selfcare sunday, cleaning, wrapping presents & discussing festive burnout (vlogmas day 11)

12th day of Christmas. I need to sleep. Hello

vlogmas

, welcome back to my channel if you are new here. My name is Britain Quaiden. I am 27 years old and from Perth, Western Australia. Welcome to the

vlogmas

for the 11th. I'm pretty sure it's the 11th. I thought since I'm filming this on a Sunday, even though you'll see it on Monday, I might do a little self-care style vlog because I mentioned it yesterday when I was doing the gingerbread house, but Christmas can be like that. It can be stressful and it's okay to do it, it's okay if you find this period of time stressful, but it's very important that you take care of yourself, whatever it is for you, filming vlogmas.

I really enjoy it, but my house has been getting a bit. messy so I'm getting a little overwhelmed again so I'd like to declutter my space. I won't go too deep into what I film because a few weeks ago you would have seen my deep cleansing video, so spend a little time going through the cleansing process and then I think we'll have a really calm day with some skin care, maybe I will wrap my first gift for the first time. I really hope I have duct tape. I forgot to look in the stores. tomorrow, but I really want to get that over with and then probably like a bubble bath, I might try reading my book, just a really chill home style Vlog, so have a coffee or tea, whatever you're vibe to, Sit back and take this as your reminder to take care of and give back to yourself this holiday season too, but let's get into the foreign

cleaning

part.

I'm telling you that you should run to Kmart and get this candle, it smells so good. Alright, by the way, if you don't have one of these yet, you should definitely get one of these cool gifts, so it's like a little USBC like a little uh, I don't know what it's called a lighter, so you can light your candles, Really cool, dude. I bought it for my birthday, so you should get it. I'm taking a break from

cleaning

and going to do a little puzzle because I haven't spent as much time on it as I would have liked and I love puzzles.

I think they are great for mindfulness. I'll show you what it looks like in case you haven't seen the Vlog where I got this accessory, the little light picture up here, so this is a photo I took in Europe. Yeah that's awesome, that's how I'm going so far, so I'm trying to find the last two pieces of Edge. I'm missing one here, one here and one here, so that's what I'm trying to do right now, but This is like a great gift idea. I don't know how long it took to arrive, but if you can't get it for Christmas, keep it in your mind because I don't know what an anniversary gift is if you already have.

I have a couple, a friend's birthday, some important event like what a great idea to get a personalized puzzle, that's what I'm working on and this is that table runner I bought from Kmart on the third day of vlogmas. I think I've spent a lot more time. than I should have tried to solve it, but I'm still missing a piece of Edge, which is very annoying, but I finished this whole section, which is great, it's like the people section of the puzzle, so I'm happy with that too with that piece. there really really really annoying I think now I'm going to go take a bath maybe light a candle there I'm not sure I'll read my book I've already taken a bath The only thing about baths I absolutely love them don Don't get me wrong, but I sweat a lot after go out, so I need to decide what to do.

My pajamas today are not very Christmassy because the shirt is in the washing machine right now, we are going to Halloween in October. I want to wrap my first gift, which is why I invited you, but before I do that I thought I'd show you the book that you would have seen while I was in the bathroom, so it's called Neuroscience of Self-Love. what does it look like, I don't remember if I talked about this in a weekly Vlog, but I did apologize, this is like a book I heard about on one of the episodes of Georgie Stevenson's Pro podcast, so she does the Rise and Conquer podcast yeah You don't know and she had an episode with the author of this book, so the author of this book, without talking about her story, went through postpartum depression and ended up studying Neuroscience to learn more. about how the brain works and all that and if you're like a self-love queen, self-love is kind of like if that interests you but you also like the scientific field and you like self-love but you don't want to go too or you just want to knowing the scientific benefits of self-love, this book, this book is for you, I just think it's really cool how there are so many narratives about the importance of self-love to try to get more people to do it.

So I wanted to mention it as we are doing our self love style vlog, a great Christmas gift too if you are involved, have a friend or know someone who likes self help books and see the quality for what it is. beautiful, it is a printed copy. I bought it at Kmart. I guess I mean it cost me 17. I admit it took me a few tries to find it because it was out of stock, but I just wanted to give it a little shout out. but I want to wrap my first gift. I'm going to wrap this one that I showed you in my Kmart Haul video.

This one is for work, so if you're looking and you're from my work, you didn't see this, but it's my Secret Santa gift for them, so I have two puzzles, I thought, since we did a puzzle before too, it's something as well as from the brand and I'm going to wrap this, so this is it, but honestly, I also have another great gift idea for Secret Santa. I need to choose what

wrapping

paper I want to make from Kmart. I could do the bush, uh, what's it called? I could make the snowflakes from the bush. I'm going to wrap it up too while I play YouTube in the background.

Foreign style

wrapping

papers, but I think. They go very well together. I need some practice because it was a lot harder than I remembered. To be honest, when I give a gift to my friends, it's usually in a gift bag, so I haven't wrapped it in a while. Actually, it's only at Christmas that wrapping skills come out. I'll show you what it looks like in a second, but I was going to do my nails and show you my new DIY nail gel manicure machine, but to be completely honest, I'm really tired, so I'm going to go to bed.

I'll explain what my skincare and time frame is like for you and then I'll call it a night. I just wanted to remind everyone that this period of time can be like this. Be very hectic as it is a time to relax, you can get very caught up in the hustle and bustle of it all so take these vlogmas as assigned to take some time and make sure you take care of yourself too because you can't. Pour it from an empty cup, as the saying goes and it's very true, you will be a better person to everyone around you if you also take care of yourself first, so let this be your reminder during this holiday season to take a day free or even an hour of your day if you don't have all day to do it and take care of yourself, but let me show you my little gift and then we're going to take care of my skin before I go to bed, so I'll put myself on like I think.

Brown thread. I plan to string it all together, but this is what it looks like. I ended up wrapping them separately. I love how this has the pine trees here with the little reindeer and then this has like little pine snowflakes. I thought they go together. very very good so this is my first layer of wrapping if we turn them over they don't look so good but this way it's okay maybe like this I'm not sure we'll keep it like this for now but that's the first time I've tried it , so maybe I'll take it to work tomorrow.

I don't need it for a few days, but I just wanted to wrap one up and see how I feel and I'm feeling a little

festive

, but let's do my skincare. That's it, we look good and the skincare is ready. I started using retinol again tonight. I haven't been using it for a while because it's summer in Australia and I got sunburned on my birthday, which retinol can make you more sensitive to. in the sun if you didn't know, but I thought I'd wear it tonight. I will be careful with my skin. I've been using my sunscreen pretty well in the morning, so I thought I'd put it on and do the full skincare routine.

I also put a little oil in my hair so my hair feels nice and soft now. I hope you enjoyed this Vlog vlogmas day 11. I thought it would be nice to dedicate one of the vlogmases to likes. take good care of yourself because, as I've reiterated many times in this Vlog, it can be a very stressful time for many people for many different reasons and that's totally okay if that's you, so make sure you do. Take care of yourself even if you don't find it stressful or see it as a stressful period, it's a busy time so make sure you take care of yourself and stay safe, sending love to yourself and your families.

As always, don't forget to comment and subscribe, follow me on my Instagram, I'm just Brooke McQuade and I'll see you tomorrow for the 12th vlogmas. 12th day of Christmas that my true love gave me. I need to sleep like I can tell I'm starting to get delirious, but bye for now, bye guys.