Hello, my name is Lisa and I like to shop but I am very picky. This blog is a place to share the things I’ve exhaustively researched and enthusiastically endorse, but also a place for weird and wonderful collections.
What is quality?
What’s good? This phrase rose to pop culture prominence as a way of saying “what’s your problem and what do you want to do about it?” (or to put a consumerist spin, what’s your problem and what do you want to buy for it?) But…what is good? What does good mean? A fundamental aspect of my day job is to define quality, which means different things to different people.
To me, quality is a mix of performance, design, and value, while fitting into an often narrow range of requirements.
- Performance: how well it does what it’s supposed to do
- Design: how good does it look, how delightful it is to use
- Value: is the cost worth it for the level of performance and design it offers?
I will admit I have no shame trading performance for style. We have so many tools at our disposal, no need to settle for the satisfaction of accomplishing the task at all.
My requirements:
I am petite at 5’3″ tall, and am fanatical about how clothes should fit. Buy petite cuts or get that shit tailored.
A lot of common ingredients in skincare products make me break out, including plant oils, propylene glycol (and other glycols, but not all of them), talc, and silica. This eliminates like 97% of products on the market and is a total pain in the ass, but after years of trial and error I’ve finally got a good stable of products that work for me and growing confidence in my ability to try new things that meet these parameters.