Hi everyone! It's your girl Jenn and welcome back
I am here with the very first episode of favorites of 2018 because January is officially over
I would love to know how this month went for you because some of you guys are telling me that it went
excruciatingly slow.
But for me, it was literally just a wash of the month, so please tell me did it go slow or fast
Let me know in the comments down below
Either way, I'm gonna chat about some of my favorite things of January, so let's get started
So I'm gonna start things off with a fashion favorite first. Here I have this windbreaker from Kappa
I posted this on Instagram pretty recently when I was up in the bay and a lot of y'all were loving this
including myself. I wore it the entire weekend when I was in San Francisco
And it truly was such a great day to night peace. In the daytime when the Sun was out the material is lightweight enough
So I'm not overheating, but when I would wear at night the material. It just cuts through the strong winds so it's just very
Multifunctional, and it looks so cool. It's very retro and vibey. I love this jacket
It is a fun teal color and teal was actually my favorite color in high school
So I'll always have a soft spot for this shade now. I'm gonna move on to some beauty favorites here
I have Fenty beauty's gloss balm, and I know I am so late on the Fenty train
But what can I say I feel like I'm always two or three steps behind the beauty trends
But I must say this is completely worth the hype. This is definitely on my top 5 favorite things at Fenty beauty and I'm not
Normally much of a gloss girl, but when I do find a gloss that I love I'm very loyal to it.
I absolutely love the shimmer, and this is just a really universal shade for everybody
I think this is flattering on any skin tone
And I love that it wears beautifully throughout the day. Normally with some lip glosses
It just feels really sticky and there's that weird film on your mouth. It doesn't happen with this guy.
Throughout the day it just feels like you have like a nice moisturizer in your lips, and I love that. Also it smells so good
It just smells like candy like peach candy. This is bomb.
So recently my favorite foundation to use has been this one by NARS
This is their natural radiant long wear foundation, and I am in the shade Punjab
I wore this in my get ready with me in Phuket
and
This has been on my face non-stop since then. I think it's because when I was in such a humid climate it held up then
So this is just a trooper for me. It likes to just stick onto my face, which I completely love
This is also very high coverage
So I only need maybe one or two pumps with this guy -
One to just cover my entire face, and the other pump to just get around my under eyes when I use this
I just skip concealer because I'll just use this product
And I really like when I can use one product in many ways.
With some foundations I find myself looking kind of cakey,
but I love that this has kind of like a velvet satiny finish
It just looks like your skin, which I enjoy. For me and my skin this foundation is definitely a fit for me
So my next item is a beauty tool
I have finally got my very first epilator
And I'm very proud because before I got this I was plucking all my armpit hair
This is like a weird activity that I started doing since my freshman year of high school
Because I never like shaving my armpits because I found that when I shaved them my pits just look darker
So it just became a habit to pluck every single one of them
And it just became a part of my routine until one day
I told Amy and she was like why don't you just get an epilator and so she recommended me this one.
And I bought it and honestly this was worth every single penny it now takes less than a minute to take off all
Individual hairs from my armpit, and it's been incredible. This is the device. There are two settings
There's one and two. Two I never use because it's just too fast
I just find it very painful, but one is definitely doable
I would show you how to like actually use it, but my pits are actually pretty clean right now
I did it maybe three days ago
So they were in good shape. Feel free to use this device anywhere that you grow hair like your legs down there
It's just awesome because it is so quick,
speedy and you stay hair free for a lot longer
In January I finally ditched my Canon T3i
And God bless her soul because she was the first
DSLR that I ever purchased. This was back in 2008 or 2009 so since like the birth of this channel
but that T3i
Just really documented some great memories any time that I used equipment. That wasn't T3I while I was vlogging.
It just didn't compare to the quality and just the standard that I had for vlogging, but I knew it was time for a change because
It was just getting way too heavy, like I was lugging around an 8 pound piece of equipment everywhere
And I was hurting my back
And I just knew that like there is there's got to be something on the market for me
Where it is just a lot more efficient, so I asked my friend Jesse who knows a ton about camera equipment
And so he recommended me this.This is the Canon EOS M6
I also bought a wide-angle lens to attach with it because when I'm vlogging by myself
I don't want the frame to be too close
And I like to just have just everything in the screen and I can choose to crop if I want to but yeah
I bought these two pieces separately and this has been
Amazing to vlog with I've vlogged my entire second half of January with this so you guys will see the footage later
But it meets my standard, and it is so easy to just bust it out and start filming with my Canon T3i
I would have to like manually focus and set the exposure, but with this it just does everything for you
It's kind of like a pimped out version of the Canon G7X and this has truly been such a great investment for me
And I can't wait to just start vlogging more. This also has a flip out screen so
obviously perfect for vloggers
And I am just stoked about this very happy to graduated to this new camera
My last favorite is a TV show called End of the F***ing World
This is on Netflix and this was recommended to me by Silas who is so so span
He just texted me and Ben was like hey watch this new show and we're like okay, and we loved it
It is a black comedy
Featuring two teenagers it's kind of like a Bonnie and Clyde
because they are just the true definition of a ride-or-die and
At first when you watch the show you don't really know
What to think of the characters like they're actually kind of unlikable in the beginning
But as you continue to watch it
They become very endearing and they bring out the best in each other or maybe the worst
Either way it is a really fun and easy watch. I also love the way it's shot
It kinda reminds me of West Anderson with like the cemetry and the flat leis and just the quirky characters
I would highly recommend it if you're looking for a new show to watch
Alright everyone, that is a wrap on my January favorites. I'm so sorry that I don't have a book favorite for you
I actually spent January reading the 4-hour workweek and I
Did not like it, and if I'm gonna be frank the author just kind of seemed to kind of douche-baggy
I really like halfway through and I was like
I just I just can't finish this so yeah, I didn't want to recommend you guys a book that I didn't like.
Either way I hope to find a better book to read in January
I'm thinking about reading a Thousand Splendid Suns. A lot of you guys would recommending to me that so I
Need to go read it. It's been a long time since I've read a fiction book and I also love the Kite Runner
So I'm gonna go check that out next month if you guys have any fiction books that you'd like to recommend me
Please write it in the comments down below
I will add it to my to read list, but yes as usual
Please write down anything that inspired you or something nice that happened to you last month in the comments down below
I would love to read about it and
Thank you so much for watching, and I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye