April 2009 - Posts
By Anna Chan, health editor
What it is: Victoria’s Secret Beauty Secret Bust-Firming Bra ($48-$68 plus shipping from VictoriasSecret.com
What it claims to do: Give your bust a more uplifted effect by diminishing signs of aging and improving the skin’s ability to retain moisture with DermalRX HydroSeal and Dermaxyl. All you have to do is wear the bra for at least four weeks, eight hours a day, to see an 18 percent boost in skin firmness with results at a peak after eight weeks.
My experience: As a woman who is not so blessed in the chest area and not interested at all in surgical enhancements, I nearly jumped for joy when two readers wrote to us in January and asked us to test this new bust-firming bra. The “more uplifted effect” promised in the product’s description means I look bigger, right? Without surgery? For less than $100? And all I have to do is wear the same bra for four to eight weeks? Well, that part’s a little icky, but still – sign me up!
CONTINUED >>
By Melissa Dahl, health editor
What it is: Dry shampoo (sometimes called hair powder). There are many different brands out there; we tried Bumble and Bumble’s Hair Powder in brown ($41 for a 4.4 oz. aerosol can).
What it claims to do: Cleanse your hair without water. The powder is supposed to absorb the oils in your hair, letting you go longer between washings.
My experience: I haven’t washed my hair in three days. I may not wash it tomorrow. Either way, with the dry shampoo, you’d never know the difference. Dry shampoo and its dirty, dirty influence on my life these last six weeks have been a little bit magical, a little bit disgusting.
CONTINUED >>
