Name: BEST & WORST LUXURY PURCHASES 2024 (& What I'm Glad I Didn't Buy)
Uploaded: 2025-01-16T03:28:16.000Z
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Here are my best and worst purchases of 2024.

So we've got the highlights and the pieces where I really feel like I've gotten my cost per wear from them.

We've got my worst purchases where, you know, it's not as functional as I wanted it to be.

And I also want to include in this year's video things I didn't buy and I'm pretty happy I didn't buy, especially in hindsight.

I'm wearing some super sparkly diamond earrings today and this video includes a little partnership with Ideal.

Their pieces are really, really stunning.

They're an incredible brand with amazing practices.

So I'm excited to share a few bit more details about my year stack later in today's video.

If this is the first video of mine that you've clicked on, over the course of this year, I have been a lot more intentional than previous years about what I add to my wardrobe.

Not only have I been downsizing a lot of sections of my wardrobe, I've also just been more patient before a purchase.

So if a running wishlist and everything I buy spends some time on this wishlist, it can be from a couple of days to a few months, sometimes like over a year before I actually buy it.

And this has been the biggest thing in allowing me to have more best purchases than I do worse.

Having a wishlist is advice that I've heard so many times I'm almost immune to it.

But honestly, it does work and it's one of the best practices that I've been using to honestly actually spend a bit less money and most importantly not buy things I don't want and don't need.

If you watched my last video, something that is not a surprise is the Dragon Diffusion bag.

This is the mini triple jump bag and even though it's this mini size, it fits a lot.

It really fits more than most of my bags.

If I compare this to like another mini bag like this Bottega one, the Dragon Diffusion fits so much more.

These bags, if you don't know, are made from leather.

They're not straw, they're not like a wicker or anything like that.

These are leather and the leather is very soft, durable and good quality where I've put some pretty heavy things in here and it still looks perfect.

Just based on the nature of this material, it would not be weird to have some slight fraying on the edges.

I'm kind of talking about things like this but I can barely see it on the bag.

These bags are also handcrafted and I really feel like you can see and feel it in the quality.

It also has a cute little charm in the bag.

The reason this is the best purchase for me though is that it's soft and slouchy.

It's very comfortable to wear against me and it's not like a very structured bag that's hard to get into.

The slouchiness of this makes me really want to use it and it becomes a fuss-free grab-and-go piece.

Here are some possible downsides because I want to share with you all the information.

Where I live, this is like not a huge problem but traveling, I'm pretty careful, it has no closure.

With this color, the outside doesn't transfer on any white clothing I'm wearing.

But the inside can transfer if you put something white in.

If I was carrying this inside this bag, it's very likely that the inside will transfer some red onto this cotton piece.

In my opinion, if you like the Bottega look and you kind of want that woven design in an outfit, the Dragon Diffusion really gives the same look and I think it's a very, very, very good alternative to a Bottega bag.

My worst purchase this year is something a bit surprising but it's a Cezanne Tammy skirt.

I wore it so often and it's the color, it's the style, everything is very pretty.

So the reason why it's my worst is because it actually shrunk a whole size.

I normally hand wash my viscose just to be on the safer side but this one I accidentally put in the machine along with some other clothes after traveling.

The annoying thing is that the instructions actually say you can machine wash this at 30 degrees which is always how I wash my clothes, 30 degrees.

I tried to like steam it, iron it afterwards to see if it will like, you know, go back a little but no, not really.

This is my worst and most disappointing purchase this year because obviously, it doesn't fit me anymore now that it's about a size smaller.

If you're wondering about my clothing care practices, I recently made a video all about clothing care and I like to think that I'm pretty gentle and careful when I look after my clothes.

So I feel like viscose is a fabric that I'm gonna try to avoid.

It's so hard because so many clothes are made from viscose but unless it's a brand that I've purchased from before, I know that viscose lasts a long time.

I think I'm gonna try and buy less of this fabric slash avoid it entirely.

The best jewelry purchases for me are always the ones that are love at first sight and they manage to take basic pieces like a t-shirt, like a simple long-sleeve t-shirt and make me feel really elegant in them.

So let me share with you a little bit about Ideal because I really think that they're an incredible, incredible brand who makes very, very sparkly diamond pieces.

They're not like a cloudy kind of sad diamond.

I'm also extra excited to talk about them because I feel like they have some very good practices on top of having very pretty jewelry pieces.

All of Ideal's jewelry pieces are made and checked in their atelier in Antwerp.

Ideal uses lab-grown diamonds that uses less of the earth's energy to make and create and just so you guys know, lab-grown diamonds are not fake or artificial.

The way they look and the science of them is exactly the same as real diamonds.

It's solid gold so you can wear them every day for different activities you're doing and they won't tarnish, change color, anything like that.

Let's have a look now how their earrings work.

All of their earrings start off with a diamond stud and you can choose the size.

Either a petite one, a medium or a large and then they also have some incredible pieces in their high jewelry line.

Those are even bolder and more eye-catching.

They come in all different metal bases to suit you.

So whether that's yellow gold, white gold, rose gold, they've got them all.

This one is so, so pretty and I especially love that you can wear it in different ways.

You can wear the diamond stud alone, that's look number one.

You can put the Ono in the front or in the back and I love the versatility that it brings.

Of course, if you have the diamond stud, you can also pair it with different add-ons.

For example, something a little bit more dangly, something that climbs along the year and there are so many options to choose from.

On my wishlist, I have something like a little bit more dangly.

So if I want to add something like the solar cuff to my year stack, I don't need to repurchase that base.

I can simply add on any of the other pieces to create different looks.

The other add-on I have is the power cuff and I love how secure this one feels on my ear.

There are actually 22 diamonds on the double row and it's super, super, super sparkly.

It's so important, especially with staple pieces, you want to wear every single day to just get something you love.

I do offer free shipping and no question asked returns if you want to swap it out for something else and it's not 100% something you're gonna love and cherish for forever.

Every order comes with this certificate of authenticity.

So lots of details down to the person who checked it.

If you're in search for a pair of diamond earrings that you'll wear every single day and have forever, I highly recommend checking out Ideal.

I actually recommend having a look on their website at the different styles, learning a little bit more about their company because I think they do some incredible things and I'll have that linked down below.

I have a code with them dailyhelen10 if you'd like to get 10% off.

You can also subscribe to their newsletter to see, you know, fun little surprises and promos throughout the year.

I am truly obsessed with Ideal so thank you so much for your support and let's go back to some best and worst purchases.

One of my best purchases this year is the Douwen Lian dress.

This dress is absolutely stunning and the reason it's my best purchase is that this does what I want all my clothes to do.

On those busy days where I don't know what to wear, I now immediately go to this dress.

I know it's simple enough to be accessorized in different ways for different events and it really makes my life easier.

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