Morning ramble. And yes I consider morning to be whenever I wake up.
Just took a shower and was stealing some of my one of my housemates' shampoo and conditioner. Naturally. Partly cos I'm too lazy to go and buy my own.
and partly cos I think it is ridiculous to five sets of shampoo in one shower. Especially when three of us have practically no hair.
So while using said stolen shampoo, I noticed that it contained 'Pearl Extract'. Pfft. Whatever. Supposedly it 'enriches' hair. So does water. Seems like another luxurious-sounding ridiculous ingredient so that company can knock up the price. It's like that drink with gold flakes in it. (Can't remember the name of it but it was actually rather scrummy). And you get all those idiots buying in bars to try and pretend they're loaded or something. I'm so rich I have gold scrapings in my drink. Yah. Oh Shaddap.
Firstly, that drink isn't that expensive. So nerrr.
Secondly, when queried as to why one might want flakes of metal in one's drink they all recite that urban rumour that it scratches all along the inside of your throat giving a 'tingly' sensation. Wow. That sounds fun. How couldn't I see that causing internal bleeding could be so classy? And of course the flakes aren't big/sharpe enough to that so, erm again. You are wrong.
And thirdly, if that effect IS the reason, then why gold? Why not chunks of lead shrapnel? (OK well obviously NOT lead because that would be poisonous but you get my drfit...) Silly silly consumers. Of course it's because still has that connotation of wealth and luxury just because a while ago it was freely available but not too freely available, shiny and easily malleable so made good coinage. Erm that's it folks. Now it's worth nu-uh-uh-uh-uthin. Practically.
Anyhooooo, back to silly shampoo ingredients. So with this train of thinking of putting 'luxury' commodities in cosmetic products, the next natural progression would be putting things that are valuable now into them. So I'm imagining L'oreal adverts in ten years time going "New L'Oreal shampoo. Now with Oil extract. " With images of girls just slathering themselves with oil in the shower trying so hard to make crude oil look sexy haha. To which the voiceover dub adds "And now new L'oreal oil conditioner with extracts straight from the beaches of the latest oil spill. Feathers, Bones and Flesgh from dead seagulls enrich your hair and lock in moisture. Mmmmm. L'Oreal, because you're worth it. And an idiot.
Just took a shower and was stealing some of my one of my housemates' shampoo and conditioner. Naturally. Partly cos I'm too lazy to go and buy my own.
and partly cos I think it is ridiculous to five sets of shampoo in one shower. Especially when three of us have practically no hair. So while using said stolen shampoo, I noticed that it contained 'Pearl Extract'. Pfft. Whatever. Supposedly it 'enriches' hair. So does water. Seems like another luxurious-sounding ridiculous ingredient so that company can knock up the price. It's like that drink with gold flakes in it. (Can't remember the name of it but it was actually rather scrummy). And you get all those idiots buying in bars to try and pretend they're loaded or something. I'm so rich I have gold scrapings in my drink. Yah. Oh Shaddap.
Firstly, that drink isn't that expensive. So nerrr.
Secondly, when queried as to why one might want flakes of metal in one's drink they all recite that urban rumour that it scratches all along the inside of your throat giving a 'tingly' sensation. Wow. That sounds fun. How couldn't I see that causing internal bleeding could be so classy?
And of course the flakes aren't big/sharpe enough to that so, erm again. You are wrong. And thirdly, if that effect IS the reason, then why gold? Why not chunks of lead shrapnel? (OK well obviously NOT lead because that would be poisonous but you get my drfit...) Silly silly consumers. Of course it's because still has that connotation of wealth and luxury just because a while ago it was freely available but not too freely available, shiny and easily malleable so made good coinage. Erm that's it folks. Now it's worth nu-uh-uh-uh-uthin. Practically.
Anyhooooo, back to silly shampoo ingredients. So with this train of thinking of putting 'luxury' commodities in cosmetic products, the next natural progression would be putting things that are valuable now into them. So I'm imagining L'oreal adverts in ten years time going "New L'Oreal shampoo. Now with Oil extract. " With images of girls just slathering themselves with oil in the shower trying so hard to make crude oil look sexy haha. To which the voiceover dub adds "And now new L'oreal oil conditioner with extracts straight from the beaches of the latest oil spill. Feathers, Bones and Flesgh from dead seagulls enrich your hair and lock in moisture. Mmmmm. L'Oreal, because you're worth it. And an idiot.