That being said, I'm a beauty junkie at heart. What exactly does that mean? I'll buy any product at least once, if it has good packaging, an interesting story and a great smell. Yup those are the things that I care about. What about ingridients? Usually when you flip the bottles over, they have the exact same ingridients. Water is first and then, depending on the product, it's all pretty much the same. Try it, right now. Look at your favorite product and see if water is the first ingridient. 9 times out of 10 it is!!!
My favorite part of school was discovering that my teacher, Ms. Angela, was just as much a cynic as I was. But she said if you were going to be successful in the skin industry you would have to learn to be a label reader. Which is so true. And I'm giving the exact same advice to all of my readers and clients. Read your labels carefully. If it has what you are looking for, buy it. And if it fits your other criteria (mine happen to be smell, look of the packaging and story, in that order) then definitely buy it.
But back to me and my closet filled with products. Yup that's what it means to be a beauty junkie. You have a closet where you store all the products that have given you false hope through their marketing and smell and haven't done diddly in performance. But you hope and you hope and you hope that some day you will be able to figure out how to make the products work. So you keep them in your closet. For that some day. Or for an appropriate re-gifting opportunity.
My closet is looking the best that it's ever looked. Mostly because I don't work for a manufacturer anymore so I don't get free stuff. And also because I've managed to re-gift my product to several friends. Plus let's be honest. I'm not pulling down a steady paycheck just yet so spending on product that I'm not sure about doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
But the whole point of this post is to share a new product that I discovered recently with you. I interviewed at a beautiful Beverly Hills spa called Allure Pilates Spa. They had a great retail section and so I tried out one of the products called Olavie. It's story has something to do with anti-oxidants and wine, although what really sold me was the classy packaging and the delicious smell (sort of white wine meets clean). Check them out, let me know what you think.
http://www.olavie.com/AboutUs.html
Also let me know what is in your product closet. Maybe we can work out a trade?
I have to agree. I live in Colorado where it's really dry. I have tried a lot of lotions and creams and my skin is still always itchy. Nothing helped -- that is until I tried Olavie. Their body butter especially is wonderful. Not only does it smell nice, but my skin feels so good now. No more rough and itchy skin! I love their products so much that I got all the other ones as well. Check them out! BTW, if you live in a more humid climate, use their body moisturizer and hand cream. It smells so awesome :)
ReplyDeleteI also saw on their website they have face products now as well called Le Vin, http://levinskincare.com Has anyone given it a try? How is it?
I'm definitely going to check out their body butter. I love good moisturizers since it's so dry in Los Angeles. Le Vin looks cool I will check that out too!!!
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