woensdag 23 maart 2011

It's spring, finally!

Maybe this post is a little late, as spring officially started yesterday already, but it was just today that I found that being outside isn't that bad! Well, if you know you can go inside anytime you want that is, but that's not important.
What ís important, is that it is spring!!! I love summertime, and spring is a great start, especially if you just 'enjoyed' a winter with -21 degrees celcius outside..
Imagine my joy when I saw the snow was melting!
When I was at school today, and we had a break, my friends and I immediately went outside. Usually we just go to the cafeteria and talk or play poker or something like that, but the weather was só good that we just stayed outside, talking, running around the schoolyard without any reason (and when I run, there usually has to be a VERY good reason), and just enjoying spring. Though it isn't really warm yet, it is só good to feel the sun on your skin, while already thinking ahead of even better times, where the snow is totally gone and where the sky is blue and where the birds sing...
Honestly, everything in life seems so much better when she sun shines bright and warm!
It's just too bad that it takes a while for the winter to completely change into summer, how awesome would it be if we would wake up tomorrow to 25 degrees celcius, just to get up and change into shorts and a cute tshirt, and then enjoy whatever the day brings, as it doesn't really matter, as life's great as it is!
Oh well, I'll just have to be patient I guess..

xx Eva

zondag 27 februari 2011

The Challenge

Hi!
Here is the first real update on The Challenge!
Remember the system?
This product is gone.
This product I used this month.
This product I didn't use this month. 

~ Sweetie Pie Showerjelly tester (Lush)
~ Pink Grapefruit Showergel (The BodyShop)
~  Sprite Lipbalm (LipSmackers)
~ The Tonic tester (La Mer)
~ Karma Komba Shampoo (Lush)
~ Pure Honey Bodylotion (De Tuinen)
~ Contour Clubbing Waterproof Eyepencil (Bourjois)
~ Intense Repair Shampoo mini (Dove)
~ *unknown* Showergel (Dove)
~ Lipbalm (Nivea)


... Not too good, now is it...
Well, at least it's a start, and besides, I need time to save money for the lipbalm!


To make this post a little more intreseting, here's what my nails look like right now:




The nailpolishes I used are ( in this order on my nails )


Base coat (Hema)
C02 Pastel Blue (Catrice, Pastel Delight Collection)
Black Shatter (O.P.I. , Katy Perry Collection)
49 Sheer Pearls (CoverGirl)
Top coat (Kruidvat)


I absolutely love this nail'look', as it is very different from what I usually wear and also you can use the Black Shatter on every color you like, but the effect is different each time, as you can see when you compare the picture above to this picture:


See?


Another style I wore 2 weeks ago, it looked like this:



My first take on Marble Nails! Not bad huh?
I thought it fitted the whole valentine theme well ^^


That's it for now, due to the limited internet we have, I can only use it when absolutely needed, and this is a kind of... well... forbidden thing, seeing how it has nothing to do with school and stuff like that, but whatever =)


xx Eva

zondag 13 februari 2011

Music!

That's a while ago isn't it, that I put some of my music here?
Probably most of you don't even like my music, but that doesn't matter ^^

The first song for now is...
Just a dream - Nelly cover by Sam Tsui + Christina Grimmie
This song is just perfection! It is so beautiful, much better than the original version by Nelly, and their voices are soo good! Love it.

Next up is...
Tu Angelito - Chino y Nacho
It's really good =) that's all I can say.

And last, but definetely not least....
Sin un adios - Lu
I've listened to this song over and over again for the past couple of days!

And now a bonus, which will make you laugh your.... something... off, a competition between two friends, each time taking a song and playing it on the weirdest instruments, and here is how it all began...

Hope you like it,

xx Eva

3 2 gone.

Hi!
I did it! I finished my 3 2 go challenge and I'm not going to try again, because it became rather boring after a while, to keep using the same products over and over again.
So, I got myself a new challenge. This one will take more time. It is my take on Project 10 pan!
Officially this challenge was meant for make-up, and you were meant to use 10 products untill they were totally empty, before you could buy something new.
Because I won't do this challenge with make-up but with showergels and stuff like that, I am going to call it The Challenge. WOOW!!! You didn't see that coming right? =)
So, what I am planning to do, is to select 10 products, doesn't matter what kind, as long as it is used on your  body or face, and when I finish all of them, I will buy myself the La Mer lipbalm, costing €50,-.
So, the products I am going to use up are:

~ Sweetie Pie Showerjelly tester (Lush)
~ Pink Grapefruit Showergel (The BodyShop)
~  Sprite Lipbalm (LipSmackers)
~ The Tonic tester (La Mer)
~ Karma Komba Shampoo (Lush
~ Pure Honey Bodylotion (De Tuinen)
~ Contour Clubbing Waterproof Eyepencil (Bourjois)
~ Intensive Repair Shampoo mini (Dove)
~ *unknown* Showergel (Dove)
~ Lipbalm (Nivea)

Wow. It was harder than I thought it would be to come up with those products!
Oh well, I came up with them ^^
Soo... I guess I will do an update on The Challenge every month, and I will do it like this:
This product is gone.
This product I used this month.
This product I didn't use this month. 
Not a too hard system, now is it?

That's it for this post, maybe I'll do some more posts today because I haven't posted for such a long time. And I'm bored.

xx Eva

woensdag 9 februari 2011

Livin' the Swedish life

Hi!

Sorry for the extremely long time of postlessness, but well, I was moving. To Sweden. So, yeah..
Well, as you may have noticed while reading this, that I have my internet connection back, yay!
It's just too bad that it is rather slow and that I have to share it with 4 other people, AND that this will stay this way for the following 9 months, due to stupid laws here...
Oh well, I will just have to live with it ^^

It is really beautifull here in Sweden, there is a lot of snow, yet it is not as cold as I had expected, which is a good thing because I hate cold, it actually is rather comfortable here, when the sun shines, it is warm! That's really awesome right? I always wanted to be able to walk through the snow without having my fingers frozen off =)

Our house is really nice, it is bigger than our former house, and it has very many rooms! When I have time I will take a few pictures, so you at least have some sort of image.

I don't go to school yet, as I first have to be able to speak Swedish, otherwise going to school is rather useless!

There isn't much to tell furthermore... Nothing major happened, you see?
When something does happen, I will tell you.
Promise!

xx Eva

zaterdag 29 januari 2011

Teeny tiny 3 2 go update, and some random stuff as well (as usual.)

Ok, my update:
The body butter: Done!
The shampoo: May still take a while
The shower gel/bubble bath thing: about 1 tenth left, and I will finish it this week.

I don't really know what to replace the body butter with, and as there are a lot of things going on with our emigration I don't really feel like caring about something as minor as that, as I already have enoughon my mind.

About the whole emigration: Everything is going great! Almost all boxes are packed with our stuff, the furniture we have taken apart, and the house is rather empty. Also, my Swedish is starting to stay in my head for a time longer than 15 minutes! Watch this: Hej, jag heter Eva och jag är fodd i Arnhem.
It means: Hi, my name's Eva and I was born in Arnhem
Awesome right?

Anyway... Today I had a break from the whole moving thing, and I went to Den Bosch with a friend. It was great, and ofcourse I had to go to the Lush store and bought...
- Butterball (for bathing)
- The Ex-Factor (for bathing as well)
- Each Peach (and Two's a Pair) (a massage bar/body lotion)
- Soft Coeur (another massage bar/body lotion)
- 2 tins to keep the massage bars in without having them melt all over everything I own

Also, I got two testers from the cashier:
Ultrabland, which is used to remove makeup with, and Charlotte's Island, which is like a self-tanning bodylotion, but the good thing about it is that you can rinse it off in the shower, so when you have used too much or something like that, it's no big deal. That's really handy for people as clumsy as I ^^

Luckily I had some money left after this lushious list (see what I did there? Lush... lushious... lush ious... ok, so it isn't funny. I tried.), so we went to the V&D shop, home to the Sephora! There, I bought 2 full-size O.P.I. nail polishes: one is called Ski Teal We Drop, which is a beautifull.. well.. teal, and the other one is a rather special polish, it's a matte black and it shatters! So you have to have a base color, pink for example, and then you put one layer of Black Shatter on top of it, this laquer shrinks or something, and this way it cracks, so you see the base color, it's really special and very awesome!

Then we went home and now I'm really tired so I guess I'll take a lushious bath (ok I admit: I really though it was funny.)

This was probably the last post in January, as tomorrow I'll be finishing packing, Monday we will go to Amsterdam because our plane on Tuesday is very early, so we don't want to risk being late due to traffic trouble.

Thanks for reading my blog everyone, I really appreciate it ^^

xx Eva

dinsdag 11 januari 2011

My favorite nailpolishes of 2010

Hi!
Long time no post right?
Well, probably you're used to this by now ^^
This article will be on my favorite nailpolishes of 2010. Just a list of the polishes I used most often, no pictures as I'm really tired and lazy so I don't want to swatch everything and stuff like that...
Here are my favorites:
Spring/summer:
Casuelle? 
No number on this color, but it is a hot hot hot pink, and it has these teeny tiny glitters in it, very pretty! It is one of the brightest colors I own. It is an awesome color, and I got many compliments wearing this polish.
Paris Memories 260
This is a creamy pastel purple polish, and with pastel I mean the softest type of purple I know. It is a very sweet and innocent color, and I could always wear it, also it works out great when you use this for nail art.
Paris Memories 259
A really light gray. Can´t say a lot about this beauty, it has made the same impression on me as the laquer mentioned above.
Astor Laque Deluxe 616 purple dream
This color is exactely what you would think of when you think about a purple dream: a light purple, with many mini glitters, and very wearable.
Cassy by Casuelle
 This is just summer in a bottle! Well, not in the bottle. In the bottle, it looks more like a kind of old pink with a golden sheen, but on your nails it's just a golden polish with a pink base, really pretty!

Autumn/winter:
Herôme Johannesburg 72
This is a kind of creamy chocolate brown color. Actually I'm wearing it right now! With a matte topcoat, that is. This is another versatile laquer, and it will always look pretty and sophisticated!
Paris Memories ?
Remember summer in a bottle? Well, this is christmas in a bottle! Sparkly christmas red, and just perfect ^^
L'oreal 118
This is a kind of coral colored polish, which lasts for at least a week, which I really like, as I tend to wear a polish for about a week due to laziness (a) It was exactly the same color as a cardigan I own, and as I like matching things, this was a great catch!
Color Cosmetic 09
Dawn-ish blue. Not midnight blue, but midnight with a touch of the morning sun. Poetic, huh? ^^
Rimmer 350 goldspun coral
This color is old pink, with loads of really small golden glitters, perfect! This one I wore a lot in the autumn.

And then, I ofcourse have my ultimate 2010 favorite.....
O.P.I Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous
I haven't had this polish for very long, in fact I believe I got this not even 2 months ago, but it's my 2010 favorite. It's black/grey, with glitters, kind of holo, and it look really awesome matte or shiny. THE perfect color. Totally adore this one ^^

Got to love nailpolish, right? ;-)

xx Eva

dinsdag 4 januari 2011

I went shopping yesterday...

... and came home with just 4 things, no clothes, but things I have wanted to buy for a very long time...

The first thing I bought, is an iPod Touch! I've wanted to buy this for ages now, and I promised myself that I could buy it in 2011, so no waiting, first opportunity I bought it, and I love it! It's great, the sound is very good, you can do pretty much everything you want to do with it! (exept texting, but that's what my phone is for, right?)

All the pictures in this article are made with my iPod, just so you know ^^

The next thing  I got was an Invito bag!

You can't really see it on the picture, but it's quite a big bag! I don't really mind though, I like having enough space so I can take all of my junk with me to school ^^

The next thing I got, was a huuuuge bottle of The Body Shop shower gel the pink grapefruit version. There is this limited edition action thingy, where you can get very big bottles of showergel and really huge jars of bodybutter, the showergel costing €9,- for 750 ml, and the bodybutter €18,- for... I don't know... All I know is that it's cheap, and that you should try scoring some before this action is done! =D
This is the bottle:
Huge, right? Right.

The last thing I took home with me on this small shopping tour (which was intentionally meant to be about 1 hour, so I did a good job in buying what I needed I guess ^^), was an awesome pink USB-stick, 8 GB, just for school and pictures and stuff.. so yeah... Well, I'm still going to share the picture, as it's PINK!
I say: pictureworthy!

That's it, not that much, but still though I should share this with you guys!


xx Eva

zaterdag 1 januari 2011

... and then it suddenly was 2011!

2011, finally it's here! It seems just yesterday that it was 2009 and everybody was counting down: ...4...3...2...1... HAPPY 2010!!
Yet, this already is more than a year ago.
Time flies when you're having fun, right?
Well, I don't have a lot to say, as I'm really tired and haven't done anything interesting yet this year ^^
I guess I could do a second article today about my 3 2 go 'challenge', but I haven't really got pictures, and I don't feel like taking any..
Oh well, I'll just do a short update in this article instead!
There is just about 1/6 left of the dove body butter, and this month I will try to finish it, but if that's impossible I will not take it with me to Sweden, I'll throw it away instead, as I've had it for about 1.5 year, and it says on the label that you have to finish it within 9 months after opening...
Moving on to the next product: the andrélon perfecte puntjes shampoo. I Still use it and I will keep using it, but it will probably be at least 2 months before this one's empty, especially now that I have a tester of a very good shampoo from dove, it's the intense repair shampoo and it makes my hair all soft and shiny, but I will try to finish the andrélon shampoo before using the dove one again. Oh well, I probably will make a few exceptions ^^
Then the last product: the I love... Mango and papaya bubble bath&shower crème. I use this one almost everyday, though I enjoy using my sweety pie jelly from lush as well, but meantime the bottle is almost half empty, I'd say there's still 5/8 left.

That's it for today, have a wonderfull 2011

xx Eva

vrijdag 31 december 2010

Happy New Year!

Hi!
Happy new year to everyone! Hopefully 2011 will bring you nothing but good and happiness and stuff like that =)

I know that it still is a few hours untill the big moment, but I just thought I'd already post, because otherwise you might not read it on time. Not that that's such a big deal, but still.
I'm really exited to go live 2011 to the max, though I wish it would stay 2010 forever... I've had such a great time! The new year will probably be just as good, if not better, but with the whole emigrating thing coming up, having to miss my friends and family, and having to learn a new language and stuff, it will probably be a rough start. Even though it will be hard, I will still make this year the best one yet, and I'm hoping you guys will do the same, as, even though I don't know you, everyone, everyone, deserves a great life, so why not make a fresh start or at least just improve your current life? You could at least try, right? ;-)

For me, it will be a fresh start. Really fresh actually. I mean, I'm moving to Sweden... In The Middle Of The Winter. Woah.
But I guess everything happens for a reason, and probably I'll find the greatest friends there, so I will feel like I'm in Holland again. Oh well, I'll see..

Anyway, happy new year again, and make sure this is the best year you've had (yet!)!

xx Eva