the la mer is worth it

and i defy anyone to tell me otherwise...

so nearly 10 years ago a friend (who has kinda drifted out of my life now) introduced me to 'la mer', actually in those days i gave it the respect it was due (even though i didn't know it then) and called it 'creme de la mer', which you probably have worked out means cream of the sea...

soooo anyway, 10 years or so ago this friend told me about this cream that was taking the US by storm and she dragged me along to DJ's (the only place that sells it in Aust - and you wonder why i know their phone number by heart!) and got me a sample (a tiny little pot they reckoned would last for 5 days and make my skin look AMAZING...) as i had told her in no uncertain terms that i would NOT be paying $365 for some bloody moisturiser...oh how wrong i was!

i guess she didn't bank on just how addictive my personality is, and it didn't take 5 days for me to get this addiction started, no sirree, more like 3 days! what i noticed in my skin was the most amazing change - not only did it look fresh, plump and kindadewy (is that actually a word??)...but the oiliness i had battled for years seemed to be improving? who would have figured that putting really thick cream on your skin would make it less oily...

so of course, like all girls who are single and earn far too much money, i thought 'fuck it $365 isn't too much for moisturiser' and promptly bought a jar...but like all addictions it's a slippery slope, or is it?

so next thing you know i'm scouring women's magazines for the 'free vouchers' they occcasionally put in them for sample size la mer pots! after that it gets worse - this friends husband (who at the time was travelling to the US a lot) works out that it's WAY cheaper to buy it in the US...so i find myself calling him each time he goes to buy me some other product in the rapidly expanding range!

then i find myself becoming like a la mer salesperson! i can't stop telling people how wonderful it is when they tell me how good my skin looks and i consider a career change - yep, really good move to go from being a head of finance for some department in a bank to selling face cream - really onto something there! not...

anyway, it is now neary 10 years since i started using la mer! i think i use almost 50% of the products in the range (the most expensive 50%...). i think (and i try to be objective but seriously, who can be totally objective about themselves?) that i look somewhere in the region of 5 - 8 years younger than i actually am (and i don't credit this all to la mer - lots of water, lots of sleep and great genes also play their part in this little story)...which considering i was born the year buzz and neil did their 'moon walk' would make me 40 (oh fuck i've said it out loud) next year...and yet i'm strangely calm about that (obviously i'm calm about turning 40 - that's coz i don't look anywhere near 40...)

so imagine my delight when i am talking to my mother tonight and she has been talking to someone from saturday's party (the formal 60th ben and i went to in canberra) and the woman asks my mum if there might be grandchildren soon - my mum says she already has two and the woman then goes on to say were they mine - my mum tells this woman that not only have ben and i only just met (ie that grandchildren are not imminent) but that i am 39! the woman apparently says 'no way, i thought she was in her 20's'...

so this post is for all my friends who think that $300 is too much to spend on eye cream...you were wrong!