I posted a while back how I loved using The Bodyshop's professional sponge to achieve a better look with my mineral foundies. I would've gladly backed it up sooner if it didn't go out of stock in almost all branches... for weeks!
Imagine my relief when I scored one over their branch at SM Fairview. Great, I thought. It was just a lil weird that the one I bought previously costed me P200 flat, while this new one was P250.
Price increase, I thought.
But to my horror, I discovered that I might've paid a lot for this new one. The sponge is inside a resealable type of packing (so is the old one I got from Galleria), so it's a little easy for me to think I might've been cheated.
Let me show you Exhibits A to D, and you be the judge:
New one (left) vs Old (right) one: New- P250 Old- 200. Bodyshop: "We've increased the price and shrank the sponge! It's recession after all!"
New sponge (left photo) out of the resealable plastic
Length and width difference
Thickness difference
Height difference
If anyone has been an avid fan of the bodyshop's professional sponge from way back, have you noticed this difference if in any case you've repurchased recently? I'd love to know as I hate to imagine that I was cheated on this.
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Allow me to sidetrack a bit...
I've been procrastinating my review that I was enrolled into 3 years ago for my busy life as a physiotherapist. Today, I quit work to make way for what I've been putting off for the past years. I will miss hospital work, but I still get a tinge of it via my home care patients.
Honestly, I'm scared of review school. I'm scared that I forgot a whole lot of my profession's theory. It's a great deal of difference between the academe and hospital set-up... a lil prcentage of the classroom stuff is significant to the job. Sad, noh? But that's reality. At least for us, PT's.
I enrolled last 2006. Good thing that it was a 'lifetime' review. Ayos noh? Where on earth can you find something like that?
I hope to take the US Licensure for PT mid-quarter of next year. Wish me luck as I jump into a whole new facet of my career.
What a total rip off!
ReplyDeleteI can totally feel what you're feeling. I put off taking my Chemist Licensure Exam for 2 years and next year I really have to take it!
talk about recession...even our sponges get the "cut"...in this case, literally...hehehe
ReplyDeleteas for that licensure exam, I know you'll do great...good luck! :)
Good luck~! :D
ReplyDeletebodyshop might have really just shrank the sponge, hehe. :P
wow it did shrunk in size! wow, can't believe its from the same company?
ReplyDeleteHey do not be scared..well actually it is ok to be scared as it makes you strive for the better and it makes you a better person, that is what I believe in :)
i hate it when a product have price increase but at the same time have a quality decrease :(
ReplyDeletegoodluck on your exam sis!
im sure u'll do just fine :)
wow, recession na talaga... but i hope it still works the same. read your post about applying mineral makeup with this sponge, will try to score a sponge at the body shop one of these days if my regular sponges don't do the job well. thanks for the tip, btw, i learned something new :)
ReplyDeleteThanks girls for wishing me luck on my review classes.
ReplyDeleteAnd yea, it's sad sad sad that the sponge shrunk this much! Ugh.
Janelle, it performed as good as the old one. but what i like with the bigger one was that a bigger area of my face is evened out due to its larger cross section.
Whoah lumiit nga ^_^.
ReplyDeleteGoodluck girl on your licensure exam, I wish you goodluck and God Bless on all your endeavors ^_^
Wow it did shrink! a lot! I havent tried the body shops sponge. But I love alcone's
ReplyDeleteAnd goodluck with the licensure exam! I too have to stat studying and hopefully take an exam next year. I dont know how im going to start from scratch as ive forgotten a lot of the things i learned in college haha