Saturday, March 08, 2003


chocolate meets yoga hairstyles

ok, so the hair clip forming an integral part of my usual yoga hairstyle broke, which necessitated a quick trip up to hair toy paradise, alexandre de paris. it's a little jewel-box of a store, selling only hair accessories. (note to self: why does such a classy place have a zero-class web presence?)

there a lovely rhinestone-edged resin clip -- of the highest quality, made in france, with beautiful tortoise-shell like colors and graceful, elegant shapes -- will run you a mere US$200. which is why i went next door to zitomer's; huge selection on the second floor. and next month when they expand the store, the selection will double, the staff told me today.

at zitomer's i found the requisite replacement, and stumbled onto two interesting things: a cool hair object possible useful for yoga and a chocolate sample! it's my day. . .

let's start with the chocolate sample. at zitomer's they were handing out squares of some kind of sugar-free chocolate called "delite" something or other, i didn't get a wrapper. "it's luxurious european chocolate, and tastes like luxurious european chocolate," the chirpy sample-girl said, "but without the calories from sugar!"

it was said to be pure belgian dark chocolate sweetened with splenda and something called malitol.

hey, i'll eat almost anything chocolate. so i thoughtfully chewed a square. the sample piece had no shine, which is a bad sign, but since it was given to me unwrapped, well, maybe it got banged up a bit. the aroma wasn't poor -- but not as good as a lindt bar. and that's bad. . .

the real problem came in the mouth. the texture was really odd. the square felt a bit gritty on the tongue and then immediately dissolved into strange gummy strings. it tasted kind of like a lindt bar tho'. needless to say, i didn't like it.

but what i did like was the hair wrap. very cute. if only you could see for yourself. . .but the url they gave on the packaging appears to be down. also, some wonderful hand-carved wooden hair toys, for those who like an elegant artistic touch!

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