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Beauty Scrapbook DECEMBER 2006: 'Tis the season (part 1)
Beauty Scrapbook DECEMBER 2006: 'Tis the season (part 1)
Posted by Dain, Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:12 PM (Eastern)
Most of these products have been chosen by the recipient (yes, there are real world implications, for once), and thus reflect what people really want, if given a free run of the cosmetics world (or its real-world equivalent).
Here is the original email...
Gentyles alle:
What is this impoverished, gift giver to do? But a brilliant idea: how
about I give you all free rein to everything that
beauty.com/drugstore.com have to offer? All of you, whatever it is that
you could possibly want. Fragrance, a year's supply of mascara, the most
expensive face cream you can think of... it's all fair game.
One condition: only one product. (A part of me, the part that inhabits
the detached plane of absolute language, is sniggering at that
sentence. There are four occurences of the two sequence "ON" in it...
ONONONON... looks like binary sequence)
If anyone needs advice, I am here. Really, could you go wrong?
Let me know by mid-November.
Dain
A great idea, right? Wrong. Like I said, an editorial nightmare. Everyone chose perfumes! And most people... don't know enough about cosmetics to choose something from a purveyor like beauty.com. But the results are interesting, from an economic survey point of view. Boo.
 A trick I learned from my mother. An expensive face cream, no matter what, always pleases. I like, Fresh Rice Face Cream ($75), Creme de la Mer, Kiehl's Ultra Facial (my mother buys these in bulk to give to people), CHANEL Sublimage, Nuxe Crème Fraîche. For those with oily/acne skin, I would recommend Bliss and Kiehl's Blue Herbal. |
 Sweet and pretty, ohh... this is ho hum, though I like the drydown. It's a dime-store song, Ralph Lauren Romance ($49.50) is. Citrusy floral with white musk. |
 I threw a few suggestions around, but NARS Rapture Palette ($70) was one of my first. It's a great way to quickly sample a great line. It's got Sin and Ashes to Ashes and the light shade of Bellissima and Dolce Vita and Pigalle and Gipsy, so already it will see everyday use (also, Ninotchka, Charade duo, and Belle du Jour, which I find slightly less wearable). NARS has done the impossible in Rapture: made a palette universal. Plus, it travels well and looks fabulous. It just makes everyone happier, to be in possession of it. Two people chose this. |
 No one would buy $48 conditioner for herself, no one, not unless you gave it to her as a gift and she became addicted and had to. Play the devil's advocate this season, and give her Terax Crema ($48), it's something she never knew she needed. |
 My friend Tina is one of those women who simply has great taste. She chose a properly luxurious product (what else would you be looking for, if not luxury, from a site like beauty.com?), BVLGARI Rose Essentielle ($90), which struck me as odd at first, because it's just a fruity rose like Stella McCartney and Keiko Mecheri, right? And then I saw the bottle. It's gorgeous, gleaming pink liquid, shiny glass, and a pink-and-gold stopper that really speaks of BVLGARI's real job: to make jewelry. |
 I mean, is BVLGARI a hit or what? BVLGARI AQVA Pour Homme ($50) is just as gorgeous, but sleekly masculine. A silver ring topped with vivid, perfectly polished malachite. The scent itself is |
 Burberry Touch For Men ($47) |
 Since everyone's chosen a perfume, what would I, myself, choose? Annick Goutal Le Chevrefeuille ($72), which is a bit too light and green for winter months, but perfect for when the weather warms up. Surely there is no scent more summery than honeysuckle, and Annick Goutal renders the flower in its delicate sunny perfection, with plenty of green notes to keep it crisp, rather than cloying. |
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