10 things I loved in December and January

So it's that time of the month again where I show you my most loved things from December and January. I have been loving quite a lot of items but I reduced it to ten things to keep this post as short as I can. I hope you like it and wish you a great time whilst reading this post. Let's do this!

Well December and January were quite cold so I needed an extra potion of moisturise for face and body. I rediscovered an old love (which I probably have for at least more than a year but forgot about oops) and used it in combination with a shower gel of my choice. It's the Flake Away Scrub from Soap and Glory (award for best scent) and absolutely amazing! It's not too coarse (I don't like peelings which are too coarse) but it does its actually job with giving you a good scrub. It has the typically Soap and Glory scent (which lasts for about three days after using it) with shea butter (so it really leaves your skin smooth), sugar (for the ultimate scrub) and peachcorn powder. Smells amazing and was/is a great attendant in the wintery month aswell as in spring.

Now to a skincare pick I got from a gift voucher and which was an absolute bargain (around 3€)! It's the Alverde Face Oil with wildrose, which I was interested in for more than a month. You can use it under your evening face cream (just 4 drops for the whole face) and it comes with a handy pipette to apply the oil at your face. The oil isn't greasy and just nourishes your face to avoid dry patches (as my face is very dry in the t-zone at the moment).I plan to do an skincare routine as first post for February, so I will inform you more about how I use it in combination with other products.

I also had three massive faves speaking about makeup. I loved my new Mac Frost Eyeshadow in the most gorgeous colour "Sable", which is like a bronze, dark champagney, a little bit glittery colour (man that was a description, well maybe you just look for it at the counter, i'm so bad at describing colours). It really gives your eyes a special expression and let the eyes shine. The quality of that is also amazing!

The perfect combination with the eyeshadow is my next fave I got for Christmas, which is the Lancome Grandiose Mascara. Can we all appreciate the packaging? This packaging is stunningly beautiful (kinda reminds me of Sleeping Beauty, with the dark rose). The mascara is said to give you big volume with definition and it absolutely does what it promises: The lashes stay voluminous all day and the brush is also very good to reach your inner lashes to give definition beginning from the inner lashes. The mascara colour is really dark black so it gives the lashes more drama. So in conclusion it can be said that this mascara is really grandiose!

And of course my favourite nail polish from Essie could not be missing. Today it's the colour bordeaux, a dark festive red (with a hint of brown in it) I was absolutely loving these two months. Mostly I am rather natural when it comes to the nails but as it was Christmas and my Birthday I wanted to try something more suitable for the wintery season.

Moving to fashion I got a jeans jacket filled with faux sheep fur from Topshop (the one I showed you in my Christmas Wishlist). It's just so casual and goes with everything. Plus it keeps you cosy and warm at the insight because of the faux fur. It's slightly a bit (just a bit) oversized and kinda with a acid wash(which makes it more vintage-like).I wear it nonstop. Here you can get mine: http://eu.topshop.com/en/tseu/product/clothing-485092/jackets-coats-2390890/denim-jackets-485238/moto-light-stone-borg-western-jacket-3367093?refinements=category~%5B339643|339534%5D&bi=1&ps=20

Another fashion pick is my "Kendal"coat from River Island, which is slightly a bit egg shaped. Until the waist it's black streaked with grey and then it's just black and at the forearms it has a leather section. It's also made from wool which makes it super cosy. As many of my wardrobe picks, combineable with everything, but I use to combine it with a light pink pastell scarf or with my Zara scarf shown in the photo below. Get it here: http://www.zalando.de/river-island-kendal-wollmantel-klassischer-mantel-black-tweed-ri921h00a-q11.html

For lifestyle I listenend to many new songs, got a few decoration items for my birthday and christmas but I will keep it short with that today. So I want to show you my super-cute candy cane cup made by my best friend Francisca for Christmas 2014. It's like my new favourite mug because it has my name "Karina" on it with a heart. I'm so happy that I got it from Francisca, it's so special. Thank u, Franci <3.

Well and last but not least some random event favourites. Here I will talk first about Christmas and Silvester (as one event from the last year) and then about my Birthday (first memory in 2015). I had a wonderful Christmas Eve with my family whilst talking, eating a great meal and unwrapping the presents. Then it came to the last big event of the year: New Year's Eve, which I celebrated with my best friends watching Happy New Year, eating another great (grand) meal, talking and playing Tabu (that was when the obsession started) and afterwards we had a sleepover were we talked until 5:30 in the morning (and sleeped afterwards for 5 hours).

First memorable day of 2015 was my birthday as always. Celebrated it with my family (and at the 8th January with my friends) as usual. Visited my grandma and grandpa because they couldn't come and had a mini birthday there before getting back home to prepare some afternoon tea for my guests. Had a lil round up of Tabu and ate good (you can tell I ate far too good at this festive season).Thanks to all who have come to celebrate this birthday with me.

Question today:

What have you been loving the past two month?

So this was my last post for January and I will see you again with another new post in February.
Have a great time,
Karina <3

The Weekend Post | January Update

Story time =tea time feat. Essie "Bordeaux"

Hello and welcome to a new post for the end of this week. Today I thought to show you what I've been up to this sunday and how my week was. It's a little bit different from the normal posts I write but I hope you like it :)

The penguins from Madagascar have landed at my town

Deliciouss - Nutella Stuffed Cookies

Winter walks

Well today has been a day full of relaxing. As the weather was really nice and the sun showed its face I went outside with ma best friend to take some photos in the fields (the sun was out but it was freezing). After that we warmed up with a cup of Chai tea and whilst baking some Nutella stuffed cookies (made from this recipe: http://www.butterbaking.com/2013/01/03/nutella-stuffed-easy-nutella-cookies/ ).
They went really well and taste delicious (can't stop myself from eating them).
Also I went working yesterday, which was quite good because many people came into the shop.
 I don't know if I have mentioned it before but I work in a health food store since July, which is really fun, because I get to know many new people and get a better insight in the different ways to eat healthy.

There I have to grant shelves, to work at the cash register and to do basically everything what is needed to do. After that I met one of my best friends and we talked very long and got our daily potion of fangirling (for One Direction of course). But now to what's coming up: The next two weeks I have to do a work experience, which I attend to do at my local travel agency, because ther I booked the Barcelona vacation from last year and I think it's very interesting. Also it's like a little break from school to learn new things and to get to know this work better (even if I want to work as a journalist when I'm older). School started this week and with it the half-term and even if I'm just one week at school after the winter holidays I'm more than exhausted from this week. Since it was the end of the first term, the most teacher told us our grades for our upcoming report and mostly I'm quite satisfied with the grades (except from math- math sucks). Well I am excited what my grades will be like in the next term. Forgot to mention that I had a super-nice evening with my bestest friends at the 8th January to celebrate my birthday. Short said: Ate good, laughed much and had fun.

Big meal for five - Celebrating with a birthday bash

So this was my little life update, I hope you liked it and let me know if you want a post like this again :). Last january post will be about my 10 things I loved in December and January (the monthly usual post).
Have a fresh start in the new week,
Karina <3

My Super-Awesome 17th Birthday | The Impressions

The every-year birthday desk in the living room

Well, as you might know, I had my 17th Birthday yesterday. It was such a good day, I celebrated with family and friends. We ate a lot of cake, had a lil round-up of Tabu (well we are all in the Tabu-fever),had nice chats and I got many amazing presents. So first memory of 2015 done. This post will just be a little compilation of photos (like a 'Follow my day'), because photos can capture the best of such a great day and speak more than words (and maybe it's like wellness from all my last posts, where I wrote clearly too much :D). So let's get this started :)

Fresh cut flowers

   Ootd: Topshop Chambray Blouse, H&M Skater Skirt and Thermo Leggins

Fotd: P2 shimmery Makeup Base, Bourjois CC Cream, Maybelline Fit me Powder,

         Collection Concealer,Sleek Contour Kit, Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Yoghurt,

         Lancome Grandiose Mascara and Mac 'Patisserie'

Notd:Essie 'Bordeaux'

Presents

Flowers from my nan

Birthday messages from my bestest friends

Chocolate-Orange Cake

Chocolate Marshmallow Cake with manderines

The afternoon-desk

Cutest cake ever I got from my aunties daughter

Evening Potato soup with different side dishes

Also the good days are at one point over: Thanks to all the lovely birthday messages and people who celebrated my birthday with me :)

Have a nice week and if you have started school already good luck,

Karina <3

New Year's Resolutions

 

So 'Happy 2015' to you all! I hope you have started this year well. I celebrated New Year's Eve with my best friends (as mentioned in my last post) and we had a buzzin evening whilst eating (a lot), watching 'Happy New Year', playing Tabu (where we got too overexcited so we kinda forget that it was nearly midnight) and talking. And as 2015 means a new year with a fresh start, to make things better and to create new memories,I want to show you my resolutions for this year.

Resolutions

-do more sport (even if i I have school stress, because it relaxes me)
- meet my grandma and grandpa more regulary (as I often don't have time to visit them)
-enjoy life (get over with the bad things and enjoy every single moment of this year!)
-have fun with friends, as meant to meet friends more often and to create great moments with them
-improve my grades (work hard-play hard)
-don't forget to eat healthy (this resolution I really brought to life last year and I want to carry on with that)
-create beautiful memories (and hold on to these, if I'm feeling down)
- improve my hobby photography and capture the memories I make
-don't take things to serious (get over it and carry on, life is too short to think about the negative points)
-laugh, smile and make the best out of a situation (a smile is the best thing you can wear and with your laugh you won't only make yourself happy)
-always take me-time and relax
-have more self-confidence (don't let others destroy it and live your life like you want to)
-try to get fresh-cut flowers (to make yourself happy and to have a nice atmosphere in your room)
-work for my dreams (hold on to things and work for it, don't loose the focus)
-enjoy the little things (even if it's just the sun which is finding the way through the clouds)
-do homework and learning earlier and not at the late evening (first things first then relax, as I'm foolishly a person, who likes to delay things until it's maybe too late)
-always take time for family and friends, as they are the persons who support me and who give me power to do things
-don't let the bad things control my mind/life (better times will come, I know that very well)

My question to you:

What are your resolutions for 2015?

I wish you a great week and we will see each other in 4 days with a new post (Can you guess what it is from my '30 facts about me' ;) ).

Bye bye,

Karina <3