What I bought today
Rachael Kenoyer
Happy Birthday, Jo! Check your email box for a grovelling note from
me, and check your snail mail box for a package in a week or so!
But to add to the subject line: Today I purchased a pair of Smegg
Magic boots---and I can hardly wait to get my hot little hands (and
great big feet) on them! I am absolutely ecstatic! <the crowd in my head
goes wild>
Of course, since I'm already 6' 1", I will now be Taller Than God...
~~Rachael
Lisa Van Every
> But to add to the subject line: Today I purchased a pair of Smegg
> Magic boots---and I can hardly wait to get my hot little hands (and
> great big feet) on them! I am absolutely ecstatic! <the crowd in my head
> goes wild>
I hate you. :) Congrats!
> Of course, since I'm already 6' 1", I will now be Taller Than God...
Great, now I'll feel even *more* like a teeny-tiny little slug around you...
Keeping up the thread, today I ordered a bunch of stuff from catalogs:
From Past Times: a book on art deco (to replace the one I gave to a
friend when I realized I'd *completely* forgotten his birthday...) and a
"Mad Bad & Dangerous to Know" t-shirt.
From Lillian Vernon: a set of pillar candles painted to look like
bamboo canes, and three little Japanese-style candle lanterns.
From Clifford & Wills: three square-neck tank tops, black, white and teal.
From Chadwick's: a silver-gray cotton twinset (mostly for on-air wear,
since they keep complaining I'm wearing stuff too dark), and a long
fit-and-flare gray knit cotton dress for warm weather.
Not a truly "goth" thing in the lot. But I'll make 'em goth.
Ice Princess
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"...enabling the wearer to languish and despair to best advantage"
--unofficial motto of goth fashion
Jo Styles
myself up.
*At Boots the Chemist*
I have a hankering for the fae water nymph look (unfortunately I
seem to end up more of a fairy heffalump), but I gave into the
temptations of the Bourjois Spring display, and got:-
- Pearl Eyeshadow in Vert Ondine - a shimmery white shot through with
pale green.
- Liquid Eyeliner in Anis - to match the shadow.
A whole loada Yardley stuff was on mega sale (Lipstick 1.25 UKP!!) so
I picked out:-
- Luxury Lip Colour, Very Violet - your basic standby dark berry.
- Lipsplash, Virtual - a sheer lilac.
- Lipsplash, Extravaganza - this is the big hit for me, a deep
matte red, with a 'beetle armour' depth to it. Feels very nice on
and wears well.
- Brush 'n' Blush, Purple Passion - bought to replace my Rimmel
Purple Rain Eyeshadow when it runs out, as it is an exact match -
hurrah!
*At Superdrug*
- a set of Jumbo Eye and Lip Pencils - pink, lilac, purple, cherry,
plum and violet. The last three colours are listed as lip pencils on
the packaging, but as the formulation is the same as the other three
I'm risking them as eye pencils too.
- batteries for the Furby.
*At Hennes*
- a peasanty summer dress - which I wore out that evening to go see
bands at a pub.
I think my personal shopping fairy godmother has returned :) Maybe
I'll try my luck at the second hand shops next week - thats if
Valkyrie hasn't snaffled all the good stuff as per usual!
Jo
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*** Alas, poor lipstick...***
Thessaly
"Kaleidoscope" panties - these actually come with matching Wonderbras, but
they don't make the Wonderbra in my size. They are very silly, trashy-looking
lamé panties on a sort of rainbow fade bg with holographic shimmer.
Warner's Marilyn Monroe bra in a red rose pattern... very pretty. They were
out of the matching undies. I really want tights that look like this bra...
it's an allover sheer redrose pattern. and it was free (buy one, get one free
- it WOULD have been $4).
Jockey sports bra and exercise shorts for Tae-Bo purposes (yes, I've fallen
too).
& I went to see The Matrix. & I liked it *a*lot*.
frogs and fishes from Thessaly
needs to build muscletone.
ANY muscletone.
--
Thessaly - http://www.gothic.net/~thessaly/
~~"I think it would be very foolish not to take
the irrational seriously." - J. Winterson~~
Oh, FAQ! - http://www.toreadors.com/gothfash
Valkyrie
: *At Hennes*
: - a peasanty summer dress - which I wore out that evening to go see
: bands at a pub.
Hang on, does that mean you were at the Rome Burns/Dream City Film Club
gig? *boggle* And I didn't see you!
: I think my personal shopping fairy godmother has returned :) Maybe
: I'll try my luck at the second hand shops next week - thats if
: Valkyrie hasn't snaffled all the good stuff as per usual!
You're in luck, I've been at work this week
I love Cambridge sometimes...
Valkyrie.
Jo Styles
>gig? *boggle* And I didn't see you!
I thought you might be there! Hell, you probably did see me - hard to
miss seeing anyone in such a small room. I'd give you a visual
description but I don't think it would help you much (black hair,
black dress, black boots - hmmmmm).
You aren't by any chance going to see The Damned tommorow are you?
I'd love to say hello some time. If you are, look out for someone in a
green tunic over black trousers, accompanied by a short baldy-headed
man (love him really! hehehe).
If not, we must meet for cake and shopping some time (shop, then
cake, then shop some more :)
>: I think my personal shopping fairy godmother has returned :) Maybe
>: I'll try my luck at the second hand shops next week - thats if
>: Valkyrie hasn't snaffled all the good stuff as per usual!
> You're in luck, I've been at work this week
>I love Cambridge sometimes...
I saw the sweetest little black velvet dress on the market today -
unfortunately 'little' being the pertinent word.
Jo
Ismene
weeks, and haven't posted about it. I can't remember most off the top
of my head, but the most significant is a navel piercing I got
belatedly for my 21st birthday. (I was broke then, and this is the
first time I've gathered up the money.)
Anyway....today I bought one of the L'oreal loose powder
shadows, the pink one. The powder shadows are on sale for $4.99 this
week at Walgreen's.
Ismene
Problems only goths have #123: standing too close to the space heater
and singeing the hem of your skirt.
"Let's go kick some people around. We have the shoes for it." -Sulevia
Repeated Fittings of SewingGoth
Gothgirl2k
It was 99 cents at the thrift store. One of my many thrift finds that I love.
the gothic princess<kendy>
I have the boots, the naughty background, and the desire to flirt with
everyone. Now can I be a Spice Girl?????
ICQ# 34063467
(Steal the tiara from my head to reply.)
Lucy Bond
On Monday:
That minty-green Bourjois liquid liner I've been wanting. When you dream
two night running about buying a particular eyeliner, you'd probably
better buy it...
A green crushed velvet short dress, 4.99 UKP
A short, full black crushed velvet skirt, 2.49 UKP
An electric blue stretch lace top with extra-short sleeves & eyelets
down the front which laces up! 3.49 UKP
A pack of cheap thermal socks, three pairs.
On Tuesday:
In another town, with my Mum, we trawled more charity shops where I
found:
A knee length black lycra dress with silver glitter dots, stretchy, but
with a full skirt & low neckline, 1.00 UKP!
A deep purpley-blue satin shirt with silver & pearl buttons, 1.00 UKP
A transparent green umbrella, new, 1.49 UKP
Some little-girl hair toggles with irredescent blue/purple plastic
flowers, 20p each
A kid's book on pirates, 25p
A fridge magnet of a vintage Bovril advert with a gourgeous gothy woman
on it, 69p
More thermal socks :)
Oh, & fondant fancies & bakewell tarts. Dessert at last :)
Lucy
--
"I stood naked in a dark & bleak eternity & filled it with my exultation"
Wynn Westcott (1848-1925)
Saiira
>
> I've had two days off & a bit of a cheap-shopping frenzy :)
>
> On Monday:
>
> That minty-green Bourjois liquid liner I've been wanting. When you dream
> two night running about buying a particular eyeliner, you'd probably
> better buy it...
I bought that, it's really good! :o) I also bought their blue lippie,
now, it's a great colour but I have managed to use it twice - secnd time
I used it the bastard snapped off at the base....*grrrrrrrr*
Saiira
Lucy Bond
Oho...I saw no blue lippie in either of the shops I've seen the new
displays in...
What kind of blue was it? Is this Blue Magie from the regular range or a
new blue in this display of water-nymph stuff?
If this is a new blue lippie, I must be away to make it *mine*
Sorry about yours :(
Can you do the squish-it-into-a-pot & use a lipbrush?
Lucy (Blue Lucy, as some people say round here...)
Lucy Bond
<Lu...@newaeonbooks.demon.co.uk> writes
>snip<
>>> That minty-green Bourjois liquid liner I've been wanting. When you dream
>>> two night running about buying a particular eyeliner, you'd probably
>>> better buy it...
>>
>>I bought that, it's really good! :o) I also bought their blue lippie,
>>now, it's a great colour but I have managed to use it twice - secnd time
>>I used it the bastard snapped off at the base....*grrrrrrrr*
>
>
>Oho...I saw no blue lippie in either of the shops I've seen the new
>displays in...
>snip<
Replying to myself, dearie me!
I went to a larger branch of Boots to check this out today & found two
new lipsticks I hadn't seen.
Not only a silvery blue (if rather thin & shimmery) but also a very
blue-lilac silvery colour :)
And they smell of roses!
I also found that as well as the green & blue pastel liquid liners,
there's a rather lovely lilac, not unlike the nice lilac liquid liner
that L'Oreal used to do :)
But I was seduced by that new Petunia stuff. Have you seen it?
I wrote about it in the thread entitled New Lurid Make-up, UK...
So I bought a Petunia blue liquid liner, 3.00UKP & a Petunia blue
glitter eyeshadow pot, 2.00UKP.
And a blue rose :)
Lucy
Ellen Milne
I was terribly excited to go into my local Bartell's ( Like Walgreens,
Rite-Aid etc, but a local northwest chain) to discover glitter sunscreen!
The small plastic bottle claims that it's 30 spf and it came in blue, green,
yellow, orange and a few others.
For $6 it seemed like it might be a good purchase and it glittered! And
it's sunscreen! (With my pale irish/scottish skin I start wearing sun screen
24/7)
Anyhow, so I brought it home and was severely disapointed by it's texture
and glitter coverage. It goes on oily and doesn't absorb into the skin at
all. The only way to get it to really rub into the skin completely
obliterates the glitter.
So easily sunburned glittergoths, just say no. The brand is Sungirl and the
label says it's made by a company called Natural Desires. "Your body will
sparkle as brilliantly as the sun." Cha right!
-e
Ellen Shannon Milne | I know you're out to change the world,
esm...@lucidesign.com | but...don't kill anyone, ok? .rr
Lucy Bond
The blue lipgloss, almost a lipstick, good blue
&
The green liquid liner, pearly emerald green :)
I need more.