In today’s reader-submitted Bunnyshop Hearts!

i present to you the only makeup i wear (and I generally look the same at night as I do in the morning, meaning this stuff lasts all freaking day):

Benefit Realness of Concealness ($30)
Seems like a lot for sample sizes, but everything is the right color/consistency (except the lip plumper, but whatever) and it fits in my bag.

Sonia Kashuk Cheek Sheer in Beachbabe ($7.99)
Good for washed-out blondes (holla!) high on the cheekbones.

Kiss Me Mascara
Again, expensive, but the only mascara I’ve ever come close to finishing. Never any clumping/smudging, and even though I’m going blind from computer eye strain and always messing with my eyes, only minor flakeage every once in a while.

sincerely, L.

We love these!

1. MIA’s Kala. We heard this in Forever 21 and are counting the days to utter ubiquity. "Paper Planes" has got to be our favorite song of the summer. (Of 2008.) Honestly. It’s more summer than Ignition!
 

2. The Field’s From Here We Go To Sublime. And this is the album we got a $400 speeding ticket to.

3. The National’s Boxer. This was one of our most-requested on a recent day trip to D.C. Sort of makes you feel like crawling into a box and crying, but in a good way.
 

4. Carla Bruni’s Quelqu’un M’a Dit. Especially now that she’s going to be, like, the first lady of France.
 

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We know we have talked about how we are going to stop shopping here. We know that we have pledged to only buy things we need. We also know that we have talked (a lot, actually) about how much we find on eBay and what a great deal we’ve got.

Well, we found another great deal last night. It’s a slightly self-congratulatory present, a little bit in advance of some things coming through, or a consolation prize if they don’t. We’d never even thought to look for this bag on eBay, and we don’t know why not! Any regular reader will recognize the Anna Corinna, now Corinna + Foley City Tote. We post it like once every two weeks.

Last night? One became ours, and we are slightly aghast at how much we paid. We will say it was significantly lower than the retail, but slightly above our car payment. So. We want to know from you – what’s the most you’ve ever spent on something fashion related? Did you regret it? We think we’re a lot quicker to buy things now than we were because if we don’t like it, we can just sell it.

We’ve got no prizes to give, but we are really interested in hearing about your most expensive things! We also note the complete irony in this coming like three days after a post about tightening purse strings. Which we are doing. Starting now.

Foley + Corinna Mini City Tote, $413

-LB

We really hope this one is good, because we completely skipped the last few (Alice Temperley, Erin Featherstone, etc.) Saw this in the new Harper’s Bazaar. We think we like those shorts! And only $24.99.

Much cheaper than this, which is what we are liking best from their current sale. Full skirts and small tops are our aim for spring.

Jovovich-Hawk skirt, was $334, now $200.40

American Apparel on sale! We were thinking the other day about how we have moral qualms about both Abercrombie and AA, but how Abercrombie have always seemed to us like a bunch of racist twats, while the AA thing just very pervy and dirty, but how apparently we can live with the latter and not the former. These are online-only prices, by the way.

Anyway: tank tops on sale! Stock up, we’re thinking. We can never have too many tank tops. Tank top (unisex, so order a size down), was $15, now $10

And this, for the record, is the sort of outfit our stylist last year suggested wearing to a company picnic. We miss her so. Velour romper, was $38, now $19

In today’s Reader Mail!

Dearest BS,

We are coping with Cincinnati’s 20 degree weather this week by planning our spring wardrobe. We’re loving this dress trend, and are all about fun, flowing dresses with pockets on the sides this spring. Particularly this Diane von Furstenberg number. Can we say gorgeous? Yes, we can.

Alas, it lies out of our reach, as we are trying to save money for our future world travels. Can you aid us in our search for something a tad more reasonable?

Much love,
-J. in Cincy

Oh! We love Cincinnati! Maybe we will have our next Bunnyshop swap there. We are longtime visitors, specifically in what we believe is the Kenwood area. And our favorite thing about it: obviously, the Gold Star Chili, and stopping there at midnight, and going home to our bestest-type friend Nicole’s house and watching Project Runway.

Anyway! There is nothing in the entire world we recommend saving money for, more than future world travels—we’re doing the same thing ourselves. And then, in the meantime, the need to wear clothes. Preferably cute clothes, and, in this case, clothes with pockets. We really like that dress above. This was an incredibly hard bill to fill. We did our best.

We just saw a dress in Forever 21 that looked almost exactly like this dress—this one, unbelievably, was not it, and is only in second place. Broken dot tube dress, $24.80. But of course it misses the point, which is about pockets.

We like this one, but it’s just about as much. Tucker pocket dress, $330

We are really having a hard time finding dresses that fit this bill. Bizarrely, this is one of the ones we like most. Puella pocket dress, was $110, now $55

This one isn’t as fun, but it’s a bit closer, we think. Sunner dress, was $233, now $117

This is ridiculously short. So: just our favorite thing! (Especially, maybe, with black pants \ tights for winter.) It’s hard to see but there definitely are pockets. Guy Baxter dress, was $391, now $196

Very springtime, but we love that yellow, and maybe they could be successfully layered-up. Armani Exchange pleated smock dress with pockets, $130

This fits a bit strange but we still love it—we’re buying this when we get paid. At $36, we can take the risk. American Apparel pocket dress, $36

So! We’ve received some wonderful things in the mail lately, and because we try not to be greedy little monsters, we’re putting them all together in a big box for winning. This box will include:

1: Two cans of Nutrisoda soda
2: One Madewell t-shirt
3: One bottle of amazing matte gray ManGlaze nail polish
4: And the newest addition: one tin of Embittermints mints, which are so delicious that we received like a half-dozen tins, and might have eaten our way through two if we were not slightly more restrained than we were worried we were. If that makes sense. Anyway: We successfully kept ourselves from gobbling them all up, because they are a much, much more delicious alternative to those horrible sugar Valentine’s Day things that are all like "Kiss Me" or whatever. We prefer these, which say things like "Idiot." Man, Valentine’s Day is so annoying.

Anyhoo: the contest. We ask anyone who would like to win this amazing box to send us an email with the following:

1: Your favorite TV show
2: Your favorite book
3: What you love for an upcoming Bunnyshop Hearts. This can be totally bizarre or unknown or off the wall or whatever.

Winner pulled randomly on Friday. We will say, because we have been forgetting to, that past winner have been notified, except for Ms. Fab, whom we currently owe a Madewell t-shirt and should send us her address at her convenience.

We will of course be using the answers to #3 for future BS Hearts. Collective intelligence! So much better than ours, alone. And of course! We will be asking for reviews on the products. It’s a bit work-intensive for a contest, but we guess that’s how we’re rolling these days.

Embittermints mints, $2.50 per tin—buy them online or at Mxyplyzyk

This is one of our favorite things we’ve ever seen, and we’re so happy we just found it on YouTube. If you don’t know these guys—well, actually, the blond in the video, plus his partner, who’s not in this skit—they make the amazingly funny Peep Show, and they’re actually the Mac and PC guys in the U.K. Hurrah!

Because we have been thinking: "We really need something where we can give out stars!"

Beauty product: Cupid’s Bow Lovely Lip Shaping Set

What Sephora says its does: "Play up your pout with this lovely lip shaping set! Want a fuller effect? Highlight the area above your cupid’s bow with the bow maker and define by shading beneath your lower lip with the pout shaper."

What we think: Okay, so we still have no idea how this works, and we tried very hard at it. Here is some more information: "Use the dual-ended pencil to highlight & shade, and the dual-ended applicator for precision application. Our step-by-step lovely lip-shaping lesson makes it as easy as blowing a kiss." But it was not easy! It was hard! Maybe we’re morons, but we found the lesson … let’s say, non-explicative. So we used the shading part, and then the highlighting part, and there was barely any difference, and it felt like quite a bit of work, and honestly, we found whole thing rather overwhelming and pointless.

Stars(!): * * . And that second one is (a) half because we generally love Benefit so much, and half because we’re definitely not above thinking that we’re the big idiots here.
Benefit Cupid’s Bow Lovely Lip Shaping Set, $28

The previous Beauty Review: Dior Lip Maximizer

We’re so thinking about denim dresses this week, after last Wednesday’s amazing Ricky-wins Project Runway victory(!). We sort of love Ricky, we do, even if he is crying all the time. (His dress, by the way, sold out at Levi’s.) If we had to pick the designers we liked to make the finals, we’d pick—well, Sweet Pea and Chris. If we had to pick the ones we think will make it, Rami, Jillian, and Christian. And what we’re hoping for: Jillian, Ricky—just because we love the idea that he now like totally turns it up—and … we guess Rami. We’d so be psyched if Ricky go it together around now. He’s safe this week, so his chances, we’re thinking, are much higher than we would have thought.

Anyway! This dress. We freaking love it. Checkers denim shirtdress, was $295, now $198