Now let’s be clear: For years, our skin-cleansing routine consisted of (1) wetting face under shower and (2) drying face with paper towel. We just did not believe in complicated skin-cleansing routines. But then we had a $50 credit at Sephora, which we didn’t want to fritter away on lip glosses (we’d lose) and de-frizzing hair treatments (we’d inevitably find insufficient for our prosumer-level frizz). We wanted something substantial. Something with a heft to it. Something that … came in a well-designed (Kiehl’s-ish) cardboard box.
True story: A man we’d once kneed in the balls — he was a touchy sort — recently said to us, “Did you get Botox? Because that thing between your eyes is gone.” We wanted to knee him in the balls again, but he was sincere. And those awful, awful lines between our eyes — the product of parental negligence re: expeditious eyeglasses purchasing — is not quite gone, but better. And all this at a time of year when our face is usually the texture of asphalt.
The Jump Starters kit from Philosophy is $48 and includes a cleanser, moisturizer, eye \ lip cream, and some sort of very medicinal but apparently effective powder-y thing.
