{"id":3434,"date":"2011-03-24T16:18:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T22:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2011-03-24T16:25:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T22:25:31","slug":"shiseido-mens-deep-wrinkle-corrector-slight-rip-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=3434","title":{"rendered":"Shiseido Men’s Deep Wrinkle Corrector – slight rip off"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a hot wife that’s younger than I am. That’s the good<\/del> great news.<\/p>\n

The bad news? Because I have a hot younger wife, I have started using skin care products for men to keep myself from looking like I’m too old to be with her. <\/p>\n

Honestly? It’s an incredibly awesome mixed blessing.<\/p>\n

To my younger self, though, using skincare products at all would be blasphemous. I never touched this kind of stuff in my twenties. John Wayne? Never used that crap! Humphrey Bogart? Never used that crap! Why should I use it? If I ever want a “harsh exfoliant”, I’ll use the highway asphalt! HA!<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, that attitude of my younger self explains a few things now.<\/p>\n

ANYWAY, the point of this post is to show something I found about Shiseido Men’s Deep Wrinkle Corrector. This is some highly expensive stuff that comes in a tube about six quarters high that my wife recently bought for me to try out.<\/p>\n

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So there I was, putting this highly expensive stuff on my face, when I heard the dreaded “PHOOT! PHOOT!” of an empty pump. <\/p>\n

I took the top off to see if there was anything I could save when I saw the pump had a short “straw”.<\/p>\n

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Looking at the bottle, I thought the straw-thing that pulls the product from the big bottle must have fallen down the tube.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t see a way to pull off any more of the top, but I did see a seam on the bottom.<\/p>\n

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To my surprise, it came off with just a slight twist.<\/p>\n

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Looking up into the tube of this highly expensive stuff, I expected to find something holding more of the product that I could pull out and get the “straw” re-attached to the pump with. Instead? I saw this.<\/p>\n

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This giant bottle, this giant very expensive<\/em> bottle, was only one quarter length deep!<\/em><\/p>\n

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My Leatherman was still on my belt, so I got the pliers and reached in to pull out the plastic container.<\/p>\n

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That’s it. That’s the whole damn thing. About one quarter in size.<\/p>\n

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Looking in the container, I saw that even though it was mostly empty, only about half of it was actual product! The rest was plastic!<\/p>\n

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Looking at the side, you can see the product reservoir only goes a DIME’S LENGTH down! That seam near the bottom where the color changes? Solid plastic.<\/p>\n

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All this. All this waste. For a dime’s worth of actual content.<\/p>\n

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If somebody at Shiseido ever makes it to this blog, you should really take a look at “going green”. This packaging is just full-speed stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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