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As my first beauty post, let me share my two best beauty finds as of late.
Body Shop's Brazil Nut Define & No Frizz cream is a blessing. I apply Kerastase's Leave-on Olio curl conditioner and Schwarkopf's hair buff to towel-dried hair. The problem though is that after my hair air-dries, it tends to frizz up. This product is so awesome as it can tame the frizz and makes my hair so smooth and shiny. Also works best with dry hair.
The hand lotion is from Face Shop (I'm a big fan of their products). I'm an impulsive alcohol applier (um, that is isoprophyl alcohol). Between that and the office air-con, my hands tend to dry up. I swear by this - for baby-soft skin.
Celebrated my birthday last weekend. Spent the day quietly, doing my favorite things - steak and lobster lunch, checked out new music at HMV - and of course, picked up Heaven from my wishlist, browsed through new titles at Kinokuniya, finished it off with coffee and cake (and a call from my favorite guy!)
Since it was my day, I treated myself to my favorite gifts to receive - music and literature.
I'm a big fan of Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex and have been starved for a new book from him so picked up a copy of his new book The Marriage Plot, Heaven by The Walkmen and a so very 80s Casio digital watch!
At first, I was looking at all the gold Casio's, then I saw this silver and I just fell in love.
All in all, it was a good birthday.
Hello, world! Sorry I've been out of action the past week. I've been so busy the past week that I didn't have much time to take outfit photos. So sharing this one from 2 weeks ago, when we had three consecutive days of rainfall.
Since leather gilet days comes few and far between lately, took advantage of the weather to take mine out again for a spin.
Paired with my favorite chambray shorts for a more relaxed feel and lots of colorful leather bracelets to evoke the beach holiday spirit.
I was wearing: Cotton On chambray shorts and button-down, leather gilet from H&M, Charles & Keith court shoes.
My birthday is coming up and this weekend and I thought I'd put together a post series for my wishlist (y'know, in case the Internet gods are reading this).
First up, this new The Walkmen CD*, Heaven. I've been listening to this new record on You Tube almost everyday and I love how lyrically, the band sounds mature and settled (they are after all married with kids when they made this record) but still maintaining that signature lush and rich sounds. They give off that 1920s jazz sound.
And since this is a style blog after all, I love the band's styling - they dress as how I imagined 1920s rock band would.
The band's equally dapper when playing live shows.
Spot Hamilton Leithauser's cool Casio watch. :p
* When I mentioned to our 20-something intern that I am craving for this record and planning a trip to HMV, she looked at me like I just told her to wear daisy dukes and a tank top (i.e. eeeekkk, no!). YES! I STILL buy records.
