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Erin: Hey Wendy, whaddya think of the new Prevage night cream? It's kind of freaky how it insta makes your skin shimmery, but not quite in a Paris Hilton-circa-1999 way (or uh, now-ish way). More of an eerie glow-from-within Cate Blanchett on the red carpet kind of moment. My only hesitation is that it smells kinda weird. Thoughts!?
    
Wendy: There is a definite funky smell and the weirdly off-putting color (I haven't seen that shade of yellow since I was a kid, poring over a 1977 Sears Catalog Wish Book) but I'm willing to put up with it for all the magical prettiness. I didn't notice the shimmery fairy glow but I did notice that the color and texture of my skin seemed to change and get very smooth and pretty, even after the very first application.

Now, I might not be seeing the shimmer because I use way too much as I cannot stop playing with the little blister product delivery device. I'm fascinated by it! It makes perfect sense to keep your fingers out of the sauce, since dirt and your body's natural oils can break down products over time, but it makes me wonder how that's going to work when you start to run out of goop. Do you have to pry the top off and scoop it out anyway?

Erin: I am totally imagining you pumping away at the container until the bitter end, at which point you bust out your tool kit to try and pry the lid off in order to scrape out the last teaspoon. Or maybe I'm imagining myself doing that. Oh God.

The yellowish hue is a bit strange and it smells to high heaven, but I wonder if that doesn't somehow indicate xxx-treme fff-icacy? The main ingredient is Idebenone, which is supposedly ranked the best environmental damage fighter in the world by some derms that I hope weren't secretly working for Prevage. But it's apparently better than CoQ10, Kinetin, and a bunch of other usual suspects. I take that to mean I can go on a Courtney Love-level bender and still look gorge at the end, as long as I'm not too wasted to remember to apply this. Think it's worth 100 bones?

Wendy: Taking into consideration the nasty smell, does it make me shallow if I say yes? I'm probably a little more of a Product Fiend than most and could have purchased waterfront property for all of the Chanel lipsticks I own that aren't quite the right color, so take that with a grain of salt, but the pretty? So pretty? I am powerless. You think less of me right now, don't you? I swear I'll go buy an orphan a puppy or something to alleviate the guilt, ok?

Erin: I am not one to judge my fellow Product Fiender. No indeed. But why not just buy an orphaned puppy!?!? Actually, I just started a campaign in favor of my boyfriend buying me a CHRISTMAS PUPPY! He is not amused. Okay, sorry off topic. PEACE OUT WIMM!