Kay's Louboutin Family

I finally got around to taking family photos of my Louboutin family so here they are.

 

 

This is my collection as of 31st December 2012.  I plan on taking family pics periodically to see what I've acquired/gotten rid of since the last photo.  Thanks for letting me share!

Louboutin #14 - bleu saphir Pigalle

I first saw an Instagram photo of these and fell head over heels in love with the colour.  I visited the Sydney boutique and asked if they were getting this shoe in.  Negative.  I contacted a CL boutique in the US that had them in stock.  Negative in my size.  Sad. 

Then, Ling (yes I'm dobbing you in) saw them pop up on Matchesfashion and I was on it in 2 seconds.  I made the purchase on a Friday and they arrived the following Monday (which also happened to be Christmas Eve) so I was super happy. 

This is me wearing them with an Asos tee and aherm Supre skirt (don't bash me):

Nooo I don't want to go to work tomorrow

Before I went on my 4 weeks of annual leave, I was dreading it.  Now that I am going back to work tomorrow, I'm dreading that.  I had a reasonably busy weekend - Freshwater Beach on Saturday, then dinner and drinks Saturday night.  Today I went to DFO (I don't know why I keep going to shops when I'm on a shopping "diet" - notice I didn't use the word "ban" because I don't want to cut it out completely).

Freshwater Beach

Delicious and refreshing fruit salad after getting roasted at the beach 

Rocking my new blue Louboutins with an old school Morrissey clutch, Chanel necklace, Mimco cuff, and accidentally matching blue nails

Sushi Samurai

Salmon sashimi was SO fresh

Table arrangement at Smallbar

I love the oversized wine glasses at Smallbar

Bailey!

 Now I'm removing my chipped nail polish and packing my bag, ready to go back to work.

Louboutin #7 - black patent Love Me

I love love love these ones.  I saw some pics on tPF of Lovas from a few years ago and just fell in love.  I started scouring the interwebs and found Love Me's which are a close relative of Lovas.  Love Me's are cut similarly to Pigalles so you should be the same size in both.

Finding these babies were insanely difficult.  They come in heel heights 45, 85, 100 and 120.  45 and 85 are too low for me, and 120s are far too difficult to shove my foot into.  The Sydney CL boutique only had 85s in kid leather and I needed 100s in patent leather.  I originally wanted the nude pair but wasn't able to find it in 100 in my size anywhere, but there was one black 100 in my size left on the Barneys website. 

I took these in my Pigalle 100 size (35), which is 1/2 size smaller than my TTS (35.5).  They are one of the more narrow Louboutin styles but for some reason I dont get muffin top in these.  They are more painful than most of my other CLs but no pain, no gain right??  I freaking love these heels to bits.  Love them so much I was willing to pay retail for them, and then another $55 shipping!

Barneys is notoriously slow for handling and dispatch.  I think it took them 3 weeks just to dispatch these?  It was a looong 3 weeks let me tell you!

I've worn them a few times since I got them, but my favourite outfit has to be this I rocked out last week at work:

The start of a VERY dangerous addiction (with red soles)...

Ok.
I'll admit it.
I'm addicted.
That red sole.
That skinny stiletto heel.
I can't help myself.

My Louboutin journey started when I was 21 and I bought a pair of black crepe Yoyos with crystal heel off eBay.  They were deliciously pretty but when I got them I couldn't shove my fat feet in them.  My family say I have 'yenjai' feet (yenjai: native person of Papua New Guinea, where I lived for half my life) and they definitely are wide (22cm long x 9cm wide).  I had to get rid of these beautiful shoes.  It was a sad day.

3 years later I thought I'd try again.  By now, the Sydney CL boutique had opened up so I went in there to try a few styles on.  I tried the Pigalle Plato 120 and I foolishly thought it would be the same fit as the Pigalle 120s.  BOY WAS I WRONG.  To date, the Pigalle 120s have been the most painful shoe experience of my life.  I got them off net-a-porter and sized 1/2 size down from my true to size (TTS) and it was still gaping at the back, yet my fat feet were spilling out the sides:

This was my second setback.  After that, I gave up for a few years, deciding that Louboutins were just too narrow for my obese feet.

..... Until I spotted these blue and yellow Architeks on eBay which I had seen on celebrities when they first came out and fell in love with.  I thought I'd give Christian a third and final go.

You know what they say about 3rd time being a charm.

After my faith had been restored in Mr Louboutin I decided to be smarter about my future purchases and actually started using this amazing thing called the internet to do proper research.  I rediscovered the purse forum where I had signed up 5 years ago but never visited, and tPf has helped me SO much.

Anyway, I plan to blog about my Louboutins to help other flat-footed, muffin-top-footed "yenjai feet" ladies out there.