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Relaunching the blog... Again

So, last September my computer died, the blog did as well. Then I thought I solved the problem and started blogging again, but then it died completely. Unfortunately I didn't have a computer for 3 months, so the blog kinda died with it.
But now I'm back! I'll try to update it atleast once a week (bearing in mind I study at full time and work part time) but as often as I can.
 
Right now I'm doing a blogpost about the ELF (Eyes Lips Face) 100 pc Marble Eyeshadow Palette and as soon as I'm done with that I'm going to compose some various posts to hopefully get buffer :)

I'm on holiday!

Haha, so I'm going away to my boyfriends granddad's birthday party and so I thought I'd show you another of my interest, namely photographing.
These pictures were taken either when I was on a weeks field trip with my class, or when I went to Gotland with my siblings and boyfriend.
 
Enjoy :)
 
Haha I was kinda bored and decided to play with some makeup I rarely use, this was the finished look :P
 
 
Well that was just a minor picture-bomb for you.
Have a great weekend!
 

New Camera :D

So today I spontaneously bought a camera :D A Canon PowerShot SX240 HS (reminding you all that cameras have different names in different countries for some weird reason).

Apart from buying the camera I happened to buy to pair shoes (well four since I bought one pair for my sister and one pair as Mother's Day gift for my mother)

Now I will try to figure out a good setting and filming place to film a tutorial for the blog :) I've fought about this tutorial for a while, nothing fancy at all just something I would like to share.

As of now you will have to live with pictures of the shoes I bought for my mother, sister and me :)


My mothers, that's her favourite colour :) Hope she'll like them


My sisters, she bought a pair last year quite similar to these but they didn't fit so I found these and asked her if I should buy them to her (and I will get her old ones :D)




I actually hate sandals for some reason, just can't seem to find any I like so I decided why not go full out and get a pair that's semiugly but still really fun to have :)


The wether here is btw really weird, it was sunny and warm when I went to the mall so I only wore mini-shorts and a t-shirt then it started to drizzle, then it got sunny and now it's pouring down rain again...

Anyways, of to film a tutorial :D

Girls night, hair cut and cat poo

So this will be a post about a lot of things.

I'll start with Saturday, me and a friend was studying for an exam and decided to have a girls night afterwards as a reward. We ate sushi and I did her make up. She rearly wears eyeshadow so it's fun to do something extra :)
Since I wanted to have a lot of options I kinda just threw down everything that I might use depending on what she was supposed to wear. The pic below illustrates how much (even though it might not look like much) I took with me. Bear in mind that we were only two :P



It's maybe 150 eyeshadows, 15 eyeliners, several lipliners some lipsticks and glosses, kinda much for only two looks :P
I have to count all my eyeshadows some day just for fun. I think it's around 400-500 now but I'm not sure. Threw away a lot of old shadows when I moved (even though I probably still have increased the number of shadow since then ^^)

To subject number two: hair cut :D
I've been cutting my hair for soon 10 years, before that my mum or sister cut it (only been to a hairdresser once and I was so young I got a Barbie doll in reward for being good ^^). I also cut friends hair and even my boyfriend.
For a long time now I knew I had to cut my hair 'cause it was kinda damaged but I just haven't found the time or motivation to do it.
Before today... or rather tonight. I'm home alone and I wasn't tired so I stayed up watching TV and then decided to cut my hair. At 1 am... that's kinda usual for me though, I think the latest (or perhaps earliest) was 3 am.
Anyways.
I really just wanted to cut the edges since I'm trying to save out my hair and make it one lenght instead of the sequences I've had for ages now. Then I got an idea... I've thought about it for a while now, to braid the hair and then cut it. Not like chop it of but trim the edges of the part that's not braided.
So that's what I did :P
I had to trim it a little bit after (and it's really sequenced again) but all in all it turned out okay. Alot shorter than I initially wanted but hey, it's after all spring/summer so why not, and it will grow out again :)
The best part was that I cut alot of hair that I would've had problem to cut any other way. But I suppose I have to wait until it's completely dry to see if there's something I have to change/cut.

And this leads us on to part three, the least fun part...
While I was in the bathroom cutting my hair I noticed that my cat had pooped on the bathroom carpet and inside a magazine lying on the floor.
The funny thing was that she'd turned the first page, pooped and then closed the magazine again so you didn't notice that she'd done it. Smart cat :P
So then I had to clean that up aswell.

End of today's ranting and maybe I should go to sleep since it's nearly 3 am and I have school tomorrow :P
Nighty night

Work, school, work, school

Okay so this thing about having a blog and both working and studying full time doesn't seem to be the best.
I actually got fired (due to lack of money) but the day before my (supposedly) last day my boss asked me if I wanted to work for another two months since another girl should be gone for the two months. So now I'm "stuck" there for another month (since this happened a month ago).

Well to summarize my life when I'm not in school I'm at work or sleeping. And when I'm not doing any of that I'm being with my friends, boyfriend and kitten (who's not so much of a kitten anymore).

I'm going to buy a new camera soon so I can do some filming reviews of products and tutorials.

Now I'm back to my books for the exam I have on Tuesday but I'll give you a pics of my cat when she was just 9 weeks old

The Horrors of Technology

This blog post has nothing what so ever to do with makeup I just have to write this!

So amongst the things in my life that's not makeup I'm a complete technology freak. And one of the first (or more like the 100th) rules in technology is that when your about to do a large update or change something large on the computer you Should do a back up if anything goes to hell.
This rule does not only apply to computers but everything around technology. If you have an external hard drive you should do a back up on it, if you have an iPad or any tablet you should do a back up AND you should absolutely no matter what do a back up on your smartphone! The horrors you'll feel when you do an update and the phone doesn't work!

So during a lecture today my cellphone wanted to do a System update. It did sound harmful and I decided "Why not, I'm stuck here anyways".
The first thing it told me was "You won't be able to use your phone or make any emergency calls during this update". I thought that if anything were to happen during that lecture there was alot of phones to make emergency calls so I pressed update.
It worked fine and after the update it Tried to restart.... It was on the loading screen forever and then didn't work what so ever! I tried to reboot after reboot but nothing helped it was dead.

When I got home I tried to google any soloutions but the only thing everybody said was to factory reset the phone which I didn't want to do since I haven't done a backup. I tried and tried for two hours and then just left the phone and decided to leave it until tomorrow and if it still didn't work then do a backup (for now it booted I just couldn't use it) and then do the factory reset.
Came back two hours later, looked at the phone and it wanted me to lock up the simcard which I couldn't do before and now the phone works again :D
It's very very slow and some things still is a bit fucked up but all in all it works :)

Use of language...

Okay, so this post is not about make up, or at least not make up products, more make up-gurus.

I was watching a make up tutorial on YouTube just a few minutes ago. It was made by an Italian girl on Italian, at first I didn't notice the comments but one of top rated was about her not speaking English in her video.
For me this seems perfectly normal for more than one reasons.

1. Large parts of the Italian population don't speak English very well. If you come to the big tourist cities sure, they will know some English and some of them very well, but for the most parts Italians don't speak English.
2. When you upload videos to something like YouTube and it gets viewed you probably will face hate. If you're not completely comfortable with the language someone probably will comment that as well.
3. If you're not interested in international viewers then why put up with the hate according to reason number two?

There's probably alot more reasons and I very well know that everything isn't as black and white as I put it there but still, why is it so hard to understand why one want to talk one's mother language instead of a language one might not speak very well?!

Now for me it's a different thing, I see English as my second language and alot of times I find myself talking English even to myself (not saying my English is perfect because I know it's not). And since I'm only writing and not showing everything on camera it's alot harder to get everyone to understand (especially when I want to reach a larger group of people than only Swedes).

Which brings me on to another thing, how hard is it to watch a tutorial without sound (if it bothers you that it's not in English)?
I would understand if the person watching is new to putting on make up and actually want it spelled out, but as soon as you get into make up you can get things out of just watching. I wouldn't mind watching and arabic, greek, african video that's not in English as long as it's filmed so you get the purpose of what the person is doing.

I suppose this is enough ranting and I want to give somewhat a shoutout to two people who I follow that makes videos or blog post's in more than one language

http://www.youtube.com/user/MissChievous Swizz-Canadian girl who does most of her videos in English but some of them in German
http://www.23rdmarch.com/ Polish girl who writes in both English and Polish (which is good for me since I wouldn't understand shit otherwise)

Long time no see

Okay, so I never figured I would be this swamped by school but I seriously haven't got the time to do much but studying and working.
Since I'm let go from work last March I hopefully have the time to blog a little bit more than I have been doing.

Anyways I'm going to share some of my thoughts the last couple of days before I'm going back to my studying (got an exam this friday).

After a quite short and weird winter the spring is on the run at least for a couple of days now. And what is more fun than make up in the spring and summer? Alot of events to go to and so on.
But it's not all of the days that make up with foundation and everything seems to appealing, but wearing no make up doesn't seem to fun either. So the solution? Well everybody already heard about Tinted moisturizer but might find it a bit hard finding one that's covering enough or not to expensive.
So the soloution to that? Some might already heard about that as well, it's definately not my idea, but for those of you who haven't this is the greatest thing ever. Simply blend your foundation with your moisturizer. The great thing is that you don't have to spend alot on a foundation, any drugstore brand is great. The moisturizer can be totally drugstore but I would buy one that's a little bit on the expensive side (not the most expensive but not the cheapest one) and if you're exposed to sun, buy a moisturizer or foundation with SPF in it! One less product to wear.
What I tend to love is to use a matte finish on the foundation so you can skip the powder. A dewy foundation with a dewy moisturizer = horrible mess :P

Have flaky winter lips? A toothbrush with a lip sugar scrub (or make your own with sugar and water or lemonjuice) and scrub the lips until smooth, then remember to put on lipbalm, especially before bed and when you just woke up.

Last but not least, which make up product do you have lots of?
Usually people have alot of eyeshadows, eyeliners and lipsticks. Very few have alot of blushes, bronzers, mascaras and foundations. All the kinda everyday use products. A thing I've found myself buying alot the last few months are foundations. Different coloures and different finishes, and I use them for different things and occations.
It actually started with me buying a foundation from Loreal and one from Maybelline, neither one matched my skintone but together they were quite okay, but since I bought one earlier than the other I finished the first much earlier and the other one was left standing on my make up table when I decided to try out different foundations.
To make a long story short, foundations are the one thing I love to look at.

New year

Okay, so I didn't have the time to blog anything last year as I had hoped.
And now I've got exams coming up so I have to study like an idiot to that aswell.

BUT, I've been thinking about things to do, makeup to play with and alot of themes.
One theme I think I will get to first is Grey's Anatomy. Usually the girls don't have to much makup on, but sometimes I just love (especially) Addison's and Callie's make up, so I will do some from there.

And then some colorful yet really simple make up's aswell.
Oh well. Don't have anything more to say right now so have a nice week end!

Merry Christmas

Now all the christmas shopping is done. Only the wrapping left, or well to three of my five gifts, or well three of five people I'm giving gifts tomorrow, I still have one gift left but that will be for after the holidays since my boyfriend's celebrating with his family up in the north.

Maybe I'll get another post up later depending on my lazyness. Really don't have much else to do but I'm really tired from walking in shops for about 9 hours. Oh yes the joy of being late with the shopping :P

If I'm not getting any other posts up before I wish you all a very merry christmas!

Absence

So I know I haven't been writing here for awhile now and I really really wanted to. I've had a cold now for two weeks and in addition to that last week I got another cold that decided to *peep* my sense of balance so now I havn't been able to do much besides lay in bed. Or that's what I'm supposed to do.
To ramble a little bit more about that there's a point in illness where the body tells you to stop, rest and take care of yourself. When you don't it'll get worse and worse untill you do. I'm well past that point and I still force myself to go to school (well only on the mandatory things) and work (not so mandatory but I still do it). Keeping this in mind, when I'm actually home I'm so tired and dizzy that all I can do is sleep or do something that doesn't make me use my head (i.e. watching Grey's Anatomy).

Now I'm feeling a bit more motivated to write so if my boyfriend didn't bring his camera with him I'm going to take pictures of everything I got when I was absence from the blog and do another post about it. Also I'll continue my blog-post about ELF Cream Eye Shadows so I can post that soon aswell.

For now I'm hopeing everybody's doing better than me and haveing a great week!

Makeupaholic

Okay, so my sister and I went out yesterday to buy presents for my mother's birthday today. I got home with alot for myself, and doing this a little bit like a "haul" I suppose I'm going to show you everything I got (for myself since I wrapped her presents allready). That'll be in a later post since I haven't got the camera here right now

Now about makeupaholic. I don't know how you feel but I've got alot of makeup, not super much but alot more than I actually use on regular basis. And even though I've got makup to create looks for a whole year without needing to use much twice I always want more and more and more!
So far November (and including yesterday) I've ordered twice from ELF and in addition to that I bought three mascaras, powder, two foundations, a lipliner, a lipgloss, two eyeliners (both black but one pencil and one felt-tip pen). Can't come up with anything else now but I'm sure I've gotten something more just because I wanted it.

I really shouldn't be allowed to shop anything else this year!

Alot of things going on

Sorry for the slight absence lately, I'm on my way to do the next ELF-review but I had exams this week and also IKEA was here to get some inspiration on how to decorate small rooms/apartments.

Tonight I was out on dinner with some friends, watched some movies (and cute baby-pet clips on youtube). Was really tired, but when I walked home I suddenly got really awake again so that's why I'm typing at 3 am :P
My little kitten has been alone for quite awhile now aswell so she "talks" alot and want to play with me, no sleep for me :P I might even tidy my makeup-table since I didn't have the time to do it before IKEA came yesterday (Friday).


Just to give you an idea of how large parts of my makeup looks like when trown in a drawer looks like.
Quite hard to do your makeup when it's thrown like this. But I bought some boxes to try to get everything organized. Only bought two since I didn't know if they'll fit in the drawer, but by the looks of it I think they will.

Tomorrow (today) I'll go on an ice hockey match with some people from my work and we have dinner after it aswell so that'll be fun, and on Sunday it's the first Sunday of Advent so there will be a market in town and also alot of other things going on so I'm planning on go there with my boyfriend just to check it out (and most likely find alot of things to buy). I'm not a Christmas-spirit kind of person, but it's fun nontheless.

Now I'll quit my word-vomiting and do something. Have a nice weekend everyone!

New shoes

Okay, so I bought new shoes last Saturday, really loved them and for the first time today I wanted to wear them out.
But obviously these aren't shoes you are supposed to wear just to look at, 'cuase suddenly the whole fricking heel fell of. Didn't even do anything wrong, just walked.
That's not okay, so now I have to go to the shop and change them. Just have to calm down a bit first so I don't go there and kill the first person starting to argue with me.

So these were the shoes that broke

And I wonder if I dare to wear these out since this incident

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