I Now Present to You The Duchess of Boswellia and Her Footless Crows

Boswellia.  Small European duchy or tree resin with multiple medicinal uses that may have been the original source of frankincense?

Yeah, me too.  But it’s not.  A duchy, I mean.  It’s tree resin.  And it’s purty darn good stuff, in my estimation.

My Saturday strolls around the Walgreen’s store, while the husband picks up his prescriptions and the daughter locates the Can’t Touch This musical birthday card and does her best M.C. Hammer impression right there next to the Liquid Plumrâ„¢ display, always end in my buying a new beauty product to review for y’all here on Chic Critique.   It’s funny, too, because Al always does the whole check-out and pay thing for us, and then we all walk out to the car together and he sits in the driver’s seat all quiet and pondering, scratching his head, and then he reaches for our bag of loot and scrutinizes the receipt carefully. 

"What’s wrong, hon?"

"I think they must have our insurance information wrong in the computer again." 

"Why?"

"That cost way more than it should have."

"Gulp.  That eye cream I bought cost $20."

(Holding up a minuscule pot of eye cream.) "THIS?  This cost $20?"

"Yeah, but if it works, I might feel sexy again."

(Getting back out of the car) "Well then I think we need a bigger jar!"

I know.  MEN! 

But you have to give me credit for having gotten his number, right?

So I bought some eye cream.  L’Oreal’s ® Dermo-Expertise Wrinkle De-Crease (har har) Eye, to be exact. 

Eye’ve been using it for 4 days and DANG if I am not ACTUALLY seeing some difference already in the skin around my eyes. 

And that is GREAT news, because listen to this:

(The print on the box is so tiny that I’m re-wrinkling myself trying to decipher it, so bear with me if this comes out wrong.)

The L’Oreal Laboratories have created WRINKLE DE-CREASE EYE, with Bosweloxâ„¢, to visibly help correct expression lines and crow’s feet around the eyes.

Multi-Action Benefits

Intensive anti-wrinkle action

• 63% of women saw wrinkle contours smoothed in 4 weeks.
• Softens expression lines and fine lines so that skin around the eyes looks younger and smoother
• Deeply and continually hydrates the delicate eye area without greasiness

Sixty-three per cent, huh?  And in FOUR WEEKS? 

But, still, I thought, my eyes have been lookin’ a little extra wrinkly with this pregnancy (all the wincing and grimacing from the heartburn and the hip aches, I suspect), so why not give it a whirl? 

I applied the eye cream nights and mornings as instructed and sat back to see if this magical Bosweloxâ„¢, "a breakthrough phyto-complex, combining a concentrated dose of boswellia extract and manganese," would make me a 63% winner or a 27% fool.  I figured I’d have awhile to wait before I saw any results, so I toyed with the idea of reviewing Nutella this week, a chocolaty, hazelnutty spread that smooths out many wrinkles without actually ever touching my skin, except on accident when I toss the spoon aside and just stick my tongue directly in the jar.  It IS that good. 

But long about day #2, I began noticing my little squinty-lookin’ crevices fading.  And yesterday they were less visible, and today?  Well, if my eye area looks this good after 4 days, I can’t wait to see what four WEEKS will do.  I’m gonna be smooth as glass and look about 24 years old again.  Will I feel sexy, though? 

I’m 8 months pregnant – what do YOU think? 

If y’all want to play the odds, I can say with 63% certainty you’ll be pleased with your results.