winter notes
cumin, closet-blindness, and cope
I started thinking up some 2025 predictions but realized I actually don’t care, so I stopped. But here is what I had so far:
James Charles transitions
Saddle shoes majorly trending
Pink hair trending (Kylie Jenner sex-fiend pink)
I’m having a lot of fun reading other people's predictions. My boyfriend has predicted that there will be a 2Pac hologram. Another friend has predicted that Johnny Depp will die, Luigi Mangione will get canceled for an N-word tweet, and it will snow in Mexico.
NOTES: Revelations, realizations, realizing, real eyes, real lies.
One thing about me is I don’t separate my laundry, so all of my white socks are greyish, and my white t-shirts have blotchy dark spots. I often reflect on this—if I were to start separating my laundry loads, I would quite frankly never get around to washing them and would opt to wear a loincloth that I would switch out every 2-3 days.
Whoever is in charge of the packaging for those mini Lindt chocolate balls needs to consider some serious reengineering. It takes me 5 minutes to unwrap their foil; I need a “pull here to open” tab. Eating a little chocolate shouldn’t take the same amount of effort as peeling garlic.
I can’t stop thinking about the cumin note in Les Cahiers Secrets by Jouissance. I was kindly gifted a discovery set by Cherry Cheng, founder and sweetheart of the house. Les Cahiers Secrets boasts my favorite floral (heliotrope) paired with cumin, a kitchen spice that usually emits a sweaty aroma in perfume (love). This combination is genius, risky, and sultry—which is perfect for a fragrance inspired by the literature of Anaïs Nin. It is definitely going on my full bottle wish list.
Sometimes you have to rearrange the visual display of your closet so you do not become closet blind to your clothes. When I look at the same rack of clothes every day, my clothes begin to all blend together like a smoothie. Everything starts to look like Lauren's Ye Old Boring Clothes. I often try to change the order of the rack, putting clothes I want to wear more in my line of vision. Also, it’s great to choose some special pieces and hang them on your wall—I have a beautiful pink vintage babydoll nightgown hanging in my bedroom. I have never worn it out of the house, and most likely never will, but at least I can look at it and admire it every day.
If a good friend gives you a heartfelt handwritten birthday card with the message “can’t wait to grow old with you,” there is still a chance they will decide they don’t like you in the following weeks and slowly back out of your life. My point is, it’s important to keep reminding yourself that it’s not you, it’s them—take everything with a grain of salt. However, it is also you sometimes, and that’s OK! We deserve friends that embrace our flaws and meet us at our worst.
Lots of episodes of SpongeBob are actually really dark and have great body horror, such as Krabby Patty Creature Feature and Ink Lemonade.
I have been really enjoying this app called Whering; it lets you upload photos of your wardrobe to create a digital database of your whole closet. You can create and schedule outfits, follow other users, and categorize your clothes with lots of handy filters. It also lets you browse your friends' digital closets and style them. It’s basically like Cher’s closet from Clueless. There's also a web search function, so if you can’t take a photo of your clothes, you can snip the photo from Google Images. If you get the app, follow me @algorithm_angel_ :)
I am going to start closing my eyes and blindly grabbing a perfume tester from my collection, and then writing about the one I choose. I am aiming for about one a month— I want to do more but I will end up starting and never finishing a bunch. I like the challenge aspect of this, and it sounds fun, which is important because the first reason I write is for my own fun, and sometimes I need to remind myself of that.
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-Lauren xx