Celia M. ~ Living My High Heeled Life: Life in the city

Sunday, September 7, 2014

The Luxury of Time in the City ...

As long time readers/followers of HHL know, over the past few months I have been spending less time at the country home and a little more time at the city home. One of the luxuries I love about being in the city is TIME and all the things you can accomplish in just a couple of hours vs being in the country.

The hot sun and humidity of summer takes a toll on curly hair (leaving very little options for styling: curly, up in bun, frizz - repeat) - with the calender turning to September and the temps cooling (bye, bye humidity) it was time visit Fiorio, in Yorkville, for some damage control and a much long awaited blow out. Since being in the city more often over the past year or so - Fiorio has become my go to salon for taking care of my natural curly hair. Mark is my go to guy for colour ; Daniel for my cuts and styling; and Sunny for my blow outs - she is amazing with the blow dryer taming my curls brilliantly!

Another fabulous thing about being in the city is that you are able to meet up with friends at a moments notice. And yet another is that you can actually wear the clothes you have hanging in your closet and your heels are saying HELLO!!! remember me???

Watch - Cartier; bracelets - Pandora; Hermes; and gold bracelet from Europe; Ring - costume pearl and crystals.

Shoes - Manolo Blahnik

Tote- Louis Vuitton

sunglasses - Roberto Cavalli ; pants - Elie Tahari; blouse - DKNYC

Within just over THREE hours I had my hair done; caught up with a friend over lunch; picked up some groceries from Whole Foods and was on my way back to the city home. If I was in the country - the time to drive in and then get back - I would only have been able to accomplish ONE of these things and it would have taken the whole day.

Do you live where you work, play? in the countryside or the city?
Is everything close by or do you have to commute to various places?

Wishing you a luxuriously balanced life,