I am here with the very first episode of favorites of 2018 because January is officially over

I would love to know how this month went for you because some of you guys are telling me that it went

excruciatingly slow.

But for me, it was literally just a wash of the month, so please tell me did it go slow or fast

Let me know in the comments down below

Either way, I'm gonna chat about some of my favorite things of January, so let's get started

So I'm gonna start things off with a fashion favorite first. Here I have this windbreaker from Kappa

I posted this on Instagram pretty recently when I was up in the bay and a lot of y'all were loving this

including myself. I wore it the entire weekend when I was in San Francisco

And it truly was such a great day and night peace. In the daytime when the Sun was out the material is lightweight enough

So I'm not overheating, but when I would wear at night the material. It just cuts through the strong winds so it's just very

Multifunctional, and it looks so cool. It's very retro and vibey. I love this jacket

It is a fun teal color and teal was actually my favorite color in high school

So I'll always have a soft spot for this shade. Now I'm gonna move on to some beauty favorites here

I have Fenty beauty's gloss balm, and I know I am so late on the Fenty train

But what can I say I feel like I'm always two or three steps behind the beauty trends

But I must say this is completely worth the hype. This is definitely on my top 5 favorite things at Fenty beauty and I'm not

Normally much of a gloss girl, but when I do find a gloss that I love I'm very loyal to it.

I absolutely love the shimmer, and this is just a really universal shade for everybody

I think this is flattering on any skin tone

And I love that it wears beautifully throughout the day. Normally with some lip glosses

It just feels really sticky and there's that weird film on your mouth. It doesn't happen with this guy.

Throughout the day it just feels like you have like a nice moisturizer in your lips, and I love that. Also it smells so good

It just smells like candy like peach candy. This is bomb.

So recently my favorite foundation to use has been this one by NARS

This is their natural radiant long wear foundation, and I am in the shade Punjab

I wore this in my get ready with me in Phuket

and this has been on my face non-stop since then.

I think it's because when I was in such a humid climate it held up then

So this is just a trooper for me. It likes to just stick onto my face, which I completely love

This is also very high coverage

So I only need maybe one or two pumps with this guy -

One to just cover my entire face, and the other pump to just get around my under eyes when I use this

I just skip concealer because I'll just use this product

And I really like when I can use one product in many ways.

With some foundations I find myself looking kind of cakey,

but I love that this has kind of like a velvet satiny finish. It just looks like your skin, which I enjoy.

For me and my skin this foundation is definitely a fit for me

So my next item is a beauty tool

I have finally got my very first epilator

And I'm very proud because before I got this I was plucking all my armpit hair

This is like a weird activity that I started doing since my freshman year of high school

Because I never like shaving my armpits because I found that when I shaved them my pits just look darker

So it just became a habit to pluck every single one of them

And it just became a part of my routine until one day

I told Amy and she was like why don't you just get an epilator and so she recommended me this one.

And I bought it and honestly this was worth every single penny it now takes less than a minute to take off all

Individual hairs from my armpit, and it's been incredible. This is the device. There are two settings

There's one and two. Two I never use because it's just too fast

I just find it very painful, but one is definitely doable

I would show you how to like actually use it, but my pits are actually pretty clean right now

I did it maybe three days ago. So they were in good shape.

Feel free to use this device anywhere that you grow hair like your legs down there

It's just awesome because it is so quick,

speedy and you stay hair free for a lot longer

In January I finally ditched my Canon T3i

And God bless her soul because she was the first

DSLR that I ever purchased. This was back in 2008 or 2009 so since like the birth of this channel.

But that T3i

Just really documented some great memories any time that I used equipmentthat wasn't T3I while I was vlogging

is just didn't 'tcompare to the quality and just the standard that I had for vlogging. But I knew it was time for a change because

It was just getting way too heavy, like I was lugging around an 8 pound piece of equipment everywhere

And I was hurting my back

And I just knew that like there is there's got to be something on the market for me

Where it is just a lot more efficient, so I asked my friend Jesse who knows a ton about camera equipment

And so he recommended me this.This is the Canon EOS M6

I also bought a wide-angle lens to attach with it because when I'm vlogging by myself

I don't want the frame to be too close

And I like to just have just everything in the screen and I can choose to crop if I want to but yeah

I bought these two pieces separately and this has been

Amazing to vlog with I've vlogged my entire second half of January with this so you guys will see the footage later

But it meets my standard, and it is so easy to just bust it out and start filming with my Canon T3i

I would have to like manually focus and set the exposure, but with this it just does everything for you

It's kind of like a pimped out version of the Canon G7X and this has truly been such a great investment for me

And I can't wait to just start vlogging more. This also has a flip out screen so

obviously perfect for vloggers

And I am just stoked about this very happy to graduated to this new camera

My last favorite is a TV show called End of the F***ing World

This is on Netflix and this was recommended to me by Silas who is so so span

He just texted me and Ben was like hey watch this new show and we're like okay, and we loved it

It is a black comedy

Featuring two teenagers it's kind of like a Bonnie and Clyde

because they are just the true definition of a ride-or-die and

At first when you watch the show you don't really know

What to think of the characters like they're actually kind of unlikable in the beginning

But as you continue to watch it

They become very endearing and they bring out the best in each other or maybe the worst

Either way it is a really fun and easy watch. I also love the way it's shot

It kinda reminds me of West Anderson with like the cemetry and the flat leis and just the quirky characters

I would highly recommend it if you're looking for a new show to watch

Alright everyone, that is a wrap on my January favorites. I'm so sorry that I don't have a book favorite for you

I actually spent January reading the 4-hour workweek and I

Did not like it, and if I'm gonna be frank the author just kind of seemed to kind of douche-baggy

I really like halfway through and I was like

I just I just can't finish this so yeah, I didn't want to recommend you guys a book that I didn't like.

Either way I hope to find a better book to read in January

I'm thinking about reading a Thousand Splendid Suns. A lot of you guys would recommending to me that so I

Need to go read it. It's been a long time since I've read a fiction book and I also love the Kite Runner

So I'm gonna go check that out next month if you guys have any fiction books that you'd like to recommend me

Please write it in the comments down below

I will add it to my to read list, but yes as usual

Please write down anything that inspired you or something nice that happened to you last month in the comments down below

I would love to read about it and

Thank you so much for watching, and I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye