Lipstick and Study Notes

Hello everyone!

These past few weeks have been pretty life changing. I've been adjusting to being in a strange city, being without my friends and family and living a college lifestyle all at once. When I wrote my last blog I was definitely not adjusted yet and pretty upset. Now however, things are really looking up! I've become quite good friends with my roommate Sarah and I've made a tons friends and met lots of lovely people on and around campus. I'll be the first to admit that trying to juggle a social life, schoolwork and a decent sleeping schedule is extremely hard, but it's worth it!

Even though I am a LOT happier now than I was a few weeks ago, I still have a hole in my heart and miss my friends and family like crazy. Which is totally normal, but it still hurts. Today I was looking through some pictures on my camera I've taken over the summer, and I sat staring at my screen smiling like an idiot for about half an hour. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but besides that, it's a perfect way to relive good memories, revive good feelings, and it's a total cheer-you-up. I've decided that some of these pictures make me so happy I need to share them with you guys! So from now on, every once in a while I'll upload photoblogs: posts that contain some of my favorite photos of my favorite moments. I hope you enjoy these, but don't fret, I'll do my very best to upload some more beauty/lifestyle posts in the very near future!

My first photoblog will contain some of my favorite pictures I took on August 10, 2013, when I went to a festival in Amsterdam to pre-celebrate my eighteenth birthday with Joyce.  Here you go!

My festival look: disco pants (American Apparel), a pink top tied up with an elastic (H&M), a gray sweater (H&M), and I finished the look with some silver bracelets (Pandora), rings (H&M), head jewels (Claire's), an owl necklace (Bought online) and a big pair of sunglasses (probably H&M as well)

Joyce got a bit excited

Everyone loves a good food pic, right?

Enjoying the festival food

These are the famous port-a-potties I dropped my iPhone in. I cried. A lot.

Selfies are a part of life

Fave festival fashion look: boho chique!

It was so nice and sunny!

This princess decided to join the fun! She was adorable

More selfies! Yay!

The best way to enjoy the music is when you're so far away you can't actually see the artist but at least you can lie down

And we conclude with more food. We're hungry teenagers okay?

Hello Everybody!

Most people that know me know that I have quite the obsession with boys who don't even know I exist. Maybe I choose to love famous people over people in real life because they don't actually know me and therefore they can't break my heart, but whatever the reason, I'm a sucker for the celebs. From singers to actors, from worldfamous to 'underground', give me a cute guy with a talent and I will undeniably fall for him. I've noticed quite the pattern that must have started with my first real celebrity obsession at the age of 13: Justin Bieber. At first I see said boy online and think 'wow, he's cute'. I decide to do a little investigating and find out who he is and what he does. The more I find out about him, the more I start to like him. If he's a singer, I'll listen to all his songs and look up his live performances, if he's an actor, I'll be sure to watch all his movies -no matter how boring, violent or just cringe worthy bad- and if he's both, I'm in heaven. After this, I'll continue to stalk him on all available social media networks and watch every Youtube video of him (repeatedly) before I go to bed. For a while, I dream, speak, breathe this beautiful love of mine, but once the material runs out or I discover a new crush, my infatuation will slowly fade away, and the ritual will start all over again- only with a different boy this time.

Seeing as I don't know a lot of 'crush-worthy' boys in real life, I have had ongoing celebrity crushes for about 5 years. Some of these crushes lasted longer than a year in itself (Justin Bieber, One Direction) but faded away when the artist got too famous, and some lasted less than a month, simply because the artist was fairly new to the business and I didn't have much to go on. I will always have a soft spot for all of my 'ex-crushes', but they are not likely to return to full blown obsessions after I moved away from them. That is, all except for one. Who is this magical man, who is so heart-wrenchingly gorgeous, remarkably talented and has such a marvelous personality, you may ask?
 That, my dear blogger friends, is non other than the man who makes every girl and woman's heart in every country skip a beat: Leonardo DiCaprio -Collective sigh-.

Now I know that being in love with Leonardo is kind off a cliché, but honestly, can you blame me? I'll tell you how it all started. About a year ago I wasn't sure whether I'd genuinely never seen 'Titanic' or if it'd just been to long ago for me to remember, so my friend Emma decided it was time for me to watch it (again?) with her, seeing as she had it on DVD. The minute Leonardo came on screen with his sparkling blue eyes and his mischievous smirk I fell hard. Very hard. After this I watched a lot of his other movies and after a while I came across a movie called 'The Basketball Diaries'. It didn't look super appealing to me seeing as I am more a comedy kind of gall but since (Young) Leo played the leading role I decided to give it a shot. After watching the movie I turned it off, sat in complete silence for a few minutes, re-winded, and watched it again. I watched it eight times that week. I was completely mesmerized by the story, the character and the amazing talent of everyone involved in the film. Needless to say after this I not only had the biggest crush ever on Leo, I also realized what an undeniably amazing actor he actually is, and I gained a lot of respect for him.

Having seen all his movies except for four, I am not only in love with Leo as a -very handsome- person, but also as an actor. He plays every character so well that no matter how bad the movie actually is, I still don't mind watching it over and over. In fact, every once in a while when I feel bad or when I think I deserve a reward, I have a 'Leo' marathon and re-watch nearly all of his movies: after my exams I watched twelve of his movies in just one week. Well, it's not like I have a lot of action going on in real life anyway.

I'll leave you with a few of my favorite pictures of Leo to brighten up your day. Enjoy!

tip: If you're ever feeling down, look at this picture. Look at this picture a lot.

Hugs and Kisses!

P.S. I seriously recommend you to go watch The Basketball Diaries. Seriously. It's amazing.

Hello Everybody!

Not too long ago I had some money saved up, and decided to treat myself to some new makeup. At the time I was still a M.A.C virgin but I was stocked to see what all the excitement was about. I ended up spending all my money on only four items, but did not regret a single purchase. People may think I'm crazy spending all my money on expensive makeup when I can buy anything in a drugstore for two Euro's, but I have decided I'd rather spend a little more money on good quality products than buy cheap crappy makeup every week. Quality over quantity, you know? So far it's been working out perfectly and my M.A.C products are the ones I use the most and the ones that look absolutely amazing.

While I was waiting for  my flight to Mallorca at the airport I found out they had a little M.A.C. stand and I simply couldn't not spend a teeeeeny bit of  my holiday money on a new lipstick now could I?

I decided to do a little review type post for you guys on my M.A.C. products and show you guys the goodies!

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