Winter pick me ups
Alexander Mcqueen’s suicide is still on my mind. I feel the same way I did when Kurt Cobain committed suicide, somehow to me they seem so similar because of the futures they both gave up. I still can’t believe we won’t see his creative mind anymore. The Cut Blog did a round up of his best looks and when I watched the show it was both beautiful and tragic.
So I needed a pick me up and when its cold in the suburbs, I revert to my teenage self and I go to CVS. (But if I want to feel chic, I pronounce it CaaVaaSaa). There I trolled the beauty aisle for a cream that had my latest obsession: hyluronic acid to draw all this chilly moisture into my skin and lock it in with its pseudosciencentific technology. I purchased Vichy LiftActiv Retinol HA SPF 18, it was featured in a January beauty story I wrote for Self and it’s actually doing the job. I know it takes three weeks for your skin to adjust to a new routine but I feel like I’ve found a drugstore face cream I can use in the winter that actually makes my skin look younger. It’s on the high-end side for drugstore purchase: it was $43 for 1.35 ounces. But I’m comfortable with that because just this week I was lucky enough to receive a package from The Organic Pharmacy that contained two exquisite products: Antioxidant Face Gel and Antioxidant Face Serum. They are made from all natural organic ingredients that are quick to be absorbed, smell citrusy and made me look like I’d slept in a king sized hotel bed all by myself all night. I glowed—truly, until I checked the catalog and realized that the gel is $84 for 1 ounce and the serum is $130 for 1 ounce. It get why it’s expensive and I’m over complaining about that, my problem is how fast I’m working through each vial. If I had to order this stuff I would have spent $2400 on skincare annually, which is also a summer beach house rental or my powder room makeover. What does it say that I want my powder room to look prettier than me? Anyway, I can’t commit to that kind of beauty pricing. So viva Vichy! (Until I find something newer and cheaper).