Don't be afraid ! shop all the beauty aisles at CVS

When i was a single girl in RI, my favorite no date Saturday night thing was to prowl the aisles of CVS and buy myself beauty treats. So fast forward 20 years and its still one of my very favorite pick me ups. In fact when i first moved to California, the only CVS was at least 20 miles away in Panorama City, which was not Panoramic then and hasn't improved with age. I would drive out there on an occasional Saturday morning and pretend i was in the promised land of Providence . Thank God you only have to go 20 blocks now to find a CVS.

How lucky are we to be able to just walk in a drugstore and have it filled with a million variations on joy! Which brings me to that strange section of products labeled primarily in Spanish. Now my CVS has an entire section loaded with cool looking stuff that sometimes you can figure out what its for and sometimes well maybe you take your chances. I bought a product called Concha Nacar de Perlop. It has a lovely Neptune shell on the jar with the # 3, which must mean its # times the power and under 5.00. What does it do you say? It says it will fade spots and scars and is made with Oyster shell powder ...does it work ? Well i can't really vouch for the working part,,,,,,,,but it is so fun to use! Its like a thick masky paste, but its kind of sweet smelling . Imagine if plaster of paris , dry wall and honey got together with some oil and had a rave,,,,,,,,,yeah that's what it would be like. I've had it for about 3 months and i can honestly say its just a kick to open the jar up and discover its un-usual-ness every time.
That why shopping that aisle is so fun, where else will you find tomato , goat milk and other unusual soaps for under 3.00!
So far I've tried some lovely rose scented body oil, great soaps, this unusual cream, and have only struck out with one horribly skunk scented splash !

So our moral here is shop all aisles, bodegas , 99c stores and clearance centers,,,,,,,,,when it comes to cosmetics remember be brave , be bold and be bilingual !