RESET Post-Travel 🧖‍♀️🌷💭 starting my DREAM cut flower garden in zone 8b & major life catch up

Hey y'all, welcome to a new vlog. My name is Sonali. I feel like I haven't filmed an actual vlog in a very long time. This past weekend I went to Miami for one of my best friends bachelorettes and it was so fun and I actually have like a newfound appreciation for Miami. I've been a couple times before but like I didn't go out and like you know I wasn't really a true adult when I went so I got to experience like Wynwood. We went to like a pool club in Miami Beach and it was just so fun and I feel like I need to plan a trip back there soon. That vlog should be up by now so if you guys are curious go watch that. I'm gonna try to maybe do it in a different format. I kind of just like filmed as much as I could and I was thinking I'll just like slap it all together like a little memory video scrapbook but I filmed it all on that little pocket camera and I honestly think it turned out like pretty good. Like the quality was a lot better than I originally thought it was so that's exciting. I have so much content in general to edit whether it's YouTube videos or like TikToks from Miami and just like in general for my life and I am a little bit overwhelmed because it's been such a nice week that like whenever it's sunny outside I want to film more and I don't want to be just stuck inside editing but then if I film more there's more to edit and then I get even more overwhelmed but I just thought we could do like a little chit chat get ready with me for this portion of the vlog. I've got to take off this ugly thing because I cannot stare at myself with it on. I got this cream in PR yesterday. I don't think it's launched just yet. I believe launch date's March 11th or 12th but it's SkinFix's water cream and it's a lot lighter than all of their other formulas so just testing it out. It's funny because I have so many products that I love but I'm always too scared to put it out there on TikTok or something saying that like this is my product because it could very well change in the next two weeks because I get sent amazing products very often you know so I'm always trying different products. I definitely have my go-to's but I like to try to incorporate the newer products where I can. We are heading into my busy season. If you guys didn't know I'm a I don't shoot weddings but I do everything other than weddings. I'm shooting a proposal tomorrow and I had my first grad of the spring semester yesterday. I feel like I'm just thawing out because like the weather's been so nice and I'm finally getting back into photography and stuff like I never really stopped but there's definitely slower seasons for it for sure and South by Southwest is literally next weekend which is insane because how did it get here that fast? Usually I'll get invites to like random events two days before the event and I'm like how how? They've probably been planning these events for so long and I'm just like how do they do everything so last minute um but then I'm like oh am I on the bottom of the list you know like when somebody says no do I get just bumped up? I'm not gonna lie it does get very overwhelming when you're actually all up in South by because there's just so many things that you can attend even like to the public not even like you don't need an invite for like majority of it. The city is just live with visitors and there's so much happening around the city that you just like want to do it all but obviously you can't because not only do you not have enough time but you don't have enough energy and so I get so drained during South by which is like such a good problem to have. I am very curious how old you guys are who are watching so comment on this video but I am 28 years old and I'm at the age where everyone around me is getting married and that means we have so many weddings to attend this year and I think I already told you this but I really wanted to like try to make Japan happen. I don't know if it's happening now. I was so determined at first but I just feel like we literally don't have time between weddings to make it happen because I don't want to just go for a week like I want to take my time and explore different cities in Japan so I feel like it's probably worth it to wait. The silver lining is that next year will be a little bit more chill so we can actually like travel internationally and whatnot but if you see me traveling this year it's most likely because I'm going to a wedding that weekend. I can't remember where I've talked about certain stuff because I have Instagram and then I have TikTok. I never know how to differentiate between the platforms because I just want to like share all the same stuff across the platforms and I have been starting to like repost the same things between TikTok and Instagram at least but anyways I have been using solely brushes instead of beauty blenders and I really do think that it has changed the game for me. It almost gives me a fuller coverage effect because the brushes are not taking too much of the product off of my face and it just like is a little less patchy which obviously we love. You guys know my obsession for the Say Sun Melt bronzer but they have the Dew Bronze and they've had it. It's not new but I recently got my hands on it and I really like it. It's just like a cream and I feel like that is more creamed powder formula but both are so blendable and so easy to use like they're both super foolproof. This doe foot applicator perfectly fits around my nose so I love it for doing nose contour. Also because I started using more brushes I decided to invest in the BK Beauty brushes and I'm like a psycho. I've only used one so far because I just I'm like I don't want them to get dirty and I'm like scared to mess them up. I'm so crazy. I just need to look into exactly what each brush is for and like study that so I can't give you like a full honest review on these because I did buy them with my own money and they are pricey but this brush is just amazing. The Dibs Duo brush. Where's Dibs? There we go. I literally use this thing for like everything in my makeup routine. I use bronzer. I do blush. You could do like powder and then powder blush. It's honestly so good. I will have a link in the description. If we're talking about foolproof products this is also one of them. I love talking about beauty products and makeup and all that but I feel like I just get too scared to share on the internet because everyone has such different opinions and like what looks great on me may not look the same on you and so I feel like I'm always scared of just people's criticisms because I literally posted a vlog using this which I bought at Anthropologie recently. This is the Fleur Heavy Cream Hair and Body Fragrance Mist. I've seen these everywhere and I didn't like any of the other scents except for this one. I think it's like the perfect vanilla scent but someone commented on my vlog yesterday and this isn't like a hate comment or anything but it's just so funny to see how different people's senses are but she commented that that smells like rotten milk and I'm like what? I'm still so confused about it like I'm trying to get myself to smell the rotten milk but I don't know. I like it. My face is looking so good today. This is the foundation I'm using. I've been switching between different foundations. I don't know why but I just think it's like fun but I will say this Dior Perfect Stick thing is worth the hype. It is absolute perfection and the only thing is that I don't know if this is like a perfect color match. I think it might be better when I get a little bit more tan. It was a little hard finding my color. I'm not gonna lie to you guys but the formula of that insane. Insane and it's just like so fast and easy and you just like blend it out and like head door. It's so good. Literally gonna go back in with this side. Same side and just blend the brush. Oh the blush. Recently I've been getting the craziest creasing under my eye. Let me zoom you in. That is not cute. I've done quite a bit of research on this so I can try to explain it to you guys. This is happening because there's an excess amount of product on my skin so basically you kind of want to like either pat it in or like gently wipe it away. Another thing that helps a lot is putting on your concealer and letting it sit for like honestly five minutes maybe like four minutes. You don't want to blend it out right when you put on the concealer. That has also helped a lot for me and once you've blended it out do not set it right then and there because you want to kind of like see if you're gonna crease and if there's that excess amount of product so you just want to kind of take it away and then you go in with a press powder. I really need to organize my makeup drawer. I'm just like looking like where is it? I feel like I'm playing Where's Waldo but just take it on a puff and before you puff it you need to make sure it's blended one more time so there's not creases that you're like literally setting and then we'll go in with the powder. The press powder. I have not set this eye yet and then this is what it looks like when it's set with just the press powder. I do wait till a little bit later to go in with like some loose powder just to like set my whole face but hopefully that helps someone because I feel like I was going absolutely insane because I would I was just like starting to crease out of nowhere and I was like I haven't really changed up my products. What's going on here? I forgot. I literally brought up an Alani Nu and I haven't even cracked it open yet. Cheers. I feel like this blush pairs perfectly with this Se blush and let me tell you the color. It's in Cutie like I feel like it's very similar colors. This one is Patrick Ta. She's flush and obviously it has a cream which I could totally use and the way Patrick applies his brush. Why do I keep saying brush instead of blush? Hello. The way he applies his blush is he puts on the powder first and then goes over with the cream which I've tried and I really do like that technique but since we already went in with the cream I'm just gonna do the powder. I feel like things like this this brush is all over TikTok shop and I still have not purchased anything on TikTok shop. I also want to know how you guys feel about TikTok shop because like I have so many products that I could you know post about and link on TikTok shop but I just feel like it seems so scammy even though my love for the product is so genuine like I literally use this on the daily for so many steps in my makeup routine but I just feel like number one it's not going to perform well because people are just going to because they see the TikTok shop little like link or people are just going to be like oh it's an ad you know like I'm always so scared of people thinking things are an ad and honestly I have probably done like five brand deals on YouTube within the last like how long have I been doing this like 12 years on YouTube so it's very very very very rare that I do an ad here on YouTube but I never want to come off as like being too salesy. I have so many Amazon products that I love and I feel like I just need to like do it for me like I just need to like get all these thoughts out of my head. I just get so caught up in all of my own thoughts. I literally posted on TikTok this week and I was like the craziest thing about being a content creator is that you'll always be in your own head whether you're getting PR or like maybe going on a brand trip and getting invited to all these events you will always be in your own head and it's so annoying because like I don't know how to make it stop. I definitely go through cycles where imposter syndrome just starts to take over and then I feel like I'm paralyzed and I feel like I can't post like I usually do. Literally I've been using the same felt brow pencil for so long now. Back to the topic of TikTok shop, I have been seeing array supplements all over TikTok shop especially the NB1 which they're and I actually bought it before the start of the new year so I've been taking it for a month a little over a month. It says that you'll see full results like three months in which sucks. I hate waiting you know because you're like taking the supplement like does it even work you don't freaking know because you have to take it for three freaking months. This is also something I bought with my own money just so you know. I'm also taking the tribiotic or something whatever the probiotic is in the maroon packaging and I just like feel like I'm not in tune with my body like I don't know exactly like what's changing or like if I have that much more energy. Well maybe sometimes I do but also like sometimes I'll drink caffeine like I'm drinking Ilani Nu so I'm like okay well is it the pill or is it my Ilani Nu? It's probably my Ilani Nu but I also started taking their newest supplement called Tone and it's creatine gummies but I was so intrigued so I bought it and it's literally only been like three days since I've taken the creatine gummies. I feel like it definitely kept me a little bit more energized during my workout and like I felt stronger like I felt like I could be lifting heavier but again I don't know if it's a placebo. So I'll make sure to keep you guys updated on all that because this will be an unsponsored review and I'm taking it pretty much every weekday. I've been going to the gym for like a year more than a year now and so I feel like I'm finally getting to that stage where I'm making improvements outside of the gym. Like first I had to learn how to work out because I really didn't know how to work out. I did cheer in high school and like middle school and we didn't really condition. We weren't like up in the gym so I never knew what the hell to do in the gym. After a year of doing it I feel like I finally got the hang a little bit so now I can like focus on other areas of my wellness journey which is kind of exciting because I feel like pretty stable in one part of my life. I need powder. It's getting a little oily up in here. I went to a Hulu beauty event recently and I was freaking out because I freaking love this powder the banana bread and it was for their new ube color which I really do like. Like I feel like it just melts all of my makeup together but I do notice that if I put it up here it's not as bright so I do still like to do the banana powder up there. I feel like Hulu beauty is so underrated. Products are just so good. I also have a couple of their cream blushes. Look how matte and just good and then this is all shiny but just you wait. I've been doing Austin content for almost six years now. Like ever since I moved here I was like I want to just try everything. I want to explore as much as possible and you guys know me and Ryan are big big foodies so I have been posting like about restaurants and all that stuff but not like super consistently but I feel like I'm finally kind of getting recognized by some of the restaurants here and so I've been getting invites to come in to create content which is my dream because I get a really good free meal and then I get to create content for my platforms and my Austin content does really well and it helps to grow my following and it's always really helpful to show that you have a good following in the location that you are at. So tonight we are going to a restaurant and I call them media dines. I'm not sure if that's like the correct terminology for them but it's basically where you get a free meal in exchange for content. Also huge huge news you guys like big news I switched up my mascara after years of using L'Oreal Telescopic. I feel like I go years with a mascara and I'm not gonna like throw this away even though it looks a little terrifying but I've been seeing so many people talk about this mascara from Lancome. It's the Idol and I was like wait I literally have that mascara and it's good but I forgot about it so I kind of like rediscovered it. I also saw that the Houselabs mascara is really really good and I'm very tempted even though I already have mascara to use but I'm like I love Houselabs. I know you guys saw how freaking messy my house was this morning. Yeah it's been that way since I got back from Miami and it is currently Thursday and so I've just been living in a mess and I just have not had the energy or like the time literally the time to clean up and so today I really dedicated a lot of time for that. It's not even all the way clean yet but at least I'm making some progress. I feel like every quarter of my house just needs to be organized to be honest like I think that's my issue. Also that acai bowl that I made this morning it tasted exactly like how I would order it out and I don't really know the total amount it would cost to make it at home but I saw those acai frozen packets at the grocery store and I was like that just sounds so refreshing so I definitely will be making that again. It was delicious. Makeup is done. It looks so glowy and just like dewy for some reason. I think that my makeup always turns out better when I do an everything shower. Does anyone else agree? Also I was gonna blow my hair out but now I feel like it looks pretty good natural. I don't know. I know I'm gonna regret it if I don't blow it out. Without a doubt every time I blow out my hair I use the Wella spray. I'm gonna chug this Lani Nu while I do my hair so I'm gonna make this next part into a montage. It always looks so crazy at first but it's going to turn into the most beautiful blowout ever and I'm still using my Bondi Boost Air Styler. Why do I never know what the name of this is? It's either Air Styler or Ever Styler but it is so good. I literally have the Dyson and I use this over the Dyson. I've said this before but I feel like my hair holds better when using the Bondi Boost which I don't really understand how but I'm not complaining. We're about to go in for the Media Dine thing but I wanted to give you guys a quick outfit of the day. I was like rushing outside but we got here like eight minutes early. The top is a Princess Polly set that obviously I'm not wearing this matching skirt but this skirt is like one of my favorite purchases of like when did I get it? I got it during Black Friday but I've worn it so much. I usually pair it with sweaters and it's 100% silk. It's from Quince. When I first saw Quince on my TikTok for you page I thought it was a scam honestly because like everyone was randomly talking about it but it's just a really good like price point for great quality things. Coat is from Suzanne, Melinda Maria. Necklace. Shoes are Amazon and I recently got them for the Miami Bachelorette that I just went on but let's go inside. We are both starving. We just got done at Space Cowboy and what do we rate it? 7.8. So this whole Media Dine thing is like already kind of uncomfortable to begin with because like I don't want to have to tell the host that like I'm here for a collaboration like it's just like so uncomfortable. I just never want to like come off as entitled you know so I thought that everyone knew because like the general manager kind of came over like a couple times and was like you know how's everything whatever and so I thought everyone knew because she was coming over right and then we go to like pay the bill and usually we tip so we just do like a penny charge and we tip on that but he said like the total of the whole meal and we're like oh like we're doing a collaboration we talked to the general manager and he basically wasn't like clued in and no one told him that our table was like one of those collaboration things so that's already uncomfortable because then he goes to talk to the general manager but this happens like very often and I just wish that they would just tell the waiters. I wonder if there's a reason they don't. So you get the same quality service? Yeah maybe but the waiter comes back and he's like actually she didn't know what you were talking about or something and my heart just sinks to the bottom of my chest I was like what and he was like oh no totally joking and I was like oh my god. The thing is I was like 100% okay with like everything I bought I would easily pay for again. No totally totally that's totally fine but the fact that he did that to me like it's already so uncomfortable having to be like oh um we're here for the like collaboration you know what I mean like yeah we're fine paying it if that's really what it comes down to but that was so like that was funny but also so evil. Right now we are headed to South Congress because we are going to an event for Le Labo. I don't know what the vibe for this event is and we're going kind of later in the evening um but I just hope we get some like free samples because that would be cool. I have not tried a Le Labo perfume so I'm excited to go in and sniff everything. Morning it is a new day and we're about to head out to a walking trail. We were originally gonna run and then Ryan was like we should probably just walk and I was like perfect because I went hard in the gym and I'm very very sore and I don't know if running's gonna you know help that. Hopefully it's hot enough to get in our pool because Ryan did like all the chemicals and he like filled it back up um because when it was freezing you have to empty it like a good bit. I think it's gonna be up to like 84 right? Which I feel like that's pretty hot so we'll see. Hey puppy! First night. I was having a hard time but honestly I always go back to the basics so basic white shirt from Zara. I love this belt from Ori and it's definitely an investment but I have gotten my use out of it. This denim jacket is from Agolde and I don't know if they sell this style anymore but I can try to find it and then these jeans are from Stradivarius and they're just like so easy to move around in so I wanted to be comfy first night because we were going to like apps and drinks I would say at Codependent and then we're gonna meet my friends out for a comedy show at Creaking Cave and then we might get drinks after. We'll see how we're feeling but I think I'm gonna bring the smaller little DJI that I was filming on today. I'm gonna bring this little long chomp dupe and it's on Amazon and this comes separately but it's like a little strap and I think it's so cute and it actually fits a ton of stuff like I always felt to the brim. Crazy because I went down a rabbit hole for clarified cocktails on TikTok today and I saved one that had Earl Grey in it and this does. I forgot what it was called already. London Lighthouse here at Codependent and like if you have not had a clarified cocktail yet you need to. It's just like so silky. Happy Sunday. We just did a Costco run and I'm just in the best spirits. I feel like Sundays might be my favorite day, my new favorite day. Last night was fun. We went to Codependent. My current hyper fixation is clarified cocktails and they had a bunch of them there and it was just delicious. We got some food there and then we went to Creak in the Cave. Funny story, the girls like usually plan stuff and like we just say if we're bringing the boys or not and so we didn't know the comedian because we just like picked the best time and then the other boyfriend when he saw that we were buying tickets for this one and somebody had already bought tickets he was like who the heck is Chris Turner like why are we going to see him and I was like oh like I don't know I thought it was just like the best time whatever like I didn't I don't know that like you go to see specific comedians or like you look them up and see if they're funny before you pick a comedian I guess right Ryan? Is that how you do it? Okay well anyways we just wanted to have some giggles so we went into it kind of totally blind but I did see on the description like that he raps and I was like okay what and that he was British and I was like interesting like he was actually so talented and so good basically like he would do crowd work and then remember all of that information and turn it into a freestyle rap it was actually insane and mind-blowing and I was like you have to be so smart for that I was literally just telling Ryan I don't even think I could remember every little detail that I would have to put in the rap without like writing it down or something like that itself is impressive but the fact that like he just knew about those topics and could expand on them in the rap was crazy so his name is Chris Turner apparently he's famous on YouTube I'm curious if any of you guys know who he is but he was really good so that was fun and this morning like I said we went to Costco and I want to show you guys what I got well this is my favorite thing that I got the tulips they are back this year I got one last year and I got two this year I got one that's fully bloomed and then one that's not so I could see it bloom because it's just like fun to check it every day and see that it's blooming but it's like bulbs in a vase so I feel like it lasts a lot longer and I feel like I've seen a similar vase or maybe even just like a pitcher I don't know I swear like CB2 had something similar to this vase which probably would have been like 50 bucks but this was 16-17 bucks flowers vase all of it crazy so I got two this year because I really liked it last year and I use the vase um like throughout the year so I'm excited about those I think it's time that we actually attempt to do our spring garden I know it's a little bit late it's March 2nd currently I'm super super backed up on vlogs I really need to get my shit together because South by Southwest is starting like Thursday of this next week and so I know when all that happens I will not have time to edit so I need to get back on my shit so I don't even know when you'll be seeing this vlog but today's March 2nd and I think it is finally time I got so many seeds from Etsy I showed you guys in a couple vlogs back but I did already go ahead and organize and I did my research on when to plant them and some of them did say that they needed like that period of freeze time which I don't know if we'll have another freeze so oopsies I did get this little growing station on Amazon where it's just like little containers where you put the seed in it and there's lights on top so you can kind of grow it in there until conditions get perfect enough to plant it in your garden but I got so many seeds and it's honestly so overwhelming like this is gonna be super fun and exciting and fulfilling but holy shit this is a very daunting task last year I did the chaotic gardening thing and this year I want to be more organized but honestly I feel like I'm gonna be lazy and just throw everything around but I don't want to use all of the seeds yet because I feel like I could just use them next year like they don't expire right I don't think so I got some really freaking cool cut flower seeds and like it's just gonna be so pretty like I don't even have enough room in my planters that Ryan made so I might have to plant some flowers just like in the grass somewhere I'm gonna have to figure that out here's the canva dock I made a little sneak peek of all like the flowers I got I'm so excited I honestly feel like I went a little bit crazy well I actually know I did because this is just I I'm still a beginner like yeah I did it last year but I didn't do it to the fullest ability I guess but I'm just kind of like separating it into piles right now so these are dahlias these need to be planted inside I just show you guys these ranuncula corns because they are so freaky looking look at that they look like tarantulas where's the other one so this is what they're supposed to look like when they bloom they are so stunning to me they're like one of my favorite like specialty cut flowers and yeah this is what they look like as little corns which is so crazy and so you're supposed to like plant them with the tentacles down but I'm just now thinking that I might need some trays which I don't have so this is the thing that I bought on Amazon I thought I would open it okay so it comes with multiple trays but I still think I might need a couple more just like flat trays we got some soil so it's finally time to attack the planter beds and this is what they're looking like right now they're so bad and so this time we have some weed blocker material that we're gonna put down first because last time we did not do that we just kind of like raked it up and then planted the seeds but as you can tell grass kind grew through it weeds all the unwanted things so that is going to be our first step we just need to like weed eat it rake it up put the weed blocker down and then put some soil Brian just weed eated and now we're gonna put this weed control down like I said last year we didn't do this and I regretted it so we live and we learn this year I'm gonna try to take some more notes and be a little bit more thorough I just wrote out all the seeds that I'm going to be planting this year and we're going to start with these two and I think I did the hardest part which was like organizing all the seeds and like really deciding where they're going to go at least a majority of them I'm still figuring out a few but we did it we're here and let's plant them we got this at Home Depot it's just all-purpose plant food so I think I'm going to just sprinkle it everywhere and hope that it works I think I'm going to stop here for today because I still have a lot of seeds that need to be started inside but I think we did such a good job and it honestly already looks so much better than what it used to look like because there was just dry dead brush and grass in these planters and it just looked so sad so even just seeing like moist soil just gives me so much hope I did end up planting some stuff behind the planters I'm really curious how that's going to turn out these are seeds that are supposed to be like really tall and like almost like vines so I wanted to plant them where I could possibly like stand them up one thing I really want to work on with our yard is just our grass in general I feel like it's not consistent because over here we have clover grass which I didn't even know was a thing but apparently people intentionally planted and I hate it so if you can see there's just like clovers growing and I just want green grass I know you can buy it and it's so expensive so we're gonna look into some options over there but I did want to show you guys the jasmine that I planted last year I believe and this vine is like growing so tall and that's like the only one that's growing that tall imagine if all of this grew that tall that would be literally insane it did grow since I planted them and I did give them a little bit of that plant food I honestly haven't been watering them so I'm really just happy to see them okay so I'm really just happy that they're alive right now but I'm gonna start watering them and like taking care of them more this right here is our peach tree it's special because we are both Georgia peaches and last year this had just the most gorgeous flowers on them and you guys guess what do you see that that is a bulb for a flower spring is coming and I was honestly a little scared that we like killed this too because I just dropped the ball on watering everything I mean we do have a sprinkler so maybe that's what kept everything alive oh my god oh my god oh my god you guys that is fully pink I'm freaking out I don't know why maybe I'm just like super freaking emotional but seeing my flowers bloom or just like any progress in my garden makes me emotional like why do I want to cry right now because it's just so freaking cool you guys have the time and the space I highly recommend to get into gardening because it is so fulfilling what are you doing she's literally on the seeds that I just planted what's going on you literally never come out here what is going on so come here come here come here come here come here oh okay you want to check them out wait what is going on you guys she literally never comes over here I'm gonna cry you guys she's so cute what do you think you excited for your garden I'm planting it for you you excited