Summer Essentials 2018 ~ Skincare ~ Hair Care ~ Accessories

Hey guys welcome back to my channel. Oh, my gosh has summer gotten off to a really really fast start. There was Memorial Day weekend and we were out of town for about 4 days. We came back in town for two days, then my younger sister and her three children came to visit for about five days. It was just kind of an impromptu visit and she just left on Tuesday today's Thursday and now my older sister and her two children are coming to visit me and they're gon na be staying for about four days. So, needless to say, my head is just spinning. I cannot even think straight, I'm gon na try to make this video as quickly as I can, because they are actually about 30 minutes away right now, and so let's go ahead and jump in okay. So I'm sure you could tell me the title that this video is going to be about my summer essentials. There are just certain things in the summer time that I cannot live without, and I have realized that here really really recently, because summer has just begun and when that happens, we are outdoors. It'S spending a lot of time in the Sun and we're at the beach. We'Re at lakes, rivers pools, you name it, so let me just go ahead and tell you some of the things that I cannot live without you probably can't also and I'd love, to hear some of the things that you think that are very essential for your summertime. As well, because it might be something that I haven't thought of self okay, so the first and most obvious you know essential, is gon na, be your sunscreen, and this is just the Nana boat it's made for kids, I like to use it as well. I rub my kids down in it and as well as myself, and I will leave it completely white. I don't care if it has a white cast or anything like that. I just want something. That'S gon na give me some of the most protections. So I like this Banana Boat, it is UVA UVB protection, it's a broad-spectrum. 50. I also like this one, which is a broad-spectrum 100, so these are usually the ones that we reach, for. I will put it all over my face and my body, I'm not too concerned with you, know, meeting ones specifically formulated for the face, especially if I'm gon na be outdoors for anything that extends past. You know 10 or 15 minutes. I just want to get the most protection out of my sons for so so because I'm really concerned about protecting my skin and not tanning it like I was whenever I was younger, then I always always always have to have a self tanner for the summer. That is what I have all over my body right now. I was at the beach all day on Saturday and although I did apply and reapply I feel like, I still got a little bit of color, because I did see some lines, not a top. Then I saw some lines on my bottom bottom area, but and they were really really faint, but what you're, seeing if you're seeing like color is my self tanner, and this is the one that I'm loving right now it is the Jergens natural glow, wet skin, moisturizer And it's a medium to tan and you're supposed to put it on your skin when your skin is still really damp and wet. So what I do is I get out of the shower and I just blot my skin just a little bit and then I would put this all over now. I have to be really really careful in the areas where my skin is extra dry or where I have kind of deeper lines like in this area right here. I won't even put it on that area and, if I do, I will rub it off with a towel, and still you don't see it doesn't look like it looks that big of a difference it still kind of blends. Okay. I also take it all off my elbows, because otherwise my elbows will be so much darker than the rest of my body and my knees. Those are the three places that I really have to focus on: removing the self-tanner or not getting too much self-tanner in those areas. Otherwise it they'll just darken and they look terrible. These lines will look so Brown and so deep. If I leave that self-tanner on now. Unfortunately, like with most self tanners any kind of age spots that you have will start to show up a little bit more, I wish that weren't the case, but I think it's just the nature of the beast. You know. I noticed that I have a couple dark spots that I never ever see on my body when my skin is really pale. I didn't even know that they existed, but whenever I put on the self-tanner all of a sudden, the color, the pigment is just enhanced there. So I do not put any face Tanner on my face ever I take it right up to my chin and I just kind of try to use bronzer and darker foundations and stuff like that in order to to match my colors okay. So because I do use a self-tanner throughout the summer, I have to be really good because I'm gon na continue to reapply it over and over probably week after week now this Jurgens wet skin self tanner. It really seems to come off pretty evenly, but just to make sure and just to make sure that it's not still attached to some of the areas of my body where the skin's a little drier. I always use a loofah pad like this. I love this. It took me a little bit of getting used to because it's very itchy it's a feeling, but it really does get any self-tanner off that doesn't come off with the rest. Like I said this comes off pretty evenly. I'M pretty surprised about that a lot of times. I'Ve had issues with that in the past and this seems to come off really well, but just in case. I always have to have one of these, because I also like to give my skin a really good scrub down before I reapply a self-tanner just so that it goes on. You know real evenly, so, okay, so another essential for me in the summer months is a physical exfoliator. In the summer months I tend to shy away from any chemical exfoliants that have a high concentration like retinas or high concentrations of glycolic acid. I just know that you know, unfortunately - and this is kind of sounds a little strange, but when your dead skin piles up it almost acts like a natural skin protectant, and so I'm just not real. I don't know I just. I really always lay off my retinas and my GLAAD call like my high concentrations. I will still use retinol and glycolic acids, but I will use the lower concentrations, the ones that are just over or something like that, and I really prefer to use physical exfoliants. I just know that whenever you're using you know, high concentrations of retin-a or glycolic acids, there's a lot of cell turnover and it just leaves your skin a lot more sensitive to the Sun. So I just kind of reach for my physical exfoliants over my chemical or over my high concentration Chemical exfoliants. Now, if I am gon na use a chemical exfoliant, it's gon na be something that's really mild, and I really like this one. This is the retinol vitamin enriched advanced brightening mask, and I think I picked this up at Sally's, but I really like it. It'S very mild I'll also use my glycolic acid toners, the one from the ordinary, that's an 8 % and then my other derma e glycolic toner. I really like to use those in the summer months, rather than like. I said the high concentrations of retin-a or glycolic acid, so this is. This is just one that I really kind of like to use in order to just kind of just refresh my skin. You know, sometimes I I don't. I can definitely tell when those dead skin cells are piling up, because my lines and my wrinkles look deeper. My skin just looks more dull. I know I still do use retin-a in the summer months, but I might only use it twice a month. Just to you know, remove some dead skin cells and start fresh if I'm feeling really yucky now. Another moisturizer that I really like to use in these summer months is something like this, and I just picked this up at Marshall's. I think it's March to do max. I always get all those stores confused, but it was $ 7.99 huge bottle. It'S an anti-aging, a retinol body lotion and retinol is actually one to the fourth ingredient in an ingredient list of about 50. Another body lotion that I will reach for is this Olay Total Effects. I love this body lotion. I feel like it's super moisturizing. Both of these are extremely moisturizing. I just think I prefer the ingredients in this more and, like I said, $ 7.99 at Marshall's. I picked up about four. I picked up all the ones that weren't there that day now I do want to go back and get some more because I'm just going through this so fast. I just really really liked it, especially for my body now also with my face, I'm really really concerned with moisturization during the summer months, because I know I'm gon na be on this Sun and I'm gon na be on the wind. I know I'm going to be in pools and lakes and water and I'm just gon na keep drying and drying and drying on my skin. So I really try to concentrate on moisturization more than anything. That is when I usually reach for oils. Like my coconut oil, I also reach, for I didn't bring it in here my DIY now I literally use and abuse my DIY in the summer months like you would not believe, and I go through it so fast and my DIY. I will go ahead and put a list of the ingredients in my description box. It'S something that you just use every single day, but I really really bathe in it in the summer months and it is aloe vera, that's really good! For healing and soothing. You know your skin, so it includes aloe vera gel as the base, and then I put drops of castor oil, squalane oil argan oil, a little bit of niacinamide, a few drops of nice and a mine. What else I think, there's another don't remember, I'm always adding and subtracting certain oils, sometimes I'll, add vitamin E. Sometimes I like glycerin, I used to put it on kind of as a serum, but then I started to realize because I started adding more and more drops of oil to my DIY now I have begun putting it on as a last step, because I feel like The oils are gon na block any type of penetration from any the other products or ingredients that I'm going to apply afterwards, so instead I put it on last to kind of lock everything in, but I just love it. So I definitely love oils during the summer months I like to put it all over my skin, my hair, just to help add more and more moisturization to my hair and skin. Now, sticking with hair, I like to use a lot of leave-in conditioners, but I like to use the Kremlin's, because the way that I use them is that I will, if I know, I'm going to be out doors for most part of the day. I'M always going to be throwing up a messy bun and what I like to do is I like to put this cream kind of leave-in conditioner, and this is by a Tara. I got it at Sally's and I think it's a knockoff of biologically me consistency. I don't know why they put it in a sport ball. They should just put it in a tub, but I feel like it's probably a little bit more. You know hygienic this way, but anyway I like to put it in my dry hair and then I put my hair up in a bun. It doesn't make it look wet or anything like that kind of makes it feel a little bit sticky. But I don't mind not and I feel like whenever I'm in the heat and I'm in the Sun, I'm practically giving myself a you know deep conditioning treatment, because the heat is just helping. You know my hair to absorb. You know all the conditioning ingredients, okay, so another thing that is a total essential for me during the summer months is a bunch of cheap sunglasses that I don't mind losing you know, because I always I'm a loser who no I'm not a loser. I tend to lose a lot of things all the time, I'm always misplacing things, and so I'm always losing sunglasses at the beach or at the river or wherever we go, I'm just always losing stuff. So none of these were over twenty dollars. I think these two were the most expensive. They were $ 19.99 and I just really loved them, the bigger the better for me now. I really like these because they really cover a lot of my face. I know they're really dirty right now, because these are the ones that I wore to the beach and I clearly did not clean them when I got home. I also like these. These are gifts, and I just like this style, I'm sure you can see my ring light and, and then I've got a couple of these. These are not my favorite, because they're a little bit hard around the nose, and I'm not crazy about that. I think these were like, I don't know ten dollars or something like that, and I think these were too so bunch of sunglasses, cheap ones that I don't mind losing because they can easily be replaced and I'm not going to feel heartbroken over it. Okay, so another essential that I need for the summer months are flip-flops different styles, because sometimes I might be getting in the water. Sometimes I mean not. Sometimes they might want something that just looks cute with my bathing suits. I know I'm just gon na be sitting poolside all day or something like that. You know what I mean. So here are some of the ones that I typically wear. Not these are meant for the river for the leg. You know if I know that my feet are gon na be getting in water and I might be stepping on rocks or something like that. I'M gon na wear something like this now. If I'm gon na be going to the river, I'm probably gon na be wearing those what they're called River River shoes, I think they're called rubber shoes, but something like this - these are just so cheap. I think I picked them up at either Walgreens or my local grocery store, and you know they're cute enough, but they're just practical is what they are now, if I'm just gon na be hanging out in a bathing suit all day, and I want something real comfortable, Then I'm gon na choose something like this, something that's either gold or silver. It'S a very neutral color and it looks you know semi cute, with a bathing suit. It'S not too, I don't know kind of matches a little bit, so I might wear something like that. Now another pair that I really like to wear and these get really used and abused. I'Ve had them for several years and I just keep wearing them year after year or something like this and you know they're, probably gon na be a little dirty. I don't know. I don't know if they have, they do have a little bit of toe marks or something like that. So I'm gon na go ahead and put my hands through there, but it's gon na be something like this, and these are guests, and I don't know how much I paid for him. I think maybe fifteen or twenty dollars and they're just kind of platform II or not platform II. What are they called wedge and I just like. I just think that they're so cute they go with all my bathing suits. You know they're white, so obviously gon na match with anything. Unless I guess I can even go with a black bathing suit, so I'm gon na wear something like that. Also - and I like I said these are kind of my favorites. I look I just like to wear them the most and then the last pair that I might wear are gon na, be something like this and they're just silver and gold they're real simple. I'M surprised they don't look worse than they do. They look brand-new and because I wear them all the time I mean I even wear them to the grocery store, but yeah they've got these little silver and gold straps, and I like to wear these again they're just super super comfortable. They pretty much go with any bathing suit because they're just silver gold and you can also mix and match your jewelry if you're somebody like me who wears jewelry to the beach, because I do okay, so another thing that is a total essential for me are hats, Because if we're gon na be outdoors for a very long time, I'm gon na want to keep my face shaded as much as I can, because because I use retin-a, because I use all these things to try to help my skin out, you know you're around. Then you know, I don't want to undo everything I've done, so I really try to protect my face a lot now. This one is total for total practicality and it's when I really want to wear my hair up in a messy bun. I can't wear any of these other hats, because it'll look silly, so I will wear a visor like this and I know I feel like that kind of ages me a little bit, but it's the only thing that protects my face where I can still wear. You know one of these big messy buns without looking silly another one that I like is just for me to be wearing a lot of solid piece bathing suits or something this is just a little Calvin Klein hat that I like looks like this gets the job Done keeps my you know, face shaded, of course, I'm always gon na have some sunglasses on so double protection and some sunblock, but a little hat like this. Another hat that I might wear is a big hat like this, and this is great if you're gon na be sitting poolside for the day watching your kids and you still want to kind of look cute, and I don't know how cute I look in this. But something like that and then the last hat that I like to wear is gon na, be something like this now I definitely have to work on the lip here. I don't know I just always throw my hat. You know, on top of each other in my closet and one of the shelves and they'd all be bent up, but I'm not you'll learn really quickly that I really don't care about some things. Some things I really really care about and other things I don't. That'S one of them so anyways this is just a cute little hat. It doesn't provide as much shade as the other ones, so this might be a when the Sun is going down or you know not at all and then the last essentials that I have for the summer months are cover-ups. So I like to wear something like this and I'm gon na go ahead, I'll, put a picture up or something like that with me wearing it. So you can see what it looks like, but I like these types of little cover-ups that are kind of see-through. You know they leave things to the imagination, but they you don't look like you're, you know dressed for a winter at the beach or something like that. You know I mean, and then this is my other favorite. I love this style. I like this, really crocheted kind of look. It'S kind of a bohemian, I don't know, got a hippie like I'm, not really a hippie, but I definitely love that look and, and then I might wear something like this I'll put up a picture. Also man, I'm gon na wear that justify you know how on a bathing suit, and I need to run in to the convenience store something like that I'll, throw that on top of it but yeah. So those are all of my centrioles. So that is the end of this video. Those are my summer essentials. I really appreciate you watching. I apologize if it seems like I was trying to speed through it come and visit me on Instagram. I have been loving Instagram lately. That is where I kind of let my alter-ego out. I don't know if it's my alter ego, but it's definitely a different side to me. It'S you know. Obviously, it's gon na be the things that I think that I'm interested in. I use my Facebook for my family stuff. My personal facebook did, I use Instagram. Just to you know, show different sides of me. Obviously YouTube. I try to be a little bit poised. I don't know if I pull it off, but on Instagram you know no telling what you'll see I like to do some yoga, I like to do a little bit of a dancing here. Sometime, I don't know I just I am. I try to be really young. It hard I don't try to be. I just am naturally a young card, it's really hard for me to act. My age sometimes, but I feel like there are certain platforms for certain sides of your personality and we all have several sides to our personality. You know, and we should all know how to turn it on and off. You know when it's necessary, and so I definitely know how to do that, but my inner natural me - and it is very silly and very still, I have a very young soul so just because the outer me doesn't quite match that I'm not. I don't ever plan on letting that side of me go so anyways come on visit me on Instagram. I would appreciate it and we can have some fun there, and I will see you back here next week.