solange azagury-partridge - The Seventh Sphinx

After years (years!) of futile* hunting, I found a pair of knee high leather boots. The leather is gorgeously soft. You can’t quite see but they have a modest heel. They were destined to become best friends with this jacket.

*bootless…

Boots better folded up or down? Can’t decide…

This is my new favorite lip color thing.

So glad the weather for this jacket has finally come around again. Coach knee-high boots (thrifted), Allsaints Cargo leather jacket, Express leggings, J Crew Kiss Kiss tee, Solange Azagury-Partridge Hotlips ring (thrifted), Mulberry bag (thrifted), Spektre sunglasses. On the lips: Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick in Beso. This stuff is incredible, it goes on opaque in one intense layer and doesn’t move until you take a makeup remover to it (and it’s stubborn even then) or eat something greasy. This shade, Beso (the name fits the look, no?*), is a lot like MAC’s Russian Red lipstick, a deep, siren-worthy blue red.

*Got tons of compliments on this, and hardly ever get complimented on anything, honestly. A Northeast thing, I think. Even a smile is kind of uncommon on the street, though a certain kind of appreciative stare isn’t unheard of. Not that I am especially interested in feedback (I want to do whatever, wear whatever, because because because because because) but it can be interesting social data, what gets compliments. Even more so here in the land of reluctant social interaction. I realize I note compliments more consciously with perfume, for whatever reason.

Once in a while I find something I want in that genuine, doubtless way that means I will investigate acquisition, and once in a while that thing is expensive.

[More and more? A disturbing trend.]

Often I hold this thing up against other things I want and can see how it pales, and life is very simple then. A simple no. Sometimes it is in fact too expensive, and simply out of the question. This too, is easy. I am saved the expense of the very fine but not irresistible thing, and my desire for the comparison thing(s) is reinforced. Follow?

Sometimes, though (and–I suppose by definition?–rarely) it does not pale in comparison, but outshines all. And then I have to make calculations, and any sacrifices necessary, and outline a plan of acquisition. Because I have decided that someday it will be mine.

That is what happened with this ring from Solange Azagury-Partridge, which I got deeply discounted on eBay and which was still outrageously expensive. At least, for me, and my definition of expensive. I guess the line had a celebrity following a while ago (50% of the profits go to AIDS prevention in Africa), or maybe still do, but I just stumbled across one on eBay (and swooned), knowing nothing about them. Who cares about celebrities, anyhow? Either you want something or you don’t.

And I love it.

Almost as much as I love kisses.

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acquisitions: THIS RING