NO To Carrots!

I love beauty products. They're just fun. Even when they don't make me more beautiful, they're still fun. For example, I have this night cream I bought a sample packet of. It smells like cocoa. It does nothing noticeable for my skin. But I still love it because who wouldn't like to apply cocoa-scented cream to their face at night?

For years now I've been following the advice of magazines for my beauty product purchases. I've listened to the "geniuses" at Vogue, In Style, Lucky, Cosmopolitan, etc etc. And do you know what I've found out? The lesson I've finally learned? They know NOTHING about beauty products!!

One magazine recently raved about the brand Yes To Carrots! It is praised for being all natural and amazing for your skin. Now, I get really excited about beauty products, especially trendy ones with funny names, so I immediately went out and bought the Yes To Carrots brand hand lotion, body butter, mud mask for hair, mud mask for face, and makeup remover. Yeah, I got a little carried away.

After trying all of these products, the results are as follows: The hand lotion is ok, but I've tried better. And the smell is kind of blah. The body butter is just the hand lotion in a different package. Not buttery at all! The mud mask for the hair did nothing. The mud mask for the face was ok, but there are cheaper alternatives that work just as well. The makeup remover is the worst of all and, ironically, it is the one I still use. It constantly leaves makeup on my face after I use it. But I am determined to finish the bottle because I can't stand to waste any more money. So night after night I use it and then have to follow up with something else to get my face truly clean.

Bottom line: Say NO to carrots and never, ever listen to magazine beauty advice. Next time I'll tell you about the hair remover they recommended to me. I'm still trying to get the smell off.