I was once so badly addicted to watching Instagram adverts that I had to delete the app from my phone. I just couldn’t stop watching the short video ads for products that Instagram believed, quite rightly, I might be interested in.
There was one that I absolutely loved, which featured an elegant woman packing for a weekend away. But not in just any old holdall! The lady slides a lovely frock into a dressholder and then she zips up the sides to turn the dressholder into an overnight bag! Then the elegant lady slings the overnight bag onto the back seat of her sporty little car and zooms off on her glamorous weekend with her excellent overnight-solution bag.
Deleting the app because of that was extreme but necessary. Now I have to make do with a 15-minute time limit on the app and if I choose to waste my time watching adverts, at least it’s only 15 minutes out of my day.
Bags feature heavily in my advert algorithm, there are always a lot of backpacks and people folding things up and putting them in the correct little pockets designed to hold just that thing. And also cookware, chopping boards with small plastic bins clipped to the base so that you can sweep peelings directly into the bin and then transport to the compost. I am mesmerised by ladies doing their eye make-up and vegetables being chopped into tiny squares by a sadistic-looking device. I just can’t stop. I can’t stop looking!
Generally I don’t buy anything. (Well, okay, I did buy the sadistic vegetable chopper, which I have used precisely: once.) I didn’t buy anything except that until I saw an advert for the Meridian “below the belt” trimmer, which I bought instantly and am insanely in love with.
I cannot wax, shave or cream my bikini line as the skin is so sensitive that it immediately breaks out into an angry red spotty rash requiring full coverage for six weeks, so for the last few years I have borrowed my husband’s beard trimmer. He is extremely gracious about sharing his device but I know he’d rather I found my own, personal solution. And this thing, this Meridian, is totally it.
I don’t understand why it is marketed at men, but who cares? It is reassuringly expensive at £60-ish, (prices vary on the internet), and worth every penny. It is a boss piece of kit, which can be used wet or dry, is rechargeable, (with three little lights to show you how much charge is left), and a neat, strokeable design. It offers a very close shave without any nicks or snags and just now this second as I’m typing I’m wondering if it is so good because it has been designed for men who maybe don’t put up with substandard crap? Who are unapologetic and not remotely shy or embarrassed about their demanding bikini-line needs?
Anyway, who cares if it maybe took men to create such a sublime solution to a traditional female issue!? I welcome it! Next they might turn their attention to shitty maternity services and better indoor play facilities for the under-5s!
Peace out.
How come when you shave your legs every day they grow back prickly by that evening, but if you leave them for weeks a shave lasts for days?
I now only shave them once or twice a year (holidays) as I wear maxi skirts/tights/leggings the rest of the time anyway. After about 4 months they stop growing.
What's this obsession with coplete body hair removal .
Why are very young girls encouraged to be completely hair free in the pubic area and elsewhere? Is it because men want women to look like little girls? Quite disturbing actually. And why do women go along with it. Me included?