It’s been a crazy fucking week here at the office (DOUBLE ISSUE DOUBLE CLOSE)—but it’s Friday, which is already good news. And then we stumbled onto this video (hello, Lululemon Twitter feed!) and found this video. It is, honest to God, the most moving and amazing video ever shown on the Internet. Okay, so that’s building it up a little. But this video can handle it. Watch it! You’ll be glad you did, and if you aren’t—honestly, that would be fascinating. Amazing. In fact, I just had to recommend it to my friend Mallory with actual tears still in my actual eyes. YOGA FIXES EVERYTHING. Honest to God, I’m going on vacay tomorrow with the BBF, but I can’t wait to get back to mysore on Wednesday.
04.30.2012
So! We’re just back from Iceland. It was awesome. Iceland is an awesome country. It has awesome shopping, and even more awesome spas. The entire country is like one, big, open-air spa, with friendly people who are so attractive you actually stop seeing it, like the way you stop seeing that people are, like, corporeal. And it’s not even that expensive—officially, my roundtrip ticket cost less than some spa days cost. If you like (a) adventure, (b) friendly people, and (c) mud masks, there is no better destination.
One of the things we liked best about Iceland was this picture below. It’s part of a campaign for a fashion brand called Farmers Market. It’s a little embarrassing, taking photos of advertising campaigns, but it was impossible not to do in Iceland, because they are so beautiful. And it turns out that most of them are shot by this photographer, Ari Magg. He is basically branding the entire country, and we are super into it. We even emailed him to see if we could buy this picture of the reindeer, above.
Another reason we like Iceland is because they put the Ritz crackers where they should be, which is in the refrigerated section, along with the cheese.
Also, this is a puffin hand puppet.
And this is an amazing waterfall. But it could just as easily be a picture of an amazing geyser or lake or black-sand beach or lava field or whatever.
Obviously, there are few worse times of the year to buy an Icelandic sweater than the last weekend in April (especially when they’re not even on sale—it’s always sweater-weather in Iceland), when the only thing worth buying is bathing suits and jean skirts. But it is illegal to leave Iceland without an Icelandic sweater. The best brand we found was Icelandica. The pictures are extremely subpar—but the sweater itself is amazing.
We were equally obsessed with a North Face-look outdoor gear brand—actually, it was a little more like Icebreaker (an amazing New Zealand line), but whatevs: close enough. This wool jacket is incredibly light and ridiculously warm—it’s perfect for spring hiking. Trust the Icelanders to get warm right. Right?
04.26.2012
For almost a year now, I’ve been homebound: taking a break, writing a book that would never (but has just about) end\ed, doing things like having a monthly Metrocard and friends who see you more often than once every six weeks, and working on remaking this site a bit. But now the ducks are all in neat little rows, and the outside world is beckoning. First, last week to St. Barths, which was so ridiculous I’m not even sure it was real. And now, to Iceland. (Obviously, this is all for my job, or those ducks would come quickly out of their rows and disintegrate into a mishmash of overdue bills and grumpy quacking.)
Anyway: Iceland. What I was going to mention this evening was the Blue Lagoon.
This was described to us as Iceland’s Disney World, but this is a comparison that could only be made by people who have been to neither. For example, there were exactly 16 cars in the parking lot when we arrived at the Blue Lagoon. Basically, it’s a massive hot pool warmed by a geothermal plant, and you get to slather you skin in silica mud all day and lounge around. This is what the mud did to me:
My favorite thing about this picture is the way you can see that I am (a) so cold I’m sort of huddled into a ball (it’s about 40 degrees) and (b) have monster tan lines from last weekend. Also, my hair blends right into my bikini top. I am wearing a top, for the record.
Also, I need to say that we (which is to say, my traveling companion and BBF) are singing this song constantly, by Icelandic artist Emiliani Torrini:
And we are listening to nothing but the equally Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men. Have you bought their album? Please, please, buy it, maybe right after listening to this song:
Honestly this song messes me up so much I can’t listen to it after midnight, because I’ll be up all night.
But anyway: honest to God, my skin has never looked nicer than it does at this very moment. Iceland! So heartily recommendable. And its muds, too. This is pricy:
But if it accomplishes half of what the lagoon mud did today, it’s a price I’m happy to pay. Well, willing to pay. Blue Lagoon silica mud exfoliator, 50 euros
04.10.2012
We’re sprucing things up a bit for the season—we’re in that stage where, like, you’ve dumped everything that was in your closet on the floor and now you have to sift through everything. (It’s a bit of a mess around here.) But we’ll be back soon—and in the meantime, Pinterest! Follow us and we’ll follow you back. This is from our Easter egg hair board.
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Did you see The Hunger Games? Didn’t you love it? Wasn’t it amazing? We hate paying for movies these days ($27 for two people for a matinee, thank-you-very-much-or-actually-not-at-all), but obviously, waiting to see The Hunger Games would not do. We hope, and expect, you enjoyed it as much as we did.
We know that Cinna’s eyeliner was not the point of the movie, but whatevs: We’re wearing gold eyeliner for every day for the rest of our lives, as well as figuring out any thorny decisions by asking “What would Katniss do?” Shoot it through the heart, most likely. Surprisingly useful, and durable, advice, we’re thinking.
Here’s the full story on Cinna’s eyeliner from Hollywood Life. We’ll also maybe be trying this liquid eyeliner from Laura Mercier. Make Up For Ever Metal Powder in Sunflower Gold, $22
03.23.2012
the tutu’s back! and check out those melon pumps.
We’ve been stalking this bag like a leopard in the wild for the past three months—mostly we’d just go and visit it at the Anthropologie store and think about the day (a) we’d be able to afford a $300 bag (MegaMillions’ $290M jackpot tonight, eh?) and (b) when we could stop using our sad, beat-up bag that made us feel like it was still darkest January and not this new, weird, bizarre-o March, where it’s actually June. (Confusing.)
Anyway: It’s half-off now. What we did not know, before we bought this bag, is that it’s big enough to smuggle a family of monkeys into another country. It’s that big—honest to God, you could put a sleeping bag in there. Well, maybe not a sleeping bag. But it’s huge. This is going to be the carry-on of the season, mark our words.
Anthropologie Staccato tote, was $299, now $149.95
02.07.2012
This makes our head explode but still…<3 Ed Ruscha!
01.11.2012
Style Forum Special from Music Guy on Vimeo.
Have a spare 45 minutes? Well worth watching this extremely interesting Tom Ford documentary!
01.11.2012
We’re going to Sundance next week, which means we need to stock up on sweaters, boots, and hats—stat. We have none of that at the moment. It’s basically a disaster. A very cold disaster.
This has also piqued our interest in buying a Fair Isle sweater. We are obsessed with Fair Isle, and would go there right this minute if we could, even if it’s very cold and dark there. We adore this sweater, which appears in the new NYLON, and we’re annoyed because it was on sale at the Juicy Couture store but is no longer. Juicy Couture Fair Isle sweater, $200
We just went through a million of them on ShopStyle, and we, sadly, cannot recommend a single one. Either the color palette’s too boring or the shape is all wrong. Luckily, we only need one in our closet—and this one’s it.
