What's the most you've ever spent on a beauty product? Luckily, a rather consistent dearth of funds during my college years has prevented any major damage; however, I'm sure that the happy coincidence of getting my first real job and my discovery of Sephora will put an end to that luck rather soon. I doubt though that I'll ever make this grave of a mistake:Priced at $2,100, Creme de la Mere The Essence is the most expensive face goo ever made. Why, you may ask, would anyone spend the equivalent of 105 bottles of Olay Regenerist Enhancing lotion (good stuff I tell you) on this "essence"? It's all about the seaweed. Or as Paula Begoun says in her editorial about the product: "it has a lot of seaweed--well, as much as 1.5 ounces can contain." Is that what makes it worth its weight in gold? Oh wait, ounce for ounce, it's actually 2.5 times more expensive than gold. Well, it must be, because it certainly isn't any of the other ingredients, even the celebrated inclusion of acetyl hexapeptide-3, which Paula says is "supposed to work like Botox, but of course it can't; even Botox can't work like Botox when applied topically to skin."
So, if it really is all about the seaweed, I can do better. 1.5 oz, pah! I have a enough of those crunchy, rectangular sushi wrappers to turn back the hands of time itself. Nori facials everybody, 8pm, my place.
4 comments:
how did you get the categories on your blogger account? it's awesome! i found a couple articles, but they were...um...interesting? was wondering if you had a good reference. Thanks!
PS Did you get the info on the girl about designing a cute bee for you?
Hey girl,
I followed these directions: http://oldcola.blogspot.com/goodies/BloggerCategories.html
You basically start a new blog for each category, and then set it up so that when you post to one of the blogs, it automatically forwards the post to the main blog. I have to edit it a little, but it works pretty well I think. I've modified the templates so that when you visit the category pages you only see the archive and a link back to the main blog. It's a bit of a hassle when you want to change something because you have to change it separately on each category blog, but cutting and pasting helps a lot. Try it out and let me know if you have any questions, k?
Did you send the info to my email address? I haven't checked it yet--will go do so now! Thanks:)
I used to have some skincare many many many moons ago that was seaweed and algae based. It was the best. Of course I have been looking for it for years. I have only tried La Mer once (I managed to wrangle a sample from the clutches of the Meiman Marcus lady) and it was good I tell ya!!
makeupgirl--you're probably right; I should try it before judging, but at $2,100, I doubt I'll ever get the chance!
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