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- Hey everyone, it's your girl Jenn
and the shortest month of the year
is officially over.
Personally, February felt like an eternity to me.
Please let me know if you guys felt the same way.
I wanna do a roll call of the best things of last month.
So let's get started.
First topic, shoes. More specifically these shoes.
These boots are from style nanda
and no, none of my style nanda features
are ever sponsored.
I just volunteer to give them a portion
of my check every single month
because they keep coming out with really cute things.
I wanted these boots because I saw
this photo of Negin Mirsalehi.
It just sparked this urge to conduct
a search party for similar boots
and luckily I found very similar ones
on the website.
I also love the fact that this is
a winter boot that will transition really well
in the spring.
I think that these look amazing with skinny jeans
and little flirty dresses and so
I'm excited to get more wear of them next season.
I actually got Lasik the end of January
if you guys are interested in my Lasik experience
please hit the cards over there.
Ever since Lasik I had to really tone down
all the eye makeup on my face
and so I used this opportunity to put the spotlight
on other parts of my face other than the eyes
so I really went ham on the cheeks.
I have been loving mykonos which is a Buxom blush.
This is just like a punchy coral
and if you know me I am just a sucker for coral.
I don't know when this became one of my favorite colors
but beauty wise I just love it on the cheeks,
I love it on the lips, on the eyes,
and I would really pile it on on the cheeks
for more of like a flushed innocent angelic vibe
and then for highlighter I have been reaching for
the Pat McGrath sublime skin highlighting trio.
This has three highlighters,
but out of the three my favorite is
the one on the center.
I think it's just because it's more wearable for me.
It's kinda like this pearlescent gold
and I just love how creamy it goes one
it's not like a cream highlighter
but it's not powdery and dusty either.
It just looks really amazing on the skin.
There's also this rose pearlescent shade
on the right
and then this like pure gold on the left.
So I like how I have options
and I just love the quality of Pat McGrath products
and I guess this is a good segway
for me to talk about her lipstick.
This is called candy flip
and this is part of their MatteTrance collection.
I also love matte lippies
especially if I am just out the door.
I'm definitely just a lady of longevity
I just wanna apply it once
and hope it looks good for five to six hours.
So I can't be the only person that really
struggled in January
and I found it really frustrating because
I felt like I started the year on such a bad foot.
So in February I was very proactive with my emotions.
I've noticed that in the past
if one bad event or bad mood happened
it would just kinda blanket my entire week
like all the good things that happened
would just be ignored
and I would just focus on that bad experience
and I knew that I had to get a handle of it
especially during my PMS week.
I feel like with me PMS is beyond just
crying during movies, or being more sensitive.
I definitely get more existential
and I question my purpose and everything that I do.
If affects my decisions
and during this cloudy time
it's really hard for me to be optimistic
and so I wanted to find an app that can help me with that
so I downloaded clue because that tells you
when PMS is coming,
and it also tells you when your periods coming.
Which I think is great.
So as I downloaded clue I found
another app that peaked my interest.
It is called moodpath
and I love collecting data about myself
and so I thought that this mood tracker
would be a great addition for my routine
because this app basically it checks in
with you three times a day.
The morning, afternoon, and night.
So you gauge your mood through a
series of smilies,
and I'm very honest,
like if I'm not feeling great I'll put in a blue sad face
but you also have the option to right in a little entry
on what happen
and you get to pick some keywords of how you're feeling
and then a little badge
and this whole process takes around two to three minutes
sometimes it takes me four to five minutes
because I'm really writing down in a little entry
I like that it's a tracker
but it could also be seen as a journal as well
and I really enjoy this because
it gives you three opportunities to change your mood.
I've been using this every single day since February 6th
and I like that when I am sad or something
I can remember what made me sad.
So as you can see in this entry I was hungover
and in this entry I lost my card
but as you can see my mood picked up
when suddenly I wasn't hungover
and when I found my card.
So it's little things like that that help
you remember what made you sad
and what made you happy.
So my next favorite is a comedian named Tom Segura.
My friends and I decided to go to the Comedy Store
which is a place to watch standup comedy.
I had no idea who Tom Segura was
but he was the person headlining
but we thought that we would do some research
before hand to see if it would be funny or not
and we saw his comedy special on Netflix called Disgraceful
and you know when you find someone that just
understands your sense of humor
it's just sparks are flying
I absolutely love his dry sense of humor
and his impeccable delivery.
I highly recommend you go check out the special
it's on Netflix
and I think you would definitely giggle
if you don't then we just don't find the same things funny
which is completely fine too.
So my last favorite is some music
which I never share.
I don't know why
but I just felt compelled to share Helado Negro
which is a band that I saw in Vancouver
so Danny and I were staying at a Air B&B
that was very close to the Orpheum
which is a music venue
and on the last day I was walking by thinking
Oh my gosh it would be so cool to see a live band
and during dinner we looked at the lineup
and fricking Beirut was playing
and so I love Beirut,
Beirut was one of my favorite bands
from like 2011 to 2012
it's kinda like this experimental folk music
it sounds lame but just give it a listen
but the opening act was Helado Negro
and I was just blown away
I would say for their genre it would be like
ambient experimental electronic music.
Again, it's just easier if you just listen to it on Spotify.
All my favorite tracks are Running
and Come Be Me.
It's just really chill music to vibe out on
great for introspective drives
or if you're the type to study with music on
definitely go give it a listen.
Alright everyone that is a wrap on my February favorites.
As usual please comment down your favorites
in the comments down below.
Specifically books, tv shows and movies.
I welcome all those suggestions
and before I left I wanted to do a little shout out
about a event that I'm gonna be at
I'll actually be speaking.
It's called a Rare Day.
This is a womens summit to empower women entrepreneurs
and creators.
Or if you're just interested the space
please come.
I am doing a talk along with Jackie Aina,
Stephanie, Amber Scholl, Ellen, Fran
it's gonna be really inspiring
last year I left so motivated
and I just felt like this power
that I could accomplish things
and so I highly recommend that you guys come out too
if you guys are available.
I will leave the info for the tickets
in the description box.
So please hit that open, I would love to see you.
Okay, I wanna thank everyone for watching
and I'll see you in the next one.
Bye.
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