Hey Guys!
Happy New Year and welcome back to my channel!
This is my first video of 2016,
and I’m really excited for this year and happy to get back into youtube
For this video I’m actually going to be recapping something about last year
I’m going to be showing you the products that I’ve been using and loving in the month of December
This type of video is something that I really love watching, so I wanted to make a video like that for my channel
I just love watching those videos and I always have my phone notes ready because there’s always so many products that I want to buy after
so ya, grab a tea, grab a snack, and get your notes ready!
let’s get into it!
First it’s Rosie’s turn. She’s going to show you her favourite product of the month
This is Rosie’s favourite item of December
It is her little toy monkey
She really loves this one because it’s small and light, and she can carry it and toss it around
and it have this crunchy plastic bag noise inside, that she loves to annoy me with
and this squeaking noise
This is her favourite toy right now and I got it in a pet shop in Daikanyama
So ya, this is Rosie’s recommendation for December!
Thank you! You can go now!
Where should we start?
I tried to cover everything…
from makeup and skincare to more lifestyle items
I think I’m going to start with my phone case first
and it is this one
It has Tsum Tsum inside
different characters and some sparkles
I got this from an online shop called velvet.hk
I’ll link them below
they sell a lot of trendy and cute items from Japan
and they ship worldwide
It’s a little bit thick but it’s really light
and I think it’s super cute!
I’ve been loving this and I’ve been using it for about 2 months now
So I’ve been using the same foundation for many many years now
and that’s one from Shopper’s Drugmart in Canada
I think it was called Natural FX or something
I didn’t find a foundation that I really loved after that so I always used that
until now! I finally found a foundation that I love that has replaced that!
And that is NARS Sheer Glow
I really love this foundation because it’s super light
but it has enough coverage
It leaves your skin looking really natural and glowy
I guess that’s why they call it Sheer Glow Foundation
if you can see my skin it’s not that matte
I think it’s a right amount of mix of matte and glow
This is the foundation i’m wearing right now
and I’ve been wearing it since November, December and I will continue to wear it because I love it
So if you like this kind of finish I’m wearing this with a bit of translucent powder
The translucent powder I use is the HD Powder from Makeup Forever
The colour I’m wearing is Called Light1
I love love love this
and I will continue to use this for a long time I think
because when I find a product I love it’s really difficult for me to change
The next makeup item I have is a special edition item
It comes like this. It’s from La Duree
It’s their Christmas limited makeup
It’s a compact with….
3 things
This is an orange blush
and this was the blush I was wearing in this video
This one is a cream blush
It’s a natural red colour
it’s creamy but powdery at the same time
I like to use this when I’m doing a no makeup makeup look
I’ll just put a bit of concealer where I need it and pop this on my cheeks
and curl my eyelashes and that’s it!
This one is a lip balm
It’s a brownish colour
I haven’t tried it yet
It’s like a natural um…
slightly sheer nude colour
I got this compact at Isetan (Shinjuku)
I went there last week and they still have it
but it is a limited item,
so if you want it I would go there really fast and try to get it
or maybe you can also get it online, I’m not sure
Oh and everything smells like roses!
It smells amazing on your skin
it’s like a soft baby delicate rose
I love this and I’ve been using this one a lot for cheeks
The next item I want to show you is this
This is a foundation brush
from Etude house
It looks like that
It’s called the Etude House Secret Brush 21skin
I got this, I think maybe October Novemberish
And it’s still in the stores now
basically I just put a bit of foundation on the back of my hand, when my hand is clean
And then I just dip it in and go around my face like this
it’s kind of like a toothbrush
but it really buffs the foundation into your skin
leaving a really natural finish
These bristols are very soft and dense
It also comes with this
You can change it to this one if you want to blend the foundation into your skin even more
Ok, let’s move onto hair
I have a little secret to share with you guys!
A lot of you have been asking me how I got my hair to grow so long and thick
Maybe some of you are stuck at a certain length and it does grow any longer
because it’s too damaged or too thin or something like that
So there’s a product that I want to show you that I recently started taking again that I really love
And how I found it was; before I moved to Japan I was working in Hong Kong as a model
Sometimes we would get sent to mainland China for jobs
so I went there and
being a model in mainland China is really really difficult because they make you do so many outfits really really fast
I had to do 100 outfits in 4 hours before
With that you have many hear changes and they can rip out your hair
Sometimes the model’s skin will become bad you loose hair and the hair becomes damaged from the stuff they do to it
So I was working there for the day and I was working with my friend Juliana
and she lives there
She a Brazilian model and her hair is gorgeous
and she lasted many many months of working in China
so I asked her what her secret was,
how she can keep her hair so thick and long and luscious?
And she told me that the Brazilian models all take this pill
and it helps them with their hair
and that pill is called Pantogar
This is actually a German pill but you can get this in many countries
I got it in Hong Kong
I haven’t seen it in Japan but maybe you can get it here
Now don’t go and take this if you’re really young
ask your mom or ask your doctor if it’s ok for you
I don’t want you guys to just go and start taking pills
but it’s pretty natural
the ingredients are just calcium D, thiamine, etc
This is for hair loss or hair structural damage
so loss of elasticity or fragility or brittle hair
loss of hair shininess or colour
and it’s also for nails
if you have brittle or split nails, then you’re probably deficient in these vitamins
you take these 1 capsule 3 times a day
so with your breakfast, lunch and dinner
For me, it helped my hair to grow a lot thicker and longer faster
it keeps your colour nice and the shine nice
and it makes your nails better
I recently started taking these again in December because my hair is getting really dry and brittle
I think it’s just getting too long
but I do want to keep growing it, so I want to make sure that it’s healthy and has all the vitamins it needs
and also my nails, so I started taking that again
my next item is a clothing item
some of you may have already seen when I bought this in my vlog
It’s my housecoat!
I got this one at Forever 21 and I wear it all time time
as soon as I come home my clothes come off and this goes on
I wish you could feel this through the screen because it’s so soft and cozy and warm
It has a really cute hood too
This is probably my most worn item for the month of December
and January and probably will continue to February
My absolute favourite thing to do in the wintertime, like my perfect night is…
to take a hot bath with a nice smelling Lush bath bomb
and then I love to throw this on, grab a candle and read
I love shutting off my mind and reading a good book
So the books I’ve been loving for December
It’s called ‘Me Before You’ by Jojo Moyes
This book is a really beautiful love story and it made me ball my eyes out
so if you love those type of emotional love stories then I really recommend this book
it was really really good
The other book I read and loved in December is this one
it’s by Chloe Kardashian and it’s called ‘Strong Looks Better Naked’
I love the Kardashians, I love all of them
I just think that they are one of the biggest criticised families in the world
everything they do, everything they wear, if they gain a pound
or loose a pound it’s publicly criticised
They’re all girls that inspire me because they don’t let anything that anyone says get them down
They just keep moving forward and they’re all so hardworking, smart business women
Everything they do is really successful
This book is about Chloe
Recently she’s been going through a lot. She split up with her husband and she lost a lot of weight
This book really hit home for me because it’s about her struggles and her being criticised and her weight loss journey
and just becoming a more balanced person, both the mind, soul and body
and she gives a lot of good exercising and fitness tips and stuff that’s helped get her to the point where she is today
where she’s happy and comfortable in her own skin
So if you’re looking for a book that you want to read to start the New Year off right with a really clear and positive mind
Then I would pick up this one because it is a really good one for that
So that is all for my December favourites video, I hope you liked it
And I want to know what you’ve been loving for the month of December?
Any of your favourite books or makeup or products you want to recommend?
And let me know if you like this video? If you want to see this every month, the products I’ve been using and loving
And i’m going to link all the products I mentioned in the description box
so that you can find them easier if guys are interested to see them or buy them
Alright, love you guys and I will see you soon!