Cher x Sweet Pink Tote
Thursday, April 14th, 2011 | 79 Comments 
Recently I was shocked, SHOCKED, 
to see Sweet on the shelves of Maruichi’s! It was the latest issue WITH CHER BAG!! I’m never so lucky!!!! 
It includes the original Cher brand logo too. 
I have nearly all of the Cher bag designs. 
I’m only missing a select few and I’m including the Cher Shore Store eco bag design in that! 
TADA!!! 
Most of these I owe to my friend who sent the magazines/collection books as gifts. 
I also have the large and medium original bags I bought at the Harajuku store~~~ 
Bought a pricey 
cashmere sweater and was able to buy the bags because of that too. I love the sweater too of course 
My first original store eco-bag was a double purchase from a legit auction with Karme back in 2008. It was balls out expensive 
because the sellers have to BUY something at Cher before they can even buy the bags! 
So they must recoup their losses.
You can buy both sizes when checking out. So I did and gave the large size to my friend as a thank you gift 
Since I already owned one from the auction earlier in the year.
Some background on Cher bags in case you’re new to me and my multiple-year obsession.
Some years ago Rinka, a then already long time idol of mine, shopped at Cher. She loaded up their Cher brand logo eco bags with goodies and posted it on her blog. This was during the time Eco bags were booming and laws were being passed charging for store plastic bags (which my area does now too.)
OK OK so everybody wanted the cheap 8$ Cher bag!!! Soon the demand was TOO HIGH so Cher stores passed a rule saying you could only buy the bags if you purchased another item first. Cher goods are imported and VERY expensive! Like minimum 50$. And still limit to 2 (1 large, 1 medium) per customer. 
So they teamed up with magazines like Sweet and Spring to offer free varied versions of their original bag!! They also released the bags with every Cher brand collection mook (magazine + book) they produced!! 
They’re still very popular! Even last September I spotted dozens of the latest freebie black version (which I don’t have.) Also spotted a few of the 30th anniversary editions baby blue rope mini bags too still.
When I went in 2008 though, the original and free versions were on every arm. It was insane.
There are also non-tote popular Cher items like small pouches, mirrors, シュシュ, and yearly planners! These are typically free items with magazines too.
Alot of people have asked me before, how to know if they’re buying a legit bag online. Short & simple. If you’re trying to buy the REAL Cher store version of the bag it will:
1) Be expensive! At least 50$. If it’s being sold at like $20 it’s a replica. 
The only place you can get the original bag is IN-STORE. They do not sell them separately online. So the auction should list a receipt from the Cher store to help verify it’s legit.
2) Have an oatmeal colored background and NOT white. A lot of replicas have the logo on starch white or off white. The actual bags are oatmeal in color, canvas material, with the logo in dark blue and deep red. And be weary of the logo’s spacing and font. Also the bag’s size.
There are just so, so many replicas out there of, not only the original design, but of even the freebie designs too. So be careful It’s best to just try & buy a magazine that’s offering a special design
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Jenny @ 8:07 pm ; Thursday [url]
TAGS: cher, mags, rinka
whilst feeling 
Fun
Weather Rant and Eyemazing Cosmetics
Monday, January 31st, 2011 | 72 Comments
OK, I’m posting this, like, 4 hours after writing it! I was hitting “post” when Mike came home & was very LET’S GO LET’S GO LET’S! That’ll make sense in the next paragraph 
Shhh I’m so tired of winter precipitation. 
So it’s possibly snowing tonight beginning at 5:00. 
I’m on the train right now heading home, by the way. 
Mike and I had planned to go out to Clyde’s tonight for dinner. 
We haven’t been eating out much (part of the resolution was eating out no more than twice a week and even then only cheap places.) Mostly eating out is either to-go at the Italian market or at-the-most dining at cheap Asian bistros. 
Lol. Clyde’s isn’t overtly expensive but it’s nice and I wanna celebrate our taxes been done & submitted! Ok so yeah, WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. sigh. We’ll see what the weather’s like when Mike gets home. I get the feeling he doesn’t even want to go if there are even flurries falling. ぶーーー
Ah crap, just got a “Severe Weather Alert” email… not looking promising… 
Anyway, so here’s a few snaps from Saturday. SHOULD HAVE JUST EATEN OUT THEN LOL. Yeah I’m currently re-obsessed with my maxi dress. I can wear double layer tights and thick thigh high socks underneath it unlike with my jeans. Wearing my Rinka Barefoot Dreams hoodie too. I forget how warm this stays because it’s so thick and fluffy.
Speaking of Eyemazing, They finally expanded to a cosmetics line. Wow. Pretty late to the game. 
Dolly Wink and Diamond Lash did that forever ago. I’m wondering if maybe Jun was too busy with her Carelance x Chereme line of sleep socks and cellulite rollers? And the packaging isn’t worth fawning over either.
What gives? They charge as much as Dolly Wink. Maybe Dolly Wink has me spoiled on pretty packaging. 
Or even their lash packaging because it’s quite lovely. 
This seems a bit too simple and a little reminiscent of dollar store packaging IMO. Maybe they were trying to go for sleek & mature? I guess it’s no more lacking than Diamond Lash’s cosmetics’ packaging, though, DL has a wider selection. And maybe the makeups good???!! I haven’t tried any. But I haven’t seen it in magazine tutorials or on blogs either. And not much on cosme.net yet either.
But I do like the lash line already and they came out with 3 new versions not too long ago. I’d love to try .006 ones! They’re for adding volume with other lashes. 
Quite useful and more dramatic than adding on typical accent lashes on top of a full set. I just like the shape of the lashes.
Eyemazing bottom lashes are my favorite though the styles are extremely (two!) limited, I think Jun makes them really attractive. 
They’re not super dramatic like Diamond Lash’s bottom’s line but somewhat different and less subtle than many of Dolly Wink’s. Blah, I don’t really have a great reason, I’m just strongly attracted to them! Haahaa~~
I almost bought a pair of Jun’s collab sleeping socks from Loft. I decidedly put them back. They would have been my third pair of sleeping socks which I thought was a bit over-doing it, haahaa~ Now she has some socks with rolling balls inside that massage your calves, haahaa 
These are snaps I sneakily took in the store which was hard because this was on display at the registers! Haa!! 
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Jenny @ 9:43 pm ; Monday (5 days ago) [url]
TAGS: outfits, yesstyle, cher, lashes, japanese goods
whilst feeling 
Hyper
Jenny
