Suzie asked me whether I had any birthday gift wishes, and it dawned on me that I hadn’t done my annual birthday wish list here for Andy and my parents. The last year or two has shifted priorities for everyone, and that includes gifting and getting. Based on what COVID has done to the world, I’m ready to write another birthday off without hype or hoopla, and not terribly upset about leaving it all behind.
That said, a birthday is a birthday, and without it I wouldn’t be here, so I’m posting a simple link to my Amazon wish list, which has been updated with several self-care items, such as the amazing Aesop line of body wash and body balm, along with other skin and hair care products. Their fragrance is exquisite.
Sephora has a line of hair care products from Living Proof that have a delicious grapefruit fragrance to them, while Aveda’s Shampure line is equally rapturous as far as fragrance goes. These selections may not be the most exciting – I mean, shampoo and conditioner? Hand wash? – but that’s where we are – and while mundane in content, the quality is such that these are still rather decadent.
And speaking of decadence, and that little flicker of glamour and excess that still resides deep within, the sole big-ticket item is Byredo’s ‘Our Immortal’ which paves the way for fall – a sad preamble that is part of every late August birthday.
