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Dec. 22nd, 2008

1:23 PM

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Today, I got given - as a Secret Santa gift - some Oil of Olay. Man, flashbacks. When we were tiny kiddiewinks, my brother and I used to buy Olay for my mum, every year - with the help of our dad, who actually paid for the stuff. So my reaction to it was... less than grateful (not in front of the giver, of course - it was, I think, well-intentioned). But then I thought about it... When my mum was the same age as I am now, she had a two-year-old and a baby. Maybe it IS time I started with the Olay.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! *shakes fist in vain at the Relentless March of Time*

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Also, staying up until 7am reading makes my shoulders ache all the next day. I... think the immaturity and the agedness cancel each other out, there.

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Happy Hannukkah to those who celebrate it! And happy Winter Solstice for those who celebrated that yesterday!

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beanpot.livejournal.com wrote:

Dec. 22nd, 2008 02:15 pm (UTC)

LOLOL!! I use to use it, but switched to Eucrin.

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pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:

Dec. 22nd, 2008 02:21 pm (UTC)

Hee. Well, that makes me feel better.

I do use moisturiser, really - I just object to anything that says it "Fights the Seven Signs of Ageing!" *g*

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rihansu.livejournal.com wrote:

Dec. 22nd, 2008 02:59 pm (UTC)

Hee! I bought some Oil of Olay this summer because they had a moisturizer with sunscreen that was supposed to be good for my type of skin. But their products have this faint but very distinctive smell and it took me right back to my grandmother's house. Now I know why my mom always used some other brand. Once that jar was empty, I switched to Biore.

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pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:

Dec. 22nd, 2008 03:07 pm (UTC)

Oh yeah, the smell - I've not opened it yet, but whenever I've tried Olay in shops, the smell is hugely evocative. Same with the perfume 'Charlie' (which I wouldn't use even if it didn't instantly say "MUM!" to me, so that's okay).

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holdouttrout.livejournal.com wrote:

Dec. 22nd, 2008 03:31 pm (UTC)

Oh, man. Yeah. Kinda hilarious, actually. That smell--it's just absolutely the same, no matter the product.

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pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:

Dec. 22nd, 2008 03:43 pm (UTC)

*finally caves, opens, and sniffs it* Wow, yes. Actually, it smells like Johnson's Baby Lotion, which I used to use as a make-up remover.

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holdouttrout.livejournal.com wrote:

Dec. 22nd, 2008 03:48 pm (UTC)

Hee! I'm much more friendly with the scent-free stuff, myself. I don't tend to notice perfumes unless they're really heavy, so I don't usually bother putting it on myself, and a lot of scented lotions smell really sweet to me.

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pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:

Dec. 22nd, 2008 03:56 pm (UTC)

Yeah, I tend to use those, too - my skin seems to deal better with non-perfumed, non-coloured, probably-mostly-water - and I figure that, as I do wear perfume, I don't want to be a mix of conflicting smells. I'll probably pass this on to someone else, tbh - it's not for my skin type anyhow.

I'm not very good at feigning gratitude, am I? *g*

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holdouttrout.livejournal.com wrote:

Dec. 22nd, 2008 04:00 pm (UTC)

There's a difference for feigning gratitude toward the giver and behind flock. :-)

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zixi.livejournal.com wrote:

Dec. 22nd, 2008 03:37 pm (UTC)

Hee. I've been using an Olay moisturizer with sunscreen since I was, oh, about 14 (mainly for the sunscreen)

I never associated it with the relentless march of time...

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pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:

Dec. 22nd, 2008 03:47 pm (UTC)

Heh - well, good! I just hope that was the gift-giver's attitude, too. *g*

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aelfgyfu_mead wrote:

Dec. 22nd, 2008 06:09 pm (UTC)

When my mum was the same age as I am now, she had a two-year-old and a baby
But that actually makes a huge difference--you don't have a two-year-old and a baby! (Count yourself lucky!)

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pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:

Dec. 22nd, 2008 06:20 pm (UTC)

Heh - the ageing effects of me and my brother - yes, she'd probably say the same. *g*

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naelany.livejournal.com wrote:

Dec. 23rd, 2008 09:14 pm (UTC)

funny how some things make us think about ourselves, and then in retrospect re-think things ^_~

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