TRTD Giveaway!

Topshop statement necklace via Freedom line <<<<<<<<<<<<<

Chunky monkey necklaces are here! Topshop  is always at the top of the food chain. No it's your turn to take a piece of that chain with you!

What better to jump back into the swing of things--temporarily or not--than with a nice surprise for you all. A great giveaway at The Retail Therapy Diaries! Check out this chance to win a beautiful statement neckpiece--a must-have for spring--from the Freedom line via Topshop! All you have to do is like TRTD's post of the giveaway on FB and leave a comment on the page wall about your favorite spring trend--and there you have it, an instant ticket into a great giveaway. These days you don't even need to ask to receive. Fancy that.

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Superhero

Edna Mode specifically said no capes. Well, this superwoman's gone rouge. 

My superhero senses are tingling, and I think I know why: my mother's a villain--a SuperVillain. She must be. I'd like to think she went in the cover of night, in some covert, all-black ninja suit, to the Louis Vuitton headquarters in France, snuck in past cameras, and--in complete stealth mode--dodged all types of skin-burning lasers and trap doors that dropped into pits of spikes and then jumped out off the roof of a skyscraper to catch her private jet back to the US, all in order to nab this luxurious piece of holy grail leather....and then give it to me. Here are my incredibly logical reasons to thinking my mother is a SuperVillain:

• I didn't earn my first set of Tahitian pearls--that I scooped up in sophomore year--until I graduated from high school.
• I'm old faithful--have faith that I will lose anything and everything
• I'm an adventure seeker--and thus, a seam-ripper, shoe-breaker, snag-tearer kind of gal
• My mother and I have to ponder a purchase that's more than $10 for about 2 hours...before ultimately saying "no..." unless we have a Macy's coupon.
• Holy crap here's a gosh darn Louis Vuitton bag slung across my arm as if it were a normal day in the life of Ray! And it's not. 
• OMG my mother's a SuperVillain! 
• 

Meh, I think I can live with that.

[cape $30 Nordstrom Junior's (can be found online), scarf $7 Romy's, sunhat $20 (BOGO sale) MStyleLab, wedges Marshall's, LOUIS VUITTON over the shoulder from the best mother in the world]

But mark my words, I will find out some way, somehow...

Black Length

Long wild hair, when flowing freely, hangs past my hips; but when the mass is braided, it is locked, one thick row laying over another, twisted and turned to make a bond that rests upon my body. Sometimes it's intensely curled like my Hawaiian ancestors', and sometimes it's straight like the Japanese. Few times it has been slicked with melting snow. And sometimes it's matted with salt water drying in the blazing sun. But no matter what, it is always black as night.

The only person who has ever and will ever cut my hair was and will always be my mother--and by "cut," I mean trim, and by "trim," I mean snip a section of completely drenched and straight-as-possible hair no more than 2 inches every once in a blue moon. In proportion to my body and for as long as I can remember, my hair has never been above the small of my back. It is cultural; it is for Tahitian and dance; it is for myself and my identity; it is for my family and my ancestors; it is a part of me. And maybe I like the long and mysteriously black-as-night connotation. Maybe, it's all of the above.

 [black maxi Macy's ThisIsIt $5, black sunhat MStyleLab $20, gold cross earrings F21 $5, rings F21, black wedges Marshall's $50, fur bag** Aldo $50]

**I returned the bag a week after I purchased it. Both knobs on the front of the bag fell off, the long shoulder straps starting ripping off the sides and holes widened in their places, and fur fell out faster than I'd ever want to see happen to my own--all within 7 days. The store cashier claimed it was a manufacturing error and gave my money back in full. I was about to have a BF if they didn't. Aldo should stick with shoes.