Do we love these J. Crew neckalces as much as the Anthropologie necklaces? We were going to say no—but we think, in fact, that we do! Much less diversity, obvs, but this whole elaborate vintage-y, costume-y, multi-stranded jewelry thing—we love it. This is true also, but not only, of the Fenton/ Fallon for J. Crew collection, which is pricier, and which we’ll talk about in more detail next week. Until then, our favorite is a cheap, multi-strand one ($38) not currently available online. After that, our favorite is this:
It’s the chain and crystal twist necklace, with 18K gold-plated and hematite-plated chains, $98
See all of our BS Hearts here.
Generally we are against oily things. We want to extend that to include some sort of anti-BP rhetoric, but that’s nothing anyone hasn’t heard already, so we will restrict ourselves to oily skincare products: We are, generally, equally anti. This is our one exception: Bobbi Brown’s Beach Body Oil. We don’t know how they came up with the fragrance, but it’s literally—literally!—the smell on your skin after you spent the whole day at the beach, and your sunscreen’s sort of mixed with salt in the water, and there’s this crazy alchemy and it smells awesome. This is more or less exactly that smell.
The BB Beach fragrance, which is similar, says that it has the fragrance of “a lightly intoxicating blend of sand jasmine, sea spray, and mandarin.” This seems impossible to us: How could it be possible that anything could smell like sea spray? It’s like smelling like hope, or a bad day. And yet it is so. This smells pretty much the same, and in the oil formulation, stays on the skin for ages. Our number one irritation with fragrance is that you walk out the store (er, because you tried it on at Sephora, rather than purchase it) and five minutes later it’s completely gone. Not so, Bobbi Brown Beach Body Oil: We kept smelling our upper arm on the 90-minute drive from IKEA to Brooklyn this weekend (that’s 15 miles in 90 minutes, for the record) and it stayed strong.
Also, it makes your skin shiny. This, we realize, could be a plus or a minus, but we’re going with the former, at least for summer. Love. Bobbi Brown Beach Body Oil, $28
See all of our official BS Hearts items here.
Honestly, that tiny little Olivia bag is like $12 of happiness. We love LeSportsac. We’re not sure if it’s our Vera Bradley (like, other people see it and are like, “What the fuck is that girl thinking?” but we just want like every piece in the line. Also, it is our favorite shop at the Woodbury Common outlet center (and please do see our three-part round-up of our favorite stores there) because there are many Olivias—regularly $20, but everything’s 40% off there, so $12!
If you can’t get to Woodbury Common—$20 isn’t much for this level of tiny organization. It fits: our camera, our iPod, and our Metrocard, plus there’s a key ring for our (you guessed it) keys, and even our bear whistle! Dreamy.
This is the Olivia in the “Smarty” print, $20. Recommended!
We are really curious what people think about LeSportsac. And Vera Bradley.
We love Lula magazine in the most helpless, ridiculous way—true love, high-school style. Honestly. We’re shaking our head. But what we would like to point out, in particular, is the existence of the Lula Scrapbook, which is sort of an online compendium of quite possibly the most beautiful images anywhere—like this one, above, by artist and writer Mercedes Helnwein, taking on “an Appalachian road.” We could literally not recommend more highly. Posts don’t come every day, but when they do, they’re always interesting.
Honestly. Look away. We’re embarrassing ourselves. (But don’t miss it!) Ugh, we feel like we’re 14, and recommending our boyfriend’s band. Because we love it that much. Sheesh.
Honestly, we haven’t looked at this site in ages, but now we are well and truly—well, “obsessed” is too strong a word, but pleased to use ShopStyle. We are finding it most useful for comparing sale items—like these two above! Amazing—that’s a difference of $76! (Interesting note: We saw this same shirt at the Chloe outlet at Woodbury Common for—if we remember correctly—$180.) We’re skeptical of basically any technological “innovation” that says it’ll make our life easier, but this may actually do it.
We don’t love the “community looks” section—warmed-over Polyvore, in our opinion—but as a shopping search engine, we’re into it. What we do like are two things in particular: The search-by-designer feature seems to bring up lots of stuff we want—here’s the Orla Kiely section:
and we’re into this sale alert (on one specific item):
We feel obliged to mention that we are not on their payroll. But: we like! This Internet thing, it’s totally going to take off.
