What splurge item have you bought that’s left you disappointed?

[Chloefairydust]

So decided to treat myself and buy myself a Venus embrace razor. I loved how glamorous it looked, loved that you can buy new heads for it and reuse the handle (less plastic waste). Just really wanted to love this item!

Anyway so I have a shower this morning with my Venus embrace…. I shave my legs, great result. Shave my toes, great result. Shave armpits, again great... And just when I’m really beginning to feel like a silky smooth Goddess in the shower… I try to shave my bikini area. OMG seriously wtf is wrong with this razor??? Something about the shape of the razor itself just makes it impossible to get a good result in the bikini area😳. I’m so disappointed.
I’m hoping the Venus razor inventor reads this thread and improves their product. Because I so wanted to love this item.

You would think spending more money on an item would get you a better product. But apparently not… So what luxury splurge item have you bought that’s left you disappointed??

I laughed so hard I weed a little at this 😂😂😂😂😂😂

it wasn’t so much that the razor wouldn’t cut the hair, it was more the shape of the razor was very bulky and too much of an awkward shape to easily get into all the nooks and crannies 😳

Does Aniball count? Sooo painful, difficult to get in, horrible to inflate and agony to expel. And expensive. Also did absolutely nothing to help me with labour. Surprisingly, given the nature of the item, there is a secondhand market so I recouped some costs!

Obviously some women rave about it but I loathed the thing.

My cordless shark pet hair. £380! It gets blocked really easily, needs empting all the time. It’s ok for a quick whizz around but doesn’t get the dog hairs out

Upset and angry I understand but why mortified and confused????

Past “disappointing” splurges:

1. travel system I got for my son. tyres kept getting punctures, difficult to fold up when I had to get a bus.
2. travel system I got for my daughter (she’s nearly 7yrs younger than my son, so the 1st travel system was long gone!). She couldn’t lay flat for months due to terrible reflux. I shouldn’t have bothered getting it.
3. expensive skin care. Best thing I’ve used is a basic Dove beauty bar! It cleared my skin up!
4. one of those coffee machines that takes pods. Expensive, and crap for environment.
5. I had another coffee machine that took ground coffee, but that was a bastard to clean out and really messy to use.
6. Ariat boots (ankle ones). I loved them, but the zip broke on one of them. It couldn’t be fixed.
7. the disposable razors marketed for women. Absolute crap!
8. most jeans that’s I’ve bought over the years. Never found any that have fitted well. Apart from when I was ridiculously underweight and taking smaller than a UK size 6 in clothing.

stuff I love:
-eufy
-cordless Dyson (my 1st lasted 6yrs and I upgraded this year due to having four cats!).
-my epilator
-my Lumie IPL machine
-double edge safety razors (when my Dad died, I got his very old shaving kit, which he’d got as a teenager. It takes safety razors, which cost pennies and are way sharper than the usual ones you get in the shops).
-Thermomix, and instant pot (I work FT and I use these LOADS)
-aero press for coffee
-electric blanket
-Kuddly (slightly cheaper version of an Oodie)
-treadmill
-cloth sanitary protection and moon cup

Ah, tis a pickle, all the best

You need to pluck your toe hair - if you shave them they go all stubbly.

Depends what type of hair you have obviously but I love Matrix Biolage. Having been frizzy for most of my life I really really like this stuff. Makes everything smooth, detangled and shiny (I’m white, ethnically irish, long brown hair which tends towards being somehow both dry and greasy).

But…. Have you tried a Shark vacuum cleaner?

We had a Dyson and the day my Shark arrived I had just literally gone round my whole flat with the Dyson.

I was too excited to not try out my new Shark vacuum cleaner so I did and filled HALF of the barrel with dust. I had honestly hoovered half an hour before with the Dyson. Just showed me how bad the Dyson was when I thought it wasn’t half bad!

A cross trainer, second hand. Used once, thought I would never walk again. Haven’t used it since.

I shave my toes, some of my girl friends do too. It's healthy to have hair as it means a good blood supply.

For me, dyson Airwrap. I used it for weeks, practised, followed YouTube tutorials and I could not get the curls to hold. I sent it back.

But surely 'normalising' hair that grows on toes would mean - NOT shaving it? I'm confused. Normalise means letting things be, not hiding them.

I have never, ever shaved my Hobbity toes and would never dream of doing it. I honestly don't give a shiny one. I shave my legs mostly because I started aged 15 and so it's always going to be prickly and thick if I stop. Don't your big toes feel all spiky if you skip shaving? I might have hairy toes but the hair's soft.

Every so often I feel like chucking in the whole shaving bit - why do laydees have to have hairless smooth bodies? But in the meantime, I have this which is the dog's bollocks, no plastic waste (not even in the packaging it came in) and replacement blades are easy to get and not too costly (you don't need to buy Merkur brand blades). www.traditionalshaving.co.uk/Merkur/4132669-merkur-hd-34c-safety-razor-chrome-4045284011133.html

If you feel the need, I believe Merkur and other brands make safety razors with pretty purple or pink handles too. They're exactly the same product. I never understood why anyone would spend £s more on a 'Lady Branded' plastic disposable when those packs of blue Bics did the job far better!

The salted caramel bombe from lidls Xmas.

Tasteless lardy pap.

1. Olaplex - same, hair dry and crinkly. (I have brown curly hair and La Biosthetique curl cream is good for me.)
2. Every single thing for blepharitis - compresses, pads. Not exactly a luxury but god the money I’ve spent. Saw a YouTube video and (disgustingly) smeared honey on a cotton bud and over eyelid edges. Unbelievable - worked.
3. Oura ring. Was obsessed by it, especially the sleep tracker. Then one night I had stay awake with a sick relative - the Oura said I’d been in deep sleep the whole time - complete dupe
4. chanel chance perfume - desperate for it for months, got for Christmas and smells like cheap sweets on me

All the tubes of mascara in my makeup bag, which promised me fabulous eyelashes. I've never found one that makes a difference.

I love my shark and Hetty though

I was given one of these as a gift and it smoked so badly it has left huge soot marks on the wall.

I’ve been using men’s Wilkinson sword razors since I was 18. But since I got a Braun IPL machine I don’t have to shave that often (the real game changer). I also shave my toes, I thought that was normal. Must be my Cypriot genetics. I think a few posters here assume we’re all Nordic goddesses 🤣.

My most disappointing luxury purchase was a trip to New York. The place basically gave me 4 days of anxiety.

I bought a self defence keychain and they come in lots of cute styles and colours. I realize the purpose isn’t to be fashionable but I was really emotionally invested in the heart shaped puffball. But after a week of use it just popped right off. I paid $20cad. Which I suppose is not a lot but it was a lot for me at the time. 😂 I was so disappointed.

I thought this!

OP maybe you’re easily pleased but FFS treat yourself to something that’s actually nice FGS!

Ti answer the OP - my DH spent a fortune on a huge Molton & Brown gift set for me for my birthday, probably about £70. Horrible stuff, smells like cheap hand wash in public toilets. I can’t believe how much they flog them for. So much better to buy independently

Re the sleep thing - I can 100% relate. neither of mine slept through til age 4 and sleep deprivation does really funny things to a human. It makes you act in ways which are not normal. And that means you buy stuff in absolute desperation. I bought all the gadgets but the worst thing was a book designed to get them to sleep.

The basis was that the words used in the book would essentially hypnotise children into nodding off. Some words were underlined, meaning you had to say them sloooooowly and some were in bold and so you had to whisper these words.

it would have lots of sleep related word so it would read like:

”Hopsy the rabbit crept up to his bed and fell asleep oh so quitety. Shhhhh said mummy rabbit. Quiet”.

I ended up sounding like some sort of fucking clanger on the moon, and because there was no story to it really my kids just did this and said “that’s rubbish mummy find another story”.

It was then I realised what a low point I hit. £15 on a bullshit book to sound like I had something wrong with me.

Also I once spent $45cad on one of those huge Yankee candles. And if you don’t know what those are they are very nice but very expensive candles in the US. Anyways it turned out I was allergic to it and it gave me a horrible migraine so I ended up giving it to a friend.

In order of disappointment
Dyson cordless, followed by a Henry. Neither lived up to the hype and were replaced within a month.

George foreman grill. I really liked using it but cleaning it was a nightmare. This was the original one with the non removable tray..

Useless purchases include a wax hand pot that the cat burned himself on, and an Asperger’s steamer. If you want a long lasting and powerful vibrator, buy a Hitachi Magic Wand.