Thank you for coming in today. Yeah. So, uh, Martin, what makes you think you're a good fit for this job? I do what needs to be done. That's pretty vague. Life is vague. Right. I looked over your resume and all you wrote under experience was orphan and assassin. Would you mind explaining that? All I remember of my early life is the streets. My parents were nobodies, and so was I. I had no friends, only allies and the other urchins and gangs that roamed the slums. The only way I could survive was by sneaking and stealing. Eventually I discovered that I could sneak into the homes of cruel nobles and slit their throats while they slept. Seems a little edgy, but, uh, okay. Do you have experience with things like fighting monsters, facing world-devouring evils or deposing tyrannical kings? The cruelest, most evil monster of all is man. The only man is capable of cruelty for no purpose. When a wolf eats a deer, he seeks only to fill his belly. When I strangle puppies, I merely seek to feel something other than crushing emptiness. You strangle puppies? Only on Mondays. And how is your love life? I don't love. I just have sex.  They usually get killed by my enemies not long after, so I don't see the point in getting attached. Martin, are you familiar with antisocial personality disorder? No. Why? No reason. Thank you for coming. We'll call you for a follow-up interview. Uh, next. Hi. Hi. Great to see you. Great to be here. The name's Azaleo. I know what you're thinking. What does this kid think he's doing here? Isn't he a little young to-be-the-hero who saves the world from the Dark Lord? Actually, you're the perfect age. I am? Yeah, fantasy heroes and chosen ones can't be older than 20. The ideal age is between 16 and 18. Oh. Yep, people think we want someone with experience and maturity, but that leaves us with fewer opportunities for drama and character development. I noticed on your application you said that you weren't an orphan? No, but my dad is dead. He was killed by an evil usurper king when he lost his throne. Lost? Throne. So you're the rightful heir to a kingdom? Yes, sir, but I never act like a spoiled prince. I act like any regular average Joe. Oh, the audience will love that. Do you have any previous experience as a protagonist? No, but I was in a love triangle with one. She was a teenage rebel who overthrew the usurper king and the other guy was her childhood friend who turned into a brooding rebel bad boy. Did she...? Yeah, she chose him. I'm sorry about that. I'll have to cut this off now. We're looking for a protagonist for an epic fantasy, not a young adult fantasy. Is there really a...? Yes, there's a difference. Thank you for your time. Now get out. Next. Hello there. Your name is Sam? Yes, this is a job interview, right? Yeah. What? My friend sent in my resume without me knowing I was kind of surprised to get a callback. Who is this friend? An old man. He runs an antique store downtown, always going on about alchemy and fairies and magic and stuff. Do you believe in fairies and magic, Sam? Of course not. I used to be a detective. I don't believe in anything that doesn't have proof. A detective? That's interesting. What kind of cases did you solve? Oh, lots. There were bizarre cults, murders that seemed impossible to solve until we teamed up with a spunky reporter, even a guy who thought he was a werewolf. Was he a werewolf? Of course not. He just grew a lot of hair once a month and tore apart rabbits with his teeth. There's no such thing as werewolves. Oh, I'm sorry. I think there's been some sort of mix up. This is an interview for an epic fantasy protagonist, not an urban fantasy protagonist. I thought this was a consulting position with a bank. First a cop, then a banker? Jesus Christ, remind me to call you if we need a dark lord. Next, can I just say how impressed I am with this city? No, you can't. Listen, Petrin. Wait, your name is Petrin? Is that a typo? No, what makes you think that? Well, it sounds almost normal but not quite. Most people in my village have names like that. Village? Yes, I live in a forest village where most of the people are farmers. Forest? Village? Is there an innkeeper? Only one. He's the town gossip and he always informs us of any mysterious strangers that wander through the area. One time an old scholar came through and wanted to investigate some ruins in the woods that the elders always told us to keep away from. Ooh, mysterious. Yes, very mysterious. Are your parents alive? Yes, they still work on our farm. The village hasn't been burned down yet. That's good. Do you yearn for adventure? It's my only real personality trait. How would you feel about being a chosen one who has to save the world? I would do it. I just complain a lot. Like, man, this is a heavy responsibility. I know I was hoping for adventure, but I'm at the type of adventure where I just killed some rats or something. Wow. I'll be honest, you sound perfect so far. Just one more question.  Sex? What's that? Excellent. Come back tomorrow for your second round interview. But what's sex? I'll tell you when you're older. Next, and you're... Harold? That's me. Harold. Harold Cobbler. At your service. That sounds derivative. Derivative? I spent my whole life being raised by cruel, normal people after my parents died. Then one day I discovered I'm magic and I can go on adventures. I even have my own wand. See?


Getting a band 8 or 9 in IELTS writing is much simpler than you think. Over the course of my career, I have corrected more than 10,000 IELTS essays. I've seen every single mistake that an IELTS student can make from structuring their arguments to making silly vocabulary errors. And one thing that I can tell you is all of these can be easily fixed. Every student that I have worked with that has got a band 8 or 9 has followed one simple strategy. Understand what the common mistakes are and learn how to fix those common mistakes. So today what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a band 6 real student essay that is full of the most common mistakes that we see and I'm going to show you sentence by sentence how to transform that essay from a band 6 to a band 8 so you'll be able to see how simple it is to transform your writing and get the score that you need. So if your aim is to get a band 7, 8 or 9 in IELTS writing and relocate to the country of your dreams you're in the right place. So sit back, relax and let's learn how to improve our IELTS writing. So let's start off by looking at this student's essay and figure out why this is a band 6 and then I'll show you how to transform it to a band 8. Now do not skip ahead. If you skip ahead you're not going to understand why most students get these things wrong and in my experience after you know correcting thousands of essays the students that learn what to avoid do much much better than the students that just learn a bunch of good things to do in their essay. I know that doesn't make sense but a lot of things don't make sense about IELTS. Do not skip ahead watch this part of the video and understand the bad things to avoid. Everything that we're going to discuss will be related to these. These are the official band descriptors. When your examiner is marking your essay they are looking at these bands and this is what they're basing their score on and only this. So it's really important that you understand why these things lead to a low score. I'll also share the new guidance that was released recently. It's a little bit more detail and it's released from IELTS so it's something that you should definitely pay attention to. So let's start off by understanding the question very very important. Some people believe that professionals such as doctors and engineers should be required to work in the country where they did their training. Others believe they should be free to work in other countries. Discuss both views and give your opinion. So the student starts off with noisy days spelled incorrectly. The crucial debate about professional people working in other countries is raging. So in the very first sentence the student has made a crucial error. They've made a mistake which is including a background statement. Now many of you have been taught because many teachers teach their students to start their essay with a background statement. Why is this wrong and why will this lower your score? Well the background statement is an example of a memorized sentence or memorized template. Normally they will look something like this. Nowadays the crucial debate about X so insert the topic is raging. So what happens when students memorize these things is they will often make mistakes. So for example this student and this is a very very very common mistake they have misspelled the word nowadays as nowadays. If I had a penny for every time I've read the word noisy days I wouldn't be teaching you IELTS. I'd be on a beach somewhere enjoying myself. The other reason why this is a mistake is more strategic. So you only have about 40 minutes to write your whole essay. You should not include anything that doesn't improve your score. Background statements do not improve your score at all so including them is wasting time. So anything that wastes time and leads to vocabulary errors grammar errors and doesn't improve your score at all is a complete and utter waste of time. You have also created a very bad first impression because as I said the examiner has seen this a thousand times in their brain when they read that they are automatically thinking this person is just relying on memorization and templates they've probably went to a very bad school had a bad teacher this essay is going to be bad. Do you want the very first impression to be that probably not. It also simply just doesn't make any sense whatsoever read it. Nowadays the crucial debate about professional people working in other countries is raging is it is it actually raging is this a debate that a lot of people are having. No there are far more important debates and problems in the world than professional people deciding whether to stay or leave their country.  I'd also like to draw your attention to the official marking criteria and what it says for a band zero where there is proof that a candidate's answer has been totally memorized. Your first sentence is providing proof to the examiner that you do not know how to write. If you knew how to write an essay you wouldn't use memorized sentences like this. So what some examiners will do is they will discount that entire sentence because it is meaningless it doesn't mean anything it doesn't contribute anything to the essay. Let's have a look at the next sentence. Whilst many people believe they should remain in their home country others say they should have freedom to work anywhere in the world. This essay will endeavor to analyze both sides before coming to a reason conclusion. And let's look at the official marking criteria to show you why this whole introduction is just a complete waste of time. If we look at band nine for task response a clear and fully developed position. Band eight a clear and well developed position. Band seven a clear and developed position is presented. And if we look at the guidance for the marking criteria says the task response assesses how clearly the candidate opens the discourse establishes their position and formulates conclusions. So what your position is is what you think about the question what do you believe is the answer to the question. So what is the question asking you to do what's asking you to do three things discuss this view discuss that view and give your opinion three different things. This introduction doesn't do any of those three things whilst many people believe they should remain in their home country that's just repeating the question it's not saying why it's not giving any position others say that they should have freedom to work anywhere in the modern world again no position they're just repeating the question. This essay will endeavor to analyze both side before coming to a reason conclusion. This is a memorized sentence again so not very good but also there is no position no opinion give your opinion there's nothing here. Now why do students do this well maybe it's not your fault I've taught in many many countries all over the world especially Asia and in many countries I'll not name individual countries don't worry I'll not pick on anybody but in your education system you are often taught from a very small child not to take a strong position or not to have a strong opinion on anything. This is completely the opposite to the western education system and how IELTS want you to write essays they want you to have a strong position and tell them what you think so if you want to move to a western country and get a high score on the IELTS test you have to abandon this idea of not taking any position and just being very wishy washy about everything. Also the other reason is many of you go to IELTS schools and IELTS teachers that just teach you this templated memorization technique the examiners are not dumb most of the senior examiners have marked well over 10,000 essays and at least 70-80% of them look like this that is why it is extremely rare to get band 8 and get band 9 but it is extremely common to get band 5, 5.5, 6 and 6.5 these are the most common scores but don't worry we'll show you how to transform this introduction in a very very simple way and show you how to tell the examiner exactly what you think about this question in a very simple effective way.  I hope you're enjoying this video on IELTS writing if you want to improve your IELTS writing even more and put all of the things that you're learning from our youtube channel into practice I've developed a free course called IELTS essay builder what IELTS essay builder does is it gives you a free course that structures everything from your introduction to your main body paragraphs to your conclusions it shows you a step by step sentence by sentence how to write everything that you're learning here and it's 100% free and it's helped thousands of students get a band 7, 8 and even 9 to sign up for that for free all you have to do is just click the link in the description enter your email address on that page and we'll send you that free IELTS essay builder for free thanks very much now back to the video let's move on to the first main body paragraph let's check this out and see if this is good or not on the one hand okay this is a totally acceptable way to show I'm going to discuss this first point doctors have a duty to take care of their own people this is because doctors pay for a doctor's training therefore medical professionals have responsible to give back to nation likewise engineers have many crucial skills that are valuable to their home country for example my brother is an engineer who built a high-speed rail network of my home country which is now the envy of the world so overall this is quite good but there's a couple of major issues here and if you read this paragraph if I gave you this paragraph before this video 80-90% of students would say you know that's quite a good paragraph they should be getting a high score but there are a couple of fundamental issues with it so if we have a look at band 6 for task response it says main ideas are relevant these ideas are relevant there's nothing wrong with them but some may be insufficiently developed or may lack clarity while some supporting arguments and evidence may be less relevant or inadequate if we compare that with a band 8 ideas are relevant well extended and supported so this is all about idea development in other words did they take each idea and fully explain each idea and provide an example to help support that idea even more so the problem with this particular paragraph is there are two main ideas instead of one central main idea so instead of fully developing one idea they've put in two ideas and they have failed to really fully develop both of them because they just don't have time they don't have enough room to do that now when I asked the student why did you do this they said well it says in the question to talk about doctors and engineers so I talked about doctors first and I talked about engineers my old teacher that's what they said told me that I must talk about everything in the question in order to get a high score well let's have a look at the question and analyze whether that is true or not some people believe the professionals such as doctors and engineers why does it say such as doctors and engineers well professionals is not a very clear succinct word it has many different meanings so by putting such as doctors and engineers into the question what the people at Cambridge who wrote this question are trying to do is help you understand the word professionals they are not instructing you that you must talk about doctors and then you must talk about engineers so by following faulty advice the student is lowering their score and doing the wrong thing remember the examiners are only following what it says here in the marking criteria they're not checking in with your local teacher and asking them well what did you tell them also this second sentence just doesn't make any sense in relation to the explanation that they're giving this is because doctors pay for a doctor's training therefore medical professionals have responsible to give back to nation when I spoke to the student about this and asked them it doesn't make any sense it's confusing they're oh no I meant to write government this is because the government pays for a doctor's training therefore medical professionals have responsible to give back to nation and the reason why they made this mistake is they were trying to think of way too many things on test day because they were relying on memorization if you have memorized a bunch of vocabulary grammar templates memorize sentences you're not really focused on the one thing that you should be focused on which is answering the question and writing a clear essay students that just focus on writing a clear essay write a clear essay and answer the question students that are thinking of 17 different things at the same time write confusing things like this if we go back to the marking criteria may lack clarity it's not clear likewise engineers have many crucial skills that are valuable to their home country okay what are those skills how are they valuable there's no explanation in here for example my brother is an engineer who built the high speed rail network of my home country which is now the envy of the world who cares is it really the envy of the world or are you just listening to your government telling you that it is the envy of the world who cares about your brother you're very proud of your brother but that doesn't mean anything to an academic essay this is just too personal you should avoid very very personal examples like this because they only tell the story of your brother or your cousin or your mother whoever you are talking about and I'll show you how you can convert a very personal example like this it's easy to think about how to convert it into a band eight example later in the video so not a bad paragraph apart from the fact that it is not clear the ideas are not developed enough and the example this doesn't make any sense okay let's move on to the next paragraph on other hand a mistake right away so if we look at coherence and cohesion for a band six cohesive devices such as on the one hand on the other hand are used to some good effect but cohesion within or between sentences may be faulty or mechanical due to misuse over use or omission so this student knows what on the one hand on the other hand means but because they have memorized it they don't really know how to use it properly they've made a mistake and again if I had a penny for every time I've seen that mistake I would be a multimillionaire it is better to write nothing and not make the mistake than it is to include things that you're not a hundred percent sure about on other hand doctor and engineers might find it difficult to find job and adapt to society of foreign country there is always language barrier to face when moving to new country and many doctors require high aisle to score in order to do their job for example doctors have to achieve the incredibly high score of 7.5 in most english-speaking countries engineers may also face a culture shock when they move abroad to a new place many engineers have recently moved to Africa to build large infrastructure projects and find a lack of familiar home food and work culture very different from before so can you spot the major issue in this paragraph so if you haven't spotted it yet let's have a look at the question again so some people believe that professionals such as doctors and engineers should be required to work in the country where they did their training so in this paragraph they have covered that point others believe they should be free to work in other countries in this paragraph they've covered that point so this paragraph should be about others believe they should be free to work in other countries but is it look at the ideas the ideas are about why it is difficult to move to a new country the obstacles someone will face the question is about should they have the freedom the right to work in other countries not about whether it will be difficult or not so if we have a look at the marking criteria for band seven for task response the main parts of the prompt are appropriately addressed for band eight the prompt is appropriately and sufficiently addressed so for the second part of the prompt they're not addressing the question their ideas are not relevant so it's impossible for them to get a band seven or get a band eight and this is often a problem that you'll get very angry students that can't believe that they got a six point five or six or five point five because they said I answered the question I wrote a good essay no you didn't this is why it's so important for you to get someone who is experienced and knows what they're doing to look at your essays and point out your mistakes the other main issue is they have repeated the same mistake of talking about doctors and then talking about engineers way too many ideas there are four main ideas in this essay now really there should only be one in this paragraph and one in this paragraph and then fully develop each idea and the good news for this student is their writing is quite good they don't have a huge problem they've just been taught the wrong thing so by fixing a few simple things that will show you in the rest of the video they'll be easily able to move from about six to about seven or even eight so let's have a look at the conclusion in nutshell it's not really appropriate in an academic essay to write in nutshell it's a very informal way of starting a conclusion how many conclusions will you write on test day one how many cohesive devices linking words do you need to learn to put at the beginning of your conclusion one learn one property in conclusion that's simple easy to use and i know many of you right now are in the comments saying can i do it with this can i do it with that can i do it with this just learn one simple thing provided to you by someone who knows what they're doing keep it simple do not learn 17 different ways to write a conclusion because what will happen is you'll either write something inappropriate or you'll make a mistake it's in a nutshell they've missed out the article here there are plethora spelled incorrectly of reasons for medics and those from an engineering background to remain loyal to their mother country like what stop sitting on the fence stop beating around the bush give me your position what do you think about this at no point in this essay has this student given their opinion at no point what is the question asking you to do give your opinion again this might not be your fault you might come from one of those educational backgrounds that you know for the last 15 years you've been taught not to do that but it's time to grow up you're moving to a different country you need to adopt their ways of doing things it is recommended they stay at home in order to avoid the hardships such as homesickness many face when they move abroad the question wasn't asking you to give a recommendation why is the student doing this because their teacher told them to so if you are relying on memorizing a template or a structure you're not really thinking am i answering the question all you're thinking about is what do i put into this part of the structure structures are helpful but they're about you know less than 5 percent of your total score and you should not use them if they're provided to you by someone who doesn't really know what they're doing so as you've seen this student is probably going to get a band six for task response probably going to get a six for coherence and cohesion but that's only 50 percent of your total mark the rest of your mark will be for lexical resource and grammatical range and accuracy and this is a very good example of a band six student for grammatical range and accuracy and lexical resource which is just a fancy way of saying vocabulary most students that we were working with that are getting a six or six point five overall they don't have bad grammar or bad vocabulary but they're making way too many small errors and these little errors add up so the way that an examiner is thinking about your essay in terms of grammar and vocabulary is not did you use some words like plethora and nowadays and the debate is raging they don't look at that and go oh my god this person is amazing what they're doing is they are looking at your range but most importantly your accuracy they are counting the number of mistakes and very very basically if more than 50 percent of your sentences have grammar vocabulary spelling errors in them then you are going to get a band six and it's impossible for you to get more than a band six because all of these little errors add up so let's take vocabulary this student doesn't have bad vocabulary but they're trying to use too many words that he don't really understand and this is leading to a lot of spelling mistakes and spelling is counted in the electrical resource part of the marketing criteria so nowadays plethora endeavor responsibility and many other small little vocabulary errors that are present in more than 50 percent of the sentences i'll show you a very very quick and easy way a simple way to eliminate most of these mistakes and transform your essay from about six to about eight later in the video same thing with grammar so most of the students that we work with most of the essays that i have marked don't have a huge problem with grammar most of the grammar is quite good in this essay but they have one or two areas of grammar so that could be articles punctuation subject verb agreement tenses for example or other areas of grammar that they have a huge problem with so if you have a look at this student you will see that there are multiple article errors in nutshell on other hand might find it difficult to find job have a responsibility and over and over and over again so again all these small errors just add up and then when you combine that with lots of spelling mistakes too many ideas not answering the question a relevant ideas this all adds up to a student who believes that they're getting about seven or band eight opening up their score on results day and seeing a big fat six but the good news is is that you can easily fix all of this and transform it and over the years i wish i could have just taken each of these essays and given the student you know 10 or 15 minutes of advice and they would have really improved their score and moved to the country of their dreams and had you know a very happy high paying job and all of those good things so the good news is for you is we're going to do that for you in this video this video is sponsored by us ialt advantage and ialt vip course the ialt vip course is the most successful ialt course in the world that is a fact because we have more about seven eight and nine success stories than any other ialt course in the entire world we do that by simplifying the whole ialt process supporting you with some of the best ialt teachers in the world and being with you every step of the way until you get the 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really what they're testing can you look at something think clearly about it and then put it clearly on paper so let's reiterate what are they asking you to do they're asking you to do three things why do people think this side why do people think this side and what do you think now just to go into a little bit more detail this is something that we teach our vip students it's not why do you think this and why do you think that it's why do other people think this side why do other people think that side and what do you think so looking at the question again you need to be thinking about why do some people believe that they should be required to work in their home country why do some people think that if you ask someone that what would they say what is the main idea behind them thinking that then others say they should be free to work why do they say that and then the third thing that you need to do is what do you think do you agree with this side do you agree with that side or do you think something slightly different i'll show you how you can do that all in your introduction so what we're going to do is take this introduction that is meaningless and we're going to show you how to transform this into an introduction that answers the question which is what you should be doing so whilst many people think that professional workers owe a debt to the country they trained in so what have we done there we've explained why people believe this side they believe this side because they think that these doctors engineers nurses lawyers whoever was trained in that country they owe a debt not necessarily money but they owe that country they have a responsibility to remain there and work there so what we've done in that sentence is we have immediately said this is why people think this and compare that with you know this is a hot topic that is raging and some people think that meaningless to exactly what people think the difference between these two we often describe this as a shotgun approach so this one here is a shotgun approach if you think about how a shotgun works you use a shotgun to spray an area and hope that you hit something compare that with a rifle a rifle is one shot one kill a rifle is accurate that is why they are so deadly short to the point answer the question now let's move on to the other side of it I believe they should be free to work where they choose because they can make more money so if you asked someone you know your doctor engineer your lawyer your nurse why are you moving to a western country or an english speaking country because I can make more money if you asked a hundred of them why are you moving away to make more money so we don't choose the most complex or the most high level or fancy idea we choose the simplest most straightforward most popular idea because they are easy to understand easy to write about one thing many of you are jumping up and down and you know furiously typing you can't put I you can't put a personal pronoun in your IELTS essay remember what the question says give your opinion what do you believe easiest way for you to do that is just say I believe I think it is my opinion you're not going to lose any marks for that in fact you're going to gain marks because you're making it super duper clear what you think and how you're answering the question and nowhere does it say in the official marking criteria or the official guidance that you're not allowed to do that so what have I done with this sentence I've done two things this is why these people believe this because of money and I agree with them I believe this too so you've done all three things in one sentence here's what these people think here's what these people think and this is what I think now many of you will look at this and think it's not long enough it's too short size does not matter thankfully there is nothing in the marking criteria that says your introduction needs to be very long like other things in this world it's not the size that counts it is what you do with it I could write a very very long introduction like the band 6 student did but it wouldn't really satisfy the examiner this one is short it's small but it's mighty in fact what this does is it shows the examiner that you've understood the question you've answered the question and you're telling the examiner what is coming up in the rest of this essay because all we need to do now is take this side write about it in our main body paragraph fully develop that main idea then take the other side fully develop that main idea and then summarize everything in our conclusion so that's what we're going to do now so in our first main body paragraph we're going to like the band 6 student we're going to talk about this first of you but we're going to reduce the number of ideas from two to one so we're going to change nothing about the cohesive device on the one hand showing the examiner and want to talk about this side first so on the one hand professionals often receive considerable funding from their government to become fully qualified so this is just a much simpler clearer way of saying the same thing that the band 6 student said doctors have a duty to take care of their own people this is because doctors pay for doctors training not very clear this is much simpler but clearer what I have done is put a topic sentence that just clearly states this is the main reason this is the main idea there's no explanation here there's no complexity you're just saying this is why people believe this now we need to explain why they think this so big difference between band 6 and band 8 is band 6 will just state main ideas and not really explain why those ideas are true imagine you're arguing with this person imagine you're saying well why should they do that you know I don't agree with you can you explain more it is only fair that they should repay the support by working in that place so if someone helps you it is fair it is the right thing to do to repay them but again we need to explain this well why why is it fair so we need to continue to explain so that's a difference again between a band 6 and a band 8 band 6 when they're writing explanations they might write just one sentence where as a band 7 band 8 band 9 they will develop that explanation a lot more they will fully explain it they will fully develop it so that anyone could read this and understand this person's point this is because they often do jobs that greatly benefit society and this is why their government invested in them in the first place so explaining why do governments pay for doctors and engineers and lawyers and all of these professional people why do they pay for that is it just to keep them happy to keep them busy no it's actually quite selfish they do it so that that investment pays off in the future normally governments and politicians don't do things just to make people happy they do it to get a benefit so we're explaining that and also I made a mistake here and don't worry band 8 band 9 is not about writing the perfect essay without any mistakes without any messiness you can easily just cross something out and continue on you're not going to lose marks for that and band 9 students even make little slips it says that in the marketing criteria so we fully explain that what we need to do now is we need to include an example to support that so remember the example of like my brother built the railways all by himself what you can do is you can take a personal example so I actually do have a member of my family that is a doctor and the government did pay for them I was a lawyer and the government paid all of my university fees so I got a law degree and went to law school for free now I do have those examples in my brain but they're too personal I'm not going to write for example my brother is a doctor and the UK government paid for everything but I can take that personal example and I can expand it to talk about the general idea the general population and it's not just my brother it's thousands of doctors every single year that are trained by the UK government so take my brother expand it out the UK pays for thousands of doctors every year so for example the UK let's put spend it's a little bit more accurate millions of pounds training junior doctors through university tuition fees and on-the-job training so as you can see we've taken multiple ideas we've reduced that idea down to one relevant idea that answers the question fully explain that idea and then supported it with an example that makes sense now we're going to move on to the second paragraph where we're going to show the counter argument I'm going to show the other side of it because that's what the question is asking us to do apologies this is going to look really messy I'm thinking about what to say to you guys and thinking about the cameras instead of focusing on what I'm doing however every individual should have the opportunity to reach their maximum potential so I'm showing the counter argument these people think that governments pay lots of money so they should stay and pay off that debt however other people think you should have the freedom to earn as much money as you would like to so what I'm doing here is I'm explaining it and what I do is I use this so what technique whenever I was in English class I had an English teacher and what he would do is he would walk over look over your shoulder and point to topic sentences point to ideas and say so what he would do it very violently I'm not going to do that with you but what that English teacher was trying to beat into me was explain what you mean so they should have the opportunity to reach their maximum earning potential what does that mean well those in the professions those jobs are some of the most highly skilled highly sought people in the world so what keep explaining there is a global market for their skills and they can command much higher salaries by moving abroad so you could go into a lot more detail you could talk about globalization and post globalization that now we live in a world where there is one market for labor it's a very complicated thing but a very simple way of saying it is there is a global market for their skills and they can command much higher salaries by moving abroad if they move abroad they make more money more money is good they should be able to do that so what keep explaining if they were blocked from doing so it would be a substantial financial disadvantage for the individual so this would be a bad thing if people were not allowed to leave imagine you're a doctor or a nurse and you're not allowed to leave your home country that would be a very very bad thing and you wouldn't be happy about that so we've just explained that put yourself in the shoes of that person a big difference between a band six student and band eight student is you will often hear band six students saying I don't know anything about this I'm not a nurse I'm not a doctor I'm not a lawyer I'm not an engineer but you have an imagination you have a brain you can put yourself in the shoes of that person imagine you are a highly qualified doctor making ten thousand dollars a year and you could be making a hundred and ten thousand dollars a year in another country would you be happy if they blocked you from leaving the country so we fully explained that next we need to think of an example personally I don't know anybody in this position because I live in a free country where you're allowed to come and go as you please but I can think of other jobs where you can earn a lot more money by moving countries an obvious one that springs to mind would be petroleum engineers you know I live in Ireland there's no oil or gas here or very very little if you're a petroleum engineer in Ireland you are a huge financial disadvantage but if you can move somewhere that has lots of oil and gas you will make a huge amount of money so let's use that as an example and that will also use the question doctors engineers we've given the example of doctors here we're going to give another example of engineers here so to those people that think oh you didn't answer the question well we just did you don't have to do that again we're using the question to help us so for instance petroleum engineers can make hundreds of thousands of dollars more in oil rich countries such as Saudi Arabia compared to remaining in Europe is this true yes is it related to the main idea yes so this part we've only really talked about why people believe this site we need to reiterate our opinion remember we're doing those three things that wasn't done in the second main body paragraph in the original essay and the easiest way to do that is I agree I agree that the individual's right to work wherever they please trumps any nationalistic considerations the individual a person's right to work wherever they want is more important than some nationalistic belief that you know everyone should stay at home okay let's change this conclusion so we're going to change in nutshell to just simply in conclusion so we're not going to talk about plethora of reasons we're going to actually state the reasons we are going to summarize our main points so we're going to say these people think this other people think that I believe this and do not worry about repeating yourself so in the original conclusion the person really didn't take a position and they were introducing some new ideas because often people are taught that your conclusion cannot repeat any of the ideas in your essay this comes from a misunderstanding of what a conclusion is and what an essay is and really it's confusion about not repeating words so many many teachers believe that if you repeat a word you will get a low score a lot of them confuse that with not repeating main ideas a conclusion is a by definition a summary of the main ideas of the essay that is what it is if you disagree with me then you don't know what a conclusion is so in conclusion although there is a tremendous amount of investment in a professional's development so i'm conceding i'm saying yes there is this argument there is a huge amount of money poured in to training these people i recognize that so you're conceding that and you're just summarizing what is in that first main body paragraph they should have the right to choose whether to repay that by working in their home state or moving to a region that pays them the highest value for their skills sorry that is very messy this has taken hours to make and my brain is turning to mush i should have really produced this essay and wrote this essay before writing it all out so again what i'm doing here is i'm conceding yes this is what people think but this is what other people think and i agree with them i believe this there's no recommendation there's no prediction it is just stating the main points and stating what i think now if we look at the whole essay i'm a native english speaker i could have used a lot fancier high level vocabulary but i choose not to because you're not being judged on how fancy your vocabulary is you're being judged on how topic specific it is and how accurate it is it also reduces complexity which it reduces mistakes reduces grammar errors that is far far better and a more realistic representation to you guys about what a band eight and band nine essay looks like after marking thousands and thousands of essays i can truly tell you that people who get a band eight and band nine their essays look simple and easy to understand in fact let me tell you a quick story whenever i used to teach in the classroom what i would do is i would get band six essays like this and band eight and nine essays like this and on the first day of class i would put them up on the walls of the classroom and i would give students stickers one said band six one said band eight band nine and i would get them to put the stickers on the essays 99% of students always got them wrong because what students believe is band eight and band nine is a complex essay with lots of complex ideas complex grammar complex vocabulary what students are always shocked by is how simple and easy to understand band eight and band nine essays actually are and what i always said to the students was what are they testing are they testing how much fancy stuff you know or are they testing your ability to communicate clearly in writing using english they are testing the latter they're testing when you move to a new country when you move to london or singapore or sydney or new york or wherever english speaking city you move to can you clearly communicate with people and you do that by avoiding all of the mistakes that are commonly in these essays and replacing it with simple easy to understand language and clear easy to understand ideas if you do that your writing will improve dramatically i hope you enjoyed that video and i hope that it really helped you understand what the common mistakes are if you want to see how i transformed a different type of essay from a band six to a band eight just click on this video and i'll show you exactly how i did it


There is like an aspect of being open specifically about mental health or even autism for a fact around being a man. And I know that it's not mental health isn't something that's, you know, but I think more women on average experience mental health difficulties than men. But I think there's a lot of I don't believe that, you know, I really just I don't believe that that I don't believe that that women, you know, deal with mental health more than men, because there's not really a stigma behind, you know, women and mental health, at least not to my knowledge.  But yeah, no, I just I don't I don't see how that could be the case. Because there are so many men that still won't today that you know, we talk about people being naive and just underreported. Yeah, yeah, it's 100% underreported. And people aren't talking about it because their image is more important than what's going on inside. You know, I mean, and so yeah, I don't believe that for for a minute. I don't think there should be any there should be any comparison to be honest. But I do think that people need to start being more alert and being more aware about the fact that you know, at least we're in the 21st century, you know, why is there still a stigma between men and mental health? It's just it's just it doesn't fit. You know, why do you think that stigma is? Do you think it's I think we are still, you know, this wall is it's evolving into into things that nobody really fought. But them traditional, you know, some of them traditional opinions and then views are still around. And I mean, I think it's I don't want to be called to say it's a specific generation. But I do think that I do think that that's I think I think, you know, people that, you know, have had more experience that think men should be menly. And you know, I think there's just so much of that naivety around, you know, and I think definitely like, you know, that there are a lot of core sort of values that we talk about with with men that I know empathize with a lot. And I think could be useful to a lot of men. But I do think that there is a that I've, you know, for I've been kind of thinking about it a lot recently.  One is you get these overly like extroverted, you know, very insecure men who feel like any, any sign of weakness or any sign of emotion or anything like that, that kind of toxic, that's kind of thing. Some men can be like that. And I have had a lot of people sort of throughout my life who have had that mentality and kind of made fun of me for, you know, having mental illness and not being able to get over it or taking antidepressants or, you know, perhaps not being as confident or strong in their eyes as they see it or even just making fun of me for for sharing things and being vulnerable. There's another aspect of it as well that people, and this goes for both men and women, people kind of assume that because of the way that you look like, you know, and I'm six three and you know, I'm fairly big and it's people kind of overlook it when I when I tell them that I'm struggling because they see me in my physicality. And I just don't think everybody not not even men and women. Yeah, it does or anything between. I know that there are some other life experiences that I think a majority of men might experience that that that perhaps women were experienced as much, which could be things like conflicts like, you know, you're more likely to be victim of a crime if you're a man. You're also more likely to go to war and experience like the front lines and, you know, come back with a lot of see that traditional.  And then we come back to these, you know, traditional, it's it's men on the front line, you know, like men should be big, brave and no, no, just no, because it's all right not to be all right. And that is literally it in it. I just I don't think there's any other explanation. It's just OK not to be OK is all right to say I do struggle. Hey, YouTube, I hope you have enjoyed this podcast clip so far. And if you have, why not check out the full episode, which you can find on my YouTube channel or on other streaming services like Google, Apple, Spotify. You can find it pretty much anywhere you want to. If you have enjoyed this, make sure to like, subscribe, drop a comment down below, even if it's something simple like sending me a heart or an emoji. It really, really does help me with the algorithm. All of my links to my socials like my daily Instagram blog posts are down in the description. But other than that, I hope you enjoy the rest of this clip. You know, it's OK to say I need a bit of support. And I think I mean, even for me, I mean, sometimes I I mean, I struggle to ask for help not because I can't ask them, but because sometimes I always just don't want that help, I want to be able to manage it.  I think there's there's another aspect of, you know, modern day living that I think is quite hard to overcome. It's kind of a bit of a stigma is that we we're very much place like this idea that, you know, men are not as emotional as women. And that they don't feel or I can vouch and fully say that I guarantee that I'm emotional more than any woman on this planet. And I think anybody that's listening that knows me will also agree.  I mean, what is it? Yeah. We're saying you're not allowed to to show emotion.  And that means that you are born with these parts. I still have these parts, you know, I'm still a man. It's OK not to be OK. And yeah, man, we're identified. Yeah, or I don't, you know, yeah, literally that. And it's like. I just think people really need to just I'm so positive. I try to be positive and I try to be hopeful for the the future and for people that are a lot more vulnerable. You have to be. You have to be with mental health, don't you? You have to be positive. Yeah, yeah, but I don't I. I'm always just like at times, I'm like, this is just impossible. This is not going to change. And and it's that where there needs to be more support available to people. I mean, waiting lists are so long, people are dying. It's not good. And we have very high rates of mental health within the autistic community, and we don't have a lot of support for it. You know, really, it's quite often, even if you do get support, it's it tends not to be very effective. No, no, no, no. You almost kind of situations with the rentals. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that that aspect of, you know, maybe an emotional just being absolute, it's absolutely ridiculous because being emotional isn't a masculine or feminine trait. It's not a human trait, you know. Yeah, like we wouldn't do it if, you know, we wasn't made to do them things. Like we wouldn't we wouldn't show these emotions. If we're really angry, it's like it's crazy thinking about work. We have the kids and like, do they not feel emotion towards their kids?  It's yeah, so I've been around to us that are males that I've broke down and cried in front of because I've been really upset by something that said and they've just not. Gave a care in the world. And it's that they just you to to even think that we have in this conversation annoys me. Doesn't annoy me because it's a conversation that should be happening. It's just a you know, it shouldn't even be a reason for why we're having to talk about it. I mean, the world's evolving, man. And this just, yeah, it really does. It really annoys me because. I say I need to recognise when I've made an achievement and be proud of that. And to even be dealing with mental health. You know, that's that's that's an achievement. I should be, you know, mocked because I'm a male that is going through a hard time. You know, I just don't sit right. Don't sit right. I think. I mean, you know, there are aspects to to masculinity that I I find, you know, applied to me. And I think everyone has their own sort of definitions about what that means. But I do think that, you know, for a lot of for a lot of men, we do give ourselves a hard time for having these emotions rather than accepting them. And I don't think that ignoring them and knowing that they're there, but ignoring them and pushing them to the side and developing mechanisms to get around it and not talking about it and not being open and communicating about it. I don't see that as like a sign of strength or a sign of masculinity because it's it's running away from something. If you're struggling with mental health, if you're struggling with depression, saying that you're depressed and that you have these experiences and have these faults and emotions, I think it takes much more courage to push them to the side. There's not enough praise for being like, you know, I'm very I'm such an open person. If I think something, I say it a lot of the time without thinking. But. Yeah, man. We really just need to say that's the ADHD side of things mentally. But. It's just like. Yeah, literally what you said, I couldn't say I wouldn't say. But it's just just acknowledging that that took strength to say acknowledging that that hurt to say. But then then realizing, you know, that it's again, OK, just to not be all right.


My friends the husband and I are going to be going over this big huge tub of empties three months worth Stay tuned. We're gonna have his reaction on this video Everyone I've been saving my empties for a very long time and Bill is gonna join me today to help us go through these I'm gonna have his reaction to these A lot of this stuff is kind of expensive and I don't think that our husbands realize how expensive it is So we're just gonna kind of book on through this because it could take a really long time if we didn't Oh, we're just gonna grab things out of here. Nothing in any particular order I'm gonna talk about whether or not I really like them and if it's something that I did like I'm gonna have him guess how much it was possibly and then we'll go from there and actually he probably knows a lot But about this stuff because he does help me pick out a lot of it. All right from wow Skin science. We have coconut milk shampoo. This was supposed to be really good for Hair that was falling out. I didn't like this very much because it made weighed my hair down a lot And I have very fine that limp hair. So that was a pass for me This one is from Pixie Beauty and it's a blow tonic. How much do you think that one is honey? That one is $14.95. Ah close The little teeny tiny one is $14.95 15 or I don't know they may have raised it to $18 now But this one is probably more like $50 Lovely Yep, okay from Kirkland This is my minoxidil that I was using to it's a hair regrowth treatment minoxidil is Probably the only thing proven to actually regrow hair and this is one of those ones that I Stopped using because it made my hair feel really greasy if I used it too often. So Got any guesses on that? Oh Oh Costco Kirkland brand I am gonna say it was a two-pack for 2999 it was a three-pack three-pack for how much? 2999 1498 On Amazon so that was a pretty good deal on that one. Okay, one of my favorite things ever this actually was sent to me So this is the dermatology physical tinted moisturizer with an SPF of 44 universal tint This is so good. It is Something that you can throw on after your skincare You don't have to have you know the extra moisturizer and the extra SPF and I love this stuff I love the way that it helps my dry skin It's such a good one because of having the physical SPF in it instead of the chemical one So I really like that one a lot This is one that I talk about all the time and he watches my videos. So what is this? Do you think do you remember? Um, it's a moisturizing lotion. It is who makes it. Do you remember? They're from China It's Korean or Japanese actually Japanese Sukoyaki Suhara I have talked about this till I'm absolutely blue in the face Here is their cream their moisture cream I go through the actual cream so very fast because I use this at night and I slather this on and any time I have something that is Hurting like an irritation or even if I have you know something on the rest of my skin on my body that is super dry I will use this cream. I yeah, I have three of them in here I have one of the eye cream which is my holy grail that I wear underneath my makeup Every single day helps me not to look so crazy because I'm super dry under eyes and then of course the lotion Which is an in fact an essence. So this right here little numbers. How much do you think each of these are? Those are 2599 2599 no Actually, they're around $20 each So this is what how many months did I say three or four months worth of the empties? So you kind of know that you got about $100 sitting right here, which is always always kind of fun. Oh, absolutely So this one right here, what do you think about this one not liking the packaging it's pretty plain I'd say $15. Okay. This is from Kylie skin. This is her foaming cleanser This of course as you guys know is probably more than $15. I don't exactly know what it is But this I didn't like because it didn't really take off the makeup It didn't take off like if I was doing double cleanse with a balm or something So it didn't work that great on me and that is not something that I will repurchase If it works like it does on the janitor's you all have big fat Yes, we all have big fat lips. Okay, this is my favorite shampoo. I use this all the time. I have two more of these Restorants pure body naturals actually think I just talked about this. Did I just talk about this in a couple of my videos? Anyway Restorants strengthen hair loss prevention therapy shampoo for men and women no parabens SLS is no harmful chemicals and sulfate free. Yes, this works. I love this When I get away from it I noticed that my hair is not as healthy and not as thick and I don't see the little sprouty hairs that you get Do you get sprouty hairs, honey? Then what do you do with them? Shave them off And then this one is from hask This is their biotin boost thickening shampoo biotin collagen and coffee Okay, first of all any time anything says it has collagen on it Do not be fooled because the collagen molecule is too big to penetrate our skin including our scalp So I liked this shampoo, but it wasn't as good as this one So even though I have another one of these in my shower I'm gonna use it up and I'm gonna stick with my tried and true professional series hydrating argon oil Mask deep conditioning and hydrating for softer silk ear healthier healthier looking hair. I do like this It was really good for moisturizing my hair. How did it do with your hair, honey? Fabulous was it good. Oh, it just made everything tingle. Oh good. Well tingling is sometimes good Sometimes not okay, and then I have two of my very favorite in the whole world. How many more of these do I have sitting around? probably Two more of these sitting around because I buy them in bulk Kendra volume hairspray 25 if you want hair spray that isn't crunchy But hold your hair and does not weigh it down This is the bomb and I will forever be a fan of been using this for 25 years even before you met me Long time ago Okay, what do we use this for babe? What is it? It's bag bomb bag bomb. Do you guys remember bag bomb? We have used it for years and years and my dad used this yes on his animals And then we just learned that anytime you had an open sore Even if a baby has a rash, this is super good. We put it on everything. We put it on our cuts We put it on all kinds of things anytime we get any sort of things So I go through it all the time and I would not be without it bag bomb is one of those things that has an antibiotic in it It's very um gasoline type product where it's got that thick feel bomb feel to it So it's awesome. It does have a funky smell, but the funky smell tells me there's medicine in it That's gonna work. So I do like that. All right We're gonna talk about a bunch of stuff that was sent to me city beauty sends things to me All the time to test and I have a bunch of them They are expensive So I am going to tell you the stuff that I loved the most after I used it up the uplifting firming serum I did like it very much. Um, I have another one that I'm using if I get through this next one And I feel like it has continued to do what I want it to which is I'm trying to always find things to Take care of our sagging neck and our gels. So, um, occasionally I do this stuff on bill Believe it or not. And so I do like this. How much do you think something like this cost, babe? I'm gonna say 35 99. No, this is probably more around 70. Okay And visit crepe body balm, I do like this very much, but I don't know if this is a hundred percent worth it or not It's a huge tub of stuff. I think this again is around 70 dollars Um, I did use this on his hands a lot. Did you like it? Yes? Yeah, this is actually a really good balm And I use this a lot on her bum and it is very It does not use this on my bum. We use it on our I use it on my feet a lot Whatever It's it's a beautiful beautiful lotion and smells like heaven. We love we love the smell. What does it smell like? Kind of a coconut coconut mango tanning oil tanning oil, but yes, it is lovable. It's yummy. Have your man rub it on your behind It's amazing. Okay. That's why they call it bum bum. Boom. Boom cream. Okay. Boom. Boom. The multi action sculpting cream Again, I love that these are fairly big jars Um, I don't know about it being the best ever I probably if I was going to do one of the two I would probably do the invisa crepe instead of the sculpting cream I like them both, but again, they're very pricey the one that I'm not super impressed with is the blue defense hydro gel I did use it up, but I feel like it's it's that blue light therapy and I don't know I didn't feel like it did a whole lot as far as Giving me a lot of moisture and I need a lot of moisture And then this is something that I have discovered within the last six months, which is the complete skin rescue These are their vitamins for your skin But man, these make your hair and your nails grow like crazy My nails have gone nuts. Oh in the past few months. It does take about at least a month One of these jars is just a month supply So it does take at least a month for this to be seen on your skin and nails But I do feel like my hair's starting to grow a lot faster now very very quickly Yeah, and my skin is really loving whatever i'm doing to it very quickly or very very much too This is from laanche and this is their thicket cream. I do like this. However, it's old and it's kind of gotten too thick Um, I use a spray instead of this. How would it do you think it would thicken your mustache? What do you think I think we should use it on the mustache. I usually find just leftovers from dinner thinking your mustache very nicely Yes, they do And the kenra nitro memory cream this is supposed to have a three day style memory This is actually what made me buy the big one and I do love this stuff But this little baby right here lasted me like Two to three months even before that so if you're wondering about it And you want to just try the little one that's good And then I have two gloss treatments one is from l'oreal. This is the one step toning gloss boost shine enhances color Is this purple? Yeah, this is for people that want the brassies gone from their Um hair. I like this. I like the gloss and I like the tone of it But I like the one that I use more from pervana. I don't even know if I have that in here because I don't have my pervana one in here. I actually like pervana better Um, he seems to like my cool hair the cool color on my hair a little bit better than the brassies And then this one is just the john frida luminous glaze for all shades. It's the clear gloss I've talked about this a million times. You guys know. I love it Oh, this is something that we need to talk about This right here is trish macavoy's number nine blackberry and vanilla This is one of my favorite Uh perfumes of all time and I'm gonna have he knows what it is But I'm gonna have him smell it and I'm gonna have him react to it Delicious Just delicious I think it's sexy. It's very sexy a little It's musky in this area here A male will become very aroused because of the stuff We don't need to talk like that. But yeah, okay. It is very very sexy. Um musky Has a little bit of fruity notes in it But this is an amazing fragrance and when it comes around to the holidays right now and they have the sets I always pick up one of these because it is probably my number one fragrance of all time I love this stuff and he loves it every time I wear it. I actually get stopped somewhere and they're like, what are you wearing? So it's a beautiful sense. It's awesome. Yeah, it costs a little bit more, but it's totally worth it All right, one more hair product. This is the triple sec from dry bar. I actually love this Texturizers amplify amplifies and refreshes. I love this. Um, I don't know if we've ever used this on your mustache No, I don't think so. Uh, yeah, it's supposed to give lots of body. We could use it in there and you know fluff up your mustache What do you think? It's already fluffy enough, but I'm always game for anything I do want to tell you this right here. You use this every night. Don't I honey? Yep This is from crannous cell. This is the bifida complex serum. This is the exact same thing as Well, it's not the exact same thing because it's better Estee Lauder and Lancome both have bifida in um, let's see Estee Lauder night repair And Lancome, jennifique, they both have bifida in it. This one also has galactomyces It's brightening. It really makes your skin look younger It's a beautiful treatment if you're older and you need something to really boost your skincare Bifida is a fermentation process and so is galactomyces that they found that softened skin Smooths wrinkles helps all those kinds of things. Maybe we should start using this on you too We can try it or it just sounds like a bunch of bs, but we'll go either way All right. Well We're trying to help these ladies not talk to them about bs Uh, let's talk about the glycolic wash body wash from pixie. This was sent to me I really I liked the wash itself. I felt like it got you're really clean I don't know about the glycolic part of it because when you're doing a body wash It goes on and it comes off pretty quickly So the glycolic part of it is supposed to do some exfoliation And I don't know if that would be something that would exfoliate that quickly if you were just using it like that And then I have two of these balms. I am a balm fanatic I would much rather use a cleansing balm than I would rather use an oil And I have the good molecules one and then I have the elf one the holy hydration And I I like both of these. I think they're both really good They both take up makeup really slick and I think that either one you can't go wrong with. What's this another More uh, monoxidil. Yeah, and so what do we I usually write that put that on my back And that's why I have the really long old man back hairs about this. It works every time Works every time. Love it. Okay funds more skincare from radiant soul. There is a cleansing oil I don't I didn't like this one at all. It's a charcoal cleansing oil It was black when it came out which didn't bother me, but it didn't take the makeup off like I wanted it to So I won't be repurchasing that one. One of my very favorite ones is from pixie. It's a hydrating milky peel This has plant cellulose in it that actually does the exfoliating So it's extremely gentle and I could use this every day. I really like that one Okay, this one is from dr. Brandt Like some magic in a bottle that gets rid of your wrinkles. Yeah needles. No more from dr. Brandt So I feel like this is something that you need to write out and try it as you can see I'm very wrinkly around the eyes.  What is it honey anti aging cream eye cream Anti-aging eye cream from I don't even know who this is from. It doesn't work Probably purchased from disneyland and as you can see same effects absolutely nothing imagine dermatology hyaluronic hydration honey This is actually good because it does have Has hyaluronic acid polyglutamate acid. It has urea, trellose, lactic acid and dermal amino complex This is one that I have repurchased a couple of times this. I'm just out of it and I forgot about it I'm going to set this inside because I will be repurchasing that super hydrator fantastic for your hydration I love it. All right, so I use up always a ton of Lip glosses from buxom and from city beauty. Which one do I prefer honey? buxom no I prefer city beauty because I do feel like it has a little bit more Of the vitamins in it that help plump the lips and you can use this one as a treatment twice a day Once at night once in the morning and it really does help those vertical lines that you get buxom is a beautiful product I have one in white russian and then I have one in selena. It's very tingly on the lips. Yes I have done that before I have done that before on him and he does like buxom a lot That's why he said I he thought I like buxom because I love buxom He does like it when I do this at night and then I just reach over and I put a little bit on him He he really does like that cooling effect or when he gives me a kiss at night Yes, gets the transfer so city beauty is my absolute favorite but buxom is a close second. There's this one, honey It's uh deodorant loamy deodorant Since I found this for it's for underarms and private parts Since I found this my I have been such a happier person because When you just put deodorant on anywhere else in your body besides your underarms It doesn't seem to work very well and it works fabulous on the private parts It's amazing. You like it. We like it a lot both of us like it And yeah, it's something that I continue to repurchase over and over again Now I will say if you have any um Sometimes if you have any open cuts like if I shave my armpits and I put it there It does sting a little bit So if you have very sensitive skin be careful with loamy and there's an ingredient in it It must be the active ingredient that helps you not smell. So yeah, this is a product that What is it called? Good molecules Toner nice into my brightening toner. I I talked about this a million times you guys I It's one of my skincare products that I'm never without I will put down some of my skincare videos so you guys can see what of these products I do use the most but this is one that is always in the rotation and always have two backups of that Okay, so two Setting sprays actually this is not the actual setting spray. What do you think of max fix plus honey been around for years and years? What do we think of it? We love it. Do we like it? We do. It's very refreshing We like that one a lot and then of course the morphe continuous mist This is one that sets down. I've got a little bit left in that one even So this is one that sets down your makeup and mattifies everything So it's nice going on but it does it smells amazing. It smells to smell Oh, I don't have any I never noticed any smell in it before but yeah, okay the next one From vegan vegan more grow plus advanced hair serum This did nothing for my hair except for make it greasy. So this is one that I would just I saw this on I think it was facebook I was on and I ordered a three month supply of it used it for three months and it did nothing So Anything with vegan or something in the titles crap. Okay. So this I put in here because My husband is about to tell you all about this what melatonin for sleeping these are two of those and We discovered this last year when it was just a time when both of us were having a hard time sleeping really well And somebody mentioned melatonin and how great it was and we don't use this every single night He doesn't use it on nights. He's gonna work because it will actually make him oversleep. Yes But he sleeps like a baby with it. I feel like the next morning that I still have it in my system So it takes me like a half a day So I use a half of a dose of melatonin He uses the full dose This is a really good one because we were using gummies for a while and they have a little bit of extra calories in them But these are these don't have any calories in them and we both it's the best for sleeping It's absolutely wonderful. First sleep. We both love it this from x slash. I have been using Oh gosh, you guys I got that was x slash not x lax Just to clarify I've been using this for like five years. They sent it to me five years ago and I continued to repurchase it It's what makes my eyelashes super long. I love this stuff. I will never be without it Um, this was really expensive. This is the nyad voicemail mask This is supposed to be super hydrating. It comes out in a weird funky tube I am I wasn't super impressed with this. It it has a terrible smell. It has it.  We're not allowed to say that. Okay.  Well, what is it?  It's disgusting. Yes. It's a nasty smell But if you or somebody that likes that super charged moisture, it might be good for you.  I mix this into my Foundation like it just said This is the blue one. A few of you have asked me about this I think I do have a video on showing you how to use it or at least telling you how to use it Um, this is a whole one that I've used up. I have another one as a backup. I have the white And it just it works so well if you're somebody that is cool toned and you get orange Or you find that foundations are always too orange for you if you're somebody that finds you have an olive complexion And that your foundations don't look that kind of olivey color that kind of um deeper color You might try this one and the yellow one together that one might work for you Um, it does help make it a little bit more green, which is what olive is So maybe try that see by petra the color corrector I have gone through a whole one of these. I have another one in rotation I'm trying to use up some others the one that I'm using right now is from tart. It's a color corrector What do I do this for hun? It's for correcting your color and where and I'm still white. So obviously it's not working So under eye corrector absolutely fantastic But um, I have a tart one that I'm using. I'm nowhere near as impressed with that or charlotte tilbury Which we think charlotte tilbury is quite over hyped. Yes very over very over hyped and very expensive Here's another fragrance that you can't smell because it's gone completely But it's juicy. We love juicy. I have a whole entire collection of juicy this one I can't even see that this one is one that um, I just used up in my purse. So that one's in there Um Revlon color stay prep and protect primer base. I've talked about this on my channel many times as well Beautiful primer for sitting underneath your makeup and helping with the spf I think it's a 34 36 on the spf. So good. We absolutely we I absolutely love I I guess I love it. He loves it too. Yeah, he likes it too. Okay. This one Remember I just talked about the galactomyces. This is from physicians formula and this is a galactomyces spray It's a lot more than you get in other skin care products And again, the spray is beautiful and you can just spray it on your hubby or spray it on yourself Bill doesn't do facials very often. I kind of went out of frame.  Yeah, and if you can tell right now He's got a little black eye. I don't know how he did that.  Well, it's the contour, but she calls it her cream bronzer I emptied out a whole one. I'm so proud of myself. I don't ever do that But this was fantastic. I loved how creamy this was for mature skin It sits down so pretty on the skin and it will eventually go down to a powder like product on your skin. So I loved that. I think it's great. We're almost coming to the end here. I have a Skin brightening anti aging serum with tranhexamic acid I love tranhexamic acid, but I think I need one that has just that actually This has tranhexamic acid our butin vitamin c e it licorice and hyaluronic acid. That's really good So I don't know if I'm meant to repurchase this one. I'll put this one aside and try it again as well Okay, these are my excuse me. That's not who the company is but it's the ultra fast drying drops I use these every time don't I babe? Yep, and I don't ever mess up my finger nail polish So it's really fast and if he does my toes for me. He uses this on my toes too. So my toes don't get smudged He's really doesn't use it on mine though. I usually just pick out a color and that's all I get Yeah, it's usually we usually pick out green or blue for him So we've done black ones, but then it just looked like his toes were dead. Yes It was a very good look purples greens are fabulous on your toes All right This last few products amica perk up dry shampoo not to impress with this. It just weighed my hair down Usually if you say that Try again take two Amica perk up dry shampoo. I didn't I didn't like Like this because it weighed my hair down a lot fantastic truth treatments Retinol 5% is what I used. This is super strong though You will make your skin peel and you have to be careful with it I been I bought the big tub after I use this one because it's a way better value But this is not cheap. It's really expensive But I do get it when I get at least 25 off at skin beautiful rx and if you haven't shopped with leah We love leah. She's a fantastic gal. We've she's given us lots of pr and we love her Um Milk makeup hydro primer. This is the gripping primer. What what would you think about a gripping primer, dear? Something you put on your hand to grab me by my lovely I can't use you if you say at Never mind Hey, what would you think about gripping primer, honey?  Well, I don't know about that But yeah, it's a good one. It's really pretty under makeup And it does hold your foundation on really well and we do have a few more But I'm going to stop it there because this video is way too long already. I hope that you did enjoy bill Being here with me. Um, he doesn't usually have a lot to say anyway. Well, he does He's kind of been quiet today.  Okay. Love you all very much. Thank you all for your support We got we really appreciate you guys and how you support us You have no idea what it means to our family So thanks again. Love you and I will see you all in my next video, but bill probably will So goodbye. Bye friends