Dear beauty-hounds……
It’s not often we write to tell you that a brand is disappearing forever… But Estée Lauder Companies (the parent company) have told us that from 31st January 2009, Prescriptives will disappear from the face of the planet! A sad day, indeed…
Now, it’s possible that this might plunge some of you into complete panic. So we wanted to make sure first of all that you were up to speed with the contact numbers, in case you have any queries about getting hold of product - or anything else related to Prescriptives.
In the UK call 0800-088 4168, and for Ireland 1800-936 080.
We sure are going to miss their Custom Blending service - not least because they offer a Custom Blend Beauty Bible Lip Gloss! This is a pretty unique service (at least in terms of a counter that you can just stroll up to and have a lipstick/foundation/gloss/powder blended to order), so we have taken the opportunity to suggest to Lauder that they transfer it to another brand like Lauder itself, or even Bobbi Brown…!
We suggest a) that you stockpile Prescriptives products you love (unopened most will keep for some time, and powders and dry products like eyeshadows keep almost indefinitely). But also, don’t forget that the whole reason Beauty Bible exists is to make sure that you know which products perform best in any category, in our books. (And we welcome questions to our Q&A section on the website on alternatives - although we’re rather hoping we don’t hear from all of you at once…!)
No doubt there will be other brands who’ll take Prescriptives’ place - but we will always cherish our memories of the brand. Not least the time Jo went on Lorraine Kelly’s show to demo their extraordinary Prescriptives Magic Invisible Line Smoother - which pioneered the whole line-filling category - and it created such a stampede for info about where to buy the product that the GMTV switchboard blew up…!!!!
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Just had this from "The Beauty Bible"
Wonder if QVC have bought up some stock to sell alongside the TSV on Monday.
And--will everything be on ez pay to get rid of it-cos we won't be able to repurchase.:sad: