Over the Rainbow
Where’d you get that?:
MEDIUM SNAP WALLET IN BLACK PACE - MYWALIT
I am a phone wallet disciple, tasked with spreading the gospel to friends and family. Their ease, convenience, and ubiquity among the free swag distributed by campus orgs cannot be matched. However, they’re only good for holding two or three cards max; any more and they start to strain at the seams. As someone who has ruptured multiple phone wallets by stuffing them with too many boba punch cards, I’ve lately started thinking that maybe it’s time to get a real wallet, like a real adult.
After much deliberation, I settled on this medium-sized leather wallet from mywalit, an Italian leather goods company. Crafted from smooth, supple Nappa leather, from the outside, it looks normal, boring and black; but once you open it up, the interior explodes in an eye-popping rainbow design. I like how it appears all grown-up and put-together, but still retains a playful, childish sensibility — I can’t help but smile every time I reach it for it. Plus, more than one barista has exclaimed “Cool wallet!” upon my purchase of an iced chai.
I’m obsessed with:
WET CHERRY GLOSS IN BITTER CHERRY - LIME CRIME
I have never recovered from when I was 11 and smeared vanilla Bonne Bell lip gloss all over my mouth and my mom asked if I’d been eating fried chicken. Permanently traumatized, I refused to touch the stuff for the next nine years of my life. But I was at Riley Rose’s Herald Square grand opening, and they were giving out little goodie bags, and it included a tube of Lime Crime’s Wet Cherry gloss in Bitter Cherry, and, well, I’m a sucker for a fruity cherry flavor. I carefully applied it with a tad more restraint than my preteen self, and...it looked good! Better than good, actually — the peachy nude color gave my lips a nice, healthy sheen, a subtle glisten that was more Glossier girl, less “I just had a Popeye’s sandwich.”
On my wish list:
CLAUDIA BRALETTE - NAKED CASHMERE
I, like many, was struck by the instantly iconic image of Katie Holmes hailing a cab in her matching cashmere bra and sweater. Cashmere! On your titties! Is there anything more luxe, more indulgent, more utterly hedonistic? I went searching for a slightly less expensive version of Holmes’ Khaite set, and found this offering from Naked Cashmere. But I can’t just buy the bra alone; this is a piece that demands equally cozy complements, so I guess I have no choice but to covet a matching cashmere cardigan and sweatpants as well.