Monday, November 10, 2008

Hi! My name is Curly and I am an addict.

It's true - I have a substance abuse problem as 'Carrie' says, except mine is nice smelling cosmetics and not footwear. I do have a mega collection of footwear as well but I don't think that's unhealthy - ok lets focus on one problem at a time here, shall we?
Back to my junkie status - I own more than a kilo of make up which is a lot for a girl who hardly wears any on a daily basis - I more than make up for that when I go 'partay' but....on a daily basis, I'm lucky if I get some kajal on. Then why on earth do I have 5 different eye liners, 6 shadow palettes, mascaras, lipsticks - one item of make up that I never wear as well as the many different powders and glitters and what not? and this is not even taking into account my obsession with lipglosses. However these are minor trangressions compared with the mother of my problems - creams, lotions and moisturisers (CLM for future reference). I have excessively dry skin - the kind that scales if left to it's own devices - thus I don't and smother it instead in every variety of CLM's I can find.
In the recent past, this has included:
  • Johnson's Baby Lotion
  • Baby oil
  • Biotique massage oil
  • Jergen's Summer Glow moisturiser
  • Almond Oil
  • Vaseline Intensive Care lotion with Cocoa butter
  • Bath and Body Works Sweet pea cream
  • Nivea
  • Efaderm & Emoderm - these were dermatologist recommended
  • Freeman's Caramel and Vanilla body lotion
  • Freeman's Peppermint foot lotion
  • Free Man Raspberry Hand Lotion
And there are different face and under eye creams - Yes! I need to use undereye creams!
This post was actually inspired after S commented that my christmas list has more creams than anything else and those creams were all recommended on the beautyaddict blog which is a site I'm raving about. I just wish I earned in dollars so I could buy half the things she talks about - I've never even heard of half the brands she talks about or half the uses of the products! It makes me wonder how shallow I am that the fact that Sephora has some special deal on excites me more that Barrack Obama winning the presidency!

2 comments:

The Pixy Princess said...

All that stuff just makes me sneeze! My beauty "regime" consists of vigorously rubbing moisturising loction all over me and dashing out the door. But then again, when we're both 50 you'll probably have the last laugh when you're skin is still taut and mine's a wrinkle heaven!

CurlyGirlie said...

hahah! the funny part is I already have wrinkles as u can judge by my needing to use undereye cream!