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Aspirational Luxury
…. Why do we have the need to fall for this?
Iwas recently lucky enough to enjoy a 2 week trip to Europe, part of which was to visit my mother-in-law in England, and part of which was to traipse around after my husband who had some business meetings (Belfast and Copenhagen — with a day off for a side trip into Sweden). As it was part business trip for him which defrayed the cost (in our minds!), we got to fly business class, stay in nice hotels on the Continent and hire a Jaguar F-Pace.
Lucky me, hey? I loved it. But please don’t think I am bragging here, because if you read on you will see how my shallowness was brought back to me with a bump by something that seems so small and inconsequential, but which made me realise that so much of what we do and buy and strive for is just for “show”.
So, what happened?
My 16yo daughter is a makeup junkie — always watching tutorials on YouTube, buying the latest fad products and she has enough makeup brushes to last 10 women the rest of their lives (I have had the same 3 brushes for years…I do wash them though!). I am always happy to have her cast offs (otherwise she would literally just throw them in the bin) and this morning as I was putting on some makeup I was thinking how a bronzer she gave me created a really lovely colour and sheen on my cheekbones and eyelids. “Hmmm”, I thought, “I…
