Happy X-mas!

Happy Christmas my sweet pies!

May father Christmas make all your wishes and dreams come true.
May you have a great day with friends and family.
May you love, laugh, sing and dance cheerfully.

♥ Love, Vivian

Christmas Wishlist

Hello my glamorous girls,

Ah, first world problems… What to ask for Christmas (or my birthday)? What to buy for a girl who has everything she needs and isn’t materialistic whatsoever?  Probably a question that struck my parents a couple years ago, when I decided I was too old to play with Barbie’s anymore. 

It appeared to me that some of their creativity has faded away into nagging about my presents. This usually resulted in me asking things I didn't need (except for my absolutely amazing watch). But this year something changed in me. The changes are so extreme that I have an entire list of things I want. Today I wanted to share my list for you and maybe give some ideas those of you who have the same problem as I apparently used to have.

1.       A Molskine Notebook, Star Wars edition.

I love Star Wars, a lot. Anything SW would make me happy, but the combination of SW and Notebooks is like heaven. This notebook was just made for me and I think that I might as well allow myself to ask for it as a Christmas present.

MAC Lipstick And Blush

Goodday my fancy fall leaves,

Let's review some awesome MAC products that remind me of fall! Fall is my favorite time of the year, because of all the beautiful colours and scents. We can all enjoy fall till the 21st of December, that's when winter officially sticks his head around the corner. To be honest I'll just drag the fall spirit into the wet & freezing cold winter in Holland. It seems strange to me that California stays warm, even during the winter. Let's be real girls, California isn't cold, ever... period.
Anyways...On todays menu we have a burgundy lipstick and a warm blush. I bought them at Harrods a couple weeks back but today it's time to review them.

Personal: My Bucket List.

Hello my marvelous masterpieces,


Today I want to talk to you about bucket lists. What are bucket lists? Why do I have one? Do you need one?

First thing first: What is a bucket list?  A bucket list is a list with things you want to do before you die. Many people think that a bucket list only consists of things that are hard to accomplish, like becoming a millionair or owning an Audi R8. But that's not true. You can see that in a minute when I go through some of the things on my  bucket list.

Now, you might be wondering: Why would I need a bucket list and why do you have one? What if you die before you've accomplished all of your listings? Or what if you accomplish everything on your bucket list and probably won't die soon? Does that take away all of your spirit once you have nothing to live up to?

Review: Sleek Pout Paint.

Good afternoon my delightful cherry bonbons,

While in London, I bought a Sleek Pout Paint in the colour 159 Port. I wanted to buy one for a pretty long time, but in Holland we're only able to get them online and I didn't want to pay 3.95 euros for the shipping of two or three pout paints.
So I was very glad I saw Sleek products in Superdrug. At first I wanted to buy the blue one and the white one for things like halloween. Then I thought to myself that Halloween make up would be cheaper and less sticky on my skin. That's why I opted for Port. It seemed like the perfect colour for Fall and Winter.
Want to know my opinion on this Pout Paint? Then continue reading.

London Haul!

Hello my Brainy Beauties!

Today is I'll be showing you this quick haul. I didn't buy a whole lot since I mainly went for sightseeing. Though I thought it might be fun to show you what I've bought before I choose some items to review :)

Short: London!

Hello my adorable bunnies! 

This is a short update :)  
I just got back from a 4 day trip to London which was amazing! I'm exhausted but satisfied. I can recommend London to everyone but do note it is very expensive! You do need to save up but it's worth it. I'll be having a no-buy month in November but don't worry I have enough stuff to review and ramble about ;-)

What you can expect from this London trip:

• A Haul (of course!!)
• Reviews, I haven't decided how much yet.
• My experiences
• Pictures
• and more rambling!

well this was a really short update but I hope you like it! first blog post will be up tomorrow! 

♥ Love, Vivian.

7 Deadly Sins Of Beauty Tag

Hello my sweet pastries!

I know, I know, long time no see but hey at least I’m trying!  I’m supposed to study my German for tomorrows test, or else I’m going to fail miserably. It’s really hard and I’m really mad at myself for not doing it. You might say: “just do it” but if you say that it means you don’t understand how miserable procrastination is. I’d say it’s like drug addiction, once you notice how far you’re in it’s too late or really hard to get out. Since I do want to succeed in life, I’ll continue to fight it, little steps at a time. 

Now I’m starting to wonder why I’m making you think that I’m miserable.. I’m not and this blog post was not meant to be for me to complain about procrastination.. it’s for a TAG! Yes, I’m going to do a tag today. I’m really excited about it! It’s the 7 deadly sins of beauty tag :D Everyone has at least one of them, perfection doesn’t exist in the human DNA. So here it is:

This picture has nothing to do with any of the content of this blog post.

GREED: What is your most inexpensive beauty item? What is your most expensive?

Random: Working In The Train

I’m writing this blog post while sitting in a train. I usually don’t do a lot of thing while sitting in a train. The things I do consist out of playing Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja and randomly texting my dad which city I’m at. Remind me that I do that in a minute. This time I wanted to do something that wouldn’t “waste” my time. So instead of doing my homework, I’m going to write this blog post about working at different places than your own home.

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Review from Portugal Haul

Hey my gorgeous ladybugs! Remember that I said I would review the 4 beauty products I got in Portugal? Well, here it finally is!

In this review you will see 2 INGLOT products, a Pimkie eau de toilette and a mini Sephora shower gel. I'm totally in love with these products even though I don't use them everyday.

Sickness and boredom...

Hi my lovely butterflies!

Have you ever noticed that you get an extreme case of boredom when you're sick? Well, I have! I've been sick for the past 4 days and I'm BORED! It's terrible... and to be honest, I haven't done anything but sob and hanging around for the past 3 days. Today (the 4th day) I decided to do someting other than taking naps all day. So I tried exercising, didn't go very well.. I blow dried my hair and ermahgerd that was boring.
But then I remembered that I always do some crazy arse make up looks on myself when I'm sick. I mean no one is around so I can do what I want right? This time I didn't go for a crazy look but I just took pretty much all of the blue eyeproducts I own and slammed them on my eye. Then I decided to take pictures and now I'm showing them to you! Have fun and stuff..

Look at that intens look in my eyes!! LOL

Hmm.. I thought that these were the first facepart pictures I was going to post, but I remember that I posted a picture of my ear in my Portugal haul XD

Would you guys (my lovely butterflies) like to see a tutorial on this look?



♥ Love, Vivian

Tattoos!!

Let’s talk tattoos today!

I know I want tattoos someday. But that made me wonder: since tattoos are a socially accepted things nowadays, do any of you want tattoos or do any of you already have tattoos? Let me talk about the tattoos I want and show some pictures of tattoos I adore!

First the tattoos I want. I’m very clear about this, but please note I’m only 16, things can change. I think I want 6 tattoos or at least 2. I know it’s quite a lot but they have a story behind them!

The first one I most surely want to get is one on my back that says:

Scars show us where we have been,

they do not dictate where we are going.

The story behind it: I’ve had a Scoliosis surgery in November 2011 and it had (and still has) a huge impact on my life. It was a tough surgery but I’m a champion J. I will write a blogpost on my surgery so everybody can understand what Scoliosis is and what the surgery was like for me.

The picture shown below is the placement I want for this tattoo:

Portugal Haul!

Today is going to be my first haul! woohoo!  I went on a vacation with my mother to Portugal, Costa de Lisboa to be precise. And since I spend four days in Lisbon there was no way I couldn't have shopped. So here are the super cute things I've bought.
Btw. did you read the super cute in a annoying bimbo voice? because it was meant to sound like that.

Expand me!

I procrastinate

I procrastinate. 

Yup, there I said it. I procrastinate and I hate it. I already see people saying: “then why don’t you just do thing? It’s easy right?”. Well, no, it’s not. I used to think I started procrastinating when I got into high school, but when I look back I know that I did this all of my life. And trust me it’s not easy to just turn something you did your entire life around. 

I’m almost 16, why can’t I just do the things I want and need to do? I mean as an example: I planned to spend my vacation (7 weeks) on writing blog posts so I could spend more time on school. There’s less than 3 weeks left and this is the first article I’m writing. I should’ve called my blog: The procrastinator. So that everyone would know that I’m a terrible blogger (or basically a terrible worker). And it’s not the job itself but getting started. And don’t get me wrong, I love blogging but as soon as I tell myself: write this article, I don’t. 

 I never ever completed a single to-do list. Are the tasks too hard or did you put to many on the to-do list? Nope, my brain just says:  “later”.  And I’m stupid and not disciplined enough to tell my brain: “but I want to do it. I need to do it and I’m going to do it”. Brain wins the fight. 

Before I knew that it was procrastination I thought I had the fear of failure. And as soon as I started thinking I had the fear of failure my brain was like: “you are afraid of tests and doing normal things like calling people, I didn’t know that before!” . And now I also have fear of failure. Congrats Vivian!

And now I’m starting to notice: I talk about my brain as if it’s a different person, while in fact it’s me. Why do I do that? It’s just part of the problem I guess. 

I have so many tips on how to stop procrastinating but up till now I haven’t used them correctly or something. So I’m going to throw myself on the nearest object and sob like a Disney princess and after that I might post this on my blog.

♥ Love, Vivian

Fashion Through The Ages: 2000s

Do you still know what the fashion trends from 2000-2009 were? No? Yes?  Well, today I’ll be showing you what the trends from the 2000s were.

I think you remember most of these trends. The main trends were the ugg boots, high tops, hoodies and skinny jeans. There was also the fake fur trend, which I'm not a big fan of and lastly shown is this picture is the ripped/distressed jeans trend. In the decade we live in now (2010s) we upgrated the jeans to shorts. Shorts are hot right now.

Of course there are streams of styles that were popular in the 2000s. Want to see what they were?

Picture Challenge Day 4: Playing with focus

Today we're playing with focus. What I did was I made a little set up with one of my globes (I'm a sucker for globes and stuff) in the garden and let the camera focus on different places in the set-up. Let's see how I did:

You can click on the pictures to see them bigger :-)


♥ Love, Vivian

Colours Of Make-up: Pink Nailpolish Vol. 1

I adore looking at make-up  just by itself. I also adore looking at the colours. That's why I decided to show you the "Colours Of Make-up"
This is number 1 and it's pink nailpolish!  Let's start:

Pretty Polish!

YR summer products

Did you know:  This blog is actually meant to be a beauty blog instead of a lifestyle blog. Yup, I have pretty much written about lifestyle only. But not today!  Today is going to be a review of the new line from Yves Rocher called: Tradition de hammam.

I have only two products from the line. That’s why I added two more Yves Rocher products to review!

Picture Challenge Day 3: Soft Focus

Yves Rocher products

Today the challenge was to make a photograph with soft focus. I don't know how to make on with my camera so I used photoshop. Of course I could have done better but this works.

There will be a review of the products shown in the picture. I think I'll be posting that when I get back from school :-)

Picture Challenge Day 2: Strong Colour Contrast

HI!

Sorry for not posting my picture challenge!  I've been really sick, but I guess I'm better now so here's the new challenge picture:

Don't come between me and my coffee!  lol

This picture symbolises my "love" for coffee. I mean I could live without it, but I don't want to :-)
My mom thinks I'm addicted, since I drink coffee every day. So tomorrow will be the start of my 21 days without coffee, hahah.
Just so you don't get worried: I drink only one cup of coffee a day. I have no idea why my mom thinks I can't live without coffee...  we'll see

♥ Love, Vivian

Personal Picture Challenge

Hey guys!,

My mother got a booklet called "Hot Shots" by Kevin Meredith. It's a book with pictures that photographer Kevin Meredith made and he's giving an explanation on them, in order for you to make every picture your best picture!

Happy Time!

Today I’ll be introducing a new subject I call: Happy Time! Because it’s important to feel happy and I feel like everybody needs some sunshine in their life. Today I will tell you some of the things that make me happy.

Cupcakes!

I mean who doesn’t get happy when they see those delicious cakes?  They’re bright, fun and delightful! I make them all the time (and also eat them all the time). I’d never want to give up cupcakes, I’d rather give up chocolate (which is also something I really, really like)! 

Yum!

Power Naps!

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My lovely cat, ain't he cute? ♥

Feeling tired or sleepy during work? Out of energy?  Well forget about coffee! Power Naps are totally hot right now!

A Power Nap is a short nap that you take during the day to regain your energy. In just 5-20 minutes you could feel like you had a full night of sleep. But how do you take a power nap?

Too Much Blush?

Blush, it can brighten your complexion but it can also make you look like a clown. So I’ll try to answer the commonly asked questions : What is too much blush? And how should we apply blush in the 21st century?