Jungle Fever tutorial

 

Products used

For face:

• Bourjois Délice de Soleil bronzing powder in 14 Olive/Dark skin
• The Body Shop cheek colour in 04 Golden Pink

Eyes:

• GOSH eye shadow quad in 50 Rain Forest
• Gosh eye shadow primer waterproof
• Bourjois Coup de Théatre mascara in Noir Exeptionnel
• L’oréal eye shadow quad in 303 Beige Taupe
• AVON In a Blink eye pencil in Navy
• Manhattan eyebrow pencil in 99W

Lips:

Oriflame LipPerfection lip liner in Invisible Touch

Oriflame Make That Change palette sheer pinkish red lip colour

 

And some pictures I took while visiting Tallinn Zoo with my my brother and best friend.

Have fun and be sure to make the most out of the summer. Pretty soon you’ll be wondering where all of the time disappeared.

With love,

Janne.

What is that smell? vol 2

Firstly, I have to warn you – lots of pictures coming up.
So, in my last post I showed you my little perfume collection. But as I live at my mom’s place during the summer and I like to use her fragrances once in a while, I thought that I should do a blog post about her collection. I try to keep it short and just describe these perfumes and say if I like them or not. So here we go.

Giorgio Armani Gio

Even though I like quite sweet and strong fragrances, I don’t like this one. It is way too strong and intensive flowery scent combined with vanilla and orange.

 

Luciano Soprani Donna

When my mom first bought it, I didn’t like it at all. But now.. I really think that I will find a nice summer night out when I can wear it. It reminds me of jasmine and rose combination. I wanna say that it’s a sweet scent but I can’t, because it also is kind of fresh. I don’t know. I love the packaging.

 

Christian Dior Diorissimo

I have no idea where my mom bought this perfume. In my opinion, it smells awful. Seriously. I did a little research and I found out that it should be a vintage perfume? I don’t know.

 

Hugo Boss Deep Red

Good old Deep Red. Definitely not a daytime perfume. Sweet and sexy with ginger and vanilla. Love this perfume!

 

Versace Bright Crystal

Again the same thing.. I didn’t like it when my mom first bought it. Way too fruity and floral and I don’t know what. Plus it became very popular last summer, everyone were wearing it. Now I tolerate it a bit more. I wore it once and got a compliment, oh well. I wouldn’t buy it myself.

 

Lancome Poeme

This perfume is probably my mom’s all time favourite. There’s only few sparys left.. from the miniature bottle. The full size bottle is long gone, haha. Anyway, I kind of like it too. It is very strong and sweet flowery scent, maybe a little vanilla and musk in it?

 

Thierry Mugler Innocent

I bought it for my mom. And I have very reverse feelings about this perfume. Firstly, I love the packaging. It’s a mixture of soft and sweet candy-like and spicy vanilla and almond scent. Wow, that’s complicated. I haven’t tryed it myself, but I think I definately will.

 

Davidoff Cool Water

This is a fragrance that I don’t like. It’s all fresh and citrus-like. Everyhting I hate. bleh

 

Morgan Love Love De Toi

I just found this spray pen version of this perfume hiding on the shelf. I had no idea that my mom owns this. Probably because she doesn’t use it anymore. When I was younger I really loved this perfume and I even considered buying it. It is really fruity, floral scent. I want to compare it with all those Escada fruitbombs, but I can’t because luckily it has a little sweetness in it. And I’m probably going to steal it from my mom.. just in case.

 

Paul Smith Extreme

I really don’t know what to say about this fragrance. It is.. kind of woody, fresh and citrus-fruity? It’s very complicated scent apparently. ha-ha
I don’t even know if I like it or not. I love the packaging though.

 

Givenchy Amarige

This is a second bottle for my mom. And well.. I suppose you all know how I feel about this perfume. : )

 

So I guess you now know where my beauty-gene comes from.
Sorry if it’s a bit laconic, but I promise I have a great tutorial coming up.. as soon as my skin clears out.

Enjoy the summer,
Andra

Hunt for iPanemas

Yesterday I discovered that my flip flops were falling apart, which was a true horror, as I really loved them.

Last year I was looking for summer shoes that would:

• stay on my feet. So that I can run and walk like a normal person.
• not make my feet sweat and smell. Me and my mom have that problem, we can’t wear shoes out of faux leather, otherwise our feet will smell like we haven’t washed for a week. Oh, the horror and the embarrassment!
• look good (or OK at least)
• be comfortable. I hate that clotheslines make their own shoes that are really bad quality and don’t fit at all with your feet. It’s like shoes that aren’t made to fit your feet??? It doesn’t make any sense! So I needed to buy something that would anatomically fit.

Yes, I am pretty darn picky at some things. But luckily I found shoes that would satisfy all of the criteria above.

I present to you iPanema flipflops. I purchased this model last year.

You can even wear these when you are swimming!

I wasn’t exactly psyched with the design but fell in love with them after the first day. No blisters, no rubbing between toes. The silicone(?) out of which the fastenings are made out of is really soft and flexible.

I think I have made myself clear, why I desperately needed a new pair!

I surfed the net to find whether they have a list that shows where iPanema flip flops are sold,but they didn’t have such information on their UK homepage, but they did have a great deal. Order over 25 Pounds and voila you have free shipping worldwide. If you don’t exceed the 25 Pound limit, you will have to pay 3 Pounds for shipping which is pretty cheap i my opinion. They have some items on sale online so you may be able to get 2 pairs of flip flops and free shipping for 25 Pounds. Of course this may be a bit of late notice, as they would arrive to destination after 3-4 weeks or so.

To check them out click HERE.

And while checking out their stuff, I came across a pair of flip flops that were designed by a designer of Estonian origin, who has an über-popular sporting clothesline in Rio de Janeiro. His clothesline is called Oskler.

And here they are iPanema flip flops by Oskar Metsavaht.

They are unisex so if you want to, you and your bf can wear the same flip flops : D

I found my pair of iPanemas from Spantal sport in Pärnu Kaubamajakas.

They were 23 Euros.

Pretty identical to the ones I had before but I don’t care. They didn’t really have a great choice of sandals there. There were some that were designed by Gisele Bundchen that were quite cool.

So for people who might want to purchase these amazing flip flops online I’m just gonna say for size comparison that I usually wear European size 39 footwear for summer, 40 for sneakers, winter footwear and such. The pair I purchased last year were size 39 and my toes were pretty near to the edge so they should have been a size up but they were sold out. This year I got my hands on size 40 and they are great.

I just might add that I was not fond of paying 23 Euros on a pair of flip flops. Heck, you could get a pair for just 2 Eur. But I mean these are well worth the money.

Hope I could help.

Love,

Janne,

Sparkle explosion nail tutorial + quick fix for feet

Instead of studying for my Math exam, I decided to make a quick nail tutorial. This is really easy and you probably have everything to make this tutorial already.

Now as your first step apply base coat (optional) and polish your nails with your favourite nail polish. Make it completely opaque, as you will be able to see the streaks.

After that use a darker tone to draw random lines along the edges of your nails like this.

Now I added a dark blue tone to give it some more dimension, you can omit this if you want to.

And then I used a silver sparkle nail polish. This may be your last step.

But I wanted to make it a bit more special, so I glued rhinestones on my nails. Adding rhinestones certainly doesn’t lengthen the longevity of this manicure, as they come off pretty easily and rip off nail polish under it. I used Depend Nail Glue and after 24 hours 3 rhinestones were missing. Try to add rhinestones after you have washed your hair, because that rips the stones off.

And this picture was taken after using Essie Fastest Drying Top Coat. Super shiny!!

And the products I used

This is so easy that you will have a hard time to screw up your dominant hand. I’m strongly right-handed and my left hand was pretty decent.

And now for the feet.

My feet were in a really bad state- tired, dry, covered in blisters( yes, I wore my Nazi shoes again). So they really needed a quick pick-me-up.

I did a foot soak with sea salt and added a bit of olive oil. I soaked my feet for a couple of minutes, used a pumice stone to remove some harder skin. Soaked my feet for another couple of minutes and just dried them off. No need to add any cream, just pop on a pair of cotton socks and if you can, sleep with your socks on.

This made my weary feet pretty amazing, just give it a try and tell me what you think.

With love,

Janne.

My cat

Since my kitty is so special to me, I had to make a special post for him. His name is Kiisu (English translation: Kitty) and he is the most aggressive cat I have ever seen.

He was 2 years old when he found out the beauty of toilet paper.

And yes, he doesn’t have a lighter spot on his body. It’s pretty hard to find him in the dark!

And later he jumped on a bookshelf that has like a 10cm gap between the upper shelf and ceiling. But he did it. He jumped from the couch on top of the shelf.

And today we discovered that he likes the weirdest thing. After the floors have been washed, he will start running around the place because he likes to run on the slippery floor and bump into doors, furniture, walls etc. He will pick up quite a pace and then just go crazy! He got all excited when mom pulled out the mop : D.

And he bites me when he wants me to play with him. Usually we chase each other and toss a small bulldog, he will try to catch it, sadly he doesn’t know how to fetch yet : D. But he will eat all of the spiders he finds so if I see a scary spider I will show it to Kitty and problem solved.

Sometimes when we play he gets so angry that he starts to purr.

Ach, how I love him. I really dislike people, who call their pets their babies or whatever, but now I’m kind of like one of those people. I don’t call him my baby but I’m not very far from that as me and my brother baby-talk with Kitty.

-“Does Kitty want some gravy? Yes, he does, yes, he does. You do, don’t you??” this slips over my lips pretty much every morning as I am usually first to wake up (haha. not any more. Summer vacation!)

And I got really worried when Kitty started to shed hair like crazy. He is an indoor cat so their shedding never stops but it was really bad and I discovered that he had some dandruff as well. So I bought him Royal Canine Hair and Skin dry food. He has been eating it for about 3 days and I think I can already see some difference.

And merely 2 years ago I was completely against having pets as I thought they were a nuisance. ´

Once I was at a pretty lame party where I had to stay the night and I really missed him..

Hug and pet your pets for me!

Janne.