on the lips: Tom Ford lipstick in Wild Ginger

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Are you seeing this color?

[The packaging we have covered already. Sleek. Luxe. Weighty. Fine.]

Red was the point of departure but we’ve made a detour into burnt sienna territory, with a deep tangerine the color of some massive Hawaiian flower coming out on the lips.

Wild Ginger is a great name, too. [I love ginger.] Will wear it for you sometime.

Tom Ford is a genius*, a genius, a genius.

*I strongly suggest watching a slideshow of Gucci’s 2004 Fall RTW line (linked here). Some of the most gorgeous dresses I have ever seen. This is how some of my more powerful and influential alter-egos want to dress.

This was my summer gift to my lips. Later I’ll show you what I got my cheekbones.

white on white on white

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So…I got more than one wig. I knew I wanted an asymmetrical bob like this, and, though it looks dyed (that is, the color doesn’t look natural), it is actually not far off my hair color and is as such not too bizarre looking on me. At least, not if you don’t already know what I’m meant to look like. This was my second attempt at finding an asymmetrical bob style, the first being much darker and simply awful. [Not easy trying to select the style or the color of a wig online, and I can’t recommend it. The return policies are as unforgiving as you would imagine.]

What do you think? I really like it.

The difference is so transforming. I doubt I would even be recognized, or not right away. I love this about fashion and makeup and all the subcategories of style. You can achieve a look that nature wouldn’t allow, liberating you from yourself while (potentially) at once expanding your idea of self, multiplying the variations of self.

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White, white, white. I can’t have too much white. And yes, we know how I like bikini tops (you’ll recognize this one from this bikini of the day), and white buttoned shirts.

This is my idea (rather, one of my ideas) of a great summer uniform. I have this theory that as long as my navel is obscured, it isn’t able to create that unforgiving halo around my stomach that it really does seem to.

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Victoria’s Secret triangle top, Banana Republic button-up, Ray-Ban aviators, Paris Blues shorts, HairDo Angled Cut wig, vintage Timex watch.

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