My last poll about spring beauty trends had 26% of you willing to give red lips a go, however I’m guessing that probably isn’t much of a departure for most of you. 21% said sheer rose lips sounded appealing, and the cat eye came in at 19%. 15% were game for the super smoky eye, but I’m a bit timid for that one. Also, I’m afraid of looking like a raccoon. And not a cute one.
Today I’m curious as to your sunscreen habits.
Octavia Spencer was voted best-dressed at the Oscars with a fairly commanding 29%, given how wide the field was. Milla Jovovich and Jessica Chastain tied for second place with 19%. I was looking at some other Oscar fashion polls, and was discouraged to see that Octavia wasn’t even a choice. Girl killed it on the red carpet, and I’m sorry that some people think that a woman with curves isn’t fashion-worthy.
Which segues nicely into my next question…
Seriously, if you were a deoderant wearer during the mid to late 70′s, you either used this deoderant or knew someone that did.
I know my sister had it, I was a bit too young to wear it.
But talk about suggestive advertising! Apparently there were some accusations of some not-so-subliminal advertising going on in ads like this one.
Are they selling a bit more than deoderant here, or is it just me?
71% of you are just like me, and are not planning on putting away any makeup due to the change of seasons. My go-to mauve lipstick looks just as good in the fall as it does in summer. 10% of you will say farewell to your bronzer/self tanner, and 7% will get rid of the lighter lipstick shades.
Today ‘s poll question will be dealing with “inner” beauty, so to speak.
I normally tend to stay away from products that purport to be multi-purpose. For some reason, I don’t trust a product that says it is going to work as well on my hair as it does on my skin.
But, it was a semi-emergency in that I was already in the shower and too lazy to get out and get my shampoo, which was on the kitchen table. OK, so maybe not much of an emergency, but I bet you would have done the same thing.
I used the philosophy product both as a soap and shampoo, even though I didn’t really need to use it as a soap, just because I love you guys that much. How can I give a review of only one part of a three part product?
Let me just say this, if you don’t have anything else, yeah, you can use it as a shower gel. It isn’t outstanding, though. Definitely wouldn’t go out of my way to use it for that purpose.
Surprisingly, I preferred it as a shampoo. It cleansed my hair nicely and didn’t leave any kind of weird residue. My biggest concern was that it would dry my hair out, but it did nothing of the sort.
And my hair smelled like cake, which was a bonus. They’ve got lots of different, delectable scents, so feel free to go wild.
OK, I didn’t really get one, nor did I need one.
But this is what happens when you send your husband to buy you some deoderant. He gets you the wrong kind. Oh sure, he got the right brand, but he bought me Dove’s brand new Ultimate Stay Smooth Antiperspirant and Deodorant. Dove claims that this stuff:
Minimizes the visual appearance of hair over time.
This unique anti-perspirant formula contains Pro-Epil Complex with natural extracts and Dove 1/4 translucent moisturizers.
From first use, it smoothes and conditions your underarm skin.
Within weeks, you’ll start to notice that your underarm hair feels soft, fine, and easy to remove.
Over time, your underarm hair will look and feel less noticeable.
I have seen mutterings around the internets about this deodorant, actually, and most of them were outraged. How dare Dove put out a product designed to make women feel like their armpits are ugly! Just what the world needs, a deodorant that makes your underarms pretty! Armageddon!
While I didn’t really feel one way or the other about the deodorant, I could see where Dove was coming from. Apparently they designed the product because a majority of women felt that their armpits didn’t look all that great, and were self-conscious about them, especially when sleeveless shirts.
Is this some sort of self-esteem epidemic?
I don’t know, it might be. Then again, maybe not.
I figure that for this particular product, the consumer will speak with their dollars and if nobody really cares about what their armpits look like, then this product will slowly fade away.
I had zero expectations about this deodorant, but darn it all if I wasn’t completely taken aback by the reduction of my armpit stubble. Listen, we know each other well enough by now that I can discuss my armpit stubble with you, right? Where there was once sharp, dark, and spiky suddenly became wispy and barely noticeable. It is up for debate as to the smoothness of my underarms as I’m not the type of person to regularly check, but I suppose it looks better simply by way of the hairs being less noticeable.
Now, I don’t know exactly what is in this “Pro-Epil Complex” and I probably don’t want to, but I have to admit, this product does what it says it does.
Well, I have in the distant past applied self-tanner, but quickly regretted it. This was back in the late 80′s when it became time for prom, and my strapless (Jessica McClintock!) dress was not looking good with the farmer tan I had going. However, it was not a joke that most of the self-tanners at that time turned you various shades of orange, depending on the brand. I don’t think I could have been a bigger 80′s cliche, and I’ve got my prom picture as proof.
I think at one point about five years ago, I attempted to use a daily self tanning lotion (like this) to erase some color discrepancy between my legs and my feet, but gave up after about five days. Which to me, doesn’t count.
I have never, ever placed myself in a tanning booth, and I promise that no matter how ghostly pale I might look, I never will. It always sounded a bit extreme to me, and it has indeed been found to be hazardous to your health, in more ways than one.
Maybe it’s because I’m outdoors quite a bit. Maybe it’s because I am blessed with a somewhat olive skin tone that tans in two seconds flat, even when wearing the strongest sunscreen possible.
But after a lifetime of living by the beach and tanning purposefully, I have now decided I don’t really care if I’m tan or not. If I’ve inadvertently aquired a tan, fine. If I don’t, that’s OK too. But I guess I am lucky that I pretty much always have some color, and have what I consider to be a perma-tan from the aforementioned years of serious tanning.
Do you fake your tan? Do you even need to fake a tan? Are you a baker or a bottler?
The Beauty Poll on a Tuesday? Why not? I don’t think I could bear to go two weeks in a row without running a new poll.
Yes, I’m that nosy.
The last poll wanted to know if you would still buy products from a company who had an employee outburst that doesn’t jive with your personal belief system. 45% of you said it depended on how influential that employee was within the company, although I think it is safe to assume that the person is fairly high-profile. I mean, I don’t see a newspaper interviewing the junior marketing guy very often. Although Jezebella had an interesting distinction, commenting, ”More so than how influential the person is, I would consider what the company’s response was to the person’s bad behavior.” Excellent point. 37% of you stated you would no longer buy from the company, and 16% said they would still buy the product.
I asked the poll question in direct response to something the lovely Queen of Sheba pointed out to me after I posted about Guerlain lipstick, which is what I linked to in the original poll post. I was disgusted by what Mr. Guerlain had stated in his interview, but that didn’t stop me from buying Guerlain products. As discussed in the comments section, Guerlain is no longer a family-run business and is run by mega-corp LVMH. I consider the Guerlains to be no longer associated with the company, and thus, reasoned that I wasn’t acting against my principles by buying their product. Or, maybe I’m just fooling myself.
As for today, I’m going to lean toward a more light-hearted subject. I got so many interesting responses on my anti-waxing post, that I felt I needed to hear from all of you about the very important subject of how you personally choose to tend your lady-garden. Yes, yes, it is definitely veering into TMI, but what is a little TMI amongst friends? And besides, this is the internets! Nobody will know how you voted! I get zero data on the votes, just the total.
I refuse to wax.
I did it once, way back in college. Spas and salons as we know them now were not nearly as ubiquitous back in the Dark Ages, and certainly not within reach of my college-student budget. So I did it the old-fashioned way by visiting the drugstore and picking out what I believe was some Sally Hansen cold wax treatment.
I was afraid of the hot waxing, and so thinking I was going to minimize the pain, chose the cold route.
Big mistake.
I went into the bathroom, sat on the counter, and nervously applied some of the wax to my shin, which I figured was an area historically low on nerve endings. I quickly put the strip of paper over the area, and smoothed it vigorously, as instructed by the experts at Sally Hansen.
Well, the experts at Sally Hansen are apparently big into torture, because when I ripped off that strip of paper, I’m pretty sure my scream of pain rattled the windows of my apartment building.
To make it worse, I didn’t even get all the hair. I could still see random hairs on my leg, mocking me. This enraged me even more, as I was already irritated that I’d had to grow the hair out fairly long in order for the wax to be able to ”grab” it.
I don’t care if waxing makes your skin as smooth as a baby’s bottom. It’s not worth it.
Don’t even get me started on Brazilians. I don’t even want to think about Brazilians. I’ve had two C-sections in which relative strangers (the nurses, the anesthesiologist) have actually seen the insides of my body, not to mention my privates, and I consider most of my prudishness to have gone out the window after that. But to have someone apply wax to your nether regions and then cause you immense pain? That sounds a bit too personal. A least at the end of my surgeries I got a baby out of it.
I would think the salons would be having to pay people to get Brazilians, not the other way around.
Is body hair so evil that women allow themselves to be put through techniques that even the Dominicans would have approved of to remove it? Just to have it grow back and do it all over again?
When I have a fairly heavy-duty hair removal job that I don’t think shaving is adequate for, I will break out this stuff. It works like a charm. It doesn’t smell nearly as bad as it used to, and it is only a mere seven minutes or so of standing around and then I get to take a nice, relaxing warm shower to get the hair off.
It probably doesn’t leave the hair removal area as smooth for as long as waxing does, but the no-pain aspect is a fair trade-off in my world.
Last week I wanted to know the state of your nails, and 55% of you said they were au naturel. 17% admitted to some upkeep issues, and 16% bravely told the world their nails were kind of frightening. I applaud your honesty! Then along came a smug 10% who said their nails were perfect. Fine, rub it in.
After reading this article, who quotes a woman who says “she prefers the V-Steam to the harshness of a douche and thinks of it as a “facial” for her private area,” I can’t resist, I HAVE to ask you!
