Whether it is possible to buy beauty for money?

- Yes, beauty – it is always expensive, - the girlfriend Lenka, and "in combination" the top manager of one of the European cosmetic companies says to me. – And you as wanted?. The cost of cream is not only payment of work of marketing service as you got used to think.

Lenka laughs, but continues already seriously:

- You see such valuable ingredients of creams as mink oil, jojoba oil or a jasmine are frankly expensive. And with it there's nothing to be done. But they improve a condition of skin. Not to compare to the synthetic analogs which are contained in cheap cosmetics or a miserable amount of natural aromatic oil which will not render almost any cosmetic effect.

On it Lenki's argument always comes to an end and begins mine. All these expensive components – it is good and remarkable. Why in that case not all expensive cosmetics is equally good and effective? And in some cases we remain are dissatisfied with the reached effect at thrown out (as it appeared, on wind) money?

However, the cosmetic industry really made for us much – she in many respects stepped towards to our laziness. To go and buy expensive tube (and to be filled with confidence that your appearance – in reliable hands) – it is incomparably easy. Easily and at the same time expensive. Quite often our confidence in quality of cosmetics is based only on its high cost: expensively, so it cannot be bad. And on the other hand … it is expensive – it is always good?

I at all not against expensive cosmetics as it was for certain possible to think, in view of reasonings above. However I am an opponent of thoughtless investments into cosmetic products.

Let's take, for example, hair. Ever since, as the Russian market was captivated by shampoos of foreign production, I tried them all. All grades of hair preparations – bought in the homeland and abroad (on trips), in shops and through distributors, - passed "test" on my hair. Later the products of domestic manufacturers also joined them. 12 years (passed approximately so much since then) later I can draw only one conclusion – any of the shampoos tested by me did not bring the promised result. Their effect practically does not differ from usual inexpensive shampoo, considering that I wash the head every day, I use the conditioner and 1-2 times a week I do a mask for hair. I really do not see any difference and any improvements. My hair still quickly zhirnet, still, as before, split, in off-season – grow dull and intensively drop out. From this I can draw only one conclusion – all money spent by me for these 12 years is thrown out on branding. I still did not find what looked for. And, frankly speaking, already despaired to find.

It not my only disappointment. Sensitive skin of lips was my immemorial problem. Lips constantly were weather-beaten – it was visible even through lipstick. With a problem it was necessary to do something, and I decided "to finish" it ruble. I analysed all market of the cosmetic industry and stopped the choice on the American brand of cosmetics (alas, I cannot call to avoid legal claims for an anti-advertizing). A special series of care of lips consisted of a mask and balm. Promised me that use of means of everything several times a week will allow me to achieve a well-groomed look and completely will solve my problem. In addition advised to replace decorative lipstick with means of their brand – lipstick which "not only gives delightful resistant color, but also looks after lips". In principle, the brand is known therefore I thought that "cannot but help simply". From the moment of my capital investment there passed two months. Throughout this time I use a complex for lips and lipstick. Effect … any. My lips are still shelled, and their windburn is foully visible through new expensive lipstick. I consider that I in vain threw out money …

Other complex of cosmetics of also famous brand, I will not lie, improved a condition of my combined skin a little. I estimate improvement in limits of 30-40%. However gloss of a forehead, wings of a nose and chin is still visible even from under very expensive mineral powder of the same brand!

Whether cream against wrinkles around eyes is necessary to my 19-year-old flatmate – you judge. I think what to the distributor was all the same, how old is she, when he convinced the student of need of fight against wrinkles which "just about will appear".

Perhaps I really carp? And how not to carp if the ultraink bought by me a month ago (580 rubles!) pours as the most usual, cheap. Perhaps she and not the most expensive, but also for such money I would like "purity under eyes" at least in the first half of day. Anything similar! She lays down really not bad (in many respects, I think, thanks to a small brush, but not quality of a product), but pours! Having arrived to work, first of all I rush to a mirror and I make toilet.

Whether it is possible to buy beauty for money? Of course, it would be desirable. It would be desirable to give a round sum of money, and together with a tube or a jar to receive confidence that left notes not for nothing. That effect it will be valid, let not at once, but will be!

For example, the hostess of the apartment at which I rent the room believes more that beauty is not necessarily big money, but always big work. For this reason she with enviable regularity itself prepares masks according to national recipes, imposes tea bags on eyelids, rinses hair with broths of a camomile and nettle, and after a bathtub oils skin olive. Claims that the effect is not worse, than from all these "overseas means" (which, by the way, for all holidays give it the daughter). I did not do the same yet, but with each new disappointment from expensive cosmetics I incline more and more to the idea to try. At least, some recipes (certainly, about "dekorativka" here the speech does not go).