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Reader Mail: The Everlasting Eye Shadow

09.26.2007

In today’s Reader Mailbag:

Dear Bunnyshop,

I don’t know why I can’t figure this out for myself, but can you (or someone else) please, please, please tell me what you need to do to get eye shadow to stay on your eyes. I don’t know if I have extremely greasy eyelids or what, but it’s on there for like 20 minutes and disappears. Help!

XO
G.

First of all, doesn’t it look like the model in that MAC ad above is all, My eyeshadow’s rubbing off in the crease? Love that. That would be so great if it were like suddenly the coolest way to wear it. Anyway … it’s not, so here we are, with our only two suggestions:

MAC eye primer, $16

And MAC eye shadow. This is the palette, by the way, credited with the look at the top. MAC smoking eyes eye shadow, $36

We’re still not 100% on this though, and always end up reverting to our super-dark Sephora eyeliner, which never, ever, ever smudges. Who has some better ideas? Than actually, er, giving up?

Er, Olsen Twin, and More Importantly, Her Sunglasses

09.25.2007

Honestly, we’re not even sure which one this is, and we are sure we care even less. Hmm. We generally find them, as a unit, to a bit (“bit”) purposeless, but today, one of the Olsen twins has deeply affected our lives, because after we saw this picture, we decided that we needed red-framed sunglasses. Previously we have been of the opinion that they were a little too Sally Jessy, if you will, and if we remember correctly, but now we are all up in that. As it were.

Anyhoo! Ksubi sunglasses, $225

Muddy Season

09.25.2007

So it’s no secret that we like boots. If it is under 80 degrees, we are wearing one of the four pair(s) that we own – 2 black, 1 brown, 1 red. Over skinny jeans. However, we were thrown for a loop when someone we loved asked us if we would start spectating at his cyclocross bike races. The kind of racing is key because, unlike most other forms of bike racing, it’s all about being dirty. Muddy. Filthy.

We have never minded being dirty. We used to make mudpies in the front garden, we have run barefoot through ponds that are little more than big globs of mud. We went to an outdoor music festival and wore a trashbag (lifted from the venue trashcan, no less) when it rained. But, as we’ve gotten older, getting filthy just doesn’t appeal to us as much. We would rather be clean, and generally, we do not get along with nature.

But, we are good sports, and it is rare that our loved one asks us really, for anything. So. Gamely we’ve put on old jeans and a longsleeve shirt. The one thing we do need, though, are boots. Boots for mud. And wet. And cool weather.

Our favorites are the classic Hunter wellies. But $100 for rubber boots that are unlined seems high. Still, though. We might feel a little more glamorous with them.

Hunter Wellies, $98

These Marc by Marc Jacobs boots are functional, clearly not trying to be Wellies (as many other rubber rain boots do), and we like the light color. The price tag, not so much.

MXMJ Rain Boots, $193.95

We lied up there. These LL Bean Bean Boots are our favorite. You can get them lined or unlined, which is kind of awesome. We’ll be getting the Thinsulate-lined Gortex version. Sure, they’re not cheap – but you know they’ll last you a million years. We look for a pair every time we’re in the LL Bean outlet, but we’re buying a pair for the rainy season BEFORE it starts this year. We’ll still wear our boots-that-shall-not-be-named when we’re cold and looking for something to that feels like teddy bears to slip on, but for serious weather, and for looking good, we’re wearing these.

Bean Boots, $139.95

-LB

Canada Week: Tobias Wong

09.25.2007

Tobias Wong always struck us as kind of a dick (9/11-inspired boxcutters? er, shut up) but when he’s not being all aggro he’s so clever. (He’s the one who did the Burberry pins that Burberry first hated and then loved when they realized it made them look all punk rock.) Anyway: These are design objets, if you will, rather than merely … design objects. Oh, the difference in meaning a “c” can lend.

We do sort of want this chandelier. It’s a real crystal chandelier, underneath that industrial white rubber. TW chandelier, $4500

This is slightly more affordable. That rose is officially “bullet-proof”—”made of black heavy-duty ballistic nylon.” So … there. We guess. TW ballistic rose, $175

Hurrah, Belts (Again)

09.25.2007

Belts! We have been talking about belts practically non-stop these days, and that is because they are, to our view, utterly ubiquitous. Lately we have been doing this thing where we’ll say to ourselves something like, “Belts outside the coat? And how is this done?” and then going and finding photographic evidence of it actually being done. As above, at Burberry Prorsum. We are thinking that all we need to do this is (a) a belt and (b) a nice coat. Well, we’re waiting for (b). But: belts!

Here’s the original version. Burberry Prorsum quilted belt, $275

We don’t know. It just seems so freaking random to have a belt around your coat. Doesn’t that look a bit random? We’ll, you know, play along. But we maintain that it’s random.

Marc by Marc Jacobs webbing belt, $98

New Favorite Store: Fishs Eddy

09.24.2007

We were recently in New York with Dear Friend, and as we were running up Broadway (looking for cupcakes), DF asked if we’d ever been in Fishs Eddy. Now, as we have mentioned, we have a background in home products, and included in that is dinnerware. Upon meeting our old boss, he taught us how to tell difference between porcelain, ceramic, and stoneware by breaking it and licking it. Seriously.

So we’re generally non-plussed by table things, and we’d almost always rather have a cupcake than anything else. But Fishs Eddy caught our attention, and we went in. We were so excited about it that when Dear Friend turned the corner to walk out, we had a huge stupid smile on our face at the prospect of there being more to see! Then we almost fell onto the sidewalk. DF had walked out of the store, as there was no more to see. But anyway. Here are our favorite picks, but if anyone is in, around, or going to be in or around Manhattan (specifically 19th and Broadway), we recommend stopping in. The store itself is just an excellent experience.

We love the Birds On a Wire Anything Cup. We have no idea what we’d do with it, perhaps hold change and pens on our desk. But it’s a nice reminder that pretty things can be found in an otherwise bleak view.

B.O.a.W cup, $6.36

Have we mentioned how much we love dogs? If we haven’t, it’s a lot. Like a LOT a lot. We started to write out how much we love them, but then we realized it made us sound like a crazy dog lady. So we’ll just say we were REALLY excited when we saw these bowls. They have illustrations of dogs doing tricks. They come in cat, too.

Dog Cereal Bowl, $10.95

Now, we realize these are plain white dinner plates. Maybe it’s our background, or our addiction to the Food Channel, but simply put – food will always look its best on a plain, white plate. Colors and patterns are neat, but the star of our meals is the food, not the plate. This is totally classic and simple, and we love it. We don’t recall picking this up in the store, but if it’s fairly durable, we’re buying 8 of these next time we’re in town. They’re relatively inexpensive, too. Even better.

Brighter White Dinner Plate, $5.95

-LB

Suggestions!

09.24.2007

It’s time for a new discount. We’ll go by public vote. Please e-mail us or comment on whichever online boutique you would most like to have a discount. Er, at. Prepositions are such a pain. Anyway!

Above: This is from one of our favorites, and always so nice about giving us all a discount. That model is all, like, “May I please have a cupcake now.” Myolee sweater, was $136, now $68

Canada Week: Wildhagen

09.24.2007

We are truly indebted to the wonderful Canadians who bailed us out of a horribly Canadian-free hole. (Long story.) And so: Canada week! We are only hitting a few highlights of the vast and wooly nation, but we open with this—well, possibly very fucked up story, from Toronto’s Wildhagen. (A full recount is here.) We are thinking \ hoping they will not mind us reprinting their message here, and the photographic evidence:

Wildhagen introduced the Krys Cap for fall 2006. We sold over 150 in Canada and a few dozen in New York through Barney’s department store. The Gap introduced the Jockey Cap with wool detail for fall 2007. The Gap’s design and product development team located in New York City.

The Gap’s Jockey Cap is IDENTICAL in every respect to our Krys Cap. We are not flattered. We are a small business with a child and rent. Wildhagen will request fair compensation for our design.

Ooh, Gap, we hope you didn’t. In any case, we can clearly, if we choose, support Wildhagen and independent designers of Canada and elsewhere.

E-mail them for more hat information, or just stop in their shop: 575 Queen St. West 2nd fl, Toronto.

Reader Mail: The Kate Bosworth Dilemma

09.24.2007

In today’s Reader Mail:

Look! It’s Kate Bosworth. And she’s wearing high-waisted denim. What do you think? What does everyone think? What sort of jeans should I be wearing for fall?

XO
J.

Well, we’re of the opinion that selection of jeans, more than any other item of clothing, should be dictated by what suits—and thus remains completely aside from the question of trends. They’re just too tricky, in our opinion, to go willy-nilly swapping flare for skinny for high-waist just because Kate Bosworth is doing it. We’re impressed and everything that she has the two different colored eyes, but beyond that, we don’t know that we’re necessarily looking to her as honest-to-goodness inspiration.

So: We’ll be wearing the same skinny jeans we wore last year—just because it’s as close as we can get to going out with bare legs without actually being bare-legged in the middle of winter.

For 18th Amendments like Kate’s, try these: 18th Amendment Bacalls, $218

We, meanwhile, will very happily be wearing our Hudson straight legs ($154).

What is everyone else wearing, denim-wise, this fall?

Our $500 Shopbop Raffle!

09.21.2007

We remind! Our $500(!!) Shopbop giveaway! Or actually, raffle. Just click on that “Donate” button vaguely to the left, and maybe up a bit, and for every $5 you donate to two amazing charities—Send-a-Cow and Mercy Corps Mongolia—you’ll get one ticket. And then we will have an actual, honest-to-God raffle on October 9. (Date picked randomly.)

If you won our $500 raffle, you could buy the Theory dress above: Theory dress, $315

…and still have money left over for these:

Dolce Vita patent pumps, $41.40 (which is really a great price no matter what….)

And still have money for these! Susana Monaco tube dress, $31.80; T-Bags print dress, $86

And still have money left! One ticket = $5 donation. Just click on that box. And we’ll love you forever!

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