A trip down makeup memory lane
On average, I leave the house roughly twice a week (other than tennis), and when I do I usually just grab my Goyard wallet and go. With so little action, I haven’t actually gone through my bag (which still has its place on the “desk” in our kitchen) in months, but today I decided to take a deeper dive into its contents.
Among them are this emerald-green Louis Vuitton Epi Leather pencil case I bought for my mom as a gift around 15 years ago. Since I’m all about “pouches” for keeping my bag organized (or at least I used to be), I started to use it as a catch-all for the myriad lip glosses and perfume atomizers that were in my regular pre-pandemic rotation. (In fact, I had it refurbished by my amazing cobbler for a pretty penny a few years ago when the lining began to degrade.) Needless to say, unzipping it and exploring the contents was akin to opening a time capsule.
Within I found two Pat McGrath lip glosses, Charlotte Tilbury’s Collagen Lip Bath, Clinique “Black Honey” and Chanel’s Les Beiges Healthy Glow Lip Balm, which is funny (or rather ironic) because I’ve only been purchasing “clean” makeup since the pandemic began. It was also winter the last time I actively accessed this makeup case, so the perfumes I found were Le Labo’s Santal 33 and Child perfume (which stays in there year-round). And here we are in the beginning of October and there are no signs of my summer scents like Tom Ford’s Neroli Portofino or Byredo’s Gypsy Water in sight. Where did the last seven months go?
Needless to say, the Louis Vuitton case has been put on indefinite furlough and is comfortably sheltering in my closet. Without the need to touch up my lips and fragrance while I’m on the go (or ever for that matter), there’s no need to schlep around the extra weight, right?
