Hey guys! Today I am testing out and reviewing all the beauty items that TikTok has convinced me to buy over the past couple months! Let me know if you guys have tried any of these things and what you think about them! Love ya💖
@Alexandria-Ryan The Ordinary Glycolic Acid has been a MIRACLE for the KP on my arms. My skin is very sensitive, very thin skin and glycolic acid is the only thing (out of SO SO SO many things that I’ve tried) that’s made a considerable difference in my KP.
Loved that lip stain on you, the deep red colour wass super pretty! I know you’ve been getting into skincare for a while now, so I just wanted to recommend the book ‘Skincare: The New Edit’ by Caroline Hirons if you haven’t read it, it’s honestly made understanding what skincare stuff actually works or is necessary, and what isn’t, so much easier. Because skincare is confusing af. The author is a fully licensed cosmetologist, and breaks everything down into simple easy to read chunks, and covers pretty much every skin type and product under the sun
By the way, your hair is looking really good today very shiny. I,too, am on the hair loss journey. I haven't tried these products yet, so next on my list. 😄 I'm deliberately staying off tik tok because I still get sucked in with middle of the night insomnia shopping. I have no control when it comes to people drawing me in as my logic filter doesn't work after midnight 😅. Tati was big on the whole beef tallow thing. She loved it. You should check out her stuff (sorry, no link at the moment. I fell on my back this afternoon while chasing a goat, so my ability to be useful to anyone is useless, hence RUclips binge. Last, and most importantly, where did you get that chair? Is it as comfortable as it looks?
Coming from someone who slept in the SAME pair of contacts when I was younger, for a year straight without EVER taking them out or cleaning them or anything, DO NOT DO IT! It's truly not worth it and I now have corneal scarring, including across my right eye that causes this subtle blur at all times that never goes away and drives me insane. Don't do it. Not worth it. 0/10 - A good time had by none.
May I ask how did it feel to wear it without changing and cleaning contacts? Because if I sleep for hour or two wearing my lenses all I want to do after waking up is to remove/clean them. I just can't imagine how it feels not to remove them even for few days.
@@NiconD80 back then it truly didn't bother me. Just business as usual. Now, I can't even close my eyes to take a deep breath without then getting dry and sticky
I don't wear contacts, but from a fellow lupus warrior, I'd advise not sleeping in them. Especially since many people with lupus deal with dry eyes (I have Sjögren's for example which dries everything) AND hydroxychloroquine can already cause retinal damage (which is why you need yearly eye exams to check your field of vision and scan your retina), so please do yourself a favor and keep your eyes as healthy as possible now. This comes from a place of love and concern. ❤
Dermatomyositis here and cannot get contacts due to dry eyes. Also the inmunosupression weakens our inmune system so chances are (knock on wood and God forbid) of getting a really bad infection due to contacts misuse are higher
this is coming from a place of genuine concern, not hate: lord have mercy, please, try to not sleep with your contacts in. it could cause so many bad things to your eyes.
So much this! A friend of mine had their contacts fuse to their eye because he didn't take them out like he should. Had to have surgery and ruined his eye sight so much.
I did it for a decade 🫣 but my eyes were still fine and I got lasik done. The reason they say “don’t sleep, shower etc” is because WAY too many rub their eyes and doing that with contacts in causes little contact shaped scratches
So many people in the comments saying wild stuff about sleeping in contacts and don't use contact solution in your eyes 😂 and I'm over here like do you even know what you're actually talking about. Lol it's saline solution. People have me rolling laughing @@jessdolle4479
I literally just saw an article talking about how dangerous it is to sleep with your contacts in. Like....ruptured cornea and lose your eye dangerous. 😟
I worked with an actress who lost her eye after getting an infection from sleeping in her contacts. I am meticulous with my contact hygiene because of the lesson I learned from her mistake.
Alexandria, my grandmother had the most beautiful skin that I’ve ever seen. She didn’t have a lot of money, so she used lard on her face. The results spoke for themselves. I had forgotten about this until you mentioned the product that you were using. 🦋
Alexandria, i have gotten corneal ulcers from sleeping in my contacts, which is HORRIBLE, EXCRUCIATING BURNING STRAIGHT FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL PAIN. ALSO, you can get these gross white bumps underneath your eyelids because of sleeping in them too! I really dont want that for you!!! Or anyone for that matter!!
Oh the way I walked straight to the bathroom to take out my contacts after reading these comments...🤣 I will wear them several days and nights in a row because I forget to take them out. Never again! ... At least until I forget to take them out again.🤭
@RVMM1 yayy!!! I'm so glad that my torment had some good!!! ALSO, you can get these gross white bumps underneath your eyelids because of sleeping in them too
Alexandria please do NOT sleep with your contacts on & definitely do NOT put contact lens solution directly unto your eyes. My mom work with an optometrist for many years & to me stories of people who would do exactly the same thing as you & their contacts ended up glue to their eyes & they lose their sight😣😣. When I ask for contacts she made me promise I would take them off every night.
Also, I will add, that you STOP using false eyelashes too often & reserve those for special occasions only. Even Dermatologist, Dr Dray, has said that wearing those on a regular basis, messes with your natural blink mechanism in your eyes & could cause chronic dry eyes. I’m 61 & never wore false eyelashes, only mascara & I have short eyelashes. ❤
I have been battling a severe case of dry eye and nothing has cured it. I have done everything except stem cell therapy, but can’t afford that. My doctor said it’s the result of years of wearing contacts and during that time, I never slept with them so I can’t imagine how much worse it could be if I had .
As someone in optometry school this is something that is so super common. If you know that you have a bad habit of sleeping in contacts they make special ones that are made to sleep in and you only need to take out a couple of days a week or even longer than that which can be more expensive, but will be a lot better for you. Contacts are always best to take them out before bed or at least first thing in the morning to give your eyes a break before you put them again. Overwear can cause pretty quickly and dry eye is super hard to deal with daily!
Beef tallow is so good for your skin!! I've been using it for years, before it was "trendy" and my skin loves it. Works great as a makeup remover, very similar to using a cleansing balm. Melts makeup away. Then I use it as a moisturizer for my whole body. I found a local maker who makes her own tallow products using lavender essential oils, which i love. I hope you keep using it! Your skin is glowing!
The beef tallow sounds like what I've been doing for the last 9 years.....oil cleansing. I take off my makeup with oil and steam my face with a warm cloth before wiping it off. My terrible acne prone and scarred skin is so much better than it has ever been since I hit puberty. Highly recommend oil cleansing!
As a left-handed person, it always gives me the smallest amount of joy to see a right-handed person try to do anything with their left hand. Left-handers have had to adapt to the right-handed world, so most of us can easily do many things with our right hands that right-handers can't do with their lefts. I've always switched hands to put mascara on to the corresponding eye and I didn't realize until I was an older adult that most right-handed folks don't/can't do that. Also, as a fellow girlie with VERY thinning hair, would you ever do a tutorial on how you crimp your hair to make it appear fuller? I've been trying the Nioxin hair system for the past few months and unfortunately, i've not seen any hair growth results.
I am left-handed also and I agree with you about switching to my right hand for a lot of things. To tell you the truth sometimes I do things right-handed automatically and don't even realize it. 🤣
From what I have been told tallow is shelf stable for a year. Native Americans used tallow to make pemmican, which is a dried beef and tallow mixture, as shelf stable survival food for the winter.
Exactly this and if she puts the tallow in the fridge it can get ruined because the lid on the tallow will build up sweat in the refrigerator then that will mess up the tallow so she is better off leaving it on the counter or else in the food pantry
@@mercedesvelasquez8781 i don't think it will hurt anything to keep it in the fridge. The saturated fat itself is a natural preservative so it is shelf stable, but that does not mean it cannot be kept in the fridge. Just like butter, which is shelf stable, but we keep it in the fridge.
I have SLE and it’s a bugger but the hair part really burns my bum! If I’m having a flare up, I’m stuck in bed so could give a fat frog’s rear what I look like. But on good days, just finger combing has me on the bathroom floor cleaning up clumps like a janitor after a cat fight! 🤣 I can’t believe I still have hair. I only wash my hair 2x a week and use rice/rosemary spray on my roots everyday. I haven’t blown my hair dry in years let alone attempted to curl it. I’m in my 50’s though so it’s bound to get more fun! YAY! GRRRRR
Hey, Australian here. UGG's is an always will be a generic term for sheep skin boots. It was only when some random American conglomerate decided to co-op & register the term worldwide that has resulted in multiple lawsuits.
Fat dissolves fat, which is why you have noticed an improvement in your sebaceous filaments with the beef tallow. I prefer using an oil cleanser for mine, but I don’t know enough about beef tallow to tell you not to use it. My concern would be that the beef tallow might go bad. Does it have preservatives? How are you storing it? Please pay attention to it, and if it starts to smell different in any way, discard it at once.
Tallow is shelf stable without preservatives as long as it was rendered properly. The only time you risk it going rancid is if it has been rendered in water.
My brother used to sleep in his contacts and not clean them like he should. The contacts literally fused to his eyes. No joke, the eye doctor had to remove them. Now he has to wear glasses bc he scarred his eyeballs. Don't be a Kevin!
My eyes have like a permanent ring around them, so it looks like I have contacts in even when I don't, cuz I have been wearing the same pair for a year. When my eyes hurt I wear glasses a couple days.... Then I put them back in cuz I won't leave the house in glasses. I have had an infection also, it's the worst. 8 have scarring. Def take ur contacts out. I need to take my own advice....
My brother went for a check up a week after getting the special long wear contacts. The optometrist freaked and said his eye had started to grow around the contacts and absorb them into his eyeball! He extracted them and advised he go back to glasses!
@@cazzi6927you definitely need to take your own advice, and work on whatever it is that’s making you self conscious about wearing glasses when you leave the house. When you end up losing vision because of the prolonged contact use, you’re gunna wish you could wear your glasses to be able to see. It isn’t worth ruining your eyes, but hey do you girliepop
I see so many of those curling irons at the Amazon returns store. I found one that looked BRAND new like someone bought it for someone who didn’t want it. I run a Mercari store and have been trying to sell it without success lol. Even like $20 below retail I cannot sell it. Trendy stuff from TikTok shop is just junk after the trend is over. Wild!!!! Anyway, love your vids girl ♥️
I’ve never been able to figure out how to search up a specific person’s store page on Mercari, if you have any tips to help me find yours and what the name is I’d appreciate it 😅
@@teridoster5840I’m sure if you just searched up Landot 2 in 1 hair curler and straightener you’d find it! It’s the same name as my you tube name. The background is a wood countertop. I have a bunch of other stuff as well. Didn’t think I’d be promoting it here but here we are! Cheers
i bought one secondhand (and I'm obsessed with it, but i know its not for everyone) - i was able to find them on marketplace and ebay for cheaper because of mercari's fee changes 😭😭 its upsetting because i like mercari but i stopped using poshmark years ago for the same fees reason!! maybe if you tried another platform, they would sell?? im sorry you're having trouble selling it!
It’s awesome stuff. Forehead wrinkles disappeared and I use to have awful chapped skin around nails so I got some cotton gloves and I then started rubbing tallow on my hands concentrating around my nails. Put on the gloves and go to sleep. My hands and nail beds have improved dramatically.
I’m sure you’ve heard this over and over already but I remember doing the same with my contacts for years and when I was getting a checkup with a new optometrist I told her that I was a habitual contact lens wearer at night and she looked at me and pulled out her phone and showed me a picture of one of her patients that lost his fricking eye because of a amoeba bacterial infection. From that point onward I haven’t slept in them since and take it very seriously! Please please please take them out every night! It takes literally takes 30 seconds. I’ve timed myself because I wanted to know really how long it took. How silly! Hahah
Do NOT sleep in your contacts. I just recovered from a cut to my eyeball with an ulcer because I slept in my contacts and then took them out with dry eyes. You can damage your eyes if you sleep in them.
Everytime i go on Tiktok recently i am bombarded ads for those velvet overnight curl roller triple packs ......despite being a dude with very short hair. That sweater is such a serve....as the kids would say ha
Ive been using the Ordinary glycolic acid on my arms for k-bumps for over a year. Works great if you keep up with it. You get soo much in the bottle. Ive had the same bottle for awhile. 😆 Another thing that works really well on the arms is the ELF holy hydration gentle peeling exfoliant. Per ounce its only slighly less expensive than the First Aid Beauty one though.
I agree! I have KP on my legs and the Ordinary glycolic acid really helps me. You get so much for the money and I like the container. I just put a bit on my palm and rub the glycolic acid into my leg skin. Let it dry and follow with a good lotion.
Aah, the baby oil mix for tanning. That takes me back. In the 70's we used baby oil & flat cola. We'd get pretty deep tan and as long as you kept your skin moisturised, it would last a while.
I have been watching you for so many years and the more you share about yourself the more I swear we are twins separated at birth 😂😂😂😅😅 just with your preferences on things, pinching your finger in the shampoo bottle. Haha when watching your videos they are just so relatable 😂❤
I used to sleep with my contacts in. The same pair (not a reusable one either) for months. I went to get more and the doctor told me my eyes were so damaged he legally/morally couldn’t sell me contacts. Took about a year to heal but now my eyes are uncomfortable any time I wear contacts. So I’m glad I can only wear them for a few hours at a time before I take them out :)
When you curl your hair, Bobby pin the curl to the top of your hair. I have similar hair to yours and this helps me. After I'm done I spray with a light hair spray and then once that dries, I take them down and the curls last a couple of days.
I work at an optician in the Netherlands and we do have contact lenses you wear at night here. They leave like a print on your eye which makes you see well during the day. If you already sleep with your contacts in, maybe this is something you can try out 😊 do remember to take them out in the morning haha
I'm soooo glad you didn't squirt acid in your eye! My bestie accidentally poured micellar water in her eye instead of contact solution. It took a while for her eyes to recover and was pretty painful
When you said you don't leave the house without mascara I thought of my mom. When she was younger, she didn't wear any makeup except lipstick, I never saw her leave the house without lipstick. She's 91 now and has dementia but it's a nice memory ❤
I am now in the same boat with my hair thinning. My hair is nothing like it used to be and it's stressing me out. I have bought SO many products to help and hope that one of them is working.
My issue with thinning hair turned out to be my diet. I cut out sugar, grains, and seed oils. It was more work keeping it all whole foods, but my hair started filling out again. As a bonus, my endometriosis has nearly disappeared and my cysts are shrinking. A lot of our skin and hair issues can be fixed with a simple, healthy diet.
i immediately went and found one of those curler - straightener things secondhand, you sold me on it!! im obsessed and my friend who watched with me also bought one. we both are big straighter curls girls, but dont like the tugging and flatness - this is perfect!!
Hi, I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your health journey online. Your videos were recently delivered to my feed and I instantly loved them, the more I watched I started to learn about your health journey and I thought huh I don’t know what Lupus is let me do some research and turns out I have nearly all of the symptoms so I’m working on getting in with my doctor for testing next week. I’ve had all these weird symptoms I have been brushing off as endometriosis symptoms however I have my period symptoms under control so I was confused on why I still feel horrible and have so many odd symptoms.
I like to use the ordinary toner as a deodorant. I find it works wonderful. I tend to use it only 2 to 3 times per week, and the other times I use my regular deodorant.
Oh, I've bought that same curling flat iron. There's definitely a learning curve. I have thin hair as well. It will curl better the more you play with it. I bought it on Amazon. I'm the same way about makeup. I must have the mascara on glad I'm not the only one that finds the rest optional 😂. Fun video.
Loved the hair straightener/curler! I use coconut oil and sea salt on my Looney Lupus scalp twice a week. My dermatologist recommended it as a treatment to stimulate my scalp and help with growth, I also use a rice water/rosemary spray. I have waist length hair for the first time since I was a wee lass! It still falls out during high stress and flare ups but not as bad. That lip colour was gorgeous. The beef tallow will last, it’s phenomenal for everything!!
I use solid cocnut oil the exact same way you use the tallow! I use a makeup eraser cloth and warm water and the coconut oil to clean, then moisturize too. Been doing that for months and so far, it's working pretty great.
In the 70s people I knew were putting iodine in baby oil to tan. I just used baby oil but did try the iodine stuff a few times when it was around. I didn't know people tanning with baby oil in the 90s was a thing
Always get happy when I see a new Alex video and I love these tiktok ship vids cause I get sucked into wanting to buy too many things and no one on there is honest with their reviews and I trust you
With the Wonderskin lip stain I put it on, let it completely dry (no activator) and remove with a q tip with some micellar water on it. Works like a charm and lasts all day and no dripping from the activator spray stuff
You need to try a beachwaver. I had the same problem with my curls never holding. The beachwaver must be magic because not only did my hair stay curled all day, the next day my hair was STILL curled. It was...incredible. Truly
Something to try instead of those way too clumsy tan application mitts, the super sized bady makeup brushes on our friend Amazon. There are some that are ridiculously expensive and have a brushhead the size of your hand and sizes a bit smaller and even easier to use (cheaper too!).
Has the tallow helped your kp? Thanks for this vid! I don't have tic toc, so it's fun to see what some of the items from tic toc are like. Please don't ever change. You're perfectly you!
Tallow is a wonderful all around skin product. Hands, face, elbows, knees, heels etc. Had forehead wrinkles starting and they have disappeared since I started tallow.
Ooh I'm so happy you tried the lipstains as they are bombarding me too and I'm so tempted, a little less now that you had two break though, that is not a good sign for the product. Gorgeous colour on you though!
As to the beef tallow, I don't go straight for the tallow but I do use a historical haircare product as my moisturizer, which is animal fat based, along with some almond oil, beeswax, and lemon oil for scent. I have hyper-sensitive skin and it's the only thing I have found after many years of searching that actually works without either irritating my skin or making it break out after a few weeks of use.
I use the Ordinary scalp serum and rosemary essential oil daily for my hair loss. My hair stylist said he can see new hair growth, and I can see baby hairs along my hairline. It takes at least 6 months to see a difference, so patience is necessary. I lost my hair from illness and stress. I really hope more of my hair grows back.
WE NEED TO SEE MORE CLOSE UP SHOTS OF YOUR EYES OMG THEYRE AMAZING! I thought they were dark blue, which in itself is majestic, since that’s not a very common eye colour. But you have blue, green AND brown eyes! And heterochromia!! It’s magical!! My daughter has the same colours in her eyes but they’re very pale. The brown in hers is almost yellow.
Hey guys! Today I am testing out and reviewing all the beauty items that TikTok has convinced me to buy over the past couple months! Let me know if you guys have tried any of these things and what you think about them! Love ya💖
another video already?!? wow, thank you Alexandria! Hope you and your husband and boys are well
@Alexandria-Ryan The Ordinary Glycolic Acid has been a MIRACLE for the KP on my arms. My skin is very sensitive, very thin skin and glycolic acid is the only thing (out of SO SO SO many things that I’ve tried) that’s made a considerable difference in my KP.
Loved that lip stain on you, the deep red colour wass super pretty!
I know you’ve been getting into skincare for a while now, so I just wanted to recommend the book ‘Skincare: The New Edit’ by Caroline Hirons if you haven’t read it, it’s honestly made understanding what skincare stuff actually works or is necessary, and what isn’t, so much easier. Because skincare is confusing af. The author is a fully licensed cosmetologist, and breaks everything down into simple easy to read chunks, and covers pretty much every skin type and product under the sun
I won't watch TikTok so I'm happy to see them through you ❤
By the way, your hair is looking really good today very shiny. I,too, am on the hair loss journey. I haven't tried these products yet, so next on my list. 😄
I'm deliberately staying off tik tok because I still get sucked in with middle of the night insomnia shopping. I have no control when it comes to people drawing me in as my logic filter doesn't work after midnight 😅.
Tati was big on the whole beef tallow thing. She loved it. You should check out her stuff (sorry, no link at the moment. I fell on my back this afternoon while chasing a goat, so my ability to be useful to anyone is useless, hence RUclips binge.
Last, and most importantly, where did you get that chair? Is it as comfortable as it looks?
Coming from someone who slept in the SAME pair of contacts when I was younger, for a year straight without EVER taking them out or cleaning them or anything, DO NOT DO IT! It's truly not worth it and I now have corneal scarring, including across my right eye that causes this subtle blur at all times that never goes away and drives me insane.
Don't do it. Not worth it. 0/10 - A good time had by none.
May I ask how did it feel to wear it without changing and cleaning contacts? Because if I sleep for hour or two wearing my lenses all I want to do after waking up is to remove/clean them.
I just can't imagine how it feels not to remove them even for few days.
@@NiconD80 back then it truly didn't bother me. Just business as usual. Now, I can't even close my eyes to take a deep breath without then getting dry and sticky
I don't wear contacts, but from a fellow lupus warrior, I'd advise not sleeping in them. Especially since many people with lupus deal with dry eyes (I have Sjögren's for example which dries everything) AND hydroxychloroquine can already cause retinal damage (which is why you need yearly eye exams to check your field of vision and scan your retina), so please do yourself a favor and keep your eyes as healthy as possible now. This comes from a place of love and concern. ❤
I also have Sjogren’s and cannot even wear contacts. I have rheumatoid arthritis, not Lupus, but we are all the same unhappy autoimmune family 😢
Dermatomyositis here and cannot get contacts due to dry eyes. Also the inmunosupression weakens our inmune system so chances are (knock on wood and God forbid) of getting a really bad infection due to contacts misuse are higher
this is coming from a place of genuine concern, not hate: lord have mercy, please, try to not sleep with your contacts in. it could cause so many bad things to your eyes.
So much this! A friend of mine had their contacts fuse to their eye because he didn't take them out like he should. Had to have surgery and ruined his eye sight so much.
Tater! Girl do NOT sleep in your contacts! Corneal abrasions, ulcers, blindness.
I did it for a decade 🫣 but my eyes were still fine and I got lasik done. The reason they say “don’t sleep, shower etc” is because WAY too many rub their eyes and doing that with contacts in causes little contact shaped scratches
Also can build bacteria including a eye parasite that can grow under ypur lenses from showering & swimming in them@@jessdolle4479
@@jessdolle4479look up Dr. Rupa
So many people in the comments saying wild stuff about sleeping in contacts and don't use contact solution in your eyes 😂 and I'm over here like do you even know what you're actually talking about. Lol it's saline solution. People have me rolling laughing @@jessdolle4479
@@jessdolle4479you were definitely lucky a lot of people aren't
I literally just saw an article talking about how dangerous it is to sleep with your contacts in. Like....ruptured cornea and lose your eye dangerous. 😟
I think we saw the same one. I didn't read it cause I never wear contacts, but it sounded scary.
I worked with an actress who lost her eye after getting an infection from sleeping in her contacts. I am meticulous with my contact hygiene because of the lesson I learned from her mistake.
A friend of mine is going through multiple eye surgeries because of an eye infection. Would definitely take eye hygiene seriously!
There was someone that they rolled to the back of their eye, they had a lot back there too😮
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It’s midnight where I am. I’m headed to Walmart to get a contact case.
Alexandria, my grandmother had the most beautiful skin that I’ve ever seen. She didn’t have a lot of money, so she used lard on her face. The results spoke for themselves. I had forgotten about this until you mentioned the product that you were using. 🦋
You all got me terrified that I’m going to fall asleep with contacts in and I don’t even wear contacts.
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Alexandria, i have gotten corneal ulcers from sleeping in my contacts, which is HORRIBLE, EXCRUCIATING BURNING STRAIGHT FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL PAIN. ALSO, you can get these gross white bumps underneath your eyelids because of sleeping in them too! I really dont want that for you!!! Or anyone for that matter!!
Oh the way I walked straight to the bathroom to take out my contacts after reading these comments...🤣 I will wear them several days and nights in a row because I forget to take them out. Never again! ... At least until I forget to take them out again.🤭
@RVMM1 yayy!!! I'm so glad that my torment had some good!!! ALSO, you can get these gross white bumps underneath your eyelids because of sleeping in them too
Alexandria please do NOT sleep with your contacts on & definitely do NOT put contact lens solution directly unto your eyes. My mom work with an optometrist for many years & to me stories of people who would do exactly the same thing as you & their contacts ended up glue to their eyes & they lose their sight😣😣. When I ask for contacts she made me promise I would take them off every night.
Also, I will add, that you STOP using false eyelashes too often & reserve those for special occasions only. Even Dermatologist, Dr Dray, has said that wearing those on a regular basis, messes with your natural blink mechanism in your eyes & could cause chronic dry eyes. I’m 61 & never wore false eyelashes, only mascara & I have short eyelashes. ❤
I was horrified to see this!! I had scratched corneas, that was painful enough!!
I have been battling a severe case of dry eye and nothing has cured it. I have done everything except stem cell therapy, but can’t afford that. My doctor said it’s the result of years of wearing contacts and during that time, I never slept with them so I can’t imagine how much worse it could be if I had .
Lol I need new glasses i sleep with my contacts in all the time 😂
As someone in optometry school this is something that is so super common. If you know that you have a bad habit of sleeping in contacts they make special ones that are made to sleep in and you only need to take out a couple of days a week or even longer than that which can be more expensive, but will be a lot better for you. Contacts are always best to take them out before bed or at least first thing in the morning to give your eyes a break before you put them again. Overwear can cause pretty quickly and dry eye is super hard to deal with daily!
Beef tallow is so good for your skin!! I've been using it for years, before it was "trendy" and my skin loves it. Works great as a makeup remover, very similar to using a cleansing balm. Melts makeup away. Then I use it as a moisturizer for my whole body. I found a local maker who makes her own tallow products using lavender essential oils, which i love. I hope you keep using it! Your skin is glowing!
The beef tallow sounds like what I've been doing for the last 9 years.....oil cleansing. I take off my makeup with oil and steam my face with a warm cloth before wiping it off. My terrible acne prone and scarred skin is so much better than it has ever been since I hit puberty. Highly recommend oil cleansing!
As a left-handed person, it always gives me the smallest amount of joy to see a right-handed person try to do anything with their left hand. Left-handers have had to adapt to the right-handed world, so most of us can easily do many things with our right hands that right-handers can't do with their lefts. I've always switched hands to put mascara on to the corresponding eye and I didn't realize until I was an older adult that most right-handed folks don't/can't do that.
Also, as a fellow girlie with VERY thinning hair, would you ever do a tutorial on how you crimp your hair to make it appear fuller? I've been trying the Nioxin hair system for the past few months and unfortunately, i've not seen any hair growth results.
I am left-handed also and I agree with you about switching to my right hand for a lot of things. To tell you the truth sometimes I do things right-handed automatically and don't even realize it. 🤣
@@Bee-l3k I'm the same way!
Fellow leftie here, and yes, I can use my other hand for just about everything. 😆 It came in handy when I needed surgery on my thumb on my left hand.
Fellow leftie and I JUST now realized not everyone switches hands! I do it for eye shadow on each eye too! 😂
Thanks for having the close up for the mascara; your freckles and eyes are so pretty!
Love the honesty, sass, and jokes!
Lancôme has Monsuir Big in a 2pack for holiday $39 bucks at ulta!
From what I have been told tallow is shelf stable for a year. Native Americans used tallow to make pemmican, which is a dried beef and tallow mixture, as shelf stable survival food for the winter.
Exactly this and if she puts the tallow in the fridge it can get ruined because the lid on the tallow will build up sweat in the refrigerator then that will mess up the tallow so she is better off leaving it on the counter or else in the food pantry
@@mercedesvelasquez8781 i don't think it will hurt anything to keep it in the fridge. The saturated fat itself is a natural preservative so it is shelf stable, but that does not mean it cannot be kept in the fridge. Just like butter, which is shelf stable, but we keep it in the fridge.
As someone else with lupus. The thining hair is part of the symptoms 😢. Don't be so hard on yourself for it
I was about to say that. I know it can cause alopecia.
I have SLE and it’s a bugger but the hair part really burns my bum! If I’m having a flare up, I’m stuck in bed so could give a fat frog’s rear what I look like. But on good days, just finger combing has me on the bathroom floor cleaning up clumps like a janitor after a cat fight! 🤣 I can’t believe I still have hair. I only wash my hair 2x a week and use rice/rosemary spray on my roots everyday. I haven’t blown my hair dry in years let alone attempted to curl it. I’m in my 50’s though so it’s bound to get more fun! YAY! GRRRRR
Hey, Australian here. UGG's is an always will be a generic term for sheep skin boots. It was only when some random American conglomerate decided to co-op & register the term worldwide that has resulted in multiple lawsuits.
You're the only influencer I trust. Thanks for a brilliant video, as always ❤😊
ditto!
Fat dissolves fat, which is why you have noticed an improvement in your sebaceous filaments with the beef tallow. I prefer using an oil cleanser for mine, but I don’t know enough about beef tallow to tell you not to use it. My concern would be that the beef tallow might go bad. Does it have preservatives? How are you storing it? Please pay attention to it, and if it starts to smell different in any way, discard it at once.
I was thinking the same-- wouldn't want that big jar going rancid sitting on the counter.
This. It doesn't last long. .do you need to store it in the fridge? I probably would.
Tallow once rendered clean is fairly shelf stable.
I've been using the same jar for over a year, don't store it in the fridge, and it's still perfect 😊
Tallow is shelf stable without preservatives as long as it was rendered properly. The only time you risk it going rancid is if it has been rendered in water.
You must have filmed this before your most recent unboxing. The stacks in the background are bigger. 😂
My brother used to sleep in his contacts and not clean them like he should. The contacts literally fused to his eyes. No joke, the eye doctor had to remove them. Now he has to wear glasses bc he scarred his eyeballs. Don't be a Kevin!
“Don’t be a Kevin” got me 😂. If I slept in contacts, that would’ve moved me😅
My eyes have like a permanent ring around them, so it looks like I have contacts in even when I don't, cuz I have been wearing the same pair for a year. When my eyes hurt I wear glasses a couple days.... Then I put them back in cuz I won't leave the house in glasses. I have had an infection also, it's the worst. 8 have scarring. Def take ur contacts out. I need to take my own advice....
My brother did the same and it ripped his cornea
My brother went for a check up a week after getting the special long wear contacts. The optometrist freaked and said his eye had started to grow around the contacts and absorb them into his eyeball! He extracted them and advised he go back to glasses!
@@cazzi6927you definitely need to take your own advice, and work on whatever it is that’s making you self conscious about wearing glasses when you leave the house. When you end up losing vision because of the prolonged contact use, you’re gunna wish you could wear your glasses to be able to see. It isn’t worth ruining your eyes, but hey do you girliepop
I see so many of those curling irons at the Amazon returns store. I found one that looked BRAND new like someone bought it for someone who didn’t want it. I run a Mercari store and have been trying to sell it without success lol. Even like $20 below retail I cannot sell it. Trendy stuff from TikTok shop is just junk after the trend is over. Wild!!!! Anyway, love your vids girl ♥️
I’ve never been able to figure out how to search up a specific person’s store page on Mercari, if you have any tips to help me find yours and what the name is I’d appreciate it 😅
@@teridoster5840I’m sure if you just searched up Landot 2 in 1 hair curler and straightener you’d find it! It’s the same name as my you tube name. The background is a wood countertop. I have a bunch of other stuff as well. Didn’t think I’d be promoting it here but here we are! Cheers
i bought one secondhand (and I'm obsessed with it, but i know its not for everyone) - i was able to find them on marketplace and ebay for cheaper because of mercari's fee changes 😭😭 its upsetting because i like mercari but i stopped using poshmark years ago for the same fees reason!! maybe if you tried another platform, they would sell?? im sorry you're having trouble selling it!
Can we please have an update after you use the beef tallow more, I'm interested to see if it really does work. Ty so much for sharing 💙💙
It’s awesome stuff. Forehead wrinkles disappeared and I use to have awful chapped skin around nails so I got some cotton gloves and I then started rubbing tallow on my hands concentrating around my nails. Put on the gloves and go to sleep. My hands and nail beds have improved dramatically.
@@214luvbugs I have deeper wrinkles on my forehead than anywhere else, it can't hurt to try it out. Ty so much
@@taraedwards1892if you try out, can you give an update
I’m sure you’ve heard this over and over already but I remember doing the same with my contacts for years and when I was getting a checkup with a new optometrist I told her that I was a habitual contact lens wearer at night and she looked at me and pulled out her phone and showed me a picture of one of her patients that lost his fricking eye because of a amoeba bacterial infection. From that point onward I haven’t slept in them since and take it very seriously! Please please please take them out every night! It takes literally takes 30 seconds. I’ve timed myself because I wanted to know really how long it took. How silly! Hahah
Do NOT sleep in your contacts. I just recovered from a cut to my eyeball with an ulcer because I slept in my contacts and then took them out with dry eyes. You can damage your eyes if you sleep in them.
Everytime i go on Tiktok recently i am bombarded ads for those velvet overnight curl roller triple packs ......despite being a dude with very short hair.
That sweater is such a serve....as the kids would say ha
Ive been using the Ordinary glycolic acid on my arms for k-bumps for over a year. Works great if you keep up with it. You get soo much in the bottle. Ive had the same bottle for awhile. 😆 Another thing that works really well on the arms is the ELF holy hydration gentle peeling exfoliant. Per ounce its only slighly less expensive than the First Aid Beauty one though.
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I agree! I have KP on my legs and the Ordinary glycolic acid really helps me. You get so much for the money and I like the container. I just put a bit on my palm and rub the glycolic acid into my leg skin. Let it dry and follow with a good lotion.
@hollywebster6844 Yes! It's so easy, too.
Aah, the baby oil mix for tanning. That takes me back. In the 70's we used baby oil & flat cola. We'd get pretty deep tan and as long as you kept your skin moisturised, it would last a while.
Then in the 80s we fake baked in the tanning beds. (And I would still lay out with plain baby oil on days I didn't go to the tanning salon.).
5:21 Saaaame! I am super right handed and my left hand is an uncoordinated clamp!✋🤣🤚
Im gonna say that from now on. My hand is an uncoordinated clamp
I have been watching you for so many years and the more you share about yourself the more I swear we are twins separated at birth 😂😂😂😅😅 just with your preferences on things, pinching your finger in the shampoo bottle. Haha when watching your videos they are just so relatable 😂❤
Yayyy! Another Alexandria video ❤ That opening giggle… the BEST!!
Do Not sleep with your contacts in. I know someone who had a severe eye infection doing that!
OMG! I just seen an advent calendar you need to get! It's an Gnome advent calendar. They are adorable!
I used to sleep with my contacts in. The same pair (not a reusable one either) for months. I went to get more and the doctor told me my eyes were so damaged he legally/morally couldn’t sell me contacts. Took about a year to heal but now my eyes are uncomfortable any time I wear contacts. So I’m glad I can only wear them for a few hours at a time before I take them out :)
When you curl your hair, Bobby pin the curl to the top of your hair. I have similar hair to yours and this helps me. After I'm done I spray with a light hair spray and then once that dries, I take them down and the curls last a couple of days.
I work at an optician in the Netherlands and we do have contact lenses you wear at night here. They leave like a print on your eye which makes you see well during the day. If you already sleep with your contacts in, maybe this is something you can try out 😊 do remember to take them out in the morning haha
I'm soooo glad you didn't squirt acid in your eye! My bestie accidentally poured micellar water in her eye instead of contact solution. It took a while for her eyes to recover and was pretty painful
I LOVE using beef tallow. I use it like lotion. I only use tallow or aloe due to having such sensitive skin. I’ve never had an issue with it!
I've heard aloe doesn't go well with eczema
I love that curling iron! Your hair looks great!!
When you said you don't leave the house without mascara I thought of my mom. When she was younger, she didn't wear any makeup except lipstick, I never saw her leave the house without lipstick. She's 91 now and has dementia but it's a nice memory ❤
My daughter uses that tanner and she LOVES it. It’s not orange toned. Looks beautiful.
Literally finished your last video and came straight to this one!! Love you and your channel 💖
Aww💖 Thank you so much for watching! Love ya!!
Just switched on and here we are again .What a treat , you are spoiling us. Settling in for a good watch 😊
If i could go back to the 90's and just live in the 90's I'd be one happy girl 😊 The 90's were the best 💖
Same!!
I am now in the same boat with my hair thinning. My hair is nothing like it used to be and it's stressing me out. I have bought SO many products to help and hope that one of them is working.
My issue with thinning hair turned out to be my diet. I cut out sugar, grains, and seed oils. It was more work keeping it all whole foods, but my hair started filling out again. As a bonus, my endometriosis has nearly disappeared and my cysts are shrinking. A lot of our skin and hair issues can be fixed with a simple, healthy diet.
Sephora carries Refy if you like their products
i immediately went and found one of those curler - straightener things secondhand, you sold me on it!!
im obsessed and my friend who watched with me also bought one. we both are big straighter curls girls, but dont like the tugging and flatness - this is perfect!!
The gremlin laugh in the intro 😂
😂😂😂
That made me laugh with her lol
@@Mollyrae0607 me too!!
I've been binge-watching & re-watching a bunch of your past videos this past weekend, and I'm SO excited that you just posted again 😍👏🏻
Fun video! Always enjoy watching you 😊 hope you’re having a great week. Hugs! 💖
You are such a joy to watch! Love living vicariously through you all the way from NZ
Hi, I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your health journey online. Your videos were recently delivered to my feed and I instantly loved them, the more I watched I started to learn about your health journey and I thought huh I don’t know what Lupus is let me do some research and turns out I have nearly all of the symptoms so I’m working on getting in with my doctor for testing next week. I’ve had all these weird symptoms I have been brushing off as endometriosis symptoms however I have my period symptoms under control so I was confused on why I still feel horrible and have so many odd symptoms.
Honestly, try rubbing tallow or Crisco on your feet and then putting on a pair of cotton socks.....it's kind of amazing.
Okay gloopy mess looks amazing on the lips!!! That is definitely a fall color you can match all the maple leaves❤❤❤❤
I love it when you try this stuff. I trust your reviews, and I know I won't waste my money on junk because Alexandria!! 😂😂
Love your review of Illusion Bronze! I was always curious about it!
SO HAPPY whenever I see a new one from you. ❤
I LOVE the Wonderskin lip tints! They don't last longer than a day but the stain looks do good under a balm or gloss
Omg I’m so glad you mentioned the burn!!! It burns every time I use it and I thought it was just me!
I like to use the ordinary toner as a deodorant. I find it works wonderful. I tend to use it only 2 to 3 times per week, and the other times I use my regular deodorant.
Im so messy, i always have to use a q tip to clean up my eyelids!
Your hair does look super silky and healthy. I may have to give that bundle a try. Thanks for sharing!
Oh, I've bought that same curling flat iron. There's definitely a learning curve. I have thin hair as well. It will curl better the more you play with it. I bought it on Amazon. I'm the same way about makeup. I must have the mascara on glad I'm not the only one that finds the rest optional 😂. Fun video.
I love the Maybelline cat eye mascara with the cheetah print on the package. I think it gives about the same effect as that one does
I only use beef tallow as moisturizer!
I’ve never watched a video posted so soon. I’m very excited!
Wonderskin is my jam!!!! Whimsical is my color, this is the only lip item I use. No activator needed
Loved the hair straightener/curler! I use coconut oil and sea salt on my Looney Lupus scalp twice a week. My dermatologist recommended it as a treatment to stimulate my scalp and help with growth, I also use a rice water/rosemary spray. I have waist length hair for the first time since I was a wee lass! It still falls out during high stress and flare ups but not as bad. That lip colour was gorgeous. The beef tallow will last, it’s phenomenal for everything!!
Did those help with growth?
I use solid cocnut oil the exact same way you use the tallow! I use a makeup eraser cloth and warm water and the coconut oil to clean, then moisturize too. Been doing that for months and so far, it's working pretty great.
Great video on a lot of items I was wondering about ❤
Ah yes the baby oil tanning tecchnique - deffo a 90 baby thing xD
Yes...❤
I was doing that in the 60's and 70's.
In the 70s people I knew were putting iodine in baby oil to tan. I just used baby oil but did try the iodine stuff a few times when it was around. I didn't know people tanning with baby oil in the 90s was a thing
That’s a 60’s/70’s thing, not 90’s. Lol
Always get happy when I see a new Alex video and I love these tiktok ship vids cause I get sucked into wanting to buy too many things and no one on there is honest with their reviews and I trust you
I agree, I feel like you've reviewed those stains or stuff really like it before. Love the video.
That mascara would poke my eyes out I’m such a klutz and my eyes aren’t wide enough? It looked amazing on you!
With the Wonderskin lip stain I put it on, let it completely dry (no activator) and remove with a q tip with some micellar water on it. Works like a charm and lasts all day and no dripping from the activator spray stuff
Honestly my new favourite series 😊
I absolutely love the color of the lip stain before you peel it. I'd wear that purpleish blue color. I do like the shade you tried on your lips.
You need to try a beachwaver. I had the same problem with my curls never holding. The beachwaver must be magic because not only did my hair stay curled all day, the next day my hair was STILL curled. It was...incredible. Truly
I feel you on the left hand, i call it my "helper hand". It helps the right hand, but it can't do anything on its own. 😂
Your comment “the tik tok didn’t tell me that” had me 😂 so hard lol. Love your reviews!
Wow! Love that mascara on you! I'm being influenced!
Your hair looked absolutely beautiful when done with that curling appliance. 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Love, the mascara! Too bad priced too high!
I enjoy watching your videos, Alex!
Something to try instead of those way too clumsy tan application mitts, the super sized bady makeup brushes on our friend Amazon. There are some that are ridiculously expensive and have a brushhead the size of your hand and sizes a bit smaller and even easier to use (cheaper too!).
I can't use my left hand as well when applying mascara. Love your vids. ❤🎉
them: Rub beef fat on your face!!!
me, a vegetarian: 💀💀💀💀💀
Has the tallow helped your kp? Thanks for this vid! I don't have tic toc, so it's fun to see what some of the items from tic toc are like. Please don't ever change. You're perfectly you!
idk i love these videos so much! tiktok things are so interesting
I’ve been using tallow too. Not influenced by tictok. But I’ve had friends tell me that my skin looks so healthy since using it.
Tallow is a wonderful all around skin product. Hands, face, elbows, knees, heels etc. Had forehead wrinkles starting and they have disappeared since I started tallow.
I haven’t seen anyone say it yet but as for the lip stains, you should be able to grab the stopper with tweezers and push it back into the tube.
Loving all the videos from you recently - hope you are having fun ❤
I have the same kind of hair. I have to have very high heat to make curls stay. I only use curling irons for special occasions.
Ooh I'm so happy you tried the lipstains as they are bombarding me too and I'm so tempted, a little less now that you had two break though, that is not a good sign for the product. Gorgeous colour on you though!
I see those Wonderskin lip stains advertised so much - it was good to see you review them as I haven’t really trusted anyone else’s reviews of them…
As to the beef tallow, I don't go straight for the tallow but I do use a historical haircare product as my moisturizer, which is animal fat based, along with some almond oil, beeswax, and lemon oil for scent. I have hyper-sensitive skin and it's the only thing I have found after many years of searching that actually works without either irritating my skin or making it break out after a few weeks of use.
I use the Ordinary scalp serum and rosemary essential oil daily for my hair loss. My hair stylist said he can see new hair growth, and I can see baby hairs along my hairline. It takes at least 6 months to see a difference, so patience is necessary. I lost my hair from illness and stress. I really hope more of my hair grows back.
WE NEED TO SEE MORE CLOSE UP SHOTS OF YOUR EYES OMG THEYRE AMAZING! I thought they were dark blue, which in itself is majestic, since that’s not a very common eye colour. But you have blue, green AND brown eyes! And heterochromia!! It’s magical!! My daughter has the same colours in her eyes but they’re very pale. The brown in hers is almost yellow.
I've seen so many people try the Wonderskin lipstains, I feel like I've tried them too.