{"id":1001,"date":"2008-12-14T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2010-08-23T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T20:45:16","slug":"same-old-same-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/same-old-same-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Same Old, Same Old"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here I am a couple of days ago, in my Black Halo top, Acne jeans and Karl Lagerfeld shoes from 1994. My Prada Gaufre<\/a> bag is on the table. I’m standing in a hotel lobby.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And here I am in March 2008<\/a>, in my Black Halo top, Acne jeans and 1994 Karl Lagerfeld shoes. My Prada bag is on the table. I’m standing in the same hotel lobby.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s enough to make me wonder if I’m getting a little predictable!<\/p>\n

As for those Lagerfeld shoes, earlier that evening (the most recent evening, I mean, not the March evening) I was browsing the sale shoes at Neiman Marcus, and one of the saleswomen said, “I love those Lagerfeld shoes! I have the same ones.” When I disbelievingly said that they were over 10 years old, she said, “Yes, I’ve had them forever and I got them in red too!” So that was my little “you keep your shoes forever too?” bonding moment with a stranger for the month.<\/p>\n

Also in the recent photo, I’m wearing the Lancome red lipstick\/black gloss combo I posted about here<\/a>. It finally arrived. I found if you just put the tiniest amount of black gloss on, it gives the red a beautiful dimension, but as Jennine mentioned in her comment on my previous post, it did a hell of a lot of bleeding. The more gloss I used, the worst bleeding there was, of course. But what really annoyed me is that even without the gloss, the lipstick was migrating off my lips, which is something I don’t usually have a problem with. I’m disappointed with Lancome. I feel like they didn’t make a good effort to test the quality of their product. That’s why you should come shop my fine jewelry sale<\/a>. I personally wear-test everything to make sure, for instance, that the earrings are comfortable and that the lockets<\/a> stay closed. Get busy, people! You’re running out of time for holiday shopping. Remember, I still have one pair of the shoulder-dusting Cleopatra earrings in silver<\/a>. They’re long but amazingly lightweight. They’re not on the site yet, so if you’re interested, email me at wbjewelry at hotmail dot com.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cleopatra Earrings<\/span><\/span>
\n\u00a9 Wendy Brandes 2007-2009<\/span>
\nPhoto by John Muggenborg<\/span>
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Here I am a couple of days ago, in my Black Halo top, Acne jeans and Karl Lagerfeld shoes from 1994. My Prada Gaufre bag is on the table. I’m standing in a hotel lobby. And here I am in March 2008, in my Black Halo top, Acne jeans and 1994 Karl Lagerfeld shoes. My…<\/p>\n

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