My Weekend

 On Friday we were too lazy to cook and ordered Chinese instead, steamed rice, prawn dumplings, beef with bamboo shoots and sweet & sour chicken. There really is no point of me photographing my meal under such crappy conditions, I kinda have a phobia of flash photography, I don't want my food to gross you out!

 I tried making my own banana chips following this tip. It didn't go well at all, I dipped the bananas in a mixture of lemon and honey, and then left them in the oven for 2 hours, but they just never dried. They ended up sitting in the oven for a total of like... 4-5 hours? I tried raising the heat, but they never dried, they just turned black and burnt. I don't think it's worthwhile at all, you have to leave the oven on for so long that you're not saving any money anyway.

We went to Starbucks, and after wards we stopped by The Body Shop and I got the Almond Body Butter. I was just going to get a couple of small gifts for my friend, but when I saw the almond butter, I just couldn't resist it! I used to wear this all the day, but they've discontinued it in Sweden. I got really nostalgic over its scent!

 I have so much Body Shop products, I could open my own Body Shop! I just have to see exactly how much I have, and well... ha ha ^_^

 I woke up on Saturday feeling really sick :( I had such a bad throat ache, all I wanted was ice cream. So I caved and I got my boyfriend to head down to the store and buy me some. I wasn't suppose to eat any sweets until my birthday, so I guess that failed, but I don't really care! I'm still proud of myself for staying away from sweets for most of the time, and I don't have the kind of sugar addiction that I used to have.

 We were so lazy on Saturday, spent most of the day like this, watching The Office ^_

 Oooops, had even more ice cream for dinner (after actual dinner). I'm not one to eat much, but when it comes to ice cream my belly get surprisingly expandable, ha ha ^_^

None of us are big fans of cleaning, this is what our counter looks like at the moment. Seb orders pizza from Domino's all the time, and he always buys three pizzas at the time, ha ha! I'm gonna clean tonight, I promise.

Friday Coord

 Nothing special at all, just threw on something to wear when we went to Starbucks. It's not okay to wear sweat pants and no make-up to Starbucks, it's the cool and hip place where all the (extremely) fashionable people in Paphos hang out, ha ha!

 I've started to extend my eyeliner to the inner corners of my eyes, really like how it looks, makes my eyes look bigger ^_^

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not.

I got two gifts today, one in the mail and one... wasn't really a gift, more like a get. From me, to me.

 I got a letter from my lovely pen pal Zelda ^_^ I just love exchanging snail mail, you get so happy when you see a colorful letter full with stickers in your mailbox, this really made my day today!

I also bought some products at the Body Shop, an Aloe Vera Face Cleanser and a new Conditioner. I got a free sample of this conditioner ones and I just loved it! It's really smart to give ME samples, because I always end up buying the product! And it's such a simple little way to cheer your customers up. That, and nice shopping bags. 

Today I got a mascara sample and perfume, I all ready have the best mascara in the world (FiberWig), so I wont end up buying this one. The perfume is nice, I like having samples in my make-up bag so you can get a refill whenever you need. I'm not sure it's nice enough for me to buy, though.

What has to thumbs and has cheered up again?

THIS GIRL!

I woke up really happy today, not tired or unwilling to do stuff at all. I'm so lucky to only have very short periods of unhappiness, it must feel so horrible if your depressed for real all the time, I wished everyone could be happy always!

I think I've felt down partially because Seb have been sick, and that kind of made me feel sick. I haven't been to the gym all week as I didn't want to go alone, so now I'm really looking forward to going there next week. I'll only have this membership until the end of February, so I should give it my best!

Today's Coord

 It's been warm all week, like 19°C and sunny, so today I decided to wear my denim shorts without tights, went for a very casual summer-y outfit. It was a bit cold, to be honest, and I got harassed by some 12-year-old boys, but it's nice to get some sun on your legs, isn't it? I originally bought that shirt to wear to the gym, but I decided it's a bit too cute to not wear with other clothes as well. Would you say it's gross to wear the same clothes you wear to gym to work? Of course I wash them in between, but I can't help but think that maybe people think I walk around in sweaty gym clothes O_O

Light and natural make-up today, the fake lashes seem to irritate my eyes, so I've been staying clear of them during this week, hopefully my eyes are fully rested and ready for lashes again next week. It have been feeling really weird wearing them, like a small piece of plastic have been stuck under my eye lid, any suggestions what to do about it? I've tried using eye drops, but they don't seem to be working.

January Depression

I've just been feeling so down lately, I'm usually a bit depressed during winter-time, but it isn't really winter where I am, is it? Maybe it doesn't matter, but I know I'd feel even worse if I were in Sweden right now. Still, the reason I'm not so happy is because I feel really homesick. It's just little things, like having to walk a total of one hour to get to a proper grocery store (instead of 10 minutes). I'm sad because I feel like I'm missing out when I'm not home, I'm putting my life on hold. There's gal meets I'll be missing (a big one in Norway in particular). I miss Swedish foods and candy (but I guess it's good that there's not as much temptation here as it is at home).

I was suppose to go to the gym today, but I didn't want to. Seb is sick and I didn't want to go without him, I don't feel like moving anyway. I don't like the gym either. It's just as expensive as any gym in Sweden, but the quality of everything is so low. The worst part is the dressing rooms, they're incredibly small, there's only one shower in the dressing room, and that one doesn't even have hot water. If you want to shower in hot water you have to go out of the dressing room to another shower, and I really don't feel comfortable standing side-by-side with a bunch of unknown people of various genders, with just a towel to cover myself up.

I'm sorry for being so glum, maybe now when I've gotten my sadness out of my system, I can go on and be happy and bubbly again!

New Nails: Randomness and Graffiti Tips

I re-did my nails today. I started with a classic French manicure, and then I painted the white tips with my pink graffiti nail polish, after that I just added some randomly selected parts. I don't think I particularly like these kind of nails, but some of the parts I get aren't suitable for any other designs, and I have to use them some time, right? I really need to buy some more rhinestones!

Today's Coord

 This is what I'm wearing today (the denim shirt looks better and more shapely in real life). I'm really glad about buying that belt, it was something that my closet really needed! Feels kind of stupid that I put it up for so long though, because it was so cheap.

Rundown:

Usamimi: H&M

Necklaces: Accessorize/Playboy

Tank top: H&M

Shorts: H&M

Denim Shirt: Zara

Belt: H&M

Boots: Nelly.se

 I did the simplest hair do ever, but I actually really like it! It goes well with my usamimi too, I think.

Can't wait until my Diamond Lashes arrives!

I love the future

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Gyaru Manifesto Meme

I just FEEL so much for gyaru right now, ha ha, sounds weird. What I mean is that I just feel really excited about it right now, I look forward to making up co-ords, want to try out different styles in make-up and hair, I download tons of pictures on my computer for inspiration etc. I'm really looking forward to this year because I feel like this is a year in which I will really develop in my style!

Anyway, I thought I should fill out this "Gyaru Manifesto Meme"-form, I've seen a lot of other girls do it on their blogs.

Gyaru Manifesto Meme
Name: Michaela/Mika
Location: Stockholm, Sweden (well, Paphos, Cyprus at the moment)
Occupation: TM-admin
Height: 158cm/5"2
Hair: Brown with some lighter parts, I'm in the slow process of becoming a blond at the moment!
Eyes:  Light green
Birthday:  February 8th
First discovery of gyaru: It was back in -08 that I became interested in the style, but I probably heard about it a lot earlier, I think I saw pictures of ganguro and yamambaba style when I was 16.


Your Gyaru Style:
Sometimes very sweet and girly, and sometimes more mature and classy, I haven't really found my personal style, I like to mix it up! But I think I'll stop dressing in girly fashion soon, because I feel I'm getting too old for it (turning 21 next month).

Your Top 5 Gyaru Model Inspirations:
1. Kumicky Funayama

2. Tsubasa Masuwaka

3. Yumachi Takahashi

4. Satomi Yukuwa

5. Maiko Takahashi

Your Top 5 Gyaru Non-model Inspirations:
1. Becci
2. Viivi
3. Erika
4. Monica
5. Tricia Isabela
Oh, and of course 6. Jenny !

Your 3 Favorite Gyaru Magazines:
1. Popteen
2. Popsister
3. Jelly
The Top 6 Gyaru Brands you like best:
1. LizLisa
2. Tralala
3. Glad News
4. Gilfy
5. One Spo
6. Lip Service

3 of Your Favorite Coordinates:

Just 3? Meeeeh. WANTS MORE!!

Your 7 Favorite Fashion Items That You Own:

I don't have any good pictures of items right now, let's make it 7 favourite outfits instead!

Top 10 Gyaru Fashion Goals:

1. Perfecting my skills within hair and make-up

2. Start ordering clothes from gal brands

3. Attend more meet-ups with my fellow, fabulous Swedish gals!

4. Attend meet-ups with gajin gals from other countries as well.

5. Lose weight to look better in a bigger range of clothes, and to feel better about myself.

6. Get properly dressed up more often/everyday (or almost everyday, because sometimes you just stay at home or don't have time etc.). And also to wear heels as often as possible! (I'm terrible at wearing heels, ha ha).

7. Get better at making up co-ords

8. Start making acrylics nails.

9. Get extensions (again).

10. Decorate more of my things with decoden (right now I just have it on my phone).
Top 5 Gyaru Achievements: 


1. Started using circle lenses, started including fake lashes in my everyday make-up routine.
2. Have attended 3 gal meet-ups
3. Got up the nerve to post at Everyday_Gyaru (my next step is to get a mean secret written about me on gyaru_secrets, ha ha!)
4. Been active on the Swedish Gals-forum
5. Getting better and better at fixing my nails. 

Today's Coord

This is what I wore today, I wanted to have a fun, girly and "pop" outfit to wear with my usamimi, but when I made my hair up that was enough decoration on my head, so I left the bunny ears at home ^_^''

Rundown:
Tanktop: H&M
Cardi: H&M
Skirt: H&M Kids
Necklaces: KawaiiDesign/Cooco.se
Pins: From my Hello Kitty Christmas calendar
Slippers: Accessorize (wore my fuggs from melba.se outside)

I think this year I will vow not to shop any H&M! It's time I got a wardrobe based on more high quality items, anyways.

 My hairstyle today. I quite like it, but I wished the bun was more curly, it got less and less so the more hair I added to it.

 Bubbles, penguin and cupcake ♥

 I used some Hello Kitty pins I've gotten from my Christmas calendar to make my boring, gray cardi more fun, did it succeed?

My weekend with food

We were invited to dinner at our boss' house on Thursday, neither me or Seb drank any alcohol, horray for us! We did have a small piece of chocolate cake, though, I just feel kind of rude turning down dessert. Or maybe that's just a bad excuse, ha ha ^_^ On Friday we were going to go to the gym, but both me and Seb just felt too weak to work out, so we left early and took a long walk home instead.

 We went for a late lunch/early dinner at Penguino cafe, and I had a Greek omelette. I've just felt so weird about food lately, like nothing have seemed appealing. I'd really be happy just eating oat meal and banana chips, ha ha. Well, the omelette was still good, though (and the fries were even better!).

 We had cucumber sticks and dip for a midnight snack, proving you can have fun without actual sweets, he he. I bought dipping sauce powders from Sweden, they don't have it here.

And today I baked bread buns according to GI with carrots in them, following this recipe (in Swedish). They only have super-white bread here, so I had to make my own, but it didn't turn out as fluffy as I would've wished. Any suggestions on how to make bread fluffier? I seem to have this problem  when making cupcakes and other pastries as well.

More than baking bread, we've cleaned our apartment today (finally),  feel so good that it's finally nice and clean again, feels more like a home now!