I need to remind you guys to enter our giveaway for Monster Hunter Rise or $2.20 on the Nintendo Switch or PlayStation or Xbox gift cards are down to the description for that. Hey everyone, welcome back to another news collaboration. I am here to bring you the news of video game stuff. Lots of big stories, lots of stuff to get there. I get all these notes and of course we're starting out with the NPD report. That's right. More sales data. Yesterday we talked about the sales update in Japan. Today we have the full sales data for the month of February in the United States. First off, consumer spending has reached a record $4.5 billion for the month of February, which is a 35% increase over last year. Hardware sales themselves went up 121% to 406 million year over year. The most spent on hardware period in the United States for February since the 468 million spent in February of 2011. I think you guys can go back then and realize why that happened. The Switch topped the charts in both units and dollar sales for the month. That's right. Switch is a number one. It was the highest dollar and unit sales of any platform in February since the Nintendo Wii in 2009. The Switch and it's technically part of its fifth year. The Switch has started its fifth year. Technically this was part of the fourth year, but it's killing it. It's killing it. It's doing 2009 Wii numbers. Lifetime dollar sales for the Switch has now passed the Nintendo DS, making Switch Nintendo's second best-selling platform and US-tracked history just behind Wii. Overall, Switch is the seventh best-selling hardware platform in US history. Yes folks, Sony and Xbox have been that big in the US that despite the Switch's mega sales it's only at number seven. But you know what? There's still what? According to Furukawa, another three, another four, another five years to go it's going to keep climbing and climbing and climbing. All right, setting the side switch. The PlayStation 5 was the second best-selling hardware for the month in both unit and dollar sales. Also PlayStation 5 is the fastest selling hardware platform in US history in terms of dollar sales after four months. So not the best fastest selling unit sales, which I think that record is still held by Switch. But it is the fastest in dollar sales, which the Switch previously also held that record. But again, PlayStation 5 has a digital version at $400 and the big fat version at $5, so it's a more expensive platform. The only other system Sony's launched at that $500 price point or higher was back with PlayStation 3 and we all know that that did not do so hot out the gate. So, hey, this is really good news for Sony. PlayStation 5 is flying off store shelves and continues to fly off store shelves and they're making at least money-wise a lot of money. Don't know if they're actually using money per unit sold. Sony tends to do that sometimes, but let's get into more sales data here. 3D World and plus Bowser's Fury was the best selling game in February, even without digital sales. Remember, digital sales are not tracked by the MPD. That is insane. It's also the second best-selling game year to date. What's interesting is when this game debuted seven years ago, it didn't even crack the top 10 and here it is at number one. Wow, what a difference a new generation of systems can make. IndieDarling Little Nightmares 2 was the fifth best-selling game on Xbox and the tenth best-selling on PlayStation. Also, I think the original Little Nightmares ended up selling, or Little Nightmares 2, I guess they announced it sold over a million units or something like that. Woo! That's awesome news. You usually don't see indie games cracking the sales charts very often, so this is great for Little Nightmares 2. There's so much data here. So first, let's look at Xbox 2021. It's top-selling 10 games in February. We're Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War at number one, Madden NFL. Some news on Madden coming up here too. At number two, Assassin's Creed Valhalla at number three, Call of Duty. Two Call of Duty games in the top five. Call of Duty Modern Warfare at number four, Little Nightmares at number five, as we mentioned before. Forza Horizon 4 at number six, FIFA 21 at number seven. Minecraft Xbox One Edition at number eight and Mortal Kombat 11 at number nine. Capped off by UFC Four at number ten. Moving on, here's the top ten selling games for February on PlayStation. This includes Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War at number one, Marvel's Spider-Man Miles Morales at number two. Really impressive to see that game still up there considering that it launched all the way back in November. Persona 5 Strikers, which is a new release at number three. Madden at number four, Assassin's Creed Valhalla at five. Minecraft, PlayStation 4 Edition at six. NBA 2K 21 at seven. FIFA 21 at eight. Modern Call of Duty Warfare at nine. And then Little Nightmares 2, as we mentioned before, at number ten. Next up, we have Nintendo Switch. The number one game selling was obviously Super Mario 3D, World Plus Bowser's Fury. Number two is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Number three is Animal Crossing New Horizons. Number four is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Number five is Super Mario 3D All-Stars. Number six is Ring Fit Adventure. Number seven is Breath of the Wild. Number eight is Just Dance 2021. Number nine is Super Mario Party. And at number ten we have new Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. Again, only digital sales are included for Just Dance 2021. And then Ring Fit Adventure obviously does not have digital sales since it has a required physical accessory. Year to date, these are the top ten selling games, so from January and February combined overall in the whole game industry in the United States. At number one is Call of Duty's Black Ops Cold War. As we mentioned before, Super Mario 3D, World Plus Bowser's Fury is at number two. Marvel's Spider-Man Miles Morales at number three. Assassin's Creed Valhalla at four. Madden at five. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at six. Animal Crossing New Horizons at seven. Call of Duty Modern Warfare at eight. Persona 5 Strikers at nine. And Ring Fit Adventure is in the top ten for this year at number ten. Now here's our top twenty for all platforms when it comes to February at number one. We mentioned before with Super Mario 3D, World Plus Bowser's Fury. At number two we have Call of Duty's Black Ops Cold War. At number three is Persona 5 Strikers. At number four is Marvel's Spider-Man Miles Morales. At number five is Madden. At number six is Little Nightmares 2, so number six overall. At number seven is Assassin's Creed Valhalla. At number eight is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. At number nine is Animal Crossing New Horizons. At number ten is Call of Duty Modern Warfare. At eleven we have FIFA 21. At twelve we have NBA 2K 21. At thirteen we have Super Smash Bros Ultimate. At fourteen we have Mortal Kombat 11. At fifteen we have Super Mario 3D All-Stars. Sixteen Ring Fit Adventure. Seventeen Just Dance 2021. Eighteen is Minecraft PlayStation 4 Edition. Nineteen is The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. And twenty is Immortal Phoenix Rising. So that kind of wraps up all the sales data. Clearly Switch, Killin' It, PlayStation, Killin' It. Again, no sales data for Xbox. Xbox is refusing to report sales data when it comes to the systems. But we also know Xbox Series X is sold out as well. And I think if it would top at least in terms of dollar sales, we would hear about it. So clearly Xbox is at number three. Don't really know what this means for them. But for PlayStation over there and for Switch back here. Really, really, really good news. So let's say Madden might be coming to Nintendo Switch in the future. If not this year, maybe the year after. Because Doctrae 81 has added again and found another hiring post by EA. This hiring post is for an online software engineer who knows C++ for work on Madden with job requirements that need two years' experience working for Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo Game consoles. Now, again, what does this even matter? Well, it matters because they do not mention Nintendo Game consoles in any prior listing for a similar job for Madden. So this does suggest that while this person doesn't have to have experience with Nintendo systems, that they are working on Madden on Nintendo systems. Now, you might be like, how are they going to do that? Well, obviously we know about the rumors of Switch Pro. We're not going to dive into that. It could be a Switch Pro exclusive. But what's interesting here is that the Frostbite engine that needs to run on Switch to get Madden, well, guess what, it now runs on Switch with the upcoming release of Plants for Zombies. The team behind that made Frostbite run on Switch, which could open the door to more games. We've also seen EA hiring to make Frostbite work on Switch in prior years. Now we know that it is running on Switch. That could lead to Madden also for you FIFA players out there.  Won't that be sweet? Like an actual current version? I don't know. Maybe that's wishful thinking. Maybe the Madden thing's wishful thinking. But this is a hiring post for Madden that mentions Nintendo. So, hey, the door is now been cracked open. So yesterday I mentioned one of the biggest stories, if not the biggest story, was a roundtable discussion going on between Bethesda, id Software, essentially all the Zenimax Studios and Phil Spencer. They did this really long pre-recorded conversation.  Well, Phil Spencer clarified this quite clearly, and I want to read the full quote just grabbing the little snippet that's put in headlines, doesn't do it justice. This adds all the clarification you need. So, Phil Spencer stated, I listen to the podcast in all the questions. So I'm going to try to be as clear as I can because that's what I, I just think it's fair. So obviously I can't sit here and say every Bethesda game is exclusive because we know that's not true. There's contractual obligations that we're going to see through as we always do in every one of these instances. Hence, Helbley coming to Switch. When they bought them, Helbley was already in the works for Switch, so they, they finished it up. We have games that exist on other platforms and we're going to go support those games on those platforms that they're on. They're communities of players. We love those communities and will continue to invest in them and even in the future. There might be things that have either contractual things or legacy on different platforms that will go do. But if you're an Xbox customer, the thing I want you to know is, this is about delivering great exclusive games for you that ship on platforms where Game Pass exists. And that's our goal. That's why we're doing this. That's the root of this partnership that we're building and the creative capability we will be able to bring to market for our Xbox customers is going to be the best it's ever been for Xbox after we're done here. Now, obviously what Phil Spencer is saying, what we always knew all along, is that, hey, they're going to fulfill the Deathloop contract. If there's any other games that are currently on platforms like Elder Scrolls Online is on PlayStation 5, they're going to continue to support it. Any future DLC will also come to that, all that jazz. But when it comes to any new games moving forward that don't have current contractual agreements to appear on something like a PlayStation, guess what? It's only going to be on PC and Xbox Game Pass and probably eventually XCloud when that launches because I'm sure that's going to support Game Pass as well. This is really, really interesting for PlayStation owners because they're pretty disappointed. We've seen the backlash coming forward again which happened last year when this deal was initially announced to be coming. PlayStation fans were already upset but Phil Spencer is very, very clear about this. Future games are exclusive. That's just the way it's going to be. Me personally, as someone who owns the Series X, a PlayStation 5 and a Switch, it doesn't really bother me. In fact, now I get all these Bethesda games for super cheap. In fact, today they released something like 20 major Bethesda games. All of them all the way through their most recent releases on Game Pass. It's very clear what Microsoft is doing here. They spent $7.5 billion on Xenomex to make Game Pass one of the best services out there. This is akin to Netflix buying a major studio all that jazz. So hey, you know what? Kudos to Microsoft. If you're a Sony gamer, I know that this isn't great news for you. Some people are trying to argue still that Starfield as an example or Elder Scrolls 6 has to come. The PlayStation 5, it doesn't because there's no contractual agreement. And Starfield, the one that we know the most about, has never officially had any platforms publicized or advertised or announced suggesting that Starfield never actually had a commitment to come out on PlayStation. So Starfield, Elder Scrolls 6, two of the most anticipated Bethesda games. Yeah, you're going to have to own an Xbox or a gaming capable PC. So there you go. For me, it doesn't matter, but Kudos to Microsoft, this is business. I don't think this is either good or bad news. I think the only good that you could argue comes from this overall is that obviously certain studios that were in flux are now going to have a massive cash inflow from Microsoft. So we don't have to worry about any studio closures anytime soon. Oh, and by the way, now that games are kind of made just for PC and just for Xbox, typically that leads to games getting the most out of them. If you think about Nintendo exclusives, if you think about PlayStation exclusives, the reason they tend to be just like above third party multi-platform games is well, because everything is tailored specifically for the hardware, including at the engine level. Now they'll be able to do this at studios like Bethesda where they could take their engine, tailor it specifically and directly for Xbox Series SNX and for obviously PC. And that's going to lead to better visuals, better performance and just prettier looking games. So that is a benefit technically to gamers overall in any situation like this when something becomes platform exclusive, but still obviously a pretty big shifting thing in the industry. It's hard to argue now at this point that Microsoft does not at least start to compete exclusive-wise with the PlayStation and Nintendo's. So it's a move that Microsoft needed to make someday. And I'm actually kind of surprised Phil Spencer got the OK for it. So who does the Phil Spencer for convincing Microsoft that gaming is actually worth investing in at a major level? Speaking of Microsoft, 343 Industries did a massive 44-minute long Q&A today. On YouTube and my gosh, do we know a bunch about Halo Infinite? I'm going to go right to my notes because it's almost a full page of notes from this. So the Halo Infinite Zeta Halo Ring is actually fully 3D rendered and creates brief eclipses with the sum when it passes behind the ring. They were asked what stops players from grabbing a Banshee and just going to an objective further in the story. And the dev simply said, do it. So there's a lot of freedom, possibly even partially open world. The day-slash night cycle will affect patrols. There will be more sleeping grunts at night, but there will also be phantoms with searchlights at night. There will be dynamic weather, which includes wind and fog. Snowstorms and storms in general will be there, although it's going to be in a post-launch patch. There is no dual wielding in this game, no hostile wildlife, and no playable elites. Also no weapon upgrades. Obviously this stuff might be disappointing. Equipment, a.k.a. non-weapons, can be upgraded at least in the campaign mode. The hexagon pillars that people were upset about in the last time they showed off the game should look a lot more pleasing at this point. Cutscenes are actually affected by the day-slash night cycle and what weapons and equipments that you have equipped. This is because they are drawn a seamless transition from gameplay into cutscene, which is really, really good to see. Oftentimes a bit jarring in games on the cutscene shows different clothing and different equipment than what you actually have on in the game. That's not going to be the case here, so that's good news. 343 is actually really glad for the community feedback and all the criticism received and thrilled that Microsoft gave them more time to work on the game. There are random encounters, but they are intended to be engaging rather than punishing. So not like Dark Souls, think more like Breath of the Wild, less Dark Souls. They admitted that Halo Infinite was actually a challenge to develop both internally and externally, but they are thrilled and relieved that they were actually given the time to do things right. So it kind of sounds like Microsoft maybe had them on a crunch and was really trying to get them. We have to have this for launch, which you see on Xbox Series X with Halo literally on the back of it.  So take the time that you need to get it done. The game was built heavily around player choice and the world's reaction to those choices. So this to me feels more like Mass Effect in a way. Also, they were asked directly about the game being an open world and they basically talked around the question and just compared it to the silent cartographer and explaining how the world works. Also, by the way, the ring itself is not just eye candy. You can knock things off of it and it will float off into space. Again, we haven't been on this ring and seen these interactions, but it's going to be pretty cool, I assume. So yeah, that's the news on Halo Infinite. It's just nice to get this news. Nice to see the game a little bit. Now, we got to wait for Gameplay Reveals release dates all the jazz. I assume that this is probably lining up to be a big holiday game for Microsoft this year. We have one more update. The crisis official Twitter account announced today. The crisis remastered now officially supports DLSS 2.0 as of today. This is a big deal for PC gamers that wanted to revisit this game and revisit it with the best possible visuals because crisis remaster did what crisis always does, and crippled PC gaming hardware. Even 3090s, which are supposed to be able to game at 8K. If you try to game at 8K in this, my gosh, this is a 3090 completely crippled. Well, guess what? DLSS 2.0 has arrived to save the day providing nice upscaling so you can lower the resolution but still get a close to 4K experience. And yes, massive frame rate boost. This is huge. This is the kind of stuff we're talking about could happen with Switch and Switch Pro. This is obviously something that PC gamers are experiencing. Yes, DLSS 2.0 has to be patched into engines and games, but you know what? When it is, my lord, lord, lord, lord, lord and lord. Is it amazing? So now crisis remastered is finally playable for everyone that at least owns a modern NVIDIA GPU. This last one is technically a leak. We can actually call this one a leak. I just did a little video yesterday about rumors and leaks, and most leaks are basically rumors. This is actually a leak because it comes from an official source. So Bandai Namco Latin America Instagram. That's right. Bandai Namco Latin America's Instagram. I didn't think I'd be talking about that today. Their account accidentally uploaded a DLC trailer for Dragon Ball Z Kakarok, which released exclusively on PlayStation 4 last year. So there's a DLC pack coming out. They did a trailer for it on Instagram. Who really cares? Well, in that trailer, they talk about the Xbox Series X slash S and Nintendo Switch. The game is not on Xbox Series X or S, or Switch. In fact, the game hasn't even been announced for those platforms. It's kind of a big oopsie, and it was spotted by Gamebolt.com and a user on Twitter. And their screenshots, it's legit. It happened. So there you go. They have deleted the trailer. No official announcement has occurred. Obviously we assume official announcement is incoming. We don't know when the game is actually going to come, but it is a major triple A game. It's actually a game that reviewed really, really well for PlayStation. And it's just good that Xbox gamers and Switch gamers are going to get to experience it now as well. Obviously we'll get tech analysis and all that from Digital Foundry and other places down the line comparing the Switch version. Like, technically they just did a comparison of Crash Bandicoot 4, PlayStation 5 versus Switch comparison of Crash Bandicoot 4. And basically it's a little bit blurry around Switch and it runs at half the frame rate. That's the news there. Not really worth reporting on, but I'm just pointing out that, like, yeah, this is going to be probably a similar story. Probably still perfectly playable on Switch. Obviously going to work really, really well on the Series X and S. So, whoa! That's it. Thank you guys so much for tuning in to this giant news summary. There was a lot of information in here. I'm going to give you time to digest. I'm going to include timestamps, which I'm sure you've already seen at this point. All right, folks. I'm Nintendo Alpha Chance from Nintendo Prime. And this was my news summary video. I got to come up with the name for this series. Kind of getting away from Prime News. I want to make this something a little different. Thank you guys for tuning in, and I'll catch you in the next video.


I was trying to be cool, but I'm just dumb. Okay Hi, welcome. My name is Logan and you may know me as Logan Yeah, so this morning. I finally woke up to a video that I've known about for quite some time by John or a super I patch wolf and he talked about the social influence courses which scams and Then he talked about the mental side of YouTube and how small creators Or just also just everyone actually struggled with the mental side of YouTube because of the analytics, you know top 10 baby top 10 videos We don't talk about the top 10 videos because all my new videos become number 10 Anyways, yeah, I was loving watching his video and then it came to my part and then I started crying again I forgot how emotional of a bitch I am so yeah, that was that was great crying on a Monday morning I usually cry when I get to work, but today I cried before I got to work But yes, if you have came to this channel, this is just gonna do like a nice introduction because you might not want to go into the kpop Videos like one or two people have commented, which is fair enough. So I'm here to offer you a deal It's time to get serious. It's time to get ready. Where's my cowboy hat? I want to be serious here, and I don't know where my cowboy hat is over I got a Train conductor hat. Oh, well, I it's time to be serious. So here we go My deal for you guys is this you get cool edited videos They can be on kpop, but I want to transition to Japanese music because Japanese music is like more new to me And it's different and I feel like that is something I kind of want to do Of course, I'll still do kpop videos because I love kpop. It's good music, but also Japanese music I've been loving that. I've been loving it I started to listen to quite a bit been loving it bro. So this is my deal Can you comment down below Japanese songs that you'd like to see videos on and then I'll potentially make a video on those songs That's the deal. You don't even need to subscribe I mean, like if you want to subscribe then subscribe, but I don't want you to subscribe because I don't want to force you to Subscribe until I force you to subscribe people don't take me seriously, and I don't know why I also got steampunk goggles So I just don't understand why people can't take me seriously I just want I just I want to make more content where I can explore new things as well I I I love anime so of course I would love to do videos on anime But I feel like I don't know what to do with my channel because do I just stick with kpop and potentially Cry myself to sleep every night or do I broaden my stuff to a different culture to the Japanese culture? Hmm that could be fun. So that's what I'm gonna do each week I'm gonna alternate from Korean culture to Japanese culture, and it's gonna be pretty cool So if you guys want to like know a bit more about kpop then subscribe But if you love Japanese culture where I can potentially do videos on anime, but they'll be a while in the future But definitely the music I'll be going one week Japanese music the next week Korean music, and I think that Is actually what I want. I just discovered it. I'm a genius Okay, back to me being serious with my beautiful headgear Yeah So that's what I'm thinking and oh and if you're here for the editing then here we go Yeah, but yeah, if you guys want more Japanese music content like my spy x family one which I recommend you guys to watch if you Don't like kpop and you like Japanese music then that could be one for you to watch Let me know if you want more videos on Japanese content. So yeah, but yet again I know a lot of people probably won't even come to this fit to my channel But that's fair enough, but for the fair few I want to give you guys a great time a fun time and most importantly Something I want to give you something. Thank you once again super eye patch wall for just getting the Option to just talk about my struggles I've never been able to talk to another youtuber before Because they all just don't reply So it was real nice that someone that big could would actually listen to someone so small that has struggles and all that stuff It actually really means a lot. I really feel inspired like after watching that entire video I actually feel super inspired to just start doing content a lot more and just going for it Hopefully you all have a great day.


and welcome back to my channel and to Vlogmas. So today I'm up pretty early. I have a couple projects that I really want to get done today and my little ones are still sleeping so I thought I'd get a head start. Well, they're still in bed. I got my coffee made and today I really want to tackle my junk room which if you guys watch my vlogs you know that it's actually our family room. I'm working on redoing it and stuff but it's kind of become a catch-all and I've had Christmas decor and Christmas gifts sitting down there and then recently I lost a lot of weight so I have like clothes that need to go on Poshmark all that stuff. But before I get started I wanted to tell you guys that this video is in collaboration with the Alaskan mama vlogger and Amy is a mom of five. She does a lot of fun vlogs and things that different content that is very similar to mine but of course in a very different setting and she is so sweet. Her and I have actually gotten to text each other and learn to know each other and I am really excited for you guys to go check out her channel. So whenever you are done watching this video don't forget to hit the link below in the description box and go watch her video and find out what she did clutters today. So my home is in three levels and I'm currently upstairs but our family room is kind of in the basement level so I guess I'll take you down there and show you the mess. Okay so here is the situation and my goal is that in January I get to start working on actually making this a functional family room so mounting the TV all of that. I showed you guys this mess in a vlog last week I think it was and I said I'm going to get this done get it tackled so we have all kinds of things going on here I had redone the flooring upstairs and this is an extra pack that needs to go back this is clothing that I need to go through and decide what I want to put on Poshmark boxes to wrap Christmas gifts in extra Christmas decor that needs to either be put away or put on display. Yeah literally anything everything my lights for filming and taking photos just yeah it's such a disaster so I think I'm just going to go ahead and get started hopefully I can get a good amount done before my little ones wake up and if not I'll probably just be working on it through the day oh and one more thing I wanted to mention before I actually start is this closet the point of this closet is to organize my decor whenever it's not in season or whatever so that's part of this project I really want to get this organized and get some of this stuff put in here I keep like non-holiday decor in here so my normal decor that I just like to exchange out but like the holiday decor whatever I don't generally use I put back into bins and that goes into our basement on shelves but this here is kind of just things I like to rotate so the first thing that I did is I just took all of the bins that I could that were empty from having Christmas decor in them down to our basement shelving and just cleared out a lot of the bigger stuff that really went in our basement I don't even know why it was sitting in here other than maybe it was just in holding I know somebody had commented on my video that I talked about the room being a mess and said that they called it a holding room which I thought was kind of appropriate since it just kind of holds things still they need to go to the right place so I lit a candle and then I got started in on divvying out the stuff I wanted to put on Poshmark and then the things that needed to go to the thrift store and then some of these books I actually like to wrap books that I'm not currently reading I like to wrap them with like brown paper or just kind of you know any kind of neutral looking paper and so I was just going through those and deciding which ones I wanted to wrap to put on my bookshelf so you're seeing a little behind the scenes of how I take pictures for Poshmark and hopefully I have a bunch of this stuff up until you guys see this video but I just like to get a neutral background so I grabbed a throw blanket and lay out each piece of clothing or shoes or whatever that I'm gonna put on and just snap my pictures it's really simple I mean if you guys have never used Poshmark I highly recommend it and again my closet link for Poshmark will be below so after I took pictures of some of the Poshmark things I went ahead and started wrapping some of my books sometimes I use some tape and you'll see me use tape on some of the books and then sometimes if the cover is a little bit of a harder cover I'll just wrap the paper inside of the cover and it kind of holds itself there I just love this way of styling books and it just makes a bookshelf look a lot cleaner instead of having multiple colors and I've been slowly collecting different ones to use on this bookshelf and my built-in bookshelf upstairs and then I got into the closet and this is I would say organized chaos I feel like there's so many different shapes and sizes of everything that it just kind of I do my best to organize it and I'm always pulling things in and out but at least it's I guess a little holding place for me all right guys I'm really happy with how this turned out I feel like I can finally get closer to my goal of getting this actually set up and getting the furniture one of the things we have to do before we get the furniture is this carpet needs to be actually like stretched and tacked down correctly it's just actually laying in here right now it's kind of new carpet we didn't we put it in not that long ago it just needs to be finished putting in correctly but over here I just put these are Christmas presents those are Christmas presents those are stocking stuffers and then this was that Poshmark stuff until I know what sells and all that and so all of this stuff will in the next few weeks kind of diminish to nothing and then over here these are just pillows that I want to use down here in the on the couch and whatever furniture I decided to get and then in here this closet is never perfect because the decor pieces just there's so many different shapes and sizes of everything so it's just more so like keeping it somewhat cleaned up and not too tumbled together so up here I just have everything like all of my wall decor type stuff leaning so I can quickly pull something out if I'm working on a project and then here's some bigger pieces and then up here I have a lot of florals like those are spring and summer florals so of course Christmas is going on right now so all that is tucked away and then the other thing is too is we do have shelving in our basement and I have some things that I keep down there as well this is just more a little bit easier access for me and I didn't really have a lot to put in this closet so I decided to just do this with it I'm really happy with all the progress that I made today and I hope that it gave you guys a lot of motivation also don't forget to go and check out Alaska and mommy vloggers video as well the link will be in the description box and my girls are eating breakfast and I need to go and help them finish up but if you're new to my channel don't forget to hit that subscribe button and give this video a like and I love you guys in the new world video


Drugstore makeup is killing it. There is so many good products out on the market right now. Now some of these aren't like new, new as far as brand new releases, but they are new to me and I have been absolutely in love with them. So I'm going to show you all kinds of new stuff today. Also please remember that I do have a numbering system, one, two, however many we get through today and I will be putting that number up on the screen and then you can go down into the description box and shop that way if you'd like to. Before we get started, I'm going to show you what I have on for a top and some jewelry because we like to do that on this channel as well. Okay, so for my top today, it's just a puff sleeve with a chiffon polka dot. It's got a short sleeve with a little gather right here, mid arm and it does come down over the booty if you want it to. I love the princess neckline on this. It's so cute and this is just a really comfortable, soft fabric. I am just wearing it with a pair of leggings, nothing special today, but I definitely wanted to share the top with you. And then also sharing the jewelry I have, a serpentine necklace, herringbone necklace, excuse me, in silver, but I just feel like should be a staple in any woman's wardrobe. I have mine in gold and I have mine also in silver and then just a little drop rhinestone earring. Also I feel like those should be staples because they're so easy to wear. But this watch that I have on, oh my goodness, how cute is this? It does have a little link right here that you can adjust. So if you have a smaller wrist or a bigger wrist, you can adjust that. It's in a bracelet style with a rectangle face and the rhinestones around it right there. Again, so cute and it does have rhinestones on the band itself. Just really pretty, it goes with just about anything and I love wearing it. All right, let's get into the makeup. Now I did say makeup but I do have several skincare items that I'm super excited about and I wanted to talk to you about. Let's talk about good molecules and their sheer mineral sunscreen SPF of 30 that they came out with. Broad spectrum SPF 30, minimal white cast sunscreen lotion, UVA and UVB protection for all skin types. Mineral sunscreens are notoriously that white cast that you get and this one is not. This is a sink in super fast, lovely sunscreen that I can reapply over and over again throughout the day and it never feels tacky or sticky or has that white cast at all. I absolutely love this. I think it's one of the best sunscreens I have found. You will never see that white cast. You don't have flashback if you're in photos and it wears so well under makeup. I think this is one of the better ones to hit the market in a long time and I just love it. Also, I have been trying the Avino Positively Radiant Brightening Cleanser. I really like this, okay? I always use a oil base or a balm to take off my makeup but then I need something to go after it to take off that little bit of oily residue that's left behind. This does a great job. I just put a little bit in my hand with a little bit of water and emulsify it and then you've got a little bit of a foaming cleanser. It's not really foaming as far as stripping or anything like that but boy it does the job in keeping your skin barrier intact but really taking off that residue that you get after you do use any sort of oil. Great, big, huge bottle which I love. This one I'm definitely excited about because I don't care if you are oily or dry, it doesn't matter anywhere in the spectrum there. You're going to be able to use this and it just does a really good job. I actually use it at night after my oil cleanser and I use it in the morning when I get up to take off all of the super heavy moisturizing products that I put on. This is a really great cleanser and I think you're going to love it. I heard about this gold bond crepe corrector body lotion not very long ago on TikTok and I brought it to you in conjunction with another one of their products, the gold bond products. I think it was a body butter but I've been really enjoying the crepe correcting lotion because I love what it's doing as far as softening my skin and really helping out all of that crepey skin. I get that crepey skin right here on my arms. I get it on my legs, especially on my calves and this is really super moisturizing. Now this says it has Omega fatty acid, antioxidants and botanicals and it says 82% have visible improvement in crepey skin in just two days. I feel like those claims are very real. I feel like it's very hydrating. I feel like it sinks in so well that it is moisturizing and not just sitting on the top of your skin. I've really been enjoying this one. So again, Drugstore is hitting it out of the park and then a serum that I'm so excited about. I have brought this to you before but I bought the full size bottle and I wanted to talk to you about it again. It's the Derma-E Ultra Lift DM-AE Concentrated Serum Copper Peptides Risveratol Cockadeau Plum. This is a super hydrating, super peptide serum. Copper Peptides are one of those peptides that is talked about so much because it's so beneficial to our skin. Peptides are the building blocks of amino acids and collagen. That is what we're lacking as we age. So these serums do penetrate very deeply and they do help boost your elastin, your collagen, all of those things.  You want to be using some sort of a peptide to boost that efficacy of those products. So I challenge you to really look into peptides because they are really good. But when you do put it on clean dry skin it's going to sink in quickly and it's going to really help boost all the other skincare that you have. I love peptides. I think that they are very overlooked. We talk about different things like right now snail mucin is the thing. But I really think that even though that is hydrating we need to be looking at the ones that actually are producing benefits, not just hydrating. We need hydration but we also need those benefits and something with copper peptides and cacaduplum and all of those things that's going to give you some really great benefits especially on aging skin. So many of you have heard me talk and rave about the benefits of Bifida and Galactomyces. And I talk about those in different products. Like I first brought it to you in crannous cell that was just a Bifida serum and then I brought it to you in the Benton fermentation essence. This one has Bifida and Galactomyces in it. Super great products. But I also am always looking for what is even better or what may even have better ingredients in it. And the reason that I went looking for something is because this had sold out and the one that was being sold on Amazon, the Benton that was being sold by a different company was almost three times the price of what this normally is. And I don't want you to pay any more than you have to. Last year I did find the Nimbuzin line and I think that it's such a good line of products. And I am always looking into what else a company has. Like Benton has a really good, and I won't talk about it too much right now, but it is a snail mucin and it's also a bee venom. And that's what I use instead of Cozarex. And I'll just put that on the screen and then I'll make sure that I link that down below for you. But Nimbuzin has the skin softening pore refining treatment. But as I got to looking, I just want to read to you some of the ingredients that it has in here. So it does have the bifida and the galactomyces. It has niacinamide, which we know niacinamide is such a great pore refiner. This one also has adenosine in it. And I just want to read to you something really interesting that I found about adenosine. It says, this 2020 study notes that adenosine is effective at treating wrinkles and can stimulate fibroblasts in the skin. Fibroblasts are a type of cell that secretes collagen proteins and plays a role in wound healing which helps reduce the appearance of wrinkles. So I thought that that was really great. It also has some anti-inflammatory properties. It also has panthenol in it which can improve wound healing. It's a great moisturizer. The Korean skincare is so far ahead of the game as far as anti-aging and really keeping our skin looking its very best for the very longest time possible. But this is a great product that I have found very recently and researched the ingredients and I am really enjoying it. Okay, now on to the makeup. I did want to share with you this little palette that came out from ColourPop. It is what I have on my eyes today. It's called Petals on Point. And the reason that I'm bringing it to you is because it is so hard for me as I am fair to find really beautiful palettes that are fair enough to not overwhelm my skin. I haven't started self tanning yet. I'm just kind of getting over, you know, not feeling that great and moving and all that stuff. But I do want to show you the colors in here and I think they're really gorgeous. You do have this row right here of kind of darker tones that are very easy for anybody to wear across the board. But these other tones that are down here on the bottom or if you flip it, it's on the top. But anyway, these are super light tones and I love that. And the reason that I'm so enamored with this is number one, I absolutely love this light, light pink. It's what I wore all over dusted on my eyes today. And you can barely see it on my hand right here. And that's okay for me because when you find something like that that works really well and you can dust it all over your eyes and use it as a base, it's perfect to start off an eye look. And then also I loved that they put this white in here. I know that a satin or a semi-shimmer white like that doesn't have a use in every single palette but I love to use it in my inner corner just barely and kind of feathered into the rest of the eye look on the eyelid. And it works out so well for me to be able to brighten my eyes, super brighten my eyes. The brown that in here doesn't pull either warm or cool. It's just very neutral and I like the dark brown for that too. So I feel like this is one of the better palettes that they brought out in a long time. Now, if you have not had a chance to try the Revlon Illuminance New Foundation, I wanna suggest that you do. If you're somebody that is always looking for glowy, dewy skin from their foundation but you can't find it, especially in a drugstore product, I feel like Revlon hit it out of the park. It is what I have on today and I did powder down my face a little bit but what I found was that foundation is so pretty and so glowy that it didn't take away the glow or the illuminance of the foundation when I did put the powder on. This is the Skin Caring Foundation. It says that it has 5% squalane and hyaluronic acid in it. I think it's the squalane that really gives it the moisturizing property and then that dewy property afterwards. It does last a long time. I have been able to very easily get 10 hours of wear out of it before I felt like it was wearing at all. I just really have been enjoying this and I wanted to bring it to you before and I think I may have just mentioned it in a video before but I definitely wanted to showcase it to show you how pretty it was. I feel like it's medium coverage that can be built up but I also would say that if you want that glowy natural look to it, just use your concealer on a finger or q-tip or a brush, whatever, to spot conceal and then put this on and you're going to have a very, very natural, very glowy dewy look to your skin. Beautiful foundation and I'm really excited to see this one. Also, I want to tell you that I did finally and I had so many of you say, try the new Physicians Formula and I think this is the Butter Glow Concealer from Physicians Formula. Now I will say that this particular one was quite yellow and I did have to wear another concealer right here inside, which kind of lightened it up just a little bit. I believe this one is the light, not the fair one and so I would say that if you're somebody with my coloring, as I looked at this, it was medium to tan, which is crazy. Anyway, they only have, I think, I want to say they have like six or seven shades so this one was a little dark for me. We do need more shades obviously than just six but I do think that this is a really good concealer. It concealed really well. It didn't accentuate fine lines or wrinkles underneath my eyes and I do always have to set to my concealer down with a little bit of powder so that being said, this is more of a radiant concealer. You will have to set it down. It's not gonna self set like some others will if you do have that problem with it looking a little bit more dry anyway. This one might be one that you really do like. I thought it was a really good one. One of the things that came out very recently that I'm so impressed with is the Elf Lash Enroll. Now they obviously were looking to kind of dupe. Yes, they said the word dupe, the Benefit Roller Lash. I think that this is a better one personally because when I did try the Benefit Roller Lash, it didn't do a lot as far as separating my lashes or giving a great length and it definitely didn't do much for giving me a lot of volume but this one does it all and I'm really happy with it, really, really happy with it. Now I will say after wearing it for 10 to 12 hours, it will start to flake a little bit. I don't have a problem with that normally as long as it's not smudging. Flaking doesn't bother me at the end of the day if it was happening really early then I would complain a lot but I've really been enjoying it because I feel like my lashes look fantastic. They're very, very lengthened and I can separate. The wand is a plastic bristle brush or a silicone and I really feel like I can separate really well. Super black, which I love and it just works out so well for me. So I really have been enjoying this one. I think they knocked it out of the park with this one and great mascara. I think I've talked about this in the favorites one time but I wanted to showcase it as well. All right, so Juvia's Place came out with some of the prettiest blushes and I was all over it. But I will tell you at $18, I do feel like this is like not quite at drugstore prices. I really think that we're getting up there and I realize that times are changing. It's harder to get into the ingredients. I understand all that. I do really love this particular color that is like a bubblegum pink. I will tell you in just a second what it is. This is gorgeous. You need just a dab of this and you have a really, really long lasting beautiful blush and they really just blend out super pretty. And let me show you what the other color is. First let me tell you what that color was. This one is called Blush Lily. Now I will say that that one has been out of stock for a while. Great blush formula though. And like I said, I do feel like it is a little bit more pricey but they're just, they're beautiful. You can see how pigmented they are, how they really are just blending out very, very easily. This one is called Peach Rose. Now both of these are gorgeous but I did find this one on Amazon and I don't know what the name of this is exactly. The color is called Hope. I am wearing this one today and I do feel like it does have that pigment. This is nowhere near as expensive as the Juvia's Place are and this one's a little bit lighter because obviously you can see in the tube the color is lighter. But I do feel like these are every bit as nice. I think I wanna say that this was about $10. It might have even been cheaper. I'll make sure that I link it so that you can know that. But the colors are beautiful in all of these. I just think that, you know, if we can find something that is just as nice but less expensive, yay. You're gonna get just as good a payoff of color and you're going to get the lasting power. I just, I think they're so pretty, all of them but I do think if you need to save some money, then you definitely wanna look at the ones off of Amazon. Now, I will also tell you that I also found these ones. These ones remind me of the shape of the jar of NARS and I am wearing this one today and this one is, it's just called 04 on the bottom of it. Oh, no, it's called Glistening Rose. I am wearing this one today.  But I love these. There is something so great about these and they're super duper pigmented but they blend out very, very easily and they are great on your skin. You have it there all day long. It is just, it is a beautiful, beautiful blush formula and this one is 03 Sparkling Peach. I don't know where my other one went. I'm in the middle of this move. It seems to me like there was a third one. It might've only been two of them but you know how that goes with me. Maybe or maybe not. So I love these. I think that Liquid Blush is all the rage right now. I think that you can find some that are definitely just as beautiful as the high end ones but won't cost you as much and they last just as long. So these Liquid ones are beautiful blushes and definite payoff on those as well. Let's round it off with the lips. This is the Shine Lipstick from Revlon. This is such a luxe-looking lipstick. Let me just show you the packaging first. It's so pretty. It's got the clear here, the clear here and the gold band. So pretty and I love that Revlon really keeps their lipstick still looking very luxe and yet the price tag isn't very high. This one is a mauve color. I love this new Shine formula. If you're somebody that loves a long and done look where you just, you don't have to put on anything, no liner, no lipstick, no lip gloss and you just want all of those together, you can use these Shine products. I'm really just be out the door really quickly. This is a formula that's not going to last as long as if you did a lipstick that was more matte but Shine products have a tendency to be that way. Anyway, I always touch my lipstick up several times after I eat or after I'm drinking or even talking a lot during the day. These are beautiful, beautiful lipsticks and I think Revlon did a great job with it. That is it for today's video and I hope that you did enjoy seeing so many of the products that I've been trying recently and I feel like Drugstore is just knocking it out of the park. I am so excited about that foundation from Revlon and I'm also really excited about that nine pan eyeshadow palette from Colourpop. I just think it's so pretty. I'm excited about all of these but I'm really excited also about the skincare that I showed you in here. I think it's really great skincare. So please tell me down in the comment section if you have tried anything that you feel like from the Drugstore or anywhere else that you feel like is just really knocking it out of the park. I'd love to hear that from you. Hope that you're all doing really well. I love you so much and I'll see you again in my next video. Take care of my friends. Goodbye.


Hey guys, it's Monica. Thank you for joining me. I'm going to share with you some favorites, things I have really been enjoying in August. I know it's September, but I'm a little bit behind the game. But some of the things that I have really been enjoying and most of them that I've purchased and some of the things that were sent to me. So if you are curious, please stay tuned. Thank you so much for joining me. So in this video, I'm going to share a little bit of makeup, a little bit of lifestyle and just things that I have been enjoying whether or not they're makeup related or not. But one of the things is I mentioned this in one of my other videos that I had bought, a ripped skirt. And I don't know if any of you have seen ripped skirts or not, but ripped skirt Hawaii.com. So I bought a black one because my bathing suit, the one I wear a lot is green and I have a blue one. So I wanted to have a solid color because I wasn't too sure they had such beautiful colors on their website, but I wasn't too sure exactly which ones would look good. And I also wasn't too sure what size because I'm a big girl. So I ended up buying an extra large and the way ripped skirts are, they got like these velcro, right? They got this little cute little pocket that you can, I don't know, it's too small for my phone, but it would certainly be you could stick some money in there. And I got the number two, which is the length that goes to just above my knees. So I really love this. It is super comfortable. It packs amazing. And you just wrap it around your bathing suit.  But if you want to sort of hide a little bit of the thighs, a little bit of the jingle, this is perfect.  It's long enough to cover your upper legs if you want. You can go down to the water. It gets wet. It dries amazingly and it feels so comfortable. And because it is velcro, you can adjust it down a little bit if you want. And they have so many pretty, pretty colors.   They were pricey and, you know, obviously Ripskirt Hawaii has no clue who I am, but I really like it.  So I love my Ripskirt. I mentioned it in a previous video that I got a Ripskirt.   I think true that it's long enough for me that if I wanted to just throw a top on, I could go out to a beach bar, a beach restaurant right afterwards and sit there and feel totally comfortable in it. So I've been enjoying that. I'm so glad I got it. I thought it was really cool. I loved it. I also, we were, when we were camping, we went to the beach and one day it was kind of cloudy, so we decided we were going to take a day trip and we went from Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, up the coast to Maine and we went to a few places, but we ended up coming down the coast and we went into Sacco, Maine, Benefit, Maine and we had lunch and I'll superimpose the picture here. The deck was beautiful, overlooking. It's in a mill building, overlooking the river. It is absolutely beautiful. It's a beautiful day. We sat there with our friends and we had, I had a hamburger. It was, you know, you can tell a good hamburger, right? I mean frozen patties, no, no, no. This was super, super good.  It was so tasty. I loved it and we did that. It was like about, probably about, you know, 12 31 o'clock when we were sitting there and no, it was later. It was like 132. So as we had been manned down the coast and we made our way back to Hampton where we were camping, our friend, Mike kept saying, I gotta have, I've just, I've just, you just had a craving, a craving for fried dough. And he had mentioned fried dough a couple of times. He says, we're gonna have fried dough for dessert. I haven't had fried dough in eons, right? So we found a parking space at the beach. You know, we're pretty close to where our camper is, but we found a parking space and we went out and I got a fried dough that was like apple, apple filling on the fried dough. It, oh my gosh, was it delicious. So I had my fried dough, Mike and Judy had fried dough Jane went and had an ice cream and we said, this is going to be dinner, right? Because it's, we ate late and who's going to be hungry, right? So we made a decision that we're going to, that was going to be dinner.  Cause well, they liked maybe a little over half a mile, maybe a little bit more from where we were to where our camper was. And I knew they were going to hop in the car and they beat me there anyways. And so they said, okay, you really want to walk? I said, yeah, I need, wanted the exercise. So I walked and they went and they went in the car. But the funniest thing was when I came around, obviously it was going to be, they were going to beat me there, right? When I came around the back end of the motor home to the middle where we were sharing a yacht with Mike and Judy who had their camper, I saw Jay up on a ladder with his butt just about hanging out of the window. I could not believe it. I was like, Oh my God, what happened? And they were all like freaking out. Jay was trying to get his foot in. It was like wedged and all this stuff. Apparently the clicker to the door did not open the door. And I don't know whether the battery was dead or it was just decided at that moment that it was not going to work. And I was like, Oh, how come nobody filmed him? You know, by this time that Jay was inside. And you know, the only bottom thing, the only thing that's hanging out with the bottom of his feet was, it was hysterical to me because I was like, Oh, why didn't you guys film him? Nobody thought of filming him as he was wedging himself in the window. And they all thought it was terrible for thinking, why didn't anyone film him? And then all at the same time, our friend Mike decided to try the clicker again and it unlocked. It's so crazy. It was like so crazy. But oh my gosh, we had a great time at the beach. I don't even know why I'm telling you that story. I just thought it was hysterical. Anyways, I had this, this company had reached out to me and I have the dry eye, right? And they had reached out to me quite a while ago about an electric eye mask, which I use every single night. I love that electric eye mask. So if I wake up like two or three o'clock in the morning and I'm feeling it, I just turned it, put it on, turned it on, it's hanging right by my bed post. Anyways, they reached out to me about a waterproof, whoops, makeup bag. And they asked if I wanted to review it. I probably am going to butcher the name, but it's R-E-S-E-P-L-A-S-S. I will link all the information. Replace, something like that. It is waterproof. I chose the pink. They do have a couple of different colors, another color, they have a tan and they have the pink. But this material is, I think it's called Tyvek and it's sort of an environmental type of a material that has antibacterial, anti-mold, anti-mites. And what I really love about it is that it has compartments. So when I was at the beach, I put all my makeup in here. I had some sunblock in here. I had my powder and zip it right up and it doesn't get wet. So I didn't care right at the beach if this got wet, right? And it washes beautifully. I washed it down. It really is nice. So it's made of really durable material and it held up.  So I love it. It has two little compartments on the side. I know you probably can't see it. Two compartments on the side and the zipper compartment. You can get it on Amazon. It is reasonable, soft and holds a heck of a lot. So I love it. Sharing it with you. This has been a favorite this month of mine. I'm always on the go Jay and I are pretty active people. So you know, my whole thing is I'm going to be outside. He wants to be outside and this is perfect. I love it. So this was sent to me complimentary from the company. I'm going to link the information from Amazon below and you can check it out. It's lightweight and it cleans up so nice. Trust me when I say it cleans up so nice. It almost looks new. You wouldn't think this went camping with me, but it did. So it was really awesome. Really like it and you can actually do more than you know, you can actually do more than just put your your makeup in there. You can pretty well do whatever you want. So a couple of things that I mentioned that I have, you know, I've been using my eye mask and I'm still suffering from the dry eye. I still have little bouts of it, but I've been so, so careful. So I had bought this lid and lash cleanser. Now for those of you that have dry eye, this might be something you might want to try. It's not inexpensive, but I bought it off of Amazon. I'll link the information and what I do after I take my makeup off, my eye makeup, I spritz this on my eyes and I massage it. And I really think as good as I am about removing my makeup, I really think this as the last step has super helped my eyes a lot. So I love this stuff. I almost want to kiss it because I think it's made that much of a difference in my eyes. It's awesome. So that's been great. This is what my eye doctor had recommended for eye drops and it's Reliva. It's from Refresh. It's Reliva and I've been going through this now. I use this a number of times a day. I really like it. I think out of all the drops that I've been using, this one has worked out the best for me and I have used a number of different drops from the digital to the Optima.  And as much as these little tiny plastic ones are so easy to travel with and they're perfect size and they're sanitized, I can't see when I put this in. When I rip this over and I open it up, I can't see when I'm putting it in. So I have to have someone put it in for me because I've missed my eye and I've actually scratched my eye trying to put it in because I can't see and I have glasses on with this being so much thicker. I can actually see it. So that was really, really, really good. I also have been using and I can't remember and I'm so sorry because I know somebody has talked about this and they use these a lot and I might have mentioned this before but I have been using the ELF and this is the, let me call it the Insta Lift Brow Pencil. I have two of them. I really love these. I love the fact that there's a spoolie on one end and you can brush it up and I love the fact that it's retractable and it's softer. Not soft, soft that it breaks off but softer. I have a hard time with a hard pencil so this has been a true favorite of mine. Highly recommended. It's like three bucks. Sometimes even cheaper. It is awesome. Same thing with my Flower Beauty. I love this. This is the Light Illusion and this is their Perfecting Powder. I've used this for quite a while but within this last month I've used it almost every day. I love it. It just kind of gives me a good finish to my skin, my makeup. I really love it a lot. So that's been a huge, huge thing that I've loved and another thing and this was actually Sheila, simply Sheila, formerly Life with Lily. Sheila had talked about. This is the Smashbox Contour and as you can see this is well loved. I'm going to actually have to get another one when I go to the Cosmetic Company store but I use the contour to contour my face and then I use the illumination or whatever right here and on my lids which I really like. I like the brush and then I have sort of like a bronzer all over and the bronzer is really nice. I do like it. I use it with a big fluffy brush but more importantly I use this eyeshadow. So I have actually done a full eye with these three, a full smoky eye. I've used this one for my V, my outer edge. I've used this just for a little bit of color, this for my lid and then of course an eyeliner right. I can't believe that I can get away with this for an eye look but I can and I really like that especially if you're out and about right. You're always looking for something a little bit more portable for your makeup. I think it's awesome. So where would I be with my red eye issues without my Lumify? This continues to be a massive, massive favorite of mine. I don't use it every day. I used it today. I use it when I'm going out on a special occasion and I just want my eyes to look brighter or if I'm feeling I've got some redness but I love my Lumify. I absolutely love it and while we're on that, while we're on that topic, my blink, my eyelash. So I am getting sent to review a mirror that will help put, that you will help you put on, be able to do false eyelashes. I'm really looking forward to it because I don't use false eyelashes and I want to get some false eyelashes and apply them but I haven't yet. My blink has, it's made a world of difference with my eyes. I absolutely love blink. It's an awesome eyelash serum. I love it anyways. For me it works really, really great. Now I was sent and I talked about this jewelry, right? I was sent from a company called Jonesy, J-O-A-N-C-E-E. I'll superimpose a little bit of their website. They reached out to me and they said, would you like to check out our jewelry? Would you like to talk about your our jewelry? Give us a review. We, you know, they said you can pick some stuff on your website and I've done this before. I've reviewed jewelry before. I really liked it but what I thought was really cool about their jewelry was it's all, it's mostly synthetic sapphires. So it comes so beautifully packed. The top drawer has the two boxes that I picked in it. The bottom drawer has some directions for care for the sapphires and for the silver, the sterling silver. It gives you the care instructions for it and I thought it was really nice. So I picked out these jewelry and I had these rings and I was like super excited because one of the things that I have always liked is stackables. That's a stackable but this one, whoops, it fell out because I put it in. This one came with four round rings. I'm going to put them on. So I'm going to put the blue, in my opinion, more of a sapphire band and then it has this adorable, I mean this is really pretty. Now this is the white sapphire. I don't know if the camera's going to pick it up, right? And then I can put the other blue one on the outside of it so you can see. You see that? And then I still have two white ones, right? I can, if I really want to go wide, I can add that and I can add them both actually to like that. But for me, that's a little bit too wide. It goes too far close to my, you know, my finger. So when you look at rings, I couldn't get this on my middle finger while I could but I don't, I don't want to try. But when you look at rings like these stackables, right? I just think they're, is that the right word? I just think they're so cute and so far I took these to the beach and while we were at the beach, we celebrated our anniversary and we went out with another couple and we went to the Sea Glass Restaurant, which is really super nice. I had these rings on and they looked really, really good. Now I had them on because here I've got the wider band in the middle and I have the blue thin band on either side and then here I just have the two clear bands, the two white bands. But now the one I haven't worn yet, which I think you have to really look at it carefully because I'm going to put it on my finger here. I love this. I don't know if this is going to pick up. It has like amethyst in there and that's my birthstone. So it has some really pretty, I'm going to try to take pictures of this so you can see and oh my gosh, this is so pretty. This is really so pretty. Now I have it on this hand with the other stackables from here. So I know I talked about way to see my jewelry. Well I'll tell you, I love jewelry. I absolutely love jewelry and I have some really nice jewelry. I have some pearls. I have some pretty expensive pieces and where are they? They're in the safety deposit box. So to me, and I haven't won this one yet because it still has the tag on it. But to me, when you go away and you have something and you can put it on and you have something that looks so exquisite and so real and so affordable, it's just, I think, awesome. So this company, Junksy Jewelry, synthetic sapphires, they're chemically, they say chemically and physically, optically identical to natural gems. So when you look at this, you don't even know that these are synthetic sapphires. They have a 30-day return policy. They have free shipping. They have a one-year warranty. They're 9.9, 925 sterling silver. So that is really awesome. I think this is beautiful. This has got to be my favorite, favorite piece. It is so, so pretty. And as far as these bands and the bands go, I think they're perfection. So I know I'm going on and on about this, but I can't tell you how much I enjoy wearing my jewelry and how much when you can get something that looks so expensive. And they're on sale. I mean, check out the prices on their website. I think I saw like 30% off and more. And then they have like a sale section. So these are amazing. I absolutely love it. Thank you so much, Jonesy. And I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right, but Jonesy jewelry. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. It is just really, really nice. I'm going to link all the information. You can check it out. I love the presentation. I love how it arrived. I love the cleaning, you know, the little box here, the little tray. You can just keep it, you know, together like that. And that to me was really perfect. So that was super awesome, super cool. And other thing that I had been loving. And I've talked about these before. This is the apple cider vinegar gummies. When I take these twice in the morning and twice sort of midday, my appetite is, I mean, we went to a restaurant and I could not eat what I would normally eat because of this. And I took more than half of it home the next day we had it for lunch. So these apple cider gummies are wonderful. They're also great for your gut health. They make me feel good.  So yeah, these have been a super, super favorite of mine. Another thing is my easy sweets. I've talked about easy sweets in the past and you know what, unofficial sweeteners, pros and cons, it's up to you. But out of all the unofficial sweeteners, this is what I use. This is, it's a Circlos. I can never pronounce that, liquid. So it may or may not work for you, up to you. But this is what I use for my sweetener. I love it. I put a couple of drops in my coffee. I have one in my pocketbook. And now with my new makeup bag, I can just stick it right in there, which is like really awesome. But I love it. And I'm back to really being more religious on that, watching my sugar intake because we've, I've been trying to, you know, exercise a little bit more, walk a little bit more. We're getting ready to buy our, well, we bought our e-bikes. We just don't have them yet. Mine may never come in at the rate it's going. But so we've just been really trying to be super careful with that. Color science. Oh yeah. Being at the beach, I got some color, but I got no burns. So between my hats and my skin here, I use dermatology. I use a lot of the sunblock. I have Kella science. I use that absolutely. Love it. Love it. Another thing I love is my built bars. Now I have just purchased. These two just came in. So they're pretty full. These are just the regular bars. These are what Jay likes. Jay loves the cookies and cream and the mint brownie. These are his two favorites. So what I do is I keep some out. I put the rest in the freezer and I mean one of those will fill you up, right? It's a great snack. It'll fill you right up. And then I have the puffs. This puff is the Banana Cream Pie Marshmallow. I love it. I'm a banana lover. So I really love this. I think they taste awesome. Now I also use the Atkins bars, right? The indulge bars. My favorite indulge bar is the chocolate coconut. Love those. Get them at Wal-Mart. And then the indulge, this is a common, not chew bar. Love those. Get those in Wal-Mart. So they may not be the best choice at times for diet, but when you're on the run and you're working full time and you're always on the go, you know, you get a grab what you can. And I think that beats going to say Burger King and getting a Whopper or something. Yeah, I put one in my bag and it's that I find like midday or later in the day. I'm a little hungry. I want a little bit of something. I'll take the bar. And sometimes I just have half of the bar. I cut it in half, put it in a bag. I really like it. A big fail. Skinnies. These I have seen all over the place and people love them.  So my battery died. I don't know if I'm in the frame or not, but I ordered, I ordered a ton of them. I would have like six packs of these, right? And this is a Mojito Twist. This Mojito Twist again, Bahama Grita. I've got a couple of other flavors that I got. And I, I don't like them. So you're supposed to be able to mix this like, say with sparkling water or some other low calorie drink, salsa water, whatever. And then you can mix this and you do one package and you're drinking, you add your alcohol and you're good to go, right? Skinnies, cocktail mixes, zero calories. They sound delicious. I know everyone has different taste but for me they were a huge fail. I, I could, I could not stomach them.  I could not, I could not. I, I did not like them at all. I had to throw them out. They were awful. They were awful. So if you guys like them, awesome. I don't like them. Other thing that, and I've talked about this guy forever and I don't, I mean there's no name on here. I got this on Amazon eons ago, but this is a little travel thing and it has a magnifying mirror on one side. I think it's, it's probably, oh, it's probably like a 10 times magnifying mirror. I mean really big and then it has a tweezer on the other.  Oh my gosh. I would go nowhere without this. I'm going to see if I can try to find something close to this so you guys can see it, but I would go nowhere without this at all. I love that. I love it. It's just like been, it's just been huge. I had to get myself a new curling iron. Now I've got like companies that reach out to me and I have like flat irons. I probably have like three different flat irons that I've tried to review and I have reviewed that I've received complimentary, but I just keep going back to my good old-fashioned curling iron and I hate to say it. My curling iron is cheap. I got this at Walmart. I think it was on sale for nine, something under $10. This is con air, instant heat. It's one I've been using for my own hair for Eon. So I just got this. Thank God they still had it because this works good for my bio hair when I have it. Of course what I have on my head is Raquel Welch. A real deal. I always mention it the wrong way. Is it real deal? Real edge. It's real deal and this is in the color shade of cappuccino. I purchased this wig. I love this wig. This wig is just absolutely awesome. Awesome. Great color choice for me. Very, very natural. I think this is a real natural look.  And some of you might go, yeah, she's wearing a wig. Now what makes this different that my mother doesn't like is these blood edges, which is kind of trendy. My mother does not like this on me. I have her on video saying that actually. She does not like this on me because of these blunt edges. But that's my mother's generation, right? Not mine. So I love this wig. This has been a favorite. This is probably the one I wear. I've worn the most other than my twists when I twist my bio hair up and I put it in a bun on the back of my head with a clip. Sometimes I'll wear a topper just for fullness. Sometimes I don't wear anything. It's just my own bio hair pulled up and we've seen it that way many a times. But I will have to say that this wig has been a favorite this past month. It is, I think it's absolutely beautiful. I love the colors. More importantly, it makes me feel good when I have her on my head. So I think that's it. I know I feel like I've been going on and on and on. It's probably wicked long, but I've had so much I wanted to share with you, you know, things I love and things I don't love. Like I said, the majority of this stuff I bought myself. The things that were gifted to me, especially this jewelry. Isn't that beautiful? I love it. I think that is so pretty. And again, I've only got, I've got two other bands. I could put in other white sapphire bands next to the blue one on either side. But then it just brings it too close to my neckles and I just feel like I have too much, too much ring on. But yeah, I'm sure I forgot stuff, but but that's it. That's my, that's my favorite. So things I've been loving, things that were gifted to me, things I bought, things I enjoy, the jewelry. Oh, this stuff is so pretty. So pretty. Anyways, thank you so much for watching. I appreciate every single one of you when if you are new to my channel and you've not subscribed, please consider hitting the subscribe button wherever it is, the notification button. 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