Skin Type Solution again

I picked this up last week and I am very disappointed. Paula B.'s
recommendations make more sense to me than these. The whole idea of
the 16 different skin types sounds really promising, but the
recommendations for my type (OSPW) seem virtually guaranteed to make me
break out.
Her recommendations say to pick titanium dioxide in a sunscreen over
avobenzone. That's fine but titanium dioxide makes me break out and
avobenzone doesn't. Maybe I'm extremely unusual but couldn't there be
ONE recommendation for a sunscreen that doesn't contain titanium
dioxide?
I already have a sunscreen I'm happy with anyway, but the
recommendation to use 7 different products at a time on my extremely
sensitive skin makes no sense to me. I am supposed to use salicylic
acid, hydroquinone and retinol EVERY DAY (most of them twice a day)?
I am trying a few of her reccs, one at a time, but I am really sorry I
spent the money on this. I'm also annoyed that most of her product
reccs are to products she has financial ties with. They may very well
still be good products but at least Paula B. gives many options beyond
her own.
India

How does she have financial ties to the products? I keep carrying the
book around with me thinking I will get one great new idea for my skin
type. Nothing is standing out so far.

"ahmward" <nospam.ahmw...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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It says in chapter one that she "works with" over 36 companies, and
"why wouldn't I recommend products that I have already tested"? And
then it looks to me like the bulk of the products being recommended
(and I only read a few of the skin types, maybe I'm wrong) are from
Aveeno, Neutrogena, Olay and Philosophy. Maybe I'm wrong and these
are just the lines she likes the best, but I am suspicious.
Especially since I used the Philosophy stuff that she recommends
coincidentally last year and it did absolutely nothing for me.
I am trying her other suggestions one at a time and will report my
results.
India

If you go to her website you can click on a link to companies where you
order the skincare she recommends. I can hardly believe that she has
set that up out of the goodness of her heart.
Having said that, you cannot get the book for love or money here in the
UK yet. I'm dying to "type" myself!!

Maurey, if you want to send me your address I'd be happy to mail my
copy of the book to you. (Audrey and Jean will vouch for me as a
real, normal person.) Buying this book is a waste of money as any one
individual person will use at most 1/8 of it.
India (mmeindiaatcomcastdotnet or mmein...@yahoodotcom)


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Maurey, if you want to send me your address I'd be happy to mail my copy of
the book to you. (Audrey and Jean will vouch for me as a real, normal
person.) Buying this book is a waste of money as any one individual person
will use at most 1/8 of it.
India (mmeindiaatcomcastdotnet or mmein...@yahoodotcom)


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Thanks, ladies, you are among my favorite AFers and it is good to be
back! Jean, someday we will get to go shopping together!
Audrey, I did not get the bag yet. I have been doing an unbelievable
amount of research (ie, every waking hour). It is amazing how
different bags look online vs. in real life.
After a trip to my local upscale mall to scout out bags in person, I
have fallen in love with the Louis Vuitton Suhali Fabuleuse (in black,
as I have small kids, though I love the white too), but at $3,200 it
was more than I intended to spend. The saleswoman almost talked me
into purchasing it then and there but my husband really wants to
surprise me. (He wanted me to surprise him at holiday time with a
guitar, and was going out to buy it himself to give me to give to him,
but I had already purchased one. Fortunately I have more self
control!) Also it would have been a credit card purchase and I just
paid off all my cards.
I am dropping hints left and right about this one, but if he comes up
with something else I am going to start a "drawer fund" for it. The
saleswoman says there are only 126 of them, at least in black, which I
find hard to believe, but I am lucky to live in an area where LV is
very accessible so if one of them is gone when I'm ready, I'll find
another.
I also haven't ruled out a smaller bag in this line (maybe an
Ingenieux or Epanoui) but the price differential is so little that I
think I'm better off saving up for the Fabuleuse (or saving up the
difference).
The other possible contender is the Louis Vuitton monogram charm Cabas
bag. I was originally interested in the Linda Scarf bag and sent my
mother to scope it out for me. She came back and said it was gorgeous
but it turns out she was looking at was the monogram charm Cabas, not
the Linda Scarf. I found out the Linda Scarf is $5,000 and I don't
want to spend that much. Even if I did I would want an Hermes for that
price. Plus the Linda Scarf is starting to look too gaudy to me.
My LV store and counter didn't have any of this line, so I have to get
to my mother's store to check it out. It is about a thousand less
than the Suhali which is good, but it is smaller and trendier, not as
classic. I realize as I'm writing this that the Suhali Fabuleuse is
the one that really made my heart beat faster!
I also really like a couple of Fendis (the B. Fendi in tan and black
patent leather comes to mind), but Fendi deep discounts their bags
when they go out of style. If I am going to pay full retail I want it
to be something that will hold its value.
India

The Suhali leather bags are all so beautiful and I don't think you'd tire
of them. The Linda Scarf and the charm Cabas don't seem as practical. You
need to get the size you want or you will always regret it.
Audrey

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You're 100% right. The thrill I got when seeing this bag was like
nothing I've ever gotten from a fashion item before, including the
Hermes Kelly I saw, and I could use it every single day for the rest
of my life if I wanted.
I have always been a "big bag" person. I also realized I better let
him know how much I love this one or I am risking him getting me
something else, and then spoiling his present if I save up for and buy
the Fabuleux (just found out I was spelling it wrong) myself.
I just dropped another hint and he said sweetly, "You'd better tell me
exactly what you want or I might get the wrong thing." So I did and
he didn't balk at the price, which is promising. (I guess he saw me
looking at the Hermes bags when we were on vacation and figures this
is comparitively reasonable.)
I'm sure I could always get a Linda scarf or a Cabas charm from a
reputable reseller eventually when people tire of them if I still want
it! But both of those bags are going to look "so 2006" some day.
India

Maurey, just saw your response and e–mailed you.
Audrey, I'm in a handbag quandary again. DH had to go to our local
luxury mall yesterday because of problems with his I–Pod, so I
accompanied him. He said, "Take me in the LV store and show me what
you like."
They had the Suhali Fabuleux in both black and white. She put them
down on the counter next to each other. DH didn't balk at the price
at all but he looked at me and said, "I really don't like the black
one, the white one is much more elegant."
It wasn't just him saying this. Before he opened his mouth, side by
side the black one looked awkward and gaudy, the white one looked
perfect. For my lifestyle I cannot justify $3,250 on a white bag, it
would get filthy instantly.
They also had the Linda Scarf and I didn't like it in person. They
had another monogram charm bag, not the Cabas, and I didn't like that
one either.
I don't know what to do except to hunt down the red and blue ones and
see how I feel about them, visit the Hermes Kellys again, and/or keep
looking. I did look at some of the other "it" bags yesterday
(Balenciaga, Chloe, Marc Jacobs) and they did nothing for me at all.
I really liked the Mulberry but they are not enough of a splurge in
this case. I did not go in Chanel because my kids were eating potato
chips at the time.
I also was going to buy myself a Kooba Ginger in Butter as a smaller
splurge–– I saw this online and loved it–– but in person it was
downright ugly. I like the Celine perforated Boogy on NM's site but
they didn't have it at the mall.
I found a pretty blue and white spring bag in the Cole Haan store too
but by then I was exhausted. DH has to go back to the mall today
because the solution he purchased didn't work but I am too exhausted
and ill (bronchitis) to accompany him. Hmm, maybe I better look at
the Suhali in black again when I'm not sick.
I am not in a hurry at all, am enjoying the hunt, except for the fact
that my sister is having a graduation party next month and my mother
would love for me to have a great bag to show a couple of my cousins
who are always lording their exceptionally expensive designer bags
over the rest of the family!
India the bag obsessed