Wearing:

When a two-hour morning meeting turned into an all-day marathon, I didn’t have time to go home and refresh my face for a movie premier I was hitting.  Instead, I ducked into a downtown drugstore, picked out eyeshadows recommended by Beautypedia.com‘s cosmetic cop.

I’ve since played with Physicians Formula’s matte collection “Canyon Classics” quad eye shadow, which can create a soft, smoky eye, and REVLON Colorstay 16-Hour “Moonlit” eyeshadow quad, which is creaseproof for at least four of the hours advertised — but nothing comes close to the super fine pigments that Senna Cosmetics creates. I just tried Senna Cosmetics Glow Eye Shadow in “Arabesque,” and any other eyeshadow feels like a gritty glitter compared to the soft shimmers Senna offers…

Wanting:

These Eileen Fisher espadrille ballerina flats may seem ridiculously priced for rope slippers, until you consider that they’ve carefully crafted leather soles, that their minimalist shape is a sophisticated contrast to the classical Chinese shoes they echo, and that with the exchange rate, those 15-Euros espadrilles I buy in Cannes really cost 15,000 US rubles.

Hating:

Normally products with unavoidable advertisements cost less than their more elegant competitors…

Wearing:

Coming in the colors of the Italian Riviera — bright blue like the Ligurian Sea, sandy taupe like the cliffs crumbling into the coast, burnt orange like the sun setting on a rusty villa — , are these ballerina espadrilles the perf shoes for wandering around the hiking trails of Cinque Terre this summer?

Maybe…

Wanting:

1990s reissue of Cathy Latham’s 1965 “Les Clefs” silk scarf for Hermes…

Wearing:

Hermes “Oiseaux Migrateurs” by Cathy Latham Hermes scarf

There are a million and one ways to work an Hermes scarf, and one of the best includes tying it around your 99-lb. German Shepherd Major Dukes.

Dry cleaners are particularly fond of this style…

Wearing:

I just bought my third pair of handmade-in-Paris François Pinton “Jacky 2″ sunglasses — the tortoiseshell, center — , which I’ve been wearing everyday for five years.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was right: a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, and a wise steadfastness the spirit of hot chicks…

Hating:

Like my François Pinton “Jacky 2″ sunglasses, the Nina Ricci 3203 is an exact reproduction of original frames Jackie Kennedy Onassis wore (on January 30, 1978, at the Robert F. Kennedy Pro Celebrity Tennis Tournament).

Unlike my Francois Pinton “Jacky 3″ sunglasses, the Nina Ricci 3203 looks like an exact reproduction of original frames Jackie Kennedy Onassis wore on January 30, 1978…

Using:

You could buy a 2.5 ounces of easy-to-use, mess-free squeezable tube of Vaseline for $2, but –

Why would you, when you could pay twice as much for less than half the amount of petroleum jelly, packaged in a slightly inconvenient, incredibly beguiling, miniature Vaseline jar?

Note: White gold pinkie “K” ring and yellow gold President watch are for size comparison and vacuous aspirational marketing purposes only; while these items may easily be confused with props in a pre-The Blueprint 3 Jay-Z music video, they are not included with purchase of miniature Vaseline jar, even though said Vaseline jar may be mentioned in lyrics that may referencing a person being a “CE ho, not CEO” and may or may not be perceived as sexually demeaning in audio of said music video.

Wanting:

Even though I’ve gone borderline granola, shampooing with an ultra gentle baby wash, conditioning my hair and taming frizz with virgin coconut oil, and playing up the natural wave of my hair, part of caring for my bed-head burgundy bob requires blow drying my side-swept bangs straight, drenching them with old school, ozone-depleting hairspray, blow drying my bangs straight again, and repeating this process until the air is lightly scented with scorched hair.

Works every time, with results repelling Honolulu’s humidity.

Still, I’m curious about this John Frieda Frizz-Ease 3-Day Straight Semi-Permanent Styling Spray — it could be a healthier alternative for my hair, and our Mother Earth.  Perhaps I’ll pick some up at the local drugstore.  It’s only five minutes away, and has got a great parking lot for doing donuts in my Porsche C4S…