Time for a new mirror...

Mom always call me nut and my friend call me overly narcissus for collecting/buying beautiful mirrors. I personally don't think it's a waste at all...I don't wear make up all that often...so all my eye shadow are like toys to me, but beautiful mirrors do give me good mood whenever I am plucking my eye brows and putting on sun screen, don't women dress up to make them self feel good anyway?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love my Anna Sui mirrors both the black and the white one...But the warm weather is here and the black rose compact is a tad bit too classy and serious for the bright sunlight and the only white one I have scratches way too easily...

So, it's time to get a new one I guess? (See, this is how I made excuses to buy something pointless...) Let's take a look at the candidates!


Paul and Joe Hand Mirror
Scallop shaped mirror on the beach...Perfect for spring break don't you think? I love the simple design, chrysanthemum The mirror looks a lot studier than the ones I have, thanks to the metal part...

I like floral patterns in general...but I can help but noticing several facts:

1.Why does the name has to be so long, I have to go to Google to look up how to spell the word.
2.Chinese usually visited their passed loved one with this flower.
3.In Taiwanese slang, it shares the meaning with "butt hole".





And it comes with a suede pouch just like my Anna Sui Hand Mirror...It's useless for me though, since I still drop my mirror to the floor for countless time. (I am glad that the black mirror from Anna Sui is very low-maintenance...it still looks new)


See, a round white mirror will look so good on a warm day...


I also spotted the brush stand...So much prettier than the brush stand from Anna Sui and the ahem...iron one from Stila.

It's going to look weird holding my Stila brushes though.

The oh-so-diva looking Jill Stuart compact stand-up mirror.


See, even Hamasaki Ayumi has it...it does look so good in her dresser. Click here for an actual picture of this mirror from a beauty blogger Val Chante.



And here is a hand mirror, you can see actual pictures and measurements for this as well as the compact mirror here in Katy's Blog (in Chinese).

According to the official website,all of Jill Stuart's beauty products are designed based on "A diamond is a girl's best friend"...I personally don't feel much for the carbon compound that's utterly useless beside for cutting glasses. If someone is stupid enough to give me a diamond ring...I think will accept with all wills then exchange it for a Steinway Model M or Petroff Model IV (if the diamond is big enough for a baby grand, I guess) ...Steinway an Petroff (I don't mind having a Bechstein, hey) are so much much more beautiful in my opinion.

Plus, a 12 year old should know that fact that the mirrors are clearly made of plastic(And I've heard complain about it looks plastic the very first sight then getting worse as you scratches it) .

I mean, if you are plastic you will always be, why pretend to be something you will never be. This the the same reason I actually like Anna Sui mirrors...Plastic and proud, huh?


This limited edition one is probably the only Jill Stuart mirror I am remotely interested in among the three. I like round compact and how they photographed it. Although all the Jill Stuart Mirrors are pretty to look at, I've never thought of owning them as a part of my collection. I guess it's just way too cute? (Maybe in a in-your-face way of cute?)

Just imagine, in a warm sunny day. The professor is explaining the occurrence of "spontaneous symmetry breaking" in a lecture and 20 geeks with glasses and pickle colored shirts are listening eagerly. Suddenly, a speck of light is reflected to the lecture hall off the hand of a girl-geek, who is checking her teeth...All heads turn to the source of disturbance, only to find out that it's a mirror full of plastic diamond...

I think I will burst out laughing right away...


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