Your most pretentious beauty buy?

[DameDoom]

After going to a v posh Michelin star restaurant for my birthday this week, I have gone in to full on beauty wanker mode by dashing out to buy far too many Aesop products. I will have exfoliated myself to a skeleton at this rate and have even bought the post poo drops and animal wash just in case my elderly cats want a pampering... they definitely won't.
I need to be stopped.I am a proper twat.

It’s ridiculous Guerlain lipstick for me, the ones where you have to buy the case separately. The case has a lovely little mirror in it but I am too old to be able to see to put lippy on in a tiny mirror and I only ever apply lippy in bathrooms or at home so it’s no fucking use anyway.

I love the weight of the case and the colours though and the lipstick is lovely and creamy.

The poo drops do sound intriguing...

Curse you, OP, for sucking me in to your pretentious twattery

THANK YOU OP - your thread has made me feel properly better after a few crap work weeks & also because I just spent £££ on certain goodies for myself from Space NK …. another story.

HOWEVER I am now thinking of trying AESOP ! which is the best smell & can you describe it in non poncy type language (unlike their website).

I bought Aesop hand wash and hand cream after trying it in the loos of a pretentious marylebone eatery. I'm now intrigued by post-poo drops!

Louboutin Lipstick and Mascara because the packaging was pretty 🙅🏻‍♀️

Ah the post poo drops, I couldn't understand why they did not work, the girl in Space NK says you drop them in the loo after you have "been" . You actually need to put a few droplets in before you go, the oil forms a seal on the water!

always but if that's how they work then a couple of drops of chip fat would have the same effect??? Hmm might try a bit of olive oil for scientific research. Seems pretty fall-if-the-Roman-empire to me...

OMG there is a branch of Aesop where I live. I am going to be RUINED.

Aesop looks so pretty by the sink though, thank goodness the family know it’s for show only and it’s Cien under the sink

Yes, Aesop sell 2 hand washes, one has little bits to exfoliate and the other is smooth.
Resurrection is smooth.
&
Reverence is for polishing.

My favourite is the huge 500ml mouthwash with a retro brown glass apothecary beaker.

Bain de Bouche

Well isn’t that going to look lovely next to the copper taps and Moroccan star tiles?

Is it in stock? I am coming over all #instadecor

I bought the Aesop Bain de Bouche in a moment of madness once. Fifteen quid for something that doesn’t even get you pissed.
The buyer’s remorse was fearsome.

Messy -maybe we should have the post poo drops on show and the chip oil under the sink! Or should I say vanity unit.
Technically the girl in space NK was correct because the oil needs replacing after the loo has been flushed but it needs to be in there first to be effective.

Christian Dior nail polish remover is lovely, well the bottle is.

Yes £15
But
You
Get
A
Tiny
Glass
Beaker

That beaker is the icing on the cake

I'm loving the "twattery" but need to cook dinner. I am anticipating a list of new products to try, I will be back later.

They sell poo drops in Tesco 

Chanel foot glitter...! Now if I hadn't bought it myself I'd question its existence! But it did exist, in about 1998....

I didn’t use my tiny glass beaker. I just chugged it out the bottle, consumed with self-loathing.

Oh no they have one in Richmond must resist.

I'm loving this thread.

Aesop is the sort of shop where you absolutely can't go wrong if you need a gift for someone you can't think of a present for. See also: Diptyque, Anthropologie, Le Labo etc. Utter wankery, but always smash it out of the park in terms of impressive gift giving.

Yes but I need to know which handwash to buy - there ought to be smells on the website you could link to. - is it the one with vetiver and bergamot or the other one ?

I am going to buy the poo drop s for my DH !

Resurrection has mandarin, rosemary, lavender and cedar atlas. It's got a lovely sharp citrus scent underpinned by the lavender ( I dont usually like lavender but this stuff is like crack, so I guess I must do. )