lipstick, perfume, pearls, cashmere

lipstick, perfume, pearls, cashmere
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From: Erminia - view profile
Date: Sun, Jul 15 2001 4:42 pm
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Lipstick, perfume, pearls, cashmere.
From the time I was very, very small, these things have had an amazing hold
on me. Like when I was two or three!

so, I've given in.

I now have more cashmere sweaters than I could possibly wear out. I have to
remind myself of this from time to time, now that the prices have come down.
Even so, I see a new color and *must* have it! I wil go without books for a
fabulous cashmere sweater! that's how bad i am.

I now have more perfume than most women could imagine. It is quite a
collection. Not as extensive as the collections of other women on this
other list I belong to. but certainly more than my own mother ever had.

(she didn't have any cashmere sweaters either.)

Pearls. pearls do something to me. i once wandered in to a bead shop in
D.C. Big mistake! they had the most marvelous shapes of pearls! I bought
some. i haven't done anything with them yet. so far, it is enough to take
them out and look at them.

Lipstick. ohhhh. this is the only cosmetic i wear regularly. Several years
ago i discovered that the right color lipstick wil brighten up my whole face
in a way that very little else will. (The right strand of pearls maybe?)
Gawd, lipstick is sexy! Everything about it -- the way the tube swivels up
and down, the colors, the effect on one's face, the act of putting it on.
Have you ever seen what happens when a woman puts it on in public, in a
restaurant, say? all the men watch. they can't help it, poor things!
Lipstick is symbol of power of a very special kind. Only a fully grown
woman can wear it properly; on young girls it just looks odd -- like
theatre make-up. A woman needs to be very comfortable with her own
sexuality before she's able to carry off real lipstick, not lipgloss or any
of that other gunk.

[yeah, the ivillage quizzes got me thinking.]

Ermina