 I am sharing with you six new skincare products that I've been testing out and really have been impressing me. Let's get into that video right now. Hello, girl friends. Again, I am sharing some really great new skincare to me. I know it's not new on the market. Well, a couple of them are actually quite new on the market, but for me, they just really have impressed me. I am starting to see changes in my skin. Skincare is one of those things that I get excited about because I feel like they have such good ingredients and they really are softening my skin. But you know, skincare is a long-haul process. I liken it to a marathon. It takes a while. It's not going to be happening immediately, especially the retinols. Other things you might see, you know, brightening your skin and helping your skin very quickly, but the retinols, that can be the long haul. And I can show you pictures a long time ago of me when I started my channel up until now and the changes that have come about because of using retinol, peptides, things on my skin that really are the long-term goodies. So one of the skincare companies that I really love is Paula's Choice. And Paula's Choice really dials in to the science behind why certain things are so good. Now this is a mid-range of skincare as far as price goes, but their efficacy or how good they are for your skin is just up there with the highest and most expensive. Now I want to share with you first that I am on Paula's Choice PR list. And I have been for quite a long time and there hasn't been ones that have come to me that I really felt like I wanted to bring to you because I just didn't see that difference in my skin. But recently I have been going, wow. And so here is what they sent me, just these two things. And I've gotten a lot more from them, but there are two things that are really stand out yummy products. The first one is called Paula's Choice Boost. This is a Pro Collagen multi-peptide booster with six times the peptide complex. Now why is that important? When you are talking about retinols and retinol and collagen, first of all, if something says it has collagen in it, the collagen molecule is too big. But what is collagen made up of? It's made up of peptides, amino acids, all those yummy, really good ingredients. And this has six times the peptides in it. Now if you're using retinol, I want you to continue to use your retinol, retinol, whatever you're using, don't stop that no matter what you do, but use this on an opposite day. Use this in the morning. These peptides can penetrate the skin and they can go in and they can boost collagen as well. So this is a wonderful serum and it sinks in really pretty into my skin very, very quickly actually. I have just been really enjoying it. It's one of those ones that I really was impressed with. It's a beautiful product and it really helps to boost all of the other collagen that you're trying to build up in your skin and it doesn't interfere with any other skincare. It doesn't make anything ball up. It's just a beautiful product. I also recently, and this wasn't sent to me and got this just like in a sample kit thing. This is the Derma-E and this is the Ultra Lift DMAE Concentrated Serum, Copper Peptides with Resveratrol and Caca, oh I can't even say that. Caca Duplom, I don't know what Caca Duplom is or what Caca Duplom does. I will probably put that up on the screen as I'm sharing this with you. But what's beautiful about this is the copper peptides in here. The Resveratrol is an antioxidant and we all know that Resveratrol is very good at protecting the heart. What does the same thing to our skin? And like Vitamin C, it is that brightening product, that helpful product that we love to put on our skin because we know we're protecting it from the environment. So that's what Resveratrol does. So we know that collagen is what helps our skin the most, right? It helps really plump up our skin. Loss of collagen is what we're trying to avoid as we age, but you can't use collagen topically, it won't penetrate the skin. But when you break down collagen, it's made of peptides. So if you can use this in conjunction with whatever retinol product you use, you're getting super boost and helping slow down the aging process as much as you can. Now, when I talk about that, I also want to talk about this product right here. My beautiful friend, Penny from Penn Smith Skincare, talked about this nature and product, Retinoldehyde Cream Serum 0.05, a hybrid gel serum emulsion that visibly combats fine lines, uneven tone and texture. So this is an alternative to using your Retin-A. I can't use Trentinoin or Retin-A every night because my skin is so sensitive. And there will be times when I can't use it at all for two weeks. Some things happen, my skin has been triggered and I have to really let that skin calm down. Now, after about a week of letting it calm down and instead of going right back to my Retin-A the next week, I'll use this every day. I do use this on opposite nights that I'm not using the Trentinoin. You can use it with a vitamin C, contrary to everybody's popular opinion and what people say, vitamin C and vitamin A, which is what Retin-A, Trentinoin, Retin-Aldehyde, those are all derivatives of vitamin A and vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin E, they work synergistically to boost each other. When you think about taking a multivitamin, you're taking all those vitamins in your body in hopes that they're going to help. You don't make sure that your vitamin C is separate from your vitamin A. You take them together and they boost each other. That's what vitamins do to each other. This product is quite watery as well, although it looks like a cream. It still runs down my hand, but it sinks in so beautifully. It's not a cream that you use as a last step. It's one that you put on in order to help boost collagen production. Because this is a Retin-Aldehyde, instead of a Retin-Aldehyde, it works faster than that would. This is a great substitution if you can't use Trentinoin or Retin-A at all, the prescription one. This is a great alternative. So keep this in mind if you're somebody that just is like, I can't do that. So yes, this is beautiful. I also love this cleanser that I found from a new to me influencer. She has a huge following on TikTok and she is on YouTube. And I will make sure that I put her picture up here and put her name on the screen because I can't remember anything. But I'll also link her channel. I'm going to talk about three people here today. Penny from Pence Smith Skincare. This gal that I learned about this and my good friend Sherry from Graceful Beauty. I will make sure that all of those channels are listed in the link below because I think that you should be following them. You're going to love them. So this gal, she's talked about the Eminence Organic Skincare from Hungary that's made in Hungary since 1958. Manoy Age Correcting Exfoliating Cleanser. And it says in a natural retinol alternative, normal to dry skin care types. Now, I will tell you that this has little bitty microbeads in it. And those microbeads are, there's not a ton of them in here. So this will not cause irritation either but it gives you a little bit of exfoliation which is fantastic. Because if you're using all those other products that I'm talking about, you're going to get some dry skin that you need to slough off anyway. This does not dry me out. It does not cause irritation. I use it in the morning and I use it with a washcloth and I love it. It has a very herbally smell to it. It's not a smell that has any perfume in it, anything like that. And I'm sure that's because it's a natural product. I actually really enjoy the smell of it. It reminds me of being outside kind of with fresh cut grass, that type of a smell. So it doesn't bother me, it dissipates very quickly plus you're washing it off. If you are very, very sensitive to fragrance, this might not be for you but again, it is all natural so it might be okay. You kind of just have to weigh the difference there for yourself if you do have sensitive skin. I have quite sensitive skin as I'm getting further and further into menopause and this doesn't bother me at all but it does that little bit of exfoliation and I love it. I absolutely love how smooth and beautiful my skin feels after using this in the morning. Now we're talking about exfoliation a little bit and this is where my good friend Sherry, my dear, dear friend Sherry from Graceful Beauty, I watched her talk about this product and she is absolutely sold on it. If you haven't seen that woman, she has the most beautiful skin. I think she just turned 50. I'm not quite sure how old she is but I think she just turned 50 and her skin is incredibly gorgeous. I mean, besides the fact that she takes really good care of it, she's just an incredibly stunning woman and I love watching her because she is no nonsense about skin care. She gets down to the nitty gritty. She's gonna tell you exactly what it's all about and she's gonna give you some fantastic recommendations and she recommended very recently the Dermalect. This is the Self-Esteem Beauty Sleep Serum Glycolic, Salicylic and Elascorbic Acids. These acids are a triple threat and they're so good. They help exfoliate your skin, yes, but they do that exfoliation very gently. They also help to soften your skin and when you wake up in the morning, you are going to be shocked after you use this and take off all that dead skin. You're going to be shocked at how soft your skin feels after using this. Again, this is a serum that sinks in so fast. I was really, really pleased with it. It's quite runny, but serums are and that's great. It really sinks in nicely and it leaves my skin super soft as I'm even using it. So I really have been noticing a difference in how brightening this is for my skin and that's the thing you're also going to notice. Your pores are going to be a little bit diminished. If you're a person that normally doesn't think glycolic acid does anything for them, these other two acids in here are going to help you. I think that you will really love this. I've incorporated this and in the morning, after you use it overnight, it is beautiful. Last product is so great and I got this from Paula's Choice as a PR piece too and again, I get a ton, but when I bring you like one or two like I am right now, you know that they're working for me. So this is the Paula's Choice Skin Smoothing Retinol Body Treatment with anti-oxidants for all skin types. It diminishes the appearance of uneven skin tone, helps provide firmer looking skin and hydrates and softens. All right, here's the deal. Super dry skin girl here. I have extremely super dry skin. I have had that for years. Probably the past 10 years have been the worst for me. As a mid-30s person and early 40s, it was like normal dry skin and I was okay. I wasn't having to put a ton of serums or anything, moisturizer or anything on, but as I've gone through menopause and I live in Utah and we don't necessarily talk about it being a desert, but it really is because the humidity here is almost zero and I'm not kidding. When I talk about it being zero, I'm talking about it being like 5% sometimes, 2% and then turn on your heat during the winter inside your house and boy howdy, your skin will suffer. That's why I have my humidifier over there. I use that humidifier every single night. It's just a lifesaver to have that, but products like this for the skin that's on the body, instead of the skin that's on the face, I have really neglected that through the years and I have found that I have that elephant, crinkly dry skin and it's all over the place. So I'm trying to fix that. Even my hands are super duper dry. This product is helping so much. I'm trying to be very vigilant about using this at least once a day if I'm feeling super dry on my hands and at my arms, I'll use it twice a day. My legs have that scaly alligator looking skin, elephant looking skin. I don't know how else to describe it, but it's that very scaly skin. So this kind of a product is something that I am in love with. So I will use this and actually hang on a second. So I will use this as my kind of serum treatment type thing. Plumps up, it has the retinol in it. It's gonna provide you with that skin toning, plumping everything that you could possibly need to help your skin as a treatment, but you're gonna need something to lock it in. And this is what I use most of the time. It's the Alpha Skin Care. This is a bonus because I just thought, I can't tell you about something you put on your body if you don't lock in the moisture. So this is Alpha Skin Care. This is Renewal Body Lotion with 12% glycolic acid in it. And I wanna tell you that this is really nice, but don't use a ton of it. And if you're somebody that has hot flashes or you're a really hot person, don't use it at night before you go to bed because you're gonna put it on and you're gonna feel like your heat is just locked in because it lacks in moisture like nobody's business. I have been using this for several years. I talked about it on my channel years ago, but here I am talking about it again because I want you to lock in the benefits of this. And this is not a moisturizer, it's just a treatment. So you use this and you're locking it in. But again, like I said, if you use it at night, you're gonna get really hot. I made the mistake of the first time that I used it. I used it all the way up my legs. I used it everywhere. I used it on my back, on my butt. I used it on my arms. I used it on my hands. And that night I had the hardest time sleeping because I was going through menopause and I was having hot flashes. I hadn't gone on any HRT yet and I just really had a hard time that night. But I learned my lesson and I do this in the morning. Now it's part of my morning skincare routine and I just use these two together. Now at night I can use this again because it's that gentle and it's that effective. You can use it again on that skin and you can use a more gentle moisturizer or not quite as thick and holding in that moisture as that one is. But the two together work so good and you're gonna notice that hydration all day and then you're gonna start to notice changes in your skin in the long run because you're using something like this that has the retinol in it. So thank you guys. I just really wanted to be able to bring this to you and show you what I've tried that's new in skincare. Skincare is one of my passions although my channel is mostly about makeup and fashion. Skincare is one of my passions that just makes me so happy and I always love to share with you what I'm doing, what I'm trying and what is really, really working really well. So now you know and I have super beautiful skin on my hands because I put all of those serums and moisturizers on my hands so I'm set for the day. All right everyone, have you tried any new skincare? I would love to hear that from you. You know that I love to hear your suggestions. You guys, I really have found so many things from your suggestions as well. So thank you for that. Oh by the way, if you're new to my channel and you made it this far, thank you so much. And please subscribe because like two-thirds of the people that come to visit me, they aren't subscribed. So if they subscribed, we would have a huge family. We have a great family anyway but we would have a huge family of wonderful women that support each other and I love that. I hope that you're all doing really well. Please come and see me very soon again. Let's go out of here with another video on skincare right here that you can see and probably one that is my full skincare routine. So thank you guys so much for being here with me. I love you very much and we'll talk again very soon. Bye friends.