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Hello. Hello. Welcome back. Today I thought we could do another get ready with me. The first upload that I did. It was filmed a few months ago, so lots has actually changed since then. Anyway, let's start with some primer. I'm going in with the NYX face glue. I'm still gathering my thoughts. I don't do my makeup wa I just took the whole lid off. I don't do my makeup as much these days because I'm not going to work every day. Um, so it takes me a little bit longer to gather my thoughts on new makeup, but so far this has a really beautiful lightweight texture. I'm not sure how it goes with longevity. It says it is a gripping primer, but it feels really nice on the skin and sits well under foundation. I'll chat a little bit about makeup today, but I do want to get through a lot of catchups. Okay, so I will list all the makeup that I use in the description box below. I'll try and link as much as I can as well. It's all linked through LTK, so they are affiliate links. It'll take you to like the Price Line or the Sephora website. And if you shop through those links, I do earn a commission. So, thank you in advance if you use those. Okay, I know I just said I'm not going to talk about the makeup, but for foundation, I'm going in with the Maybelline SuperStay look. I think this is a little bit too matte for my skin, but I'm really oily at the moment because it's that time of the month. So, I thought maybe this will be a good foundation and I really want some coverage because again that time of the month she's breaking out. So, I am going back to work in 2 weeks. Oh, I've been so lucky to have 2 years off. Like I actually can't believe it. I am a casual at my work as well. So the fact that I've been able to have two years off and keep my position is just insane. I am only going back 2 days a week, which I think that's seriously all I can handle. Like shout out to the moms who work full-time. Like I hated working full-time when I wasn't a mom, let alone having all the bloody added to-dos and mental load of freaking kids. Holy moly. Absolute superheroes, I tell you. I'm kind of looking forward to going back for the fact that I can get dressed. Oh my god, that bird just scared the absolutely daylights out of me. Um, yeah. So, the fact that I can get dressed nicely, do my makeup, you know, eat my lunch on my own at work, not be interrupted. My boss did leave while I was away on maternity leave, though, so I'm really sad about that. I haven't actually met my new boss, but so far, she's been so lovely and accommodating every time I call up and, you know, ask for more time off. This is the Revlon Illuminance Concealer. This whole range is beautiful. Like all the products I've tried so far, the glow filter, the skin tint. This is actually a new one. Stunning. Um, also, what did I try recently? The glow primer. That is beautiful as well. So, going back to work means Amelia needs to be in daycare. So, she did start maybe 4 weeks ago now, just 2 days a week. far out. That was a mission. And I'm pretty sure I talked about it in my first video, how I just procrastinated that so much. I just didn't want to do it. But I found one that I liked. And look, she's going. The days she has good days while she's there, but the drop offs and the pickups are just so sad. Like, she cries and screams for me. Oh, it's just the worst feeling having to walk out. But the educators are really, really accommodating to her. And as soon as we walk in, they come over and are ready to take her and give her big cuddles. And when they upload photos throughout the day, I can always see Amelia like sitting on the educator's laps. I just had to do my brows without talking because they are so uneven at the moment. It's just they're a lot. I'm getting them done next week. So, let's just ignore those. For eyeshadow, I'm going to use the Aralus Dream of Me palette. If you haven't tried these Australas shadows yet, what are you doing? Okay, they're so good. Creamy, pigmented. The metallics are so shimmery. I'm going to go in with this brown. Thrilling. So, yeah. I think it'll take a second to find our feet. The daycare days are going to be really big days. And already when I pick her up from daycare, she's just like not in the mood. The afternoons are so freaking they're stressful. They're a lot. So, okay. I do have a lot of Amelia updates, which I don't know if all of you guys are interested in, but I also have just some life updates after all this. So, you know, whatever you want to listen to, skip forward if you want, whatever. So, in my last video, which, like I said, I filmed months ago, there was so much on my to-do list. I wanted to get Amelia in her own bed cuz we'd been co-sleeping forever. I wanted to stop breastfeeding. I needed to get her into daycare. Like, there were all these transitions that needed to be made and it was very, very overwhelming. So, I just want to talk about how we went about doing all of those because now that I look back, I'm like, look at this go. What was I worried about? So, we end up starting with getting her in her own bed. She was never a cot baby. Hated being put down. She was a contact napper and a co-sleeper. So, we got rid of her rid of her cot pretty quickly, which actually funny story. All right, so I bought a floor bed off marketplace and I was like, Clinton, can you go pick it up after work cuz he's got a work van. He wears a high viz shirt and yeah, he's in a work van. So, he's driving there and he sees this lady at the front waving him down. And so he's like, "All right, sweet." Backs in the driveway. By the time he gets out the car, the lady's gone. So he's like, "Okay." So he goes and knocks on the door and the old man answers. He's like, "Hey, mate. How you doing? Come on in." So Clinton takes his boots off, goes inside, and in his head he's thinking, "That's weird. Like why do these old people like why are they selling a toddler bed, but okay, whatever. Maybe it's like their grandkids." So he goes in the house, he's patting the guy's dog like they're becoming mates. And then the old fellow leads him down the back of the house and shows him this like aircon panel on the wall. He's like, "Yeah, mate. So, just here's where the problem is. I can't get these buttons to work." Ra. And Clinton's like, "What?" He's I'm here to pick up a bed. And the guy's like, "What? We're waiting on an electrician." And Clinton's like, "That's not me." He's like, "Is this number whatever?" And the guy's like, "No." So, he had gone into the wrong house. And it is just the biggest coincidence that the literal neighbors were waiting for an electrician. They saw a van. They saw a guy in a high viz and thought this is him. Come on in. So Clinton had to drive out of that driveway back into the next one. So anyway, we get this floor bed for her and just spend a few weeks like, you know, playing on it, getting her excited about the big bed. And then eventually we start doing naps in there. So, she's on one nap a day. We start trying to do her naps in there and then we move on to the nights. So, I was still breastfeeding her at this point. So, I would just feed her to sleep and then roll out of the bed and she would sleep in there. She would still wake up maybe two or three times a night. Sometimes I would just end up staying in there. Um, but yeah, that's how we kind of got her into her own bed and got her comfortable with her own bed. Next was to stop breastfeeding. So, I was really in two minds about this. Like, I was feeling really touched out, especially in the night. Like, oh, it was just getting too much waking up all the time and just having her like using my nipple as a freaking dummy. And then during the day, we cut back a little bit, but then she's just on and off. I've always just fed on demand, so I'm like, "Whatever. If you want it, here you go." But I think she was feeding a bit too much. She wasn't eating that much food. Like she was still gaining weight and stuff, but whatever. I was like, "Look, I think it's time to stop. We've got big transitions coming up. Let's just work on these." Anyway, so I bought a few books. We started with nurses in the morning or milkies in the morning or something like that. And so we started with night weaning. So, we read this book for ages saying that like, you know, no milk in the nighttime, mommy goes to sleep, baby goes to sleep, daddy goes to sleep, milkies goes to sleep, but when you wake up, you have milkies. So, we did that for a few weeks and then I swapped to a different book called My Milk Will Go, Our Love Will Grow. And the first time I read it, I was just an absolute mess. So, started reading that to her for a little bit and then eventually got to the point where I was like, "All right, baby." like Milky's is all done. Mommy can't make milk anymore and just like kept kind of saying the same things that were in the book. And so we had our last feed and Clinton put her to bed that night. She she fussed for a little bit but eventually went down and then for the first time in her whole life she slept through the entire night. Excuse me. So to get you to sleep through the entire night, all I had to do was stop feeding you. So for a few days, she was a little bit upset that she couldn't have milk, but you know, she got used to it. I tried to distract her a lot. Like even the day before we stopped feeding, we made some muffins and we called them her morning muffins so that when she woke up like, "Oh my goodness, it's time for a morning muffin." You know, instead of milkies. So just kind of like ging her up and getting her excited about different things. And then for a while, she stopped doing it now, but she would go, "Just pretend." And then she'd like come over to my chest and go like, "So, we end up feeding for 20 months and 23 days. I am so proud of that. Like, I just can't believe our journey went for that long. It was so beautiful. Like, it makes me cry. I loved breastfeeding. like it was, you know, it had its challenges in the beginning and then there were definitely times throughout where I was like, I am touched out, but overall it was just amazing. I love that bond with her and being able to have that connection and yeah, it was just I really really enjoyed it and I'm very very grateful that we got to have that journey because you just don't know what's going to happen when you try and breastfeed. You don't know. So, we've checked two things off our list. She's in her own bed. She's stopped feeding. And bonus, she slept through the night. Clinton ended up putting her to bed for a few nights so that she wouldn't want the boob. And she literally slept through every single night. I was like, "This is magical." So then when I started to put her to bed again, she'd still wake up like once, but once is also a miracle. So then we get to daycare. Toured a few. Finally found one that I liked. Went and did a few stay and plays. But once I started to do the stay in place like and she was already like in the enrollment process but we were waiting like for the new year to come and then there was renovation. So rah rah it took a little bit to actually get her like to start and so we were doing stay and plays kind of during this crazy time for them and then I just started having really like big doubts about the center that I chose and oh I was just in two minds. I was like, "How do I know I've made the right decision? Like, it's too late, though. Like, she starts in a few weeks. Like, she's got to she's got to go. We've done the stay in place now. Like, I don't want to start again with like her meeting new people." And so, anyway, just went with it. You know, I thought I can always take her out if I don't like it. We're here now. Let's give it a go. We'll see what happens. So, as I said, she's been there for a few weeks now, and I'm totally fine with it. I think I was just, yeah, having big doubts and just was freaking out a bit. But seeing how the educators are with her, and how they comfort her and give her what she needs when she is upset and emotional makes me feel better because that's how I respond to her being upset, too. Oh, actually before she started daycare 2, we did read some books about daycare. Amelia really responds well to stories and I don't know relating them to what's going on around her, I guess. So, I borrowed a few from the library just like Spot Goes to Daycare and like a Maisy book. But then I also bought this one off Amazon called Llama Llama Mrs. llama and it's yeah about a llama that goes to daycare and it talks like llama's sad and he feels lonely but you know the friends want to play and the teacher will give you cuddles and then mama llama comes back so instead of just making like yeah fun daycare it says like it's okay to miss your mama oh my god it's so sad I can't so we still read it because she does get upset and then she talks about daycare like throughout the week and she's She's always like, "Mommy and daddy come back to get me." And I'm like, "Yes, baby. We always come back." Like, it's too much. For mascara, I've got this Essence Lash Without Limits. This is in a brown shade, and it looks pretty chocolatey. Ooh, yeah, that's nice. This is what the one looks like. So, yeah, we're working through the daycare stuff at the moment. She has regressed with like her bedtime routine. We had such a good routine for a while there and like it was never she never had a routine. But once we stopped feeding and rah, we'd do two nights each. So Clinton would put her to sleep two nights, then I do two nights. Ra, it was great. But ever since she started daycare, she's just like, "Mom does not want a bar of Clinton to put her to bed." And we tried a few times and she just screamed and screamed bloody murder. So that's been a little bit tricky because, you know, I was getting used to that good life of having two nights off. But look, if that's what she needs right now to feel comfort, then that's what she gets. So far, I am really liking the shade of this mascara. It's a very nice warm brown. It's giving good length and separation. A little bit of clumping, but I am able to kind of separate them with the wand. I am just also going to put a little bit of eyeliner in my tight line. Even though I put liner on my like on my lid, I feel like it still looks really gappy under here. So, I'm just going to put a bit of brown in there. And I don't know. I It's probably not that big of a difference, but I feel like it just makes my eyes and my mascara look better having that filled in there as opposed to not. So, yeah, they are pretty much all the Amelia updates. I'm very proud of her for navigating all of these changes and like it was a lot. I was very overwhelmed at the beginning, but it's like, well, look at us. We did it. So, let's get ready to tackle the new challenges of going back to work and her turning two, which she's already, you know, hit that peak toddler phase. Mine. Mine. No, me do it. Ups and downs and ups and downs. I'm like, holy moly. Sometimes, girlfriend. I don't like the term terrible twos, but it's a lot I guess that like I'm learning to regulate and cope with while she has these big like these big ups and downs, which I've always been a very patient person. I'm not really an angry person, but becoming a mother has definitely tested my patience. And I've got this new found rage where it's like I want to yell, but I know yelling at you isn't gonna do anything. So instead, I need to slam a door or punch a pillow or something. Okay, I am going to do my bronzer. I'm actually going to film a Tik Tok, Instagram real, whatever, because I'm testing out the new OXX. This is the Kmart bronze sculpt. It's got a cream and a powder and this is in cool bronze. So, we'll see how it goes on fair skin. I have been uploading all my Tik Tok and Insta videos to shorts. Not all of them, but I've started like the backlog. So, if you don't have those other two platforms, hopefully you've been seeing my shorts come up on YouTube and you can watch them here as well. So, I'll be right back and I'll let you know about the skin cancer that I had to get removed. Okay, but this Kmart bronzer has literally just blown me away. As I said, I'll upload the video to Shorts. You've got to go see it. Wow. $6 for a cream and a powder, and it's cool enough for fair skin. Amazing. Okay, for blush, I'm going in with this Models Prefer Luminous Blush in the shade Sunset. They released a whole bunch of new blushes recently. I've only tried this like once or twice. So again, still gathering my thoughts. So fun fun. I had to get a skin cancer cut out of my shoulder just recently. Everything is okay. It was a BCC, which is a I can't remember. Hang on. Basil cell carcinoma. So it is a pretty common and non-invasive kind of skin cancer. Mine wasn't aggressive anyway. But around I think it was Boxing Day, I noticed something on my arm and like I'm a picker and a scratcher. So like if I'm just like touching my arms, I'm like So anyway, I was scratching at this thing and it started bleeding and I was like, "Oh, okay." Thought nothing of it. Noticed a week later it was still there. I'm like, "Okay, that's weird. That thing hasn't healed. I'll just keep an eye on it." And I was actually quite aware already to keep an eye on it because literally a year ago Clinton got a skin cancer cut out of the top of his hand. So he had an SCC which is a squam squamus squamas cell carcinoma. So that's kind of like the next step up. So he had one cut out of his hand. So, I was already very like cautious and aware that this could be something. And it just looked a bit funny, too. It didn't look like any of the other freckles or moles or marks that I have on my body. So, anyway, left it for another few weeks. It was still there. So, I was like, "All right, let's book a skin check because this is suspicious." Now, I go and get my skin checked yearly anyway because I am so fair. I'm very cautious of this kind of stuff. So, as soon as I went there, he had a look at it and he goes, "Yeah, I think it's the start of a BCC." I was like, "I knew it." So, he did a biopsy. A few days later, or maybe a week later, they called me back and said it had come back positive. They're like, "Look, we've got an appointment this afternoon if you want to come get it cut out." I'm like, "Okay, let's get this done." I did make some videos on this, so I'll upload them to shorts if you want to go watch them and see what it looked like and stuff like that. But this is what the scar is looking like now. I got the stitches out probably a week and a bit ago. So, it was only really tiny. It was probably like this big, but they had to cut quite a lot out. It wasn't really painful. It was just kind of like over and done with. But what has like freaked me out about this is that I have been extremely sunsafe over the last few years. So I know that this damage is from way before then. Like I said, I've always been sunsafe, been aware of the sun cuz I'm so freaking fair, but there have definitely been times where I have got extremely burnt and the damage was done. Now I'm worried like, okay, what else is going to pop up from my previous years of damage? Like, it's kind of scary. So, this is just your friendly reminder to wear your SPF every day and go get your skin checked. Keep an eye out for weird new little lumps and bumps on your skin. This wasn't a mole. This was just like a clear kind of reddish bump. All right, let's go in with a lip liner. I actually really liked this one I got from Mecca Max. It's in the shade classy. Oh, such a gorgeous shade. Okay, calm down. And then for lips, I want to try this Rimmel lip latex. These are new. They have a beautiful soft matte packaging. I thought they were going to be a matte formula, but they're like quite a sheer gloss. They stain though, like the deeper shades leave a stain. I haven't tried them on the lips yet, though. This is the shade um sassy. It tastes weird. Okay, it's not really adding much color. Does the inside of my lip look more pink? Like more reddish? H I don't know. Okay, might have to try that out on its own. Tastes funny. All right. Well, this is the finished look. Feels nice to put this much makeup on. M. If you enjoyed watching, give this video a thumbs up. And if you're new here, hi, hello. My name is Tena. Subscribe to my channel. And like I've mentioned 100 times, if you need more of a fix, go check out my shorts because I'm uploading there. I'm actually just about to upload all the content that Katie and I made when we went to Sydney, which was like over a month ago now. But the content's really fun and I'm getting through my backlog. Anyway, who cares? 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