Yikes! L'Oreal! That brings awful visual images to mind because of the animal cruelty they're involved with in their product testing … which is no longer even necessary with the scientific advances that other companies have switched to. Nobody is “worth it” when it means animal torture to have it. For those uninformed read here:
http://www.liberation-mag.org.uk/loreal2.htm
http://www.naturewatch.org/Campaigns/L%27Or%C3%A9alBoycott/Index.asp
If can relate to the perfectionism – I'm a recovered perfectionist. And it's such a wonderful free feeling not to wonder if I have makeup on when the doorbell rings. I can focus on who is wanting to spend time with me …. well, okay, the thought still flashes thru my mind after all those years of thinking I had to have makeup on … but it's great to smile and know I'm a different person now.
Warm and comfy is inviting. You don't feel like you need to sit up straight and lift your pinky finger, eh? LOL To each his own though. I like to be able to live my life the way I want and definitely want others to do the same.
Life should hold more for us than what the insides of our house look like. I love decorating, but I just move things around. I don't buy new because I fall in love with what I have and just change it up. Moving pictures around (on walls) really makes me feel like I'm in a diff. place since I SEE things I hadn't seen for awhile.
Life's too short to get hung up on the 'have to's' – I like this quote that's on The Frugal Life News website:
“We buy things we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like.” – Mary Ellen Edmunds
How true :-)