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Life of Colleen: December 2013
Happy end of 2013!
posted by Colleen Shirazi
on
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
at 5:29 PM (Pacific)
Top: Stewart and Brown
Cardigan: gifted
Skirt: Sundance Catalog
Boots: Cydwoq
This is from my son's portrait project for school, which he has titled "The Proletariat at Work." smirks Okay, I'm not actually working, but I do check my work email, and there is a Python book I'm on-and-off grinding through ("list"=array with benefits).
Here are the year-end photos I like to post:
Labels: ootd, stewart + brown, sundance catalog, weekend wardrobe, year-end
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The plural of "anecdote" is not "data" *
posted by Colleen Shirazi
on
Saturday, December 28, 2013
at 8:39 PM (Pacific)
Nivea Black and White stick deodorant
Hermmm... Time for some, well, blogging.
I've been using the above deo since April-Mayish of this year; plenty of time to ascertain whether or not it works. It does. I can frankly claim to have less of the annoying "yellow deo marks on white shirts" issue. Worth the minor hassle of finding it here (seems pretty cheap and available in Europe).
i Profumi di Firenze, Violetta di Bosco
Been playing with this, in sample form. I was never a "frag hag," exactly, and so missed this line altogether even when I was sampling perfumes. Italian fragrances imo tend to be iffy, unless you're heavily into citrus (there always seems to be something citrusy there, and it can be done well, but it has to be your thing).
Not so with this scent. Violets...when did I last smell one? over twenty-eight years past, that's for sure, when some randomly sprouted between our house and the next. I don't recall a heady scent, but as I say there were the few soldier-violets, not a whole bed of them.
So, I'll take it on faith this is what violets smell like. I loathe samples (well, love/hate, of course) in that you're stuck without a sprayer; this is potent nevertheless.
First impressions...too sweet, overly floral (doh), too...virtuous? Not something toward which I tend to gravitate. A candied sensation. Bleh. Then...perfume settles in...must apply more...this is great! Dabbled the dinky plastic wand around—oh, I know, I could do something more creative, like dab it properly from the vial...
Even with my violet ignorance, I could say this is a fresh and complex scent. There's more in it than essence of violets, which would be simplistic at best, cloying at worst. For someone who spent many summers at an organic vegetable/fruit farm (me), there are subtle elements of moss, dried grass, ferns, hints of water...all that's needed to conjure up the outdoors, interwoven with the sweet layer of blooms.
Full-bottle-worthy? I don't know yet. It's a bit spendy (not worse than Montale, which is still my house of choice), but again with the frag-hag-lessness—I don't own tons of perfumes, so the ones I do have need to be special.
* Reddit Labels: nivea, perfume, product reviews
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There's always the sun
posted by Colleen Shirazi
on
Monday, December 9, 2013
at 10:51 PM (Pacific)
Jacket: distressed leather
Turtleneck: Eddie Bauer
Necklace: labradorite (made by me)
Skirt: Punkin NYC
Boots: Cydwoq
Punkin NYC is no more, apparently. Even Smashing Darling has departed: one of the first independent clothing websites I'd seen (and where Punkin NYC sold me this skirt).
More's the pity. The genius of the skirt (reviewed here, and here) lies within its dual layers. Sure, it appears light-weight jersey, with a perfectly fluted design and versatile dark-green hue—but the shine occurs when frigid wind is blasting right at it. That's when you want two layers.Labels: cydwoq, eddie bauer, indie, jewelry, ootd, weekend wardrobe
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