Girly Mom

I found the best lipstick ever.  It’s the perfect shade for me.  It looks great.  I mean, when I wear this stuff I look like a blonde Cindy Crawford.  OK, I don’t, but I think I’m lookin’ pretty not-so-bad when I wear it.

I went to the store to buy more, only to find that my perfect color had been replaced with a new trendy shade, some horrible shade of puke that no one would be caught dead wearing.  I guess the manufacturers thought no one would be caught dead wearing my “so last week” shade.

Why?  Why do they always do this to me?

Another example: I finally found a good facial cleanser, the kind that doesn’t cost 8 grand and removes all my makeup without sending my skin into a breakout frenzy.  After a month or so, I attempted to purchase more and what did I find?  There on the shelf, in MY cleanser’s place, was some new improved, i.e. totally different and more expensive, rash-causing version of my beloved cleanser.

I remember this happening when I was younger, too.  I’ve been left foundation-less, moisturizer-less, even Chipsters-less (these were the best chips ever and *they* just took them away).

This has even happened to my husband.  He found (OK, I found them) this underwear that he absolutely loves.  Want to guess what happened?  Yup, they got to those too.  At least I got lucky and found them at a local TJ Maxx and bought about 10 pair.  But what is he going to do when those wear out?

(Oh, honey, if you read this, don’t worry.  Nobody reads my blog and so no one will ever know I’m talking about your underwear, baby.  Mwah!)

What is a girl to do?  I hate going through the trial & error phase with products just to find the one that works for me, especially on everyday stuff like cleanser, foundation and moisturizers.

Thankfully, I have found a new lipstick.  And I replaced my cleanser a year ago.  But I’m living in a state of uncertainty, just waiting for my favoritest products to be banished from the shelves.

I’ve always been able to find replacement products that I like as much and sometimes even better.  But I want to change products when I’m ready, not when the manufacturer decides they’re tired of a product.  I mean, I know if a product isn’t selling well, it doesn’t make sense for a company to sell it.  But I hate being left all lipstick-less.

OK, this is just a little rant.  I really don’t spend all day (usually) crying over lipstick or screaming about discontinued potato chips (but they were so yummy).  It just irritates me when I’m forced to scramble for new stuff when I was perfectly happy with what I had.

So, what have you lost to the Discontinued-Product Nazis?