I like vicarious pleasure through helping friends select gifts for their mumsOne of the many disadvantages of being a single mother is that there’s no one around to remind your children that this Sunday is Mother’s Day and perhaps a homemade card might be kind. Worse things happen,of course, but it does cause me to pay closer attention to the different experience of others, and like vicarious pleasure through helping friends select gifts for their mums.
This year,several people maintain asked me approximately the Simplehuman sensor mirror (from £99.99), a product that’s received a lot of attention and nearly unanimous praise. It’s a beauty mirror thats automatically flooded, or on your approach,with realistic “daylight. It seems gimmicky, but in practice is rather life-changing. All those tiny brow and facial hairs that evaded even the most dogged plucking are now exposed and vulnerable. Eyeliner that seemed impossible for the shortsighted becomes a cinch, and contrary to fearful expectation,the overall reflection is not as brutal as, say, and the fluorescent lights of a bad public loo. It’s a brilliant gadget but prohibitively expensive and not that pretty unless you’re into cold minimalism.
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Source: theguardian.com