Hey awesome ones Heather here. All right who needs a little bit of TLC right
about now? Well I do and I'm sure a lot of you do
as well. So what I'm...it's just kind of like one of those get ready with me kind of
videos where I'm going to do a bit of a mini spa day and why don't you join me.
It all starts in just a few seconds.
So the idea with this video is watch the whole thing and then I've really made
sure that a lot of the things that I'm using you're going to have something
like it's similar at home like you probably will. And if you geez I'd like
really...like to get that particular product of course I'm going to have some
product links and things like that below the video for you. But what I want to do
is just sort of show you how you can start to do this
pamper day, spa day I mean well maybe not a whole day maybe it's just a few hours.
I really encourage you right now to do this at least once a week. So first of
all you need to make sure you have some time to do this and I'm going to suggest
at least three hours. So kind of block off that time sometime during the week
and if you can...do it tonight. What you're going to do first of all
is you're gonna have a nice long bath or maybe if you prefer maybe have a shower.
Now I've already done that, but one thing I'm gonna remind you to do and this
might be a wake-up call for some of you is don't forget you got to shave those
legs. Alright so I hope you took more than five minutes for that bath or the
shower. Baths are actually for me anyway they're just a little bit more pamper
like, but after you're all dried off it's time for some moisturizer. And you want
to put this on your legs and you want to put this on your arms and well this one
that I have here it's just from Nivea but it's really lovely it's cocoa
butter and it's got a lovely scent to it. So you want to make sure that you do
that and then of course snuggle into one of your nice robes or some people call
them house coats and the more spa-like the better. So the next thing we want to
do is we want to put on some face cream. And starting with the eyes and I have
found that I'm really starting to see more wrinkles this year than I did
even last year. So I've kind of upped my game as far as the moisturizers that I
use and for my eye cream I don't know if you can see this but it's five Strivectin
it's a gel cream it goes on....... it goes on like butter it's just lovely
but it's not greasy. And this isn't...I'm not doing a commercial for them but it
has that hyaluronic acid which sounds awful but it's actually quite good for
you. And so I put that around my eyes and
then also on my face and especially on my neck I'm using this Strivectin. I
don't know if you can see that there, but what I like about this product is it
goes on very very smooth. Again it's not greasy but it also has...says it has
advanced retinol which...that's what I'm talking about upping my game. So I really
need to put that on and by the way whenever you put cream on, I don't know if I
already mentioned this or not, but always put the cream on a dry face. So make sure
that your your face is dry and not still wet for the shower. Now you've got to
find yourself like your little space and this could be a corner of a room or
maybe there's a little guest room or for me I just found this little...this is
tucked into the kitchen area and since it's just bill and I right now he knows
to stay away when I'm in my sanctuary area and I even have a pillow that says
rejuvenate in here and I like the greenery I like the fact that I can put
some maybe classical music or some soft music on and you know everything is
around me that I need. So make sure that you kind of scope out your little piece
of heaven for yourself there. And the next step that I wanted to talk about
are our nails. Like I'm kind of embarrassed to show you but this is real
life right now. These are my nails and as you can see I have a nice kind of
frosted nail polish on it it's all worn off right now.
I've been living like that for a few days and it's like oh well who's looking
at my nails and...no no! I'm gonna get out my nail polish remover. I
suggest that you do that as well and I'm going to take off all my nail polish and
start fresh. All right for the next step it's time to do our cuticles and this is
from Sally Hansen. It's a vitamin E cuticle remover and it kind of goes on a
little bit just like just like nail polish. It's got kind of a nail polish
start...applicator I guess you call it here.Oh my finger is shaking here...
huh weird...anyway just sort of put it on now. I'm not going to do all of my nails
right now but what you do is you leave that on for a little while and I don't
know how you can see it if you can see it better this way, but you leave that on
for a little while and then what you're going to take is a gizmo like this and
they'll put that up against me too so you can see that and then when this is
dry we're going to push back all of the cuticles. And you guys know how to do
this. You can do this for your toes as well and I just want to show you one
other thing. See that nasty age spot right there well I'm not going out right
now but if I was going out I'm gonna show you a little trick here. Put on some
concealer and then it's a...nasty age spot begone. So my cuticles are all pushed
back and then of course I washed my hands and aren't we getting great at
washing our hands these days. But I also wanted to shape my nails a little bit
and I'm using a glass nail file and I find it so much nicer than those kind of
sandpapery nail polishes or nail files I should say. I find when I use
those I kind of just I just don't get a really smooth kind of feel to them so
yeah my nails are all... cuticles are done nails are shaped. Time for the nail polish.
Now for now I'm going to choose a bright color. I don't want to go with something
muted like this. I even have purples here but I'm gonna
.....this would be a nice color too. I kind of like this one. But I want to feel
vibrant right now. So I'm going to choose the red right here. And I think I'll just
just do a nail or two for you to show you how I put on the nail polish. Now
remember when you're putting on nail polish like don't just glob it all on.
You're gonna want to do at least two coats of the nail polish. This one is
Sally Hansen insta-dry and I'm not too sure what color it is...okay it's 375 it
looks like. Well I'll put the link below anyway if I can find it.
But there we go with the red and let me just show you how I would do this on one
or two nails here. Just bear with me. So what you do...oh this is hard to do
without seeing it. Put a little bit down the middle like that and then let me
just see if I can show you and then you do the sides. I'm gonna have to do this
sort of sitting down a little bit myself, but there you go and this is a very nice
coat here but I still would do another one. And let me finish that up for you
for the sake of time in the video and we'll just go ahead. I've got beautiful
red nails. And you know what? If you really look closely at them they're not
perfect they're not like a real spa, a real nail spa did them but they are just
fine for me. Now I do want them to last until at least next week so what I want
to put on next is a topcoat. This is just a clear topcoat. It's...again Sally Hansen.
That looks like I like a lot of those products. So I'm going to put...put that on
my nails and hey don't forget to do your toenails too. You know you want to have
this kind of vibrance about you right now. So hey and by the way I did a video
talking about vibrance...... we don't want to be wearing our robes or
pajamas every single day, so I did do a video on you know how to change up your
looks everyday if you're staying at home. And what I'll do and some ideas of what
to do some activities too. And what I'll do is I'll put that link to the video on
the end screen of this one so enjoy that too. So now that we have the nail polish
on and the topcoat on it's time for some hand cream. Sorry this looks...well used
but every night I put on this hand cream and it's a lavender hand cream from
L'Occitane. I think that's how you pronounce it and these are essential oils of
lavender. So when I put this on my hands at night I just feel like going to sleep.
It's just it's just delicious as they say, but what I'm gonna do is just put a
little bit on here and then just kind of rub that in here into my hands and of
course I'd be doing both hands. As you can see it's just......my skin is
literally drinking that up. I don't know if you can tell the difference between
the two hands here but it's it's just drinking it up and again this is not a
commercial or anything but this happens to be my favorite hand cream. Oh and by
the way you remember our first step of this pamper day? Well we were...well
hopefully a lot of you decided yeah I think I'll take a nice soak in a bath
and...ta-da...L'Occitane also makes a bubble bath. So yeah it's...again this is
just great stuff and and the essence of all the essential oils of lavender...just
don't fall asleep in the bathtub though. But it's just...again delicious.
Don't fall asleep. Now what would a spa day be without refreshment time. So
what I have here is I've got a really nice teapot and
herbal tea for me. I'm just gonna pour that herbal tea and also don't forget to
have some water with you as well. You want to be drinking water as well during
the day but also what I have here are some mixed nuts and I've got some
almonds in there that are really good for you.
And I've also cut up an orange for vitamin C. Hey we've got to keep our health
going our mental health for the spa day and also our health health our inner
health with a little bit of real vitamin C here. Whatever you like to do
for refreshments but just kind of keep it light and keep it healthy. Now make
sure in your sanctuary area that you have something to read and some old
magazines like these ones are great you know even though you've read them it's
maybe nice right now to reread them again. And the other thing is if you're
going...well you will be going grocery shopping. I haven't gone grocery shopping
now for over two weeks. I'm really letting it...everything kind of stretch
but when I do go grocery shopping they do have an area for magazines. So I'm going
to make sure that I pick myself up one or two. Now another thing that you can
put in your sanctuary area is some of your favorite books. Now maybe you don't
want to read a novel again but there are some great inspirational books out there
and maybe down in your garage or something you can find them as well. I
recently bought this book by Oprah and it's called The Path Made Clear. It's a
beautiful beautiful book. The illustrations in it are absolutely
gorgeous and they're just little inspirational messages from people like
Deepak Chopra and who else do we have we also have a Goldie Hawn. There's lots of
people in here and it's such a beautiful book especially right now and you might
even want to put on some instrumental spa-like music while you're sort of
doing this pamper day and what ya don't want to do is watch the news turn on the
TV or start scrolling through your phone. This is this is your quiet time where we
kind of leave all that behind us. Now depending what you're sitting in you
might be sitting on the sofa or you might be sitting in one of those lazy
boy chairs and with all this lavender and just feeling relaxed. You might even
drift off to sleep. And you know what? That's okay like it's okay if you just
decide I think I need to have a little nap because a lot of us need that right
now. So now is the time to really take care of yourself. This is this is the
self-care time the TLC time and so make sure that you do do this for yourself
once a week. So once a week and repeat so... Now it's time to bring up my little spa
companion my little Hurricane here. My little Yorkie and Hurricane and I we're
going to be doing more kind of these get ready with me at home type of videos for
you. And yeah you know you might as well hang out with me while I'm sort of staying at
home too. Anyway so thank you very much. So stay pampering yourself you know
remember the TLC and oh by the way if you haven't checked out our other
channel which is youtube.com/AwesomeOver50inspiration I've got
some of my favorite movies over there some cooking ideas all kinds of things
to help you be at home and please take care of yourself stay healthy and we'll
see you again real soon.