***Best Beauty Gifts***
It might seem surreal for some people to spend $100 on one single jar of anti-aging cream or serum, but for some people $100 is a real bargain. Others wouldn’t even consider putting anything on their face that wasn’t way north of $500.
If you fall in the first two categories, you might have to brace yourself because I’m so about to burst your beauty bubble.
I’ve recently talked about the limited edition of La Prairie’s 150 ml/5 oz jars of Skin Caviar Luxe Cream that retailed for about $900 USD. If that was shocking or unbelievable to you, your jaw is about to drop open.
Now, it’s true that most of these products are purchased by celebrities and very wealthy women, but it’s still fun to look at how the other half lives.
Three of the most expensive skin care products on the market:
1. Kate Somerville’s $2,500 miracle cream: No doubt this is a Hollywood celebrity favourite. Kate Somerville’s Melrose skin care clinic is a like a revolving door for women lining up to buy what has been called “Kate’s glow in a jar”. Since Ms. Somerville realized that the masses (aka the rest of us) might never be able to afford her über high priced anti-wrinkle cream, she’s come up with a more affordable version via her “Kate in a Jar” brand. So do what the celebs do (well, almost) and get your hands on Kate’s cream for a mere $85 for the 1.7 oz/50 ml jar!
2. La Mer Essence 21-day treatment (made from sea algae, narcissus bulbs and rosemary) which retails at $2,100. It’s said that cast members from both ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ (2006 hit movie starring Meryl Streep)’ and ‘Desperate Housewives’ are all hooked on this La Mer cream.
3. ReVive by Dr. Gregory Brown: This is a combination treatment where you use one vial a week of the Peau Magnifique (magnificent skin) Serum — which retails for $1,500/bottle (for a 28-day enzyme treatment) and then switch to their Intensité (intensive) Volumizing Serum which retails for $600.
Most ReVive products are already quite expensive, but their new Peau Magnifique takes skin care decadence to a whole new stratosphere. The four-week system promises an increased glow, reduction of redness and firmer skin with less wrinkles. It contains something called “telomerase” which apparently activates dormant adult stem cells and supposedly repairs DNA fragmentation (I’m still not sure what that means in plain English). Notorious beauty seekers like Madonna, Naomi Campbell and Drea de Matteo (who plays the character of Adriana La Cerva on the HBO TV hit series The Sopranos) swear by Dr. Gregory Brown’s ReVive line.