First days in London

Hey y’all!

So, as it turns out, I moved to London on 2nd November and I guess I’m going to share some amazingness with you guys.

Let’s start from the beginning… After the heartfelt goodbyes at the airport, it was time to step on the plane. I had never flown with a plane before and really didn’t know what to expect. So as the plane took off I felt as if I had no control over my body, I was really nauseous as well, so I couldn’t say it was a very enjoyable experience. Same thing with landing, it’s like you’re in an elevator that’s going 50 floors in 4 seconds or something like that…

After landing I took a coach to London, everything went smoother than expected and I even had time to kill before I could meet my friend who offered me accommodation until I found my own place. Since I got of at Marble Arch, a huge Primark was just around the corner and well.. that’s where I spent most of my free time that night. Then I met my friend and took 2 buses to get to her place, the route went by Trafalgar Square, Westminster Abbey and I could also see the London Eye.

Next day we had a nice day out- lots of sightseeing and such.

We started by going to the Tower Bridge.

Then next up was the Tower itself.

Trafalgar Square in daylight. Of course I had to climb up next to the lion.

Couple hours fast forward..

Well, I guess you cannot see much, but use your imagination and know that that is the dome of St. Pauls Cathedral in lights.

That was pretty much it for the first day. The next day we went shopping (I didn’t buy anything) and also to the National History Museum which was awesome! I really want to go back some day when I have more time on my hands. Then came Monday, I guess… I started looking for my own place and a job, so I stayed at Starbucks for hours. Found my place but I haven’t found a job just yet.

Anyway, those were my first few days in London and I guess I’ll keep you posted.

With love,

Janne

Maybelline Eyestudio Lasting Drama Gel Eyeliner 24h Review

Gosh, product names keep getting longer and longer, aren’t they? Just ridiculous.

Well, the product isn’t ridiculous. It’s bloody fabulous and as soon as I saw it on Estonian beauty counters in September (again ridiculous, they had it in UK like a year ago. WTF, Estonian counters, WTF????).

Time to highlight the perks:

• Staying power is really good.
• Doesn’t smudge, budge, flake or bleed unless you poke your eyes or work underwater or something. I mean some of that stuff is inevitable for a long period of time, but this one keeps it real for long.
• Brush is included and unlike most brushes that come with product, this one is actually really nice!
• Well worth your 9-ish Euros.
• Application is smooth and it is intensely black.
• Dries quite fast. Not really a perk if you want to smudge it out, but at least it doesn’t bloody transfer onto my lid and ruin my eye shadow!

I think that’s it. It hasn’t dried out on me during the 2 months I have had it so fingers crossed!

So, I wore it here.

And here as well…

Yes, I’m a hairy beast and today, as you can see above, I rocked a bright lip gloss outside the house! People looked at me for longer then they usually do, but they didn’t make me feel like a freak at all so everything went better than expected and I dare YOU to rock a bold lip when you are out and about as well.

Now, as a side note I would also like to rant on the fact that we don’t have the Maybelline cream eye shadows here yet. I NEED Permanent Taupe in my life and well, I cannot see myself getting it from Estonia just yet.

So, let’s recap.

1. Get the gel eye liner, it’s badass and worth every cent.
2. Get bold with them lippies if you haven’t yet!

So, that’s it for now. Not sure where or when I’m going to make my next post, cause I’m going to have the time of my bloody life real soon.

With love, as always,

Janne.

A little something to drool over..

Well hello!

Today I’m going to show you a little recipe I discovered a little over a month ago. It’s rather healthy and VERY tasty. A little time-consuming but impressive yet simple and you need surprisingly little.

General Tso’s Chicken

Serves 4

Ingredients:

• 250ml rice
• 60ml corn starch (4 tbs)
• 500g snow peas, trimmed and halved
• 500g skinless, boneless chicken cut into pieces
• 4 garlic cloves
• 2 tsp. fresh ginger, peeled and grated
• medium carrot, peeled and julienned
• 3 tbsp. light brown sugar
• 2 tbsp. soy sauce
• 1/2 tsp. red pepper flakes ( I used sweet chilli sauce)
• 2 large egg whites
• salt and pepper
• vegetable oil for frying
• optional 2 egg yolks and 1 whole egg

Whatyagonnado:

1. Cook rice according to instructions, for an even healthier version, use brown rice. Meanwhile in a large bowl, stir together 1 tbsp. corn starch and 100ml cold water until smooth. Add snow peas and carrot, garlic, ginger, sugar, soy sauce, red pepper flakes(or chilli sauce), toss to combine and set aside.
2. In another bowl whisk together egg whites, remaining 3 tbsp. corn starch, 1/2 tsp. salt and some pepper. Add chicken, toss to coat.
3. In a large non-stick skillet, heat 1 tbsp. oil over medium-high heat. Cook the chicken pieces golden, you might have to do this in batches. Shake off the excess egg white mixture before adding chicken to the pan. Set the cooked chicken aside.
4. Add snow pea mix to the skillet. Cover, cook until snow peas are tender and sauce has thickened (3-5min). Return chicken, toss to coat, adjust the flavours as you like.
5. This step is optional as you can serve it with plain rice as well. I wanted to use up the egg yolks, so I added it to the rice. Whisk together the yolks, egg some extra salt, pepper and chilli and make an egg scramble. Add cooked rice to the scramble et voilà, you are done.

So while I was browsing online, I noticed the Tom Ford Metallic Beauty spring 2012 collection pictures. Gosh, the Tom Ford make up line looks so freaking good, so effortlessly classy and elegant. Not to mention super expensive…

Pictures via Google of course.

 

I don’t really adore the whole look of the models, not really a fan of the heavy cheeks and golden lip, but the eyes, they are mesmerising. All thanks to the cream eye shadows of course. My personal favourite is Platinum, just to die for really.

And well, being a sucker for nail polish, I also have to show you the 4 little cuties for this season. I’m going to go with the silver one called Silver Haze, well obviously, I will not be able to buy these due to the ridiculous budget I’m on, but a girl can and well, should dream.

Hope you enjoyed this little post.

Stay amazing, my friends.

With love,

Janne.

Guess who’s back, back again…

It’s meeee! And I have a new super-trooper camera called Fujifilm Finepix F500EXR. Loaded with 16 Mpx and a mega high quality video, I am ready to return to blogging.

So I have a LOT to catch up and there are is a lot of wonderful-thunderful-out-of-this-world-amazingness happening in my life right now so I have plenty to blog about so keep us in mind. I thought about making a blogsale or something like that a while ago, so I’m starting to arrange that as well and just be ready for it.

So the above picture is pretty much how the videos are going to look like concerning lighting and placement and stuff.

Yaaaaaay!

Yours truly,

Janne.

Pixiwoo brushes

Sam Chapman from Pixiwoo has launched a brush range which is made by the same company that does Eco Tools brushes!

These babies were released today!

You can check out the prices and stuff HERE.

I would love to try these out.