Girl and City

I mentioned in my previous posts that I have been doing a lot of shopping recently, and it’s true. See below for photographic evidence.

Most of these are from my two trips to New York, although the make-up is from Toronto. There are four dresses in the photo, all from New York. Three are from a boutique I found in SoHo on my first trip. The white dress in the bottom right was the dress I wore to TheBusinessSchool formal, and the dress in the top right is a dark grey business casual dress that I wore to the offer dinner last week.
The fourth dress is from Forever21. There’s been a trend towards ballerina-inspired skirts recently, and this layered black and cream dress was too cute for me to pass up.

I also bought a Coach wristlet even though I have been resisting Coach products for its “over-trendiness”. Unfortunately, I realized the usefulness of the wristlet as a small wallet when I don’t bring a purse to school and ended up buying a hot pink one.

My mom actually dragged me shopping with her in Toronto and I ended up buying some make-up even though I hadn’t really planned to. The Shiseido brightening products are a wonder for your complexion, and I needed some new lip gloss. I have no justification for buying the Oscar de la Renta perfume other than the fact that I was waiting for my mom to finish shopping and wandered into the perfume section. I’ve always believed in having one “signature perfume” but I never put too much thought into it when I was younger. A few years ago, I bought a Shiseido perfume that was light and sweet, but after careful consideration, I don’t really think it’s “my smell.” So I was going through the perfumes and man, there are a lot of different smells out there! After smelling a few, my nose was starting to tire, my head was beginning to hurt, and even my vision was starting to blur. So even though there were a few that I liked, I quickly grabbed this one before I talked myself out of buying perfume altogether. I chose this one because it is a lot less common than the other ones that I liked (for example, I liked JLo’s perfume, but it seemed too popular) and I want my smell to be unique, just like a signature.

Not shown in this picture are: the Anne Klein watch I bought on my first trip to New York, the Adolfo Valencia luggage I bought on my second trip (like this but in baby blue), the Body Shop reed diffuser kits (now making my apartment and my parents’ home smell real nice), and chocolates I bought for my parents.