11 November 2010

ALLURE

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"All I need is twenty minutes on the bathroom floor with witch-hazel pads on my eyes, and I can conquer the world.” 




the grandee of fashion. Diana Vreeland.



I mean- Didn't SHE?
my GranMa swore by it-& to my mind neither lady could fall too far from the mark.



that the witch hazel had to be pulled out of the gramophone cabinet in the bath, I won't deny, but the books-Baudot's the Allure of Women and Diana Vreeland's ALLURE sit on a single stair that I pass at least 25 times a day. one opened with Diana Vreeland's photograph a permanent part of the stairscape. Photographs of my GranMa on her honeymoon are just down the hall- I never know when one of them will have something to say.



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11 comments:

  1. Just finished DV which Stefan offered me in a giveaway! I agree, she always had something so iteresting to say!

    xoxo
    Karena
    Art by Karena

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  2. It works best if the witch hazel is ice cold.

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  3. I used to always use witchhazel for the face. I think I will satrt again, thanks to Ms.Vreeland

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  4. This is on my winter "well red" list. She, like Castaing, created her own vision of reality and inhabited every square inch of it. By the way, I think witch hazel is amazing stuff. I like the one with aloe vera. Great soother for garden mishaps from bites to sunburns to sore muscles.

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  5. Allure is at the tippy top of my wish list this holiday season...adore everything about this post! And wondering if rubbing alcohol would work in a pinch! :)

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  6. Karena, What a great book. One of my many fav. in the biography category

    Hobac-a devotee of Witch Hazel-Great TIP.

    David- yes, if it was good enough for Vreeland it is good enough for me- I agree.

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  7. Z, It has come out again hasn't it ? I have a good copy my business partner has "our" first edition. I may need to look into that! pgt

    Home- Good for what ails you? my GranMa used it as a toner. I keep it for bites,sunburns- I like the medicated-it is zingy.

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  8. Witch Hazel !!
    Truly a blast from the past.
    Must find some.

    Also want the new version of Allure - so I'll have bother versions available at all times.

    jjj

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  9. I would use witch hazel pads on my skin and I always felt so youthful. This reminds me to go back to it.

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  10. I happen to love the smell of witch hazel (some are bothered by it). My mother swore by it for puffy eyes. It actually does work!

    I just finished DV recently and it is now one of my all time favorite books ever. Allure is on my list, but I'm trying to find a 1st edition.

    Oh, I did try to find the post on your neice and her tree house under your August posts, but didn't see it. I will keep looking!

    H.H.

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  11. sadly, Not her tree house-but this is the link to His tree house.

    http://littleaugury.blogspot.com/2010/08/house-with-swing-iii.html

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