i am not all that familiar with american shops/supermarkets so i am asking you. just tell me what you think i should check out when it comes to conditioners or hair toys (both can be expensive, as a matter of fact i am really hoping to run into some neat ficcare to try out the maximus type since the bird beak deffo hates my hair).

just called the hotel for confirmation, good lord they understood me - was a little nervous about that  ;D
so i won't be homeless in NYC  8)

PS: the only huge store i remember is macy's, but apparently they don't have ficcares boohoo.

Hey, Styg!  How exciting NYC!  I've been a couple of times, but never for hairtoy shopping.  Congratulations on your conversation w/the hotel person.  I get really nervous anytime I try speaking Indonesian to anyone who's a native speaker.

Have a safe trip and a great visit.  Sorry I don't have any recommendations for you.

I've never seen Ficcare clips in person, but I haven't really looked either.  I hear that Nordstrom might have them.  On the Ficcare website, there is a phone number - maybe you can call and ask what stores carry them:

http://www.ficcare.com/

Have a good trip - it sounds like it will be fun!  I'd love to go to NYC some day.

Cynde

wrote on Oct 8^th, 2005 at 10:13pm:

just called the hotel for confirmation, good lord they understood me - was a little nervous about that  ;D

LOL, you mean you understood them ???  NYC New Yorkers have a very distinctive dialect (well, many parts of the USA do) that can be rather difficult to follow at times ;)
Hope you have a great time.  I, too, am an unbelievably dry fount of wisdom about NYC :P

Most Nordstroms do carry Ficcares, and they also carry Mei Fa hairsticks (the ones with the little "hips" on them)

You might want to look around in natural stores like Whole Foods (they have one in Union Square), where you might be able to find things like Giovanni (LUST!!!) and similarly cool organic stuff like Avalon, Shikai, that kind of stuff. They have it at my local grocer's and it's not even a completely organic shop.

random thoughts:

Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge!!

I don't know if they still allow people inside the Statue of Liberty but if they still, do, there are stairs all the way to the crown.

bring a raincoat because NYC rain is really bizarre and it rains sideways sometimes.

You can't go wrong with the food there, everything is good.

Have fun Styg!!!
:) :)
Anais

I don't know anything about finding hairtoys in NYC, but I hope you have lots of fun!  :)

Perhaps there might be something interesting in the artist villages or China Town?  I always wanted to go to China Town.  Have fun on your adventure!! :D

wrote on Oct 9^th, 2005 at 12:27am:

random thoughts: Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge!! I don't know if they still allow people inside the Statue of Liberty but if they still, do, there are stairs all the way to the crown.

if we have time for the bridge i'll do that, but i already visited the statue of liberty, which was kinda a waste of time considering i was only three days in NYC last time i went. taking the boat seemed to take ages, and there was really too many people to my taste, so didn't enter the statue. we europeans hate queueing, especially in a burning july sun!! i remember some people in our group went queueing early in the morning for the white house. when they heard we were 30 they nicely shut the line in front of them. they were just able to get like 4 ticks ... amazing how americans stay calm in such situations he he. or like when openair concerts are canceled because there's two drops of rain: no protest at all ... tsssssssssssssssssssssssssss
ok, i am little of topic there.
::)

i am rather lucky i visited all the big attractions the other time. this time we really go mainly for galleries and well, a gig.  8)

Hey styg, I live in NYC. firts of all you need to go to Lombardi's becaus ethat's teh first pizzaria in America (and teh first to make the type of pizza americans eat). You also have to go to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, and generally hang out around Park Slope. When you're in Manhattan , check out the village/ Grenwich village. Alot fo nice stores and curio shops there and over all a nice atmospehere. Speaking fo teh village near west broudawayin soho, there will be a store called Ricky's. There you'll fins Nature's Gate products and Jasons shampoos and condiotionrs for 5 and 6 dollars. You must also go to Whole Foods for natural and organic food (alot of variety, plsu they ahve pre prepared food like Indian cuisine). Whole foods alos has a section dowstairs with natural body products like burts bees and essntal oils. I foind my rose water there. You shoudl also try (across form whole foods and still in teh village) the Farmers Market (and you may also like East Village). After that try Chelsea and look at the vintage stores on 23rd street (I got a great victorian costume there for halloween with crenolin.) Also you may want to see . You migth also wnat to take New York Water way ferry at the chealsea docks and tshi will show you manhattan from the water and the palisades park and cna take you to different areas upstate (I recommend sleepyhollow tour). You may also wnat to see the medieval abbey museum all the way uptown.

Oh yes and Anias is right..bring a raincoat and sweaters and a coat in general. Also walk ove rteh Boorklyn bridge and ask about the famosu ice cream palor on teh brooklyn side that serves "the worlds purest vanilla ice cream." I hav't tried it yet. I am a Brooklynite myself, but moved away a  while back.
Don't forget the botanic gardens and park slope :(>

Have a fantastic time styg, and I'm sure as you wander around shopping you will find tons of hair items that you will fall in love with, you'll probably find them in the most unexpected places, so don't stress!  I have been to NYC a few times, but always on a bus trip/guided tour.  It's a good time, but too structured for me- but, considering the traffic there I much prefer the bus driver toting me around.  We too visited the Statue of Liberty, and it was awe-striking to look at, I would never go inside again.  The stairs were so narrow and clausterphobic, and I remember that as you climb, the stairs are grated so that you can see thru them, and I am extremely terrified of heights, so as we got higher, my legs got weaker!  There was also a stinky, musty stench on the way up that sticks on my head, and once we finally got all the way up to the platform where you can look out, I stood with my back plastered-fast against a wall clutching on for dear life!  Not the place to go if you don't like heights!  So yes, she is amazing, but I'm content with viewing her from the safety of the ground, I feel no need to ever climb up and stand on her head again!  I also remember going into Sax Fifth Avenue, I remember seeing the cutest little belt with these natural looking stones all the way around it- they were just kind of tied together with some kind of roping.  I flipped the price tag & saw that it was $500 bucks, I then walked out...no shopping there for me!  I had a great time, though, and hope you will too.  It's just such a cool change of pace from the norm where I live, but at the end of the day, I'm always ready to go back home!  

That sounds great!  :) I hope you have a wonderful time. Enjoy! (and I have to agree with your remarks about Europeans and standing in line. We are not very patient  ;) )

Maybe you can see one of the famous football games 8)


edited for spelling  ;D

Yes Maggie, You'll find prices for accessories like that. But whats funny, is you have to really get a good look around the whole store because in one store there may be a 700 dollar item and in the same store a 20 dollar one and they both are very similiar.

Oh for shopping you must try Century 21. This si one of those stores where you'll find discounted tags on designer clothes and at the same time pretty expenisve stuff, so just really gte a good look around. Its rigth across from Ground Zero. Also, I recommend shopping at Macy's, just ask around, evryone knows where it is (except me I forgot the address).

I've never been to NYC, and i will NOT go there with my family, we'll probably get lost in 10 min flat :-[


i went into the Sax Fifth Avenue we have here, with my mom, at first she was like this is such a nice store, but when she looked at the price, she was like "ummm... ya know this isn't so nice after all, i mean they have such bad quality clothes" :-X  ::)

Anyway have a wonderful time, and remember to take plenty of pics for us to see- maybe you can take pics of the long haired gods n' goddesses there.

Actaully, you can't really get lost at leats in Manhattan. It sourounded by water. If you walk to the east or west, you'll even tually hit (two miles diameter) the east rviver or hudson river. And people in New York have thistough ,rude image which is a lie. Anywhere you go there will be nice and mean people.  We're more than happy to help. And New York is the safest city(with low crime rates vs the population size)  so you might as well ask for help. Bring the family! If someone gets lost, you''ll find them, the authorities will help. No one's going to get hurt. Remember there are many many landmarks so you just tell you family to meet at one of these landmarks (ground zero seems to be popular  ???) if something happens and they can just ask around.

What is an egg shake?  I have heard this is really popular in New York.  Is this some kind of ice cream drink?

Its an egg cream  :D. Or originally Brooklyn Egg Cream, being invented in Brooklyn . It's seltzer with chocoate syrup and milk (some places add a scoop of ice cream).
Actually I reccomend it for an authentic taste.


YIELD: 2 servings

2 cups milk
1/2 cup seltzer (from a pressurized bottle)
1/4 cup chocolate syrup, such as Fox's U-Bet Syrup
Pour 1 cup of milk into a 12-ounce glass. Top with a spritz of seltzer so that the white foam reaches the top of the glass. Place a spoon in the glass. Pour 2 tablespoons of the chocolate syrup into the glass, hitting the bottom of the spoon if possible, and stir with quick strokes to blend the syrup into the milk without deflating the foam. Repeat to make another egg cream. Serve immediately.
http://www.brooklynonline.com/bol/trivia/eggcream.xhtml

oh thanks sara!!! so much info.
how can someone get lost in NY??? never go to paris then i'd say  ;)

any idea where i could get affordable leather pants with a neat cut? i mean, over here you get the choice between the extremely ugly biker type of thing which are affordable or very expensive neat designer pants  >:(  

I recommend west broadway street in the village (specifically the soho area). You will find anything from classical , retro to trendy attire. I'm positive you'll find some neat fitted leather pants. If not you can always check Macy's out.

wrote on Oct 11^th, 2005 at 9:16pm:

how can someone get lost in NY??? never go to paris then i'd say  ;)

oh, you can get lost with my family, when you have 4 kids who talk constantly (a very stubborn 3 year old included >:() you can.
We only go to Chicago cuz my dad knows every inch there, cuz he went to college there- and it's only 4 hours driving.

Wilson's Leather is also a company that sells really cute leather pants.  Their stuff can be pricey, but they always have great discounts.

Have fun shopping!

oh my, i think i am going to spend loads of money  ::)
my friends are going for more than 3 weeks to the states and canada (mostly canada though) to follow NIN around and they were wondering why we just stayed for a silly little week ... well there you've got the answer: too much good stuff around i won't be able to resist  :-[and besides, trent reznor has gone nuts meanwhile (shortens his shows every time a little more & is in this totally moronic anti-bush spirit) and who really likes to drive thousands of miles in the middle of canada freezing their butts off???  :o

wrote on Oct 12^th, 2005 at 1:31am:

Wilson's Leather is also a company that sells really cute leather pants.  Their stuff can be pricey, but they always have great discounts. Have fun shopping!

oh man, i just checked their site and saw exactly the pants i was looking for ... but they don't have it in my size!! don't tell me no shops have a size 6  >:( >:( (as a friend of mine told me i might really not find my size at all or it will be too short)

i am not nice, i never gave you a review lol.
(copied from another forum, you might have read it already lol)
NYC is such a great city and a week passes so fast although i feel i've been away for a month! i won't miss the airco though - i really don't understand how you people survive in it lol.

hair stuff: i actually managed to keep it down to very decent proportions:
i bought VO5 rasberry for coing. it left my hair softer than it ever was (wonder if NYC water plays a role here though, and yes it does, my water is slightly less soft but it still gave me a nice shine) but coing didn't seem to get my hair clean (and i used mainly the stuff on my head that i use here for coing). so i bought a shampoo without als/ales/sls/sles: some kiwi stuff from artec for l'oreal proffessionel. pretty nice stuff, doesn't set my scalp on fire. i also ran into henna 'n placenta and i couldn't resist lol (while bf was totally disgusted ahum). vitamin section being very extended: i couldn't resist biotin tabs in 300 & 1000 mcg. too bad i didn't see msm, i would have bought that too. since i found that hunt really a bit too small i finally did go to madora on the last day, and that was a huge mistake!! cuze i totally love the samples she gave me of the creamy shampoo and cream rinse. i bought the ivory wide tooth comb (was thinking if heidy praises it it must be great: and it sure is!!!) i also bought the 12 min conditioner: nice stuff too. i used the shampoo conditioner & rinse yesterday and my hair is shinier than ever! and it holds extremely well braiding waves.
the only reasons i bought so few stuff is guilt over all the clothes i bought and since my bf bought tons of stuff too, there was just no room for other bottles lol (and it really is annoying to like products not readily available over here!!!) it's so unfair: you have such cheap stuff that is so great, here you have to pay quite a lot more for a way smaller bottle .

clothes: bought a silk turqoise dress (armani - exchange), denim pants, no leather came my way but i found better: these pants that have the shine of satin  8). another little dress from macy's (dark red, huge decolte, tricky to wear in other words). my bf bought a lot of kenneth cole stuff. so cheap and so neat  ;D - jo malone perfume (dropped dead when i saw the price though) ...
and NO ficcare's (i start to wonder if it's not some insider knowledge for longhairs  ::) ), but i just ordered three maximaseseseses on the net.

great nin gig, loved the msg venue!!! we had great seats too (but regretted not having been in the pit cuze whatver rumors about moshpitting, that was really small potatoes compared to euro gigs  :P  ). we stupidly missed the soundcheck and meet&greet though (we assumed there were just too many premium fanclub members and there was quite a lot already around noon (and they just leave in around 30). that afternoon they left in everyone  ::) - ok, i'd never expect them to be *that* nice blah. we were visiting ground zero  :-/

oh well, in 15 days i can fully drool and sniff a NIN guitar - a Fender in one piece & functional - one of the guitar players offered to two friends of mine  8) (at least one that got saved from being smashed).

Welcome back styg!

Glad you had such fun! and found-well almost everything you need :D

Welcome back!  I'm glad it was a success.  And that you got to see NIN - for some reason when I read your post on the other forum, I thought you missed them completely, not just the meet & greet.  All the more reason to come back I guess!  :)

Cynde

wrote on Nov 16^th, 2005 at 11:31pm:

Welcome back!  I'm glad it was a success.  And that you got to see NIN - for some reason when I read your post on the other forum, I thought you missed them completely, not just the meet & greet.  All the more reason to come back I guess!  :) Cynde

oh nonono, i could just have dropped dead that arriving there 1.5h earlier would have even ended up in a much greater experience  :'( - oh well, more luck when they come back to europe i'd say.

Glad you're back and we hope you enjoyed your stay. Thanks for staying with Nyc! Have a nice day :P