no matter how pretty the packaging.
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just about a week ago, i decided to take skincare and overall health seriously. i want to look every bit the “hip and happening lola” (term coined by my cousin) we used to aspire to back in high school. i’m taking this seriously now because of leroy bell. looking at him, i am convinced that anybody can look that smashing at 60 with great care and responsibility.
i find myself illustrating more and more hair these days. i mean bigger and bigger. i think my frustration is battling to let loose. i want big moving waves that bounce with every step i take. tresses that take a life of their own whenever i nod my head.
last year, for some reason, i figured that marc jacobs would choose dakota fanning to be the face of a lola flanker if and when he ever came up with one. well, he did on both counts. choose dakota and create a flanker, that is.
what smells make you reminisce? my favorite hairdresser gets transported to his home in the province at the smell of damp earth. my husband, who was moved from country to country as a child following his father’s projects, says that the duty free department store smell: electronic toys mingled with fragrance testers brings him back to his childhood. mine is sunblock, specifically coppertone. and plastic pine trees, tinsel and gift wrappers.
i love smelling and remembering. memories jolted by olfactory stimuli seem sharper and more vivid to me than those involving sights or sounds. this, after all, has grounds in science.
therefore, it goes without saying that i am crazy about fragrances. and that a number of them are very close to me since they are invariably linked to certain memories. the most notable of these commercially available memory triggers is lacoste pour femme.
moisture mist, shiseido’s drugstore brand, proudly declares “specially formulated for new zealand women”, but that didn’t stop me from purchasing their compact foundation.
ah, yes. still too lazy to assemble meaningful text. but i can’t let the first month of the year pass without a post.
and there’s nothing like dreaming of material things to stroke the superficial soul. good thing i didn’t apply for a credit card here. for the sake of my mental health, i most likely wouldn’t.
love, chloe edp
ah yes, the fragrance department. i must say my favorite part of department stores, but for the hard-selling. pushy salespersons aside, i love hanging around fragrance counters, testing new smells until i give rise to a veritable mount everest of tester strips in my bag. scents will never lose their fascination for me.
scents are such amazing things. some can get you refreshed and make you relax. some can energize and even seduce. so what are so many women still doing waiting for special occasions to wear fragrance? any day is a perfect day to smell good!
as we reach mid-year, let’s take a look at some of the most popular styles in the hair front.
1. the quiff
seen on the runways of oscar de la renta, max mara and l.a.m.b. among others, the new quiff, an exaggerated height that challenges elvis presley’s hair to a battle of blow-outs, is the new updo. take it from the many celebs who have embraced this hairstyle. it has redefined our use of holding products.
continuation to this.
when we moved to fiji, one of the things i had to adjust to was how most people took haircut for granted. not to say that people took their hair in general for granted. in fact, many of them obsess over it: they dye, highlight, perm, fix into cornrows, braids, dreadlocks more frequently than i know pinays do. but haircut in particular doesn’t seem as big a deal as what i am more accustomed to.
so if i can’t find the time to experiment with different hair stylists, i decided, what the heck, might as well jump into the bandwagon. besides, this is the immediate solution to my hair’s volume problem. a good old fashioned perm. and i mean not digital.
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