Thursday: Louboutin linen peeptoes

I don’t know what it is about my skin, or my tear ducts, or what, but it seems like the minute I leave the house in the morning my eye makeup starts seeping down, pooling under my lower lashes. By noon I either look like Robert Smith from The Cure or your local friendly raccoon. It drives me crazy, having to Q-tip off the rings under my eyes every few hours. And for years I just couldn’t figure out how to fix it: I’ve switched to waterproof mascaras, I’ve tried less rich eye creams… Nothing worked.

But I think I may have finally found a solution. I was at the Bobbi Brown counter at Saks waiting to buy moisturizer (love the SPF 25!) when I spied some little glass pots with all these pretty pigments in them. Eureka! Long-wear cream shadows! You paint it on, the saleswoman said, and it won’t peel off. Brilliant! Of course I had to take some home — as well as some long-wear gel eyeliner (same principle — takes a licking, keeps on sticking). And I’m happy to report: No more ring around the eyesies!

Of course, now I’m in the market for some extra heavy duty eye makeup remover…

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Tuesday: navy Manolo low D'Orsays

Fall is coming — I can feel it in my bones. Even though I’ve been out of school for yeeeeeeaaaaaarrrrrrrs (please don’t ask how many), I still have this internal clock that tells me every August, just before Labor Day, that it’s time for some back-to-school shopping. There’s an excitement in the air, a spring in my step. It doesn’t matter that brand-new crayons and Trapper Keepers have long been replaced by tweed skirts and cashmere capes.

One must-have that’s been an evergreen? A good pair of boots. (Yes, even when I lived in Texas.) This season I’m wracked with indecision; there are so many nice pairs from which to choose. There are, of course, these exquisite Valentino bow knee boots (they also come in taupe, at Saks). These Chloe tall buckle boots were calling out to me from the cover of the Saks catalog, and hey, they are black, and thus different enough to justify buying both pairs! And then there’s this hot little number: Louis Vuitton high boots with the most subtle monogram trim and the capability to be converted to thigh-highs. Very tempting indeed! I think, though, that the jury’s still out on these Louboutin platform wedge boots. Then again maybe it’s just a failure of imagination on my part. I need to buy some more fall clothes and actually live in them (or at least wear them in my air-conditioned apartment) for a while to figure out how they will fit into my life.

It’s kind of like that 128-box of Crayolas, you know? Too many choices, and all so spanking new and beautiful and untouched!

Technorati Tags: fall boots, Chloe, Christian Louboutin, Valentino, Louis Vuitton

Thursday: bronze Manolo D'Orsay heels

Well, it’s not quite that dramatic… Okay, come to think of it, maybe it is! One of Some Like It Haute’s readers is in dire need of help tracking down her holy grail of shoes: a pair of Prada leopard print ponyskin ankle strap pumps, the very ones I wrote about as my very first Prada shoe purchase.

So if you know where she might be able to find a pair in size 37-38 (mine are size 36.5, alas, in case you were wondering if I could choose beneficence over shoe hoarding), please post here! It’s a life or death matter! Okay, maybe not really, but these shoes are really really really important to someone. And we can all relate to that, can’t we?

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Tuesday: Prada snakeskin peeptoes

I was in Texas visiting the ‘rents this weekend, and since it was like 105 degrees, there wasn’t a whole lot to do outside. I mean it was so hot I couldn’t even bear to go from the air-conditioned house to the air-conditioned car to the air-conditioned mall. Those few dozen seconds outside between house and car and mall were more than a girl could take. Seriously!

So I found myself looking at old photo albums all weekend, and it was more than a walk down memory lane. It was a walk through five decades of fashion, from my mother’s wedding dress (which she made herself of crisp silk, with a nipped waist, key-hole collar and sleeves ending just above the wrist — my mom was quite the fashion plate) and white pencil skirts with white pumps from the early ’60s to my dad’s safari suits from the ’70s to the plaid skirts that my mom, my sisters and I all wore that Christmas in the early ’80s. (Our skirts may not have been as modern as Alexander McQueen’s for fall, but still!) And all those skinny/straight jeans… I didn’t even mind too much the grungy togs from the early ’90s. Thankfully, most of the Members Only-era pictures seem to have been misplaced at some point (and no, I didn’t burn them).

Now if only I could be as nostalgic about all my hair styles…

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Thursday: gold Jimmy Choo sandals

The September fashion magazines are coming, so my fall wardrobe can’t be far behind! On my trip to Barneys to buy some skinny — well, straight — jeans, I found other covetable items, some decidedly more affordable than others. (Yeah, that fur-trimmed Prada coat will have to wait…)

This Rebecca Taylor high-waisted skirt is super cute on, though I have doubts about that belt that comes with it. Put it in the “maybe” pile.

Then there were these Manolo Blahnik patent leather open-toe pumps, in a deep blood red. I’ve never been a fan of patent leather (something about grade school and boys looking at your underpants) but in red, these shoes were hot! Red truly is a good neutral to have — you can wear it with anything!

Imagine how fabulous they would look paired with this super chic black Barneys Collection coat dress…

Technorati Tags: fall clothes, Barneys, Manolo Blahnik, Rebecca Taylor