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Skirts Cured My Boredom
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Shopping day today...yayyy...these are what I got...
Denim swing skirt (perfect for casual office attire) and a color block body con mini skirt...:)
Denim swing skirt (perfect for casual office attire) and a color block body con mini skirt...:)
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Smells Like Grown-Up Spirit
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When I was a blithe young thing I took to wearing Lancome's Magie Noire as a "good" fragrance. It had been the scent of the most glamourous woman I knew (glamourous women were not thick on the ground in Erie County, New York and it paid to watch them closely) and when I left for college I adopted it as my own, although I understood even then that its power was more Grown Woman and so much less 18 Year Old Playing Dress Up. It was my choice for hundreds of after-dark outings - to fraternity parties as well as dinners with Somewhat Older Boys Also Playing Dress Up - and if I couldn't quite handle the scent's blatant invitation, and I couldn't, I experienced no trouble because neither could those who might have tried had any been more experienced and/or competent in that area than I. While I smelled lovely as I swept through the streets of Powelton Village, Magie Noire's seductive potential was utterly lost on someone so young and also so very young, if you get my meaning.*
By the time I'd grown up enough to really own the scent something had changed and it (or I) was no longer the same. I wanted to love it still, to walk around all sexy and fatale smelling, but no. We're no longer right for each other, Magie Noire and I (pretending for a moment that we ever were), and I have been on the hunt for something to take its place for years.
This is not to say that I don't wear scents, because I do. I've had an extended on-again-off-again flirtation with Shiseido's Saso, and I've dabbled a bit in the whole shower-gel-and-spray thing - although why these things come in fruit scents I will never understand. Who wishes to smell like a buffet luncheon's salad cup? Not I. Let's see...there was a brief enthusiasm for Isabella Rosselini's Manifesto that died as quickly as its own basil notes, as well as a very short fling with something by Laura Ashley that I admired chiefly for its bottle. And then there was some men's scent that was loosely based on lavender which promised to settle down to something only sort-of masculine but never did.
I deal with my own prejudices. I will not wear anything celebrity "created" - not Britney, not Mariah, not Jennifer and not (just for consistency's sake because I understand that Lovely is, well, lovely) Sarah Jessica. Will not. I will not wear anything that's too easy to obtain (I know, I know, snob) and do not wish to wear anything that might be described as a blockbuster - if it's commonly acknowledged that women do not wish to dress alike it should not be so hard to extrapolate that we also do not wish to smell alike.
And there's my husband. He has a conflicted relationship with scents - loves them wafting up from, say, a double of Macallan 18 or maybe a particularly rich cigar. He can smell a piece of milk chocolate from a league away and relishes the old roses that grow along our stone wall, but hates anything that reminds him of grass that requires mowing, aged women of his relation (loves the women, doesn't wish me to smell like them), exotic fruits, pine, too many flowers in a too small room or baby powder. The only scent he ever wears is Paco Rabanne Pour Homme and has made one bottle last nearly 15 years (and counting). You could say he's indifferent, I suppose, to the whole notion of fragrance and his rather minimal requirement of me is that I don't make him sneeze (this, I realize, is a very low bar seduction-wise). If he could choose a scent for me, it would probably be something on the order of single-malt/Hershey Kiss/roses/tobacco/leather. (Interestingly, this might actually be possible. Me having a fragrance like that, I mean, not him actually set out to choose one on my behalf.)
Where this leaves me, I don't know. I've haunted the perfume counter at my local Nordstrom's to the point where I may be believed to be a stalker and I've even sprung for a few small bottles of things from Ebay that sounded like they might be right for me, but weren't (Creed's Royal English Leather among them, sigh). I spritzed nearly every Jo Malone fragrance carried by a boutiquey place in Charlottesville until the proprietress got all narrow-eyed and frownish with me and I had to buy some Zoppini charms to calm her. There was even a very short and quite disastrous homebrew attempt with oils bought at a hippy dippy health foods store-cum-homeopathic supply shop.
Am I asking too much? What I want is something that smells like me, but better, that will make my husband lean in for a second welcome home kiss now and will remember me to my children when I'm gone, one that makes me smile and surreptitiously (or not) sniff the inside of my elbow all day, one that whispers come back when I've gone off flirting with something else.
There is a sale at The Perfumed Court. It may be time to get serious.
* This was back in the days of Poison and Knowing, when everyone went around smelling like floozies as a matter of course.
By the time I'd grown up enough to really own the scent something had changed and it (or I) was no longer the same. I wanted to love it still, to walk around all sexy and fatale smelling, but no. We're no longer right for each other, Magie Noire and I (pretending for a moment that we ever were), and I have been on the hunt for something to take its place for years.
This is not to say that I don't wear scents, because I do. I've had an extended on-again-off-again flirtation with Shiseido's Saso, and I've dabbled a bit in the whole shower-gel-and-spray thing - although why these things come in fruit scents I will never understand. Who wishes to smell like a buffet luncheon's salad cup? Not I. Let's see...there was a brief enthusiasm for Isabella Rosselini's Manifesto that died as quickly as its own basil notes, as well as a very short fling with something by Laura Ashley that I admired chiefly for its bottle. And then there was some men's scent that was loosely based on lavender which promised to settle down to something only sort-of masculine but never did.
I deal with my own prejudices. I will not wear anything celebrity "created" - not Britney, not Mariah, not Jennifer and not (just for consistency's sake because I understand that Lovely is, well, lovely) Sarah Jessica. Will not. I will not wear anything that's too easy to obtain (I know, I know, snob) and do not wish to wear anything that might be described as a blockbuster - if it's commonly acknowledged that women do not wish to dress alike it should not be so hard to extrapolate that we also do not wish to smell alike.
And there's my husband. He has a conflicted relationship with scents - loves them wafting up from, say, a double of Macallan 18 or maybe a particularly rich cigar. He can smell a piece of milk chocolate from a league away and relishes the old roses that grow along our stone wall, but hates anything that reminds him of grass that requires mowing, aged women of his relation (loves the women, doesn't wish me to smell like them), exotic fruits, pine, too many flowers in a too small room or baby powder. The only scent he ever wears is Paco Rabanne Pour Homme and has made one bottle last nearly 15 years (and counting). You could say he's indifferent, I suppose, to the whole notion of fragrance and his rather minimal requirement of me is that I don't make him sneeze (this, I realize, is a very low bar seduction-wise). If he could choose a scent for me, it would probably be something on the order of single-malt/Hershey Kiss/roses/tobacco/leather. (Interestingly, this might actually be possible. Me having a fragrance like that, I mean, not him actually set out to choose one on my behalf.)
Where this leaves me, I don't know. I've haunted the perfume counter at my local Nordstrom's to the point where I may be believed to be a stalker and I've even sprung for a few small bottles of things from Ebay that sounded like they might be right for me, but weren't (Creed's Royal English Leather among them, sigh). I spritzed nearly every Jo Malone fragrance carried by a boutiquey place in Charlottesville until the proprietress got all narrow-eyed and frownish with me and I had to buy some Zoppini charms to calm her. There was even a very short and quite disastrous homebrew attempt with oils bought at a hippy dippy health foods store-cum-homeopathic supply shop.
Am I asking too much? What I want is something that smells like me, but better, that will make my husband lean in for a second welcome home kiss now and will remember me to my children when I'm gone, one that makes me smile and surreptitiously (or not) sniff the inside of my elbow all day, one that whispers come back when I've gone off flirting with something else.
There is a sale at The Perfumed Court. It may be time to get serious.
* This was back in the days of Poison and Knowing, when everyone went around smelling like floozies as a matter of course.
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Online Shopping
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I don't often shop online, mostly because the shops I like don't provide shipping services to Asia especially Indonesia (bummer!)...so, my choices would probably be around eBay and Etsy...
But, there are some Asian online shops that are willing to ship across Asia (duh!)...the items they have are mostly Korean or Hongkong-made, and I don't really see them as something of quality...but they're quite cute! These are the shops I recommend....:)
But, there are some Asian online shops that are willing to ship across Asia (duh!)...the items they have are mostly Korean or Hongkong-made, and I don't really see them as something of quality...but they're quite cute! These are the shops I recommend....:)
Lady Secrets...
Up2Date...
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More Vintage Goodies
Besides the sailor dress I posted about yesterday, I actually got myself another dress as well...something like, a boring secretary dress? Neither was I sure about buying it, nor do I like the pattern or colors. But I see something interesting about it...hhmm.....Btw I've been very very sleepy lately, and today I couldn't stop yawning while working hehehe....it's been a tiring week..tiring, but boring...weird, huh?
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Sorry for being so late, but hey, better late than never, right? So, thank you DwD for nominating me as one of the brillante (brilliant?) weblogs...:)The rules are:
1) Put the logo on your blog. (done)
2) Add a link to the person who awarded you. (done)
3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs. (hhm...just 3 please?)
4) Add links to those blogs on yours. (done)
5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs. (errr....;p)
Now i nominate:
1. Camille from Childhood Flames
2. Rumi from Fashion Toast
3. Lisa from Lisa Place
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Thank you, Siewkwan for the tag...that's very nice of you, you know? :)
Instructions: Remove 1 question from below, and add in your personal question, make it a total of 20 questions, then tag 8 people in your list, list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box that he/she has been tagged.
1. At what age do you wish to marry?
Actually at 24, but that would mean this year, which, is impossible :D
2. What is your most favourite thing to do?
Taking pictures and shopping…that simple…;p
3. If you have a close close close close friend since childhood who loves to take away whatever you like, including guys/girls, and he/she always wins, will you still consider him/her your friend?
Hhhmm…consider him/her as a friend, yes. Be close friends, no. I don’t like to hang out with people who bring problems to my life.
4. What would you give up in return to eat all you want in the world and not get fat ?
Nothing..I’m already in that situation…;p
5. If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be?
To marry ‘him’.
6. Do you believe you can survive without money?
No.
7. What are you afraid to lose the most?
My family.
8. What do you feel like doing, right now?
Go bowling!!
9. If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?
Yes, I’m a straightforward girl hahah….
10. List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you.
Stylish, smart, thoughtful.
11. What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
Religious, family-man type, smart, witty, and (has the potential to be) successful.
12. What is your ambition?
As Siewkwan says it; to die without regrets.
13. What is the thing that will make you think he/she is bad?
When a person doesn't like to apologize or thank people.
14. What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
My parents.
15. If you have a choice to be rich or happy, which one would you pick ?
Rich…and happy....hehehe....
16. If you have a chance, which part of your character would you like to change?
Being unable to say ‘no’ to people even when my heart says so.
17. Who is the person that you can share all your problems with?
Sharjeel, Intan, and my 5 best girfriends.18. How do you see yourself in 10 years time?
18. What is the one thing you love about yourself?
Optimistic! Yayyy!!
Hhmm..I think my style reflects my current mood :D
I consider life as a learning process, so no mistakes should be regretted.
Sharjeel, Intan, Tina, Lucas, DwD, Eleh, Evie, Woro!! :D
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Holiday
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Went out for lunch and dinner with Atiek today...this is what I wore...:)
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Changing the Topic
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Ever since I saw Stephanie rockin' the sailor dress, I knew this would be something I had to own. And so here it is, found in between piles of vintage clothes, a sailor dress shined brighter than the rest and made its way to my wardrobe...:)
I do think this dress is not as sailor-ish as Stephanie's, but I'm satisfied enough :)
PS: Thank you very much for all the love and support you all readers have given me...I do still have that sad feeling inside given the fact that he/she is still leaving me horrible comments on my shoutbox....I guess it'll never stop so I probably should just accept the bitter fact....and you know what? It is sometimes better to attack our enemies by making them our friend...so dear Lonte, if you're reading this, I welcome you to leave any comments you like...and please, leave comments as irritating and vulgar as you wish...I'll just understand that you're so into sex topics, and that's okay...I wish you the best, and I hope you'll find your true love someday, as I think you must be very lonely right now...sigh...so sad...keep praying, Lonte!
I do think this dress is not as sailor-ish as Stephanie's, but I'm satisfied enough :)
PS: Thank you very much for all the love and support you all readers have given me...I do still have that sad feeling inside given the fact that he/she is still leaving me horrible comments on my shoutbox....I guess it'll never stop so I probably should just accept the bitter fact....and you know what? It is sometimes better to attack our enemies by making them our friend...so dear Lonte, if you're reading this, I welcome you to leave any comments you like...and please, leave comments as irritating and vulgar as you wish...I'll just understand that you're so into sex topics, and that's okay...I wish you the best, and I hope you'll find your true love someday, as I think you must be very lonely right now...sigh...so sad...keep praying, Lonte!
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Hi all
Hi. This is Sharjeel. Diana will resume her blog postings very soon and I appreciate the support and love you people have offered.
With regards to the indecent comments, I will monitor this myself.
Regards
With regards to the indecent comments, I will monitor this myself.
Regards
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