#GodBlessedAmerica

Day 12: Skinlogics Clear Spot Treatment Duo

Before I start today, I just want to say to my Canadian friends & consultants: don't hate me! And no, we're not getting a new product. Or if we are, I know nothing about it. Remember, your director knows more than I do? Please keep that in mind, since today's post is all about our lovely friends to the south. To our friends & consultants in the States: I know I harp on you a bit (usually while complaining about our God-forsaken winter temperatures up here), but really I do love lots of things about the US. The list includes, but is not limited to:

- Your country goes by 4 names: long-form, short form, initials, and short initials. Cool. We just sound stupid when we try to shorten Canada ('Duh'?).

- You have a president. And everyone knows and cares who he is. 

- You have Sarah Palin. We have Rob Ford. Trade you?

- Saltwater taffy. I know we can buy it here, but it's just not the same. I am currently munching on my (insert embarrassing number here) piece that a friend brought back for me from Boston & I forgot was in my cupboard. SO. GOOD. I'm convinced the whole of the Eastern seaboard has a secret recipe.

- Caffeine in your Mountain Dew. Or any other non-cola pop/soda/whatever you call it.

- Southern accents. Cuuute!!!

- The CW. As in the TV station. They always have the best shows & we don't get them here until 3 years after the spoilers are old news.

- California, Texas, Hawaii, NYC, and two Disneys. Maybe one day they'll have a princess who lives in an igloo & says 'eh' - can we have one then?

- American Netflix. This one hurts too much to talk about. Moving on.

- Pennies. Also too soon.

- The Bible belt. This can go either way, really. Let's leave it at that.

- .com domain names.
- you don't even know what myUSaddress.ca is. Unless you live in Ogdensburg or other border towns. If that's the case, what's your address? Let's talk...
- Alaska. Ouch, that one hurts too.

I think you get the point. One other thing that you have is the Skinlogics Clear Spot Treatment Duo. So what do we have instead, you ask? Nothing, zip, nada, zero. Our Skinlogics Clear set is only 4 items. Crazy-talk, right? I didn't even know what I was missing until another consultant mentioned it to me. And then I had a client end up on the US BeautiControl page instead of my Canadian one. Add I had explain my way out of that. "Riiiight, so ya they have this super-awesome product, but like most things American that are super-awesome, we're not allowed to have it." I assume, like most things pharmaceutical in the US vs. Canada debate (and my decades of cross-border shopping experience), this has more to so with an ingredient that either is not allowed in Canada, or is not allowed over the counter in that amount (aka Canadians would need to have a prescription to get that much of it). So probably it has nothing to do with BC not wanting the product to be sold here, and likely everything to do with the law preventing it.

That said, being the avid cross-border shopper that I am, I managed to get one. Or two. And they're awesome. Really, that's all I'm going to say since not everyone can get it or use it. But I can say that if ever BeautiControl does start to sell them here, I will be the first one to jump on that bandwagon! In the meantime, we will resume regular programming with the next post, since I'm out of saltwater taffy. How embarrassing.

Here's 1 more proof that God really does love America (and American friends, these are all in C so we're all on the same page). Just for the record, -40 is where F & C cross: they're both -40. Which means it was starting to warm up here (from a very brutal worth-complaining-about-for-real cold snap) when I took this screenshot! Enjoy :)