Have you ever been in a department store and have an assistant spray your wrist with the latest exotic perfume?
Everyone – and I mean everyone – loves free stuff samples. Some people love to go to the supermarkets and sample all of the crisps, dips, and other tasty bits and pieces on offer. Other people love rumaging around dustbins or skips, looking for discarded bits and pieces of this and that, old mirrors, lampshades and other unwanted items left out to be taken by anyone who wants them. In my case, it was skincare samples. I love to get free skincare products whenever I have the chance. It has become a hobby of mine.
My pursuit of free skincare samples actually started out looking for a very specific product. I had not found an anti wrinkle cream that really worked to my satisfaction, and I knew that I needed one badly. My skin was looking old, weathered, and worn. I would get skin care samples at all of the mall makeup counters. When I finally found a skin care sample that worked, however, my quest was not at an end. Since I could get all of this skincare for free, I thought I would start looking at makeup. I needed some new eyeliner and some blush, so I tried out a lot of different make up samples. It was like being a little girl playing dress up again! The skin care samples allowed me to try some of the most expensive, exclusive products in the business, and all for free.
I am ashamed to admit it, but now I spend many of my weekends looking for free skin care samples. At first, I was being banned from some of the good cosmetics supply stores. You see, they knew that I would always come there, try out their skin care samples, and then leave without purchasing anything. Naturally, they did not want me to treat their stores that way, so they stopped offering me skin care samples.
At first I was devastated, but soon I realised the simple solution to my problem. I would have to buy something every week – although it did not have to be expensive. It was a small price to pay for all of these wonderful skin care samples. You would not believe how frequently new skin care products are coming out. Most people never even get to hear about some of the most new, high-tech ones, but I get to try all of them. I'm even starting to think about writing reviews of some of the skin care brands. Writing a skin care product review or two would be a great way to get people to visit my blog.
Article by Kathy Joyce
April 2007
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