I used to work with a Dermatologist who specialise in beauty and he would tell me that the lotions they sell in the drugstores are just as effective as the expensive ones in the department store. You pay the big $$$$ for the name only.
I buy my xmas gift ( a North face coat this year, last year a nice piece of jewelery) & put it under the tree, from my husband to me. I act very excited when I open it. My sisters’s in law congatulated their brother ( my husband) on his excellent taste. My Mom taught me that trick after she received an expensive ( non returnable) orange bathrobe from my dad.
Who’s the girl? New Gilfriend, cleaning lady, roomate?