The Price of Beauty Is A Bloody Rip Off. Don't Pay It.

Unfortunately, I can’t even remember the brand name of the damn thing now.  I was pretty pissed about it, so I wasn’t taking notes.  Wish I had, because I just spent twenty minutes trying to back track via Facebook adverts, looking for it.  But they don’t repeat once you’ve clicked on them, so I can’t find it any more.

But I digress.  I saw this ad, and lord knows why I clicked on it, because I usually never do.  I guess it was a perfectly written ad.

A perky young woman was talking about this home spa treatment device that — honest injin — looked like a feminine version of a workshop sander — and the flat two-inch head of this thing rotated and bobbed around, and she rubbed it all over her face for the camera.  Of course her skin glowed and was flawless.  She explained she had used it just last night, and she could already see the difference, and that this device, along with the tube of cream that came with it, was responsible.

So I flipped over to my electronic department store website to check the price.

Ninety five dollars!

Holy crapping bananas, batman!

Yeah, I’d like to remove and reduce blemishes, fine line, wrinkles, yaddah, yahddah, yaddah, blah, blah, blah, but all that machine is doing for my ninety five dollars is replacing a bit of manual labour.  So I went down to my discount department store this morning and spent three dollars on an exfoliating facial sponge and five dollars on Olay exfoliating foaming daily face wash.  For a grand total of eight dollars, and three minutes in the shower each morning, I’ll get the same results, if not better, and not have to buy more tubes of the replacement cream that comes with the very expensive facial sander they’re hawking on Facebook.

Thing is, that advertisement sucked me in, and I’m a very hard sell at the best of times.  How many other women have parted with their ninety-five dollars, thinking they just had to have this female wood sander, when they could have spent a far more reasonable eight dollars and got the same results?

We all want to look sexy.  We all want to look our best.  They know that.  Just keep your eyes open when they’re telling you “this’ll make you irresistible.”  It might, but I bet there’s a cheaper alternative out there somewhere.  Ask yourself that next time someone wants you to spend somewhere in the double or triple digits for the beauty accessory or product of the season.

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