 Hey guys, it's Monica. I'm going to do a quick, hopefully, video. And the reason why it's going to be quick is I'm only going to address one thing. So I had posted on a couple of my social sites, you know that tag that's going around the assumption tag. So I thought it'd be kind of fun to do and I did post that. I would love to have some of your questions or assumptions about me and that I would address them. So one of the assumptions that I get often in that I have gotten recently on some of my older YouTube videos and also indirect messages on some of my social sites is about eyelid surgery. So I thought I would tackle that little thorny subject that doesn't seem to want to go away. So at the end of this video, I'm also going to do a giveaway. So I have three bottles of blink. These are all unopened. So I've got like six here. So I'm going to do a giveaway, actually two giveaways to someone who wants to try the eyelash serum to see how it will work for them. I do want to tell you that the expiration dates on this eyelash serum is July of 2019. So if you do win these, you should use them pretty quickly. Although anything that's unopened as far as I'm concerned, for me, I don't mind using it. You know, I've used some of my vitamin C that's beyond an expiration date. I use some of my Retin A that's beyond an expiration date, but I did want to tell you that. So if you're not interested, don't say you would like to try the blink because the rules are very, very clear. You have to be subscribed to the channel before this video went live. You have to thumbs up this video and you have to leave in the comment, please. I'd like to try the blink. You don't even have to use the word please, but I would like to try the blink. Anyway, so three bottles will get you well through July without a doubt. I use this once a day. Every single night I do one drop or I sanitize it as said this before and I put it on just like eyeliner with the little brush that comes with it on both eyes. And so three of these will get you through the amount of time that you need to definitely see a difference with this. So two lucky winners. So now let's tackle that question. Have I had eyelid surgery? Why do my eyes look so much better today than they have in the past if I didn't have surgery? I know you've had surgery. Anyone can tell by looking at you, Retin A does not lift your eyelids the way you're claiming it has. Care roast? That's what's lifted your eyelids. I don't think so. What else? Why don't you just admit that you went under the knife? So anyways, I'm being I'm being I guess kind of fresh by the way I'm wording those questions, but I get those questions all the time. I'm not going to sit here and claim to you that Retin A has lifted my eyelids or claim to you that CareProst and Blink have contributed to lifting my eyelids. I'm going to tell you that for me I know 100% that they have contributed both of them together to lifting my hoods. I have had hooded eyelids all my life, all my life and you can see I'm going to insert some photos in here. You can see some photos of me as a young child, as an adult, as you know growing up, etc. You can see all these photos and over the course of time in almost every single photo, I have hoods. Now you can look at my eyes today and I still have hoods. I'm not sitting here saying to you I don't that I have that my hoods have completely disappeared. That's not the case. I still have hoods on my I mean, I do they still hang down and I'm going to show you a photo that was taken this morning when all I had on my face was mascara. So the first photo here is mascara only because every photo I've ever taken I've had mascara on and then the second photo was a bit later on when I put a little bit more eye when I put some eyeshadow on. Now I'm not an eyeshadow pro. I'm not a makeup expert. I do believe however that a good application of eyeshadow can make your hoods completely look different. You can look at some of the videos that Anisha from Sugarpuff and Fluff has done and others that have given tutorials on how to hide hooded eyes. I haven't mastered that yet although I am trying really hard because I still have hoods. They haven't gone away. Have they gotten significantly better? In my opinion yes. In my opinion yes I now have some landscape on my eyes between my lashes and you know the top part of my eyeball there so you can actually see the lower movable lid that you could never see before because the hood would hang over that lower movable lid so it never mattered whether I had eyeshadow on you couldn't see it. Now you can see it. I don't have a ton of landscape there to play with but I have some. I have more than I ever have had. Is it the retina? Is it the camp roast or the other blank products? Gosh I really I don't know. I suspect so because that was really the only dramatic change. Yes I did some derma rolling but the first change has been from the retina. So I've not had any kind of eyelid surgery. I wouldn't be against it and I think I think for some when it's medically needed insurance will certainly pay for it but if it isn't it's treated like in my opinion would be more like cosmetic type surgery and yeah to me that's not anything that I have on my radar to do. So is this a different you know is this is what you're seeing here on my eyelids because of my retina use because of the bitumapost product that's in care post and blank. There's been studies that say that that does help contribute to lifting. There's been studies that have said retina. I'm going to let you be the judge. The pictures will tell the story. I can honestly just tell you that from my perspective when I apply my makeup, when I do mascara, when I do any kind of eyeshadow it is a completely different process today than it was in 2016. Completely different. Now these photos that you're going to see these were taken mainly to monitor my eyelash journey. At that point in time I never thought I'd be monitoring any kind of a hood lifting journey and so these photos are not designed that for that. They just designed to show you the difference between my eyelashes when I first started to use an eyelash enhancing serum and you can see how my eyelashes have grown dramatically and I have been able to maintain that growth on my eyelashes first from care post then from a blink which is what I've been using this last year right now in February into March. I'm giving all of that a rest and I'm trying the city lash for a month to see what happens. If there's any kind of fallout, if it's going to condition. I'm going to just see how it how my eyelashes react to that but I just wanted to do this video to answer some of your questions that some of the questions that some of the questions that some of you have sent me and it isn't even I mean the people that say this are names I don't even recognize. However because it's asked I thought well yeah it'd be it would be a great thing to talk about in a video. So is it hocus pocus? Is it makeup? That was one of the questions legitimately that one of you asked. Do you really think your your eyes have lifted or is it makeup? So I think this photo here in the morning you can see without the eyeshadow and then right next to it with the eyeshadow. There is a difference with eyeshadow and as I get better with applying it there probably be more of a difference but I don't think it's just makeup. I really don't but I'm going to let you be the judge. You make that decision when you take a look at these photos. So anyways remember if you want to try these if you want to see if your lashes will react like mine I'm going to give two lucky subscribers three unopened little tubes of the Blink Eyelash Serum. This is continental U.S. only. The shipping charges to go to you know Europe and overseas is just astronomical to ship this. It's a difficult process so I do hope you understand. I always feel bad when I have a giveaway that's open only to U.S. only. But again so these are three bottles each. You have to tell me you want to try the Blink in the comments below. I'm not going to respond to any comments. If you have any comments if you have any further questions about eyes or you know if you want to have more of a discussion on eyelid surgery it'll be after I do this drawing. So I'm going to leave the drawing up. I'm not too sure. I think this might go public on Saturday. I'm going to leave it up for a week and then I will draw the name and then I will announce the winner a week from Saturday. I'm not too sure what day that is. But that's the scoop guys. So let me know if you want to give this a whirl. Thanks so much and good luck. Bye guys.