she's out and fancy free

put a sephora gift card to good use over the holiday weekend and picked up a bobbi brown pot rouge for lips and cheeks in pale pink... i am absolutely loving the long lasting natural flush it gives my face but i am slowly and hesitantly easing into using it on the ol' kisser... i am pretty much a chapstick only person and have always felt a bit clownish when wearing anything resembling a color on my lips... i'm hoping i'll eventually get used to it? though i will say that i do feel ever so chic pulling out the understated little pot and dabbing it on...

(pic courtesy photobucket)

in a new old fashioned way

ladies and gentlemen, i give you my christmas wish list... some of these do veer on the far side of "inyourdreamswishyouwereinthe1%much?" while some of them actually are quite doable (you hear that santa?!)... but hey, the point is that it's fun to dream! so what are you all hoping santa leaves under your tree?

from top to bottom:

• Deborah Lippmann Edge of Glory 3D Holographic nail lacquer ($45)
• Zoe Karssen Up All Night cotton and modal blend tee ($95)
• Report Signature Studded Spike Heel bootie ($270)
• Sam Edelman Cori high top sneaker ($100)
• Eddie Borgo silver plated turquoise spike earrings ($315)
• Nixon Time Teller P watch ($60)
• Theyskens Theory Anta Mini Flap bag ($495)
• Alexander Wang Raphael shoulder bag ($730)
• Helmut Newton: Polaroids book (59.99)
• Carine Roitfeld: Irreverent book ($100)
  

this city is on fire tonight

miss moss demonstrates a killer holiday look... honestly, can you imagine what her closet must look like? mecca!

(picture courtesy fab sugar)

so the days float through my eyes

trend on the verge: tie-front dresses... as seen on rumi neely and promoted on today's whowhatwear... these are totally cute and quirky... i'm really into the beige tsumori chisato... and don't you think rumi's blue carven is like something zoey deschanel's jess would wear on the new girl (omg who saw last night's "hanks-giving" episode?! hilarious!)...

(pics from top courtesy lacargonne and fashiontoast )

wish i was back on the bayou

sneak peak at proenza schouler pre-spring 2012 bags... i am dying over the python and that sleek chain strap... come to mama!

(pics courtesy complacency kills)

any old time to keep me waiting

talk about showstoppers... these aida fish scale platform pumps from alexander wang are just ridic... from the texture to the color to the stacked stiletto, these babies will undoubtedly incite mad envy in lesser footed friends!

(pics courtesy shopbop)

heard you been missing me

ok fine! you win zara! i'll just continue to give you all my money!

(pics courtesy zara november lookbook)

all i ask for, all i pray

so loving rosie huntington-whiteley's sartorial choices lately... those cap-toe heels in the second pic are ridic!

don't put your trust in walls

the other day while throwing on my favorite uniqlo jeans it hit me: that for all the pairs of jeans i have, i only wear like, mayyyybe four pairs on constant rotation? so today i officially counted: 22 pairs of jeans. and yet, i stick with a select few options day after day after month after month (low-rise skinny thankyouverymuch!)... and sure, i hear you: "why don't you just donate the ones you don't wear?!" or "why don't you sell them on ebay/buffalo exhange/etc?!" but i mean, what if one i don't wear now and sell suddenly comes back in style in a few months?! that wide-leg railroad stripe pair might really be the new hot thing for fall 2012! i just can't take the chance that i had in my possession the hippest cut of a future season! ...aaaaaand such is the sickness in my fashion obsessed brain.

(pics courtesy fashion gone rogue)

i need an easy friend

jean shorts, a tee and a blazer.... easy peasy style perfection!

(pics courtesy stylemint)

everybody knows this is nowhere

wise shoppers like to say that if you try something on at a store and don't buy it, but still love it a day or two later then it's worth going back and buying... i tried on these varnish effect trousers at zara over a week ago and i can't get them out of my mind... i suppose i know what i need to do then?!

(pics courtesy zara)