Learn how I help my over 50 skin when it's breaking out and irritated.
After years of random skin rashes and flare-ups and still no answers as to why, I have found some incredible products that not only calm the skin but also reduce the appearance of wrinkles, eye bags, dark shadows and that dreaded redness
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Hi everybody, welcome back to my channel. My name is Sally and I love to help women feel good over 50
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Today's video is all about this look that I've created whilst hiding a little skin flare up that I'm going through
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I'm going to share with you some products that I've found that have been fantastic for redness, for wrinkles
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and for those blue, purple, dark shadows that we sometimes get. If you're new here I would love you to subscribe and hit that notification bell
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I love to help women over 50 with health, wellness and beauty and all things looking
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good and feeling great. Today I'm having a particularly bad day and I thought I'm going
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to scare it, be vulnerable, no filters. This is me today, so it's Sunday, I can't remember the date
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but this is post a really horrible flare that I had 10 days ago, almost 10 weeks ago
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I just wanted to show you the products that I use which are really gentle on the skin so if you
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suffer from redosia or breakouts, maybe menopausal breakouts or even a tressimo in purge retinol
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when you have that kind of the ugly stage of retinol where your skin is breaking out and purging
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then this is the video for you. Since 2017 very sporadically I will have a huge rash appear on my
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chest, my face, sometimes the back of my hands and my neck. Nobody knows what it is, it's so
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infrequent that we can't pinpoint an actual thing that has reacted or caused the same reaction
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Something's going on but please watch my video that will be up later this week where I am going
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to document my whole journey. So first up, I've always always loved to prepare my skin with good
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moisturizers, hyaluronic acid, things that I've used for years. So before anybody says
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is it a changing skin care, the answer is no, it definitely isn't. So I absolutely love
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Ombre Olisse, Ombre Olisse Le Creme Concentrate or Concentre, it is absolutely my number one
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product. I do not run out of it, in fact even at this stage I'm going to be looking to reorder
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because I won't be without it. It is like nectar on the skin, it feels really velvety, it's the
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perfect perfect foundation or base for your foundation. It's just filled with lovely
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shea butter, it's got aloe vera so it's cooling, it's calming, it's beautiful. That's number one
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The second thing that I highly recommend you use or get is Arborium. This is Arborium CC Cream
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this one here is in their shade Clare. It is a skin care and base, so it's a CC cream and it's
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got beautiful skin care products. So it's calming, it helps with pigmentation, it helps calm sensitive
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skins and redness. The other thing which I am new to, which I am loving at the moment, is the
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Arborium BB Cream. So this one is a thicker version, slightly more concentrated version, of their
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regular BB cream. This one has been stained in it, it's got niacinamide I think, it is really really
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good. I'm using the shade, let me just put my readers on here, Nude. So this is Nude and it is a
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brilliant one for any kind of pimples or anything like that and also for dark shadows. Sorry, just
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waiting for the camera to focus. The first step is, I am going to pop on the Umbre Elise, a tiny little
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bit, don't need a lot. It is very rich, I do use this in the evening as well because I love it
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and I'm going to pop that everywhere, all over my face and then with my ring fingers I'm just going
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to pat that underneath my eyes. It will help with your fine lines and wrinkles as well. Get that
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let me take these off because they're digging into my head. If anybody was interested in these readers
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they're actually from Amazon. I know, trying to get away from my little mirror light, they are obviously
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a little large but I quite like the retro, preppy look about them. I'll link up on the, underneath
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this video for those but just that when you're looking for readers, they very often, they're just
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that generic shape so it's nice to find something that's just a little bit different. So that's the
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Umbre Elise on and next, and you can allow it to soak in but I found actually it works pretty much
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instantly. Next, I'm actually going to use the Agorium and that's the CC Clean. Now this comes
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about right and then it adjusts onto your skin, so I'll give myself a squeeze of that. You don't need a lot
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so that will do and I'm going to pop that on all over. Look, you can feel something goes a long way
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and then really rub it in, being gentle around your eyes and I do pop it around my eyes as well
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I like to pat around my eyes, keeping things...is that ding-dong really irritating me
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Let me just move that off my wrist. There we go, that better? Definitely if you've been sitting on
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a headset or your earbuds then yeah, you've probably already switched off, thank god
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Okay, so look at that. Look at that already. Now I'm not suddenly, you know, cover girl of Vogue
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but I have just settled that down. How fabulous is that? I love this product. It's from Amazon
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I'll link up below. Absolutely love that and just look and it really sits beautifully with the
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Ombre Elise. I feel like the two together just make the skin feel so nice. It feels like velvet
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on the skin but you can see it's just brought down that awful redness. The next thing I'm going to do
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is use a tiny bit of the BB Cream. I will use this again after I've applied my foundation
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So when I say tiny bit, trust me, I'm literally a tiny bit. So I'm going to warm that up with my
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ring fingers. I'm just going to pat a little bit in the corner of my eyes and across my red bits
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and then across my blue bits. I have got, it's quite hereditary but being a natural blonde, blue-eyed
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very fair, do get quite bluey-grey under eyes and makes you look quite tired. So look, can you see
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how I'm being really gentle and I am just passing. It's where you've got the darkness, that's where
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it should be going. Right, the next product which I wanted to show you that I'm loving at the moment
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is this foundation that was recommended as a dupe for Dior Forever. I can't remember the foundation
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name, I will remember it. But this is Wet n Wild Foundation. It's the dewy illuminating one
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photo focus. It's absolutely gorgeous, really really good for older skins. It's a medium coverage
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it's a glass bottle which I like but it's got this silly little, go plastic applicator. But it is
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quite liquid, you don't need a lot. Pop that on. I will use my fingers again and all I'm going to
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do, I know I keep looking at myself but I'm looking at myself in the camera as opposed to
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my mirror. So let me look in the mirror. There we go, how's that looking? Nice, right? That yellow
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is from my lamp. I'm not yellow, sorry. It's the lamp. Look at that. Yes, it's a medium coverage
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yes you can still see my texture and tone underneath but it's definitely better. So I've
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turned that lamp off because it is giving me a rather strange jaundiced cheek and now you can
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see the colours a little bit better. I'm now going to put some bronzer. I'm going to give myself a
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dusting of bronzer. Now a little top tip, if you're going hollow around your temples, that I am, you
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know, 54 years old, these are the sort of things that start to happen, then what I suggest is be
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careful of putting anything too dark in this area. Your eyes are fine, anything that's dark will pull
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away, anything that's lighter will pull out. So what we want to do is give the illusion of plumpness
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and youth and rejuvenation but what we don't want to do is cause anything that perhaps is
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cinching in a little bit, lines and wrinkles or hollowing, to look worse or accentuate it by
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making them look darker. So the bronzer that I'm using is the classic Chanel. It is the lighter of
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the Les Beiges and I've just got a regular bronzer brush. I'm going to go across my forehead, all the
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way down, a bit of colour there, across my cheeks, into my cheekbones. I like to smile so I can see the
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apples of my cheeks and across my chin and jaw. That just gives me a little bit of glow. So now I'm
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ready to do my eyes. I'll put my blusher on a little bit later. So I've just done a nice base
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Now I'm going to use an eye palette by Revolution. This is it, it's called Nudes. Wait for it to focus
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there we go. Ultimate Nudes. I've used it a couple of times. It's a nice palette. So the one that I'm
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going to use is this one here which is like a heather and this neutral little nude there. I won't be
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using any of the glitters. I'm going to the garden centre. So it's not particularly a busy Sunday. I'm not
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doing anything special. I just wanted to show you my makeup. So with a nice soft brush, I have got
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quite, they're not terrible, but I have got hooded eyes. You can see. But they, you know, I'm being
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realistic. I know they're not terrible but I have got hooding happening. So what I like to do is bring
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my darker shade higher up which will give the appearance of more space here. So it's a little
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trick. So I'm going to go in with this darker shade first of all. I'm going to tap off the excess and I'm
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going to come quite high. Oh it's a nice colour. Really quite high up and just making sure that I don't
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go too far down because that will give the appearance of the eye coming down. And then I'm
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just going to go just to the edge and the same on the other side. My eyes tested the other day and
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my eye test from my previous one which was last year was wrong and I could tell it was wrong
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because my eyes were constantly almost fighting each other. So I had my eyes tested on Friday
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retested and I said yes the strength that I've been described was incorrect. I'm short-sighted
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and then I'm going long-sighted and so it feels like my eyes are constantly fighting each other
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Oh it's been a nightmare. So I have these multi-focal contact lenses which are okay
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but I'm finding even now I'm struggling a little bit. So I just was really happy to get them tested
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again and to find out I wasn't going mad but my prescription was wrong. Right so that is the
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darker shade. Now I'm just going to go in with that lighter shade and pop it onto my what they
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call the movable lid which is this bit right up to your lash line and the same on this side
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On the brow bone I'm going to do something a little bit lighter still just so that we don't
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give the appearance of them coming down at all. And I'm going to go with this very pale, this is
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one from e.l.f. It's a nice little palette but it's quite old. I don't think they sell it anymore
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but it's a neutral palette. I think I've got it from Coupe Max. So that is my eyes almost done
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So going back to this colour here I'm going to just pop a little line of that under my eyes
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So this is just a liner brush and I'm just going to just kind of like flick it up because I don't
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really feel like I want to have a load of that liner underneath my eyes today. That's it and then
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there's this colour this is a little bit darker it looks a bit red let's try it. I'm going to just
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pop that across my lash line just dusting it again I'm not going anywhere particularly. There you go
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quite like that, it's alright isn't it? So I'm going to just have a quick tidy up. I've got this
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concealer brush so I'm just going to quickly tidy that up. So the mascara that I'm going to use
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today is the Maybelline Sky High. I really like it. I like this spoolie, it's one of those
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rubber ones. I quite like these but it gives a really nice coverage straight away. I do like it
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I'm just going to pop that on. I'll do as much as I can on camera and I'll do the rest off camera
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There we go. So I've applied my mascara and I'm just going to do my brows. So for my brows I'm
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using an It Cosmetic, it's a double-ended brow pencil and spoolie. I really like this one. I
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find it's so creamy. It's a really nice one. So I'm just going to pop that through my brows
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quickly. There you go, that went off. Brush it through and that will give a nice
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diffused look. So now I'm just going to pop on a little bit of blusher before I forget. This one
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I will use from Beauty Pie. It's a really lovely peaky, I quite like the peaky colours. I'm going
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to pop that on my cheekbone and then bring it down. Big smile all the way across the apples of my cheeks
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That's my blusher and for my lips I'm going to use something really, really neutral. I've got a very
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old Becca lip tint, you can't get this anymore. There you go, that's my makeup done. I have to sort
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this hair out. I am off to the garden centre to find a pot for a crazy monstera. I tried to do it
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yesterday, still haven't managed to find the right pot but I just wanted to talk anybody through
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anybody that maybe is 50 plus, I'm 54 just for your reference, that is maybe going through some
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skin challenges and just to recommend these three products. So that once again was the BB Cream
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by Arborium. It was a super BB Cream. The CC Cream by Arborium and the West and Wild absolutely
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loved this one foundation and not forgetting as a makeup base the Andree Elise which is just
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superb. That's it. I hope you enjoyed this video. It was just a kind of a random get ready with me
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Seems appropriate as somebody that works in the beauty and aesthetics industry dealing with skin
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all the time, I'm having a skin struggle. Let me talk about it. Let me be really clear that skin
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oxygen, wrinkles, dark shadows, pigmentation are all normal and if we constantly hold ourselves
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to a standard that is nearly nigh on impossible to improve, we're never going to be happy with
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ourselves. So find products that you can use that will make you happy with your skin. Stop looking
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at photo shops and filtered images and just enjoy being you and if these products can help you feel
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a bit more confident, then go for it. I'll link everything below. Until next time, have an amazing day
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