Today's Coord

 Re-using an old outfit from when I was in Sweden, soon I think there will be real summer-weather here, and then I can start using the new summer dresses that Seb ordered for me!

Today's look, I used some high lighter in the inner corner of my eyes. I quite like it, but it was hard to apply.

Banana Chips ^___^

No gym today so we finally had time to go shop for groceries. It's funny, we had a cart each and they were sooo indifferent, ha ha ^_^ Mine was filled with grains, seeds, tea and beet roots, and Seb's was filled with meat, cream and full-fat cheese. We're on completely different diets, he's eating a low carb/high fat-diet, and I'm eating according to GI/portion control, so we always have to make two meals! 

I was so happy to find banana chips! They weren't too expensive and all-natural (only ingredients are honey and bananas). We've decided not to eat any sweets until my birthday (February 8th), so I'll eat these instead as a weekend snack. Lately I haven't had much sugar cravings at all, which feels awesome!

Today's Coord

 I did my hair in the living room today, using PhotoBooth as my mirror ^_^

 Pose-y pose-y ^_~v

 Not a special outfit at all today, just my star dress and boots, but I have to stop expecting myself to wear a new outfit everyday, I'm not Paris Hilton for crying out loud!

 So happy to finally curl my hair! I used my new spray from L'oreal, I sprayed some on my hair when it was wet and it created great volume! We'll see tomorrow how the curls look, but they're pretty flat now from napping during lunch break.

 Meeeow!

My make-up today, I'm wearing Mac no.41 lashes, but it barely shows >.< I guess most girls would be happy if their fake lashes could be passed on as real, but I want people to know when I put in the effort! Ha ha. 

I extended my eyeliner to the inner corner of my eye, got recommended to do this, I was afraid it was going to smudge, but so far it looks good :)

My food today (small recipe)

 I had a little special lunch today, before I went to the gym I made crackers with cheese in the oven, we had something similar for New Year's and I've been thinking about it ever since! The ones I made were'nt nearly as tasty, but that's probably because I used the wrong ingredients. What you do is, you take a cracker, or rusk or whatever you want to call them (originally crostini), glaze them with honey. Then you slice some cheese over it, I used camembert, but you should use chevré. Then you just put them in the oven for 10 minutes at 175°C, done! It's really delicious, but not too healthy.

When I got home from the gym I was a little hungry again, so I sliced up some strawberries and ate them with milk, okay, and maybe just half a teaspoon sugar, I just couldn't resist! ^_^'' I'm so happy that I can buy strawberries in January, but they aren't as sweet as I like them, but I guess I'm kind of spoiled (because Swedish strawberries are the best!!).

300th post!

This post will be my 300th, all ready?! I've only had this blog a couple of months, ha ha, but I blog a lot I guess. But not as much recently, I guess when I don't get any comments it really puts me off blogging, but it really should take that as criticism and start blogging better ^_^

As I told you, me, my boyfriend and almost the entire office started working out recently. So both today and yesterday I've been to the gym during my long lunch brake. It's so much fun, and I really love feeling my body ache, feels like it's working then! When it's not a gym-day, I'm playing Just Dance at home, I just missing moving around so much! I'm a bit hyper I guess. 

The down part about working out, though, is that I have little time to do my hair or make, hence the lack of coord-posts. Tomorrow is not a gym-day, so I'm really looking forward instead (but at the same time missing the gym, ha ha ^_^).

Do you wear make-up when working out? That feels so weird to me, like it'll just get ruined anyways. How many of you had the New Year's resolution to eat healthier/lose weight/work out more? And how's it going?

♥Snow Sparkle Nails♥

I did new nails today, using my french manicure colours. First I painted the base using the white polish, after that I covered the base with the pinkish skin-colour, added some rhinestones and pink hearts and put lots of glitter over it, done! I really like these, they're so girly and feminine, light nails are the prettiest! I'm so happy that my nails are starting to grow out again so that I can put deco on them.

Weekend + Weekend Gets

We spent the first part of the Friday cleaning or bedroom and bathroom walls with chlorine. See, we've been having mold in our apartment and been forced to "shut off" half of it (we've been sleeping on a mattress in the living room), but on Friday we finally had time to properly clean it. I feel an instant change! My skin is much better, and I don't get these coughs as often. Overall I just feel so much better being here now. We're moving in in our bedroom again tonight.

 The Body Shop had a sale so I bought a present box with the entire "Sweet Lemon"-series, this is my absolute favourite! The scent is exactly like lemon curd cheesecake, makes me so hungry ha ha ^_^

 This is pretty nice weather for January, don't you think? You can feel the seasons are turning now, it's becoming warmer, which is great because our apartment is as cold as it is outside.

 Having lunch.

 Ha ha, a Kitler!

I bought a hairspray that you should use when you curl your hair, it's suppose to make them hold for longer, I've heard good things about this product, so hopefully it will work!

I bought a base coat from OPI, usually I just buy really cheap nail polishes, but for tops and bases, you can afford to splurge a little, don't you think?

I bought the "My Silhouette"-lotion from Nivea, I know this is mostly a gimmick, but I figured, if you bite in to all the gimmicks, one of them are bound to work, am I right? It can't hurt, anyways.

Friday Coord

 As I said, we went out for dinner on Friday, and this is what I wore, sorry for the bad pic! I really love my new Mickey-shirt, it's super-soft!

Rundown:

Shirt: H&M

Blazer: Silence + Noise (I think, some brand that is sold at Urban Outfitters, anyhow)

Shorts: H&M

Boots: Nelly.se

 I had my hair in a big donut bun, I love that my hair is getting longer! I want to have long hair so that I can just put it all in a bun/pony tail without any loose strands hanging out, but my bangs becomes kind of a problem, because I don't want to NOT have bangs, ha ha ^_^''

I love dressing up on weekends because that's the only time I can wear my circle lenses, they hurt my eyes too much at work because I'm at the computer all night >.<

Weekend Foods

We went out to a restaurant for dinner on Friday, but I had such a nice time that I forgot to take pictures of my super-delicious food ^_^

 Sebastian got a freaky, Arabian coke :O I was afraid it was going to have anthrax in it. 

 I ate a Greek village salad.

How come, when you order a salad, it's always so fucking hard to eat it? The leaves aren't cut up properly and it's impossible to eat it with good manners >.< I don't think i should be punished for my healthy choices, I should be rewarded! Or maybe they're just pissed off because I'm choosing the cheapest thing on the menu? ^_^

 On Saturday Seb woke me up and wondered if I wanted something special for breakfast since he was going to the store, I knew exactly what I wanted! A big, tasty donut with white frosting ♥

 We were going out for lunch later that day. At first we went to KFC, but this ridiculously fat family was standing behind us in line, and I completely lost my apatite, so we went to a cafe and ate salad and pasta instead. I was disappointed though, because I ordered a chef salad with salmon, but I only got one lousy slice of salmon, and a bunch of cheese and ham in my salad, I HATE ham >.<

For Saturday dinner we made chicken and potato wedges in the oven, yum!

Starbucks Lunch

We have a shorter workday today since it's a holiday both in Sweden and Cyprus today. On shorter workdays your meals get kind of screwed up, so when I got hungry I had to run off to Starbucks and buy something to eat, I chose a low-fat blueberry muffin and some green tea. Mark my surprise and remorse when I checked my fast-food-calorie-app later on and found out that this muffin actually contained 430 calories! If that's a low-fat muffin, I don't want to know how much a regular one contains ...

I have a question for you, I'm on this "1200 calories a day"-diet, how much do WHAT I eat matter? I try to eat healthy food, and I actually haven't been having my usual sugar cravings, but you got to treat your self sometimes (plus it seems impossible to eat healthy and still come up to 1200). If I want to lose a bit of weight (or fat, really), do I have to stop eating carbs or something crazy like that? What would you say is most important, to eat little or to eat healthy?

Shopping Service?

I made the resolution this year to start buying clothes from Japanese brands (my dad laughed when I told him this, but I need to stop buying so much H&M, ha ha!). The thing is, I've never done it before and I'm not quite sure how to, I know I have to contact a shopping service, but I don't know who to trust and who not to. I'm sure some of you have used a shopping service before, so any help with this would be much appreciated! What service to use, and things I should think about before ordering.

Thank you ♥

First Coord post of 2011

Woah, that puts a bit of a pressure on me, doesn't it? Sorry to disappoint y'all/myself/the year of 2011, ha ha ^_^''

This was my first day-coord (Monday). This was a total fail, though, because I didn't do my hair or make-up this day, there was no time :( Felt pretty sucky about this, since one of my New Year's resolutions was to be better at dressing up daily. But Hey, I think it's most important that you've full filled your resolution by next year, it's okay to slip up a little in the beginning!

Rundown:

Fedora: H&M

Cardi: Topshop

Tank top: H&M

Skirt: H&M

Boots: Nelly.se

Boooo! Too many H&M-items, BAD outfit!

 And this is what I'm wearing today, quite pleased with it really. I think it's a good combination between cute and mature, can you see it?

Rundown:

Necklaces: Accessorize

Tank top: H&M

Cardi: Topshop

Belt: H&M

Skirt: H&M Kids

Boots: Nelly.se

Dammit! Too much H&M today as well, I suck :(

For a particular reason I've just felt really lazy and unmotivated to doll myself up since we came here, but after curling my hair today I just started to feel so much better with myself! It never fails, you always feel so much better when you're pleased with your looks.

Push up, push up

 Me, Seb and a lot of people from work visited the gym for the first time today. I used to go to a gym before, maybe two years ago? But I've only been running the treadmill, done some cross-training and the occasional yoga-pass, today I tried on weight machines for the first time ever! I was sceptical at first, me and Seb walked around, looking at the machines with a suspicious look on our faces, most of them look like some kind of medieval torture mechanisms!

But we tried on some of them, and it was really fun actually! I've never had a friend to work out with before either, and it was so much more fun to have someone to yell at you and push you. The gym is not in the best condition, though. The showers and locker rooms were a HUGE disappointment, especially for what we're paying (90 € each for two months), but I've decided to make a commitment for these two months, so I just have to suck it up!

After these two months I have one month left here in Cyprus, so during that month I will exercise by myself at home (yoga, swimming, jogging etc.), but hopefully I will want to get a new gym membership when I'm back in Sweden!

Back in Cyprus again

So, I'm back in Cyprus again. We went yesterday, and I had a really rough day flying all day without getting any sleep. Our plane left from Stockholm at 6 AM, which meant we had to be there at 4, so I didn't go to bed because I needed to pack and stuff. At first we arrived in Athens, and we had to wait at the airport for 5 (!!!) hours >.< The airport was really dull, too. It was parted depending on what gate you were going from, and of course our gate was located where there weren't any good stores at all, but I guess that's okay since I didn't have any money anyways. When we finally arrived in Paphos, we just went out for a quick dinner and then directly to bed.

Today I've been sleeping late, I don't approve of me doing that, but I guess I deserve it after yesterday. When I woke up I tried on my new video game for Nintendo Wii; Just Dance 2! It was really fun playing, and felt like a good work-out. What I really like is the fact that you don't need a balance board to do it, I just wished I had internet at home so that I could download more songs. I'm really going to work-out a lot in the near future, I'm getting a gym membership soon, and I'll be doing home exercises as well. I'm really looking forward to it!

My New Year's

 It was snowing so much!

 I look like an old lady ^_^''

 Walking in the snow in my Lady GaGa-heels was exhausting! I walked like a full-fledged retard.

 Opening Champagne bottles is hard.

 But we finally did it!

 So sociable...

 Crossing bottles

 Having my (almost) last cigarette... EVER!

We met some random people who we celebrated the new year with, after wards they invited us over to their friends apartment to party, but we didn't stay very long. I love it when things like that happens though, I think everybody should be friends with everyone! ^___^ 

New Year's Coord

 For New Year's I wore my new Mac no. 42-lashes, I also wore my hair straight. My hair is pretty straight naturally, but with some waves, I was surprised with how big a difference it made! I really liked my hair this way, it look longer, too.

 My new nails, french manicure with rhinestones.

 My outfit, the dress I received in the package I got earlier this week, I just thought I should wait with showing it until I wore it. I liked it very much, but it was a bit too short >.< 

It has shoulder pads, which I never really liked before, but I totally changed my mind! They level out my body so that my hips doesn't seem so huge = awesome! 

Rundown:

Earmuffs: Accessorize

Coat: H&M

Cardi: Topshop

Dress: Nelly.se

Ankle boots: Modekungen.se

AGEPOYO!!

Day 31 – My Resolutions

Last year my resolutions were to be healthier and stop everyday-smoking and just smoke at parties. I would have to say that I managed to keep both these promises! I'm not super-healthy, and I'm going to work on that this year, but I'm much healthier now than last year, and I don't have any big problems with eating anymore, I'm a lot happier, too! Also I quit smoking completely, and also made my boyfriend stop using snus (Swedish mouth tobacco).

My resolutions for 2011 will be to get healthier and fitter, work out more regularly. I also want to look over the way I shop, like stop buying half-good items at H&M, and instead order things online that are more special and unique. This year I'm going to order stuff from Japan for the first time. I want to work towards developing my style more, and get properly dressed up, with falsies and everything, everyday!

I know a lot of people get anxious over the New Year and what not, but I'm just excited! 2011 couldn't have had a better start ^_^