Style Tips -- 16th June 2008
[ 16 June 2008 ]
Find a new fragrance for the season. LuckyScent is my favourite place to go for yummy scratch & sniff adventures — especially because they offer samples for an average of three dollars a pop. My picks? Mukhallat by Montale, Love by Kilian, Sienne l’Hiver by Eau d’Italie, pc02 by biehl perfumkunstwerke, Untitled #4 by Sarah Barton-King & The Exact Friction Of Stars by Pilar & Lucy (which I own & cherish — it is pure sex).
Buy a bubble gun. Use it mercilessly & inappropriately, with delight. (Inspired by this guy who I see regularly. Read the story!)
Wear something sparkly, get in the bath, pool or a big puddle, & have a mermaid photoshoot.
Throw a cocktail evening for your friends. Invite someone you don’t know. Tell everyone they won’t be allowed in unless they dress up! (If you’re underage, make delicious mocktails & get hyped up on sugar — I promise it is as least as fun as alcohol, if not more so!)
Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala
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the story about dante was so lovely that i’m going out to buy a bubble gun and attack the streets with bubbles in opera gloves and pearls! also, my winter scent is marc jacobs ‘violet’, which works really well on my skin – i feel a bit nymph-y!
hooray for style tips!!!
these used to be one of my favorite parts of Icing, and i was sad when they disappeared for a little while.
But now they are back…with a vengance.-
Gala, the Style Tips are one of my favourite things ever.
I’m moving in with my love on Tuesday, and I’m already planning our first big, fun, dress-up cocktail party.
I totally love the idea of a mermaid photo shoot. That is brilliant! :)
I love your 90’s New Rock Boots…I was just wondering if you could tell me what line they were apart of?
Thank you so much!
Mmmm Luckyscent . . . I had some L’Artisan Dzing once . . . . Lovely.
Miss Dior Cherie is amazing, adopted as my scent in January, i adore it
Oooh Gala, that’s right! Now that you’re in the States you can get Luckyscent stuff!!!! My favorite is Peppermint and Soleil de Capri. :D
hehehe, LOVE the mermaid photoshoot idea! and I usually make bubbles (the traditional way) inappropriately. Makes everyone mad but I always have so much fun!
Style Tips are my favorite too!
I love them! They’re just so random and they make you so happy! Oh and I want a bubble gun too. I looooved bubbles when I was little and had all kinds of stuff for making bubbles. Times flies, does it not?
I love style tips :D. I’ve been wanting a bubble machine for aaaages, I reckon heres an excuse to spend my money on them :P
I just want to say I ADORE reading your blog!!
whooo! style tips! LOVE them!!
I so want a bubble gun!! That story about Dante is AWESOME!! made my day =)
the bubble gun story is awesome!!! thank you, gala! i’m using american cream solid perfume since last autumn and i can’t (well, better said don’t want to) shake it off. I’m addicted. So i’m keeping this fragrance for summer, too. kisses!
style tips are a definite highlight of iCiNG (which, as a whole, is simply brimming with great things). thanks for bringing them back! imagine combining all these… a mermaid cocktail party where everyone wears sequins, floats in the pool, drinking cocktails while bubble guns are perpetually being fired off…sounds decadent, doesn’t it? although if we added the fragrance in there, it might wash off :P
Give one of your recent posts, I just thought I’d share a few words from AJ, in an interview she gave a short while ago, since we both agree she is the bee’s knees –
“I think anybody that makes a decision about where they stand is going to cause strong opinions about them. But I think that’s what you should be hoping for in life, so I take that as a very good sign. That some people support me and some people really don’t like me tells me that I’m making decisions and I’m standing strong for something I believe in. I’m making choices in life. And that’s the right thing to do.”
I’m about to go into dreaded exams over the next two weeks, but – after reading your bubble gun suggestion – I’m tempted to sneak one into the exam room (;
Oooh Miss Dior Cherie! That’s one of my favourites too, it conjures up memories of my time in the USA. I ended up doing a photo shoot with it as part of an advertising segment of my English course last year. Hehe here is an example: img147.imageshack.us/img147/34…. I think it’s sexy and pure and feminine, all around great! <3
Gala, wonderful style tips. But I am sad, I just heard Crabapple Bakery has closed down! I know you’re in NYC where you can get your hands on some delicious cupcakes, but now I’ll have to find somewhere else to go in Melbourne!
Woe :(
My friend text me last night to suggest a cocktail party at her new house! What an odd coincidence!
I love the bubble man! He looks so joyful!
I love the idea of doing all of these at the same time. It would be truly truly excellent, as a New Years Eve party in the sky-high penthouse of a luxe hotel. Mmm.
I may buy The exact friction of stars purely because it is named The exact friction of stars. Delightful!
And mocktails are delicious! Nothing fun about being unable to remember the night before or being too sick to even care.
the exact friction of stars—-what a lovely name for a perfume!!!‘unfortunately’ i’m one of those people who stick to a fragrance for a long time & never changes it…actually i have changed fragrance only once, from rochas’ “fleur d’eau” (really really good, but i don’t think it’s produced anymore!) to clinique’s “happy”—but if i had to pik a fragrance for this summer it’d definitely be ‘basil’ by marc jacobs!
ha! Genius! These are just in time, my friends and I were musing at what kind of party to have, I bought a bubble gum machine yesterday but I have to say I have no taste in perfumes. I’m absolutley clueless as to what to get, what would suit me and where to go – I’ll have to swallow my pride and ask my sister to come!
And also that mermaid idea rocked my world! I’m going to get a paddling pool out, regardless of the weather and, whilst we sip on our mocktails, my friends and moi shall be retro mermaids! :D Now to find some yummy mermen! :P
Oh and whoever come up with the name “The Exact Friction Of Stars” I will set out to find and then give them a medal. Yay!
Vixxie, queen of the mermaids.
I wear V&R Antidote quite a lot and get tremendously complemented on it – Antidote is, of course, pour l’homme.
New Sephora in my city
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Clear face (Thank you Accutane!)
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Need for new perfume and cosmetics
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Shopping spree of a lifetime
Also, I loved the sorry about Donde/Dante. It makes me feel as if modern fairy tails (like Amelie Poulin) really do exist. I do believe in bubble-guns! I do! I do!
On a side note, I adore these Style Tips so much, I’ve even printed them out. They’ll be my itinerary for those 3 long weeks where I’ll be home alone (parents leaving me alone & all my friends away on vacation). It will be my anti-loneliness regime! :D
Maybe I’ll finally start a blog in that time…!
I always have bubbles cuz my daughter absolutely love love loves them! They like complete her world I swear she shrieks and giggles and chases them.
Also on the perfume thing if you like sweet smells I absolutely on everything suggest Pink Sugar by Aquolina. They sell it at Sephora… It smells like a really soft feminine cotton candy smell. I love it and every I’ve met really likes it too. Chocolovers by Aquolina is awesome too :-) just a suggestion
Thank you so much for linking to my photo of Donde and his bubble guns! I couldn’t understand the sudden interest in a photo I had posted months ago, then I asked some folks who faved it! I’m glad I found your blog, too, it’s fabulous!
I love the idea of a mermaid photoshoot… I am going to be in the Coney Island Mermaid Parade this Saturday and the mermaid costume I’ve built is stellar! So shiny! And shiny IS my favorite color! (Purple and shiny sends me over the moon! Hahahaha!)
I was in the first mermaid parade in 1983 and returned 20 years later in 2002. I don’t have any photos of 2002, but here’s one from ’83: www.flickr.com/photos/oldhamed…
I’m telling my age now, aren’t I? Ha! You are as young as you feel, so I am perpetually 23!
Have a great summer!
Jolene
Gala you rock my socks off!
Positive living is the key – the secret to happiness.
loves :)
PS: A great summer scent that is fairly inexpensive (and devoid of tons of chemicals): Go to a specialty gourmet shop or Asian food store and buy a bottle of Jasmine and/or Orange Blossom FLAVORING. It should be near the Vanilla extract, and put it in a spray bottle with some filtered water. (I use a 50/50 mixture.) Spritz liberally on bare skin as I don’t know it the flavoring will stain light color clothes.
The scent needs to be reapplied often as it is fleeting, but hey, a nice cool spritz of jasmine and/or orange blossom water calms the savage heat and you smell hypnotic! People stop me all the time and ask what scent I’m wearing.
P.S Jolene – You are beautiful as a mermaid.
Very compelling evidence.
Natalie — Yay, I’m so glad you liked it! I always see him & he always looks so, so happy, & I was delighted to hear the actual story! Too wonderful.
nessbow — Being in NYC is so incredibly inspiring, so I get ideas for them ALL the time! I posted this one in advance, it was written mid-last week! I have to space them out because doing them all the time would be too much, I think, but I am midway through writing another one already!
Twinkle — Sorry, I have no idea… but I do know that they still sell them! They look a little shinier in the shop, though ;D
Nadine — I got a sample of L’Artisan perfume last week but I never really like their scents much. I don’t know what it is, they just don’t do it for me.
dallas — It used to be my favourite too! I used it to attract boys. It works like a charm, haha.
Lauren — THANK you sweetheart!
Daiane — I’m using it too, sporadically anyway. I’m almost out of Flowerbomb so I am on the prowl for a new scent!
Clare — Oh wow, combining them would be totally lush!
Deva — That is the best quote ever. I love AJ! Eeee!
Kat — FUNNY you should say that! The only other cupcakerie with a retail location in Melbourne that I know of is Little Cupcakes, which I don’t think is worth the money. I never go there. However! My friend Jess who I keep mentioning owns a bakery called Sugadeaux & honestly, even though she is my friend & I am probably biased, her cupcakes are the best I have ever had. Truth. sugadeaux.com.au She is away for the next couple of weeks, but she will be back soon… & she supplies Pound (in South Yarra I think) with cupcakes, too!
char — Totally. I want to throw a huge extravagant party now!
Claire — Oh I know, best name ever right? The perfume totally lives up to its name.
Jolene — Ahhh, too fabulous! I’m going to be AT the mermaid parade this weekend so maybe I will see you there! xxx
I’ve just been on lucky scents.com and lo and behold you can order free samples for $4!!! I have a sample of the exact friction of stars winging its way to me – I hope I like it, the name is wicked! XXXx
I’ll be the one with THE best mermaid tail… pulled by my Zombie daughter and her beau.
Talk about fashion statements! Woohoo! Would love to meet you!
Hehe, Swampstress “Free samples for just $4!!!“ hehe, :D I think it’s so funny when free samples cost money!
Mocktails are fabulous. I haven’t had one since last year, but it was the most sugary drink I’ve ever tasted.
Alice — Amen! Sugar coma foreverrrrrrrr!
Bubbles do rock ; )
Ohh Gala :) Mermaids are my obsession which I’ve never got over =] unfortunatly I have no one to take my picture :(
I love style tips!
The bubble gun man is officially my new hero. Ohhh, I wish I lived in New York! :P
gala, have you seen this? bubble battle times square on june 21st! what timing!
www.newmindspace.com/bubblebat…
I’ve been wanting a bubble gun for AGES, it’s a good thing there’re a ton of them for sale in Chinatown. :)
Ha! I can’t say i’ve ever seen a bubble gun but my oh my, what joy could be had with it. We often bring bubbles to our summer training to break up the intensity of the day (much to our coaches dismay!). For some reason a bubble gun seems as if it would take away the joy of blowing out the bubbles yourself or maybe it would just be different and lovely in a new way? I suppose I won’t know until I try. :D
ahh!! Don’t forget to make sure that the beautiful purfume that makes you smell like you just rolled through a field of flowers isn’t cancerous!!!!
look ‘em up!
kisses
bubble man! theres a guy that was hanging out around west 57th&8th back in April who would walk around in the morning with his cat on his head!