GRWM: LIFE UPDATE! * WHERE IS BABE? * STARTING MY OWN BUSINESS * BORED WITH MY JOB * HOME UPDATES *

uh [Music] hey lifestyle lovers welcome back to it's e lifestyle and if you are new here welcome my name is erica my channel is called it's e lifestyle and it's all about creating a good lifestyle okay lifestyle lover so today is going to be like a little life update video as well as they get ready with me today is my grandson's birthday party so i'm just gonna kind of do my everyday pretty much everyday makeup routine using pretty much all fancy products i think i have like let's see one two three four five six seven eight nine ten lemonade like 12 products that i'm going to use i don't do a lot for my face but um i'm gonna go ahead and make it up today because i may even take some pictures as well but while i do that i'm just going to give you guys like a little life update now i did not reach out for any specific questions so i'm just going to kind of discuss some topics uh that i think you guys may be interested in um if i did not answer any questions in this video you can ask you can ask them down below if i have more than 10 questions then i'll do like another update video but if it's just like one or two questions then i'll add i'll answer them um in the comments below so let's go ahead and get started okay i've already moisturized my face i used a merid moisturizer as well as a glam glow moisturizer so i'm going to use the professional pearl primer as my primer which i'm almost out but it kind of gives you an additional glow as well i have my mirror right here so i'm gonna look straight ahead and then i'll just kind of reach over here and look at you guys [Music] most of you know that i work in transportation and logistics that is my career i've been working in that career over 20 years i went to college for that i have a degree in transportation and logistics as well as multiple certifications up under that pre that umbrella transportation i also went to uh grad school for supply chain management but i did not complete my degree but i do plan to go back so i'm using the concealer um fancy beauty 385 so i'm just going to put that up under my eyes and i have a little bit of hyperpigmentation over here looks like i have a pimple right there i don't know if you guys can see it but i always start with some concealer i'm just gonna kind of smooth it out and then i'll blend it in with a beauty blender so i've been on the same job for about 19 years um i will say that i am kind of getting bored with my everyday work so i did tell my manager just recently that i am getting bored sitting behind the computer every day and i want to kind of get into training i want to be able to move around i want to be able to talk to people i want to have like a active role and i just don't want to sit behind the computer every day probably the most active i am in my current role is like you know if someone has has an issue they'll call me over the phone on my cell phone and then i'll kind of you know talk them through it or whatever but i want to i want to have a person-to-person role that is my goal um in my current career i actually um my plan is to retire from the company that i work for um that's my plan i don't know if that's god's plan but that's important to me because if i can make it to retirement which in my opinion is not a whole lot of years left then i'll have a full retirement check coming in as well as a pension so whatever i decide to do outside of that i will have that income which is very good it's very good if i can if i can make it to that point um i'll be making just as much money as i am getting up and going to work every day so that that's most definitely my goal um you know what i forgot a step i forgot a step i don't usually do this but this is like a color corrector it's made by smashbox but because i suffer from you know kind of like under eye you know the darkness up under the eye i meant to do that first but this talking has me kind of forgetting some steps but i'm gonna go ahead and just place it it just helps um just helps give you more coverage under the eye and i don't typically do that but i pulled it out because i hadn't used it in a while um but yeah so let me just blend that in i do want to start my own business my plan was actually to start it this year but it didn't work out that way so um due to no fault of anyone other than my own but i do want to kind of push that goal off to next year i do have some things that i want to do before i do my business just simply because it'll make me a little bit more confident in um starting my business i don't necessarily have to do these things but i want to do these things for me um i just feel like it'll be better to have those as part of my credentials so i'm not going to talk too much too much about my business venture or me starting my business just know when i started and i come to and i come and i tell you guys about it it's going to be done so but i do plan to do it next year um prayerfully and so i'm gonna go in with my pro filter hydrating longwear foundation i just recently bought this it was 50 off at sephora and i am loving it so far so i just did one pump i'm not gonna go too much in on the makeup today but you know i want to be cute i want to be a cute me mom so yeah so just uh hopefully i'll be starting my business next year and as i stated when i come and tell you guys about it it'll already be done so i'm not gonna talk about it imma be about it okay [Music] i have been dating the same person who i refer to as babe on my channel um over a year now it's been over a year um but but if you have been watching me actively then you will already know that i told you guys babe suffered a major loss in his life his entire family did and um you know he's going through a lot right now so you know continue to keep him in your prayers him and his entire family as far as me and him are concerned we are not where we were this time last year um as far as you know we were i was saying a better place this time last year and um although i wish i could place all of the blame on him i really can't um i have i take some responsibility for us not being where we should be um if we were if we will get back to that place i can't really say right now um i hope so you know i want to get back to that place i want us to kind of be in a good place but as i stated you know he's going through a lot right now and um people that are grieving they're in a different state of mind you know they're in a different state of mind and so um you know so far as us is concerned it's kind of like on the back burner because he's dealing with you know of course more important you know things um but yeah so that's where we are uh you know we we pretty much you know we still communicate you know almost on a daily basis but we're not in the full dating mode that we were this time last year and as i stated you know you know there's still no you know it's it's multiple reasons but hopefully we'll get back to where we used to be that is my goal you know if that's if that's what god has for me we shall see you know i come on here all the time and i kind of you know tell you guys to kind of be encouraged and you know give you these you know kind of positive affirmations but just as much as i give you guys those positive affirmations i have to tell myself that have to always remind myself that you know whatever god has for me i'm going to have and i have to constantly believe that because we always want things to go a certain way and then when they don't go that way you know we're mad or we're sad or we're we're trying to push them in in that direction and it just may be that god has another plan for us sometimes it's in love you know sometimes it's it's in our jobs in our career you know we may want a a particular promotion at a current job when we don't even realize god has a better opportunity a better job paying more it might not even be for the same company or in the same city but you know we just we try to make make things work but it's not working because it's not in god's plan so i have to always remind myself that you know whatever god has for me i'm gonna have it doesn't matter if it's love it doesn't matter if it's house career whatever money whatever whatever god has for me i'm gonna have and i have to constantly remind myself of that anytime things don't go the way that i think they should go i want them to go um because he have he has proved that to me thus far and i'm going to tell you guys kind of like a little story this is my highlighting concealer it's in the color 360 still fenty beauty most of you know i live in a town home and i was specifically looking for a town home when i was house when i was you know house hunting i wasn't looking for a single family home because i did not want to have the responsibility of having a yard and all of that stuff let me kinda that's i'm just adjusted the lighting um but when this townhome came on the market i was actually out of town and um and my realtor called me and i believe it was mother's day if i'm not mistaken but she called me and she said that um she said that there was a house on the market and she think it kind of matched the things on my wish list but the house was up under contract so she said i want you to see it just to kind of get an idea you know if if this is what you're looking for she said but i will tell you you know don't get your hopes up because the hou the house is up under contract and like i said i think it was mother's day i was out of town and she told me she said if you don't mind meeting once you get off the plane then we can meet and i was like that's fine you know so we met i looked at the house i it had everything that that was on my wish list everything that i had on my wish list it had um but as i stated before the house was up under contract so um this is the pro filter powder in the color honey so i'm dropping it but i'm gonna go ahead and let it sit up under my eye for a little bit um just to kind of set my highlight and concealer i'm gonna go get my iced coffee that i have in the refrigerator so i'll be back okay lifestyle lovers so i'm back i just had to go get my iced coffee i'm trying to keep all my energy today because i want to have fun with the kids so as i was stated the house was up under contract um but it was everything on my wish list it was in the price range it had all of the things that i wanted which was mainly like a loft area when my realtor connected with the other realtor she was able to find out although the house was up under contract it was pending i want to say a binding fee i can't exactly remember but the buyer had to pay um a particular fee and they were not going to have it until a date or whatever the case may be so the only way that i was able to kind of take the offer was if i paid that fee whatever it was i think it was maybe like two thousand dollars i want to say it was a binding fee but i'm not 100 sure that it was a binding fee so my realtor she said well this offer is only contingent if they pay that fee and she was like you know if you want to snatch it from up under them you know if you got the money you know whatever so she was like you got two thousand dollars however much it was i guess it was two thousand dollars and i was like yeah and she was like go get the cashiers check blah blah blah and just like that the house was up under contract for me and not not for them um you know so i didn't see that coming you know like i said when i came to look at the house i knew it was up under contract i was not expecting to have an offer on it but just how it worked out you know is is it's a lot of things that i don't really foresee coming good things have happened in my life and i never never seen him coming you know sometimes it's tangible things you know you know like you know a house of course is tangible um sometimes it's intangible things you know it might be people or you know love or friendships you know something that you didn't see going going and then you realized later that it was for your good so i have to kind of always tell myself that when i get sad about things not going the way that i think they should go but sometimes it's for the best we just can't see it right then so um so yeah so if you guys were wondering about me and babe hopefully we'll be able to get back on track right now he's going through a lot in his life you know so i'm just trying to be there for him the best way that i know how and um but you know hopefully and prayfully we'll get back on track you know because i'mma be honest for my own selfish reasons um i feel like as far as me and babe is concerned i've done the vetting process you know he's met my kids my grandkids my sister my brother you know most of my close friends and family vice versa i've met his immediate family i trust him you know and it takes a lot for me to trust somebody you know not just a man just people period you know so um there's nothing that he or i did to violate the relationship so it's nothing like that it's no nobody else involved you know if you're thinking that but you know once you kind of get past the vetting process you know what you know people have met your your close friends and family you trust them i really don't want to do that again i mean i'm not going to say i don't want to do that again but i will i would rather work on somebody that i've already went through that process with opposed to start the process over with someone else i'll just say it that way so i'll keep you guys updated on that i'm gonna go ahead and do my eyebrows off camera so i'm gonna come mama come back i don't do much to my eyebrows because as you can see they're pretty much non-existent um my daughter she call them little hooks i don't have like a big thick brow brow brow so i don't have to do a lot to it um but what i'm using is the anastasia brow wiz it is in the color dark brown so that's what i use to kind of fill them in i do have do i i have this uh this milk makeup kush fiber brow gel i kind of use this sometimes i don't even use this every day i'm trying to get fancy for y'all i'll use this at the edge to kind of make them a little darker at the edge but when it comes to my brows i don't really know what i'm doing so don't don't watch me to highlight my brow i am going to use what is this it's the anastasia brow pro pencil so you know how people used to use the uh the um what it the concealer i'm gonna use this pro pencil so i'm just gonna kind of like shape them and then i'll blend this out [Music] so as far as the house is concerned my next project what i want to do is i want to get the wall knocked out downstairs and i want to do you know do like a staircase that is what i want to focus on next i do not have a a price of how much that is going to be i d i do know i'm going to let i'm planning to let my contractor brian do it the same person who did the fireplace but i know he gave me a list of all the materials that i need the materials are probably a couple of hundred dollars i have not start to purchase anything yet but that is what i want to do next my goal is to have that done before christmas so i really there's no reason why i have not purchased the materials just me moving slow but that's the next next thing i want to do it's really a lot that i want to do i get a lot of questions i know someone just recently asked me was i planning to change the floors out downstairs in the kitchen i am you know i really want to do that i really want to do a complete kitchen makeover but everything costs money especially you know home renovations so it's it's so much that i want to do but i don't want to be in the poor house trying to do it and as you can see it's just me you know i don't have a husband i don't have a boyfriend i don't have a sugar daddy i don't have nobody to help me um so you know everything that i do that you guys see me do as far as the home renovations really anything it comes directly from me you know i i thank god for you know having multiple streams of income because you know everybody doesn't so you know i i do thank god for it but i can tell you just as quick as the money comes in it's going out it's always it's always something to be done it's always gonna go in i just recently bought this bobby brown this is like a cream shadow stick that you put like uh you know as a like eyeshadow and i'm not like a big fan of eyeshadow it's it's it's in the color cashew so it's a neutral color so um i'm just going to put it over my top lid and i'm going to blend it out with my fingertip so yes so that's the next thing that i plan to do as far as home renovations is the stairs so i've kind of been looking at the type of um balusters that the iron spindles that i want um i really know the ones that i want it's just me go ahead and getting everything and then i have to find out how much the labor is going to be because as i stated i did not get a price on the labor uh which is the most important thing that i need to be doing and so under my eyes i'm gonna go in with the charlotte tilbury airbrush flawless finishing skin perfecting micro powder this is in the color medium and this also kind of helps brighten up your eyes it works like as an airbrush finish so i'm gonna dust my under eye with that my son mookie most of you know my son he's doing uh okay in school we had a rough year last year so he is in a mentorship program so now he is stepping um the progress report the first progress report wasn't that great but it was okay um so you know family is on track my daughter's doing well she'll be graduating from nursing school in a couple of months everybody is happy and healthy i thank god for that so as far as immediate family is concerned you know we just taking it day by day [Music] i'm trying to keep up with with youtube um sometimes it can be a challenge because it's a lot of work just a lot of work but it's something that you know i love to do so i'm just trying to keep up i just hope you guys you know just continue to rock with me be patient with me you know just understand that it's you know it's a lot of work i have my days just like everybody else i you know i have good days i have bad days i have days where i feel uh discouraged i have days where i feel um that i'm not doing enough i have days that i feel that i'm not growing fast enough but as i stated the same way that i come on here and encourage you guys i have to i have to do that for myself too so sometimes i have to take like mental health breaks and just kind of disconnect sometimes it'd be from youtube instagram facebook whatever you know it can be draining at times it's a lot to keep up with you know comments engaging you know just making sure that i'm communicating with you guys and stuff like that sometimes it can be a lot you know just not just for me and i'm i'm little you know but um i can imagine what it is you know for somebody that's you know really has like a lot of followers like a big social media influencer so um it can be a lot sometimes so the last thing that i'm going to go in is with my mascara this is the better than sex mascara i don't know about it being better than sex but it's a good mascara so yes lifestyle lovers so um if you have any questions that i did not answer leave them in the description box i'm going to go ahead and start getting ready for the party but this is pretty much what i do every day so when i come on here and i have my makeup done as you can see i told you guys i use 12 products i will list them in the description box if you are interested um i like a real simple look not too dramatic i am going to go with a red lip which i'll come back on camera and show you guys but it will be the sephora lip stain forever red or something like that i can't think of the name but it'll be in the description box i hope you enjoyed this video lifestyle lovers um if you want to see more videos like this just let me know [Music] found myself inside all this tension a feeling i never was expecting okay lifestyle lover so that's pretty much it for this video i am now dressed ready to go i think i used about 12 products in this video um maybe a little less because the concealers are two in the same just two different colors um probably about 14 if you actually add the lip products which i just lined my lips with a ruby wu lip pencil from mac and then i filled it in with the sephora lip stain i will list all of the products in the description box if you are interested as i say that i don't do much but this is the look that i love this is the look that works for me i hope you enjoyed this video i believe this is the first time that i've actually filmed a video like this but if you are interested in me filming more videos like this or you just want me to do one maybe dedicated to my career or maybe dedicated to dating or love or something that's just you know specific related let me know in the comments below i hope you have a great week a great weekend whenever you're watching this and i'll see you on the next video bye

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Length: 30min 0sec (1800 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 26 2021