Valentine's Day is looming large—whom do you love the most? Your answer should be you! Can't be that selfish? Yeah, you can. Look, most men are not very creative when it comes to giving gifts. Flowers (they die), candy (fillings that resemble face cream—no thanks), perfume (smells like all-purpose cleaner), or cheap lingerie (who exactly is that gift for anyway?). This is why we girls have to gift ourselves and our friends, because nobody does girl gifts like a girl!
For any of you interested in what I might want, well, my list can be made in no time flat. Some are unrequited holiday gifts that nobody paid attention to when I was hollering about it last November, so I think of Valentine's Day as a second chance of sorts. I have a sneaking suspicion that my taste is not so unique that a lot of other women wouldn't love the frivolous delight of any of my covetable items for themselves. A gift should always be what the recipient would love and not what you think they should love, so I give you my top five wishes for the happiest of heart days:
1. Macha Deco signet ring. I wear size 6.5, even after a pizza binge.
2. Le Labo Tubereuse. The big bottle—don't insult me with a sample size. Oh wait, sorry, they don't make this anymore. You'll have to take me to New York to get one in person. I do know where to eat and how to navigate the subway so it might be fun for both of us.
3. Odile Gilbert hair pin in anodized technicolor gorgeousness. You could also take me to Paris to get one. I do not know where to eat or how to navigate the Metro, but I'd learn real fast.
4. Fashionary in red. This fashion sketchbook is the gem here because you can give it to a young girl who is into clothes and drawing or a grown-woman alike.
5. Jennifer Fisher diamond skull necklace. I finally finished reading Patti Smith's Just Kids and it reminds me of Robert Mapplethorpe's necklace.
Now, are you going to make me rehash this come this November? Or am I going to have to slowly acquire these things myself from now until then? Sounds okay with me if I do but there will be so many other things I will want by then. Oh well, better eat some of that Russell Stover five-pounder while I decide.
Madeline Meyerowitz is the owner of enokiworld.com, a website specializing in vintage designer clothing.
