Q. Is there a piercing parlor in the city or surrounding area you'd recommend, or a place where I can find a stud like yours?
A. Unfortunately I don't know of any great places in Westchester - the one I went to in Tarrytown was eh; all they had were basic silver hoops with little balls on them. I do know of a tattoo parlor in the city, Addiction NYC, that does excellent work - my mom, Kendrick and I all have tattoos from there - so presumably they're good with piercings as well?
I'm going to have to add one more item to my list of easy (and affordable) updates for your autumn wardrobe: an olive-green anorak. It's such an easy piece to toss over leather leggings and jeans...but my favorite way to wear it is with a gauzy floral mini (yes, in the fall; this is how you do it) and clogs.
(OK...the "dress" I'm wearing in that center shot is actually a "blouse" - I picked it up back when I was eight months pregnant to wear with jeans - but tomayto tomahto.)
Some suggestions pour vous at a wide range of prices (my favorites have a zip-out lining so you can wear them all the way through until full-on winter and a furry hood).
Every.
Single.
Year.
Seriously: every single year, on the day of Halloween, I think, "Huh. It would be really fun to actually get dressed up."
There are some things that you rarely use, but are just super cool to own.
Like, say, a black, floor-length beaded gown that's really better-suited to the Oscars than anything that your real life actually involves, but that you found about a decade ago on Fifth Avenue for 80% off because some beads down near the hemline were missing and thought, "hey."
Or a bedazzled mask.
