- Good morning.
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♪ Yesterday, there was sun and there was rain ♪
♪ Beauty in the mundane ♪
♪ And as the light startled our eyes, ♪
♪ We let go of disguise ♪
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Well, hello, welcome back to Amy TV.
Don't mind me while I eat my breakfast
and present myself in the rarest of forms.
We always say it's rare form, right,
when we are having a no-makeup day and yet,
it's the least of the rarest of forms.
I actually wish it was a no-makeup day.
I do not have that luxury.
I did yesterday, it was awesome.
It was awesome.
I did a lotta filming earlier in the week,
but today I do have to do something with this.
I have a couple of calls and a meeting tonight.
But until then,
I'm just gonna be like this, and loving it.
Oh, avocado toast, I make it every day.
It's not getting old, it's not.
Anyway, you're probably wondering what is going on.
So last month, I did a productive day
in the life video with you, and you loved it.
I wanted to do a productive day in the life with you
because this is one of those times where I don't have
a lot of travel right now, you have said
we wanna know what you do to be productive working
from home when you're not on the road.
So, what have we done so far today?
I'll show you the breakdown on my calendar
in just a little bit.
But the first thing I wanted to talk to you about is
actually the very first thing I did this morning,
which is also a little bit of a weird
thing for me at the moment.
Most of you who tune in are fully aware of the fact
that the first thing I do when I wake up
in the morning is go and freshen the face.
I cannot wake up unless I have splashed water on my face,
washed my face, gone through my regimen, all that stuff.
Unfortunately I've been in a weird situation with my skin.
In the last couple of months, I've been having some
really weird like patchiness.
I went to my dermatologist, we thought it was
perioral dermatitis, it wasn't,
because I did not react to antibiotics whatsoever.
It's been sort of this crappy long road.
In my life, it feels like a crappy long road.
For the last couple of months, I've been using like
bottom of the barrel, simplest skincare
that you can buy from the drugstore possible,
which has actually less bad than I thought it was going
to be, but the whole point of it was that I needed to take
everything skincare-wise out of my regimen
to figure out what was going wrong.
So now I'm at this critical phase where I am able to start
integrating skincare back into my routine.
I needed to be particular about what those products were.
Super super grateful to Beauty by Design because they said
they wanted to work with me, and I thought,
this is actually perfect because I'm nervous to just go
to Sephora and get my normal thing
or get something new and try it.
I feel like I need something that's a little bit more
specific to me, and a little bit safer, on the safe side.
The timing of this just could not be better at the moment
because I really take my skin so seriously,
and I wanted to make a very responsible move
as I'm trying to figure out, do I have allergies
to something, without actually having to do a patch test.
I'm trying to figure out on my own.
So I wanna show you what I'm using and what the deal is
with them, just in case this is a fit for you,
because I know a lot of you have sensitive skin
and things like that, where you probably can't just go buy
anything that somebody recommends to you, and you might
need something a little bit more custom,
and this is exactly what they do.
So I'm gonna show you what the deal is
and why I'm not wearing makeup for you right now, basically.
Okay, first I have to show you this.
So this is my skinscription, and the way that this was
generated is when you go to Beauty by Design,
you fill out sort of like a skin survey,
and you even take a selfie,
so that an actual esthetician can look at your face
and see what's going on with your face
so they can really get this right.
And so this is what they came up with for me,
and they kinda walk you through why they chose each product.
You decide a couple of things.
First of all, you can decide you don't want everything
that they recommend, and you also tell them in the survey
what price point you're comfortable with.
So not only is this custom to you,
based on what you need personally,
it's custom to you and how much you wanna pay.
All this talk about skin, I need more water in my life,
oh my gosh.
By the way, these are the text messages
between me and the esthetician from Beauty by Design.
So, literally, I could continue to go into further detail
as she was trying to figure out
the right skinscription for me.
I am just so, it was perfect, it was totally perfect.
And there's the lineup, that skincare regimen
I love so much.
So we have a cleanser, and you can see that they each
have a number on them specific to what my skinscription was,
and everything has been so nice,
and just like clear, and they feel amazing
and just luxurious and safe,
like that is what is so big for me.
I've been keeping the boxes, too, just because
I like to be able to read those ingredients.
You know.
You gotta pay attention to this stuff,
especially if your skin starts acting up.
So I just want you know about this
because it's been a huge help for me.
Like I said, they will work with your budget,
and you can use my code, which is in the description
and get another 20% off, if you wanna try it.
So go and text your esthetician and get something
made for you because that is so important.
Everything needs to be custom for you.
That was a long-winded way of saying that was
the first thing I did this morning.
Thank you, Beauty by Design, so much
for sponsoring this video, because I do think
this is so important for people to know about.
If you are not taking care of your skin yet,
you sleep in your makeup, you don't use serums,
you don't use oils, you don't use moisturizer
on a regular basis, I need to tell you
that's a huge mistake.
I don't care how old you are, the sooner you get
on it, the better.
The only reason why people still I think I look like
I'm 16 is because I started in my early 20s, so.
Let's go about the day.
This girl refuses to lay anywhere else in this office.
I had to leave my slippers for her,
because her butt was on them.
Can I have them back, my feet are cold?
Ooh, they are warm, though.
All right, so let's talk about
what I'm doing today.
This is a video, actually, I was uploading,
and it's now done.
And so I'll be posting that later today.
So here is what the day looks like.
It was a little bit of a late morning.
I wanted to wake up earlier than this,
but Lucy was giving me a hard time last night,
so I was a little late and I also let
my morning routine go a bit longer
than usual because I just needed the me time.
This was a drawing that I had to do for my Instagram.
I had to announce those winners this morning
so I could get that off of my desk, literally,
these books, need to get them off my desk.
My friend Jay's book, Talk Triggers, came out.
Why is that exciting?
Because this is the first business book
with alpacas on the cover.
Enough said, I think so.
Next, I took Lucy for a walk because that was
my excuse to get coffee this morning
because I was really in need of that.
And then you'll notice there's two blocks on my calendar
for email and Trello, those are the two hours today
that I am allowing myself to check email
and to hang out in the project manager with my assistant.
There is no reason to spend any more time than that.
I probably don't even need all two hours, but it's kind
of nice if I get done early in both of those blocks,
because it gives me some buffer time.
Had to make an edit to today's video,
which is now exported and uploaded.
I'm vlogging right now, so that's what this is,
my little kick-start half-hour that I needed to do that.
Next, I'm so excited,
it's time to start recording my podcast.
You guys know I've already been recording actual
podcast episode interviews,
but I need to do some other audio.
Specifically episode zero, which is the first episode
you will actually hear on the podcast.
It's more of an introduction to the show,
probably about five minutes or so, but I'm giving myself
an hour just so I can make sure I say all the right things
and write it out and all that kinda fun stuff.
Gotta draft Boss Notes, which is my newsletter coming out
tomorrow, giving myself some time for that.
I have a call at two, back again email and Trello,
then I'm launching that video about four o'clock today.
I have some research for another video I wanna do
happening there, and then I'm going
to Happy Hour with my friend Kevin.
And also, Vin is coming back tonight,
so I gotta pick him up from the airport.
I think I'm picking him up from the airport.
I'm just realizing I haven't allocated time
to fix my face.
So, I
better get ahead on this podcast and the email newsletter.
Because I need to build in about a half an hour there.
I know you agree.
♪ And now there's something in the air ♪
♪ And a sparkly shimmer on our skin ♪
♪ Storing everything within ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Dreamy breezy, we go ♪
♪ Easy easy, on our tiptoes ♪
♪ Undercover agents of the other ♪
♪ Be on gravel, be on dough ♪
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So I did a little bit of arranging of my schedule
because I realized, hmm,
maybe I should shower.
And so I moved my newsletter drafting to later today.
I don't have to pick up Vin from the airport,
so that's what's happening.
But I do have a call in 20 minutes, which is why I need
to quickly blowdry and do makeup.
But I wanted to mention something that I was like,
I meant to tell you earlier when I was talking about
my skincare, but I forgot.
Another reason why my skincare is like complicated
at the moment is, because that like splash water
on my face feeling that I love, that I was telling you
about earlier, I can't actually do at the moment.
If you follow me on Instagram, then you may have noticed
I talked about my eyebrows.
You know, we just talk about eyebrows
on Instagram, it's fine.
Well I was talking about my eyebrows because
I just got them microbladed.
Actually, I did this last year, it was my annual retouch.
And so what happens is, you're basically like temporary
tattooing your eyebrows on your face,
and you can't get your eyebrows wet
for a considerable period of time.
So something that was not on my calendar today
was working out, and I also have to use like a washcloth
and like packed around my eyebrows to wash my face.
It's very complicated.
I'm gonna have to do the washcloth thing
for I think it's at least 30 days,
that's what I did last year was right around 30 days.
So you're not like wiping out the ink that's in there.
- [Computerized voice] That contains pigments or dyes
and is used to color a surface to produce an image,
text or design.
That was from Wikipedia.
Would you like to hear more?
- No, but I cannot wait until I'm outside
of this like 10-day mark, which is on Friday morning,
when I can finally go back to the trainer.
Because I'm dying to do it, I'm dying to.
So anyway, if you were wondering why there's not a workout,
also it's taking me forever to find the right blend
of foundation at the moment because,
spray tan, not on point.
That's why I didn't work out this morning,
and, um,
why I've not really been working out for the last week.
To be honest, so I have to hurry up and get my makeup
all done here, and blowdry in 15 minutes or less.
That should be fun, so I think we're gonna do like
low, low makeup today.
(gentle music)
♪ Hand in hand ♪
♪ Building castles out of sand ♪
♪ Reaching for the ground ♪
♪ We lose track of time ♪
♪ And up high now we climb ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Dreamy, breezy we go ♪
♪ Easy easy, on our tiptoes ♪
♪ Undercover agents of the other ♪
♪ Be on gravel, be on dough ♪
♪ A bigger skill the world inhales ♪
♪ As we go ♪
♪ I wouldn't want it any other way ♪
♪ Dreamy, breezy, we go ♪
Well here's to hoping it's an audio call,
because I didn't get my hair blowdried.
Oh, that was such a good phone call.
I didn't really know if
that was gonna be a good phone call or not.
It just sort of was like random introduction somebody made,
and it was so good.
I love when that happens.
I love when that happens, I love when I get on the phone
or meet somebody in person that just like rocks my world
and I learn so much, it just gets me so excited.
Anyway, so good phone call.
I had to get to my email and Trello time.
That's all good to go.
Actually, I don't,
I mighta spent too much time on email
because I don't think I actually got
to everything in Trello.
That's okay, none of that is urgent.
Just pushed the video live, so that's exciting.
I'm so excited this video is out.
I had such a good talk with Leah Pipes for the podcast.
And so, I shared like a little sampling.
Hopefully, you saw it already,
if you're watching this video.
- I'm taking time to like rest,
and I'm also readjusting to, it was go go go,
and now it's not, which makes me a little sad.
It kind of switches into this very sticky place.
- It's really good.
It's just so relatable.
It's just so relatable, you know, life isn't perfect.
Life isn't unicorns and rainbows for everybody
all the time.
And I just thought it was such a good lesson, mmm.
Let me know in the comments if you saw it
and what you thought of it, please.
Okay, so from here,
I have to make a little Instagram Story
action for the video.
And then,
I think that's it until I have to go to Happy Hour.
I love getting things done early in a calendar block,
because it means I can go back to things
that I didn't necessarily get to
or skip to something in the future
that I might need to work on, like I can start
my newsletter a little early if I need to.
But yeah.
Lucy could probably use another walk today, too.
She's not had the best day.
She's been crying for attention quite a bit.
Oh God, now my battery's gonna run out.
Figures.
Oh, I should probably blowdry my hair.
That's another thing I need to do.
Ah.
Oh crap, I gotta reschedule that.
Quick update.
Multiple, multiple updates.
First of all, yes, my mirror is in front of my door.
Because I just had this thought
that it could go really well here (laughs).
Behind the door.
I didn't have to put it behind the door, but I'm putting it
here to see how I like it.
I'm shopping for things on this wall.
I might tell you about that later.
But anyway, that was thought number one.
Thought number two, apparently it's 87 degrees outside,
so I thought a sweater and jeans was not apprope for
drinks with Kevin, so I have changed.
As you could tell.
I could not, however,
bring myself to blowdry my hair.
So I'm skipping that, and Kevin will
totally not care.
That's what's happening.
I don't have to pick up Vin from the airport, so I'm just
like texting him while he's on the plane.
And I'm excited for him to get home.
I think I have to end the vlog here,
and the reason is,
I'm going to Happy Hour.
So do we really need to see how that story ends?
I don't think so.
So this is kind of the end of my productive day.
So I'm just going to, I think,
work on my newsletter tonight.
If I've only had one glass of wine,
I will work on my newsletter when I get back.
And then have a good night's rest.
I'll probably start sleeping before Vin gets home,
not gonna lie, because I don't think he gets
home till like 11:30, and then, tomorrow is a new day.
Lucy, was it a productive day for you?
Huh, huh?
I didn't think I was gonna wake you up.
All right, before I get outta here, I wanted to let
you know, the links for everything for Beauty by Design
is in the description.
I recommend you take the test and just find out
what they recommend for you,
especially for what's in your price range.
And, there's a discount code if you use my special code,
Amy Landino 20 gets you 20% off your order,
so if you tell them your budget, do that.
I'm getting a text, but then use my code to get 20%
off that, so you can save and make sure it is
the right fit for your skin.
That's all for today, thank you so much for tuning in.
I appreciate it as always.
Make sure you subscribe for good vibes,
and remember to continue to go after the life that you want.
Cheers.
♪ Be on gravel, be on dough ♪
♪ Dreamy, breezy we go ♪