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- Good morning,
it is very gloomy today it's gonna be raining.
And I have decided that today will be a self-care day.
I have had my string of productive days
and I just wanna relax today.
Okay, I've been seeing all these self-care checklists
on Pinterest, and I thought that I would do the ones that
struck out to me.
And this video is sponsored by La Mer.
I thought that this would be a smooth integration
because La Mer is one of my favorite skincare brands,
and obviously I'm gonna pamper my skin today.
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I legitimately feel reborn,
and we've only done like one thing off the checklist.
Okay, so now let's tackle skincare.
So I saw some videos on YouTube and I'm pushing
my face away to lift.
So now we're gonna jump into the eye cream.
I have been using La Mer, I concentrate for a year now.
And as you can see, I love it.
That's why I'm excited to try their new updated formula.
Now, this has triple the amount of the concentrated miracle
broth, which is an all La Mer's products,
but there's three times the amount in there eye concentrate,
and one little hack I like to do is I keep the applicator
in the freezer so that way when I apply it,
it just has this really refreshing cooling sensation.
I'll just do three little dots here,
three dots on the other side,
and then I'll just sweep it left to right.
It feels like a little mini massage on your face.
There's also a lime tea concentrate in here as well
which is a really powerful antioxidant
and it just helps like prevent
and brightens up this whole area.
So now I'm adding a vitamin C serum,
just to protect my face from the daily aggressors.
We're gonna push the forehead back to a drain to the
other side, I go to facial they do a lot of this too.
I don't know what this does, but it just feels nice.
And sometimes when I go get a facial, they do this.
This feels nice too.
And then to finish off the skincare I'm just gonna apply
some sunscreen on.
Cause even though we're gonna stay indoors all day,
the UV rays still managed to sneak its way in.
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Next, up on the agenda, we've got meditation,
we're gonna use my favorite app, calm.
I recently just changed the song, listen to it.
Doesn't it sound like you're in a spa?
When I listened to this, I feel like there's hope.
Like, it's gonna be okay it's like that.
I don't know what that sound is, It's like spiritual, man.
This one is called alleviating stress,
I feel so relaxed.
I'm really happy that I've prioritized meditation as a part
of my routine.
In the past, I was definitely using it as just another task
that I'd cross off.
But I'm a lot more gentle on myself.
I've always worked well with streaks because when I'm
working towards something, and I've already built something,
it's easier for me to maintain.
When I like the past two months, I was like, okay,
there's gonna be a day,
some point in this year where I'm gonna miss a day
and I'm not gonna freak out.
And that day happened, it was March 8th,
I was like, okay, this day happened.
But let's just like pick it right back up again.
I know that with meditation,
it's kind of difficult to track your progress.
Because it's not like an overnight thing.
Just because you start meditating doesn't mean that all
of a sudden, you're like Buddha,
and you're just Zen all the time.
It's like small changes,
I've noticed that my patience has expanded,
if something doesn't go my way, or if there's a hiccup,
I'm, like, easier to let it go.
I'm like, well, that happened.
I do think that meditation has helped me get outside
of my head and not be so attached to thoughts.
Now, when something happens,
I can kind of see myself outside of it and be like,
well, that's just a thought you're having right now.
It's negative, but wait a minute, have you eaten?
Have you drunk water? Have you talked to anyone that you
love recently? You know,
just stuff like that to kinda check-in on myself because,
you know, the mind has like, what, like 60,000 thoughts a
day, not all of them are gonna be positive.
So it's very important to kind of categorize your thoughts
as like, like, just the thought.
Sometimes that's all it is.
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Hair is finished, I think we should put on an outfit.
I'm not gonna wear hold on what do I always wear.
I'm gonna take a break from this as much as
I love the shirt.
Its so clean too, I'm gonna try and put on like a nice,
cozy outfit that has a little bit of style a little bit of
flair to it.
So here is the first outfit.
I've been loving to wear this sports bra from love wave
just as a talk because it's stretchy,
it's comfortable and it looks great paired
with just baggy your bottoms.
These are just like graphics sweats from pleasures,
and it has just like this neon green print here.
It's got pockets.
It's also like pretty loose, which I appreciate
and it's just very flattering.
All right, so here is my second outfit didn't change much.
Just the pants.
These sweats are by the range and I love the color.
It's in this nice neutral olive shade
and it's very very flattering, I love the waistband.
It's like very, very stretchy.
And here is another easy chill home outfit.
I love the big sweater.
This one is by the proof collective.
This one like it falls nicely on the body and underneath
I'm just wearing these biker shorts.
These are by Topshop if I wanted to make it comfortable.
I would wear it with these pajama bottoms.
My gosh now, these pajama bottoms are the most comfortable
pants in the world.
These are by the brand MeUndies
and I swear to God the fabric feels like butter.
This is actually been my quarantine gift for my family.
I got my brother a pair I got my dad a pair
and then I bought a pair for my mom
for her birthday in January.
So she already has a pair but basically like we love these
and it makes me feel like connected to my family
knowing that we're all wearing our MeUndies at home.
This outfits not as flattering but this is probably
the most like the realistically comfortable outfit
that I should wear.
I like to try and drink at least two bottles of this a day.
Obviously staying hydrated is very,
very important in general, for your skin for your mood
and because I have a sippy cup with a straw,
it just makes drinking water so much easier.
Like I could probably drink this whole can tin right now.
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Okay, I can't do it,
there's still like a little bit left here.
I don't know what I'm trying to prove like it's not like
anyone will be that impressed the fact like,
Jenn can drink water.
Yeah I'm just gonna fill this up again.
Okay, so now I'm going to prepare myself a nourishing meal.
I actually want something relatively healthy
because I haven't been eating the healthiest
the past couple of days.
So actually was the thing with like nutrition and health.
So I'm gonna go and make myself a salad.
So for my protein, I'm using a veggie patty.
This one is by Dr Preggers and it's my favorite brand
of all the veggie patties.
So first off, we've got some romaine lettuce,
Now I've got some cherry tomatoes,
I'm just gonna slice them in half.
Next up, we've got a cucumber.
This is a Japanese Musa dressing and it is so delicious.
It's like on the creamier side so ill just use like a
spoonful of it.
This is like the dressing that like when you go to Benihana
and they give you like that side salad.
This is the dressing that goes on top of it.
There's something very very comforting about this flavor.
That looks really good.
And then we plop the little patty on,
so I'm gonna show you guys how I have been mindful eating.
It's something that I've been implementing for a week
and a half now and I've been liking it so far.
Before I eat, I asked myself a couple of questions.
So the first question is two to three emotions
that you're feeling, so right now I feel calm,
I feel peaceful.
The second question is why you want the food.
So this maybe like a weird question,
but it makes you aware of like, why you're eating?
Are you eating this because you're hungry?
Has it been like a while since your last mealtime?
Who are you eating this because
you're craving something sweet?
Are you eating this because you're bored?
Are you eating this because you're stressed?
So it adds that extra step of the you having
to check in with yourself.
So I want this food because I have not eaten breakfast,
I am hungry, I need fuel, I need some nutrients.
And then I also asked myself what I'm craving,
so it could be anything I eat whatever I want.
As long as I explain why, and like what I'm craving,
I want something that has hot and cold.
So the patties hot
and then the outside is really refreshing.
So I want something that's warm, but also refreshing this,
like ticks both the boxes, okay,
and then I'll write in what I'm eating.
So I'll say I'm eating a salad with a veggie patty.
So now that we've finished those questions,
I'm going to eat and I'm gonna do
it with no distractions, no TV, no phone,
and I'm just gonna focus on the flavors.
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So now that the food is finished, I ate all of it.
Clearly I liked it.
We're gonna go back to the food journal.
And so my next question is,
how do you feel?
What did you observe? I feel satisfied.
And this is a good time for me to stop
cause I think in the past I would eat I would continue
eating on after this and I think
because I've no distractions
and I'm actually really observing like the textures
and the combinations that are in my mouth.
It makes me focus purely on the food.
So I'll write, you know, things that I like.
Like I love the crunch of the cucumber
and the carrots mixed together.
The patty by far is probably my favorite part.
So I make sure that for the patty I like to divide it
and eat it slowly.
So that way it lasts throughout the whole meal.
And then the last question is, what did I learn?
And it can be very simple it could be I learned that
couscous tastes good in a salad.
I just chugged a cup of coffee.
So I need to do something with this energy.
So we're gonna start vacuuming and my goal.
I'm gonna start my goal small.
I'm just gonna clean the bedroom, you know vacuum,
and then see where that takes me.
I also need to move around a little bit more
because my Apple Watch just told me off it was like,
you normally get more exercise in by now.
It's like yeah, I can't go outside.
I can't exercise It's raining Siri, got the gloves on.
Got the cleaning products.
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We're done cleaning, I even clean cheeky too.
That leads us to our next activity,
which is I guess this is our next activity.
So our next activity is to do some reminiscing.
I have had this box since like high school.
This is the box that was underneath
my bed at my childhood home.
But when my parents sold it,
I just put everything that had
sentimental value in this box.
So I thought I would kind of show you guys.
So the first artifact I'd like to show you
is my Spanish project when I was a sophomore,
this is back in 2005.
So this is what I look like when I was 14 years old.
As you can see, I've got like the bings the mullet
the reason why I have like all this stuff on my faces
is because I you had to guess who this was just by the
description so it says (speaking foreign language)
So it says I have a purple backpack I look like a fetus.
This is like me enjoying a jack in the box burger.
I always loved putting little bows on my hair.
This is the bus that I would ride and this is me and Sarah.
I'm wearing like my volcam graphic T amazing.
These jeans I personally sewed to make them skinny.
It was so difficult to find skin-tight jeans
back in the day.
You guys do not know the struggle
and this was the grand finale.
(speaking foreign languge) Jenn Im.
My god, there's me and Sarah.
So back in the day, it was really difficult to like find
and remember the clothes that you liked like Ashley Simpson
was one of my biggest style inspirations.
And so what I would do was I would get her outfits
and then I would draw them
and I would draw them so that I would try to remember
when I would go to forever 21 or goodwill.
I'll try and find the outfit that I was looking for.
So this was the style guys look,
we've got an arm bray like Big Bang full look.
We've got a tunic and yellow skinnies and like pointy shoes,
white pastel skinnies, not capris gross my god.
This is so funny.
A gray spotted tank, jersey light,
and flowy and funky seafoam jewelry.
This was my vibe this was one of my dream outfits,
my gosh, this was another one of my dream outfits.
I think this was inspired by like Urban Outfitters
As you can see, we've got a boat-neck sweater.
long-sleeved is okay.
These like these scarves are popular as well.
But it was cool to just wear them like a big loose bandana.
Got like a fitted maroon cardigan.
And these are like my dream shoes.
I had no idea where to find them but they were like these
cobalt blue flats with a chain that like hung around them.
My gosh, I wish I had more of these.
I don't know why I only have two .
This was me meeting the person who won Project Runway
what's his name? Daniel Vasa Vic Daniel Vasa Vic?
That's me meeting him.
I went to like a meetup and I was so excited to meet him.
I bought his book that day.
This is me and my friend Kelly,
an American Apparel warehouse sale.
We camped out for hours to get defected
American Apparel clothing.
This was also one of my myspace pictures.
This is me and my friend Vanessa.
As you can see we're a little like seeing stars
at the checkered belt that was key,
and I have my Hollister V-neck.
This is me when I was 10 years old.
That was my mom's jacket that made me feel
like I put together like her.
I still have all this stationery.
White was my favorite character.
I thought she was the most stylish girl to ever exist.
Random pictures of me and Sarah,
I think I'm holding like a Mars Volta CD.
Got my favorite Powerpuff Girl bubbles.
Here's a list of all the activities that I wanted to do to
have a dinner where all the food
and decorations are the same color.
A sunrise picnic, build a huge tent.
This is like a nice man.
Go to try and town and buy a turtle
and release it into the wild.
These are very specific activities I wanted to do.
But I guess this is what my agenda was back in the day.
This is a very email quote that I wrote on here it says,
ever noticed how happy kids don't write in their diaries
very much, they don't have to Life's too fun.
Diaries are for when life isn't fun.
There for figuring out what went wrong,
I mean clearly this a quote stuck out to me.
I was very emotional.
Now I'm gonna just like play Animal Crossing,
but this was a really good self-care day my god.
If you guys enjoyed this video,
please lemme know in the comments down below
and lemme know what you guys like to do on a day where you
just wanna decompress and relax.
I wanna thank you guys so much for watching
and I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye.