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A much-anticipated I'm sure update on an earlier wanty list:

-The perfect blue nail polish, the Yves Klein painting for your fingernails (fashion writer Hadley Freeman, in her book, calls BS pretension on the use of "Yves Klein" references to describe blue, but I say it is a particular shade, so if it's being used accurately...), the one that was $20 plus $7.50 shipping, is currently sold out and going for $74.99 (or a > $40 bidding war) on eBay. However, there's always the option of Googling the name of any cosmetic plus "dupe," to learn what name the drugstore uses for whichever globs of potentially toxic but brightly-colored goo you have your heart set on. The "dupe" for this polish was evidently Revlon "Royal," which conveniently enough was on sale for $2.99 at Rite Aid. It's on, and it's lovely.

-On Amber's suggestion, rather than pining after a $70 galaxy-print scarf, I spent $30 on galaxy-print fabric from Spoonflower. This ended up being more than I needed, and is now a galaxy-print wall hanging, solving a home-decor problem but not the original wanty. Still craving the scarf, I forked over another $16, and got a more manageable size of a different galaxy print, which is now an admittedly somewhat napkin-like (should have gone with silk, not cotton) but nevertheless fabulous square scarf.

-The neon-yellow shorts ultimately proved easy enough to resist, because I tried them on and they looked terrible. Went instead with these, in pink.