Beauty Excess

There are A LOT of expensive beauty products out there- like over the TOP expensive.  I don't have an over the top budget to be spending on anything, BUT if I did, I would not be afraid to spend it on makeup or other beauty maintenance.  Next to spending it on my kids or a vacation, which would come first of course.  Or say a yacht like fashion designer Roberto Cavalli's...

{Cavalli's purple yacht that is estimated to cost $40 billion JUST to build it!  Via}

There's nothing that says "I've got loads of cash" like owning a yacht.  I don't know where I'd put a yacht seeing as though I live in Georgia, but if I had the bank account to build one, I guarantee I would find a place to dock it:)  But onto the beauty topic, here are some excessively expensive beauty products and treatments on the market to check out, just for fun, whether you can afford them or not!  Let's go window shopping...

1.  La Prairie Cellular Cream Platinum Rare ($1,050).  Platinum is the most precious metal on the earth which is the key ingredient in this skin cream.  Basically it claims to reduce the effects of time on your face. It could also pay my mortgage for a month.  I would hope it would turn BACK time for this price!

{$1,050 gets you 1.7 ounces worth. Deal or no deal??}

2.   Haircut by Serge Normant ($600).  Based out of NYC, Serge deals with all sorts of Hollywood elite like Julia Roberts, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Gisele Bundchen.  I have to get my hair cut at least every 4 months or so because it starts to look terrible.  So I couldn't imagine paying this much for a cut unless it came with him paying me a house call every week to touch up the split ends, or they served me filet mignon and Dom while I was getting my cut done!!

{Serge and SJP at the opening of his salon.}

3.  Tom Ford lip color in Wild Ginger ($48).  This price tag looks tame compared to the top two, but remember, it's a lipstick!!  I've read that this is the most perfect red orange lip color on the planet and that it feels wonderful going on, and well, it's by Tom Ford.  This might be a possibility unlike the other things and is tempting.  I would just have to eat McDonalds for the next month and drink water over wine.

{What a 48 dollar lipstick looks like. No, the case isn't real gold.}

4.  Clive Christian's Imperial Majesty Perfume ($435,000).  Yep, you read that price right.  Hard to believe huh??  I think what drives this scent up more so than what its ingredients are, is what the bottle is comprised of. You get a Baccarat crystal bottle, with an 18kt gold ring which covers the neck of the bottle, and a real 5 carat diamond adorns the top.  So does it really matter what it smells like??  

{Impressive display of excess.}

5.  Trish McEvoy Beauty Booster ($85).  Now I'm sure you're all laughing at me right now thinking, "this sounds like child's play compared to the rest of these beautiful things!"  But I actually paid for this one myself!! It's an anti-fatigue cream, primer, and mask all in one.  I have very dry skin and use a primer almost every day, so I was convinced by the Trish girls that this stuff would be a miracle worker on me, and I do love a good miracle.  

{Promises - Instant lift, minimal fine lines, and extended foundation wear.}

However, this stuff is a big disappointment in my book.  As far as primers go, it doesn't even compare to my Too Faced Primed and Porless or Smashbox Photo Finish- and they both cost in the $35 dollar range!  As a matter of fact, it makes me look slightly greasy and not a bit less fatigued unless I add concealer over it!

Goes to show you, more expensive, doesn't always = better. So come to think of it, I'll hold off on the Tom Ford lipstick, and enjoy my $1.99 Wet 'n Wild orange red lip color for now...

What is the most expensive beauty product or service you've ever treated yourself to?  Did it live up to the price tag??