Friday, January 06, 2006
Monistat Soothing Care--A perfect makeup primer!
Ok, weird girl-talk alert.
As a woman with larger than average legs, I've struggled my entire life with the irritating experience of chafed inner-thighs when I wear skirts or dresses without nylons or tights underneath. I'm sure you can imagine how much this sucks in the summertime. I've compensated all my life by wearing bike shorts under my skirts. It solves the problem, but it's not exactly sexy if I'm on a date or if my skirt flies up flirtatiously in the wind or anything. So last summer I began seeing these ads for Monistat Soothing Care, this powder/gel/lotion that you rub on your thighs and it miraculously keeps them from sticking to one another. I bought a tube and loved it to death--it really works! The only problem is that you kind of have to keep re-applying it throughout the day, but whatever, it still beats bike shorts and chafed thighs.
So then summer ended and I through it in a box containing all kinds of good stuff like hemorrhoid cream and cranberry tablets for urinary tract infections. Yep, my bathroom is so organized that I have a box just especially for ointments and pills pertaining to the area between my navel and my knees. And then I completely forgot about it.
So a few months back I was at my friend's house and she'd just gotten a jar of Smashbox's makeup primer. My friend is a makeup maniac. She's got AT LEAST 40 tubes of Lancome lipgloss, and nearly every palate of Dior's eyeshadow, plus an entire shelf of other luxury cosmetics. Mostly I'm cool just to visit her house and play with all her stuff--it's like I'm 10 again and raiding my mom's cosmetics drawer. But I'd been really coveting this primer. The bottle was so pretty and I loved the idea behind it but at $40/oz there was just no way I could justify buying it for myself.
But then I was playing it with it the other night and I remembered the texture was incredibly familiar. I couldn't place it all that night but when I got home it hit me. You guessed it, it felt exactly the same as the Monistat stuff. So I went online and looked at the ingredients and while they're not exactly the same, they're pretty damn close. I guess they're both essentially a gel-like silicone that makes a little barrier on your skin, except the Monistat costs only about $6/oz. My friend doesn't agree with me, but I've been using the Monistat now for a little less than a month and my makeup has been flawless. You absolutely have to wash your face at night though (with either of them) or you'll wake up with some killer new acne.
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As a woman with larger than average legs, I've struggled my entire life with the irritating experience of chafed inner-thighs when I wear skirts or dresses without nylons or tights underneath. I'm sure you can imagine how much this sucks in the summertime. I've compensated all my life by wearing bike shorts under my skirts. It solves the problem, but it's not exactly sexy if I'm on a date or if my skirt flies up flirtatiously in the wind or anything. So last summer I began seeing these ads for Monistat Soothing Care, this powder/gel/lotion that you rub on your thighs and it miraculously keeps them from sticking to one another. I bought a tube and loved it to death--it really works! The only problem is that you kind of have to keep re-applying it throughout the day, but whatever, it still beats bike shorts and chafed thighs.
So then summer ended and I through it in a box containing all kinds of good stuff like hemorrhoid cream and cranberry tablets for urinary tract infections. Yep, my bathroom is so organized that I have a box just especially for ointments and pills pertaining to the area between my navel and my knees. And then I completely forgot about it.
So a few months back I was at my friend's house and she'd just gotten a jar of Smashbox's makeup primer. My friend is a makeup maniac. She's got AT LEAST 40 tubes of Lancome lipgloss, and nearly every palate of Dior's eyeshadow, plus an entire shelf of other luxury cosmetics. Mostly I'm cool just to visit her house and play with all her stuff--it's like I'm 10 again and raiding my mom's cosmetics drawer. But I'd been really coveting this primer. The bottle was so pretty and I loved the idea behind it but at $40/oz there was just no way I could justify buying it for myself.
But then I was playing it with it the other night and I remembered the texture was incredibly familiar. I couldn't place it all that night but when I got home it hit me. You guessed it, it felt exactly the same as the Monistat stuff. So I went online and looked at the ingredients and while they're not exactly the same, they're pretty damn close. I guess they're both essentially a gel-like silicone that makes a little barrier on your skin, except the Monistat costs only about $6/oz. My friend doesn't agree with me, but I've been using the Monistat now for a little less than a month and my makeup has been flawless. You absolutely have to wash your face at night though (with either of them) or you'll wake up with some killer new acne.
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