NAILART: zebra battle

Quick update. Tomorrow I have my first exam about personality psychology. YIKES. 
Normally I'd like to rest & relax a bit (afterwards) on the day of an exam. 
Let's stay realistic: these exams are exhausting, aren't they? 
So I like to reward myself (or comfort in case of a bad exam) with some shopping or eating sushi... 
Guess what; friday is my next exam already, and it's the most difficult one of this period. (or that's what they say)
It's psychiatry, a course you have to learn by heart in the most extreme form: 
bradykinesia, amnesia, kataplexia, apraxia, acathasia, hypotonia, afonia, ... IAAAAAAAAAAAA. 
WORTSALAT: Mix all kind of words without any connection. You see: it's already driving me crazy :) 
So thumbs up, will need it & see you next weekend, when the blog-lock is done.

I give you some nail art I've made a while ago. Zebra nails. 
You have to put on a base coat, and make with a nailart pen some lateral curved stripes. 
It's not perfectly done I think, but I love the total image when you give it a glimpse. 

Which color do you prefer? The pink-silver VS the blue-green?

BLUE-GREEN

VS

SILVER - PINK

xoxo

Outfit of the night: disco-ball-lookalike-eighties-dress

The nillies. My time. What should I talk about when I'm retiring and have my grandchilderen coming on a visit? Would it be the conflicting forces on several areas (see: political, economic, social or natural aspects) or rather the uniforcing social media? That's the core concept of this period imo. We've been overwhelmed by facebook, twitter, instagram, soundcloud, spotify, hyves, youtube,... and that are just the most leading ones. Caring = sharing, it's the rule rather than the exception. Odd isn't it? And even in the domain of fashion, whe can't live without them. Not only blogsters but also fashion magazines, brands, webshops and others can't help but to be keen to join in. If I have to give one word to define the nillies; it would be hodgepodge. And after my demonstration, that term speaks for itself.

The eighties. That's the period I had wanna live. An intersection of bright colors & punk. I love the prototypic vision of the disco people. They looked so funny and simultaneously also fashionable. A complex image with glitters, colors, leggings and polkadots. When you say eighties, I say cool music with funny upside-down moves. Love it.

Remember the dress from this post? I felt directly in love with this disco-ball-lookalike-dress. It clearly reminds me of these golden eighties, where surplus glitter & color wasn't immediately taboo. 
I was a bit choosy how to combine this, since I wanted all eyes on the dress. So I dressed down with simple black.

 

wearing: Dress & belt (thrifted) - boots (the fab shoes) - earrings (Veritas) - bag (Essentiel)

BTW: Here's a good illustration of the eighties with a nillies electronic touch.

Happy eighties xoxo

Finishing touches: Hair Crystals

I’ve forgot to post this finishing touch of the day, in the resonance of the holidays. I mean, I used it for the holidays (nye), but in fact, you can use it for every occasion you want.  Only, it will lose it’s effect behind my study desk…

After numerous crystals to decorate your eyes, body, nails and even teeth,  SPOTTED: the hair crystals. 

I've found them in ‘Kruidvat’ for only €1,79 but I suppose you can get them in a lot of drugstores.  

As I mentioned I have this glitz&glam-phobia, this is quite a good new gadget to optimize my obsession.

This is how we do it:

1 Take your pair of crystals. 

2 Cut off a strip with a pair of scissors. (If you have long hair, you might need more strips for one lock of hair.) 

3 Pick a lock of hair from a place that you want. (I chose a piece just behind my ear.) 

4 Remove the white film and paste it in your well-held-together lock of hair. 

5 Heat up the straightener and hold on about 5 second/crystal, and glide along one time. 

6 Remove the plastic foil & tadaaaaa.

 

As I said, you can choose a place where you want, but don’t pick the wrong one… You don’t want to look like the Barbie from a child who just came back from the hairdressers, will you? (and by that I mean a lot of crystals in your pony or something) Just keep it subtle & natural.

Most of the hair crystals will stay in for a couple of weeks, the edition I used is less promising I think, although I had to scrape them away when I washed my hair. 

Like it? You can find some crystals over here and here. 

Keep me posted about your expiriences with it!

xoxo

AD: Statement jewelry

In the past, I had only eyes for earrings –from big to small, from black to colors – I guess I simply wasn’t that accessories-girl, I supposed I didn’t have the feeling for it or maybe it's not that easy to please me, right?

2012: the hype of the statement jewelry…BAM, I fell totally in love. My view regarding jewelry was tossed & turned. And still, I love this BIG necklaces. Little disadvantage: they’re often a bit costly...

eFoxCity shows me that things can change. The roots of this shop are situated in China, the Walhalla of cheap & cool stuff.  They offer a wide variety of clothing and accessories (such as cheap ladies coats and black prom dresses and cheap pageant dresses) and that for very affordable prices. I simply love their jewelry (with a big exclamation mark behind the necklaces!).

You definitely have to check this out. This is my top selection.

 

Have you picked your faves yet?

CURRENT LOVES: sale

SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALES. yaaaay.
I love sales, the time that you can buy and buy twice as much. 
If it's 50% off of course. In summer sales, I always go one of the first days; when there is an enormous choice, although these big shops (h&m,zara), sometimes cheat, hanging a lot of 'waste' between the sales. 
During winter sales, I'm shopping from behind the screen. (I can't allow myself one day off from learning.) Sometimes, I take a quick peek after an exam in some stores, I guess that's also gonna happen this year: since my last exam is on 1 february. But until then, I'm making a list of my favourites, and the pieces I think about the most, I wil order one of these.
I present you: my current loves ♥

1 blouse 2 pants 3 necklace 4 dress

1 dress 2 blouse 3 leggings 4 tregging 5 dress

1 leggings 2 aztek boots 3 motor boots

1 earcuff 2 pastel statement necklace 3 fluo statement necklace 

  1 indian top 2 suede leggings 3 tunic 4 trenchcoat

 1 dress 2 nail art kit 3 pants

Do you have picked or ordered your favourite items yet?

PERSONAL: friendz eventz nye

As I promised; I would give you guyz an update of my NYE. To be honest, this night is more black than bright. (And by that I mean drunky drunk, I sure do.) Let's put this puzzle pieces together. 
So after a miserable forenoon of learning, I made myself ready as I showed you here. We congregated @ 6 pm to give our presents. It's kinda tradition to meet every NYE with these lovely friendz to eat some delicious food, give presents to a person on the little paper we pulled before,(we even eat these tiny papers after the lottery draw, haha) and dance together the night away. So on the rythm of bacardi-william lawson-martini-fiero-smirnoff-... (yes indeed: the game that you have to complete some kind of brand or object, or you lose) we gave our presents. I consider it rather more pleasant than the just 'hey-here-you-go-your-present'. I received a package of starbucks with some caramel sirup to make some delicious coffee! (and a bottle of wine) Perfect to stay high-concentraded between my exams: thanks Tommie! The other presents were also quite lovely imo; tshirt&scarf, zara necklace and an odor-making buddha. 

Afterwards, we drawed up to the table @ some nice winter bbq and drank 'some' glasses of wine. When we arrived @ the party (some local nye party), we were already tipsy. I guess this progressed in a heavy-like way.

  Countdown and DANCE.

I've made a wise selection of photo's, because there were a lot of 'improper', to say the least. Each year it's kinda competition between us who has got the most scandalous photo's, well this year we've an ex aequo I guess. So I will save you from this monstrosities. And I see you thinking, but don't act like an angel, nye is just THAT drunk event, isn't it?

And well after this lovely night; I had to attend 2 familyparties, and I said nay twice 2 this delicious food. In Belgium we call it: at night big Jan, in the morning Dafalgan. And even that didn't appease this serious hangover. Anywayz; I received a lot of money, an Inno-giftcheck, win for life (€3 yay!) and a lovely ring. 
Thanks to all who were part of this lovely times. ❤❤❤

      

  

xoxo

Outfit of the night: NYE

H to the angover? Not only from this lovely party at NYE, but also from this amply abundance of food, presents & festive time. 
My good intensions for this new year? At first... maybe lose these festive pounds? 
I could say I'm gonna quit smoking this year; in that case I would consider myself as pinocchio and a pretty little liar, because I don't. In fact I love smokin' my dear gauloises. And I knooooow, it's bad for the health and so, and so, and so onnnn... You have to die by something, no? (Categorize this as a professional smoke-excuse, haha.) But when I use my brains; I'm planning to stop before my graduation, taking a fresh start. (I heard that your lungs fully recover in 5 years of no-smoke) So that should be a good intention for the year 2016. (at best of course)
And that brings me to my last good intention: making good exams in january (and june; but that's still far away). And the only way to attain this: S to the tudy. 

That's it for today; an update of my NYE will come soon, but like every year, it waz f to the abulous!

I wish you all a lovely year full of happiness and beautiful moments!

wearing: dress (primark) - jacket (T2 thrifted) - tights (esprit) - earrings (h&m) - bag (essentiel)- shoes (thefabshoes)

xoxo