Okay, so can we make this full screen? Okay, uh, sorry 15 minutes, right? Hello everybody. My name is Kai Hendry. I'm co-organizing this music group. So just so you know, I am an AWS fanboy and I also can be wrong and I'm also pretty opinionated and the things I'm talking about are kind of disguised to wild you so that we can maybe have a good question time or you can punch me in the face or something.  So this talk is about ECS. Who's familiar with ECS? It means something, something, something. It's basically running Docker images. Do we know what Docker images are? It's basically the shitty version of AMIs just so you know.  But, but here's a tip for you, use AMIs. But if you have to use a Docker image, you probably want to use something like ECS. So, oh, the whole one step thing came as a nod to Joel on software. He's a, I don't know, this blog post is like from 2000. I think, I think there's more contemporary guides now like the 12 factor app. But I like the Joel test. Who's familiar with Joel on software? The Stack Overflow guy. It's just a couple of you. Jesus Christ, how do you get stuff done without Stack Overflow? Okay, now I am, something I wrote a while back. But it doesn't actually account for everything. Like, I don't think I account for AMIs. But I guess when you're, when you're hosting a service or something, you probably started off doing it manually. Then you might have got smarter and sort of using Chef or Puppet. And then you might even got smarter still and started using something like Dockoo or Heroku. And then maybe the next phase was maybe doing something like, I guess AMIs and stuff would fall under four or just doing it yourself with Dockoo. And then I see the next step is using something like ECS. And then the ultimate come serverless. But I'm kind of, I'm kind of interested to hear where you guys are.  I mean, we've all been there. No one. Okay, one or a couple.   Well, anyway, you, it's okay to, to, to evolve. You have to start manual, otherwise you can't see the benefit of probably hitting serverless.   Like how do you, how do you inspect images of five years? There's, there's other things I just hate about Dockoo images. Like if you use like a base image or something else, like Ubuntu or something or something less reputable, shall we say, the whole thing can change underneath you and break your, your image, which I've always, I just hated. And I had this one instance when my whole environment went down because one of the, the guys, the images that I was using changed his port. Anyway, there's just so many of these little problems I've had with Dockoo that I, I'm not going to cry. I'm going to cry. Don't cry.  No. I mean, who's had problems with Dockoo?  Okay, it's not, it's not as easy as people make it out, out say. But I think the fundamental, the fundamental problem with Dockoo is, is something that it allows people to basically bringing complexity into their architecture. Oh, I can bring in this MariaDB image. Oh, I can bring in this Mongo image, or I can bring in this other image.  That is why, well, that's probably where the reason why people like to use Dockoo is that it allows you to bring dependencies. But bringing dependencies is a bad thing in my book. It's bad. It's bad. So why, why do you need to use Dockoo? You probably have a legacy app that doesn't have a clean interface. So you can't map it to serverless very well. You, you might, yeah, same point again, really, it doesn't really have a restful interface. The app might just take forever to start up. Or, I think like Rails, ModPoil. Actually, the solution that I've done here is for a company called Unity. We're using ECS. It works pretty well. But there's some applications. I'm sure you have many of them where you can't run, you can't port that, that, you can't run that, that software in, in serverless. So you have to use something like this, sadly.  So from being, from, to being stateless and, and being fast and basically doing just what it needs to do to get the job done. But of course, there's some things at the very end I mentioned that you have to, like, you know, sometimes you need to keep sockets open. You can't do that on, on Lambda. You know, there's, there's various limits, like not opening a socket or something. So, so how do you deploy Docker images on AWS? Has anyone done it? Out of interest? A couple. Okay. You probably have to do it one day. So there's a couple of ways of doing it. The DIY method I, like Docker, Ryan or something like that, which works, I guess, but it has a whole host of problems, like, like, how do you update it and, or manage it when you have several images, several instances and things like that. There's ECS, which I'm talking about now, I think, Elastic Container Service. And then these new services that are in beta, I believe, or preview. What's the difference between beta and preview? But the, but the, there's, there's a couple of new services coming along, like Amazon support for Kubernetes, which I'm not a fan of, because the last time I looked at Kubernetes, it was, it was terribly complex. So I really can't say I'm the expert of Kubernetes, but I think it's over-engineered crap. And I wouldn't want to use it because I spent so much time using ECS now that I'm not going to, I'm not going to let go, I'm not going to let go of ECS. But, but in all honesty, it might, so might solve the problem. And then Amazon Fargate is allegedly going to solve the problem, make it less, less complex. Because there aren't, to be honest, a lot of pitfalls with ECS. But if you follow my advice, you should avoid most of the stuff. So just a brief overview of ECS. You have a cluster that sounds like, I always think clusters sound like huge star constellations, and they're really complicated. They're just a name for a grouping of EC2 instances. Similarly, a service is just a way of grouping tasks that map onto a load balancer. And a task is basically what you docker run. I think that's the easiest way. That's my mental model. Hopefully it's not incorrect, because then I'll be screwed. It seems to work to suffer a lot. So it's not as complicated as it sounds. But when you look at Amazon documentation, it sucks, I'm going to say. How much time have I got? So I must admit cloud formation is a pain. Who's done stuff in cloud formation? I want to shake your hand. How do you manage it? I find it quite difficult. So it's one of those services. I dare say cloud front is in the same category. It's easier for me to set up a cloud front distribution, just tapping away in the console. The minute I have to do it in a terraform or something else, I find it actually more complicated or painful to do it. But perhaps I haven't invested enough time in terraform or cloud formation for that matter.  And I don't think everyone is like Paul. Paul has to build out 50 fricking environments for a demo. What? Copyface, whatever. But what I'm trying to say is the console, if you do things in the console, don't feel like a schmuck, because you probably only have to do it once or twice, and that's okay for most people. I mean, once you build an ECS cluster once or twice, it's like we have a staging demo or production environment. Hopefully, you don't have to do it. You don't have to create an environment every day. So I sometimes think, is it worth investing all this time getting into cloud formation when you're only going to have three clusters or accounts or whatever you structure it? So that's the way I'm defending myself of staying in the graphical environment. Who's with me in the console? Console power. But of course, you can't fricking drive the console to do things like deployments and builds and all the rest of stuff. You have to break into this black world of the console eventually. And this is why you need to use something like ECS CLI. And ECS CLI basically churns a Docker compose file. Who's familiar with Docker compose? It's just basic stuff, really. I mean, you can probably figure it out. You have the image there. You can specify things like all the environment variables. The important thing here is to specify with my beer. It's a specify like use cloud watch. Cloud watch is like a great thing to use with ECS. And also there's parameters to change the memory limit. Actually, memory limit stuff is very, very important with ECS. It caught me out a few times. So depending on the instance you use, you want to tweak the way the memory is used with your images. So that's ECS CLI. Lots of text to help you automate things. Furthermore, ECS CLI doesn't do everything. Sooner or later, you're going to have to whip out your Bash shell script. Who's with me? Bash. Bash forever. Fastest language known to man. I love Bash. It's underrated. ZSH? No, it's for losers. Rises. Bloatware. Don't use ZSH. But Bash is like a million lines of code too. So there is a script here deployed at SH. It's just text. It's just shell. Meaning to maintain different accounts actually. I don't know about you, but I prefer to use accounts. I don't have like several clusters in one account. I separate everything in different accounts. I think that's the best way to isolate things. Who's using accounts? That's the white way. Isn't it, Gabe?  My script checks that the credentials are set up. I think I use like AW CLI something. Just look at the script. And importantly, I substitute a million environment variables into the config. And then basically ECS CLI triggers ECS to take that new config and roll it out as a task. And this is especially... So who uses Travis or some other CI like Travis? Basically, I think... I mean, it took a while. I must say it wasn't an overnight success. But basically, the project gets built. And depending if it's like on the master branch or... No. Depending if it's tagged, then it gets deployed to production. And the demo environment, if it's not tagged, it's deployed to the staging thing. So basically, from a Git push, I'm deploying straight to staging, which I think is bloody marvelous for a Docker-based project. I don't know. I always find it in several steps. And so I'm pretty proud of this all works. And I can prove it to you somehow if we look at the build logs. The whole thing, unlike serverless, which takes a few seconds to deploy, on this, it only takes six minutes and 40 seconds. Whoo! That's good, isn't it? Have you... I think Kubernetes is slower than that. Give me some credit. Start clapping. That's amazing. I don't know if that's good. Anyway, it is bloody amazing to do something in one step to build and deploy. I think, I mean, it's just every what do you call it, development thing should be done in one step.  But there are little issues. Little issues like I can't really roll back very easily. That's a bit painful. Okay. If you want to stop your phone from ringing. Okay. I don't know if you noticed here in the images. I mean, does anyone figured out how to roll back easily? Like, does people use... Do you guys use Docker tags? Because I don't. I find it too painful. Anyway, you could maybe use Docker tags to do that, but then other bits of the environment might not change. So rolling back is a bit tricky, especially since my images are layered. Oh, God. Don't try not to failure images. I really enjoy CloudWatch logs. Who's with me? CloudWatch logs forever. CloudWatch logs is such a killer feature with Amazon. Just being able to search for stuff and find out things. I haven't even started talking about the metrics yet. No. Exactly. And the cool thing about if you start pushing out JSON, you can do JSON queries, which blows my mind.  I'm almost finished. This is my last slide. I guess Terraform, I don't really know, does checks on your environment to make sure it's correct? Like, for example, one thing about the Unity project that I work on is that the cookie needs to be a sticky bit for the load balancer, because just the way bugzilla works. So basically, I wrote these shell scripts to check, to basically go through my clusters and check that the stickiness is enabled. You get my flow. Can you do this with Terraform? Like, check your load balancer has a particular setting. Okay, you can. Okay. I ended up just using AWS CLI because I found it easier. And what is the last thing? There's a blog on Unity all about my trials and tribulations with ECS. I highly recommend you read it. It's linked from my slides, which will be on this video. Hello, people on YouTube.  Basically, this will tell you if your Docker image is not building requests from the load balancer. If it's not building requests, you'll get like a 500 and you should plot that with CloudWatch metrics. And in fact, I forgot to monitor target response time is another important thing.  I don't know. Sorry, I should... But anyway, I think CloudWatch is amazing. You can do things like see... Oh gosh, this video. You can see the requests. Each request takes to run from start to finish. You can see if these 500 errors, you can see what the memory is, usages and all that stuff, all in one place. And furthermore, I'm looking forward to plotting Aurora query, putting in database query times in there too. That's the next level. But anyway, I think what... If you have to run a Docker image, I think there's no better solution than ECS, I dare say. I'm looking for alternatives. No, I'm not. This ECS is working pretty well. And one step deployment I'm also pretty proud of. I haven't seen a better solution. It'd be great to see what Fargate comes up with. But if you need to run Docker image, I present you this solution. And if you have any questions, I'm happy to field requests. That's it, guys. So does anyone run ECS?


Hey friends today I am at the boardwalk resort because I am in the mood for some ice cream and I figure I would show you My favorite place to get ice cream probably in the world not Disney World the world I mean they even have a Rice Krispie treat flavor. How do you compete with that? So let's go do this Here it is the Ample Hills Creamery which is really awesome And it's really good location because even if you're not staying at the boardwalk itself You can literally just walk here from Epcot and it only takes about three minutes maybe four minutes So not too bad Lots of fun facts about this place not only is it located in Disney World But they do have some in New York, New Jersey, California. It actually originated in New York The inside of this place is pretty phenomenal too and because it's located here at the boardwalk in Disney, it's got a lot of Disney theming to it and I love it You notice our little friends here Walt, Witty and PB all just hang out at Disney World while they're here The back wall basically shows their whole entire vacation of going to Animal Kingdom Magic Kingdom the boardwalk and even Epcot down there And even if you check out some of the photos you'll see some photos from their family vacation Them riding on Dumbo Them at Animal Kingdom Looks like they're at Star Wars there. Oh and down here. They're visiting Epcot Center And look at this they even have a full-scale chocolate headless horseman. Wow, that's really nifty, isn't it? No touching. Oh, they got a hidden Mickey back there. I see it But let's get to the good stuff Let's get to the flavors of ice cream because there's a lot and they're all very unique and special So it's gonna be hard for me to decide which ice cream I want to get chocolate milk and cookies Peanut butter wins the cup sweet cream and cookies ooey gooey butter cake peppermint patty Baked and unbaked strawberries and cream vanilla bean Snap that's the one I was talking about That's the rice crispy treat ice cream. How awesome is that? They also have butter pick cambrado, but look at it back there. Wow, that looks good oatmeal lace King of mangoes gooey gooey butter cake Sally sell seashells Very interesting orange marshmallow. Oh And how about this one the munchies comes with pretzel infused ice cream with Mix-ins pretzels Ritz crackers potato chips M&Ms. That is a lot Look at those munchies This one's kind of cool sweet as honey and it's actually sweet cream with housemaid honey cones And just take a look of it back there Wow They actually give you tons of samples But if you wanted to get a whole bunch of different types of the flavors of ice creams You can get a flight for 999 and you can pick up to six different flavors That's what I'm probably gonna go about doing you can also get floats milkshakes ice cream cones the works, you know Ice cream taco I'm gonna try a sample of the sweet cream cookie Oh I'm gonna go with an ice cream flight We are definitely gonna go with the snap. Yep. I like the snap and Probably the munchies You know, it's actually really hard to decide on six different flavors of ice cream that you're about to eat It's like usually you pull up and it's like, you know one or two, but this makes it a challenging butter pecan brittle Peanut butter wins the cup Two more to go sweet as honey Boy what should I get for my last one? I'm thinking either cotton candy or baked or unbaked See, I don't know how I feel about Sally sells she-shells because it's orange marshmallow Gonna try a sample of the Sally sells she-shells she-shells she-shells. I Don't like the Sally sells she-shells. I mean, it's not a horrible taste, but I don't know Something about orange ice cream.  There's my flight of ice cream Whoo, I think the rice Krispy tree is my favorite. I can't wait to get into it. Oh, yeah Look at that Rice Krispy treat ice cream. Oh, I can't even handle it. Is it bad that I should go up and get another cup of it You only get two scoops with the flight, but I could eat that ice cream all day Now it's time for some munchies. This is the one that has the Ritz crackers in it and all the other good stuff It is really good and you can taste the Ritz crackers like a little sweet and salty That's what I like about it. It's very sweet and salty I like it a lot That butter pecan is good though lots of good chunks of pecans or pecans. How do you guys say it? Do you say pecan? Which one is the proper way to do it? I don't think there's any proper way to do it I think it's just all how people speak and how they talk and their accents. I say pecan If you guys feel like this video is being rushed Please know that there is ice cream melting in front of me So I'm jumping right to the peanut butter and look at that. Oh Much too good for children. I am very shocked with the honey ice cream That is like the sleeper of the year because that is delicious I've never had the honey ice cream when I came here So that's just me being an adventurous eater, but I got to tell you Oh, it's good And last but least the bait on bait, which is pretty delicious You can really taste the soft cookie pieces in it and that's what I like I like one of the cookies and the mix-ins are soft And I'm finished Finished and I didn't even get ice cream all over my shirt. That's a good deal But I still have to say the snap-rest crispy treat flavor is my favorite Followed up by the munchies and in a shocking twist the honey very cool And now that I overly satisfied my ice cream craving We're gonna head back into the boardwalk because I want to show you guys the cool Pumpkin carvings that they're doing and they're having a contest We can vote to see which one is the best pumpkin carving and they are pretty nifty Just look at this display awesome We got Jack Skellington Pirates of the Caribbean Hocus Pocus Look at this. This is like a full haunted mansion back here. That's crazy then we got Madame Leota and Oogie Boogie BB-8 And the headless horsemen Ooh the villains pumpkin Ooh graveyard scene for the haunted mansion. Look at the detail But my favorite has to be the pumpkin skyliner How creative is that? You guys can actually vote if you wanted to you just text your vote to<PHONE_NUMBER> Up until October 28, so I'll try to get this out this weekend But number nine pumpkin skyliner. I bet you it's the winner So that's gonna do it for me. Hope you guys had a lot of fun I am full of ice cream and got to check out some nifty pumpkins So look like you live. We'll see you next time Bye


Hello my early birds. Thank you for coming into my life before we get started. Can you give me a thumbs up is the visuals? Good is the audio is good. Can you hear me? Can you see me? Hello everybody in the chat box Thank you so much for joining me you guys on this wonderful Thursday evening First time doing it at eight is the audio funky Jose. Let me know what you think I know Jose is checking out. He might come up to help me All right awesome. I still do see a lot of thumbs up. Jose is watching so he'll let me know Plans for today I'm reviewing what I do have it from the Tom Ford Xtreme past collection in case any of you guys have any kids around And we'll be talking about our predictions for the newest Natasha Denona release I have a sneaking suspicion. I don't know what it is. Nobody sent me any sneak peeks like I asked them to You guys found me. No, I'm just kidding Um, but this is the first time it's never been leaked, but thank you guys so much for coming in. Oh, no get me free So we frozen my laptop Lighting is a bit yellow. You know, that's what Jose and I said it might not be perfect. Um Hello, hello.  Uh, so Jose is going to help me out Uh I think Jose is coming up. So while Jose is coming up to fix that I want everybody in the chat box to share one positive thing that happened to them this week No matter how big no matter how small this is how we start off every one of my lives If you are new to my lives, I am going to go first So Lots of things positive have happened to me this week. Give or take I haven't done a live in three weeks because it was Thanksgiving. Jose's parents were here last week and The week before that, but one we got to see Jose's parents. That was a positive two I think it's a little less yellow, but it's still a little bit yellow Sorry, Jose is fixing just take all the yellows down on the light That's a big one. Yeah, that's better. Okay. We're fine. Thank you. Thank you, Jose So, yeah, let me think where was I at? Oh, and I talked about this on yesterday's video, which was a Q&A But two nights ago, Jose and I actually booked our flight to miami To go apartment hunting We don't actually know if we'll find an apartment that week because the market is so crazy And I'm a little bit picky about what I want with not the largest budget But at the very least we're gonna secure an area or something and we might have to buy our Rent blindly maybe later if we don't find anything, but we're hoping we'll get lucky and we'll find something while we're there But those are the positives. So let me see what you guys have I saw Cindy Said that her scans and stuff are going good and that the doctor Still thinks she's cancer-free. So that is absolutely A thousand percent amazing. I'm so happy to hear that Cindy. Um, okay Marie, this is about the Natasha Denona leaks said andro naked leaked it before his account was taken down You know what actually I did get screenshots of what the leak that leak was I just wasn't sure if it was confirmed or not. So maybe I do have some info to share with you guys on that one Rita is getting promoted and received her third shadow award And is going to parties. Awesome. Linda got a new car I love it when you guys get promotions. A lot of you guys tell me that Breanne finished finals this week as well as getting a tattoo this past Saturday, there is no a better feeling Than finishing finals like a huge weight is lifted off your shoulder. Ms. Jelly mac finally was able to hire a director of nursing I know nursing medical field is a mess right now So I'm so happy that you have somebody else on your team to help you up By the way, jelly mac she won one of my giveaways So I actually sent your giveaway package out yesterday. So hopefully you should be getting that soon Jane decorated her Christmas tree love it My son finished his big essaying class and intended a doughnuts party for perfect attendance I had terrible attendance in school never got the attendance Awards I was good at school, but I I would take days off Um straight a's in your master's program julia Wonderful that is awesome Grad school ain't no joke. Um Janice picked up her grandson and we'll have him for two weeks. How awesome Becky's oldest son is home for winter break. I hope you guys have a great winter break together That's usually a longer break when you're uh for I believe college, right? um Alita finally got her voice back after alluding it to coven Oh, I'm sorry to hear that but that is really great that you got it back Tammy got a new kitty. I'm super jealous Um, Marie is asking him for prayers. Uh for her daughter. She has COVID and is going through chemo Marie I will be thinking of you and your daughter. I think we all will be. Thank you so much for sharing that with us. Um Lana had a good assessment at work amazing Tete my mom is flying out for two weeks for Christmas. She hasn't seen her grandson in over a year. That's amazing To I am happy that your mom did good in PT That's awesome. Oh my gosh, you guys so many good things have happened like really big stuff So thank you guys for sharing that. I mean, I'm so happy for all of you and all the stuff that I'm seeing. That's amazing Thank you so much for sharing this Um, Jane said don't rent in Miami. Go to Broward or Orlando. I live in Miami and the prices are crazy You don't say we know We know it was not crazy when we started looking at Miami and then we anyways That's another situation um Okay Wonderful wonderful. We're gonna stop there and we're gonna go ahead and get started because we're seven minutes in But thank you all so much for sharing your positive token for the week and for those of you who Maybe didn't have the best week. I am hoping that you will have a better week next week. So Beauty list did come through Tom Ford did come through I Tentatively made today's live at eight o'clock because FedEx said that my package would arrive before eight o'clock.  We got it and about 10 minutes ago. I opened this up just to make sure we had everything um So Let me show you what I got But I did order this from Beauty Lish And I was not able to order early when this first launch because I was out and about with Jose's parents And so I just ordered it when I got home, which was a little bit later and they said one of the quads they sold out over something and It was back ordered until like January. So we don't have that one in of course It's the one that's a lot more pretty in my opinion. I mean Hold on I should have opened this before I got into this So anyways, I don't have one of the quads. I'm sad Did anybody get it because I think the same situation happened to most people The only quad we have today is lava luster, but I do have all three of the lipsticks Let me show you really quickly what the other one looks like Let me just pull it up So this collection is still available on Beauty Lish if you are interested Make sure everything is showing up. Good. Yes So if you go to the Beauty Lish Tom Ford page, you'll see the top three lipsticks right here I love that they're silver. I think the silver is so cute. And then We have the Quad so the one that they are showing is the lava luster, but then when you go over here The metal lust It's out of stock and we won't get it for a while So if any of you guys see if this comes to any other retailer like selfridges or Nordstrom Can you let a girl know Because this has my name written all over it. This Is the reason I wanted this collection if this was not in the collection I would not have ordered any of this stuff But I wanted this one so I got the whole dang collection And I didn't even end up with this one. But anyways I'm gonna show you it now Tom Ford is one of Tom Ford and I have a toxic relationship, okay Tom Ford is like that x that you just keep going back for because I either hate him or I love him, you know when his stuff is good It's really really good But then it can also be very very bad and I just get disappointed But then I keep going back and here I am I spent hundreds of dollars on this collection. So Yes, Beautylish has said that Tom Ford has delayed the metal lust Shipping issues from overseas. Okay, so I believe that did happen to everybody then All right. Yes Dang it Thomas, but you know here we are I'm having I'm I'm back. I bought his stuff Okay, so here is the lava luster Oh, I did not know that the compact was this beautiful We have a silver top fading into this Solid white. This is beautiful. Now, obviously the component itself is quite simple But I do love this little change in design here. It's quite pretty And let's open it up. Honestly Oh, I forgot. Let me put myself back Look at this. It looks like how it does in the photo. It looked very textured I don't know that I have a Tom Ford quad that looks this glittery I was a little skeptical at first when I saw this online I didn't know I feel like the formula of this could be very weird This reminds me of a charlotte tobury pop shade. We'll see how it feels But Look at that. Doesn't that look so pretty you can see it reflecting against my lights Is there a Tom Ford palette that has textures like these? I don't think there's one that I own. Okay, let's touch it So these definitely feel creamier than the charlotte tobury pop formula They actually are like a powder eyeshadow. They aren't wet creamy But they're more creamy Honestly, you guys this looks really pretty.  I'm Convinced I like this one and this one is 89 dollars. So let's see how they swatch Okay, yes, thank you. These are brand new formulas from Tom Ford. I thought I had never seen a formula like this and Oh my gosh, the toxic cycle begins because I think I'm going to love this Now if you look at the title of this live It's will Tom Ford disappoint me again because the last quad he had really peeved me Really got me peed off because It was like horrific quality. I know some of you said you liked it, but um It was horrific quality to me So I didn't want to buy Tom Ford again. I was angry. I was on strike. The strike didn't last long This is beautiful. He's playing with my emotions. These look wet and beautiful, right? Jamila That re oh no, okay. So this is a new formula. There are some glitters in here Let's put it on Where's my concealer? I'm using my Tom Ford 90 shade and illuminate concealer that is 90 dollars, but it's amazing Um, I'm using my isam w25 brush to blend that concealer out Oh, no, you guys I think I might convince some of you to buy this because this is Stunning. Let me get I'm gonna use my refer brushes. I did see that refer was still having their 50 off sale. So You're interested. I have the link down below Right. Oh Vicki Jay or Victoria James is here. Hello. Yes, the Tom Ford concealer is awesome I didn't want it to be awesome because of how expensive it was, but it's awesome Which shade should we do first the orange the gold the red Or what is a champagne silver? Oh, Amy came in with a heavy packed question. Hi, Amy. Do you think that formula is better than Pat McGrath? I'll let you know. I don't think so because Pat McGrath If we're talking about her special shades that one's more glittery than these But we'll see champagne champagne orange red Cheryl said definitely not better than Pat. Well, it does not be her Pat's special shades. Okay So we'll start off with the champagne I'm seeing that as a popular one. I'm using a refer number two brush And I'm going in all dry you guys so we are getting a little bit of kickback So I would say keep the palette flat, but let's see how it applies And we'll do the finger after to see if that makes a difference So I do have bare concealer on my lid Not set with powder. So there is a slight tackiness to it That's beautiful for a holiday look if you want like a simple yet glittery eye I have fun ragging on Tom Ford, but he got me here. Oh my goodness. Let me go in with a finger to see if we can get it more intense I was not excited about this quad Because it was too warm. I feel like I have so many warm tone shades like this But this is quite a special formula Okay We'll finish off with the red now On the outer part So the red one feels a little bit drier than the other ones, but it's not a hard pan kind of dry. So compare it to Charlotte Tilbury's pop formula, you know how you can kind of tell after just a few swipes like hard pan is already forming I don't think this will give you hard pan. And I feel like this has like a little bit of a Duo chrome to it Maybe not maybe I'm imagining that but it looks like a red with a gold shift very very slight Okay Maybe I should use my brush first. Let's use my brush first to apply. So let me wipe this brush off I'm going to continue using my refer number two brush Okay, I'm going to press this on the outer half of the eyelid That's very very pretty. I'm more into the champagne shade That's a little bit more my speed But I know you guys would like the red as well And it's fading into the champagne very beautifully I don't have any fallout yet, which is a really good sign. And I don't have a sticky base Only wear time Will really be able to test How good the glimmers are going to stay That's very beautiful. I think this pulled a little bit More wearable than I thought it was going to I was Thinking it might be a little bit more of a vibrant red But I'm blending it out with a refer number 14 brush And that's pretty that's kind of pushing the glitters out, but you're still getting that reddish hue holiday party look guys and Beautylish is awesome with their shipping you get it in like two days So if you have a holiday party to go to next weekend I guess next weekend is great. We're Christmas. Well, anyways Oh, jeez Yeah, this one is really good. Jenna said I love it um I I really hope metal lust has this formula in it too I think it does looking at the photos, but we can't be too sure, but I do think it does. Okay, let's use The other two shimmers. Let me wipe off my brush Yeah, the red is definitely going to be perfect for Christmas. So we're going to start off with the gold shade I'm going to do the exact same technique that I did on This eye just so you can really see the colors Digging in a little bit of fallout But I'm not getting any on my face even when I blended it on the Other eye with the red. It looks super good I am a fan of this formula from tom Ford This is impressing me quite a lot. His wet dry formula is the most popular formula that he has Which is like a true satin like a shimmery satin It's a hybrid between the two. It's a very elegant very sophisticated for a shimmer. This is like straight up glimmer Not glitter. I there are definitely specs of very fine glitter in here But it's glimmery is the best way that I would describe it That gold is also really pretty But I'm feeling the shamp pain Now I can tell these shadows are really creamy because I'm digging my brush in and there's already a little bit of indentation there when you dig a little bit So with the wet dry formula, there would be almost no indentation. This one has an indentation Okay, and then finally we're going to swatch Which one this orangey one? Amy said I just bought the utopian now. I need this one too Yeah, this one is um, definitely a really good one. I'm very happy with this quad. It is $90. So please make your decision wisely, but This is a good one from Thomas Look at that. Here's the orange. The orange is also very pretty great a holiday palette you guys And all four shades look different as well You can clearly see all four shades in the quad. So you're getting the biggest bang for your buck And It's all four shades are awesome quality. You know how sometimes there's like one or two colors in a tomfork quad that you don't really love All four of these are really fantastic. So This is one of my favorite tomfork palettes. I I gotta I gotta admit right away on first impressions So glimmery and beautiful. Hi Melissa. Thank you for joining Okay So the texture is different luisa luisa asked how does it compare to the celestial pearl from charlotte tilbury? The celestial pearl formula has a little bit more hardness to it Whereas this is a little bit more powder based I would say or has that powdery feeling Okay, so along the lower lash line. I'm going to put the orange Just down here And then I'll put the red On the other side. I think to really complete a look I would suggest Mixing in a matte shadow because it is a lot of glimmer you can totally get away with using Just this palette for a full look with some liner and lashes and you'll be good But if you're really into that complete Feeling of a look I would recommend maybe just popping in like a matte Red in the outer corners or a matte burgundy would be really pretty A matte Orange shade out here would be really pretty I think this is more so for you to dig into to apply to the lid But it can be done without I'm a true believer that you don't always need matt But I'm not really loving how it looks along the lower lash line alone This is when I would go in with the lower lash line color, but Absolutely stunning you guys It's a good one. Um, I hope you guys didn't buy this before watching a review When it comes to tom ford if I wasn't the reviewer I would not buy anything from tom unless I watched reviews And I'm giving you the go ahead with this one. I think this one is super good. All right, let's Sorry, I was reading toya's toya said I do love how this quad is blending out and I do like All shimmer looks sometimes absolutely. There's a time and a place for shimmer and you can see I was able to blend out The shimmer is just fine. It was a little bit of work and carefulness, but it was really good Okay, so I am going to try the lipsticks And then we will do comparisons for the eyeshadow palette. So I will ask you After we do the lipsticks what you want me to compare this to But let's get started. I don't know what color this is. So we're starting off with The silver packaging you can see it comes in all silver and let me show you really quickly the lipsticks online Just so you can see what we are working with Excuse me. Okay. Okay. So the lipsticks are up here. They are $58 Uh, that's ridiculous for a lipstick, but I'm ridiculous It's specifically in this collection. I was so in love with These lip colors. I was so Attracted to them. That's why I got all three. I thought they all were beautiful in their own right So let's put them on my lips We'll start off with number three because it's the lightest. This is blush new Yeah, these definitely Look more beautiful in person. By the way, this palette I wasn't excited about this palette looking at the photos online But on my instagram when i'm done with this, I'm going to put the flash on and show you guys this on my story So make sure you're following me. The lipstick compact is beautiful. Oh my goodness This collection is so much better than the sole I naged. Just forget that happened. I love the fade Made in the usa Huh are all toned for lipsticks made in the usa? Look at this shape. Oh my goodness. Okay, let's swatch it. Let's swatch it Okay, so it's this gorgeous nudie peach color right up my alley So sarah, that's when will they release the other quad from what I've collected There were some problems with shipment overseas. So it probably won't be until mid january But I would keep a night out on retailers like selfridges, which is located in the Europe Maybe we might get lucky. So i'm just using some of all of our cosmetics dulce for this lip color Yeah, the packaging it's extra nice in this one melissa It's it's so silly to buy makeup for the packaging but We don't don't tear because y'all know I do that. So this does have a matte finish and it's not super early Pigmented I am doing a few swipes Honestly, this does look a little dry on my lips. Do you guys see that? I would say that emmerosa is a little bit more neutral like not neutral a little bit more cool And mavi compared to this one. This one I would say has more peachiness to it But definitely that similar kind of vibe just a difference in undertone It's very very pretty But I do think It's a little dry like I would hydrate my lips before this I love the color But it's not as creamy as I would like it to be it does feel a little bit drying for $58 I don't know, but I do love the color stacy omg Thank you so much. You are so sweet. You did not have to do that Okay, but I like this color. I think it's really pretty. So this was the lipstick that I was eyeing the most blush new It's pretty but it's not my favorite formula, which is disappointing because it's $60. Okay, let's try on the next color Yeah, that is the payoff Amy. It might be more last more long lasting Okay, let's move on to Number two, which is luscious. This is one that I was excited for because it's definitely outside of my color zone Look at this.  So it is gonna have a more buildable formula, but as I'm layering it It's getting deeper. Okay, let's try it. I do love the shape of this. It's like cut at a harder angle But it's a wow color that's for sure Yeah, so this isn't the creamiest Lipstick formula you guys you know how Like that Natasha Denona kind of just glides on the lips with ease. This one has a little bit more drag There's more dryness to it But the payoff for that is going to be it's probably going to last longer But do keep that in mind if you don't like the feeling of a super dry lipstick. It's not super dry, but it is drier Okay, but this color is stunning If anything if you were to get any of the three colors from this collection, I'd almost recommend this one At least based on what I have in my collection because I have a red lipstick. I have a nude lipstick I don't have a lot of colors like this. I like that. This isn't too bright. It's not too garish looking on me It's still mature, but like a pretty berry lip. I do really love this color Wow, this is really really pretty. I think this one is probably my favorite color in the collection Amanda said I have over 60 Tom Ford lipsticks. I don't need more I actually don't have too many Tom Ford lipsticks Ooh, I love this color. Okay, so that one was luscious I like this one the most I think but let's Try the last color Rita said I would rather dry lipstick long lasting That I do not really need to reapply because I need to out because I Had a coffee. Hey, that's completely understandable. That's why everybody has different expectations I personally prefer comfort And when I need long lasting this I go with the driest liquid lip possible Because I don't mind if I need it to last that did stain a little bit But we're just we're going to roll with it. The last color that we have is Scarlet shock and I would argue this has a little touch of orange to it. It's not really like a true Red red. There's like a pinky oranges Orangeness to it. Let me do one light swatch for you So you can see you can get kind of a lighter effect with it So I think We had a good question. Does this look more purple in person? It looks very red in comparison to the picture on the website. I think that might have to do with my lighting I wouldn't say it's more red. It definitely looks more purple more magenta In person because you know how magenta has a little bit of pink to it. That's more so what I would compare it to That was a great question. Thank you for asking that So here's the final lipstick you can see it's more of a red holiday lipstick and Very very pretty Does it have glitter in it or did it just fall from my face? I think this formula has a little bit of glitter ingrained in the formula But I don't know if it's from my face Or the eyeshadows, but if you look closely you can kind of see the glitters scaling along This flat edge here Very interesting You don't really notice the glitters too much on the lips. It's just from when the light is hitting that I'm seeing it This one's really pretty. It looks a little bit bright touch more orange With the camera lighting from what I'm able to see I'm going to have to play with the lighting so that Everything can be a little bit more true to color in these lives But my favorite color is definitely luscious. This is the one I would recommend the most I'm probably more often going to use blush new because this is the nude colors that I wear all the time But just some things to note about the formula It is a little bit more in the drier side not uncomfortably dry But I have a tomford lipstick in my collection that I've never noticed Felt a little dry, but this one does But that might help with longevity. That is something I will have to update you guys on but the colors are absolutely beautiful Wonderful, but in terms of this collection, I mean I I love the eye quad That's the direction I would go if you have a hundred dollar budget So really quickly let me pop on Some liner and lashes and while i'm doing that we will talk about the natasha denona sneak peaks Well, not sneak peaks, but she's teasing us And then we will go back and I'll do some comparison swatches for you guys, but let me Not look so crazy right now So i'm just going to use my tomford liquid liner. It does remind me of elson For those of you, uh that are talking about that. Elson is a paragraph lip color Yeah, so let me just line my eyes really quickly So if you guys didn't see natasha denona is sneaking that a new mini eyeshadow palette is coming What do you think it is she says it's a mini that's never been done before Compared like the bigger palettes. It's never had a mini done before. So what do you think it is? I saw most guesses online where for a mini bibba Let me show you this really quickly. I haven't pulled up actually Mini bibba would be ideal. Yeah because bibba is So extremely popular, but this is what she sneaks today if you did If you did miss it And this has something new and exciting is coming. How well do you know our palettes? Can you tell which one doesn't have a mini yet? So I heard through the grapevine through a reliable source What it is, but I haven't seen any pictures yet. So I Am not a hundred percent sure, but most people Were saying mini bibba But I've heard it was the a mini trio chrome So that's kind of my to you But I don't know this is all speculation But given the source that it was heard from I would say 80 chance. It's a mini trio chrome But I could totally see it being mini bibba because bibba is such A good selling wearable versatile eyeshadow palette, you know She did come out with a baby bibba, which I do know has repeat shades But that's why I believe she wouldn't come out with bibba again and it would be trio chrome Yeah, exactly louisa said baby bibba just came out. That's why I don't think I think there will eventually be a mini bibba But I don't think quite yet. I think it's too soon So my bets are that a mini trio chrome is going to come out just based on what I've heard But I haven't seen it yet. So don't quote me on that and don't tell Natasha.  I'm gonna get in trouble So if you are here this stays between you and me, but I've also heard A few other palettes that are supposed to release after that. I haven't seen them but The usual instagram account that I use for sneak peeks of luxury products They posted on their instagram story The list of natasha palettes coming out the names And then I think they might have gotten in trouble because it got taken down but My friend on instagram sent me a screenshot. So it's like i'm not 100 sure what the chain of events are going to be But if a mini trio chrome Comes out then I feel like I do have the lineup I think we do have a mini gold. Am I tripping? We do right? Yeah, marie said I heard trio chrome Listen the trio chrome is underrated in my opinion I actually talked about it today in a video that I filmed the trio chrome or the multi-chromes in them are more soft So I think that's why a lot of people didn't like it But the mats in there the curation of the matte colors Perfection so unique. I don't have another palette like that So in terms of uniqueness The trio chrome was awesome and I I didn't give it enough credit Now looking back I love that palette and I think it's so unique But I think we were so disappointed by the multi-chromes because we were so excited by those But when it comes down to it It still is such a unique palette We say we want uniqueness then we can't be complaining about what she gives us I know my lips are looking a little funky right now because I didn't put on lip liner Should I fix that? Melissa said I like trio chrome, but it's so varied. I feel like a mini would be tough to curate Yeah, I'm interested to see what she does with that if that is What she does I'm going to just really quickly try and make my lips look a little better I mean if it's a Mini trio chrome, I'm really excited because I feel like it's going to be something creative something different And jamila said it exactly right the trio chrome mats are some of her best and they're super duper unique those undertones that she put in them So hard to find Alrighty So that's my two cents of that. Let me see if I can pull up The screenshot that somebody sent me I'm gonna Okay, let can we be in a pact right now?  I don't know I don't know if it's actually gonna happen But they say mini trio chrome is going to come out first which lines up. Thank you katrina with the pinky promise Next up natasha denona pastel palette Next up mini crush next up Cupid Which lines up because she always does have a valentine's day palette So mini crush and cupid sound like her like february launch so And then the last one says Invision palette We don't know what that means. I don't know what that is but If any of you guys ruin this and tell natasha that I told her secrets I'm never giving you guys sneak peeks again. So keep this between us Anyways, so that's what I heard. So my money is on that the trio chrome mini is going to come out. So Julie max said next member's only tutorial natasha denona trio chrome If you still wish we'll talk about that. I'm open to that for sure Thank you guys quiet, but I'll say it one more time. Yes Pastel palette was on that list Okay Let me see Okay, so sharyl said It can't be trio chrome though because she said pause the story to see which one doesn't have a mini And bebo was the only possible answer. Okay, you know what that is all that is very true That of the palettes that showed Trio chrome did not let me tell you guys to it did not pop up here So like I said what I told you could not be true Maybe something was missed. Maybe it's going to come out at a later time But you are right and in that case if you why is this not popping up hold on If you look at this switching palettes, there isn't trio chrome So maybe it's not and you're right be buzz is the only one that doesn't have a mini And that could very well be the case. So I don't know it's it's a surprise Which is good because natasha denona. I don't know who works for her but her stuff always gets leaked So the fact that we don't know is actually a little bit exciting because I've known about so many of her launches before they've Come out. So thank you luisa. That was very very smart of you. But maybe she's trying to trick us I don't know maybe but I personally am Hoping as much as I love beba and beba is a great palette I'm hoping it's the trio chrome because I think that's going to be a really fun one and unique especially since she's been coming out with a lot of more neutral colors but Stacey said why did I think the mini nude goes with beba? I mean it could if she slapped the name beba on it. Definitely could be the mini nude palette So fingers crossed we'll see um We'll see but if trio chrome Is what it is and that comes out then the list I just told you will also probably be true So we'll see. I'm excited though. I would be excited for a mini beba as well It would just be super wearable though, and I think that's probably more marketable to people But I want a trio chrome. I just feel like that would be more fun. Even though I do be wearing browns all the time Patty said she must oh hi patty by the way patty Alonzo's here. She must have fired this Oh, I'm I this is the first time patty that we do not know what's coming before it's coming So we will see. Oh music probably is here. Hello Hello guys All right, so that's what I have about those natasha denona sneak peeks Not really much of the sneak peek but keep me updated if you guys Find something out message me on instagram. I love to know it before it comes out but I'm excited. I'm always excited for a new natasha denona palette. She's come out with a lot I've started swatching For a rankings that's coming up. So i'm dipping it into all my nd palettes again I have a quick question for you before I get back into the tom fort When I do my natasha denona at pat mcgrath and whatever brands I decide to do rankings Do you want me to rank the entire collection? Even the older palettes that I might not be using because they're a little bit older But you don't care or do you want me to just keep it to the palettes that are still available? So option one just rank everything or option two Just the ones that are relevant and still available Becky morrow said Many knew it was like b but yes, I mean I said just do everything See Amy said just option two just the new ones because I'm going to have fomo That's normally why I just do the new ones because the older ones are irrelevant anyways And what's the point if you can't get so we're split two two one Two two. Okay. I think two might be winning Okay. Okay. Cool. Cool. So then I think I will just do the newer ones And the ones that are still relevant It saves me some time We're split on this matter. This is what's hard about the internet. Okay, we're gonna move on now So if you came in later, I'm gonna re swatch these for you because I stupidly Unswatched these and cleaned off my hand But if you came in late, okay guys option two, we're gonna do option two This is the lava luster palette and it is now one of my favorite tom Ford's palettes It is on my eye now. It is a beautiful formula. You will not waste your money with this one Here we go So these Feel a little like not dry They're definitely powdery and more creamy than a charlotte tilbury pop formula But they have more of a powder feel to them Look at this Are you Freaking kidding me Look at that This is a good tom Ford formula formula. You guys it is a new formula So if you if there is a tom Ford quad that you want me to compare this to or anything else Put it in the chat box. I've seen a few times red dragon. Let me grab that while you guys are typing red dragon First frost I pulled that out today. Where is A first frost here Okay So we'll do red dragon Because the shimmers from the Odin's eye remind you guys a lot of the shimmers in this tom for palette And as you can see she is very very red and warm So let me see I mean Listen, I think the tom Ford is quite unique just because of the textures So the colors are kind of like dupable, which is why I wasn't excited about it But in person you guys this palette is ridiculously beautiful and shimmery. I just don't think those are very common But take a look here These are the two palettes compared the point on let me pull it back a little bit Ooh, so I definitely see two shades three shades right here. So I would say In the red dragon palette it's going to be the most comparable to Sorry If you're going to do lives don't buy a canon camera because I can't get this thing to stop from turning off So these three shades are going no one two three are going to be the ones that are most comparable The luna does have a green shift to it that is not at all in the tom ford But I just want you to see how they would look. Let me try and at least get them a little bit closer to What they'd be most comparable to So here are the three swatches from the Odin's eye The Odin's eye formulation has a little bit more wetness to it So it has more of a pigmented base and I mean the top ford is not Lid toppery at all, but you can see these are just thicker creamier eyeshadows So you pull up more of the formulation whereas the tom ford is a little bit more lighter weight looking I will pull out fire rose for you guys. So The shimmers though the color wise look pretty close like the I believe this is amber It's comparable to like a mixture of these two Um overheat is one of the less pigmented colors in the red dragon and it is More warm. I don't think there really is a color too much like this. It's closer to the orange I would say so that that's how they differ I mean, I love the red dragon palette you guys it is incredible and it's at a very very different price point um the top ford is 89 Freaking dollars, but let me grab fire rose really quickly. Sorry that took longer than I thought I was going to okay So fire rose Sorry, you guys can't get this one anymore. Oh, I have the eyeshadow here You guys just witnessed a death And it's on my the fact that that really just happened and it stained my day This is a pretty shade. Oh, I'm so salty. It was bound to happen eventually, but At least you guys understand the pain, you know, this is tragic. We just listened to a death. We just saw a death Okay Let me press this back in we're good. It's it's still in one piece. It looks ugly now But it's still We're good guys It's not it's not as tragic anymore It's still stated one piece, but this is fire rose and I can't get it anymore So I'm going to treat this one with care. Let me just Let me just swatch it. I'm not I also watched that. We're here anyways um, yeah, the tones of the fire rose are So different It's more like pinky even like the cooler Neutral and then you can see the difference of the shine the pop shade and the fire rose is like none other Okay, this shade makes The top looks pretty but dang the pop shade you can see has more pop Glimmeriness to it. So it's good to see those difference in textures here Color wise though, not too bad. Oh, I am devastated right now If this was any other charlotte tobury quad Well, why don't have to be fire rose the bad one? Okay, anyways But you can see the formulation of the fire rose is more metallic Okay Was there another one you guys wanted me to swatch Mother ship five I think I have that one behind me Ha ha I happen to have this. This is mother ship five, right? Yeah, okay. I happen to have that one behind me. It is that one. Okay So we'll swatch I mean, we're gonna swatch the special shades because those are going to be the comparable ones Just to see the difference in textures and then some of them. Oh honestly These three right here look Like when I swatched the tom Ford kind of right especially with that red Let me swatch them really quickly Ah, there's nothing like a pat McGrath shade the glimmer is The glimmer is much more glimmery. There's a little bit more of a pigment to it But there's something to be said about the tom Ford formula still which is still a little bit lighter Which I think is going to leave less fallout So if you struggle with the pat mcgrath special shades with the glitter fall out You're definitely going to get less with the tom Ford. So it is a little bit easier But The shine of the pat McGrath. I mean the red is so much more colorful more pink here um The glades are pretty close. The tom Ford is a little less like glittery But the shades themselves are kind of similar. So that's how those two would compare Okay, okay That was a good suggestion Honestly, the pink is kind of like the champagne kind of sort of is there anyone else that we wanted to compare I think you guys are so right Volume five was a great one or mothership five Yeah, so what i'm collecting from all of the swatches that you guys are wanting me to do The tom Ford even though it's a more glimmery palette. It still has that tom Ford sophistication to it It's a lighter weight formula, which is going to be a little bit better on those more mature eyelids Because the thinner the product the better on more mature eyelids But it still is more glimmery if you want to get that But it is absolutely Gorgeous you guys and I just looked at the clock. It is already 8 56. So I think This is going to be a good time to end it. So moral of the story If you missed the beginning parts where I was talking about this collection from tom Ford I'm anxiously awaiting for when the what is it called? metal lust Did I make that up? Yes, I'm anxiously waiting for metal lust to come out because that's my kind of color story, but Pleasantly shocked by lava luster Don't have another formula like this from tom ford. It is a new formula and it is 20 times more beautiful in person the photos on beauty. They should do not do it justice Really pretty formula if you love the glimmer It is $89. I'm not gonna tell you spend $89 on an eyeshadow quad But if you are a tom ford fan if you're in a toxic relationship like myself with him It's a go the lipsticks feel a little bit drier I don't necessarily think they're worth $58 if i'm gonna be honest you guys if you do like tom ford lipsticks Then that's on you, but I feel like it's too dry for my preferences But the shade that I would recommend the most though Is luscious just because I feel like at least in my collection This is a shade that I do not have like any other in my collection And I am now noticing there are some little little glimmers packed into each of the colors which are quite pretty But I don't know why I didn't notice that for So anyways The quad is the way to go and this has made me extremely excited for the metal lust palette But I might actually be more excited for this one Just because it's all four of this spectacular formulation, but we'll see I I don't know if I'll do a dedicated review on this until the metal lust comes out. So I think I'll This is I don't I don't know what I'm saying. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this Live Thank you so much for joining me. I hope you guys had fun And I will see you guys next week in our next live But until then it is vlogmas So make sure you have my notification bell on or just check every day because I am posting every day So I'll see you guys in tomorrow's video. Have a good one. Thank you for joining me


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and welcome back to another vlog. Thank you as always so so much for tuning in and taking some time out to watch this vlog. So today's vlog is all about handovers. I know I completely forgot that I was gonna do this vlog a while back and then it was only because someone messaged me and said or could you do one on handovers because I think that'd be really good and I thought oh my god I was supposed to do this vlog so thank you to that person very very much for reminding me and here we are. Now for me I've never had a problem with a handover. I don't know why but I've always just done it and it's like yeah whatever it's just handover it's fine but so many people get scared. I don't know why. Comment below guys why do you fear handover so much it's really I don't know it's okay it's okay you're just discussing your patience that's it. So first things first of course we cannot do a handover without Espar. I'm not going to go into this too much because I'm sure you know all about Espar already especially if you're more second-year final year. Espar is something you get taught at the very very start so I'm not going to talk about this too much however if you want the links below I will put them below in the details and you can have a look around Espar and these different techniques that you can use to sort of structure your handover. So first tip for handover be on time.  People just want to get home and people just want to start their shift so it's really important I think to have an on-time handover and just relieve everybody of their duties and start the shift well. Second tip is obviously it has to be communication you can't have a handover without clear concise communication so just I know it's quite hard to fit a lot of information in a short space of time so it's really important that whatever patients you've got you want to get straight to the point put bullet points at the side of your sheet if you've got a handover sheet and you want to make notes before the handover just put make some bullet points of your patients and the really important information that they need to know they don't need to know little things like what they wore that day or some little things like that but it's more important about the care that they're going to receive and anything that you need to handover that's really important that those people need to know and if those people were on the night before or the day before and they know the patients it's even more important that you keep it narrow to what they really need to know as well but also not missing important information if that makes sense. My next tip is actually when you're on shift so make sure you're documenting as you go so if there's really important things that pop up about each patient make sure you're writing it on your sheet make sure you're putting in your notebook things like that so that you remember to hand that over during the handover if that makes sense it can be quite easy that I've gone into a shift before and first thing in the morning something's happened or something's gone on and then by the time I'm finishing at 8 o'clock at night so much has happened like I can't even remember what I did in the morning so it's really important that you document everything and that you're writing notes as you go as well about your patient so that you can give that really important handover to the next person. This tips all about more like body language in a way if that makes sense it'll make sense in a minute so when you're giving your handover don't be this person that is patient X has diarrhea not sure why no don't cover your mouth don't cover your face you want to stand or sit tall expand your lungs you want your voice to project your teeth which I know is really really hard it's easier said than done I'm that person that is an introvert so I know it can be difficult but yes just make sure like your your voice is clear like there's nothing in your face you haven't got your hand over up here just like this open expand project your voice a little bit maybe a little bit louder than you would speak if you're a quiet quiet person if you're quite a loud person maybe turn it down a little bit but yes just yeah it's all about posture as well so just make sure open you've got your hand over okay this is what we're gonna do patient in babe blah blah blah patient blah blah blah yeah go through it and it'll just come across as a lot clearer I think and lastly practice just practice I know it can be quite hard I think your very first handover especially you're gonna be a bit nervous and bit like oh god I've got handover really don't want to you've been avoiding this forever but it's really important that you just practice even if you want to practice at home get your family members involved do a zoom meeting because everything's online now zoom meeting with your student colleagues or anyone like that and just have like a practice handover where you can all practice amongst each other or if you're doing it in front of your friends and family at home no more than six because COVID restrictions you can just sort of do the handover to them and just keep practicing it and you'll get into that routine of actually feeling confident in standing in front of people and speaking as well I think that's a really important thing however if you do get anxious and nervous to the point where it's really affecting you it's do some things like meditation or breathing techniques take a slow deep breath in for four seconds hold it for two and then a slow breath out for five or six seconds I think it is I can't remember the technique now but there is another one where you follow a square so look at a picture frame or something and breathe in breathe out breathe in breathe out and that'll just really really help focus your breathing and just sort of relax you a little bit there's also naming things so you can look around the room and name things as you see them so pen table computer floor window chair picture little things like that because it helps you just readjust and realign and just focus on the there and now rather than all the anxieties and the thoughts that go on in your mind and that'll just really really help to make you feel a bit more comfortable in that sort of situation as well and if you're at the point where you really really really are struggling nothing is working you hate life you cannot physically do a handover speak your mentors speak to other nurses on the ward about how they cope and the things that they do and see if they can suggest anything else for you to help you grow and build and just be able to give just even one handover would be a massive bonus I think they could be a huge asset to you so yeah just ask so that is all I think I think I've covered everything I'm really sorry if I've missed anything out if you would like me to talk about anything else about handovers but my mind is just gone I can't think physically think of anything else I could cover it's just it is just more about you and your anxieties I think and helping you sort of structure your handover maybe a little bit better and positioning yourself and making you more confident but it is just down to practice you can't expect to be this amazing person at handover right away I think people take years of practice sometimes to do that I'm not very good at handover sometimes I sometimes forget things and then I've gone home and panic so I've rang the ward or the nurse or my placement or wherever I've been and I'd be like oh my god I completely forgot to do this will someone do it really quickly or hand over it really quickly I'm so so sorry I've been mortified because I've actually forgot that and luckily it hasn't been anything major it's just been a little thing but it made me feel awful at the time so yes I absolutely get that and that's okay but just just take your time keep practicing and you'll be absolutely fantastic