I come here with a profound sense of gratitude. I am so grateful for being here. Thank you, Catamount Band. Thank you, Catamount Singers. Thank you to all the speakers. Caroline, your words of reflection. Dr. Burrus, your poetry, the musical piece we've just heard, I think puts us in exactly the right place in this really important ceremony. Today's a momentous day, as you all know. A day of ceremony and celebration. It may look like so much pomp and circumstances from the outside, but truly marks a new era for the university, one befitting of the solemnity and ceremony of today. Today, we officially transfer the mantle of leadership and give a warm and proper official welcome to UVM's new president. Our community has convened in this way only a number of times as you've all heard over the past 228 years of our history. President Garamalla joins a distinguished lineage of 26 leaders who've gone before him and steered the course of our great university. Each newly inaugurated president faces headwinds, headwinds of the times. Some of those headwinds are internal, some of them are external. Each president is supported by the visions and efforts toward excellence undertaken by his predecessors. This is a noteworthy moment for UVM at a time of change at our university, inside a time of change, a sea of change in the broader higher ed environment. Creative adaptability and a focus on the core mission of delivering the best education possible for all of our students are key to UVM's continued and future success. It's not hard to imagine creative adaptability as an apt descriptor for an imaginative leader and scholar who's already received 13 patents. As a member of the presidential search committee and vice chair of the board of trustees, I've had a chance to get to know Laxmi and Suresh Garamalla. What has struck me is consistently warmth, your affection, your personal touch, consistent, constant optimism. Those are wonderful attributes of a leader. They will take a good leader up a step, maybe even up several steps. Those are the kinds of steps that will bring the community together and bring us together to face the challenges that the university and the higher ed environment are facing will help us to strive for excellence now and into the future. I'm confident we have that leader with creative adaptability and Dr. Suresh Garamalla. As we close this installation ceremony and open a new chapter for UVM, I'm again reminded of the deep connection to this great university shared by all of us today. And the many who encircle outside of the walls of this wonderful chapel. As a native remonder and also a first-generation college graduate, a proud alum and vice chair of the board of trustees, I'm honored that we together can represent the entire UVM community in entrusting the future of this great institution to President Garamalla. It is a momentous new era for our beloved university and we are excited to be stepping into the future with you, President Garamalla. Thank you. Welcome and congratulations.


The highest paying engineering degrees. That's what we're gonna be talking about today, but before we jump into that, make sure to gently tap the like button in order to defeat the evil YouTube algorithm. On this channel, we talk about personal finance, college degrees, careers, and opportunities that are gonna lead you to success. And we also go over some of the common financial traps that so many people fall for. Now if you're new here and you haven't done it already and that sounds like something that interests you, go ahead and hit the subscribe button and ring the notification bell so that you never miss an opportunity. Now with that out of the way, let's jump right into it. Today, we are gonna be talking about the highest paying engineering degrees. I've already made a few videos about what engineering degrees I think are the best. And in those videos, I talked about more than just salary. We went over the job satisfaction and all kinds of other things like demand. However, in this video, we are gonna be focusing on salary. There are a lot of engineering related degrees and engineering related majors out there that there might not be very many graduates every year, but they can still be pretty good opportunities and they have a really good salary. So with that being said, let's jump in right away. Number 10 on the list is going to be nuclear engineering. Now this is gonna be all about either breaking down or combining different atomic nuclei. I know this is not about creating nuclear bombs or anything like that. This is all about energy production and the energy industry. Now with this degree, you can expect to make around $73,000 a year in your first five years after graduating and then after 10 years, also known as mid-career pay, you're gonna be making around 124,000. Now, of course, you could become a nuclear engineer and you'd be making around 113,000 a year according to BLS. There's 16,400 jobs available, but it is declining at negative 13%, meaning in the next 10 years, 2100 jobs are going to disappear. Now the thing about any energy related career degree is that it's not gonna be very stable. It's highly volatile. A war, the market dropping, regulations, laws changing, anything like that can disrupt your entire industry. Now from my research, most nuclear engineering jobs are actually relatively chill. You're not gonna be worked really hard, have to do super long hours or anything like that, at least not usually. And as a nuclear engineer, you kinda hope that your job is boring, let's be honest. Because your job, generally speaking, if you're working in an electrical plant, is to make sure that the next Chernobyl doesn't happen. Now there's a lot of other jobs you could work in. For instance, you could be a waste management expert and get rid of different nuclear waste. You could get a job working with nuclear submarines where you'd be working on naval propulsion. You could also do a lot of research and development. There are a lot of job opportunities out there besides working in the energy industry specifically. And depending on what career path you go down, you might end up going back and getting a master's. Overall, unless you know exactly what you're going for, exactly what career you wanna get into and exactly how you need to get there, I would recommend not going into this one. That's because of the negative job outlook and I've been asked about this one several times in the comments section. I might make an entire video on it, but if you wanna speed things up and just watch this video, overall I kinda don't recommend it. I think a lot of the other engineering degrees are gonna be better. Number nine on the list is going to be computer systems engineering. Now this one is basically gonna be kind of a combination of computer science, engineering skills, math skills of course, and then a little bit of maybe IT skills as well. So information technology. And it's gonna be used to figure out how technology fits into the larger scheme of an organization or a business. Now this one you can expect to make around $74,000 a year starting out and mid-career pay is $124,000 a year. There's a ton of different career paths that you could go for with this one because of the fact that you're gonna be specializing in skill sets that are gonna be in the technology industry. There's gonna be a lot of different opportunities out there. One career path you could definitely go for would be a computer systems analyst. They make around $90,000 a year. There's 632,000 jobs available. It's growing at 7% which is faster than average. And that means over the next 10 years there's gonna be 46,000 new jobs available. You could also become a computer hardware engineer where they make around 117,000 a year. There's 71,000 jobs available so quite a bit less. It's growing at 2% which is slower than average. And that means over the next 10 years there's gonna be about 1,100 jobs that pop up. Now I know with these technology degrees it can be very confusing because all of them almost sound like the same thing. So I like to compare them so that you can get an idea of what you would be doing with one over the other. So if you were to get a computer science degree for instance you'd probably go into more information technology related jobs or software development, software engineering related jobs. Whereas computer systems engineers are gonna be working with maybe some low level software engineering, software development like some low level programming but for the most part they're gonna be working with hardware. So with computer science you might go work at Google or Facebook and become a software engineer. Whereas with computer information systems you might work at Intel and design the next processor. Overall this is a relatively rare major. There's not that many graduates that you can find all over the country. On top of that you could probably get into these same exact jobs, do the same exact careers by getting a computer engineering degree and you'd have access to a lot of others as well. So this can be a really good one to get into if you know exactly what you're going for but overall you'd probably just wanna go for computer engineering instead. Number eight on the list is going to be marine engineering. So this is gonna be engineering that's all about anything in the ocean. So boats, ships, oil rigs, et cetera. With this degree you can expect to make around $74,000 a year in your first five years and 125,000 in mid-career pay. One career you could go into is becoming a marine engineer or a naval architect. They make around $92,000 a year. There's 11,800 jobs available. It is growing pretty slowly at about 1% so there's only gonna be about 200 jobs that open up in the next 10 years. Now with this degree there's basically two different types of marine engineers and there's two different areas that you could go which are gonna be completely different. So you could be a marine engineer that is actually on the ship itself and you're kind of like almost like the ship's mechanic but you have a little bit more knowledge than your average mechanic. So it's gonna be a very hands-on type of career where you know about the ship, you know everything about the ship and all the mechanical workings within it but you can also work on it if need be.  Whenever you're watching a sci-fi movie they always have an engineer on board the ship. Now this engineer ends up working on the ship in just about every single season that you see. Even though they're an engineer and they're not a mechanic they still end up working on the ship itself. This is kind of the same thing. You're gonna be spending long periods of time away from your family in the middle of the ocean floating on a ship. So this might be great if you're single and you don't have to worry about taking care of a family or anything like that. However, as you're getting older and you wanna have a family this is gonna be a real drain on your work-life balance. But it will probably pay you extremely well especially if you're good. Another type of common marine engineering is more of a desk job where you're gonna be focusing on maintaining and upgrading ships within a fleet. This one probably won't pay quite as well but you're gonna have better work-life balance. Overall the big problem with marine engineering is a very common problem when it comes to different engineering related majors and that is that it's a little bit too specialized.  Engineering degrees in general are pretty good so you don't have to get that specific in order to find a job. So getting too specific with an engineering related degree can actually be a bad thing sometimes. Number seven on the list is going to be aeronautical engineering. So this one is actually gonna be the degree that my dad got so shout out to dad if you're watching this. And basically aeronautical engineering is a subset of aerospace engineering. Aerospace is gonna be aeronautical as well as astronautical and that's basically aeronautical is gonna be things that fly within the confounds of the earth whereas astronautical is gonna be things that are flying outside of the earth, outside of the atmosphere. Now with an aeronautical engineering degree you can expect to make around $71,000 a year starting out and $125,000 a year in mid-career pay. For all intents and purposes, aeronautical and aerospace engineering degrees are pretty much combined at this point so you could become an aerospace engineer and they make around $116,000 a year. There's 66,000 jobs available and it's growing at 3% which is as fast as average meaning over the next 10 years they expect around 1,900 jobs to pop up. So pros to this one is that if you're somebody who really likes airplanes, jets, helicopters, spaceships, rockets, et cetera, that's pretty freaking awesome. I mean, if you like that, this is gonna be a awesome job for you. If you work as a government contractor there's probably gonna be really good job security that'll be one of the most common jobs that you're gonna see.  Next one on the list is going to be chemical engineering. So this one is gonna be focused on producing, designing, extracting all kinds of different materials, liquids, solids, as well as gases in some cases. So with this degree, you can expect to make around $73,000 a year in your first five years and 128,000 in mid-career pay. According to BLS, chemical engineers make around $108,000 a year. There's 32,000 jobs available and it's growing at 4% which is about as fast as average meaning over the next 10 years there's gonna be 1,400 more jobs popping up. Now chemical engineering overall is one of the more flexible degrees on this list meaning there's a lot of different pathways that you can go down. For instance, you could become a petroleum engineer which is something we'll be talking about very soon. There's a lot of money in the natural gas industry. You could get into process engineering which is all about making sure that a particular process that is being done on a mass scale is safe, itself regulates and all that sort of thing. Making sure there isn't a bunch of extra reactions going on when you mix two chemical compounds together that you don't want. You could also go into nanotech which focuses mostly on solar cells, batteries and semiconductors. You could also go into biology which is basically where you're gonna be doing a lot of the same work as somebody with a biology degree but you're gonna have more of a focus on solving problems whereas biology degrees have more of a focus on figuring out how things work. So it's a little bit more practical, a little bit more applicable to the real world and so therefore companies are much more likely to hire you. Overall, this is a pretty good one. It's not as flexible as some of the other degrees that I've mentioned in some of my other videos like mechanical engineering for instance. However, it is relatively flexible. It's pretty good overall. I would recommend going into this one if you're someone who's really interested in chemistry and you don't wanna get like a chemistry degree or a biology degree. Number five on the list is going to be electrical power engineering. Now this one is gonna be kind of like electrical engineering but it's gonna focus much more on electrical systems. So this one is a little bit more hands-on when it comes to electronics whereas an electrical engineering degree would be a little bit more theoretical and on the design side of things. Now with this degree you would expect to make around $73,000 a year starting out and 130,000 in mid-career pay. One career path you could go down is becoming an electrical or electronics engineer and they make around 101,000 a year. There's 328,000 jobs available. It's growing at 3% which is as fast as average meaning there's gonna be about 10,000 jobs that pop up in the next 10 years. Now again, there's a lot of different directions you could go with this but generally speaking, a lot of people who graduate with this degree are gonna end up kind of becoming very hands-on. They're gonna be working in the field. So it's almost like they are a technician or a mechanic or kind of a trades person that also has that higher level engineering knowledge. So if you're somebody who really likes working with your hands, this might be a good one to look into but overall I think you could do the same exact jobs with just an electrical engineering degree so I would probably go with that one just to be safe because it's more flexible. Number four on the list is going to be systems engineering. Now systems engineering is basically kind of a combination of engineering skills with some business skills and management as well. Now that is a really, really good combination.  So with a systems engineering degree you'd expect to make around 74,000 a year in your first five years after graduating and 132,000 in mid-career pay. There's a ton of different career paths you could go down. One that you could end up doing is an industrial engineer. They make around $88,000 a year. There's 295,000 jobs available. It's growing at 10% which is much faster than average meaning there's gonna be 30,000 new jobs in the next 10 years which is excellent. So the way to explain this one is imagine you work at Tesla and Elon Musk just gets this wild idea in his head. He's gonna design a car that can fly over traffic because he's really tired of all the LA traffic. So to design this car they're gonna have several different teams of engineers that are working on each individual part.  The hardware within the car is probably gonna have a bunch of computer engineers and electrical engineers and in the software side of things the interface on the screen for instance that you're gonna be touching in order to activate helicopter mode is gonna be designed by software engineers. As a systems engineer you would basically kind of be overlooking all of these different teams and you would possibly be in a management position where you make sure that all of the different teams work together. So you're gonna kind of be like a jack of all trades where you have a pretty good idea of what everybody's doing but most importantly you're bringing them all together and making sure they're working together to create the best possible final product. Number three on the list is going to be chemical engineering mixed with materials science engineering. Now we already talked about what chemical engineers do but materials science is gonna be focused on solid product solid materials. They're also gonna have a little bit more of a science type focus meaning you know white lab coat in the lab sort of thing whereas chemical engineers probably wouldn't be as science focused. So with this combination you're gonna be making around $74,000 a year starting out and mid-career pay is gonna be 137,000. Materials engineers make around $93,000 a year. There's 27,000 jobs available and it's growing at 2% which is pretty slow meaning there's only gonna be about 400 jobs that pop up in the next 10 years. Now there's a ton of different directions that you could go with this skill set. It is relatively flexible. You could go into metallurgy. You could become a process engineer. You could become an industrial engineer. You could even go into becoming a research scientist. Now one thing that I think is really interesting is quantum computing and how semiconductors are basically making that possible. A really good YouTuber Jake Trand did an entire video on quantum computing and I thought it was really awesome and all of that was made possible by semiconductors that were probably created by a chemical engineer or a material science engineer. Number two on the list is going to be electrical engineering and you guessed it, combination with computer science. I knew it. So electrical engineering is gonna be all about any sort of electrical circuit, electrical system, anything that has to do with electronics. Computer science is gonna be more about the actual study of computers and computation as well as having a focus on math and algorithms. Now you can see why this would make an incredible combination because you basically have kind of the software side of things with someone who can also work on the hardware side of things, the electrical side. Now this combination you can expect to make around $101,000 a year starting out and $152,000 in mid-career pay. Now you pretty much have to be a genius in order to get both of these degrees at the same time especially if you did it in four years that would be insane. But there's a ton of different career paths you could go down with this. The sky is the limit. You could basically get just about any job that you wanna get in the tech industry. And the tech industry is one of the best industries out there it has the most opportunity. One career path you could go down is becoming an electronics or electrical engineer. They make around $101,000 a year. There's 328,000 jobs available and it's growing at 3% which is as fast as average. That means over the next 10 years there's gonna be around 10,800 new jobs available. Now remember what I was talking about earlier with the systems engineer where you kind of have this problem where the hardware people and the software people don't really understand each other and so you have to make sure that they're on the same page. Well that probably wouldn't be nearly as much of a problem if you have this combination because you truly would understand both sides. And so that makes this degree totally invaluable if you're somebody who really gets the hardware side as well as the software side companies are gonna just love you. An example of a company that would love you would be Apple and you would be someone who would help them to design their overpriced new phones. Number one on the list is going to be Petroleum Engineering and you probably guessed it, this one is the highest paying engineering degree. Actually it's the highest paying degree period. Now with this one you're gonna be working in the natural gas industry probably helping to extract and refine oil. Now with this degree you're gonna start off making around $92,000 a year and mid-career pay is an insane 182,000 on average. Petroleum engineers according to BLS can expect to make around $137,000 a year. There's 33,000 jobs available. It's growing at 3% which is about average but kind of on the low side of average and that means over the next 10 years there's gonna be 1,100 jobs available. Now with this one you do have to be extremely careful like I mentioned before it is part of the energy industry which is extremely volatile. Nobody knows for sure what's gonna happen with this industry. A lot of people think it's gonna be disappearing in the next five or 10 years. I've done a lot of research on this industry and I'm not saying whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, I'm not trying to start that conversation. All I'm saying is it's probably not gonna go away in the next five to 10 years. In fact it'll probably be here for our entire lifetimes. There's a lot of great efforts being made in solar and trying to design electrical cars with their batteries and all that sort of thing and that's awesome. But we're still a very long way away from getting away from gas powered cars. But like I said it's very volatile, a war could happen, policies change, presidential elections can change things, senators can change things, all kinds of different regulations can happen and these could absolutely destroy the industry. In 2014 for instance there was a huge price crash and a bunch of people ended up getting fired or laid off that were petroleum engineers and they worked in the energy industry in general. Now things did end up recovering after that so that was kind of the good news but it did happen and a lot of people lost their jobs. Another thing that's affecting this is a lot of the baby boomers that have been working in the petroleum industry for decades are going to be retiring soon and that is gonna open up quite a few new jobs here. Nobody really knows what's gonna happen though, I'm just here to kind of tell you guys what I've read with my research. Now one thing that I mentioned here about a lot of these degrees is many of them don't have that many graduates every year. A few of them that I mentioned have less than 500 graduates for instance which means the survey data which we rely on in order to figure out what these numbers are is probably quite a bit off. Some of these degrees have less than 500 and in some cases even less than 100 graduates every year and so we largely rely on survey and census data for these numbers and that's probably off just because of the fact that you don't have a big enough sample size. So take some of these numbers with a grain of salt and realize that if there aren't that many people graduating with a degree every year that is generally speaking not a good sign. However, I have been working extremely hard on a project over the last few months where I basically rank all of the different degrees and I've collected data from what I believe are the best sources all across the internet to rank these degrees on the most important factors. So I created version 1.1 of the college degree ranker which takes into account what I think are the two most important things which are demand and salary. On later versions I will include all kinds of different metrics like flexibility and all that sort of thing but right now I decided to just create an objective ranking of the basically the job growth, how much opportunity there is within some kind of job or some kind of degree as well as the salary. I actually hired somebody on to help me with this project because it was so much work and I created a Patreon down below that you can access. I'm also working on some other projects there where I reveal my investment portfolios and all kinds of other stuff that you guys ask me about quite a bit. Unfortunately there's only so much I can do on YouTube as a platform just because of the fact that YouTube is good for a certain type of content but there's other types of content that it's not so good for. Now if you haven't done it already go ahead and gently tap the like button, hit the subscribe button, ring the notification bell and comment down below any thoughts, comments, criticisms, et cetera that you have on the video and before you leave check out my other videos right here. I made them just for you.


Grenades! Where are all the new grenades? Think about it people, since before the Black Sight 3 event, we haven't had any new additions to the game in terms of grenades. The last was the gas core which came with a bloody harvest, which is an amazing grenade by the way, but since the only new additions have been in terms of anointments applied to older variants. Well today guys, we check out a new grenade to the Moxies DLC, but it's only a rare, does that even matter nowadays? How's it going guys? My name's DP, and today I bring you another Borderlands 3 video. If you guys do enjoy living a life really helps me out and subscribe if you want to see more. On screen I can see my weekly giveaway along with last week's winner, to being with a chance of winning this yourself, follow the instructions on screen now and good luck. So guys, the one new addition I can remember in terms of grenades is the one rewarded from the campaign story, well along the way of you completing it. So it's definitely one you will eventually come across people. And don't people as many I know will disregard said items because they are of that rare blue variant. So this grenade called the Acid Burn is rewarded to you when you complete the Winners and Losers section of this DLC. And looking at this rare grenade, like many specific rewards from this DLC are indeed put in place as items to help you progress further through this DLC. Remember Gearbox mentioned you could start this game a fresh from this DLC, meaning you could go into this game, going to Borderlands 3, starting at level 1 from this DLC and progress from here. I believe this grenade is for someone that started BR3 this way. And this grenade would be an amazing addition to their loadout. But for people who started way back when, I ain't sure. So the Acid Burn hacked the planet 4,430 damage, 532 radius with the Lungbow and Acid Burn prefixes. Converts loader box to fight on your side for 8 seconds. So used in this grenade, honestly besides its true intentions, it's actually not too bad. I mean for 100% sure there are many many variants of grenades in this game which are far superior. But this thing is great for the handsome jackpot gameplay. And I'd probably just leave it at that. Using the half of the handsome jackpot I mean it's just like any other box standard grenade in this game. But how effective is it on the handsome jackpot? Well its damage output is decent, against those robots anyway due to being a corrosive variant. But comparing this to my gas cool, nope, the gas cool is absolutely miles apart, as one would expect. So what about its part trick, how effective is it? Well people after a little testing I can tell you it works like it should.  I mean if you land a certain set of modifiers playing on mayhem 3 which are against the grain, for sure this could help you. But also the damage they do against other enemies when fighting along you is minute, so in my opinion it still isn't worth it at all. I mean there are many many grenades you can get in this game from vending machines and other places that are just so much better than this. I mean yes it's rare, yes everyone will get it for completing a Muxus Heist in DLC campaign story. Why would it be OP? Well you can say the same about Iron Canner, that's a guaranteed drop, everybody who completes the DLC will get that and that thing is considered well OP. But yeah but different variants, different varieties, whatever, I understand. One thing it does offer is about 2 minutes of entertainment though, as if you go ahead and farm the scrap trap boss for those legendos, you first have to fight off the scrap trap nest and these grenades actually work on these scrap traps too, so you can sit back and watch them have a scrap trap battle royale. But yeah guys other than that this grenade is one of those also popular novelty items, good on paper, useless really in execution. I mean it's decent on the handsome jackpot, it works wonders against robots because of the corrosive he offers, take it outside of the handsome jackpot they'll use it anywhere else and unless roles are perfect for you and this grenade it isn't worth the space in your inventory in my opinion. So yeah guys on that note we have come to the end of the video, this has been the review of the acid burn grenade rewarded from the winners and losers story section of the mucus heist at the handsome jackpot DLC. If you guys enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps me out, if you're new around here want to see more broad lens videos be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video I upload to canton notifications and by hitting that bell button. But guys thanks as always for stopping by, hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next, one.


Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel for today's video. Really exciting one. We are doing a holiday makeup 2019. Where are they now videos? So if you want to see the makeup products that came out last year and if I still use them, if they're still in my collection, all of that good stuff, then just keep watching. Hi guys, if you're new here, my name is Morgan. I am a product knowledge enthusiast. I just love knowing anything and everything about all of the new makeup items on the market. But today we are actually going to go back in time to around this time last year. And I'm going to talk about some of the holiday makeup that came out last year. And we're going to talk about what I think of them now if they're still even in my collection. Today's video, I'm really excited because it is in collaboration with my friend Jenna. She has a Jenna phrase here on YouTube and I really wanted to collaborate with her on this video because I'm a huge holiday makeup fanatic. I love picking up all the sets. I love sharing them with you guys. I just think it's such a fun season for makeup. And I know Jenna feels that way as well. So I think both her and I pick up a lot of things for the holiday season. And I thought she would be the perfect person to collaborate with on this video. If you aren't subscribed to Jenna's channel, she does a lot of makeup reviews on high end and luxury makeup specifically, which I know you guys love. I feel like in terms of her channel, she keeps everything very short and simple. She goes straight to the point. She's not afraid to share her opinion as well. Definitely a very trustworthy channel to follow. And she just loves makeup. She has a great taste for makeup. And her and I have been friends for quite some time here on this YouTube journey. And I'm surprised we haven't collabed yet. So I thought this one would be a fun one to do with her. So I will make sure to link her channel down below and her video as well. So make sure you check it out because we might be talking about some different products, some of the same products. I'm really excited to watch her video. Make sure you go subscribe to her. So let's get into it. So I was going through my videos last year. I didn't pick out every single holiday item that I purchased. And honestly, there were some things where it was really hard to decipher if it actually was a holiday release or just a release that happened to be during the time of holidays. So I tried to pick out specific items that were very clearly part of a holiday collection or they were items that I just thought would be worth talking about. So there are some that maybe weren't technically holiday, but they came out in the timeframe and I want to talk about them just as a blast from the past to remind you guys or there were some items that were parts of holiday sets that I didn't feel like talking about because I didn't have anything very interesting to say. So let's get started. We are going to go by brand. I have some notes put up. So if I'm looking over here, that is why we are going to start off with Tarte's holiday sets. So the first one, I personally do not own anymore and I will tell you why. So last year, Tarte came out with the Chrome for the holidays quad and I was really excited for this because I love those Tarte Chrome pots. I think they are amazing and I spent a ton of money buying the full price individual items and that was before I've had them for a while. I've now discovered even though those are amazing foil metallic on the lid after they dry out just a little bit, they just explode everywhere and the same thing happened with the small ones and I thought the small ones would be better because they were just in a little tiny container and they were perfect for my makeup kit. So I actually put them in my makeup kit for my glam clients who really wanted that metallic lid. Well, those exploded everywhere. So I did end up just throwing those away. So this did end up not really being worth my money. They were great while I had them but they don't last. So at this point, I don't really recommend that product unless you're really going to use it every day because if you don't use it every day and it dries out then you just have to throw it away. It doesn't have a very long lifespan. So that is what happened with that.  So I'm very picky if I pick up things from Tarte. I'm not a big Tarte fan in general but I did pick up the nine ways to shine cheek wardrobe. So they used to come out with Amazonian clay blush palettes which I really loved and these were the first year that they replaced those with this. I think it just had gotten too repetitive for them and I was a little bit disappointed in that because I did like the palettes. I liked those for my makeup kit but I did end up picking these up last year and let me tell you guys taking a look at all of these items this was one of my most used holiday sets last year and I still use it to this very day. I think part of that has to do with the fact that they are like front in display in my makeup drawer so they're just easier to grab for but I love these guys. Now this is the one that I use the most. They're just foldable and I just like this one because I think it's the best for my skin tone. Any of browns are blush and highlight. So this one was my favorite one but I don't know you guys. I'm so surprised that I grab for these as often as I do. Even when I bought these I was like, oh my gosh, I probably wasted my money but I was pleasantly surprised by this. I really enjoyed these last year and taking a look at the holiday collection stuff they have out now. I'm not really interested in anything but they do have this concept again so I actually did order that. That's on its way. So that is the one tart set that I actually am repeating buying and I'm very excited. I hope it's just as good as this year's. I wouldn't say these are amazing quality by any means but they're just really great colors. They're so convenient and I'm even surprised at how much I love these and I use these. I'm really excited that I'm getting these again and I don't know about the tart side. I really do feel like they compromise the quality to get cheaper values. So that's why I don't ever really purchase their set but that is one set that I definitely purchased and will purchase again. Let's talk about Too Faced Now. Again, Too Faced is another one of those brands that has a lot of sets where I do think the quality is compromised. I picked up a couple other things from their holiday collections last year just like small here and there and then a couple gifts as well. I also purchased like a mini mascara in holiday packaging as well but that's just a mascara. So the big thing that they come out with every year is a tin palette. They always come out with little other ones that I think are horrible quality but the tin ones every year I want to get because I do feel like these are really great quality. So last year they came out with the Gingerbread Extra Spicy. They had a gingerbread palette the year before and then they have one this year but let's take a look at last year's and this ended up being one of my favorite of the three gingerbread palettes. I think it is a great quality. This one is made in the USA. The quality is really good. The colors are really wearable. Honestly, it took me a while to buy this last year. I remember being very hesitant at first because I really didn't want another two-faced palette but I ended up really loving the color story and the quality on this. I will say I haven't used it a ton in the last year just because of the amount of eyeshadow palettes that I've had but I had really good experience with this and they did come out with the new big tin one this year as well. I like the color story better and I did end up purchasing it but I will be honest with you guys. Been overwhelmed with makeup. I haven't even used that yet. Feel free to shame me. These are definitely the one item from the holiday collections from Too Faced that I recommend that are pretty much guaranteed to be good quality. I mean, I don't want to guarantee you who knows what they'll do next year but based on their typical patterns this is probably the best thing they come out with every holiday season and I really enjoyed last year's. It stood the test of time. Really quickly before I forget I do have one thing from Fenty that I picked up from their holiday collection and I did not like their holiday collection last year. I thought the stuff looked horrible and stuff that I would never use and it was on sale at Sephora for the longest time because they couldn't sell the stuff. It was a bad holiday collection except for the Flossy Glossy set and the reason why I don't have it to share with you guys is because they are thrown in all of my purses around my room. That was probably one of the best holiday sets that I purchased. I love the Fenty glosses. I love how they're so tiny and best thing they have another set out this year that I do highly recommend. I just think it's a great value. I love that set. It's one of my favorites. So I highly recommend that one. One of my most used and I do also have that little mini gloss set on the way as well. So keep an eye out for that. So that was definitely a repurchase. So let's move on to Benefit. So I did purchase one holiday set from Benefit that I thought was worth talking about. And this set's actually still available if you're interested but this is called the Benefit Together at Lash Mascara Trio and what it is is three full size mascaras for $38 which is a really great deal. So in it there was a bad gal bang mascara, their real mascara and a roller lash. I bought this a year ago and I still have one mascara left and I will never ever ever purchase a mascara set like that again. I think if you're a normal person and you don't have a lot of mascara samples rolling around maybe you could justify this because $38 is really great for full size mascaras but at the same time when you purchase mascara you want to make sure you love it. You don't know if you're going to love all three of these unless you do when you have tried but if you don't love a mascara you're kind of stuck with the full size, you know? So for me it just doesn't make sense to buy a set like this and that was a mistake that I made. I wasn't particularly in love with any of the mascaras either and I still haven't even opened their real so I do regret purchasing this. It seemed like a good idea at the time to try out the Benefit mascaras but then I just felt tied down to having to use those mascaras and kind of regret that did not like that purchase. Okay, so let's move on to ABH. I don't even remember really what their holiday collection was last year. I just think they released a lot of things around the time and I picked up two items that I do want to talk about and update you guys on because around the holidays last year the ABH Norvina fiasco happened. So if you don't recall they released like I think like three, four palettes and a very, very short span of time around the holidays Carly Bible palette I believe was also in this little situation. I didn't pull that out to talk about because I really just wanted to talk about these. I was really excited about these last years. I gave them glowing reviews. I think the quality on these are really great. So Norvina volume two came out. This is a little bit more crazy and then Norvina volume three came out and then the minis came out and then Carly Bible came out.  I really like these palettes. I thought they were really good now. In the grand scheme of things, were these worth it? No, do I use them? No, I don't use them at all. I don't think I've used them since I filmed Alma of my tutorials with these. I did do like three looks, one palette which each of these palettes and like I said, I enjoyed the quality of these. I thought they were really great. I think they're really great to get a variety of colors in your collection, but I never use these. So in that way, no, these weren't worth it. But anyways, point being, the ABH holiday stuff is bleh. Like this year, I don't know if this is actually their official holiday collection but it's like a mini soft glam palette. I'm sorry, that's horrible.  Wow, I've just not been moved by ABH at all in the last year. I remember when they would come out with a holiday collection and it was just a really big deal, prison palette. I can't remember the glittery palette. I don't know why it's escaping my mind right now but those are big holiday releases. And last year, I think they tried to do a huge with all of these releases and it just failed. But like I said, these palettes are really good though. Like I plan on keeping them in my collection. I do enjoy them, but I never use them. All right, so let's talk about bite beauty. So bite beauty always comes out with some really great lip sets every year and everybody loves their lipsticks. I got these amuse-bouche lipstick sets because everybody had talked about how great their lipsticks were. So I purchased these and literally right after that they actually ended up taking everything out of their line and completely reformulated so that they were like cruelty-free and stuff like that. So they no longer even sell this formula at all. Though I did really love this lipstick set. I love the colors. They're so tiny and these did end up getting used a lot from me. Now I'm wearing Cocoa Bite right now. That being said, I have a lot of lip stuff so maybe these probably weren't used a ton. But for me, I grabbed for these quite a lot. I think they're a beautiful formula. They smell beautiful. And so yeah, this was one of the sets that I thought was a really good value that I did end up using a lot. Now taking a look at what they have now. They do have some lip holiday stuff out but nothing in this formula. They have some crayon lip sets. So I can't speak on those if they're going to be good or not, especially since they've completely reformulated and redone their brand. This was kind of the last thing that happened before their rebranding and it is a very, very nice formula. So I really did like that set. All right, you guys. So let's move on to Laura Mercier. This is where I'm going to start shaming myself. The Laura Mercier Holiday Collection really caught my eye last year. I don't even really use Laura Mercier but I was like, I want to get their collection. I got some big pieces from their collection last year. Now the first one, this one I think launched a little bit earlier. This is the Cheek Canvas Soft Cheek. So you have this packaging. I don't know why I was so attracted to it but I was. I think it's because it's pink and you have these cheek colors. Now this was actually one of my favorite items that came out of Holiday last year. I will admit I haven't used it. I honestly kind of forgot about it. As soon as I was preparing for this video, I was like, oh yeah, like I really love this blush palette. This is a gorgeous cheek palette. They don't have anything out like this in their new collection and I wish they did because this is a phenomenal cheek palette. I loved it. This was a really great item and they don't really have a repeat of this this year, unfortunately, but this was a good one. Now let's talk about the items that I'm ashamed about that I purchased. So they had a couple palettes. So this first one is the Fine Art Eyeshadow Palette and it literally is just an APM palette of shimmery shadows that really don't give you any pigmentation. Now don't get me wrong. The colors in here are kind of pretty. Like I don't regret purchasing this but I do regret purchasing both of these because this is the canvas, the full canvas, eye and cheek, East Angeles palette. So this is a big palette. So let me tell you everything that's wrong with this palette and then I'll get back to this palette. So when you open it, okay, it's double-sided but the dumbest thing ever is it has this mirror that is not attached. If something happens, the corner of this can so easily stab the powders. There's nothing to secure it at all and nothing to attach it to. It just kind of sits there in the middle and that's so dumb. It's great to have a barrier between the two sides of powder but this needs to be attached and it's also annoying when you open it because you forget about this and it flies out and then scratches your eyeshadow. Very, very annoying. But anyways, one side is eyeshadows. One side is cheek products. Really was attracted to this. Still am as I'm looking at it. The last time I use this was the one time that I filmed a review last year. Have not touched this since. Haven't thought about it since. I did actually end up using this guy today. I use the eyeshadows. I use the cheek products and I must say, I enjoyed my experience with it. I don't think the quality on this is amazing but nice stuff. You can get some pretty looks. The problem is these have the weird shimmer formula again and literally like the exact same colors that's in here. They're not pigmented enough to really differentiate from one another. So I waste my money buying both of these because if you have this palette, you have all the colors in here. So that's why I regretted purchasing this and I mean, it's kind of unnecessary. Let's be real here. While I do still like this, the packaging was really bad and I never reached for it and I really think this was quite pricey and I spent a lot of money on something that I literally never used. These are the reason why I probably will not be purchasing anything again from the Laura Mercier collection. Taking a look at their stuff now. They have a palette like this again and guess what? Guess who was attracted to it? Me. Again. And I wanted to get it and I was like Morgan, don't fall for the trap. You have the one from last year and you've only used it once. So that's how I'm not convincing myself to get it.  I saw it at Norsham the other day and I was like, it also looks like something I'll never use. I think it's about the same importance as last year's. They do have a blush trio called the Standing Ovation Cheek Palette out this year. I might have to get that for this Sephora sale. And listen, learn from past mistakes. Passing on the eyeshadow palette. Passing on the big palettes. But I did love this quite a lot last year. So we'll see. We'll see. So I am attracted to that blush palette. But yeah, Laura Mercier was a mistake last year. Let's get into Dior. They had a few things out in their holiday collection that I didn't purchase. I feel like they have two different holiday collections. They have like their quaint collection and then they have these like cheap looking palettes like these things. I think these things just look awful. I didn't buy them last year.  There was probably more, but this is what I picked up last year. So this is the Happy 2020 collection. So this is technically like their New Year collection. This one was celebrating gold. How pretty is that? And then the other one is Party in Colors. Again, gorgeous. Did I ever use them? No, they're not even in my makeup collection. They ended up in my mom's makeup collection. I really want to use them though. There's not anything wrong with these. I actually really did like these. I think they're really beautiful. I just think they got lost in the crowd and then once they ended up in my mom's possession, she ended up keeping them. I never thought about them. So I did not end up picking up the collection from this year. Though I do believe Dior has reformulated so their stuff is even better. And the holiday collection this year, like it looks really nice. I definitely did do a double take but I just don't think their colors that I would reach for very often especially considering I might make a repeat mistake. So I did pass on this year's collection because I didn't use last year's collection. Let's move on to Natasha Denona. I'm only gonna talk about the Metropolis palette that came out last year. There also was like a gold collection, like a many green gold palette and then the worst highlighter in the world. This shifted her brand in my opinion. This was one of the best things she could have done with her brand. Formulation top notch, she reduced her price, reduced the amount of product that you got. This completely changed her brand and I really feel like her brand made a shift this year in the right direction. I've loved pretty much every product that she's come out with and she's just done a really good job and I think that this palette was pivotal for her. So that's that. Her holiday collection this year, I believe has not even really come out yet. She just had the mini Zendo palette. I just did a review and all that stuff which I thought was meh. I do believe she's coming out with a big palette and I have high expectations because last year's holiday palette game changer for sure. We'll also talk about Charlotte Tilbury. Now, I didn't really purchase much from the holiday collection last year. Just the starry eyes to hypnotize. This was the palette that came out last year. Love it. One of her very best palettes that she's ever come out with. One of the best color stories highly recommend. So obviously this is one of my favorite palettes ever. So of course, this is a holiday purchase that I do not regret making. She also came out with a stone rose palette last year that I passed on and I ended up deeply regretting it and I actually bought it. So it should be in an upcoming haul. This year's holiday collection. I did pick up a few things. I picked up the... Listen, the quad, the palette of pops. I did end up picking that up. Yeah. I like this palette though from last year better than this year's. So this is one of the holiday releases that was my most used. Absolutely loved it. Let's move into Miss Pat McGrath. She always has very grand, large holiday collections. Lots of mini palettes. I feel like that's a repeated pattern. I just did a video on the three quads that came out this year. But let's go into the ones that came out last year and have I used them, all of that stuff. Now I'm sure I did pick up some lip products but we're really gonna talk about the fun stuff. So these were the first time she experimented with quads. So we have this quad. I can't remember what it's called but it's a new shawan. This was my least favorite of the three but it's also the most wearable. So high quality. Love this. Love that these are all of the blitz ash formulas. This was a really banging holiday collection, you guys. One of my favorites. Then we have Ritualistic Rose I believe is what this one was called. Yes, this one. I mean, come on, so stunning. I wonder if you guys can still get these because this was abom.com holiday collection and then my personal favorite as far as the Pat McGrath experience, getting a Pat McGrath look, the most unique. This one is nocturnal nirvana. I love the looks that I create with this one and it's just a true Pat McGrath palette. If you ask me, she's not playing around trying to throw in neutral colors for you neutral wearers. Like no, she had to have a punchy palette for people who do like color who are Pat McGrath bands. So that's why this one is my favorite that came out last year. I do like her new palettes that came out this year but I think these ones from last year are better. I really do. I like these color stories better and I do like the mix of formulas in the palettes this year but there's something about having an all Blitz Astral formula that really makes you feel like you're getting the biggest bang for your buck. Now let's talk about something from the holiday collection that has completely failed me. This is the highlighter cream. These came out in a couple colors and they all have this gorgeous packaging. Let me open this.  Never use this. It looks crazy. It's like a very strong super fine glittery highlight. It would look good all over the lid and that's how I justified this. I was like, oh, I could just wear this as an eyeshadow. When do I ever use individual products on my eyelid? I'm always grabbing for palettes. These individual items never get used so this has never gotten used with the exception of using it in my review and that's about it. So that's very disappointing and this was quite pricey for what it was in my opinion. All right, let's move on to Hourglass. Of course, Hourglass is known for their holiday collection. Last year it was the Ghost Collection. So we have the Ambient Lighting Blush Quad in Ghost. Always. I feel like these blush palettes are underrated. Nobody purchases these. They're only worried about the big ones. But you guys, I love their Blushes Hourglass. In my opinion, it has the best blush formula so these get very used and abused by me. I don't use them a lot in my videos just because you can't get a hold of these anymore. Their products are actually limited edition for the holidays only. So I do love this blush quad from last year. They did come out with a quad this year but it was like a repeat quad. I want a new blush palette from them. I hope they do that because since I'm such a blush lover from them they need to come out with a new one. And then of course, the Lighting Edit Ghost palette. This one is not my favorite of the Ambient palettes that they've come out with. The one from two years ago, two or three, whatever years ago was the best one. This one is just in my opinion. I am wearing the bronzer today. And I mean, this palette is beautiful. It's because the quality of these are so good that it doesn't matter what colors they come out with. For me, it just, it's gonna work beautifully. But color-wise, this wasn't my favorite curation. I do think the one this year is better than this past years. They're all good though. But this one was not my favorite color. And then also in the collection, there were these two lipsticks that came out. I never use these. Honestly, I forgot I even had these. These are my favorite, well, one of my favorite lipstick formulas. These are the Italian formula. I love how thin they feel. I hate this clear packaging though. I think it makes them look so cheap. If they just followed through with the silver top, it would have looked so much better. These are not colors that I go for. Well, yeah, they are. That's a pretty nude. I never use these. So this year, I didn't even bother buying the lip products for the holiday collection. First of all, because we're wearing masks. So I'm never wearing lip colors to begin with anyways. But second of all, I own so many lip products that I never buy the lip products that come in collections anymore because they just end up sitting in my makeup collection. Let's move on to a shameful brand. I have not purchased any of their current holiday collection. Though I was eyeing them heavily in Nordstrom, but I've learned my lesson from last year. You guys know I love Bobby Brown. I think it's a low-key brand that more people should hop on because they do have good stuff. And I always purchase their holiday palettes. And finally, I've stopped because it's just ridiculous. So I bought two of their holiday palettes last year. So this first one is the Smoke and Metals Eyeshadow Palette. Look how beautiful this palette is. It is just a gorgeous cool toned palette. I'm obsessed with it. I think it's gorgeous. I've never used it. I gave it to my mom. It's in her collection and it doesn't look like she uses it either. I love this color story though. And I think since cool tones weren't popular last year, this was one of the few cool tone palettes to come out. And I actually really want to use this now because I love these colors. I think this would fare better this year now that cool tones are kind of like on everybody's mind a little bit more so. But yeah, these Bobby Brown palettes never end up getting used by me. And then this bigger one is the Inna Flash Eyeshadow Palette. I mean, look at this packaging. How cool. Again, cool tone color story kind of looks the same as this one. Funny thing, I kind of like that smaller one better. Same deal with this. Don't use it ever. Haven't ever really touched it at all. But I really love the colors. Like I see why I bought these. You know, I'm looking at them and if they were on sale this year, I would have gotten them because they're really pretty. But at the end of the day, they aren't eyeshadow palettes that I grabbed for a lot. I just have so many amazing palettes that I grabbed for over these. What does their holiday collection even look like this year? Bobby Brown Holiday 2020. Yeah, see, I saw their holiday collection in store and I wanted to get it. And then I was like, no, no. So yeah, their holiday collections really aren't that exciting, especially this year. It looks kind of bleh to me. Like these ones were better and I still didn't use them. So let's get to the final holiday collection that I feel like was worth talking about. And that's from Tom Ford. We of course have the Soleil Nage collection. I think it comes out with Soleil Nage every single year, just different colors. So last year it was three palettes. As of now, it's only one palette and I don't know if he's going to come out with more. Let me show you the colors from last year. So we have Soleil Dever and this one is supposed to be very close to the one that came out this year, which is like Fire Rose or something. I did not know purchasing that. I just haven't used it yet. It just came in the mail. I will definitely have to compare these two, but yes, we have that one. And then there was Soleil Elune, which this one everybody went nuts over because it's very, very unique to the line. Just really very light snowy kind of colors. I really liked this one. I thought this one was very, very unique also. And then of course the original Soleil Nage, they were all really bomb to be honest. I think he did a really great job with the holiday collection last year and I think it's kind of hard to top. He only has one quad out right now and it's gorgeous. I bought it. A lot of people think it's very similar to the quads that came out last year and it definitely fits in with the collection, but I don't know how exactly close it is to Soleil Dever. I love these. This was a bomb collection from him. He did a really great job with his holiday collection. Didn't pick up any lip stuff last year. Not picking up any of the lip stuff. I do believe my mom picked up a lipstick from last year's collection. But all I can think of are the quads and this was one of my favorite holiday collections last year. That's all I have for today's video. We've covered all of the holiday collections from last year that I wanted to talk about. Of course, there's so many holiday releases that come out every year. I can only cover so many, but you guys know huge holiday makeup junkie. This is my favorite time of year. I come alive in this makeup season. I just love it. Beautiful packaging, great values. I can't get enough. So make sure you guys go check out Jenna's video. I know hers is going to be amazing and very entertaining as well. If you guys aren't subscribed to my channel already, I would absolutely love it if you would consider taking the time to do so. And I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye.