Clarisonic Skincare System:Product Testdrive.

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Subtitle: MizFit Gets Girly  in the Name of Outside the Box Living.

I know, right?

Who do I think I am testing out a skin care system when here I came thisclose to mocking the anti-aging creme.

And no.  It isnt because I have about 26 more days left in my thirties.

I accepted the Clarisonic Challenge because I was curious.

Im a skeptic by nature and even more so when it comes gimmicky things which old school applications (AKA wash cloth and soap) seem to handle quite adeptly.

I also said yes because my mouth is a bighugefan of the other product the company manufactures.

Please to enjoy.

BEFORE:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUN6ddetuEI

AFTER (and yes. that sound you hear is me crackingthehellup at this whole thing.):

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecAYim_ogDM

What did we learn today? (thanks for asking)

Yes, if  you tend toward the tomboy end of the spectrum as I do, you might enjoy a little fancypants skin care somthin’ somethin’ every now & again.

That said, I think for me (& bear in mind Ive used the ‘system’ for a week) it was 90% placebo effect and 10% lovingly scrubbing away my dead skin cells.

I invested the time in myself, choose to spend time taking care of of my epidermis and, as a result, *thought* I looked better & definitely felt better about my countenance.

What struck me the most about this entire beauty-experience was how similar the investing and choosing was to my healthy lifestyle.

I rarely invest time in my appearance (please to see owning no hairbrush & cross reference under lacking in make-up) & typically choose not to care beyond basic maintainence (soap, lotion, sunscreen).

This Test Drive was kind of an AH HA! moment for me.

I finally “got” how primping & investing in one’s external is almost the same whether it’s lunges or lipstick.

Would I purchase this product/recommend that you run out and git it for yourself?

Would I purchase it? No. That says absolutely nothing about the product & is entirely a reflection on my bank account and the fact I spend far too much money already on these things.

Those are currently my treats of choice (oh and this) and a woman can only have so many indulgences.

Would I recommend you run & get it?

I’d say you’d know the answer to that better than I.

Did you watch the video and think HOLY LORD THAT LOOKS COOL? Then yes.  It is, indeed, as fanTIZtastic as they say/it appears.

Have you used the same Dr. Bronners & a swath of cloth to scrub your face for the past decade? Then probably not.

(That concludes the least helpful product review you shall ever read.)

Wish you had more info on how the Clarisonic Skin Care Brush uses a patented sonic frequency of more than 300 movements per second to clean your skin?

Longing to know what the Toddler attempted to use the system for when she thought I wasnt looking?

Wanna bitch and moan that I couldnt get one for a giveaway?  Hang in there. We mightcould get one soon!

Please to hit us all up in the comments.

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  2. That’s not me either… I’m so off cosmetics and skincare products, because they contain so many harmful chemicals. These days I use the oil cleansing method, where I massage a blend of olive, tea tree and caster oil into my skin and steam it off with a facecloth. For extra moisturizing I use organic coconut oil. My skin has been transformed!

    I suppose the massaging action must feel quite good!

  3. I laugh at the though of you using this too.
    Not in a mean way it just isn’t how I see you in a way.
    I did go and read about it though and it looks pretty neat!

    Will you keep using it?

    ID LOVE ONE 🙂

  4. I enjoyed this 🙂 Its really nice to do something special/different for yourself every now and again and to take that extra minute to take care of you. Glad you liked the products!

  5. Watching this before I leave for the office.

    I want to know:

    Did it just feel fantastic when you used it?

    How expensive is it??

  7. As someone who also tends toward the tomboy end of the spectrum, I’d say this was a VERY helpful review!

    I love that you stay honest and separate out what’s the product part and what’s the subjective part that’s more about you. Much better than the fakey gushy all-positive reviews one reads elsewhere. Love that you keep it so real!

  8. (do you really not own a brush?!)

    I love how you had the moment of realizing that it is all not so different.

    I am a true girly girl and have a bathroom filled with lotions and make up (and I have to confess I own this as well. WORTH IT to me for what my .02 is worth) and I do think that it all almost makes me feel as good as my runs.

    I view it all as two sides of the same coin which both serve to boost my self esteem.

    Glad you at least gave it a shot.

  9. I don’t use any make up either. Soap, water, moisturizer, if I can remember.

    The Proposal was good. Ryan Reynolds is naked! Worth the price of admission right there! Predictable but cute. Year One is next on my list, I want to see Away We Go too.

  10. I am all about the lunges AND lipstick (perfect parallel/analogy).

    Thanks for the honest review and HONESTLY it made me want one 😉

  12. I’m not sure that I’d do it. Yes, I’d love to be more girly but never seem to use this kind of stuff. Ever. I’m lucky if I leave the house with make up on (cause I’m too lazy), much less do my hair. Or even wash my face before bed (i know..ewww…but I find myself forgetting and thinking of the paper I should be writing).

    I did buy a skirt though. 2 of them. And have worn them this month! That’s a step in the right direction 🙂

  13. Ok Miz
    I want a follow up follow up in your bathroom!!

    Can we see it in action please?

  14. Myriad Mama Moments Morning up in herre.

    More thoughts in a bit.

    Short answer?

    YES (I’m still using it)!

  15. I’m a big believer that it’s partially about the time to yourself aspect. And it’s true that there isn’t much difference between lunges or lipstick, but I’ve noticed that when I’ve been working out, my skin looks a lot better than when I’m not (the same goes for eating clean).

    That said, I’m not sure that you wouldn’t get the same results with a weekly face mask (I alternate between 2 kinds, both of which were under $10 for a big tube) and exfoliation. Frankly $195 is a bit much to pay for that gadget, at least to me.

  16. I totally get the “taking care of yourself” moment that you had while using it…and I’m more of a girly-girl (i.e. I wear makeup!), but when I take the extra time to really do something for my skin, THAT’S when I feel pampered. The rest is just normal day-to-day routine for me.

    So…tell me about TT’s reaction!

  17. I only wash my face with water. Don’t even use a washcloth as my skin gets irritated so easily! But I might want to rethink that after a friend told me the other day, “you have really visible pores – don’ t you exfoliate?” lol! Thanks for doing the test drive for me!
    PS> Now I want those Nike rift shoes. Thanks a lot!

  19. Last week I saw a woman and spoke with her. She looked so young. I asked her her age and she is the same age as I . I was shocked. She easily looked 5-10 years younger. She flat out said to me, “it’s makeup!” Implying, I thought, that if I’d wear makeup, I too, would look younger.
    I dunno. When I’m on my death bed, do I want to look back at all the time I spent applying makeup so I could look younger? I’ll eventually die regardless.

    I will continue to use Chris’s sonic toothbrush to wash my face.

    I am a mix between girly girl and boyly-girl. I can’t makeup (there’s that word again) mind. Thanks for the early morning entertainment.

  20. totally POD and my natural gift is to be able to apply makeup so I end up looking older and more haggard.

    People always say:ooooh I could teach you!

    To which my lazya** responds: Nah. Thank you.

  22. I, too, am a Dr. B’s girl but I wonder if I could be persuaded to change my ways if I tried this out.

    Too bad Mother’s Day is over and my birthday is so far away 🙂

    • I actually did ponder a video of me facewashing but couldnt figure out a way to film it.
      Now that I allowed the Ren Man to mocketh my food intake perhaps he would agree to film!

      and the Tornado?
      She was THISCLOSE to scrubbing the shower floor with it.
      She thought it was a cleaning scrub brush.

      thankfully I grabbed it just in time…
      (and no. she’s not volunteered to clean any other places/times. IF ONLY…)

  24. I love you for making me laugh- and for intuitively somehow knowing that I stumbled across QVC last week before bed and watched as if in a trance the SAME product and wondered, hmmmm (and did not succumb, phew, yay).

    I am much more girly than you Missy, but i too adore a rough washcloth (and am 52 with still pretty damn young looking skin- convinced daily sweating is best skincare ever). I splurge on a couple of natural grapeseed based skin things that I really adore, and lately just using up pots and pans of stuff that i bought a long time ago!

    I do own one brush- a round blowdrying kind that pulls half my hair out where it stays wound around the inside of the barrel, as the brush is missing it’s top. ugh…

    monday love and xox to you!!

    Lisa
    http://www.IntuitiveBody.com
    Grab your gift online- The 21-Day Turnaround

  25. As I’ve yet to wash my face this morning, this is looking really good to me. Hey, it’s only 10:30. 🙂

    Truth, though, it does sound kind of appealing. Just to have a really clean face. No, I’m not that obsessive-compulsive. Well, maybe sorta.

    So do you like the Kindle?

  26. Great review- not going to lie, I started cracking up part way through 😀

    I agree that a lot of the time it’s about the placebo affect and investing the time and choosing that healthy lifestyle. It just makes you feel good about yourself and that makes you happier/more productive and confident.

    I’m a soap-and-water girl… that and moisturizer is about as far as I get.

  27. Thanks for the review. I am a licensed esthetician (skin care specialist) and have been wanting to try the Clarisonic for awhile but it is pricey. I may hold off for now but I know what you mean by feeling better by choosing to go the extra mile with skincare.

  28. Am I the only one who thinks you already look a decade younger than you claim to be? Not what the folks at clarisonic probably intended, but I’m sooooo converting to neutrogena and a washcloth. (And munching flaxseeds by the handful.) That said, I do LOVE my electric toothbrush and can’t imagine going back…

  29. The simple way to look younger is to move into Natures Natural Soft Focus Zone and stand so close to people you become slightly blurred 🙂

  30. LOL @ Kim’s suggestion.

    I shall start being the close-talker from Seinfeld!

    Until then I will covet your Clarsonic.

  31. OOoooooooo, girl-gadgets. I love them. A lot. Too much, in fact. *sigh*

    I have to admit though, that my girly stuff is more likely to be lotions, scrubs, that kind of thing. With the exception of my electronic toothbrush, I forget to use other things. They just wind up looking pretty in my cupboards, LOL.

  32. Wonderful review. I know I wouldn’t buy it -heck I had trouble using an electric toothbrush. But it made me search in my one drawer to find the facial brush I used to use to wash my face. It always felt so good!

    I’m a wash, maybe moisturize person. In the summer, I do an alcohol wipe in the afternoon to get the dirt/oil/sweat off. That’s it. I don’t even use sunscreen on my face. Guess I really am not much of a girlie-girl.

  34. Adore the honesty and oddly enough am more drawn to purchase this because you threw the choice back at us (if that makes sense).

    Its going on my TREAT LIST for my weight loss goals!

  35. I thought that exact same thing, Hannah.
    I loved me some closetalker on Seinfeld.

    who knew it was an anti-aging technique!

    and tfh? I shall say thank you (yada yada yada post about how to take a compliment) and just leave it at the fact I lifeguarded for YEARS and dont look quite so young in person 🙂

  36. I am too cheap for something so fancy, but I do have some beauty indulgences. Pricey shampoo is my biggest one.

  39. I think drinking a lot of water and eating veggies, fruits and NO JUNK does way more for my skin than ANYTHING I can “do” to it!

  40. Great review & HONEST! Love that. Unlike you, I want to use some of these anti-aging products especially at my age because all the good eating & weight lifting does not seem to be helping my face!!!! 🙂 So, I would certainly love to try but can’t afford it!!!

    Like you, if I am going to spend some money, I tend towards buying fitness things I need like replacing my workout shoes!

    Cute use of the product by Toddler!

    Will they offer up a give away!!!! 🙂

    Thx for your honesty!

  41. LOL Miz. Didn’t watch TV as I am ahem sneak peeking at work. But my beauty regimen consists of.. wash face with soap when in shower. Dab some lotion when people comment on skin peeling. So, nope . not for me, at least not buying it. But should the world turn upside down and there is a giveaway and I win.. I may sit and scratch with it..seriously my eczema-tendencied child may like it if I scratch his back with it.

  42. I don’t think I’ll be buying one of those gadgets anytime soon. I am fine with my WalMart brand face wash. 🙂

  44. I’m curious about this now for lots of the same reasons you detailed (including a love of the toothbrush ;)).

    Not sure it is in the budget now (that’s pricey for me) but someday!

    Fun review.

  45. Glad you had fun with it!

    While I am somewhat of a cosmetic junkie – I love trying out new products – I have to admit that I always come back to good old Noxzema to wash my face. Works for me and I love the smell of the stuff! 🙂

  46. I see a tiny few wrinkles that might want to make their nests around my eyes so these types of posts make me pay attention just a little bit closer *sigh*

  48. Today, I just tried Oikos fat free yogurt with honey at the bottom, with some oatmeal mixed in. I am so a convert! It’s a little expensive to eat every day, but I’ll definitely treat myself for breakfast once a week!

    And I am so with you on the personal appearance time invested. My hairdo is just-slept-in chic, I wear lipstick only unless I’m getting dressed up for makeup, and I can go from sleep to ready to leave the house in 5 mins if I rush. I just feel like I have better things to do with my time than primp regularly. Occasionally though – I do the nails and toenails and other girly things and it feels good!

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