I’ve recently come to the conclusion that I have a serious weakness for beauty products. Nothing fancy, just your basic shower gels, shampoos and moisturisers, exfoliators, conditioners, shaving creams, emollients, scrubs, rubs, bubble baths etc. It’s all getting a little out of hand.
Yesterday I went into Boots (large chemist chain, I think the US equivalent is Walgreens) to get shaving gel for Irishfella and razor blades for myself, and ended up buying pore strips, shampoo and hair bobbles too. If that wasn’t bad enough Lush is on the way to the bus stop, and I picked up a soap stack, a bath melt, shaving cream and two body butters.
My new purchases joined the massed ranks of previous buys. I think there are currently 3 shower gels along on the side of the bath, never mind all the other things. My bathroom is starting to look like a chemist shop.
Tell me I’m not the only one seduced by 3 for 2 offers, loyalty points, the cheap thrill of a bubble bath and the feeling you can only get with a rub down with an exfoliating bar?
I think I’m just going to have to be terribly strict and not buy anything new until I’ve used what I have.
Maybe you don’t feel so girly or have some gaping feminine hole (not thathole) inside of you that you feed this girly-girl stuff. Something in your subconscious telling you you are not pretty enough ( or just all those women’s magazines telling you your thighs are fat and 1001 ways to a better orgasm., blah blah blah.)
The best part is that you can give whatever doesn’t work away to friends or women’s shelters.
Maybe you should start your own online make up and stuff reviews.
I go through spurts of beauty supply fixes. Not makeup, but other assorted stuff. And then I am cold turkey for months. As summer is gearing up, I’ve decided to become extremely anal about my skin care regime and just bought more face stuff that is suppose to sand blast my old face off and reveal a new, younger, vibrant one. I think I’ll trick it and do my boobs first. See if I can get those perky A’s back.
“My name is MissTake and I, too, am a beauty product slut”
I wish I had never received an Ulta catalog. Between LilMiss and myself we have countless body washes/soaps/lotions/butters/powders… Before I had her Crabtree & Evelyn was my love. Mmm, C&E Rosewater. Heaven.
It goes on and on. Nail polish is our biggest binge. Ulta always has a “Buy $15 in O.P.I. and get a free bottle of a particular color” deal. I can state that we have well over 150 nail colors (not all O.P.I. - those mini polishes are evil! .99C for a bitty bottle of a funky color is an addiction in itself). That’s not including the assorted implements one uses while doing his/her nails.
The problem comes in 1) finding space for everything 2) using things before they go bad and 3) using things before they fall out of favor. I don’t know how many pots of lotion and face masques I had to chuck because I forgot about them and they went bad.
Our local Walgreen’s has been cleaning out stock - many things on clearance. Too many things on clearance. ~sigh~
My washroom is filled to the brim with bathing/shower products, lotions, potions, perfumes, polishes, powders, etc. My regular drawers throughout the apartment, too (in fact, I sent a postcard to Aesiron a while back, and he wrote back to tell me how wonderful it smelled ) I love it. If I had a job, I’d be dangerous.
