Wanting.

Tweezerman makes a travel set of a nail file, cuticle push, and cuticle trimmers.  Besides this being great for your morning-after bag, the Tweezerman travel kit is a good value…

Using.

I bought these travel Tweezerman tweezers less because their half the size of tweezers, and more because they were half the price…

Hating.

I don’t care if this Tweezerman tweezer kit would give me gorgeous eyebrows like a Korean soap opera star. Such a pukey, pink paisley…

Wanting.

Hope Springs is a midcentury modern spa in the Desert Hot Springs, the sister town to Palm Springs, CA. Their 10 rooms are filled with Jetson arm chairs, their three pools are filled with mineral water…

Using.

The only hotel in the area to be in Travel + Leisure’s hotel issue and Taschen’s The Spa Book,  Sagewater Spa is simple: billion-count-thread sheets, home-baked coffee cake when you arrive, and a hot tub and pool gurgling mineral water from a nearby well. A steady 90° F, Sagewater Spa water is like walking into air, only better…

Hating.

Living Water Spa is a “European-style, clothing-optional mineral water spa.” Seeing that I barely enjoy the average person clothed, how is sharing a pool with naked strangers a getaway? If anything, that’s some nightmare version of public life…

Wanting.

I love that sapphire blue of this Alstermo Bruk attache. Only issue? It’s basically a box lined in linen, so I’m not sure how my MacBook would do in there…

Using.

I finally got my Alstermo Bruk cabin case. Alstermo Bruk began before Globe Trotter luxury luggage and it’s got the same vibe, for a third of the price: handcrafted, ultra-light elegance. Alstermo Bruk’s AMO-fiber^®, the patented material their luggage is made out of, is better than I thought: it’s got a subtle, snakeskinny texture…

Hating.

Cute briefcase, but Alstermo Bruk’s best work is in their AMO-fiber^®…

Wanting.

I love so elegant a bag roughed up and large. This Hermes travel bag is impractical, but sexy enough so I don’t care. Women, take note in terms of style. And your own personality…

Using.

I’ve been eying this Hermes travel bag for years, literally. I love that hidden-in-plain-sight jewelry box in the bottom…

Hating.

This Hermes travel bag is a caricature of a Birkin. There’s no sprezzatura: it’s not playful enough to be cheeky, not careless enough to be cool, not formed right for even function…

Wanting.

Alstermo Bruk handmakes luggage like luxury travel gear Globe Trotter — for less than half the price. Alstermo Bruk is hardly a knock-off, though: the Swedish company has been making their patented gear since 1804 (that’s 93 years pre-Globe Trotter, and 200+ years pre-Globe Trotter at J Crew)….

Using.

Perfect for stashing makeup on the bathroom counter…

Hating.

Alstermo Bruk’s appeal is in their function-meets-form elegance, not a nutty pattern…

Staying.

I’m hitting Vegas for CES trade show, so I’m checking out the new Encore.

For all of the Wynn’s obvious, overstated beauty, there’s something tongue in cheek about its decor that makes it elegant. I wonder if Encore has the same vibe…

Eating.

One of five restaurants in Encore, the walls of Switch float around so the ambience and layout change with your course.

Described as chef Marc Poidevin’s “French-inspired seafood and postmodern steakhouse,” the food so far looks like an ideal woman: equally beautiful and delicious…

Hating.

It’s actually colder in Vegas than in LA. So much for running around in Nippies and Lucite platforms; I brought a sweater coat.

Perfect cover for plane rides and casino’s ACs, for work and play, it’s also probably on sale at Vegas’s Intermix…

Wanting.

When I visited the Porsche store at Two Rodeo, the publicists schooled me that all the gear was designed in house: even the pens aren’t licensed. And when you feel product like this Porsche PTS luggage, you can tell.

I love the elegance of economy in Porsche design, and when your 69-year-old, billionaire boyfriend buys you a Turbo, you’ll find out how Porsche luggage perfectly fits into the cars…

Using.

That Porsche “Carfit” luggage wheels have Carrera rims is a little cheese. But I love that ultra basic ballistic nylon, the lightness, and–

That Porsche luggage is a great ice breaker with Korean businessmen when you’re laid over in Seoul…

Hating.

Somehow that airbrushed Porsche duffle doesn’t match the minimalist Porsche design I’m drawn to…

Wanting.

“Crisis in confidence” and “big bailout”? Sounds vulgar. If you’re under 25 years and 100 lbs., pack this and move to Monte Carlo — you’ve got a chance to snare a Baltic billionaire…

Using.

Very basic, but Bond. I’m not sure if it’s the best luggage, but it’s some of the best-looking. And if you’re female, how aren’t those two terms interchangeable? Well priced on eBay, click…

Hating.

Boring, boorish design, and way overpriced. What’s practical about this Louis luggage? It looks big enough to fit the buyer’s lack of taste, and it’s so baller-on-a-budget no one will steal it…

Wanting.

I’m not a whore for many brands, but I’d buy NARS toilet paper…

Using.

Sales chicks at Sephora are more honest than Jesus. This’ll cut blow time in half…

Hating.

Tres cute, if you’re seven. Does mommy let you take the flying bus alone…

Wanting.

If I owned more jewelry than a cameo my gramma gave me, a beautiful Teslar watch, a “K” necklace, and a medical alert bracelet, I’d have ordered this…

Wearing.

Or “dragging onto the flying bus.” I stuffed a MacBook Pro, The Bonfire of Vanities, iPhone, NARS powder, and a small third-world adoptee into this…

Hating.

This bag begs, “Steal me.” Unless you’re a dude looking to get laid by a Russian model, why would you pay thousands of dollars to be inconvenienced…