Hahah Karen, me too. Although off the beauty topic. I got all my friends and family back when I started to sell the Pampered Chef last year. They all bought out of guilt! I was not a very good sales lady for the PC...love the products can't sell them though!

My very first tube of mascara was memorable and not in a good way -- I was wildly allergic to it but (being 13 at the time) refused to admit that there was a problem. My mother finally threw it out when I wasn't looking, took me to the store and bought me a tube of Almay.

Every spring I decide that shaving is too much trouble and buy the latest and greatest chemical delipatory. This year it was the Carefree Hair Remover TOTALLY SMOOTH Leg Creme. Every spring I wind up trashing the bathroom and covered in a nasty rash. Every spring I still need to shave two days later and every spring I can't because I'm covered in the aforementioned nasty rash. This year was no different.

I tend to regret buying makeup palettes too; the ones with blush, lip gloss or lipstick , and eyeshadows all in one. They seem like such a good idea -- a set of coordinated colors in a nice neat package. But there's usually only one or two products that I actually end up using and they're not at all portable. I'm doing better at resisting these; I even avoid eye shadow palettes with more than two colors. My dermatologist hates them too. She says people hang on to them too long and that they're a breeding ground for bacteria.

I also bought nads, tried it on my underarms, it took off maybe 3 hairs.....

^ i bought a sky blue eyeshadow not too long ago.. it was meybelline's dream mousse cream shadow..

i've given up trying to make it work..

it's very very rare that i find eyeshadows to not work on me.. but this, i just can't..

maybe one more try...

good thing i didn't buy it in other colors.. i just don't know how i'm suppose to apply them and what the finish result should look like!

I love Anna Sui's rlight blue eyeliner in 100. It goes on very soft and smoothly and is highly blendable. I also like Urban Decay's deluxe eyeshadow in "Peace." Of course, when I wear colors that bright I go with a very neutral face and lips.

I've seen Urban Decay items in the store. They remind me of Stagelight shadows from when I was a teenager. I knew someone(who had no limit to parental cash) who had every color. When it came to buying the bright yellow and lime green, the last she bought, I said come ON you can't be serious. Are you going to become a clown and do parties? She swore up and down they'd work, and she did wear them, once each. No, they did not work. At all. Some colors should not be used all over your eyelid for everyday wear. As anonymousblonde said, they might work as liners.

I'm so glad someone else remembers Stagelight! I've mentioned them to people and they look at me like I'm hallucinating. I'm not saying you can't wear bright colors during the day. It all depends on the situation and your style I guess. When you're working in an office situation bright colors might not work so much. Being a punk or going to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show(for the 17th time), I think so. :p I have to point put that my friend was Frank N Furter and did her own makeup and it looked awesome. She just could not pull off bright yellow or green.

I have already banged on about this recent HORRID purchase but it really sticks in my mind because I thought you couldn't really go wrong with ANY mascara. It was Revlon 3-D Extreme Mascara...yeah...it was exteme alright. Extremely bad. Unfortunately I bought it out of town and could not return it. Grrrrrrrrrrr.

Mindy: I say return it! Dr. Brandt's products aren't cheap. The beauty company that sold it to you should stand behind their products. If you have the time, write a quick review at Amazon and other beauty websites, too. Others would, no doubt, appreciate your negative feedback if they're considering purchasing it.

Am I the only one here who read the Bliss catalog for laughs? If you take all the rediculous claims these companies make and put them all in one place you get... the Bliss catalog! It can be very entertaining.

Being a pale girl in a world of tanned beauties, I was constantly trying to look tan in high school
One the summer,I went to the pharmacy and bought coconut oil and mixed with iodine!!!
and then went tanning like a lizard
I got such a bad sunburn, I was teased I looked like a survivor of Chernobyl
worst beauty concoction ever!!
When the sunburn was over, I had this amazing copper/bronze tan color all the girls in high school envied, and then the word "Chernobyl" became popular (can you believe it?)
To this day when I go back home, and my girlfriends invite me to go over to the beach and lay on the sun to get a nice tan
they ask me if I want to go for a "Chernobyl"

Karen--too funny.

I think I would feel weird if my in-laws gave me something like that. My old boss never ever shaved her legs she only used an epilator. I thought about it and then my husband talked me out of it. I'm glad he is smart.

I actually recently bought Neutrogena's Energizing Body Scrub or something like that. It is so gross that I took me an hour to clean it off the bathtub. It's like a strong super oil that doesn't come off...ugh. I don't even know what to do with it except trash it...what a waste of money!

These last few posts remind me of how when I was younger, my parents would always use Avon's Skin-So-Soft bath oil when they took baths. I would get really worked up about how long it would take me to scrub the tub suitably clean before I could use the tub....and it still would have that nasty gross ring.

Gee: Based on my last few posts, I'm in a pretty agitated mood today with issues from my childhood!...LOL

Karen,
I never thought of it like that. I *am* the black sheep!!! LOL
Lynnette

cate
I use that scrub!!
lovethe way is makes my skin feel
but you are right, the bathtub is an oily mess
by the way, which scrub will you recommend?

LOVE that movie!....LOL