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3 Cocktails In
Addicting conversations between friends who have been there, done that and still want more.
We are 3 friends who got this crazy idea to start a podcast based on our friendships, family lives, professional lives and experiences! This idea kept coming up in our conversations, especially after a cocktail or two or maybe three, and we finally decided to ACT on it!
We don't claim to be experts on too many things, but friendship? Well, we've got that down. We're making our way through major life changes, searching for work that excites us, busting myths associated with 'old' people, and keeping a sense of humor about it all.
Self employed, boss - CHECK
Mom, wife, single - CHECK
Rural, suburban, urban life - CHECK
Vodka, gin, wine - CHECK
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Amy, Kitty & Stacey
P.S. Isn't our intro music great?! Yah, we think so too. Thank you, Ivy States for "I Got That Wow".
3 Cocktails In
Are you ready for Fall? Tips to start prepping now.
Kitty's back! In this episode, we open with her moving story about the loss of her father and the emotional journey of coping with his passing. This personal touch sets a reflective tone as we segue into a comprehensive discussion on preparing for fall, both emotionally and practically. From the anxiety of back-to-school season to saying goodbye to summer, we explore the mixed feelings and important tasks that come with the changing seasons.
As we shift our focus to the impending winter, we delve into essential home and wardrobe maintenance tips. Whether it’s getting your snowblowers ready or organizing your closet for the cold months ahead, we share personal anecdotes and practical advice to help you stay ahead of the game. Learn why it's crucial to get those coats and boots cleaned and repaired now, and how purging old clothes can not only free up space but also offer tax benefits. Our conversation is packed with useful insights that any homeowner will find invaluable.
Finally, we sprinkle in some holiday magic with tips on getting your holiday lights up early and staying organized with tools like Google Keep. We also review some fantastic Laura Geller makeup products, perfect for the fall season, and share our thoughts on their longevity and ease of use. From managing information overload to finding joy in small celebrations with friends, this episode is all about embracing positive change. So, join us in celebrating new beginnings and staying connected with our wonderful community!
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Amy, Kitty & Stacey
P.S. Isn't our intro music great?! Yah, we think so too. Thank you, Ivy States for "I Got That Wow".
All right, ooh, look, I got that. Wow, who wants some heads up right now? We got that. Turn it up loud. I know you're wondering how I got that. Wow, here I go. Here I go, coming. I can't ever stop. I'm a tour de force running. Get me to the top. I don't need an invitation. I'm about to start a celebration.
Speaker 2:Hello, good evening. Hi, welcome back, catherine. Thank you, it's good to have you here with us.
Speaker 3:Nice to be here, missed you guys, we missed you too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we were, as we mentioned. You were with family, yep.
Speaker 3:Yes, and so, yes, I lost my dad very unexpectedly and first time going through the loss of a parent for me. So, just dealing with all of that. So I was in Sioux Falls for an extended period and, um, just dealing, dealing with all of that and still, still dealing with it.
Speaker 2:You know it comes and goes, yeah, so I, I definitely remember and it still happens that I, you know, I always talk to my mom in the car cause I had to drive like a half an hour. I always that was our daily thing. And there are some days when I'm still having a conversation when it's like, oh mom, you would not believe what happened, and there's comfort in feeling like your people are still with you and by you. Yeah, yeah, yeah Well yeah, I'm definitely you and by you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, I'm definitely a believer of that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so if you talk to them before at certain times, keep it going.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Don't listen.
Speaker 3:I think so Exactly so back into the routine here. So excited to have a conversation with you guys tonight. What are we talking about?
Speaker 2:Well, here at Three Cocktails In, we're going to talk about back to school and fall prep. Not really.
Speaker 3:It gives me a pit in my stomach.
Speaker 2:Does it?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I liked going back to school, I think.
Speaker 3:I liked the shopping. Yeah, I did. I liked going back to school. It wasn't such a happy time for Beau, so, as a parent, thinking about going back to school, that's where I don't have great feelings and I think about it every time I see kids standing at the bus stop, I get that pit in my stomach. It's like oh those kids are going off to school, Cause it can be those can be kind of unhappy, not kind of those can be unhappy years for kids, yeah.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, but all right. So we're not going back to school. What are we doing?
Speaker 2:We're not going back to school, but I want to talk about some things that might be um unhappy in the beginning but have a good purpose, much like school. So, for whatever reason, I spent a day kind of cleaning and, as you can tell, I don't have a very big place but I hate cleaning. But what you can't see is I've got this monstrous island and at the far end of it is a stack of of mail and credit two different credit card bills and occasional target bills some. I've had some health things you know doctor's office bills and occasional target bills. I've had some health things you know doctor's office bills and I finally I'm like, fine, fine, I'll do it. So I start opening them up and I start going through and I start reading things and I'm like why am I getting charged from this one subscription twice a month and why are they two different fees? Then I looked at the next one, looked at the next one and then I'm looking at him like my God, I've got a lot of expenses to Amazon DoorDash. Remember how I'd been saying that I've been using DoorDash? I am done with DoorDash. I've dropped so much money in the last couple months because, sure, with one of my credit cards. I got the free DoorDash membership, so I always get DashPass. I'm still dropping $20 a lunch. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, feel like, as we're getting ready to transition into fall, there are some things that we should be doing to get this new, fresh mindset. You know for one thing, if you're in the Midwest, and especially the northern part, it's going to get cold, and, thanks to Martha Stewart's post about how it's, the farmer's almanac says that it's going to be heavy, wet snow all winter. Zip it, martha. I'm already thinking about stuff we got to do. Do you guys prep for the season Besides getting your pumpkin spice?
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's a rough one because I hate I'll be honest, I hate fall and there's a lot of reasons. It's mostly because I hate that summer's ending. Fall for me goes so fast, because that's our busiest time here at work and weekends are often, which you know, I like the weekend, I like going to the football games. We have season tickets, we go to iowa state games, so so that just takes up a lot of weekends. All of a sudden it's winter, literally it goes so fast and it's winter and I really hate winter, you know so it's. I drag my feet this time of year, trying to just keep thinking, thinking summer, because I don't want it to be, you know, I don't want it to be harvest and fall and all that kind of stuff. Not that I harvest and fall and all that kind of stuff. Not that I don't like work this time of year, in fact I like it, but it's just the thing I know what's coming.
Speaker 2:And yeah, I don't like to transition my clothing until I absolutely have to. I will still forego socks until my toes are about blue, just because I don't want to, you know, switch over to quite that. But yeah, yeah, so that whole credit card thing is something that I've never been really regular about it. But I'm kind of thinking, seeing that I don't have anybody going back to school and I don't really I don't have a house to prep, maybe getting my. You know, we talked about this, kitty, when we were talking when you were gone, and we were talking about all the things you need to do to prepare for the passing of someone and how we should start getting our crap in order.
Speaker 2:Now. I'm thinking that fall might be the good time for me to tackle this. I can't tell you how much money I saved. I found a subscription that I was paying for that I had not used in six months, sent that email off, I got the. I got the, the duplicate charge taken care of. I wrote down every single charge that my daughter has been spending on my Amazon account. She thought whenever she changed the address shipped to, it automatically changed the credit card.
Speaker 4:Oh no, you've been paying for it all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, needless to say, I changed the password and it's a friendly reminder for her to use her own money. So now every time she logs on, she's got to say, you know like, I solemnly swear I will use my own credit card, something like that. I got a new T-Mobile. I've been with T-Mobile like 28 years, which always shocks people when you call in and try and renegotiate your contract. Yeah, I'm saving money and I'm getting better benefits. Mm-hmm, do you guys do that?
Speaker 3:Yeah, they'd much rather renegotiate with you than see you leave. So, yeah, they'd much rather renegotiate with you than than see you leave. Yeah, I think when the seasons change, particularly when fall arrives and also spring, those are just those feel like natural times to reassess things, and I'm probably more prone to do it in the spring than I am in the fall, but around this time it does I than I am in the fall, but around this time it does I get excited for fall. Stacey, I didn't know that you are not a fall person.
Speaker 4:No.
Speaker 2:Well, it makes sense why you're not, but you have never once said I hate fall to us.
Speaker 4:So, I was surprised to hear that too, yeah, no, I hate it because it goes so fast and then it's winter.
Speaker 2:I feel like I always go from summer to winter you go from work to to football, to work to football, to work to football.
Speaker 4:There's really not a whole lot of time in between to do anything else no, because it's a lot of work, a lot of hours, and then it's, and then it's winter yeah, but of the yeah if we go back to our original.
Speaker 3:you know when, when we were talking about doing this podcast, one of the things was that we wanted to make sure that we were bringing ideas to people, that we were helping people make improvements in their lives or just sharing experiences, and I think that this is a really good reminder to people that you need to be an advocate for your own financial situation. And if you don't ask the question, you don't, you're just going to sit there, you're going to get what you've always got.
Speaker 3:And yeah, these, sometimes these little funky things happen and you just don't even notice them because everything is so digital for us.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, it surprises me honestly. I'm surprised you don't look at your, your credit card statement very often.
Speaker 2:I look at mine every month. What's really funny is you do it all online and I still. I still get the paper. Because I like to highlight, because I do, I've tried to keep online.
Speaker 4:You can do it online that way.
Speaker 2:I know, but here's what I was going to say. I try to keep one credit card for business expenses and one credit card for life, but, like in France, they didn't want to take my American Express, so I used my other one for a lot of stuff. So I also did something that I thought was really good prep today. So normally I'm the person that a week before you have to do taxes, I get all my crap together and it is a hellacious 24 hours. You know sleep, five hours, paper all over the place. So I got this broad idea that as I was looking through these 10 credit you know five months of two credit cards that I was just going to pull up my Excel spreadsheet, which I just copy and reuse every year, and start logging these expenses that I found in. So I'm really hoping that I'm I'm getting ahead Again.
Speaker 2:I think we've talked in the past how processes at home. You know we worry about them so much at work and you know work often puts these things in place for us but how do you deal with it at home? Mine have been very lacking, although I do. You know I keep them all in their stacks, but then the stack just gets bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger. So maybe it's quarterly that I need to attack the stack. Ooh, that's kind of a good name, isn't it? Attack the stack.
Speaker 4:That is good.
Speaker 2:Trademark, trademark, I trademarked that, yeah. So a lot of people don't like making those phone calls yeah, they think it's going to be adversarial and it's really not.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:It doesn't have to be no, especially. It's one of those situations where the nicer you ask, probably the better outcome you're going to get.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So just be nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4:You could probably even do it through chat If you really didn't want to talk to someone. Yes, you can do that via chat now. But every online you know, whether it be credit cards or, you know, your phone bill or something has a chat feature.
Speaker 2:So, as we not only are financial, get our stuff together. Great time of the year to start looking at the holiday calendar and looking at you know I'm I gotta admit I'm kind of bummed this year christmas and new years are on tuesday, wednesday guess what days of the yeah I'm gonna need another day somewhere around there to at least you know.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I guess I didn't pay attention last year really to how it was done because it worked out in my favor, so I have to figure that out. But now would be a good time to to start checking. Yeah, if you got older, older kids, what's everybody's plans? Try and get your calendar out.
Speaker 1:Who's?
Speaker 2:going to host? Yep, who's going to host? Do we have to juggle multifamily schedules? It doesn't have to be on whatever day. The idea is to be together if you can be together, yep, I've said it last fall and Stacy and I got into this discussion about shoes, but now is the time to take the coats in. If you need something dry, cleaned, take the boots in, get them resold, get new heels on them, get the zipper fixed before you need to wear them.
Speaker 4:Wear it.
Speaker 2:Yep, when do you clean? I just cleaned out my dresser. I have 16 pair of pants. If I was really good and lost 20 pounds, I would have an entirely new that doesn't sound like much fun, though I think if I lost 20 pounds I should get to buy new clothes either way I agree.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that makes me think, though. Probably a good time right now to, you know, purge your clothes if you're a donator, you know, like if you're going to donate clothes for taxes because you know you can get a you know little tax advantage on it. That would be good to do now instead of scrambling at the last minute before the end of the year to get your little receipt for your donation. There you go. It's an idea Because we change seasons. If you're done with summer, summer stuff, I always feel bad about that.
Speaker 2:I feel bad about, at the end of summer, dropping off summer clothes.
Speaker 3:I don't.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, I'm not to say I don't do it, I'm just saying that, as I knew that I was going to have to get fall clothes out, I also tried to look at what are some of the clothes that I haven't worn in my closet for the last year, even if they're fall clothes. Get the fall clothes out, especially All those are jeans. They're nice jeans. I can't wear them. It's time Somebody else can wear them. Yeah, you know to. You know, as you're pulling out shoes and you don't want to resole them, don't give out cruddies. Throw crap away. Yeah, you know, first of all, throw crap away. But maybe you've got the pair of shoes or the pair of boots that you wore once last year and they're nice boots. You know what? Give them to somebody else.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Do you guys? Do you keep the off-season clothes in a different closet?
Speaker 2:Kitty, you've been to my house. How many closets do I?
Speaker 3:have.
Speaker 4:I have one closet. Yeah, amy doesn't have that luxury.
Speaker 3:Is there no closet in your guest?
Speaker 2:bedroom? Yeah, there is, but there's, um, there's. I got a shoe rack underneath one where there's could be hanging things. I've got some hanging and I've got just. I mean, I just don't have enough space. So I do have like sweaters and stuff in tubs underneath beds.
Speaker 3:Okay, yeah, did you used to.
Speaker 2:At the last house I still put stuff in tubs and I put it down in the basement because I had that whole totally unfinished lower level.
Speaker 3:Stacey, what about you?
Speaker 4:I used to when I shared a closet. But I no longer share a closet, so I you know, and I think I've told you how I do it when I put my clean clothes go in the middle. You know, dress clothes, work clothes, they go in the middle. So then the winter stuff ends up on the outside. So I pull. You know, when I'm ready to change, I'm pulling winter stuff and putting it in the middle and then it's winter. You know what I mean. So I have the whole closet. But I did used to move summer stuff out and bring winter in, move winter out, bring summer in. I used to just for space, but now I have plenty of space.
Speaker 2:Two questions One where's Barney's clothes in space? Two questions One where's Barney's clothes? And two what happened to Barney? What happened to Barney and two you must have more than one closet.
Speaker 3:Yes, so Bill and I share a walk-in closet and I fully admit that when we redesigned that closet and put all the shelving and things in, it was 50-50 and slowly over time it is no longer 50-50. And Bill now just has one shelving and drawer thing and I've taken over everything else so is it like 80, 20 it's probably 80, 20, yeah, and I feel awful, but it's what it is.
Speaker 4:And then the so you're not gonna change it is what it is because you're not gonna change it right honestly you don't feel awful he's a he's.
Speaker 3:He's okay with it. If it wasn't working for him, he would say something that's right.
Speaker 2:See something, say something.
Speaker 4:Yeah, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:But Barney does have his own closet. It's just not in our bedrooms, just right around the corner. He's fine with it. We don't share. He has his own glam room. Yes, yes, he does, he's fine with it. We don't share his own glam room. Yes, yes, he does, he's fine, has a whole closet. In fact, I suggested he maybe clean out his closet, because I swear he wears two shirts now yeah and why do you have a closet full of a hundred 200. I don't know, jeez, it seems like a lot, whatever.
Speaker 2:So what else you guys got to do in the fall, you homeowners? As a realtor, I'd like to strongly recommend right now you line up somebody to clean your gutters if you don't have somebody to do that.
Speaker 4:Or if you don't have covers, like a lot of people have gone to, which is nice.
Speaker 2:Gutter guards. Gutter guards Fire up the snowblower. Get that in now.
Speaker 3:Tune it up, make sure it's going to work for you.
Speaker 2:Do you guys have snow tires, stacey? You don't. You don't have them on your car Kitty.
Speaker 3:I have all yeah. Well, yeah, all of my cars have always been all-wheel drive, but then it's just a good all-terrain tire. Okay, yep, okay. Why do people?
Speaker 4:still change out their tires, or you mean you have winter tires all the time. I don't know that.
Speaker 2:Well, ava had to. Ava has to get a new car. She she got. No, she got rear-ended a month ago and until Friday she thought it was getting fixed. And on Friday at two o'clock she got a letter that says we're totaling out your car. That's a good time. And then they said, yeah, you need to return the rental car and get your car moved on Monday.
Speaker 4:Oh, she had a day and a half.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that's not how that's going to work. So I called, but one of the cars she was originally looking at was front wheel drive and she joined the. She joined the company that I work for and is going to be in sales now.
Speaker 2:And you don't get a call in when it's snowing, yeah. So she was saying, yeah, this car's not going to work. They're like, oh, just put snow tires on. I thought, huh, thought, huh, well, where would you put the snow tire? She lives with three other girls, it you know, and their their one car garage is already full of stuff. There's no way. But so, yeah, I was curious to know if you see so you had big cars, kitty, you drive kind of a smaller car, so I wondered if that car had them.
Speaker 3:No, so, and I've driven a sedan for quite a long time that's just the car that feels right for me. I've never had issues with snow or getting around. In my opinion, if you live in the Midwest, you need to have an all-wheel drive car. Yeah, what even is a front-wheel drive car Like? What's?
Speaker 2:the brand. Like Passats, jettas, like not a high-end sedan. A lot of them are front-wheel drive. Even some smaller SUVs are front wheel drive. She, she ended up leasing a car and I think she's getting it tonight, but she went with um all wheel drive and, uh, she got a Volkswagen Taos.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, she will not have a problem getting around.
Speaker 2:Yeah no, and that she won't at all. So that that's awesome, but yeah. So here's something that I've been. You know, coming back to the whole wardrobe, I just had to remove from my closet, or finally admit that I was going to remove from my closet. You know the weather changes and you can't do outdoor. Let me rephrase that Other people like to do outdoor athletic adventures. I do not. So now might be the really good time for people who'd been walking a bunch or something like that, to maybe think about what's your indoor plan, something like that. To maybe think about what's your indoor plan. I have a lot of stairs here.
Speaker 4:I could probably learn to work. Walk a couple of flights of stairs, that would work. You're old enough. You could probably start walking at the mall.
Speaker 2:My place is big enough, if I just walked up one flight of stairs, down the hall, up the flight of stairs back and zigzagged my way all the way to the top and then took the elevator back down. I bet that'd be a pretty. I should probably try and do that, yeah, and count my steps. I wonder how many that would be.
Speaker 4:Note to self walk the building, yeah you don't have to count them, you just have to walk with your phone and then it'll tell you how many steps yeah get an app yes, get one that automatically does it.
Speaker 2:I've got one right now that I have to click on and click off and that's annoying.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you can find one that just does it all the time. Yeah, yeah, there you go. We already fixed that for you thank you winter walking plan? You can check that one off winter walking got my new service.
Speaker 3:I there you go yeah, um, some people have already started, some people have finished their holiday shopping.
Speaker 2:Oh, you know, if I bought something right now, I would forget about it by December and I would find it in February, even though I don't have to hide anything anymore, I know no, that wouldn't work for me either.
Speaker 4:I'm more not super last minute, but it's gotta be at least December.
Speaker 3:Yeah same, I rarely start before I feel like Thanksgiving for me. Once Thanksgiving is over, now I start holiday shopping family recipes that you want to share with your kids.
Speaker 2:Perfect time to get working on this now, especially in the fall, when it is colder and you don't want to go out. What a perfect time to sit down with a football game on and your. You know your recipe books. Or you know the old church ones that you know. You have one church cookbook and you've got three kids that all want that you know. Take the recipes out of there, do something online with them. Or the photos, the family heirloom photos. I'm sure, kitty, that over the past, you know six months, when you were prepping your mom and dad's house for this move, you probably came across a ton of photos that both you and Jennifer would like to have. Fall's a perfect time to, you know, make some copies. And Stacey and I talked about it, don't just think about what you want, but what would Bo like to show his kids at some time? Or you know these things that we go through. Now's kind of a good time. I got my knitting out the other night Getting ready.
Speaker 4:Getting ready. It's been a while since I've picked up my knitting. I look at the bag every once in a while and say huh.
Speaker 2:And then I go do something else, something else.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, it's time to. Yeah, we'll see Fall crafting. Yeah, this is also a good time to think about what you want to do outside for holiday lights, oh yeah, and get those holiday lights up before it's 20 degrees yes, assuming you took them down last spring.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there are some, that's right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there are so many things that that uh can be done right now, and uh first step would be to make a list there you go, I agree, list.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hey, I've been using a really good app that helps with that. Have you guys used? It's not really an app, I guess maybe it is Google keep. Oh no, this is really cool. It's a freebie on your bar. You know, google keep works with your cell phone. It's like having a post-it note where you write things down and there's a check box. So as soon as you do it it goes underneath the bar so you can see what you've accomplished and you can pin them to the top. So I use it for each home that I sell. I've got it. I've got a post-it note kind of looking thing for each one of them, a memo for each one, and so when I get it done it goes to the bottom. But it's just super slick to reach it on my phone and add to it. I have one for grocery store stuff, but it's that running list with a checkbox.
Speaker 2:There's something so enjoyable about a checkbox?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then it aligns with the whole.
Speaker 2:Thing.
Speaker 4:That's a good one, I'm glad you brought that up because I'm definitely a lister and I do a lot of. You know, I do a lot of it on my phone. I even anymore go to meetings and start taking notes on my phone instead of writing them down and then forgetting it anyway. Yeah, so that's a good one.
Speaker 2:Yep, that might work. That's awesome Google Keep, google Keep. That's awesome Google Keep, which, if you were going to get ahead of the game for your Christmas holiday, you could start your ideal list.
Speaker 1:So when you?
Speaker 2:see something when you're out, or you see something TV magazine, or somebody mentions something you could put it and know where to find it. Mm-hmm, instead of the random what did did I? Where did I write this? Where did I keep?
Speaker 4:it something I wanted to, and then forget what it was yep, I can't ever find anything.
Speaker 2:And is it in the files? Is it in my icloud? Is it in my google drive?
Speaker 3:yeah, is it in?
Speaker 2:the photo? Is it in instagram saved?
Speaker 3:yeah, so yeah we're just we're keeping too many things in our memory and or trying to keep too many things in in our memory like things that we used to be able to and don't. I don't want somebody saying well, it's because we're old, no, it's because we are. We're taking in so much and we're multitasking all the time. It's just at capacity.
Speaker 2:And the synopsis might not be firing at the same speed that they used to.
Speaker 3:Speak for yourself. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2:Okay, you medical marvel, All right. Well, hey, speaking of remembering things, Kitty, did you say did you ever get that Laura Geller makeup?
Speaker 3:Yes, and I came prepared tonight to give my review. Oh, let's hear it. Okay, okay. So I have the products here with me and I am going to start off by saying I don't know where I have I been under a rock, because you two knew about this brand, did you not? Yeah, okay. And other people that I've talked to have said oh, yeah, yeah, I've heard about that. I am a big fan, really, yes. So here are the products that I bought. So I bought the primer and the primer comes in.
Speaker 3:That is not there we go the primer in a few different I guess. I guess shades but also just sort of it has a little bit of a shimmer to it so and I've always used a primer. So you know I like the concept of that, so primer. And then I selected the baked products, so the baked foundation.
Speaker 2:Yep, with all the different colors in there.
Speaker 3:Yep, and it really it wasn't hard to, you know, figure out online what my color match was going to be. I don't have great light in here, um, but that's the foundation. And then, um, a blush. And then I also grabbed just a little highlighting, um, just a little height highlighting, just a little height highlighting. Oh, that's really not coming up. I can I can put a link to this but just a little highlighting shimmer that I just put right here.
Speaker 3:Here's the thing this makeup stays on all day. Is it cream or is so that's a, it's just, it's a powder. And so I've got, I've got one of those dual sided brushes the brush, the brush I bought from dibs, um, and so, on the one side it's a really dense powder or it's a really dense brush, um, then I use that for the foundation, and then the other side is a little bit uh, looser brush, and that, um, I could use with the blush, but I'm actually using that dense side for both, but it's, it's quicker than any other makeup that I've put on. So I'll do that primer and then I'll go do something else, just to kind of let that set for a little bit, and then I'll take that, you know, dense side of my brush, and I'll just, you know, swirl it around, and then I'll just, you know just once over that's the foundation, and then I hit the cheeks with the blush.
Speaker 3:A little bit of shimmer right there, and I have had so many people compliment my makeup. Nice, right there, and I have had so many people compliment my makeup.
Speaker 4:Nice, so that's what? Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 3:So it's a noticeable difference yes, and the key and this is what I was struggling with before I couldn't find something that didn't accentuate my fine lines and wrinkles, and I think it was because I was using a liquid foundation. I think the key for me with these and I'm guessing that's why she formulated these this way, because they are formulated for mature skin is that this, you know that baked, that super dense powder, it's not going to accentuate all of those, it just sort of blurs everything. I am a huge fan.
Speaker 2:Well, that primer might be really good too, because a good primer, you know, takes care of that. Yep yeah.
Speaker 3:It starts the starts the blur. So and I'm just you know, I haven't been using a setting spray. I've usually used a setting spray and I haven't and it stays all day long. So I'm thrilled. And it's really reasonably priced too, and I want to say right now there's a big sale.
Speaker 2:Oh, I think I saw it too, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:All right, we'll review. I think I'll try it.
Speaker 3:Good, I hope you love it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I remember when we did one episode where we talked about things, we got influenced. I talked about the Boomstick Trio. So if you're still interested in that, they have a new color. If you order the trio, you get a free eyebrow thing with it. But what I'm also going to say is I switched to Bobby Brown. Remember the shoot? I can't even think what it was.
Speaker 2:Did you do the Bobby Brown sticks? No?
Speaker 4:It was the foundation. The foundation is the thing that I've been looking for. The boom sticks are different, but the foundation so, and I really liked it at first and I still. Now I'm getting more wishy-washy at it as I get to the bottom of the. You know the little tub tub of it.
Speaker 4:It's getting a little more. It's kind of like separating, getting a little more oily. You know what I mean, you know, and I still have maybe a fourth of it left. But that's the thing. That's why I went. I moved from a powder because they said, well, this is what you need, because the powder does set in your wrinkles. So you know, I don't know what you need because the powder does set in your wrinkles. So you know, I don't know. I'll try it, I'll keep trying different things.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah and and I mean I mean really, I don't know how something will not settle in your fine lines and wrinkles. So I was trying to be realistic with myself, you know and saying you're not going to get something that you're going to put on and you're gonna look 35 again, right?
Speaker 4:yeah, right, but the piece that it's a little easier and stays on all day, I like that yeah piece of it yeah, good to know.
Speaker 2:Awesome, all right. Well, all sorts of new things to try, as we're changing our mindset and going into the fall Stacey with a good attitude.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I'm going to be thinking as I'm being forced to walk my building. Okay, yeah, maybe it'll be good for me. Yes, everybody, pull out those credit cards, look at what you're being charged. Make the phone calls and save yourself money. Because, then you can buy Laura Geller makeup.
Speaker 4:Yes, that's right. Yes, when you're running on better things, all right.
Speaker 2:If anybody else has some good tips on what we should be doing as we change into the fall, let us know. Yeah, you stinkers out there. You send us each individual messages and you're too much of a chicken to put your comments out there.
Speaker 4:Comment on threetails In.
Speaker 2:Be brave. Yes, you can do it.
Speaker 4:You can, we know you can. All right, all right.
Speaker 1:Cheers, ladies. Bye, bye, bye. All right, I got that. Wow, who wants some handsome right now? All right, need an invitation. I'm about to start a celebration. Let me, in Brought a good time with some friends. Turn it up loud past 10. Turning up the crowd when I hit them with the power.
