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The hair is always greener on the other side of the fence

By caniceleung | Published: March 27, 2012
Being Chinese, I’ve received countless compliments about how nice it must be to have pin-straight hair. Fair enough… I came of age in the flat-iron era, when every girl had a freaking ionic ceramic whatever Babyliss with which they enthusiastically straightened their curly/wavy/poofy/voluminous/mostly-straight-but-maybe-kind-of-textured hair into these swingy, horse-mane shags. Like, even the girls with mostly […]
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Quick thought about the new Love covers

By caniceleung | Published: February 1, 2010
Quick blog post this afternoon, as my CMS at work is down and thus have been handed a free extended lunch break. So, have you seen this? Well, this, 8x. Love Magazine (y’know, the one that put the outsized, in girth and personality, Beth Ditto on its cover for its first-ever issue) is putting eight […]
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Patina

By caniceleung | Published: May 23, 2009
As shot by The Selby of the Libra Leather shop, which supplies buttery soft goods for the likes of Alexander Wang, The Row and Vena Cava.
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Want look like

By caniceleung | Published: May 18, 2009
— Hanneli Mustaparta
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Words to live by

By caniceleung | Published: March 2, 2009
“I prefer to have my hands in my pocket than to have a nice little bag. So I am not good for all these fashions. They have to sell bags, bags, bags, bags, bags, bags. I hate handbags.” —Carine Roitfeld
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