Victoria's Secret Haul Part 3

I can live without make up but I can't live without moisturizers (body lotion, body cream and/or body butter)! I have an aging and dry skin. Dry skin that sometimes can be itchy and most of the time gets paper cuts so easily. Been avoiding body lotion for far too long as most of the brands I tried in the past seems to be like a glue that holds the clothes and my skin together. Thankfully lot has changed with the beauty products after so many years (didn't know that they keep on changing on monthly basis anyway) so far all the brands I tested since 2014 were all good. It's just a matter of my budget and the scent I prefer. I was introduced to body butter only last year. Particularly to Victoria's Secret Sheer Love Body Butter. Body butter is the thickest body moisturizer and I thought this would turn gooey and yucky upon applying to the skin but I was wrong. Skin absorbs it easily and smells good. And I thought all body butters are the same so needless to say I tried other brands only to find out that it is not true. In the end I vowed to use only Victoria's Secret Body Butter. In spite of it being expensive. BUT I was informed that it has been discontinued as I don't see it anymore since last week of October 2015.
Victoria's Secret UAE keeps me updated by sending me SMS whenever they have sale or promoti0ns. Been ignoring their promotions since December as I'm not really a fan of their products except for the body butter ~ well I also like their body wash too but there are tons in the market in a much lower price. Not until I received an SMS saying that Victoria's Secret Fantasy line are available for 2 products at the price of 50AED!!! I will not let that chance go so as can be seen in the photo above I really took advantage of the promo (well as far as my budget would allow me to) and to my surprise and delight.... they still have body butters! I don't know how it happened after I was told last year that it has been discontinued. I just don't know how long they will still be around. I wanted to purchase all the body butters on their shelves but I don't have much dirhams to burn for it. So I just settled with this and cross my fingers that would still be some left for me to purchase on the next pay day or the next promotion. Even though the price by then will not be this affordable.

The receipt ~ can't help sharing it as the price is unbelievable for me. Can't blame myself as I'm a new customer and I don't buy from them regularly not unless they are having promos and huge discounts.

The price if it is not on discount. And I would not bother buying even one on this amount. Each bottle of perfume has only 30ML. If they don't have a promotion like this they have another option get 3 items for only 145AED or get 5 items for only 200AED. When choosing the latter that's 40AED per product. Not exactly a very affordable price range but at least a little lower than the original price. I'm contemplating if I will purchase body mists in different variants this coming pay day. And people who knows me will be surprise as I don't wear body mists. Instead I'm using them for room and clothes at home to combat the smell coming from cooking both from the flat and neighbors. Its either that or I come out of the house smelling like a food.

Love Addict and Pure Seduction are my other options aside from Sheer Love and if only money is not the issue I would gladly try out all the variants available in the shop. Over all I'm happy with my purchase. First as I got the best deal. And I got my favorite scent (Sheer Love) and product (Body Butter). Let's see how many weeks/m0nths it will last.

My current LOVE

Admittedly I was introduced to body butter only last month. Someone has given me Victoria's Secret Sheer Love Body Butter. It has taken me a few days before trying it out. First of all I had been avoiding Victoria's Secret products because it is too expensive for me. And sometimes strong scents can trigger or aggravates my headache or migraine. As of the body butters I had been seeing it a lot but ignoring it. Because of the word butter I was expecting it to be sticky in a yucky way. I don't want to experience again the feeling as if I bathed in oil. So just imagine my surprise when I tried it out and it didn't turned out with the way I was expecting it to be! It is more moisturizing than my body lotion. No oily feeling. Absorbs by the skin fast and I am just in love with the scent. At first the scent is too strong then becomes bearable afterwards. And yes body butter is my current addiction. Not lip products anymore. I can live without a lipstick but I can't live without a skin product like body butter as I have a dry skin.

Last week I visited the Victoria's Secret shop in Dubai for the first time. I had been living here in the UAE for a decade now. But only last week that I dared to visit the shop. And of course I did not forget to say thank you repeatedly to the person who introduced me to this wonderful holy grail product. I'm not too sure if the prices are like that the whole year because a product would cost 70.00AED each but it will become less if you'll buy more. 3 products would cost 145AED while 5 products would cost 200AED. So I have chosen the latter that makes each product 40AED. I'll be checking Google from time to time to see whenever they have a sale as the sales lady informed me 2 weeks ago they had a promo of 2 products for only 50AED. With the way I'm consuming the body butter I can say that I can used up a tube per month so big discount can help me a lot.

And because of I'm so in love with body butter and I'm crazy for it over the weekend I visited a few shops in Dubai that specializes in skin products. I sort of wanted to collect different brands of Japanese Cherry Blossoms body butter.

First stop was at Boots Pharmacy for the Soap and Glory body butter. I'm following someone on the Instagram who's very much in love with it so I take it that this is great too and can compete with VS. But I walked away as soon as I saw the price. It is the most expensive body butter that I know in the market. A tube would cost 85AED and I thought VS is already the most expensive. And they don't even have a tester! They have a current promo though that you'll get 3 products for the price of 2 but even so it is still expensive. Maybe I'll try it out once they have a buy 1 take 1 promo. But until then I'll stay away from it.

Second stop was The Face Shop a Korean brand of cosmetics. I was informed that they no longer have the Cherry Blossoms body butter (or never had it in the first place) and they only have mango but I was not interested in it but I looked around anyway to familiarized myself with the products and prices but this sales assistant pissed me off by telling me the name of each product (shampoo, conditioner, cream) I checked. Normally I'm chill because I'm working in customer service too but I had say something as I felt very insulted because I can read perfectly so she doesn't have to tell me what on earth I was holding. I can read for myself and I would love to see the ingredients and the benefits. I did not stay long on the shop and purchased only conditioner and hand cream. And vowed never to visit that branch again. Luckily other malls do have Face Shop also. But I'm not too sure I'll ever step on that shop again.

Finally there's a Bath and Body Works, I was informed that they don't carry body butter but have only lotion and cream. Sales assistants in Bath and Body Works are way better than the last shop I visited they'll come to you and greet you and ask you what you need then leave you alone to see for yourself but they are just around in case you need them. I left the shop empty handed as they don't have body butter but I came back again the next day to avail their current promo. 

And then The Body Shop and as far as I know it is a brand from UK. I did not purchase anything because there's no price tag on the products. And I don't like their version of Japanese Cherry Blossoms body butter. But as per the USA website their body butter costs 20.00USD and that's around 80.00AED but have to keep in mind that prices here are normally higher than the US prices so I'm expecting it to be around 100AED and up. With this I don't think I'll come back again in their shop.

In the end I'll stick to Victoria's Secret as long as they have their body butter and have the same price range :)