Thank you Focus for organising this webinar and also for inviting me to be on this panel. It's quite an honour to be on the panel with the fellow speakers with Walden and Indra. So I will be basically talking only about the situation in India and also coming from where I am which is as a right to food activist in this country. That's where I am beginning from. And of course even while we are talking about food distribution, about hunger and malnutrition we have always seen the connections with the kind of food systems that we have and like I think Walden also said in the beginning of his presentation that to understand hunger and the issue of food insecurity it can't be separate from understanding the food system, the global food systems that are currently in place and who controls food production and procurement and distribution and so on. In India we are facing this in the context of COVID and the lockdown this very contradictory kind of situation where we have huge stocks of food grains in the public storage places and at the same time massive distress across the country. So the big question for us right now is a question of distributing those grains but I also think that in India as well that this entire COVID is another opportunity for us to actually think about how our food systems can be much more decentralized with greater local control over what is being produced and how it is being distributed. So I will come to that bit a little in the second half of my presentation but I would like to start with the situation of hunger and with what is going on in terms of making basic food grains and basic needs available to people. So a number of you who might not be outside of India but this has been getting covered in the media quite extensively might know that as a response to the pandemic India saw one of the most stringent national lockdowns as has been seen anywhere in the world and we had a national lockdown quite early stages of the pandemic and this was stringent in the sense that it was a curfew and people were all transport between cities even within cities or villages was completely stopped and many the other aspect of the lockdown was also that it came without any warning so it was a Prime Minister speech which said that 4 hours after the speech the lockdown would start. So as a result of this what many are calling an ill planned lockdown what we are faced with now even after the lockdown has been lifted in many parts of the country and immediately what we faced was a massive crisis of stranded migrant workers wanting to go back to their homes but not being able to because there were no transport systems and people were not allowed to move. A livelihood crisis and therefore a resultant food and hunger crisis as well. So and this has been quite extensive and now we have some phone surveys which tell us how bad the situation is for instance a university in Bangalore the Azim Premji University did a phone survey where they spoke to over 5,000 people and where people responded that 77% of the households that responded are consuming they said they were consuming less food than they were doing earlier than before the lockdown and 66% 2 thirds of them said that they had lost their employment. Another survey done by the Center for Equity Studies in collaboration with the Rosa Luxemburg Institute they also found in their sample that only about 40% of people said that caused the lockdown they were able to avoid hunger completely and many reported that they reduced the quantity of food that they are eating they reduced the quality to cope up with the lockdown induced crisis. So there are a number of such surveys and just another that there are some young volunteers who are maintaining a list of just on the basis of newspaper reports of people who died of starvation and financial distress because of the lockdown and the various restrictions imposed by it almost 200 people they have listed has having died because of these reasons. There are other deaths due to accidents and suicides and so on without including those just the starvation hunger related deaths have been almost 200 in the last 3-4 months. To understand why the lockdown created this kind of a crisis we of course have to go a little bit into what is the situation in the Indian economy free the lockdown and the reason why there's been this kind of crisis is of course the unequal economic system that we have and have been perpetuating over the last 15-20 years where more than 90% of our workers are in the informal sector and about 80% of the workers earn less than rupees 18,000 a month which is roughly around 240 dollars a month and therefore as soon as people as the lockdown was imposed people lost their jobs being in the informal sector very few people earned enough to have savings to be able to see them through through this lockdown period in a context where over the last 3-4 years we have already been seeing a slowdown in our economy we've been seeing rural wages being stagnant over the last 3 years in fact post 2016 we've had multiple occasions where farmers from across the country took to the streets because of the debt crisis they were in because they were not getting remunerative prices for their crops so the issue of agrarian crisis was something that was seriously there in India even before the lockdown began and the pandemic and the lockdown has only contributed to exasperating this situation also not just about farmers not getting remunerative prices on the other hand India also faces one of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world with almost 40% of children under 5 years being stunted over 20% of children being wasted and since 2017-18 the right to food campaign has also been documenting reports of hunger related deaths from different pockets in the country something we had stopped hearing of for some time where we see that it's coming back particularly in pockets which have tribal Adivasi populations amongst all people single women and so on so it is in this context that this lockdown happened and like I said what we saw therefore was this absolute acute crisis of hunger and people desperately looking for access to food on the other hand what we see is that the government where we have a public procurement program where farmers are offered a minimum support price for their crops and this works effectively only for rice and wheat and in some parts of the country but where it works it's a very effective scheme so the grains that the state procures under this public procurement program have been so high in the last couple of years that even before the lockdown began we had nearly 18 million tonnes of rice and wheat and paddy at the beginning of the lockdown soon after the lockdown was the harvest season and therefore another round of procurement took place where we find currently with almost 100 million tonnes of rice paddy and wheat in the government stocks so this contradiction of having high stocks on the one hand and having hunger on the other hand is the story of food security in India and this is linked to the highly centralized food system that we have in our country currently so as a response what did the government do firstly on the distribution side on responding to the situation of hunger the government after announcing the lockdown it announced some welfare measures in the first week after the lockdown to provide free food grains to about 800 million people which is about 60% of India's population so 5 kilos per head of rice or wheat was to be given free and 1 kilo of pulses per household and pulses in India is one of the main sources of protein in people's diets this is not because most people are vegetarian in fact most people are non-vegetarian but because people cannot afford animal products, meat, milk, eggs or meat and therefore we find that the most affordable protein that is already part of people's diets albeit not as much as they should be eating is pulses so only one kg of pulses per household for free is what the state announced as a result of this lockdown while 800 million might seem a huge number like I said earlier this is 60% of India's population but we have 90% over 90% of our population being in the informal sector and as the pandemic extended more and more people falling into this crisis of hunger and therefore what we were faced with immediately for the civil society to take up also was this issue of a large number of people who did not have these ration cards under the National Food Security Act and therefore despite the government announcing these free grains they were not eligible to get the free grains they were also a large number of people who had the ration cards but you're allowed to take those free grains only from the local distribution centre from where your card was issued whereas a huge migrant population which was now living in different places were not able to use their cards to get the grains so we were faced with this situation where there is grain on the one side there was an announcement of free grains but there was still a large population who were left out of this free grain distribution it was in this context that the Right to Food Campaign along with large number of civil society groups have been demanding that along with the community kitchens, the feeding centres and the free grains what we really need right now is a universal public distribution system a universal system which says that anybody who is in need of grains can come to the designated shops and will be given those 10 kilos a month of food grains for free or at a very low price without having to prove that they're poor or that they're migrant or that they belong to the informal sector because the experience has been that this kind of targeting where people have to prove their status of poverty is one which excludes people and why are we making this argument on the other side like I said earlier is also because of the mounting food grains that we have 100 million tons which is more than enough to do a universal PDS for almost a year and we are going to have another harvest in about 3-4 months now which will again be procured so the stocks will increase of course there has been a reluctance from the side of the government to do this because of their considerations of subsidy and their reluctance to expand the fiscal deficit and to spend more now coming to the issue that we are mainly discussing today how does this link to the whole issue of agriculture and food sovereignty and the food system in general now if we look at the situation that India is in as well we can see that this is partly because of the centralised system that we have where procurement operations the way it has been designed in India takes place in only some states in the country and is focused on only these two crops so although we have such a huge procurement operation on the other hand we find there was a government report a few years back which said that only 6% of the farmers are able to contribute to the government's procurement mechanism and what does that mean that most of the farmers who are not able to sell at this minimum support price are in fact selling in the market for much lower prices so we have a situation where on the one side the farmers are not getting remunerative prices for their crops and on the other side people are not getting access to food but the farmers have still delivered where despite this lockdown and despite the pandemic we saw that we had a good crop this year and there's been enough harvest and the report so far is that for the next season as well despite all the problems and the lack of government support the sowing has been going on pretty much at the levels that it went on last year although there are concerns about seeds not reaching farmers farmers having trouble in accessing credit and so on so in this context I would argue and many of us with the right to food campaign also felt and the same I think with many agriculture farmers groups in the country that this would actually be seen as an opportunity to decentralize the food system in India as well as to expand state support to the small and marginal farmers where they can in fact see the linkages between agriculture and nutrition as well as agriculture as a sector that can actually contribute to growth and contribute to the overall economy so in that imagination what one would have liked to see was that there was an extensive decentralized procurement where they moved from this excessive focus on only rice and wheat and only on certain states in the country to actually having local procurement units across the country which was very important to have in the current context because even areas where procurement normally takes place farmers were finding it very difficult with the absence of transport networks so to have procurement happening at the village level of millets of pulses of fruits vegetables milk eggs and so on and then to use the extensive distribution mechanism which we have through the public distribution system where we have over 500,000 fair price shops across the country which are already in place through which this could have been distributed while making sure that farmers despite the lockdown got a remunerative price for their food crop whatever the crop was but we did not see that happen in fact what we saw was reports of vegetables and fruits particularly being thrown away because farmers did not have mechanisms to store them and on the other hand did not have access to the market because everything was being closed or being sold away at very very low prices because of this situation the government and response so the lockdown began around the 24th of March in May around the 18th of May we had another huge stimulus package that the government announced while they first said that this was going to be a massive stimulus package what was disappointing was that it was seen that there was no stimulus that the amount that was given of 20 billion rupees was in fact was not what the government was going to spend but it came in off it was not an expansion and fiscal spending of the state and even more disturbing is that the government was trying to use this opportunity of the lockdown of the parliament not functioning of people's movements not being able to come out on the street to push forward reforms which have been on the agenda of the state for many many years including in agriculture so reforms which result in greater commercialization in agriculture the neoliberal reforms which many have been demanding is what the government has been trying to push forward so if we see the three main changes that they announced for agriculture as a result of the pandemic none of them as I said is as a result of pandemic it has been there on the agenda for long one is that the essential commodities act which put a limit on how much stocks traders could fold on essential commodities that act has been diluted secondly India has something called the agriculture APMC act which regulates the marketing of agricultural commodities which also there have been attempts to try and dilute for a very long time so now we have an ordinance which is called the farmers empowerment protection agreement on price assurance and farm services ordinance basically what this ordinance is trying to do is to deregulate the agriculture markets so losing the rules which say that agriculture produce have to be sold through these APMC Mondays through the markets which have been set up under the APMC act and that they could directly sell to private traders and also to make contract farming easier in the country so both of these have been on the agenda of neoliberal reforms for a long time and the COVID-19 pandemic is being used by the government to push through these kind of reforms and this is completely opposite to what I was speaking about a little bit earlier where in the context of India where we have still almost 50% of our population depending on agriculture for the livelihoods in one way or the other 80% of our farmers are small and marginal so they're actually net consumers of food these reforms only do not and we know that through certain states which have tried to do it as well that actually do not increase access to markets for farmers it only brings in the space for private traders for multinational corporations to get into the agriculture sector in India and to in fact centralize our food system much more destroying the local decentralized systems that are already in place so what should be done I'll quickly summarize again what we have been demanding as the right to food campaign is to use this as an opportunity for a decentralized procurement where you procure local crops in local areas and distribute them locally and then take the surplus to areas where there are deficits therefore not just rice and wheat but other crops as well and this is important even when we keep climate change considerations in mind therefore reimagining the entire procurement and distribution in India towards diverse crops and greater decentralization which would mean greater investments by the state and agriculture more infrastructure in terms of even roads, irrigation markets with a focus on small and marginal farmers and on the other side universalization of entitlements which is also not limited to only rice and wheat but includes pulses and eggs and milk and other items as well so this is what we have been pushing for but unfortunately like I said the kind of system that the state is trying to push for in this context is something which is much more centralized which in the long term would have devastating effects for hunger and nutrition in the country so we do hope that we'll still be able to put pressure on the government to withdraw on some of those for instance even the land laws are being revised and labor laws and towards this universal public services built on decentralized food systems


What's popping people welcome back to another video if you guys are new to the channel hit that subscribe button hit the notification Bell also hit the like button if you guys have been enjoying the content check out some of the recent videos that we've been putting out The last few weeks we got some cool content in some different areas But today we're actually at Fletcher's place big shout to Fletcher He's not with us today, but we have his little boat right here. We're gonna be trying to catch some big bass We actually had a big storm that was about to roll in and all of a sudden it just passed by and the pressure Is pretty low. I think the fish are gonna be biting really good if you guys are wondering about the conditions It's cloudy out. I mean everywhere you look there's clouds barely any Sun peeking through I think these bass are gonna be roaming really good today And if we can get a moving bait in front of their face, I think they're gonna end up eating it So we're have a lot of fun got Cody behind the camera. It's gonna be a good time today But let's go ahead and hop on the John boat get out there rig up some rods Hopefully lean into a really big one today time to rig up right here. We have a Texas rig All right one fourth ounce EWG.  I think you're to catch them today I think this is gonna be a bait that we'd probably need if the bites a little tough But let me tell you with how this weather is right now This pressure dropping clouds in the sky these bass are gonna be rubbing Tie on The old reliable red eye shad that we've just been smoking them on this natural color has been getting the job done We're gonna throw this around see how they're gonna eat it Hopefully they're gonna smunch it and I actually had a crawl pattern liposcrank bait with us today as well so if they're not eating the natural color will switch up to the crawl pattern the red color and We'll go from there But I think we're gonna start off with this just cover a lot of water see how the fish are gonna act today Hopefully they're just gonna munch and we don't need to slow down at all so guys we just got out here and The end of the lake that we put in on there's so much bait I think we just picked the right spot So what I'm gonna do is start fan casting out here see if we can get one to commit to this lipless and then Fish that bridge and work our way down the lake one just came up right there Yeah, there's fish in this pocket. We could probably start off of catching a few We picked the right spot last time we came out we went on the other end of the lake But this bait moves and I think we're in the right area. I think we catch one right here right now And this bait popping dude, I just saw a fish come up and eat a bait fish a minute ago Dude, I've never seen so much bait. I can't believe we haven't got a bite I don't really see fish coming up for it though. It's mainly bait flicker. There's like so much activity though This is the fishing should be really it's just we once we find them It's gonna be good. I was kind of trying to catch one real quick. You see oh my god. Oh my god This is a giant. Oh my god over at least five pounds. This is a giant. Oh Yeah, oh, yeah, she might be six. I Can barely see her cuz the ponds in the water, but this is a big fish on the Thunder Cricket. This is strong fish, too Oh my god. Oh My gosh, oh that's six pounder. I Might yeah has to be See the five or six Come on, baby.  Don't spit it.  We were patient. I didn't have a bite this whole time We've been fishing for what maybe 45 minutes all the sudden thump first fish is like a five-pounder Zeroed out just getting official weight on this baby first fish today. I can't believe that mm-hmm 55 Okay, five pounds five ounces That's a big one though dude come on now almost a five and a half pounder to start off the video That's exactly what you want that Thunder Cricket right there. You don't get many bites Well, let me tell you when you get bites It gets you a toad like that and this fish is long, but it's just so thick at the same time and What a way to start the video. Give me some brother. Give me some what a way right there Let's get her back in the water. We're keeping track today. We have one fish We're gonna see where her best five way, but that's a five and a half pound almost a five and a half pounder thick belly Just overall beautiful bass Let's get her back in. We've been catching some toads recently. I knew right when I hooked this baby right here. It was a big one There she goes Wow Wow, wow. Wow. We have been starting off the videos recently with some big ones That's just a good feeling right here Cody. We got to make it happen again first fish 5.5. Let's go for one this over six. So this is the Thunder Cricket that I'm using It's just a white and chartreuse chatter donk right here. I got one of those striking swim baits on the back It's just a big profile. This is actually a three-quarter Which is normally what I wouldn't throw but I didn't have a half I have one half with me but this was already tied on and Man, she thumped it. I'm telling you these baits right here these Thunder Crickets any any type of chatter bait They catch the toads you guys know like over the years I've caught more big fish on a bait like this than anything and we're just gonna see if we can put together Over a 20 pound bag today. I think it's possible. I was very patient with that right there I knew the bite was gonna come. I was praying it was gonna come and it happened, but I was reeling this thing super slow. Oh My god, it's another toad. It's another toad. It's another toad. It's another toad. Giant.  Oh My god. Oh my god. Oh my god.   That's bigger than six Please stay dude. He's barely hooked. Oh, this is not good. All right With this barely hook guys, but we need this fish. We're gonna have a massive bag today. Oh My god, it's so big There's no way I can't believe it. Cody's smiling behind the camera. I know I got him excited. I got you excited, don't I? Yeah Yeah, oh Man, how many cast after that? Maybe five? We're on him now. Look at that. That's a six pounder.  You guys better be thanking Cody. Hashtag Thank You Cody in the comment section down below for bringing this scale because we're gonna actually tally up our bag today We've had two bites that are over five. Are you kidding me? That thunder cricket getting the job done Let's go ahead and get a weight on this girl, man. I'm ready to catch some more. That's insane Terrified me.  Zeroed out We got over 10 pounds of two fish. Let's go. Please be six She's not gonna do it five pounds 11 ounces Five and three quarters right there just about Look at that. We're gonna tally it up. I need to put these in my phone Five pounds 11 ounces. We just caught a five five Let's go. I What did I say? I said now let's try to catch one over six and of course, she's just a little shy But that is a toad right there. That's exactly Why we go fishing every day.  Let's get her back in That is amazing Catch a five five and then the throwback in five cast later and catch a five eleven. That's a brute freaking brute I just can't believe the first two fish were that big We got 11 pounds Exactly 11 pounds actually Exactly 11 pounds of two fish. So we have a five five and we have a five eleven 16 ounces and a pound that puts us exactly at 11 pounds with two fish two fish guys we catch another five pounder That's gonna put us at 16 pounds with three fish. We are on the way to catching a High high like mid 25 pound bag. I know we can do it right here All right, we are getting eaten alive by gnats Cody's and put some bug spray on I'm just a Fan cast right here. Watch us catch another one. Oh my god. Dude, there's no way Dude, I got another one. No I can't believe this what is going on? All right. He's not a five pounder, but it's a solid two There we go third fish next cast guys This thunder cricket look at it right in the top of his mouth Getting the job done. That was a solid two pounder. We're gonna call him two. We're not gonna weigh him There we go.  What do you say Cody two pounder? We're gonna leave him at two. So we have 13 pounds of three fish Pretty he was eating it like a big one dude scared me next cast literally these fish are this is the thing We fished for a while. We saw a lot of baitfish just didn't have any bites all the sudden we moved spots Boom boom boom boom we're getting bites every cast. Oh, man I'm just like stoked. Those are those are some big.  Those are some big fish. Oh My gosh, dude, I'm sorry. I'm freaking out. God. Oh That was like one of those bites that I'll remember for 10 plus years.  I don't think he's gonna bite again unless there's another one I was really working slow, dude. I just had a feeling there's a fish right there Mmm, I just know how big that fish was I was another really good one I don't know if she was five, but I would say she's four plus. Oh my gosh Another one another one Giant, I haven't even seen him, but he feels huge. Oh He's a three pounder. Dang. I thought it was another five But hey, I can't complain with that. This is gonna put us at 16 pounds of four fish Boom right there. Look at that. That's a solid fish right there. Look at his red lips. Oh, oh my gosh came right off, too That's a pretty fish when I was gonna get a weight on her I think she's now I'm looking at her. She's probably high two two and a half to two and three quarters, but we'll get away Just to know what we have It's our fourth fish today We haven't had any non-keepers any like small ones, so oh My gosh, he's close Two pounds 13 ounces. She went to 214 and then went off so two or three quarters I was about what I was thinking high high two pounder That's nice fish right there About 16 pounds with four fish. So all we need is a four pounder. We have a 20 pound bag It's a pretty one right there. She felt so big though.  Nice Weirdest bite in the world, but look how he ate it. Look at that choked choked You cannot beat that catching them on a chatter dunk. I just kind of love it I was not expecting he bit it almost at the boat right there. That was weird I was almost thinking this shady little shady spot up on the bank was gonna hold the fish next thing, you know, this thing's biting me I'm like, wow Some good fishing today. I haven't seen the fishing conditions and as good as they are today in a while. That's a good fish That's probably about the same size as the last if not that might be Probably hides high two. I'm not even gonna weigh him It's a nice fish had a big head on a small body, but there might be another fish here We're just gonna have to keep casting this crazy guys when you're fishing just keep in mind like Where there's one fish there could be multiple and if you if you have that open mindset like that when you find them stacked up I mean, you can just catch so many fish But the biggest key to today has been keeping this chatter bait bumping off the cover Which I've been fishing a lot of laydowns. I've been letting this thing tick off the lay down So I feel it hitting it keeping contact with that not only that but I'm reeling this thing so slow And I think that's the key to getting these bites if I was reeling it really fast I don't think we'd be catching the fish that we're catching but that slow retrieve Has really triggered these fish to bite That was weird. I've never like hook set to catch that that was very weird Dude, just load it up on that thing Just randomly stop vibrating next thing.  I Got to throw this and then I'll catch That's a big in a thing. Oh It's a decent one Look at that guys Right there There's a bunch of bait popping at the mouth of this pocket And throwing that chatter dunk for a while And I knew exactly what to throw pick up that lip was sure enough first cast this fish hammers it But guys, I think that's gonna end off today's video if you guys enjoyed this one Be sure to hit that like button Let me know what videos you guys want to see in the comment section down below caught almost 20 pounds today Which was a phenomenal day. We had that five five and then a five eleven, which was the big bass Sadly, we didn't get anything over that but cut a lot of good fish even this pretty guy right here But thank you so much for watching Let me know what you guys want to see down below and I'll catch y'all in the next video


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This is installment number two of the top products at the drugstore. We're doing Milani today. Let's get into it. Well, I had originally thought I was going to do this as the top five of a particular drugstore brand. Today it's Milani, but now it's up to the top 10 because Milani is such a good brand and I love so many of their products. We're gonna do that right now, but first there is a timestamp right here that's gonna go up on the screen where you can skip ahead to that part of the video if you want to because I do talk about my clothes and a couple other things that some people like to skip over. First thing is my shirt. I really am happy with this shirt. I always say I'm in love with this shirt, but I'm happy with this shirt. I'm trying to change my lingo. This has got a crisscross detail on a v-neck and it's purple. It's a very light Jersey weight material, very stretchy long sleeve, which I always like to push up. And I just really like this kind of shirt. And as we're going into fall, it's light enough to not worry about in the daytime when it's a little bit warmer, but heavy enough to keep me a little bit warmer in the evenings as we go into the fall. And then the earring that I chose to wear today I've worn on my channel before. This is a silver spiral earring with a spiral that has rhinestones inside of the silver. They do have a couple other colors, so I will go ahead and I will make sure that I link that so that you can check out the other colors. And then also I wanted to show you my necklace. I love this necklace because it is a layered necklace. However, it does come in separate layers. It doesn't come all in one. And I actually think there's one other part to this. But what's really cool about this, besides the fact that I love the necklace itself, I put this onto a magnetic clasp. So it's two different necklaces, yes. They come together when I bought them. But what's fun about it is I don't have to worry about putting two necklaces together. I just bought this magnetic clasp and I bought a couple different ones of them. They had ones that have three. They have a bunch of them that you can buy. But this one is two. So I just attached the necklaces to the clasp and then it's really easy for me to put on behind my head here because, you know, as I get older, I get a little bit more challenged with what I can do and what I can't do. So I'm really loving those and they come in silver and gold as well. I will make sure that all the makeup that I'm wearing, my fingernail polish, my jewelry, everything is listed and linked below. And the links below will also contain my numbering system. I put up a number right here on the screen that corresponds to whatever product that I'm talking about at that time. You don't have to remember the product or anything about it. Just remember that number. Then go down into the description box, open it up, find the number, which is number three in this case, find number three. Next to it will be the product with any information about the product, if it's the color, the size, anything like that. And it will also be the link that you can shop that way if you'd like to. All right, so that is our introduction. Now we're going to get onto Milani and finding out what my top 10 favorite products are. So I think we're just going to start in the order that I put it on my face. So we're going to start with this primer, which is the Milani Skin Quench Hydrating Primer. I really have been enjoying this for a couple of reasons. One is that it definitely does its job of creating a barrier between your foundation and your skincare, but it also doesn't dry you out. It isn't matte. It's not flat at all. And it really does feel very hydrating, but it doesn't sit on top of the skin. I can feel it sink in, but I can also feel that little bit of dimethicone in there. It's just a really great primer, and I love it for holding my makeup on and not making my makeup sink into my skin throughout the day. The next one that I have is the Milani Supercharged Facial Mist. And this one I really love. It's called Revitalizing Facial Mist. And the reason that I really enjoy it is because, one, it has a really great mister on it. The mist is fairly fine. But two is that you can use this during the day to freshen up your makeup if you want to. There is no alcohol in this at all, but it really does feel refreshing when you spritz it on. Now you can spritz this on before your primer if you want to for an added dose of hydration. You can do it after you put on your powders to really kind of blend everything or melt everything together. And it's just a really nice way to recharge your skin during the day or revitalize your skin during the day. You can kind of spritz it on. And it just does give you that really great burst of moisture if you're feeling dried out during the day. And yeah, I've really been enjoying this one. And that does have a little bit of a fragrance if you're interested. It does kind of have just a tiny bit, almost of a citrusy fragrance. The primer, though, does not have a fragrance. I always forget to say that. So I wanna make sure that I say it. The next thing that I put on was the Milani Fruit Fetish Lip Oil. And this one is in Strawberry Melon. And I just really love these lip oils. I have not been somebody that really has gone after the lip oil craze like so many people have, just because I am a lip gloss person. I love lip gloss. It's my jam. And so I've just kind of gravitated more towards that. But this is a really nourishing, very nice feeling lip oil. It feels a little bit heavier than just, you know, the regular oils that I've gotten in the past, which is nice without being sticky. It's not sticky at all. So I really have been enjoying this and it does give my lips a lot of moisture. Before I go in with the rest of my lip makeup or my lipstick. Next, I have the Milani Silky Matte Bronzers. These have become a cult classic, just like the baked blushes. This one is in Sun Kissed. This is my perfect bronzer because it's not too orange. It's not too cool. It's not very muddy. I can use it as a contour. It is what I have on today that you'll see as I put it on. But it's just got just a perfect color for me to warm up my face and do a little bit of contouring. And I love it. Now it comes in four colors, I think. It might have, they might have discontinued one color. It's just such high quality. And that's what I love about Milani is that you're getting this super high quality at a drugstore price.  The next thing you're gonna see me apply is one of the Milani baked blushes. Now, the reason that this one is different is because it is used as a highlighter. Now, when I open it, you're gonna see how light that is. It's super light. This is one of my favorite formulas of all time. And so many people love it. But you can see right there that that is just like, it's like a beige blush. And so not necessarily wanting a beige blush, but I do love this color for what it does with just having like a pearl gold champagne look to it on the highlighter. And that's what I used underneath my cheeks right here today. So I do have a ton of their other colors. This one is Dolce Pink, which I love. If you've never seen these before, these blushes do have just a tiny bit of shimmer in them. They're just such a fun blush to work with. And they really do give a lot of life to your cheeks. This one is called Berry Amour right here. This one is probably the one that I reach for the most. It's just a pretty everyday color that's kind of a cross between a rose and a coral. And I just think it's really, really pretty color. Kind of more of almost a nude color. And then the Petal Primavera. This one is your basic rose color. I think this one's very pretty as well.  You kind of have to build these up, which I actually do appreciate about them. Now I'm gonna cheat right here and just slip in an extra blush because I, you know, I have 10 and this is my 11th actually. But you know, sue me, it's my channel. So I love the rose powder blushes. They have an embossed rose in them, which most of us have already seen these. This one is called Tea Rose, just a beautiful rose color. It's more along the lines of a really light coral rose color and it's really pretty. They have a lot of colors in this, but it's a matte blush. Whereas all of the rest of these are kind of a shimmer blush or a glowy blush. This is a very matte blush, very pretty. I like them both very much. And then I have the Liquid Cheek Kiss blushes. Oh my goodness, I love these. This one right here is called Berry Smooth and it is just a pretty berry color that you will see right here, kind of almost a raspberry color. And then the next one is called Pink Flirt. It's the one that I have on today that you'll see me put on right here. Really pretty mid-tone pink right there. Just pretty, pretty color. And then the last one is called Rose Romance. So this is your basic rose color with maybe a little bit of a mauve tone to it, but not too much. So you can see all of those colors right there. They're definitely on the pink side. They're more on the cool tone side, but they have a lot of colors. They have colors that would definitely match your skin tone. And since it's right here, why waste such pretty blushes, right?  I just mixed all three of those together. They really are so pretty and I just absolutely love them. Then I went in and I lined my lips. I don't have a favorite color in Milani of their liner. I know that they have good liners, but I just don't have a favorite color, but I do have a favorite color in one of their lipsticks. Now this is their cream lipstick, and this one is called Pretty Natural. Such a pretty color. I cannot get over how lovely and creamy this lipstick is and how much it reminds me of a MAC lipstick. So this is the cream one. They have the matte one and then they have their new fetish ones, but this cream one is the original and I just still love it so much. And this color is beautiful, Pretty Natural. I really like it. And then I popped on just some gloss on top of there. And you guys have heard me talk about the Keep It Full glosses so many times. And this is a plumping gloss. The first one is called Moonlight. It is just kind of a sheer with a little cast of reflect of pink in it. Next one is called Nude Shimmer. It's the one that I popped on top of the lipstick that I have on today. And it has kind of the nude color in there with a champagne reflect in there. And then the next one is called Tropical Shine. And it's kind of a peachy color with just a little bit of that reflect in it. So those are all very pretty. And that one is a beautiful color to pop on top of any of your lipsticks. This gives them such a pretty shine and fullness to them. I really love these. They remind me so much of the Buxom lip glosses. I think I have more of these than I do of the Buxom, but I do really think that they're a great quality gloss not too sticky, not too heavy. They just are really beautiful on your lips. Next I have the Highly Rated Anti-Gravity Mascara. This is such a nice mascara. It is a mascara that has the bendy wand. So please be aware of that. It is a plastic or silicone bristle brush in the hourglass shape. I love this for being able to grab onto my eyelashes and just make them the very longest that it possibly can. You can really build this up if you need to. I love the tip of it that it's so pointy that it's really just very easy to grab onto your bottom lashes. No smudging and no flaking on this for me. And I live in a pretty dry state. So that's saying something. So I really haven't been enjoying this one and I'm glad that they finally came out with a mascara that doesn't smudge on me. And then the very last product, I am very glad to say that the Milani Make It Last Dewey Setting Spray that claims that it has a 16 hour wear, that this does not have alcohol in it that dries you out. The original setting spray that they have, the Make It Last that they have, that one does have alcohol in it. Now this has some kinds of alcohol, but they're the humectant kinds or the kinds that really do help moisturize your face, not dry it out like alcohol denate can. I love the mist on it. It's a really fine mist on there. It holds your makeup on and yet it doesn't make you look flat or anything. And I actually do like this one as well for melting the powder products into the liquid products that you use and melting them together. And it just holds your makeup so well and I really have been enjoying this one too. That is it for today's video. I hope that you did enjoy seeing it. Tell me down in the comment section if you have any Milani products that you absolutely love that I didn't talk about today. I'm sure there are several of them that was really hard for me to even choose 10. Let's pop up here on the screen another video. Let's do a drugstore dupe because we haven't done one of those in a really long time. Let's just put that up there so you can go see some fun drugstore dupes and save some money. I hope you are all doing really well. Please take care of yourselves and come back around really soon to...


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