League of Legends: Nami inspired Make-Up Tutorial

Yay :3
Okay, as you have noticed I play League of Legends quite frequently. Also, combining the Girly and the "Nerdy" (pf, bloody casuals) is a big hobby of mine.
So, today's tutorial was inspired by Nami, the Tidecaller. Nami's competition for "T's favorite Champion" is not very big. There IS always Sona, which I love, but Nami is just more.. exciting.
And not only is she my favorite Champ concerning gameplay, she also has one of the most beautiful designs in the entire League.
Since I'm not big on cosplaying (because I'm just not talented enough for that), I like to pay tribute to my favorite characters in a different way: breaking up their color palette into a look that's wearable for other occasions than just a convention ;)

Ok, so here's my Nami look:

and let's jump right into the tutorial!
1) I started out by just putting on foundation and priming my eyelids
2) Then I applied a creamy golden eye shadow in the inner corners of my eyelids, up to about the center.
3) Right on the center of my eyelid I put a very bright green shadow. Mine is kind of matte, but since Nami is a fish, you could totally go for a more shimmery look if you wanted to.

4) Next you load up your brush with a dark teal color. I mean be really generous with this. The best way to apply this is by dabbing your brush on the outer V of your eyelid, and then take a fluffy brush to blend it into the other colors and little towards the outside.
5) For a bit of contouring/highlighting, use a matte bronze/rusty brown shadow and sweep it into your crease. Blend this fairly well to create depth (lower arrow). Then use a light greenish-golden color to highlight you browbone (upper arrow). See how that makes the look more dynamic and less flat?
6) With the same light color, highlight the inner corner of your eyelid and you tear duct. That will give you bright, cute eyes.

You should now have something that looks like picture 7. Now's where the fun begins! =) (I switched to lighter arrows to better demonstrate the dark colors)
8) Line your lower lash line with a bright blue. Try to find a tone that is almost glowing, like this one I'm using from IQ (products listed at the end, as always).
9) Take a very dark blue shadow and dab it just on the outer edge of your eye, and blend it up into the brown and also a little bit into your lower line from step 8.

10) Use a dark grey shadow (take Nami's armor for reference) and line your upper lash line with it. No need to wing it out too much, since there's already the dark blue shadow there.
11) Since I'm super incompetent with liquid eyeliner, I kept it very simple here, just doing the slightest of flicks at the end. I also only started in the middle of my eyelid, to keep the inner corners bright. If you want to, I'm sure a nice bold catline would look great as well.
12) Last but not least. In the splash art, they changed Nami's eyes to orange, but the ingame model's are still a pinkish red color. Because I can't put in contact lenses to save my life, I used a red lipliner (I cleaned it) as an eyeliner instead to represent them. Now you have to be careful with this, or your eyes will end up looking irritated. Just put it on the outer half of your waterline and you should be fine. Just to be on the safe side, I added my trusty light pink liner to the inner half.

So far, so good. So after that I basically just finished my facial make up with concealer, translucent powder and some bronzer for my cheekbones (I ended up putting my usual pink blush over it, because just the bronzer wasn't "me" enough I guess). I almost forgot putting on mascara, but just almost. Then I decided to do a gradient lip, which I achieved with concealer and lip stain.

And that's the finished look! I realize it's probably not appropriate for running errands and judging by the look the lady at the post office gave me, she didn't think so either, but it's a nice glamorous but colorful look for a night out or even a formal event.
Here's some more pics:
(by the way, I'm still working on getting the hang of my camera, so be nice :P)

 

Messing around with my camera. I just liked how this one turned out with all the mess I made on the table =D

 

Obligatory Crazy Eyes.

DRAMA!!!

And that's that. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did making it =)

Thank you so much for reading!

Love

T

Products used:

a) Lancôme 24h teint idole ultra in 005

b) Primer

c) Maybelline  New York "color tattoo 24hr" in "05 Eternal Gold"

d)  Majolica Majorca "Jeweling Eyes" GR780

e) Maybelline New York eyeshadow. The lid came off so I can't tell the color anymore... =/

f) IQ cosmetics "Shadow Quartet N°99"

g) and i) claire's eyeshadow palettes with no names or numbers...

j) bh cosmetics "bh liquid eyeliner" in black

k) I can't for the life of me remember where I got this lipliner, and it doesn't say either.

l) YVES ROCHER couleurs "3 in 1 eye pencil" in "08 blanc"

m) Maybelline New York "FIT me! concealer" in 15.

n)  Maybelline New York "Pure Powder" in "015 Translucent"

o)  YVES ROCHER "lash plumping mascara"in black.

p) Some broken old bronzer of mine...

q) GOSH "natural blush" in "43 flower power"

r) Maybelline New York "COLOR sensationallipmarker" in "350 blushing"

woo, that was a lot.

August Favorites!

Friday is blog day <3
I know, I'm a little late on this and also I haven't posted in a while, but I was kind of busy and hey - better late than never!
So let's get you up to date with my glorious life: The wedding was incredibly beautiful - I cried more than the bride did. Afterwards, the kids from Tacoma stayed at our house for a week and BOY do I still not like kids. Don't get me wrong, those three are really cute and all, but it was just really exhausting...
So I'm finally back in Vienna since Saturday and I'm super PUMPED for Uni to start again in October, I really am. I'm doing ballet with Anna again this semester, but I had to cut the choir out of my schedule, nor for lack of time, but because it would just make me too sad to go there. I also wanted to take a Hip-Hop course instead, but those are all at super inconvenient locations for me so I didn't =/ Maybe next semester.

Okay, enough with the talking already, let's jump into my August favorites!

I'm still getting the hang of my new camera, so no judging please xD
Ok here are my beauty/fashion favs for this month and because I forgot to put numbers on it I'll just explain about them left to right:
The alverde hydrating conditioner is something my mom happened to have at her place, so that's why I used it too. I did not expect it to be this awesome! Ok beside the fact that it's made all of natural ingredients, which I love, it also somehow makes my hair super shiny and soft and it's great. I had a feeling like it also makes my hair take on a curl better (!!!), so naturally I got it for myself once I was back here.
Then there's the GOSH natural blush in 43 Flower Power that I actually used all summer, because it's really strongly pigmented so a little bit of product goes a long way, also I thought the color was really summer-appropriate and THE NAME IS FUCKING "FLOWER POWER"!!!! I'm just sayin'..
Next we have the ANNIE nailpolish in 373.10 Lucky Surfer Girl which I did NOT end up wearing for the wedding, but all the rest of August I did =D. This beautiful pale yellow was kind of my Color of the Season, but I didn't exactly find a lot of clothing in that color, so I was really happy to have this polish, so I was able to add a little sunshine to every outfit ^o^
Ok this might sound weird, but the Compeed Invisible Fever Blister Patches saved my life this month. About once every year my herpes acts up and I get a fever blister somewhere around my lips and this year's was HUMONGOUS! My mom of course gave me like 5 different things to put on it (no kidding - it was at least five.) and those did great work too, but for going out it's just really nice to have something to put over it. I just feel much less uncomfortable wearing one of those.
Last but definitely not least: My awesome bow purse from Tally Weijl of all the things in this picture, this one deserves to be here the most, because I carried it with me literally EVERY DAY. It's just so much nicer, especially in summer, to have a white purse instead of a black one. It instantly makes the outfit look cuter and less dark. The only downside: I can't fit my sketchbook in there =( But I guess I won't have that problem once Uni starts again and I have to carry all my books and stuff. It was nice to have an August summer fling with this purse :3

Ok, as for my non-beauty favorites:
Song: f(x) - Rum Pum Pum Pum

Yes, I love K-Pop and I will not be ashamed! My new obsession are f(x), who are so very much easier to obsess over than SNSD, just because they're 5 people, and not 9 xD All five members of f(x) are just so likable, I couldn't ever decide who I like best. Maybe Victoria. Maybe. Anyways, I like all of their songs (I didn't at first, but they get better the more you listen to them... is that bad? xD), but Rum Pum Pum Pum is the one that started my craze.

Book: Marissa Meyer - The Lunar Chronicles

Oh God.
I KNOW how this looks, ok? At first I thought it would be dumb too.
Let me just explain. I finally managed to get to "A Dance with Dragons" yay! But I fell into the Song of Ice an Fire hole again, where I want to know what happens, but I just don't wanna read the book D= While still reading "A Dance with Dragons" I managed to read: All three of the Tributes of Panem books (Hunger Games for those who don't brain), the Tiffany Aching/Wee Free Men books by Terry Pratchett (well, I'm at "Wintersmith" currently) AND the first two books of The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. Here's how that came to be: We went swimming while the kids were still staying with us, but I couldn't go into the water because I had a cold. So I still came along to watch the kids. I did bring my kindle with "Dance of Dragons" but I just couldn't be bothered to read that. So I happened to see the book Sega (the oldest) brought along - "Cinder" by Marissa Meyer. When I saw the cover I thought it would be some stupid Twilight knock-off, but then I read the blurb (TIL "blurb"), and it was about cyborgs and moon people and whaaaaaaaaat. So I gave it a go, and not 12 hours later I had finished the first book. I have to say the ending was not surprising AT ALL, I knew what was gonna happen right from the start, BUT it was great fun to read nonetheless, I loved the parallels to "Cinderella" and I have by now finished "Scarlet", the second book of the series. The next one will be out in February and I'm not gonna miss it, period.

Food: Blueberries
To say that those are my AUGUST favs is a COLOSSAL understatement. I have been buying blueberries non-stop ever since spring. I love love love those things, they're delicious and good for your body. This is the kind of food that I let myself obsess over freely. In fact, I'm having some right now. I'm serious. Blueberries. All the way.

Champion: Zyra

Oh yesssssss. I love her. Since I hardly ever play anything apart from support, I knew that sooner or later I would have to buy Zyra. I guess what stopped me from doing so was her design, which I just don't like. The whole pink-and-green and her stupid hair and OMG THAT EARRING, it's just repulsive to me. But then I realized: I can get the skin! Now I own Wildfire Zyra, which I think should more fittingly be named Volcano Zyra, and I'm super happy that I do.
First off, I think it's absolutely ok to let Riot have some money for their hard work. They provide everything else for free, ok? Also, like I said, I couldn't possibly play her classic skin.
So far I have been loving her as a support, she has great CC and still deals a good amount of damage, even with support items. Also: I love the skin ingame, the plants just look awesome.
At this rate Zyra might be up there with Nami and Sona at some point. Then again, she doesn't have a heal...

Anyways, that's my favorite stuff for last month! Let me know if you have ever tried any of it.
Thanks a lot for reading this crazy long post ^o^
Love
T.

Wedding Wednesday 5/5: The stressful rest

Hey guys, omg the wedding is on Friday!
It's super stressful, there's still so much to do. Also, the bride is getting really nervous (although if you ask her, she'll say "NO I'M NOT PANICKING AT ALL, WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT!?"), so all I'm doing these days is trying to keep the peace while the event's last details are being organized.

Unfortunately, I had absolutely no time today to dress up the way I will on Friday and take pictures for the blog, so I just took a pic of everything you guys still haven't seen yet:

So, finally you get to see the french-braid-twist-hairdo-thing on myself. Also I finally found shoes (for 16 euros xD) that match the outfit PERFECTLY (they also sparkle.).
For jewelry I'm just wearing simple elegant earrings and a necklace with this purple flower pendant that my mum got me like 5 years ago xD
Also, can't have an outfit without a bow! This is the actual fabric my sister used for the sash on her dress - I sewed it into a belt and I'll pin the bow to the back of it.

And this is it for today - sorry for the tiny post but I'm really just too busy.
I promise to post photos of my entire outfit AFTER Friday, also one of the happy bride and groom.

Thanks for reading <3
Love
Trin

Wedding Wednesday 4/5: Le hair + laziness

Happy Wednesday everybody!
So for the hairdo that I'm gonna wear at the wedding I first wanted to link to several youtube tutorials and then have another vote, but decided against it because of two reasons:
1) No one bothered to answer to last week's vote (so I just decided on my own)
2) I kind of already knew which one my favorite would be and I'd probably end up chosing that anyways.

So then I thought of doing a step-by-step tutorial of that hairdo, but really there's a tutorial VIDEO on the internet that's really great and I'd honestly just be stealing ideas, which is not cool.

So here is the video explaining how to do what I think is and incredibly cute yet elegant hairdo:

This btw is Kaylie, and I totally recommend her youtube chanel "Let's make it up", she has the best hair tutorials imo (don't get me wrong, I like CGH as well, but I just feel Kaylie's tutorials are more... "my age").

I did slap up my hair into that braid, which really didn't take much longer than 10 minutes, and took some photos too, before I realized that I'm on my boyfriend's PC for this week and I have no way of getting the pics on here just now. Duhr. You'll just have to imagine:
So for my hair I'm gonna leave out my bangs and a few longer strands of hair and just curl those. I tried it out and I was really happy with how it looked (would love to show you - but can't).

Aaaaand well, that's it. Wow. I'm sorry for this very lazy post - let's be honest, even if I could put up photos it would still be pretty lazy - I guess that's just my way of being slightly passive agressive.
Can't be bothered to make a tutorial, because nobody cares anyway.

So I'll be hunting for shoes now an then my outfit will be complete, which I'll be happy to show you next week in the last part of the Wedding Wednesday series!
Thanks a lot for reading (if anyone ever does)
Love
Trin

Run Kesha Run

I just had a couple of AWESOME days with Yaya <3
There was shopping and delicious food (CUPCAKES!) and swimming and a lot of League of Legends - so basically tons of great stuff. [pics are sure to come!]

BUT. There was one discovery we made that has changed my life for ever. My mind has been blown and not in a good way.
There was also a lot of K-Pop and during one of those sessions I stumbled over this:

I just.
I can't.
I don't even...

Ok, here's what's so horrible about this: Apparently "Run Devil Run" was a Kesha song  BEFORE it was SNSD's. This is not a bad cover you just listened to. This is the ORIGINAL.
They never released it for Kesha though and then sold it to SMent to use for Girls' Generation but initally it was written for Kesha.
Can we please just talk about how SNSD took it and made it like 5000% better?

 Come on. I don't speak any Korean but even I can tell that this version is better.
Also, SNSD are much better singers than Kesha for Christ's sake.

I'm sorry you guys, I know I'm making much too big of a deal out of this, but I just can't get over the fact that what might just be my favorite Girls' Generation song is esentially really a Kesha song.

Does this mean I actually like Kesha's music? I'm so confused.
I will never get over this, someone hold me xD

I guess I just wanted to share my emotional scars with someone, so thanks a lot for reading!
Love
Trin

Wedding Wednesday 3/5: Nail design tutorial

It's that time of the week again! (Oops, I almost missed it!!)
Man, time's running fast.
So this week it's time for my nail design. Since I'm absolutely incapable of doing anything with my left hand, and also because I can't outshine the bride, I decided to keep it fairly simple. I do have 4 different colors that look nice in different combinations, so, again, you need to tell me your opinion to help me decide which one I'm going to wear.

All I did was add a little gradient design, which is achieved quite easily:

 Start out with a base color (I used white and pale yellow).  Then you take out a little glittery polish (gold and purple for me) and drop it on a smooth, disposable surface. 

 Then you take a cosmetic sponge to dip into the polish and carefully dab it onto your nail, to about halfway down. Make sure the layer is very thin.

Note: I didn't have a cosmetic sponge at hand so I had to use paper tissues, which DOES NOT work as well.

Then you dab on another thin layer on top of the first one, but only the tip of your nail this time. Now, It depends on the nail polish you're using if you have to make more of fewer layers. For me, with the golden one, two layers made a gradient quite nicely, but with the purple I should have maybe done 3 or 4 instead to make it more smooth.

 

And that's how you do the only nail design I know =D

So here's what it looks like finished. I did a gradient with both purple and golden with both base colors, and on my left hand I just used all 4 colors plain and simple to show you what that looks like.

 Numeration for easier understanding xD

Ok, I actually don't love any of the 3-6 plain ones, maybe 6, but I still prefer the gradient ones.

Namely, I plan on doing either 1b or 2b on most of my nails, and for my thumb and ringfinger use 1a or 2a respectively. BUT I don't love 2b very much, because you can't properly see the gold.OR I could just use either of those four for all my nails.

As you can see, I'm just not sure yet, so please help me by letting me know about your opinion!

Special thanks to Miri who helped me with taking the photos when both my hands were occupied ;)

Thanks for reading, guys!

Lovelovelove

Trin

Last but not least: Products I used for this post! From left to right: Essie in "3 Marshmallow", ANNY in "455 goldfinger", ANNY in "373.10 lucky surfer girl" , ciaté in "PP141 helter-skelter"

Wedding Wednesday 2/5: My subtle pastel make-up + Tutorial

Welcome back to Wedding Wednesday!
I sent out emails concerning the planning of the BIG DAY to all guests just a second ago - it's drawing closer!

Today's post is about this make-up look that I chose to wear to the wedding and how I achieved it:
(all products used will be listed at the end of the post)

What I like about this is that it matches my color theme white, yellow, gold and purple; it's shimmery but still subtle enough not to upstage the bride and most importantly: it's almost 100% waterproof for those inevitable tears of happiness =D

Okay, so here's how it went down.
(First of all: Okay, I know my camera is crap, I hope to get a new one for my birthday *3*. Also don't comment on the condition of my skin, ESPECIALLY my dark circles. I KNOW. Trust me. I know.)
Step 1: At first I prepped my eyes with primer (a), then I started out with a base of a golden cream-based eyeshadow (b) on my entire lid.
Step 2: With another waterproof shadow in stick form (c) in pale lilac, I drew a little triangle shape on my outer V, then blended it out to achieve the look in picture 2. I also brought it down towards my lower lash line, which doesn't really show in the photo, but I forgot to take pictures with my eyes open - oopsies.

Step 3: I added a warm purple eyeshadow (from d), which unfortunately isn't waterproof, to the bottom center of my lid, to blend the gold and lilac together. Remember: The look is supposed to be subtle; I know you can hardly see it in the photo, but that's how it's supposed to be.
Step 4: Then I just lined my upper lash line with a dark purple color (also from d), to give my eyelashes a fuller look. I also lined the outer half of the lower line, which, again, you can't see, because I'm a big dumdum.

Anyways, that's it, basically. I just added pale pink pencil liner (e) to my waterline, which makes my eyes look bigger. White pencil works too, the pink is just a personal preference - I think it looks less harsh. Also I put on waterproof mascara (f), covered up my circles with foundation (g) (I basically use foundation as concealer these days) and slapped on some blush (h), powder (i) and my favorite lipstick (j) and BOOM, done.

Here are more pictures of the finished look from different angles:

Sorry for the crazy eyes in the last one xD

And that's what I'll be wearing for the wedding, yay! x3 I hope you like it.
Do send me pics or let me know if you tried something similar and/or used one of the products. And if you don't, whatever. Then don't.
Thanks a lot for reading anyways <3

Lovelovelove
Trin


Just like I promised; here's a list with the products:

a) some no-name primer that works great for me.
b) Maybelline  New York "color tattoo 24hr" in "05 Eternal Gold"
c) LOOK by bipa "splish splash eyeshadow stick in "Nr2 breeze"
d) Majolica Majorca "Jeweling Eyes" in I-don't-know-what-color-because-my-japanese-is-really-bad
e) YVES ROCHER couleurs "3 in 1 eye pencil" in "08 blanc" (which is a weird name for a PINK product, but what do I know right?)
f) YVES ROCHER "lash plumping mascara" you already know I love it =O
g) I know, you know.
h) GOSH "natural blush" in "43 flower power" OMG I DID NOT READ THAT NAME BEFORE NOW, I'M SO EXCITED, I CAN'T STOP SCREAMING.
i) Maybelline New York "Pure Powder" in "015 Translucent"
j) Maybelline New York "Color Sensational Popstick" in "020 Tropical Pink"

Obnoxious Pop-Songs: The Wanted - "Walks like Rihanna"

Okay.
First off, yes, I do watch Viva sometimes, I particularly enjoy watching the charts even.
I DO NOT DESPISE POP MUSIC like some people do.
Yes, the music I really dig is more towards the Alternative Rock/Metal or whatever, but I do enjoy listening to pop music.

It's just... sometimes you come across a song that is just so incredibly stupid, it makes you downright angry.
One of those songs came up on the radio just now while my Dad was driving me home; it's The Wanted's new single "Walks like Rihanna". I had only heard this song once before, and I remember that even then I just hated it. Give it a go:

Ok, here's the thing. "Walks like Rihanna" is about this girl who is apparently so incredibly amazing, but only for one great feature: walking like Rihanna.
I just.
The first thing I thought (just by the title) was "That's kinda clever, making a song about a girl who has Rihanna's attitude and that is great, because that IS one of Rihanna's better treats and she IS a very famous icon and she IS extremely sexy."
But then the song goes on and on and all they ever say about Rihanna is how that other girl walks like her. Like, not even as a metaphor for swagger and attitude, no, the girl in the song is actually super dorky, she just literally WALKS LIKE RIHANNA.
Is that even a thing? Rihanna's WALK? Is that something people acutally say like "Check out that girl's walk over there, that totally looks like Rihanna's!"?...  No, I didn't think so.
SO WHY EVEN MAKE A TRIBUTE TO RIHANNA IF YOU DON'T SAY ANYTHING GOOD ABOUT HER THE ENTIRE SONG?????

Another thing. Here's how the entire chorus goes:

She can't sing, she can't dance
but who cares - she walks like Rihanna.

And then they repeat that a couple of times. Apart from wondering why they couldn't at least think up a few more lines for their chorus, I'm not even sure how a person really can't dance, at all, but when she WALKS it's like "BOOM, I gotta nail that". Don't sex appeal and a lot of confidence (which I still try to think "walking like Rihanna" stands for) go hand in hand with good/sexy dancing?
I guess I'm just really over thinking that. "Walking like Rihanna" doesn't mean anything; it's neither a tribute to Rihanna, nor a metaphor for something that Rihanna does. It's just a stupid line in a stupid song that is meant to make people think it's a clever song.

Which it is not.
Let's talk about the rest of the lyrics here.

Have you seen that girl, have you seen her
With the way she moves you wanna kiss her
She'll be the girl of your dreams if you can close your eyes
You can feel that beat when she's in the room
You can feel your heart going boom boom
And all the boys they crowd around

THE WAY SHE MOVES? I thought she couldn't dance!? What is this song even about? Are you really telling me I'm looking at a song that is SOLELY about the girl's WALK? What is she, some kind of super model who can't do anything else but look good as she walks up and down? I don't. AAAHHHRG.
Also, she's not even all that hot, you know, she can be the girl of your dreams, if you can close your eyes and imagine really hard. Wut? Seriously, The Wanted, you guys are not exactly making her feel so very awesome.
And all the rest is just meaningless blabber. They go "Our hearts go boom boom boom" a few more times. Yes, that is what hearts do. You guys. You can stop now. We get it!

Jesus, this song makes me angry. For a love song, it's completely unflattering unless you pin all your confidence on how you walk; for a tribute to Rihanna, it's a complete failure because it doesn't say a single nice thing about her, heck, the entire song doesn't even mention Rihanna except for that half of a line in the chorus.
It's not even catchy!! It's not. Nothing about the song made me think "Hey, I like what they did with the music there". The music in "Walks like Rihanna" is just a flat-out, boring, synthesized blob.

If there isn't some fanatic cult that I'm oblivious of, that is obsessed with Rihanna's walk, I just don't understand what the song is about and why anyone would listen to it.

Thanks a lot for reading all this angry ranting, I just had to get it off my chest.

Love
Trin

Wedding Wednesday 1/5: Help me decide on my outfit!

INTRODUCING: The first ever B&B post SERIES, "Wedding Wednesday".

Obviously, I'm not getting married; what are you, crazy? My sister is, though, and her wedding is a mere 5 weeks from Saturday! =O
Great maid of honor that I am, I already helped the bride with picking a dress, an accent color fabric and a fabric for the groom's waistcoat. I also designed both the "save the date" cards and the actual invitations and I've accompanied her to the decorators and her hairdresser this past weekend, so that no detail will be lost on me, and all my sister has to do on her big day is smile and cry and have fun and, obviously, say "I do", while I take care of everything.
It's promising to be a beautiful wedding, I can't wait really.





I still lack an outfit for myself, though!
So I'm starting my series Wedding Wednesday, or WW for short, to show and plan my own outfit including hair, make-up and nail design in the form of tutorials or votes, going online every week until the actual wedding.

Part one is about my clothes:
Well, I actually already decided on a skirt from iAnywear, that I ordered a few weeks ago.
It's yellow, so it should fit the wedding's color theme "purple" just fine. (I'll have the throwing bouquet and probably also some hair accessories matching the bride's. Also, we'll be standing next to each other in a lot of photos and I just wanted to make sure that our colors don't clash)
I did have my eye on a beautiful blouse online too, but that one has been out of stock for weeks now =(
So I went from shop to shop in search of a top to wear with my skirt. I really wanted it to be white (don't worry, I asked the bride, she said it's ok), but I just COULDN'T find ANYTHING!!!
UNTIL I went into orsay, where I picked myself up 3 beautiful white pieces.
Great. Now I can't decide which one to wear =_=

I ruled out one of them already, because it didn't really match the skirt in terms of style. It's also made from pretty thick material which I'm not sure I want to be wearing to an August wedding.
But the other two are both kind of perfect...

(I apologize for crappy quality)
The left one has more of a girly feel, while the right one is more elegant. Both have great material, both match the skirt very well and, if I do say so myself, both suit me and my body type.
Only I can't wear both of them to the wedding!!



So, to finally get to the point of this post: I thought I'd let you guys have a vote. Which one do you like better?
(After further consideration I should probably have taken another photo of the right one, it really doesn't look too flattering in this. Oh, well.)
Please let me know which one you like, either via facebook or leave a comment on this post! :)
Part 2 of the WW series will be online -duh! - next Wednesday.
Thank you so much for reading!
Love

Trin

T does a tiny bit of crafting (and almost dies in the process Oo)

So.

Because I'm a moron, I'm off my meds this week (until I get to Andrea, actually) and I am a WRECK. Jesus.
BUT I still felt motivated for some crafting today, after I browsed craftgawker for like 5 hours yesterday.
I found this cute DIY and I loved it.

I happened to have red and white acrylic paint at home. I did NOT have any wooden plates or anything but I tried using cardboard and that worked just fine =)

I made the small one as a pendant, I'm not sure what I'll use the big one for... but I had paint mixed up for like 15 more of those things, making just one seemed a bit of a waste. The reason why it only turned out to be two is - like I hinted before - that I felt like my brain was trying to escape my head. Seriously, I was spacing out like some mental person - I guess the fumes from the paint and nail polish (which I used to paint the little hanger thing on the pendant) plus listening to 2,5 albums from Flyleaf didn't exactly help. By the end I just wanted to go back to sleep.
But I had to go shopping with the bf, so I picked myself up some coffee instead. GREAT idea. So for the next half hour I was super HYPER, switched the music to the OST of "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (which I haven't seen since the first time with you guys and my sister, which was super epic *thrusts fist into the air*) and kept bouncing around the house.
I'm back to a headache at the moment, but it's a lot better than this morning, when I was "being crafty".

I know it's tiny, and I didn't even think of it myself, but the process was such a pain I just wanted to share with someone that I DID something today, despite feeling like a sack of mentally disabled potatoes.

the messy mess I made. Can you tell what my favorite color is?

another angle. They look kinda crappy in the photographs because you can see all the ripples in the cardboard. It's not that intense irl.

Well that's that. Thanks for reading, I hope your head is feeling better than mine.

Kisses
Tini