Hi, guys. I am Sarah Langa. I am with COSMO today doing the Expensive Taste Test – and who best to do it but me?
The first taste is bubbles… Champagne, darling – like Bonang would say.
.I have a test that I think works – it's called the cheers test: you can tell how expensive champagne is by how it responds to a ‘cheers’.
Umm, okay, guys, the test doesn't work.
I am going to try the ‘pinkie test’ now.
The pinkie test tests how champagne responds to your pinkie.
This one responded more than this one. This is hard. I also think I mixed them up now.
This is hard. I also think I mixed them up now. Let me taste them.
Ew, oh no, that's not it. I think it's definitely this one. Is it this one?
It's fake?! Noooooooo!
‘Okay, let me taste this one. Okay, yeah, this one does taste kind of, like, sweet and cheap.’
The next test is my personal favourite because I love everything ‘luxury brands’
so it's luxury Louis Vuitton wallets, purses...
So apparently there's a specific sequence when it comes to monogram.
With monogram, usually they use the same material, and can you see how there are no cuts? It’s basically one material
The LV has to all be in the same direction for it to be real.
I don't know about this interior. Guys, I've never walked into an LV and seen, like, lining like this
Like, does this look familiar?
I am not too sure... Hold on... Also, the gold hardware is going green. Like, it's green, how is gold turning into green?!
That’s so weird!
So this one, I cannot really tell, I mean, this lining looks more legit, right?
So when I look at the hardware, this one has Louis Vuitton and this one has Louis Vuitton R.
I've never seen Louis Vuitton R before, what does that mean? What’s a Louis Vuitton R?
Let me look at the coin purse. Oh, there's money here, there's money!
Thank you, Lord. The coin section here also looks a bit legit.
It's consistent with the lining so it's brown in here and it's brown out there.
Where this one is, like, flowers everywhere, but when you look inside the coins it's white,
so this is fake. No, nooo!
Yes!!
The next is water. Guys, I didn't know that you could get expensive water but
apparently the one is tap water – I don't know which is which – and the other is bottled water.
So, let's see which one I would pay for.
Hold on, I need to look in the light.
‘Cause usually, like... Doesn't tap water have things floating in it?
Yeah, like, this one has things floating in it.
Hold on, this is hard... Oh my... It tastes the same!
Also, I think we are really privileged to have good tap water.
Is this tap water? No. Impossible. I don't think I should've agreed to do this.
The lipstick test.
Okay, I couldn't break it in half, guys, with the stick.
Then let's see the application... It's quite pigmented. Do I sound like a makeup artist?
And it applies really easily, but it smells cheap. Let me try the other one.
Okay, I actually broke through this one. This one, like, I can break in half.
I am gonna swatch it right now, but I am going to do a proper swatch, not a Kim Kardashian swatch.
Okay, I am going to do a smudge test.
Okay, so this one smudges more than that one so I would say this one is the expensive one. Yay!
This is… I can even tell you the brand, guys, like, I can even tell you the brand – that's how much I love chocolate!
So this is Cadbury and this is Lindt, am I right? *ding*
Actually, I am more than happy to taste it. I love chocolate, guys.
From tomorrow I am never having chocolate again in my life. One hour later (still eating chocolate).
The Gucci test.
So in order for me to be buried in Gucci when I die, I need to get this one right, so if I don't get this one right ...
then it's a disaster
So the first test I am going to do is the buckle test.
So this is the Marmont belt, and one thing I know about the Marmont belt is that it doesn't have leather behind the buckle,
and this one has leather behind the buckle and this one doesn't.
Also, this one is heavy. Like, I can't even hold it up.
Can you hear that? Let's do the sound test. Listen to this one [taps belt buckle] versus this one [taps belt buckle].
This is real; this is definitely fake. Wohooo, yay!
I believe I know my diamonds quite well. Let's see if I really do.
The nice thing is that it's not just a diamond, it's actually a jewellery piece so you kind of look at the whole package.
So the setting, you look at... Okay, this is cheap...
You’ll see that cheaper earrings will have different materials, so then the actual setting, which is the front stud part, will look all shiny. will look all shiny and then when your air goes in will be
And then where your ear goes in will be, like, more like stainless steel.
Plastic. Diamonds.
And real diamonds just naturally shine. I mean, the easier test is to, like, kind of look at my wedding band and now, this is more like it.
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