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So here's the thing.
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I'm not saying that you're doing all of your hygiene wrong.
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I'm just saying that you should listen to me
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because I made some mistakes as a wee little babe on this earth and I don't want y'all to do the same.
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We all want to look good, smell good, be good all the time.
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But in a world of hygiene Olympics and 27 step routines, how can we get things down to the nitty-gritty to get
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the girls the information for what they actually need to do to have good hygiene, not just to smell good.
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I have a handful of tips from my girls and a lot of product recommendations that are budget friendly.
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Also when I like do those types of intros I'll be forgetting to introduce myself.
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Hey I'm Simone it's me.
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Actually I have a clip in.
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I don't want to have a clip in.
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What?
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Y'all need to see this hair now sister.
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Hold on hold on.
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Okay that's much better.
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So tip number one.
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You need to be regularly cleaning the things that touch your body.
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Yes we're gonna talk about like the actual hygiene parts
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and the cleaning yourself parts but what happens
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when you then clean your body real good
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and you put on the same t-shirt
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that you've been sleeping in for the past three weeks you know what i'm saying like it's counterproductive
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and stick with me it doesn't have to be
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that complicated we are going to build
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that habit into the rest of your routine
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if you have watched any of the girls videos then you know
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that they talk about changing your sheets your towels all of those things regularly to the average everyday working person
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that can sound very overwhelming how i want you to think about it is integrate it into a routine
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that you already have so for me i clean my home every single sunday now during
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that clean is when i take the opportunity to switch out all of the things
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that touch my body to keep me clean
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and to keep me feeling good that all happens on sunday
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so my bed gets stripped my towel
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that i use for the week gets replaced my rags my african net sponge my exfoliating gloves like literally any
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and here she goes do you have anything to say this is live journalism by the way we all know
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that it's not a real video until debbie is here i'm
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telling you as soon as she hears me talking here she comes every single time without fail
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but i am not insane i do do my duvet every other week
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because that is quite a bit of work but I noticed
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that when I don't do it especially my sheets
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because I lube myself up every single night before I go
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to sleep my sheets will feel like it functionally it is
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very important for all of these things to be clean
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because your towels
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that you're using to dry yourself off the things you use
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to cleanse your body your sheets all of them harbor sweat bacteria all of those things
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and that's okay because it's just you being a human being
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but getting in the shower and washing your body with the same rag
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that you've been used for the last two weeks girl
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it's kind of reversing all the work
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that you're trying to do by getting yourself clean
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so that's the functional reason why we need to be changing these things out
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and then the secondary reason is just fully
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because it feels good no shade once you create the routine
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of having fresh sheets fresh towels you will wonder how you ever not did
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that don't think also that that means you need to have 25 pairs of sheets
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and 30 different towels you really just need like two like
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genuinely like you just need a set to replace the set that you are putting in the washing machine.
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That's all.
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Here she is.
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You have to go.
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You do have to go, unfortunately, because I cannot concentrate.
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Attaching this habit to something that you already do will make it a part of your routine.
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And starting off with a small habit will eventually turn it into a routine
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and then eventually turn it into one of your non-negotiables.
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You'll get there one day, but we all got to start somewhere
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and you're somewhere it's just incorporating it into something
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that you already do second tip i wish
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that i prioritize my oral health so much more
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when i was growing up i'm gonna be real honest with y'all put down your pitchforks
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because this is just real life
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when i was growing up i brushed my teeth once a
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day i was always told to like brush my teeth
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but there was never an importance placed on like flossing
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and making sure you brush your teeth multiple times a day after different meals
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that just wasn't a thing in my household thank god my
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family like just does not have like bad teeth structurally
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so it wasn't detrimental
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that i wasn't taking the best care of my oral health however as i got older
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and just saw the shape of my teeth i was not happy with it
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so i knew that the second
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that i got a little piece of money i was gonna get my teeth done
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so i told myself if i'm gonna make this investment
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which would be one of the biggest investments i have made for myself to date
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and still is then i need to know i can steward it well
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so i started flossing very regularly
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and just as a side note justice for floss picks i love floss picks
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and some people will like get up on their high horse
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and be like floss picks aren't like real
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and it's not good enough girls say that to the girls
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that are disabled
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and cannot physically hold a string of floss to floss their teeth should they not floss at all
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because the floss pick isn't good enough like girl come on
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you gotta meet people where they're at i have a floss
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pick on me at all times i floss after every single
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meal i have a water pick i have it all
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but i started off the habit by just having something
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that was convenient for me to start flossing once i got
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that down i built up my routine slowly like then i got a water pick
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and i said okay and then i was doing more research
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and i said oh oil pulling is a thing then i
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incorporated oil pulling then i started to look into like what mouthwashes are the best
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and i'm explaining all this to y'all
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because you don't have to do every single step at once
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but for me the routine built over time because like i said, I was trying to show myself
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that I would be able to take care of what would end up being close to a $10,000 investment.
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So once I showed myself that I could steward the teeth that like I loved, God given, loved them, period, but didn't want them, you know, honey, I got my veneers and I was very,
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very confident that I would be able to take care of them well.
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And I do, I do everything that we just named.
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And then the other thing
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that I knew I was going to have to do once
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I got my veneers done was to wear night guards every single night.
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And you do that so that you're protecting like the enamel in your new teeth.
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So again, building the habit before I ever got the thing, let me know that I was going to be able to do it nightly.
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And I am so much to the point, like I cannot sleep without my night garden.
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Like it doesn't feel good to not have my night garden.
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Oral health is so important, of course, for the simple fact of like who wants to have bad breath, but also like your mouth affects so many other parts of your body health-wise.
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So I just don't want to play around with that and don't feel the need to spend a million dollars doing it.
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The toothbrush that I had, sister, it was electric, but it was like my mom got it for me from like the Benz store.
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If you know what the Benz store is, you're a real one.
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You know what I mean?
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And after years, she watched me using it.
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She was like, you need a new one.
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So she actually was trying to send me a new one and they literally, I'm not playing with y'all, accidentally sent me the sponsor of today's video.
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Like they sent me the toothbrush that is the sponsor of today's video.
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At the time, I did not know that because this happened a while ago, but I do think that it is pretty serendipitous.
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And with that being said, thank you to Suri for sponsoring this portion of today's video.
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If you've never heard of Suri, they are an oral health brand that is on a mission to transform everyday essentials that are purposely designed for life.
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Meaning their products are very aesthetic and you know your girl loves an aesthetic.
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It looks beautiful on my countertop, yes, but moreover, I love the carrying case of it all.
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And don't pay too much attention to my carrying case because it is a little beat up.
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This has become my travel toothbrush because it keeps my toothbrush in a UV cleaning case.
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Is that not insane?
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So my toothbrush is sanitized when I'm ready to use it.
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It is protected from rolling around in my travel bag
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when i went to aruba miss mama's was with me keeping
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my teeth clean every single day this girl also comes with a four week battery life
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so even if i did not bring the case
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which also has a charging component to it as well i
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would have been fine i would have never had my toothbrush rolling around in my bag
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but four weeks charge so if you want to just have sitting out on your counter
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and not charging that's fine
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because she'll be good for four full weeks as far as
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the feeling of using it it is a sonic clean
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but it is not aggressive at all it's one of the milder yet effective toothbrushes
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that i have used in my day personally and i think
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that a more pleasurable brushing experience does really genuinely help you
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to want to pick up your toothbrush more at the beginning of the day
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and at the end of the night because no one wants to use something
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that feels abrasive and like it's hurting them not only are the brush heads plant-based
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but they also offer a mail back program for them
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so i feel like that's just a really thoughtful part of
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the design on top of everything else suri was such a perfect sponsor for today's video
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because it gets to the heart of what we're going to be talking about in
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that your healthy habits do not have to complicate your life
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because when the habit is more convenient it is much easier to stay consistent so
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if you want to stay consistent with getting those pearly whites
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clean then make sure you use my code to get 15 off of your first suri order
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and thank you to suri for sponsoring this portion of today's video
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and my pearly whites welcome back it's not welcome back to
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y'all well y'all did just come from a commercial break however welcome back to me
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because it is actually hours later when i am filming this
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so if i look ever so slightly different don't mind
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that anyways on to point number three to my younger viewers
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or my girls that are still being shackled by the bonds of marketing
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and misogyny your vagina does not need to smell like roses
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or be bald in order for you to be clean
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and yes i understand the technical term is vulva i get
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that but i also think
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that a part of you know being a woman choice feminism
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is being able to do what you want to say what you want i have the intellectual understanding
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that it is the word vulva but i choose to call it a vagina
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sue me anyways the damage that summer's eve did to the girls will be studied
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and somebody needs to go to jail to pay for their crimes not just them
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but so many companies are making these washes for your vagina then rose scent
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and lavender and vanilla like no like that's not what your vagina is supposed to smell like
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and let's be clear your vagina has a smell
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and it's supposed to have a smell i am all for you knowing what
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that smell is because there's a difference between your natural scent
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and when you have something going on such as an infection
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and you need to be able to know and spot the difference
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but you're not going to be able to know that
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if you're always trying to make it smell like roses
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because that's not what it's supposed to smell like
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because it's an organ like would you expect your liver to smell like a rose like come on
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and the lesson that took me a
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while to like let settle in like I really had to
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undo the misogyny with this one body hair does not equal odor
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and this is something that is thrust upon women specifically
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because women are not allowed to grow hair under underarms
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because we do we stink but men can have enough hair to braid underneath theirs
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and we don't make it a thing about their hygiene at all same thing men can have
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so much hair around their privates and that's totally fine
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and manly but as soon as a woman has it it's unkept
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and she must smell bad
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if you want to keep a 70s style bush down there i love
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that for you me personally like it's a trim like it's just
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that simple i just hit a point where in my 20s
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i was like laying on the table yet again like getting the hair waxed from the bulb
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and i was just like this is so unnecessarily painful
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and i feel like i got angry on behalf of like all of my like ancestors
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that came before me like why do we do this to ourselves
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if getting wax genuinely makes you feel comfortable makes you feel better
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or shaving or laser or what have you like genuinely makes you feel better that's one thing
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but to all the girls they feel the pressure to keep doing it
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because you feel like it's one unladylike
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and two makes you dirty it is quite literally not true
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and on top of
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that stop shoving random stuff up your vagina to like make the smell neutral no random pearls
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and douches and creams and and this and
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that that's gonna make you wetter and slicker and hornier
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and like it's just i'm just so tired of this part
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that is ours that is so beautiful and so valuable and
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so sacred and
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so like perfect all on its own being policed all the
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time no more no more okay it's not a hygiene thing
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because i have talked to y'all about some of like i'm not a summer's eve girl
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but i do really like the v8 essentials vaginal wash i use
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that i I go over my booty crack with my glycolic acid slash witch hazel, run a little toner pad over my vaginal area,
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not inside of my vaginal area.
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That's something that I do for comfortability and I cannot recommend to y'all my chest because everybody has different sensitivities, but that's as simple as I keep it.
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That's it.
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It doesn't need to be all that.
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And please, my sisters, free yourself from the shackles of feeling the need
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to wax yourself bald and shove pearls and scented lubes up there to be appealing to what?
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A man?
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Like that's crazy.
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No, no, no more.
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Moving on to point number four, there is a difference between being actually clean and smelling good.
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And I think you need to prioritize being clean.
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Like I said at the beginning of this video, we live in the world of like the 27 step body care routine, the hygiene Olympics.
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Like I hear it and do I have routines like that literally posted to this channel?
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Yes.
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That for me is about self-care more than it is about functionality.
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what is functional for me is being clean
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and getting clean on a daily basis period point blank i
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know we see a lot of the girls using antibacterial soap as a first wash all over their body
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and i think that can be very beneficial for some of the girls like
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if you struggle with like body acne i think that
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that can be really helpful to go in with one depending
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on how sensitive you are like maybe once twice a week
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see how you feel you know for me mine is my dr bronner's castile soap love it
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and the peppermint scent i use that underneath my underarms
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and in my booty crack anywhere
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that is more prone to having like bacteria being there
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and then next i go in with my dove beauty bar in just the sensitive scent with my exfoliating gloves
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that is going to happen every single time i'm in the
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shower the sole purpose of those two things is just to get me clean there is no negotiable
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when i get in the shower those two things are going
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to happen actually three i'm going to clean my vagina with my VH Essentials Feminine Wash.
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Everything else is up to how I am feeling that day.
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That first cleanse needs to be functional.
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Leaving the shower smelling like vanilla is a plus, but it is not the reason that you should be getting in the shower
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and it is not the thing that's going to make you actually clean.
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Especially them underarms.
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For my girls that are wearing aluminum deodorant, there is a certain amount of real cleaning and scrubbing
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that you got to do in order to get that deodorant off your skin.
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Because the point of it is to coat the skin.
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I'm not going to explain it well, but coat the skin and make it so that your sweat is literally blocked.
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And then a lot of these things claim to work for 72 hours.
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So in order to form a seal like that, you're going to have to really work to scrub and get
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that off of you and the salt air vanilla body wash it ain't cutting it mama
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so prioritize being clean make that your go-to and your non-negotiable
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and then we can pile on everything else
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because the smell goods have not so much to do with hygiene
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and more so to do with the feel-good parts
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which is still very valid it's just not what you need
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and this video is about what girls need speaking of underarms
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and deodorant point number five sweat does not mean
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that you are dirty mama i was telling y'all in the vlog
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that i would have posted right before this
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that i do not consider sweat to be like a bad
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thing in fact like to go to the gym i wear a sweet sweat band like i want to sweat
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because i'm not a big sweater and in the same way
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that other women like enjoy having a period enjoy is probably like a drag
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but like they don't mind their period
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because it makes them feel like their body is working i feel the same way about sweat
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because i'm at home on a daily basis like i sweat
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super easily i'll be on my walking pad during a meeting
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and i will sweat within like the first two minutes of being on there
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because my pores are so open
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because i don't use aluminum deodorant i always tell y'all
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that like my form of deodorant is usually some type of astringent being a glycolic acid
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or witch hazel and years ago
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when i made the transition away from aluminum deodorant just for my own like personal choices
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and for health reasons when i did
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that i did a what did we call like a clarifying treatment i guess you could say on my underarms
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because it's very hard to stop using aluminum deodorant
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and then just start using natural deodorant a lot of people like get a rash under their underarms from doing
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that that's what i was starting to experience so i went in with a the bentonite clay, the Indian healing clay mask, that and apple cider vinegar, like you would put on your face or on your hair and put it underneath my underarms.
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And that served as like a reset.
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And it, when I say cleared out all of the things from underneath these underarms, honey.
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And after that, it was like, oh, this is what it feels like.
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Cause I had been wearing deodorant that stopped me from sweating for years and years and years and years and years.
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On top of that, I started taking chlorophyll regularly every single day
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and chlorophyll will act like an internal deodorant i think after
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years of taking chlorophyll to this day even though i don't take it anymore
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and i'm about to start taking it again i really do think
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that it has helped with like just my scent overall you can also run the glycolic acid
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or the witch hazel whatever you choose underneath places
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that are folds anywhere that's like dark
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and can harbor moisture you want to make sure to remove that bacteria because sweat does not stink.
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Your sweat coming into contact with the bacteria on your body is what causes body odor.
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So if you take the time to get rid of that bacteria, then the chances of you actually smelling bad from the sweat drop dramatically.
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I'm not playing with y'all.
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BO is not really a thing for me.
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Like no shade.
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It is so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so rare.
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It would have to be like a stress sweat thing where I'm like, oh my gosh, do I smell like something?
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Like it's so rare for me at this point.
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So be freed from the idea that sweating makes you disgusting.
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I actually think that sweating, especially like when you're working out is very admirable.
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It lets me know that you're putting in work, that you care about your body enough to like exert yourself.
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So I love that for you.
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I love that for us.
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You know, as long as you are cleaning your skin, it'll just be like a glisten and a glow.
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Speaking of things that can make you stinky, onto tip number six, The materials touching your body absolutely matter.
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The first place that that matters the most to me is your underwear.
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And I did not understand this at all growing up.
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Like I had no concept for the fact
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that like 100% cotton underwear is going to affect me and my scent differently than like a pair of lacy underwear would.
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Synthetic fibers in your vagina just do not mesh very well
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in fact like there is a specific pair of panties
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that i have they're like a seamless material like spandexy i wear them for very specific clothing pieces
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but i know that
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when i put them on i at the end of the
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day will have a coochie i will no longer have a properly cleaned vulva i will have a coochie
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and that's just the fact of the matter that's
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when it really was dawning on me of like materials really really really matter
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and i stopped wearing my underwear so freaking tight like i used to be
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so afraid of like being like granny panty i'm okay with
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being a granny panty mama i am comfortable in it first
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and foremost because i have to wear it like all day long
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so god forbid a girl want to be comfortable in a full brief you know what i mean
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and i wear fabrics that are breathable
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because the suffocation of your vagina inside of these synthetic fabrics is what's going to cause the odor
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that none of us are looking for not only am i looking out for fabrics
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that i'm putting up against my vagina but
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that also goes for my bed i really enjoy sleeping on
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satin pillow cases i do need to start transitioning into 100 like non-synthetic fibers
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because i know the ones
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that i have in my bed right now it's like a synthetic blend
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but even still the synthetic blend is much better than the other stuff
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that i was using years before i'll tell you
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that it not only feels better like sensorily to sleep on it is in fact just better for your skin
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and for your hair and
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while i'm at it we don't talk enough about the type
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of jewelry i'll be letting touch your body i'm not telling you need to go out
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and buy 100 gold cartier piece right now like i'm not telling you
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that but for me i have very very sensitive skin
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so growing up when i would just buy costume jewelry my ears would be on fire like crusting
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and like bleeding fingers would be turned and green from the jewelry
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that i'm putting on it is so unnecessary especially in this day
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and age i only have right now two very expensive pieces on
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but the rest of my jewelry is 100 stainless steel i forget the brand
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that i got the rest of my rings from
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but i will put it on screen it's quite popular the
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rings are pretty affordable same thing with my pandora bracelet my bracelets
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that i wear all the time are from amazon i have never taken them off
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and they are just 100 sterling silver you know all of
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them are affordable i will make sure to link them down below for you guys
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because i am a jewelry girl down okay
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if they're not going to be sterling silver then they at least need to be silver plated like bare minimum
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and good quality your ears is cracking
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and bleeding your coochie be smelling like a coochie your hair be frizzy
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and it's not necessarily because you are not taking the time to take care of yourself
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because you could be defeating all the work that you're doing on your hygiene just with the materials that are touching you.
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So let's swap these out.
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Easy peasy.
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Speaking of the things that are touching your body that I want y'all to stop doing.
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Tip number seven, y'all have to stop touching y'all's face.
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Y'all have to.
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And I know that this is going to really piss my skin pickers off, my pimple popping skin picking.
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Just need to see it squoze out, girls.
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I understand that I'm talking to a brick wall, but let me just say this.
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If you are someone
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that struggles with acne touching the thing popping the thing scraping
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at the thing is very very antithetical to your journey especially speaking as black women we bruise
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so much easier
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and then we have dark spots to worry about after it's not necessarily like bruising that's not the word
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that i'm looking for forgive me but it is
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so much easier for us to develop hyperpigmentation after a breakout
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me personally i just experienced a breakout on my forehead and it's all flattened However, I do have hyperpigmentation left behind from all of it
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and i am not a skin picker period point blank all
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it takes is for a bump to rise up on my skin
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and i will probably have some form of hyperpigmentation left behind afterwards
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but i will not be making that worse by picking especially especially especially
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when you have on makeup when your skin is dirty and when your hands are dirty non-negotiables
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because you go
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and you pick the thing with dirty fingers sending dirt into
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now an open wound on your face on dirty skin
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which sends even more dirt inside of that open wound
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and you wonder why you keep breaking out back to back to back
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or the bump will never really go away it's
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because you have to stop touching your face i'm
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so hyper aware of the fact that my hands are dirty
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and i don't want to disturb what i have going on on my face even
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when i can feel a good old pimple forming
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and we all all know that feeling i just let it
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and i know that it can feel uncomfortable
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because you feel like people are staring or whatever one no they're not and two
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if they are what the freak are you gonna do about
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it like to me like mentally think about like is it better for them to stare at a pimple
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or is it better for them to stare at a wound i need my skin pickers to listen to me
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and listen to me good i just want y'all to switch
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y'all mind to more future orientedness i am okay with suffering
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in the short term in order to benefit in the long term
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and that's just like a model
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that i have in my life you need to be thinking about like
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if i pick this right now that makes me feel better right now
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but now i'm causing a scar and damage
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that i will have to work much harder to repair you
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need to be thinking big bitch you don't need to be
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thinking small okay that's what i'm asking y'all to do and
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if you must must must must must pick your face especially
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while you're out please at least do
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so with clean hands bare minimum run a little little napkin
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a little something with a little piece of water over where
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you're about to pick something your face is dirty your hands is dirty you don't need to be picking
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and then sending that dirt inside the face I've said it one million times no more please
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and my last and final hygiene tip is about sleep hygiene
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and that is something
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that I am still working on as I record this video
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it is an ungodly time just due to the circumstances of my day
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but in general like sleep has always been a struggle for me
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and it's been something that I've been actively like prioritizing and making sure to care a lot more about in recent years, specifically in recent months.
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Because when I tell you every single professional that I meet with from my doctor,
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health coach, nutritionist, therapist, like every single person is asking me how much sleep I'm getting.
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And every single person is like, you're not getting enough of it.
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Your sleep is quite literally tied to
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so many different parts of your health like your mental health
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your physical health your weight that's why the girls are obsessed with the sleep scores okay me included i noticed
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that the higher my sleep score the better i do feel
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even though it's like really dystopian to like you know talk about sleep scores
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and be wearing like this tracker to bed every day it is really helpful to see a number
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when i wake up in the morning because
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that number will let me know how i'm gonna treat myself the next day
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because i no longer act like i am like mrs indestructible
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that's what me being a robot is like tonight i'm not going to get a lot of sleep
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because my morning tomorrow has to start relatively early so
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that means that one i'm going to work a nap into my day
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and or two i'm going to be going to sleep early
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that has become a non-negotiable for me also in order to
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help to like reverse my night owlness i started taking a
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low dose melatonin i think i've told you guys about this before not like melatonin gummies
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that you would take like to get to sleep a low
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dose melatonin is literally like 0.2 0.5 whereas like over-the-counter gummy is going to be like five milligrams
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or even 10 milligrams sometimes
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so this is like 0.2 to like half of one milligram you know what i mean
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and i started doing so because taking it at
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that low dose two hours before you want to start to
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get sleepy helps to trigger the brain i don't know
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if it's the amygdala maybe i don't know i could be making
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that up but it triggers the production of melatonin naturally in your brain
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that will help you get to sleep
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so i don't want to take melatonin to put me to
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sleep i want to take it to retrain my brain to start to get sleepy at an appropriate time
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and i have been doing that for a while now
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and that's really really helped me and then i make sure
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that like my nighttime ritual encourages the best sleep possible
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so like i shower before i get in the bed
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because i feel my best being clean between my sheets it's crazy
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that it's become such a part of my routine
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that like brushing my teeth is like i cannot do it
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if i don't do it i feel so i will get bad sleep
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because i feel so uncomfortable having a dirty mouth going to sleep this mouth gonna be clean honey
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that night guard is gonna go in i sleep with a
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sleep mask i put my mouth tape on i slide my slither my lubed up body between those sheets
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and i am out and i will be asleep all night long even with
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that being said it is the rewiring of my brain
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that i've been going through that rest is not earned rest is my god given right
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and i don't have to like have a hard day
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and do a bunch of things before i consider giving myself a nap
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or before i consider like taking myself to bed rest is my right
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and rest is your right it is not something
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that you have to earn and it is integral integral to your health
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and my health so we need to be taking it very very seriously
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and that brings us to the end of today's video thank you guys
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so so much for joining me i hope
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that you found my tips useful my goal in this video is to break things down in a way
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that feels sustainable to the everyday woman because i feel like the gap
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that we hit online is like us as creators
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and influencers have a lot more time on our hands to do more indulgent things than the everyday woman does
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so how do we merge those two worlds how do we make sure
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that not just women but people have like access to information
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and routines and products that can be streamlined to cater to somebody
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that does not have an hour to take an everything shower
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every night even for my busiest the busiest the busiest of everyday girls i want to simplify things down
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so that you can add things in sustainably
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if you can just add in one more step one more thing
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and integrate it into your routine it starts to become a habit
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and you can build off of that to make things more flowery and cutesy and fun should you wish.
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But I at least want my girls to get down the basics.
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I want y'all to get to a point where it feels weird not to do the thing
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because at the end of the day, good hygiene is not about being perfect.
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It is about being consistent.
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So I hope that this video was helpful with that.
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I hope that I was able to free you from the bondage of certain stigmas and certain thought processes.
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Pay attention to your body, pay attention to what touches your body, but overall pay attention to how you feel
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because as i've been saying lately self-care and taking care of yourself putting in
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that time and dedication is self-worth it is
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that serious treating yourself well reminds your brain
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that you love yourself well is too and i want
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that for all my girls and with
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that being said i'm gonna get the heck out of here i love you guys
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so so much and if you have any other hygiene tips
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that you feel like i missed any products
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that are your faves make sure to leave them down below
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and i will see you guys super duper soon in my next video bye guys
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What You'll Learn
This video is a goldmine for english speaking practice, especially if you want to sound more natural in casual conversations. You’ll pick up how to share personal tips with warmth and humor—key for connecting with others. Plus, you’ll learn to navigate conversational detours (like the speaker’s pet interrupting!) smoothly, a skill that makes real-life chats feel effortless. Finally, you’ll practice explaining routines clearly, which is useful for everything from talking about your day to giving instructions.
Listen For These Sounds
The dialogue is full of everyday connected speech. Notice how "want to" becomes "wanna" ("I don't want y'all to do the same") and "gonna" for "going to" ("we're gonna talk about"). There’s also linking: "stick with me" flows into "stickwithme," and "counterproductive" is often shortened to "counterprodutive" in fast speech. Reductions like "it's" becoming "s" ("that's much better") are common too. These sounds make English feel less stilted—listen closely to mimic them!
Say It Like a Native
To mirror the speaker’s rhythm, focus on stressing the right words. She emphasizes key points like "regularly cleaning," "budget friendly," and "functionally important" to keep her message clear. Pause slightly before big tips ("So tip number one...") to build anticipation, just like she does. For shadowing technique practice, replay short clips and repeat them immediately—try to match her tone (playful when talking about her pet, earnest when sharing advice). This "shadow speak" method helps you internalize natural pacing and intonation. Don’t worry about perfection—just aim to sound relaxed, like you’re chatting with a friend. The more you practice, the more these habits will stick!
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | you've been sleeping · have been doing · i've been going |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have watched · you've been · have made |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was always told · are disabled · being said |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.