 Good morning, I'm Mary Ellen from the channel Mary Ellen after 60 and first of all, I want to thank you all so much for the birthday wishes. I am thrilled to be 67 years old because I know a whole lot of people didn't have that pleasure and I really am very appreciative. Today, I'm going to be answering some questions that I got on my last video. I'm going to be announcing the winners of my the Timeless Skincare and the Skin Diva and if I have time, I'm going to put a one of my vintage quilts at the end. I've got all of them filmed. When I was getting ready to film this video, I was looking at old videos because I got a lot of questions and I wanted to have some photos. I noticed that on some of my old videos that it says paid promotion or there were non-skippable ads. If you ever see that number one, I have never been paid anything to do a video and I've never put in an ad that was not skippable. So if you ever see that and you have the time to leave a comment, just please do and I'll go in there and change it. I don't know what has happened, but I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know. You should always be able to skip any of the ads on my videos and I've again, I've never been paid to do a video. You know, there is absolutely no right way or wrong way Well, I'm sure there's wrong ways, but everybody's skin care is individualized to that person. So the only thing that I can share is what works for me and how I corrected some of the issues. I worked in the hospital for over 30 years and there weren't very many things that every doctor agreed upon. In fact, back in the day, they would have something called standing orders. So every doctor in the hospital, if their patient couldn't sleep, had a temp, you know, had all these, you could just go to these orders and every doctor had something different they wanted. Some doctors didn't want the fevers treated until they hit 102. Some doctors wanted a certain sleep med. I mean, it's really hard to get anyone in health care to agree 100% on anything. And I think that's important to say because not everybody agrees on absolutely anything. The only thing that I use that there is science-based research is retinate and there is a plethora of information on the benefits of retinate. Some people can use it. Some people can't. And everything else that I used would be more be considered like antidotal or evidence-based and you know, when I use something and it does well for me, I'm the evidence, but it's not scientifically researched. I think that's important for you to know. I have never had any type of procedure. I had a lot of questions about my eyelids and I I've never had anything done. Not that I wouldn't have. If it would, if everything that was available now would have been available in my late 40s, mid 50s, I mean, I was 55, 12 years ago. And let me tell you, Botox and Fillers weren't talked about at least in my little southern Illinois town, but I probably would have considered it then. I will never say never, but I cannot see myself ever having anything done. It's almost kind of like a challenge to me just to do what I do at home and to see how long I can have my skin look as good as it can for as long as it can. So that that answers your question. No, I've never had anything done with the exception of what I do here at home. The number one question, how did I get my hoods to to recede to come up to have more eyelid space? And I'm going to link a video up here and below on how I apply my retinae. I do not put retinae on my eyelids. I do not put retinae close to my eyes. If you don't want to watch that video, I will just share with you what I think helped because this was the only thing that I did for that year. And I'm going to put a photo up here of me before I started and me after one year. And yeah, I do look older than I did after one year, but I am five years older than I was. And it really took to the one year mark that I really could see a difference. I use a very small amount of retinae and I use it Monday through Saturday. My skin has adapted well. I put it here all over my forehead. I put it here and I bring it down to my eyebrows. And the only thing that I can think of and I don't know if it makes sense or not, I think it definitely helped the wrinkles on my forehead, but also retinae builds collagen. I think the tightening of my forehead lifted my hoods and it gave me more lead space. That is the only thing I can think of. I don't think there's anything else. I don't and I also don't do facial exercises, but I might one of these days or you know, yoga, facial yoga, but that may be something I might end up doing, but we'll just see. But that is what helped my hoods. And I think like I said, it was about a year before I could see them actually lifting. I was asked about what gadgets and devices I use. The only thing I use consistently is that red light therapy for my lips and I do it for three minutes in the morning, every morning, just because it's easy. I think lead, I think there are so many great gadgets, appliances out there that anything with electrical stimulation, I cannot use. I do still use my Clarisonic. I use that probably twice a week and I don't know what I'm going to do when I can't find any more brush heads. I have two more, but I think it's I really have enjoyed the Clarisonic and it still works. I got so many questions about consistency and I will tell you I am excellent at night because all I do at night, everybody cleanses their face and I do that late afternoon and then all I do is I put on my retin A Monday, Monday through Saturday and on Monday, Wednesday and Friday I use my Grande Brow and my Grande Lash and then I go to bed and that's when I put on my hydrating eye cream under my eyes and on my eyelids and I mean it doesn't get easier than that. So I think I have been 100% compliant doing my evening skincare and on Sunday that's when I derma roll so I don't use retin A that night. As far as the morning goes, I'm going to guess six out of seven days I do my whole routine possibly one to two days. You know, I always use my Miracle Water in the morning. I love it. I use my Argyraline, the One Drop. I use that every morning and then I use the Bye Bye Under Eye Eye Brightening Cream. So after I've done those steps, I'm already dressed. I go into the living room in the kitchen and six out of seven times I will put on my Vitamin C Serum and that's in my refrigerator and a couple a day or two a week I may skip the rest. I may not even get back in here but most of the time I come back and I finish. So I would say I'm five and three-quarter days a week in the morning I do all my skincare. So and when it comes to derma rolling I have missed one week and that's it and and I just didn't want to do it. There was no reason I was kind of sick and tired of being in. I thought by George I don't have to do the derma rolling and I didn't. So I did skip a week but it's since I do it on Sunday it's just a routine that I got into so that's how compliant I am. How did my another question was how did my 11's get better? Two things I think it's a Rett and A and the other thing is derma rolling. They have gotten better. I used to have some deep lines here and here that are gone. My forehead lines don't bother me a bit but you know I am derma rolling my whole face now. I had several questions from people who could not use Rett and A and what I would suggest there's a lot of people that have had some good results on different and that can be purchased at a drugstore or on Amazon. I've never used it. It used to be a prescription drug but it isn't any longer and you may want to do a little bit of research on that and I don't know much about retinols anymore at all. I used them. I started my skincare. I first started using skincare when I was 57. I used the philosophy skincare line. I used their retinols for a good three years and I think that's when my skin adapted really well to Rett and A and I got a lot of questions on moving up in strength. In the United States Rett and A or the generic name is Tretinoin that it's a prescription. So after I was using the 0.05 for a good long time I talked to my doctor. I talked about going up to the 0.1% and that's what I'm on now and I asked him I said I don't want to double it right away. I said what do you think of of me mixing it going ahead and getting the prescription for the 0.1% and mixing with the 0.05. Well I always keep glass bottles and in fact I bought some and these are I think 15 ml's which is a half an ounce. So I put my 0.05 Rett and A in here and I added just a little bit of the 0.1 and I used my little stainless steel dental tool and I mixed it up so I didn't fill this up by any means. I probably it was probably about three weeks to a month's worth and I just mixed it up really well and I shut the lid and I used from this after three to four weeks when it was empty I washed it again and then I added more of the 0.1% in this jar and I used it and it took me about a year to build up to the 0.1% Rett and A. So if I were you I would ask my doctor because anytime when you go from the 0.025 to the 0.05 you're doubling the strength. The key to be able to use it Rett and A is not to have bad reactions and that really did help me. Okay this next question I got quite a bit and this is going to this is very hard for me to answer. It's how often do I replace my derma rollers. The most important thing on derma rollers is to clean them well and not to hit the needle on any container. When I replace my derma roller I put so carefully in there. I clean my derma roller after use and you can use denture. I have never done it but I spray it thoroughly with alcohol and then I carefully place it in its container so none of the needles get dull. Basically what I do is I replace it by the feel. My 0.5 millimeter I just use it once a month and for a long time I only used it like here you know the certain areas that I used it on and mine lasted 12 months but it was only taking about three minutes to do my face before I started doing the whole thing you know and and I felt comfortable with that. It's a personal choice you know even though I'm doing my whole face I'm doing it in less than five minutes so what I kind of think about some people have like a 15 minute routine on their face now that I'm doing it all over my face I may replace them more but you can tell you can tell how sharp it is how it feels on your face and you know you you will know very quickly if your needles have become dull. You go by the directions that come with whatever device you use whatever derma roller you use but just make sure it is clean. I had quite a few questions on the timeless vitamin c plus e plus frulic acid it's now in a pump they did have some problems with it in the beginning and a lot of the pumps leaked but they've changed they have they've taken care of that but I'm not going to put mine in the freezer. I don't I think that you know I have never had any problems freezing my vitamin c but I think in the container that it's in I wouldn't even try because I think it might bust and skin diva is going to continue using the glass dropper bottle so you know I put their ingredients are pretty well well they are identical and that's something else that you ask about if you have a product that is working for you but you want to see if you can find something a little less expensive you know like if there's 20 ingredients in it just type in on your computer like the first 10 ingredients and search and a lot of times you'll find some things that have the same ingredients that your skin likes so I hope I answered your questions I will leave some videos below and I'll try to indicate what time something starts that you might be interested in I'll put them in the cards however they work I'm not sure how that is and if this is my second vintage quilt that I'm showing and I just put this over my bed upstairs and it's some sort of a four-star quilt this was made by my mother-in-law and to my best knowledge it was in the 1950s each of the squares has 17 different pieces there's a close up of the squares and she just used fabric that she had on hand she was quite a seamstress and that's the backside of the quilt it's all hand quilted and hand bound I roll my quilts and I re-roll them about every six months and I keep them in a closet with the door shut and now I want to announce the winners of my giveaway and I had one winner from Skendiva and the winner will receive a derma roller of their choice the size that they want they will receive their vitamin c plus e plus ferulic acid and then you'll have your choice of either the Argyraline or the Matrixle 3000 so there's going to be a total of three products from Skendiva and the winner of the Skendiva products is C. Ocasio congratulations C and I have two winners of the timeless beauty box and that has a vitamin c plus e plus ferulic acid hyaluronic acid Matrixle 3000 the hydrating eye cream and the squalane and the winners are Steph Hilt congratulations Steph and Nova Norman congratulations Nova timeless and Skendiva provided these gifts for you all you need to do is leave a comment below and I'll let you know how to get in touch with me I was going to put on a full face of makeup today all I did was powder I put powder on my eyelids I put on lipstick and blush I just can't get into doing a full face of makeup I can't and this is just real life and I appreciate you coming along with me in my real life it is all good I want you all to take care and I will see you in my next video I'm six years older but like anything with radioactive belt it okay I think I pretty well do that red so what I did anyway