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Long live the lagniappe
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 04:44PM 
Sorry I can't do the iconic circumflex over the o, but I just need to say that I do so love it when Lancome Paris is "in gift."
Such a gallic way of saying "If you buy something we'll give you something for free."
Circumflex or no, I know that under normal circumstances, it's nearly impossible to beat the house.
But somehow -- maybe it's the fact that, back in the late '80s, they gave me a baguette (the bread kind, not the diamond kind) for buying a mascara, and I am significantly impressed by food -- when Lancome is in gift they truly make me feel as though I'm getting something for nothing.
This from a woman who just paid twenty-five fifty for a pirate eyeliner (Le Stylo contour yeux longue tenue)!
But it's very good pirate eyeliner. Waterproof in accordance with any self-respecting pirate prerequisite. Tres magnifique Lancome!
Of course the purchase of the eyeliner wasn't enough to get me the freebie, so I had to get a concealer (Maquicomplet anticernes a couvrance totale) too.
Another twenty-nine fifty.
Don't judge!
I needed both things -- rather desperately if you want to know the truth -- because I'd just as soon poke my eye out as be seen in public without eyeliner on it and concealer beneath it.
So I played along.
Besides, I will still be using that eyeliner and that concealer when we're, oh, roughly two hundred days closer to throwing Obama out of office.
They may not last "forever" but primo beauty products get you closer to happy-days-are-here-again time than, say, drugstore cosmetics are likely to do.
As a nice bonus they make you look better on the way.
And for my trouble?
I got me a haul of a cuuuuuute little French blue and yellow Riviera Collection tote bag, three face creams, a tiny bottle of serum, and a two-ounce cleanser. Creme Radiance no less!
That my friends happens to be the Cadillac of facial cleansers.
Shut my mouth! It really really WAS a good deal.
And even if you don't wear makeup and never go within hollering distance of the Lancome counter, did you even know the word lagniappe before today?
Didja? Be honest or no baguette for you. Not that there's any left.
Oh and in other news, clearly Claudine (no doubt a Francophile like me, but still) suffers from a latent King Kong complex.
C'est la vie.
Reader Comments (8)
and it's not even Wondrous Word Wednesday. Love the bag. I've had such difficulty with eye products over the last while, I've just quit wearing everything. One cannot put on makeup and cry because it burns. Who know? good shopping lady.
Good Morning... caught you on my blog (the one about whether to take a cruise or not) and loved having you visit. So, I came over to check you out. Love it. So, I think I will stick around... hope you don't mind.
@irene ... some things burn my eyes too, luv. I know exactly what you mean. That's why I don't like to try new things all that often! But I do find the better products are less likely to cause me grief ... except in the wallet ...
@Latane ... I enjoyed your story about the long-ago cruise so much, you glamoroous oceangoing mom, you! I hope if you do decide to take a cruise, you end up enjoying it. And I hope you do come back and see me!
I confess Dearie, I did not know the word "lagniappe" before.
I also confess Dearie, that I've not used eye makeup in years and years and years. :-)
But I dooooooooo love it Dearie, how you snuck-in that dig at BO!!!!!!!!!! -giggles- That's how we have to keep at it. Drop little cuties into our words, now and then. Nothing too nasty or unladylike of course. -grin- Little reminders of what's possible, in '12. Little reminders of the question "Are you better off today, than you were in '08?" Etc. Etc.
~♥~
Confession made, I was not familiar with that word. Love the bag.
When we lived in Memphis and I worked in the NBC Bank building on Mid America Mall, every lunch hour was available to walk a few blocks to Goldsmiths. I had a fellow worker and friend who would not pass up on ANY available deal like this one. She bought everything, got every free goody. Unfortunately my hubby was in medical school and I was the only breadwinner, I had to watch every penny and could not enjoy these deals. I may need to make a trip to Macy's in Jackson and see what's "free".
Nope, Me neither...BUT!! If it helps get YOUKNOWWHO outta' office, I'll be heading to Dillards TODAY!!Hahaaaa
hughugs
Those freebies sure are great! I get the Clinique ones twice a year. And yes, I know the word, but don't ask me to pronounce it or spell it, LOL!
@Auntie A ... oustiing Obummer is much on my mind! Pirate!
@Debbie ... what a great story. Now he's a doctor and you need to get your pretty little self over to Macy's!!
@Donna ... yeah girl, if it would get that usurper out of the White House I do believe TG would wear mascara.
@Donna M. ... repeat after me: LAN-YAP!!! LOL but you're on your own with learnin' how to spell it.