GRE subject:volume created by revolving area about line

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find volume created by revolving the region between $x=y^2$ and $y=x^2$ about the line $x=-1$.

My attempt is since to solve for $x$ first correct? so we have $x=y^2, x = \sqrt{y}$ so we. integrate from $0$ to $1$? I know its top function minus bottom but I forget do we do this

$$\pi \int_0^1 (y+1)^2 - \sqrt{y+1} dy$$

or is it this one? forget where to subtract the line really.

$$\pi \int_0^1 y^2 +1 - \sqrt{y} +1dy$$

thanks in advance I am studying for GRE subject, learned calc II in 2008 forgot most of it sadly. Hopefully the top integral is the correct set up but not sure.

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It would help to draw the region first. I am not sure how to do it here. But anyway, the formula the OP is looking for is the washer method formula (which I had incorrectly called the cylindrical shell method, thank you @MathLover for pointing it out), which gives in this case

$$ \pi \int_0^1 \left( (\sqrt{y} + 1)^2 - (y^2 + 1)^2 \right) dy. $$