here, but I wanted to share some of the hats because you asked me about them. Where am I getting them more kind? So I'm gonna link the information for my hats, my visors, I should say below. And of course, the lid lifting that I'm doing, which I really like. I'm really super impressed with the lid lifting treatment. Again, that's not going to be available with that discount except for a few days. So I wanted to get this up for you guys so you could go ahead and, and if you're interested in trying, you'd give it a try. I think it's 30% off. I think it's like $60 some odd dollars regularly. From what I'm seeing so far, I like it. Now, again, everyone's skin is different. I get that, but for me, this has been really good. And the same thing with the MD Solar Silence is this moisturizer plays wonderful on my skin. As did the eye cream. So they went with me while I was camping. We had a fantastic time. I was super careful with my eye, you know, because I have the ongoing dry eye issue. I brought my heated iPad with me. So I put that on at night and plug it in and it's on a timer. That was absolutely a lifesaver. I brought my eye drops with me. I did super well. The only one time that I had a difficult day was when we were in a car ride I was in the backseat and everyone had the windows down. The wind just blew on my eye and really bothered me. And one night I was too close to the fire but I just moved myself back from the fire pit and was able to handle it just fine. So I know this is super long. What my plan is after this video is to record or try to record my skincare update which is the footage I lost. I don't know if I'm going to record the magical marriage one. I might, I might re-record that one. I was just in the right frame of mind when I talked about how to, you know, how to keep your magic, your marriage magical. It's probably silly, but maybe there was a reason why I lost that footage, you get it? I mean, at least that's what I'm saying. There's a message there. But anyway, so just wanted to say, hey, I'm back. I'm going to be trying to get back to my twice a week videos. We'll see how I do and I appreciate all of you. Every single one of you have been fantastic. Thank you for all your messages. Thank you for all your questions and thank you for your support. 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