I have a favourite perfume. It is Addict by Dior just in case you would like to surprise me with some aromatic gifts. But don’t stack up for my next birthday yet. I am very easily influenced and am likely to change my mind if you offer me something better, or even just different.
In fact as I write this post I am forced to look at the most hideous colour nail polish you have ever seen.
I went to the Dior counter to buy said perfume and there was a gift with purchase if you bought two products. I bloody love a gift with purchase and when the woman at the counter told me the gift was a little silver bag with a new mascara “that really really lengthens the lashes” I almost fell over her trying to get my second item and gift with purchase.
I took a look at my nails as I grabbed the gift with purchase and they were looking particularly seedy so I told her I thought my second item should be a nail polish. The lovely Dior lady handed me a shade of nail polish and told me I would love it. I believed her for some reason I cannot explain. Although she knows nothing about me, what I like, what I wear, what I do – I believed she knew that I would love the nail polish so I bought it.
It is awful and I hate it. Oh and the mascara that “really really lengthens the lashes” is no different to any of my other mascaras that really don’t do anything other than colour my stumpy lashes.
The problem is I am very easily influenced when it comes to beauty products. Which is weird because I am the biggest cynic when it comes to anything else. I regularly read the packaging on food and I laugh hysterically – for instance I have just made my husband a cup of tea – the tea is described as a green with “with the luscious flavours of strawberries and cream”. I know that the tea will taste of tea leaves. Nothing else. I know that tea doesn’t taste like strawberries and cream and I know that this is a good thing. But if someone told me that you could use the tea to shrink your pores and smooth your wrinkles – I would buy it
I believe the women who stand in the department stores spruiking their expensive potions know everything there is to know about developments in beauty science, I briefly choose to forget that they are getting paid to sell their product and they really just want to help me by giving me smooth wrinkle free skin , sleek shiny hair and perfectly long eyelashes.
And if you leave me near a magazine I am likely to go into some sort of trance by changing my mind completely every time I turn the page.
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This blind faith in the beauty industry goes against everything I know to be right. I know they “exaggerate the truth”, I know they use lyrical language and pretty packaging to lure me in. I know they pray on my insecurities but they look so good and they promise so much. And what if they do work ?
I have paid ridiculous amounts for potions and lotions to make my freckles disappear . When I enquired of my husband whether he thought it had made a difference he said he didn’t realise that I had freckles in the first place.
I have put what I can only describe as acid in a gorgeous container on my eyelashes to promote their growth. My eyelashes are the exact same length as they started only my eyelids are sorer.
I have tried almost every lipstick known to mankind to come to the realisation that my lips are resistant to colour and any colour that I do try will last approximately 14 seconds.
I have tried blue eyeliner, green eyeliner, black and purple eyeliner, even white and silver eyeliner. I know that eyeliner cannot change the size or shape of my eyes but I am prepared to try.
I have tried all these things and none have worked as promised. Yet tomorrow if I see a promise of long eyelashes and smooth skin my faith will be renewed.
I think I may have a problem. Do you think there is a cream for it?
I think I need the same cream…let me know the name when you’ve found it.
*it does not matter that it will not work, I will buy it anyhow
I put anti-ageing eye cream and hand cream on everyday and look in the mirror and think that’ll work. And everyday I get another day older which of course, I am very happy about. However, my wrinkles keep coming. And I keep buying the cream. Maybe if I spent the money on wine instead!?
Lana, I have a lipstick lasts. It’s Revlon’s ‘ColorStay: Overtime’, I have it in ‘Rouge a levres’, it literally does stay! I promise I do not work for Revlon 😉
My favourite perfume is Coco Mademoiselle. You should definitely wear it.
You are so funny robo nails.
P.s Your hair looks really really shiny
I have actually been known to clap and hop with excitement at free gift time. And now I have 7 nude lipsticks in the bottom of my handbags. You are not alone. But thank you for trying the eyelash growth gel- that was next on my list…:)
There’s a cream for everything, so there’s bound to be one for that. I confess that I do not buy beauty products much. Too many years on mags being inundated with freebies have led me to understand that, for the most part, they don’t work. And all the beauty editors I know use Cetaphil, Sorbolene and Great Lash Mascara. But I understand the dream. Oh boy, do I.
I used to wait for the Clinique – “get all this stuff in a pretty bag” times at DJs and Myer- and attempt to spend minimum to get it. Product I’d use (truly ruly)
Would be $49.95. Min spend would be $50.00
Lured by the so-called freebies, I’d buy another item
Now, 60 & sun damaged skin & no extra dollars for luxuries like makeup etc I find Selleys Spakfilla on special works a treat. Vaso on the lips ..bugger it,
That’ll do 🙂
I LOVE beauty products, a sucker and yes even if I look and feel like crap I like to smell beautiful!!!!
I just buy from Avon when it’s on special. Truly, when I had money and could afford to buy expensive stuff (and yes, I was always a sucker for the ‘free’ gifts); and even when I was beauty writer and was sent free samples … I haven’t found that cheaper isn’t necessarily nastier. When it comes to creams, I think sunscreen is the most important … and the rest (for me) I will probably need botox or surgery to fix. Or accept the hell the way I am.
You know the only product in the entire world that actually does work? Rosehip oil for the face. Oh, it gave you pimples, right? Shame…
Ha! This is so funny. I’m exactly the same!
You need Aussie Waffler…she’ll tell you straight…
http://wafflingalong.blogspot.com/2010/10/mascara-advertising-experiment.html
I used to be like that. I guess I’ve grown old and realised it doesn’t really work that well. I rarely use anything – a moisturiser most days, no particular brand, and more often than not I forget to wash off my make up. Oops. So very slack I am. Considering I rarely drank any water, my skin is in surprisingly good condition. Must be in the genes I think. The one thing I can’t get away with not having is perfume. I LOVE perfume and like a different scent for each day.
Dior Addict Shine is my absolute favourite perfume too – my very clever (gay) brother-in-law with impeccable taste (and duty-free access daily – air steward) bought it for me. I’ve had it 2 years (bad I know) and it is coming to an end 🙁
Am so glad to hear from Ali that the experts use sorbolene cream. Don’t feel like such a tight-arse after all!
Maybe you should guest post for me and I could send gifts (without purchase!)?
Ha, thanks Thea, I was just going to say “Oh no Lana, please tell me you read the mascara advertising experiment post.” Such a rort, and I should know. I use the products and I have sold the products. I will say that some products do work better then others, and I will generally endorse better quality eye shadows as they often contain a higher pigment to talc ratio then cheapies (which means they should stay on longer). But at the end of the day, it’s all just about stumbling around finding products that work for you.
This post made me smile Lana! I tend to have exactly the same attitude with diet pills – stupid really, considering they’re just expensive vitamins which I’m going to pee out anyway.