Is a $60 moisturizer actually better than a $10 one?

#1 Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 3:38 pm

Went to the Clinique counter for the first time and the lady sold me the 3-step system and a moisturizer. $94 total. Walked out in a daze.

Now I'm reading online that Cetaphil does the same thing for $10. Did I just get scammed by a woman in a lab coat at Macy's?

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#2 Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 7:04 pm

The lab coats get everyone. It's the lab coats. They're not doctors, they're salespeople in nice coats.

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#3 Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 10:54 pm

Not a scam exactly, Clinique is fine stuff, but you're paying for the brand and the counter. Price has very little to do with how well something works.

#4 Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:02 pm

The Dramatically Different yellow lotion is honestly a nice moisturizer. The clarifying lotion (the toner) is mostly alcohol and it dried me out a lot. YMMV.

#5 Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:47 am

@roguerogue_64 the clarifying lotion stung like crazy and I thought that meant it was working

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#6 Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:28 am

@cyber_cass stinging almost never means it's working, it usually means your skin is annoyed with you

#7 Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 8:49 am

Keep the receipt! Macy's took back my opened Clinique stuff when it broke me out. Worth asking.

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#8 Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:58 am

Returned the toner, kept the yellow moisturizer, bought Cetaphil for washing. Spent $40 instead of $94. Pretty proud of myself tbh

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