out valuing the competences. Because there is a sense and I pick it up from the Czech experience that we are happy with knowledge in many cases in education system and blocks of knowledge that people can repeat. We're less clear in our own minds about how competences can be displayed, but particularly how they can be assessed. And I think there's a real challenge and it crosses all of our countries and systems or very many of them. How do you develop assessment tools that have the legitimacy that traditional exams of knowledge can have? And that also give parity of esteem to the skills and competences as much as they do to blocks of knowledge. And I mean, if we're developing different pathways for students at upper secondary level, I mean, you'll find in many systems where either a particular pathway leads to say vet or vocational education and training. It has sometimes less esteem, less high regard, because it's not so much seen as blocks of knowledge leading to academic success. I mean, and we face that challenge. And I mean, certainly for us in Ireland at upper secondary level, it's developing a form of assessment that does give parity of esteem to different forms of competences and knowledge. And we have to then get, and it's a challenge for us in Ireland, we have to get universities, but other parts of further and higher education to accept the legitimacy of those. And if we don't do that, parents and students will not trust competences and they will not trust the assessments. And the result of that is that the teachers in the end will not be interested in them because they will not be convinced that the student and parent will actually value this approach. So it's a huge cultural change. And that's why I use the word storytelling. I think there's a constant story to be told and retold over this and demonstrated. And maybe that's why we need to get quick wins and quick changes. I mean, the example that we had earlier from Maria Amelia in Portugal, it would be mirrored exactly as it is in Ireland, in exactly the same way. It's interesting, Harold, because we're not even talking about one story because it's actually multiple stories of how do you communicate the message to universities, how do you communicate the message to parents, how do you communicate it to students, to teachers, and so on. And so we begin to see the complexity of a communication strategy that has to unfold throughout the whole period of the design and the implementation and the evaluation, but it has to not only connect to multiple stakeholders, but it's also got to be heard and understood and valued as something legitimate. So I think that's a really interesting point. Karsten, is there anything else that you want us to draw attention to and to ask of the panel before we conclude? Well, unfortunately, the time is already five o'clock and we kind of need to close at 5.30. But there are some interesting remarks still in the chat that you can reflect on and perhaps you can reply in the chat. If you have the time. But thank you so much to Kay for facilitating the two panels. Thank you so much for all the panelists to participate and for your valuable inputs. So thank you so much. Thank you. And now we turn to the last agenda point before the closing remarks, and that is an input from the European Commission from Ulrike Pesiotis. So Christian, if we could have the slides up again please, and then I will just hand over the floor to Ulrike, who is going to talk about initiatives to support broad competence development and better achievement of basic skills. So the slides should be up here. Thank you very much and good afternoon to everybody. So I would like to give you an overview of different commission initiatives that are related to advancing the development of key competences and basic skills. And some of those initiatives have already been mentioned today, either in panels or in the chat. So I'm really happy that I can give you a little bit more context here. And in line with the thematic of this conference and the study it's based on I concentrate on those initiatives that target school education in particular. So next slide please. And these are the four areas in school education where we are currently working on a number of initiatives together with member states. And those are blended learning pathways to school success, teachers and trainers and learning for the green transition. And I'm going to give you a brief overview on each of them. Next slide please. So last year in 2021, the EU member states adopted a council recommendation on blended learning at primary and secondary education levels. And this was on the one hand an immediate response to the lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis. It highlights challenges that have been exposed during school closures and the remedial actions. And on the other hand, it's also presents more long term opportunity to work on a future learning model that blends learning tools and learning environments effectively to support and further improve key competences. And as you can see also here from the examples and brackets this relates to digital tools, of course, but it also and equally relates to non digital tools and environments. And the recommendation signposts to all member states, the areas of school education systems that may need targeted support. And it also intends to facilitate the sharing of practical examples of a blended learning model to demonstrate how different environments strategies and tools might be integrated more effectively. Next slide please. And this I have also posted in the chat today already. And it is, yes, really hot off the press because published by the Commission just Friday last week actually a proposal for a council recommendation on learning for environmental sustainability. And the aim of this proposal is to support member states to equip learners at all ages with the knowledge. I have to say this is like you just you just you were just frozen for for a few seconds. So perhaps you can just repeat the latest your last sentence. Is it is it working now is working now. Yes. Good. So here. Yeah, I just want to mention this is actually this proposal is not directed at school education only but it really takes a lifelong learning approach. And it encourages member states to establish learning for environmental sustainability as a priority area in education and training. And by doing so also to invest buildings and grounds and to do so to mobilize national and you funds and encourages them in particular to support whole school and whole institution approaches to sustainability, which encompasses teaching and learning and really all operations of a school or other education institution. Next slide please. And another initiative that we are going to launch this year in 2022 is also a proposal for a council recommendation on pathways to school success. And this recommendation wants to ensure that all learners can complete successfully their educational journey. So pathways proposes a broad vision for promoting positive system change for inclusion and school success. And it aims at addressing simultaneously the two level targets the one on basic skills and also on early leaving from education and training. And it aims at raising the level of proficiency and basic skills of as many pupils as possible, while also increasing the number of young people with an upper secondary qualification. And we have touched upon that already quite a few times today. Well being in schools is of course also of great importance to school success. So improving also social and emotional education and learners well being is key to raising educational outcomes and this is really the vision behind pathways. Next slide please. And yes this is a topic or these are actors that of course have come up also at different points already in our discussions today, because key competence development would not happen without teachers. So therefore the vision to also advance and build our European education area really depends on motivated and competent teachers at the same time and we are all aware of that of course this is a profession that has many challenges. I'm not going into them here in detail, but what I want to underline is that what we know from teachers who service, service like Talis is that they want to have more training on working with students with special needs. And also what comes out strongly again and again they want to improve digital skills and competences for teaching, and they also want to have more professional development opportunities on teaching in multilingual and multicultural environments. Next slide please. So, and this is one of the responses to support teachers in in their professional and initial training actually the Erasmus plus teacher academies, and they really want to provide an enriched learning with a career long perspective. Meaning targeting both initial teacher education and also continuous professional development. And what we want to do here is to cooperate also on key EU priorities, such as digital learning, sustainability, equity and inclusion. And they really look at providing joint learning offers for both students and also again, serving teachers already. And there is a coordinated and effective mobility schemes in different models are foreseen. And also, we hope that teacher academies can contribute to policy development, for example, because they can then provide firsthand experience on effective teacher education. And obviously, there are more initiatives for teachers, which I don't have the time now to go into. But at the end of this presentation, there will be a slide also with links to all the different initiatives that I refer here. Next slide please. And this is something I want to mention here because that is something that we consider very important tools that can help educators and learners improve key competences. There are different competence frameworks that have been developed by the commission's joint research center. I have listed several here starting with the framework on digital competences and it's different offshoots for consumers, educators and organizations. And there on the left side, you also see selfie and selfie for teachers. These are self assessment tools that have been created to support the development of digital skills and competences for schools and teachers alike so they can assess their readiness in their use of technology for learning. And also, it can help them identify further training needs. Life comp on the right hand corner is the European competence framework for personal, social and learning to learn competence. And that is another important framework that can be of particular use and interest with regard to well being and inclusion agendas. The entrepreneurship competence framework defines what it means to have an entrepreneurial mindset so to turn ideas into action and this doesn't apply only to to business but really it is meant for every aspect of life. And the last one here on the right lower corner is screen comp the sustainability competence framework and this is the most recent one it was also released just last Friday together with a council recommendation on learning for environmental sustainability. And this framework intends to help users develop the competences that are needed to live and act sustainably. Next slide please. So, how do we work with with you with a member states with policy makers. Probably most of you are aware. I'm sure that one important way to work with member states is through our working groups. Those working groups consist of government officials appointed by you member states and other participating countries, as well as representatives from stakeholder organizations and social partners. And you can see the the working groups that that we have at present and I have highlighted the ones that we have on schools where we have one subgroup on pathways to school success and another one on education or learning for environmental sustainability. And the focus of these working groups is to as part of the mutual learning share information about reforms of national education policies inspire positive change and in general to offer a form of exchange on experiences and good practices on how to address key challenges. Next slide please. And of course, another important way to collaborate with and to advance key competence in particular, in particular is through participating really in the many opportunities that the Erasmus Plus program and other funding instruments also provide. And here I have listed some of them for you in information together with links and for school education. I just want to point out specifically the school education gateway which provides material and training courses for teachers, for example, including on key competence development. And also the e-twinning platform which I'm sure most of you know, so the online collaboration platform for teachers and schools in Europe. Next slide please. So here is promised more information you can find under the links that are provided. And next slide. And of course, you can also drop me an email and if you want more information or have questions. And there's still one more slide, because normally the presentation would have finished with a previous slide, but what I and what we as a commission would like to hear also from you are your ideas and initiatives that planning or have already started in the area of key competence. So it would be great to hear on your ambitions and initiatives that you envisage in your national context. And also, and where and how in your view, the commission can best support member states and key competence development and this is obviously in relation to what I have presented, but also of course, in addition. So I know this has been a long day, a very interesting day, but perhaps some of you are tired now, but still, it would be great to hear from participants here in the in the conference on those plans. So I give the floor back to you. Thank you. Thank you very much. And as I mentioned, we almost have an open mic if you want to share some of your experiences, or if you want to mention how the commission could support you to further develop and implement competence based approaches. Now is the chance. So you can you can, you can put your questions in the chat. You can you can raise your hand. And we will try to identify you as we like you mentioned, it has been a long day, but still, it's not every day that we have an open mic. Yes, Michael, please. Sorry, just feel so tempted coming in again as there was this reference to teacher education in the previous panel. And now again, I think Harold put a really nice comment, as always when Harold says anything in the in the chat, pointing at the importance to support teachers with the teacher education and continuous professional efforts. And I think just this is something that we have actually strengthened and the council has strengthened in the teacher in the key conferences recommendation version of 2018 looking at the need to edit support teachers and we have a number of work here I mean with some of you with you know perhaps about a new flagship project of supporting teacher education institutions who collaborate on the European level via what we call the teacher academies at Aspen's plus teacher academies which is one opportunity and just would just like to highlight this as a really as an avenue for further work as Rick has actually also mentioned in the presentation. So thanks Harold for the comment. Thank you very much, Michael. Harold, do you want to add anything. I think actually the, the, the commission's emphasis in the whole work actually around competences. Building the capability of all the stakeholders has been a theme in the in the commission's work for some time. I mean, Michael is right, there's been a strong emphasis on enabling teachers so investing in teacher education both initial teacher education and continuing teacher education has been a focus and and actually at subsequent in subsequent work I think it has come up on the theme of investing in parents as well and the structures around parents because you need them to buy into the change that you want as well as well as the more recently know in the supports for students and it's really good to have that commonly done across the across countries and the commission's work has been really supportive and influential in that. I think sometimes I wonder is there a possibility to all of countries collaborating on the assessment instruments and I see in the chat there's a reference to a book on a range of assessment instruments and approaches of innovative assessment instruments across Europe. And I wonder is, is perhaps there a possibility of collaboration on actually building both it and AI systems that could help assessment development across across some of these components because the investment involved is very substantial for each individual country. I really thanks I mean to the team who conceived this project and who allowed us all to learn the lessons from it and Michael and the commission for the funding and so on. I mean we owe them a great debt actually for for for facilitating our learning in this way. So any last questions before we turn to the conclusion session. We will make sure that the presentation from today will be available so that also all the links provided by like a can be accessed by by you. Okay, I think we we will close the this agenda point show thank you very much to like it for presenting. And we will now turn to the very last point of today's program, a closing remark by Sophia Ericsson water shoot, I hope I pronounced it correctly. Yes, thank you so much. And good afternoon or almost good evening to everyone. I mean this must be perhaps the worst slot of the agenda but but I'm here and I have actually listened to a big part of the session today so my first point is really to thank the organizers of course, but also all the panelists, the participants for what I think has been a really stimulating exchange. Actually very rich and I appreciated that all of you were so generous in sharing both the successes, and also some of the challenges that that you have met when when developing and commit for key conferences so perhaps a few final reflections. And there's absolutely no intention to some to summarize this, this whole session, it's kind of not my intention, but just to reply to the last Harold your invitation of course I would say we have lots of avenues actually defined here for further collaboration so it is part of what what we will be thinking of after this seminar what what could be the priority for next steps on, on these exchanges of collaboration so thanks a lot for the ideas in Aurelian and also in this in the chat I see. Well, maybe it's useless to repeat but I do it anyway how important key competencies are they're really at the heart of the European education area and we know that we discussed it I haven't heard you saying it all the roundness let's say the importance of having a broad set of key competencies for for all and the importance of basic skills the importance to be prepared for the green and digital transitions to be ready to learn over life the the social and personal emotional skills, etc etc it's really in a nutshell that we need all this to be prepared for what for today and and for tomorrow so hearing what you said in this case studies I find it really encouraging that there's so many actors and so many countries that are now engaged in the reforms and development of key competencies. What I also hear and I find it very positive is this strong and clear commitment that I've heard especially from the countries here today and presenting what they're doing. So we have some really promising initiatives indeed that are underway or actually also planned. And perhaps the study and the recommendations that come out of it for policy design and today's discussions that have been adding on to that of course, I think they will provide us all certainly for the Commission side, a new or ample or new foods for thoughts and and possibly also ideas for further action to try to support where we see the challenges are the biggest. And sort of ending the day I want to also keeping the positive spirit so although we all know that the pandemic has been incredibly challenging and you have mentioned many examples here today but perhaps what is nice to say at the end of the session is also how many positive developments that have also come with the challenging situation and some of you mentioned examples but we've seen of course the big leap here into improving digital skills and actually some big willingness and not least with existing but also resources planned in our resilience and recovery plans on digital infrastructure. So this is really positive and I'm sure it would not have happened that quickly if we wouldn't have had the pandemic. And also the the emergency learning that we perhaps witnessed more in the beginning of the pandemic it really brought this importance of relationships and and the engagements that schools of course and teachers have a really strong role for that. And the whole debate and the focus of student and teachers well being has come into the spotlight and I'm not sure it would have happened as quickly either if it wouldn't be for this for this development. And not the least to say this is very closely linked of course with the personal and social competencies that are a really important part of our key competencies recommendation. And then adding on to that a lot of positive collaboration can that we have seen experiences between schools themselves between schools and the private sector between schools of course with the public and governmental authorities and so there's a new kind of new partnerships created and perhaps also a new sense of trust. And I think many of you actually mentioned the word trust several times how important it is and the trust of course also goes with all the actors that will make this happen. So, I think it's important for the next steps to really build on this positive developments and, and of course we have we should not forget that our education and training systems. They have to be inclusive will not have any successes if what we are offering here is not for everybody so key competencies have to be for all from an early age and throughout life so the whole life learning element also is a good reminder. And then we have a commission and I think we mentioned it and Mikael also in his intervention. I mean the commission really stands ready here to support member states in all these efforts. And we have a number of tools to our disposal and we are ready to to mobilize the different tools and the support measures that that we can help with. We hope that it's useful already with this study actually as support for policymakers and other stakeholders. And as you've heard also from my colleague Ulrike, she also shared a number of recent initiatives and others that are planned for the future so as you see the whole spectrum of key competencies. It is much more than the recommendation it has a little bit of trickling out to other initiatives that either recent or, or will be coming so the whole core discussion of key competencies is definitely going to continue. I cannot say these last words without also encourage you to use the many opportunities that the new, well, since one year new erasmus plus program provides. You know the program has grown we have almost the double budget and the previous programming period so there are definitely a lot of opportunities both for mobility clearly students and for for teachers and staff exchanges a lot of possibilities for partnerships and projects so for developing enough innovative policies materials resources and tools etc. Now, we are also planning to put a lot of emphasis on actually also, I would say key competencies because we are under. Since first of general we are under the European year of youth, which is really also a good or a possibility and opportunity to put some visibility to all this work that in the end benefit. Many people all see the sense but in particular it benefits young people so we can also use the fact the European year of youth to put some spotlight on on all of this work. And indeed the work will continue. I really would like just to thank again everybody who participated today and I find the study really interesting it has. It will help us in the developing the work and thanks a lot for for the contributions today or interest and and we hope the commitment and wishing perhaps all a good start or a good continuation with your own work on key competence and development we look forward to hear the progress when we find the next moment. So all the best. Thank you. Thank you so much for your for these concluding remarks. Also from our side, thank you very much to all participants for active participation. Thank you for all the panelists and presenters. We will take your inputs today into account and and we will finalize the study and it will be published very soon. I can't promise any exact date but but very soon so we will keep you posted. And that's it from our sites. I wish you all a lovely evening and thank you again for participating in this conference.


Hi, YouTube family. Welcome into February favorites. The month is over and this is what we do at the end of the month. We go through the things that I've been enjoying. I will tell you guys that February has been very challenging for me with my health. So I haven't worn a lot of makeup, but on the days that I have, I've picked out some really great things. So we're going to get into that. But first, before we do, if you're new to my channel, please subscribe by clicking the red button below and don't forget to hit the little bell icon next to it so that you can be notified of any future videos that I might be having. And if at the end you do like this video, please give it a thumbs up or if you just feel like giving a thumbs up, do that right now if you wouldn't mind. So let's get into what I was loving from those haul videos that I showed you guys this month. The first thing, this is the EcoTool Sponge and I have had different sponges from them in the past. This one is just a nice sponge, long cutout right here and cutout on the other side a little bit shorter. And then on the top, it has kind of a flat edge right there that's really good for getting right up underneath your eyes. It's very soft, very spongy. I really do like it. I did use it today on my foundation, so I apologize that it's dirty. But I really have been enjoying that one very economical compared to a Beauty Blender if you're interested in that. I also mentioned this month the Rimmel State Matte Powder and I have it in, let's see, 11 Creamy Natural. You guys, this looks really light, but it has worked really well for me. When you first stick your fingers in here, you don't feel like it's super creamy. But when I go to put this on my face, the blurring properties that it has are just so good. And then even working it into my fingers like this as I'm doing, it just feels creamy after that. So this is one that I'm really enjoying. I don't use a lot of powder. I do a very, very light dusting over my foundation just to set it. But this powder is really nice. I actually have been using this underneath my eyes the past couple of days. So I have even liked it just to set there very lightly as well. When I did my empties video this month, several of you asked me since I wasn't using the Timeless Vitamin C anymore what I was using. The Timeless Vitamin C I think is such a good product. And I would highly recommend that to you guys if you guys are interested in a Vitamin C. But what I needed was something that was going to be very, very low on the irritation scale because Vitamin C can be. And my neck and my decollete have really been giving me fits lately as far as how sensitive they are. And especially if I try to use Vitamin C on there. But I wanted to continue to use Vitamin C because it's so good to use in conjunction with your retin A. And so I have been using a different one. I know that I will probably botch the name of this, but it is a 20% Vitamin C solution in Vitamin F. And it says it's a high strength oil solubilized. Vitamin C and it's in a vitamin C derivative in Vitamin F. So it's a Scorbal Tetra So Palmitate. I hope I said that right. I probably didn't. But this is a little bit oily. And so if you're going to use it, you probably wouldn't use it in the AM. I always use it in the PM. I just I really like the Vitamin F that it's in because what happens is it goes on your face. There's absolutely no stinging whatsoever that I sometimes got when I was using Vitamin C, just the regular one. So this is really good. It's very high strength of Vitamin C, but very low irritation level. So this one is one that I've been I've been really digging that one. Talked about Lash Paradise not being a decent formula and that it didn't work really good on makeup that I really didn't like. But I've been trying their primer and I really actually do like the primer. It feels like it's got I don't know. It's just a very different texture. I can't really even explain it to you guys. The brush is very much the brush is exactly the same as the Lash Paradise. I do have it on as my primer today. It just it's very pretty when you put it underneath stuff. If you want to build the volume, it's really great for that. But what have I been wearing for mascara this month is the CoverGirl Exhibitionist Mascara. This also has an exact brush as the Lash Paradise and the better than sex one. However, the difference is this never flakes. I do have this in the waterproof formula, so that could be why. But I was watching Mary, my friend, Mary from Glitzy Fritzy. Hi, sweetie. I was watching her and I think she probably had it in the regular formula. And she said it was not flaking. The other two flake very bad on me, but this one is just so good. The other thing that I do like about it is before it completely dries down, you know, you go from your one eye to the other eyes, you're doing it. If I go back and forth, I can build and build and build and it's so nice. So this one is one that I would recommend. And you know what, this is one that one of you guys recommended to me. So I'm very grateful to whoever did that. Thank you. It's really good. And by the way, on that referral, I'm still working on that video where I do the makeup that you guys liked and that you chose for me. I have been recently just going through some major health issues with a medication that the doctor put me on. So I have another week of that medication. My hands are really bad right now. You guys know, I have a palsy in my hands and this particular medication has made me like times that by 20 because it's just been so hard on my nervous system. So I do get to go off that medication, but I have to taper down. Long story short, I will have a video up for you guys where I'm doing the full face of makeup for what you guys chose for me. I haven't forgot about that. I still really want to do that for you guys. But I just wanted to explain to you what's going on and why I haven't done it yet, even though I put it on the community tab. Morphe has this brush. It is the M406. I got this when I was at Ulta and it's got the duo fiber on here. And I think I already talked about this. It's just so nice and airy and it's perfect for laying down blush without laying down too much blush. And that's what I love about it. I have an it brush that became my absolute favorite with the duo fibers and very light and airy like that. It was just really inexpensive one and I wanted to find you guys one that was just more cost effective and this is it. And it's such a good brush. I'm so glad that I found it just really light, really airy. You can put down a little blush at a time instead of too much. And you can build it up too. So loving that one. I do want to recommend this one because this is the Neutrogena Ultrashare Liquid Broad Spectrum SPF with Helioplex technology. I'm not exactly sure what that is, but this is such a light and airy and lovely sunscreen. You guys can hear that ball rolling around. So you give it a good shake. But let me show you how very light it is. Look at it. It's just very light and it's just very, very thin. And what's so great about that is it doesn't add another layer to your makeup moisturizer, you know, all of primer, all of those layers that you're putting on your skin, super light, I mean, super light. It just becomes one with your skin immediately. The other thing that I can do is I can put a little bit in my hand, you know, mix it around and during the day, if I'm out somewhere in the sun, I can put that on top of my makeup and it not disturb my makeup because it is so, so light. If it were greasy or anything like that, I don't think that I would could be able to do that, but I can do just a little bit of dabbing on there to keep the sun at bay a little bit throughout the day. OK, I did pick up this BH Cosmetics Blushing in Bali, a color blush and highlighter palette. This is so much fun, you guys. This is really pigmented on the blushes.  And they are definitely very pigmented. That's one of the things that I like about it. And then the highlighters, they're very pretty too. Soft formula, it's really a soft formula. This highlighter right here is a copper. I'm too fair skin to wear that on my skin. But if you're any deeper color, I bet it would just look absolutely fantastic on you. The colors are just pretty and vibrant. And as I've worked with it throughout the month, I just have thought it was so pretty. I'm actually wearing it on my cheeks today so you guys could get a sneak peek of that. I just think it's so very beautiful. The Tarte Face Tape Foundation, I just did a review for you guys and I'm pretty sure it would have gone up before this video. So just so you know, this is probably my new favorite foundation. I just really love that. I'll make sure that I link that video so that you guys can watch it. It is very mature skin friendly as far as my skin goes. Now I do have the issue of having extremely dry skin and I have large pores. I just felt like it did really well, lasted well throughout the day, kept me not like dewy, but definitely hydrated, which I did like about it. I just felt like it was a really good new choice for me and I'm excited about it. A while back, I did a review on the new things that are from Milani this time of the year. This is the Silky Matte Bronzer and I feel like, yes, it is very silky. It is so pretty. And this is Zero Two Sun Kissed. What I love about this particular one is that it doesn't pull very orange on me, which is so important for me. That's a highlighter. If something pulls too orange for me, then my makeup is going to look very off. But this one doesn't. It does say on the website that it is a cool brown color or cool. I can't remember what it said as far as the actual color, but I did say it was a cool tone, more cool toned. And I feel like that. It's just so pretty. I feel like you could also use it as a contour and, you know, then, you know, all over bronze and you'd be out the door. So this has been really pretty. Also in my lure box this month, I got from the Brow Gal this Brow Gel Eyebrow Gel and it just really is a fun, nice product. And the reason is, is because I absolutely love this little brush. It's teeny tiny. And if you guys have ever seen the IT Cosmetics Tightline Mascara, that's what that's like. I think Maybelline has one of them. That's that little tiny brush. But what's really nice for me about that brush is that I can do tiny, tiny strokes with it and it doesn't disturb what I've already done with my pencil and it sets it down, but it gives it a little bit more volume. So been really enjoying this and it's been a really good color for me to. Okay, from ColourPop. I don't remember if I put this in last months or not. But this is a gorgeous little palette. It's called It's My Pleasure.  I am, I'm just super impressed. I feel like ColourPop keeps getting better and better all the time. When it comes to their pressed shadows, I feel like as far as the drug store goes, you cannot beat them. So that little palette, to me, they really have stepped up their game. It is nine pans, you get a mirror and the packaging has changed to being a plastic packaging, which I think is a little bit nicer than their actual cardboard packaging. This palette in particular, the colors on here, you guys know how much I love purple, but it has some interesting colors that just really speak to me to more, you know, that go more into the lines of being fuchsias and mobs and, you know, just having different textures. And this is one that I really like. I have been loving and I'm actually going to the store and picking up more of these. The Wet and Wild New Liquid Gloss Lipsticks. These are so opaque, you guys, this one in particular. This one, I don't know what the name is, but I'll show you right now. But it's a high gloss, but it's an opaque gloss and it's so pretty, you guys. This one is Chick Got Real, which they have the funniest names. It's not super heavy. It's not super sticky, but I'm a gloss person, so I love gloss. So any of those formulas don't bother me, but I really have liked this one. And I'm thinking about going and getting more. This is definitely my color. It's a perfect color for me. I also want to mention to you guys the Infallible Eight Hour Pro Glosses. I love these, you guys. I have had this one that is 115 and it's called Blush Forever.  I just really love both of these, you guys. They aren't, these aren't opaque. They do have some that are opaque. These are more like toppers, but what is so great about them is the lasting power. Now, if you're going to eat something, no, you're not going to have that lasting power that might last through lunch or anything because it is a gloss. But look how shiny and pretty they are. Actually, all three of them, aren't they just gorgeous? Just so shiny. If you're looking for a gloss topper, these last you such a long time as far as how long they wear.  And I know that this has been out for a long time, but I wanted to mention it to you guys. So I think that's everything in my monthly favorites. You guys, thank you so much for being here with me. Don't forget to give it a thumbs up if you did like it. At the end screen, I am going to put up my playlist for my past monthly favorites so that you guys can see if you want to what I've been loving. I do hope that you're having a great day and I'll catch you guys all in my very next video. Love you guys. Bye bye.