Yelp... yeah... yeah...

Am I crazy or are people starting to copy my Yelp review style?

Exhibit A: Miette

My review:

If love could be found in a cupcake it would be in theirs.

"If love could be found in a cake it would be in theirs."
I lifted that ; )
The best cake in the neighborhood.
On the dry side of almost perfectly moist.
On the too sweet side of almost perfectly sweet.
Perfectly cute, and perfectly presentable.

Exhibit B: Shu Uemura

My review:

I'm scared of makeup sellers. I have nightmares about overly made-up ladies in lab coats and men with perfect eyebrows and glowing skin turning me into a clown. I'm serious. I don't want strangers attacking my face with pointy things that pinch and poke so they can sell me things I don't really want. Now, considering that my mother was a beautiful and quite elegant lady who wouldn't leave the house without a full face of makeup and almost always wore high heels you would think that I would be able to handle the makeup counters. I'm much more DIY. I go to Sephora where no one hassles me, I've never had a manicure done, and I tweeze my own eyebrows. Having other people do things like that for me is totally foreign.
Well, not until Shu Uemura that is.
I'm crazy for their eyelash curler and I had heard so many positive things about their makeup line that I decided to buck up and check out the store because Sephora doesn't carry their products anymore. If anything, it would be cool to just check out the Ai Yamaguchi mural. So, I go to the store on a weekday afternoon so I don't get scared by the Pac Heights customers and the shop is pretty quiet. I must have looked like a deer in headlights because this very friendly man came over and just hello without any hint of makeup pushing in his voice. He helped me pick out some Basic mascara (anything but basic, really) and a pretty pink Glow On blush. The girl at the cash register packaged up everything very nicely and I was on my way.
Even though it's a small thing to conquer my fear of makeup counters, I think it would make my mom happy to know that I finally did it and that maybe I might be ladylike enough for her.

I have nightmares about monochromatically dressed women who resemble the likes of Mimi from the Drew Carey Show, chasing me down the makeup aisle of a department store insistent that "this new shade of indigo will do wonders to your eyes." But I was in dire need for a new line of cosmetics...something fresh and suitable for my skintone. So I searched on the wonderful world of YELP and discovered that the lovely ladies of San Francisco were raving about Shu Uemura. I decided that I needed to overcome my fear and discovered that this beautiful store was the remedy. Mind you,I spent $100 on three items...but I guess that's the price we women pay along with other guilty pleasures (ie shoes,jeans). Friendly staff and an aesthetically pleasing space...I give this place four stars. (I would've given it five, but I spent the one star on taxes for my items.hehe)