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I feel kind of guilty because I spent so much today. First was at the Essenses’ so-called private sale. I bought a Laura Mercier Creme Brulee Gift Set which included a candle, a body creme, and a honey bath all of which are in the yummy creme brulee scent. Now this was really an impulse buy because I don’t really need those but I just love the scent so much. I also bought a Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage which is one of the best concealers in the market. At least that’s what I read in online. Now I do need this. I am not flawless. I have a lot of scar marks so I need a really good concealer as an arsenal. I’m currently using Shisheido’s but I’m not too happy with it. Last purchase from the sale was a pair of falsies. False eyelashes that is. I’ve always wanted one.

My next stop was at the Powerplant Mall. I wasn’t supposed to go there but I had a lot of time to kill while waiting for my sister to come out from the gym. So I went there since I was in the market for a skirt for my birthday. I went to Zara and there are so many pretty clothes there but they don’t fit me. There was one stretchy skirt which is kinda pretty so I bought that. I don’t know if it would go with the top I bought a couple of weeks ago. Next I went to Dorothy Perkins because they have large-ish clothes. Well some are XL and I wear 3X so I could only get the stretchy ones. I saw a nice top and it wasn’t stretch. In fact, it’s snug but I still bought it to motivate me to lose a few pounds in order to fit into nicer, cheaper clothes. That’s the problem with living in the Philippines. If you’re plus-sized (I mean more than XL), you’ll find it hard to look for clothes you like which will fit. Either you have them custom-made or spend a couple thousand pesos because the good stuff are imported (or made here in sweat shops then they export it to known brands. typical third world country problem, ya know).

Well actually that top was the last of my purchases since I don’t really count grocery shopping as frivolous.

I have no idea how much I spent and I don’t want to think about it. I’ll just deal with it when the credit card bills arrive. Ugh. But I’m so happy with my new babies especially the Creme Brulee set. I thought of saving the candle for a better use, like if I want to seduce a guy or something but I couldn’t resist and now my room smells heavenly.

Ugh. I feel bad. Fuck. I hate being sick like this. And now it’s making me really really cranky. I’m just so unpleasant lately. Hell.

Whatever. BTW, I deleted some messages in the tagboard since I don’t understand them at all. Doi. You may curse me all you want or express your undying love and devotion but please do it in a language I would understand.

From Reuters

Disney launches vintage bling for grown ups
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17 (Reuters) - The marketing of Mickey Mouse and his friends is getting curiouser and curiouser.

The Walt Disney Co. (DIS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is taking consumers down the rabbit hole to a land where crystal-studded Mickey Mouse T-shirts cost $1,400, Tinkerbell earrings run $630, and a Cheshire Cat wrap sells for $500 — and consumers are gladly paying.

Disney’s consumer division, better known for peddling kid-oriented fashions at Wal-Mart, has been cashing in on a hot trend in haute couture for vintage art.

The company has sold $200 million in high-end and adult apparel featuring classic images of Mickey Mouse and his cartoon friends since 2003, and says it sees no sign that interest is flagging.

This year, Disney positioned itself for the first time as a fashion player, hosting previews of its “Alice In Wonderland”-inspired lines of clothing, home decor and accessories at two star-studded events during Fashion Week in Los Angeles.

Andy Mooney, chairman of consumer products, started Disney couture about five years ago after walking through the company’s archives with Disney historian Dave Smith and finding a treasure trove of images — some of which have never been seen. He offered licenses for the classic studio art to fashion designers in hopes of adding vogue to the middle-class brand.

“With a lot of the higher-end items, we were trying to spread goodwill,” Mooney told Reuters. “We did start this with the notion of it being a brand enhancer but it has turned out to be quite a healthy business.”

The key to Disney’s success as a luxury brand comes mainly from its association with brands that already have cachet, said Milton Pedraza, chief executive of the Luxury Institute, a research group that focuses on America’s wealthy.

“I think it’s just a pendulum swinging back to the classics, and Disney is a true American and global classic,” Pedraza said. “To the extent they license to other luxury brands they can be successful. Disney alone would not be as powerful.”

Designer Jackie Brander was among the first to license vintage Mickey drawings for her chic boutique in the trendy Fred Segal store in Santa Monica, California. Dolce & Gabbana followed with a crystal-studded Mickey T-shirt, which retailed for $1,400 and flew off shelves.

Disney moved into home decor and accessories this year after seeing references to its 1951 animated classic, “Alice In Wonderland,” appear in the pages of fashion magazines and on TV

– notably in a Gwen Stefani music video in spring 2005.

“When that begins to happen you just have to pay attention to the call of what’s going on in society,” Dennis Green, senior vice president of marketing for consumer products, said at the company’s Mad Hatter Tea Party on Sunday.

The targets of the new campaign, Green said, are luxury-loving teen-agers and young adults in New York, Los Angeles, London and Tokyo who “are driving the fashion industry all over the world.”

“If we did national TV ads going after teen-agers, they would turn us off. They would think we were uncool,” he said.

“Teen-agers have to discover the product. (Then) they tell their friends and it grows through a grass roots marketing effort” that Disney could never have developed on its own, he noted.

Disney has licensed Alice and other Wonderland characters from studio art done by Mary Blair and David Hall for lines of fabric, tableware, carpet tiles, decorative pillows and throws, jewelry and clothing.

It has hired Kidada Jones, daughter of music legend Quincy Jones to design a line of jewelry, cashmere throws and pillows, and to dress her celebrity friends in the posh items.

The Alice line will appear in high-end stores such as Fred Segal, Drexel Heritage, Zelen, and specialty retailers starting next spring.

photo from gettyimages

Damn flu! Ugh. I’m still sick but I feel a whole lot better now. I should be since I’ve been sleeping this off since the night I got it. I really hope that I’ll be well by Wednesday, Thursday at the very least. I have so much stuff to do and I have a lot of plans for the weekend. I need beauty recovery time because I look like I just crawled out from six feet under. Waaah. I wouldn’t need a costume anymore but I don’t want to look like the undead.

Greetings again! This is dementia’s virus. I was browsing through dementia’s emails and it appears that her blog was transmitted into space.

I asked myself why such a mediocre blog like this one needs to be transmitted to space. The higher life forms out there would think that all humans think and write like her. Dementia is an idiot so if the aliens become enraged over her blog and then decide to invade this planet and wipe out all life forms, this includes me, it will be all her fault. I think I’ll call my other virus friends so we can launch a fatal attack on her body.

Dementia is sick at the moment with me. I’m her flu virus and she asked me to write here as a payback for suddenly invading her body. Well, the things you have to do for humanity. Ingrates!