Since I love reading and I really enjoy reading book reviews on blogs, I thought I'd start my own little series called the "Lipsticks & Chocolates Book Club" (L&C for short). I don't know how regularly I'll post about books, but I think I'll just post whenever I finish a good book and feel like sharing it.
Since I've been having some annoyingly bad skin lately (hello, am I 15 or 25 years old?!) and I'm running out of my current Michael Todd True Organics skincare rotation, I thought I'd finally go for it and buy my whole regime from Lush Cosmetics.
As some of you may now, if you read THIS post, I decided to join in on The Creative Collective. This is a creative challenge as well as a linkup on Melyssa's blog.
Exactly one week ago, last Sunday, my boyfriend and I went on a walk with our pup (and our neighbour's pup) and I took my camera along since the weather was so gorgeous.
"Angel Mountain" is the name of our town translated into English. The German name for it is Engelberg.
Happy Saturday everyone :) Isn't this just the best day of the week? I just love knowing that I have the day off and that the next day is a day off as well!
Anyways, I just spent a while adding photo's to my past posts where photo's were missing. You see, my blog used to be on Wordpress under the name "Michelle in a Nutshell" and at some point I decided I wanted to move my blog to Blogger and change the name. I imported all the existing posts and that worked perfectly except that the photo's didn't transfer over! (I'm sure there's a very logical and obvious technological reason for this, but I'm not tech-savvy enough to know that.)
So, after going through the posts I've posted since the beginning of 2013, I touched on a few that I think are still very interesting. So, if you're new to this blog, here a few links you might like to check out :)
And it just so happens that Melyssa from The Nectar Collective is starting a fun, creative initiative "designed to help the both of us learn, grow, and have a freakin’ blast doing it". Sounds pretty good to me!
First things first, sorry for my short hiatus this past week. I hate it when that happens. But somehow my first week back at work mixed in with some Christmas festivities (the 7th of January Orthodox type) just got in the way of blogging.
My 10 day vacation was absolutely wonderful and I really enjoyed the time away from the computer and internet. But obviously, I'm glad I'm back to wi-fi and my laptop ;)
I just had a wonderful day and evening spent with loved ones, lots of laughs and delicious food. Oh, and some awesome gift-giving went down as well...score!
Seeing as I'm headed out of the country tomorrow for 10 days and won't be able to post on here since I won't even have an internet connection most of the time, I thought I'd make one last mini post about today's nails and makeup :)
I know, I know, this post (as well as the gift ideas) is pretty last minute, but I still wanted to share a few of my gift ideas which are mostly DIY (do it yourself).
I think DIY gifts are always thoughtful and interesting - and I love gifting them as well as receiving them. So here's what I chose to gift a few of my best girlfriends.
I'm back with another holiday nail tutorial! Woo woo!
Alright, I'll stop tooting my own horn. But hey, don't we all love nail polish and nail art?
Ya...I thought so :)
So, here's something I came up with last Sunday whilst hanging out at home on a cold wintery day. I was of course inspired by Christmas but I didn't want to use the traditional red and green colors. So I went for a simple "wintery" shade with this light blue.
I've noticed lately that I've been wearing a few lipstick and lipgloss combo's lately and thought I'd share them for anyone looking for some lip inspiration.
I love reading blog posts about lip products because personally, I find the lip products area at any makeup counter to be quite daunting. I like to know what I'm looking for in advance, swatch it at the store to make sure it's right, and then buy it. Quick process. Since there are so many shades available, I quickly feel overwhelmed and don't know which shade is right for me.
A little while ago, my friend Hollee sent me a link to a blog post featuring "candy cane nails". I've seen this idea on a few blogs and YouTube channels but I wanted to tone down the candy cane pattern to one nail instead of having it on all 10. Hollee also asked me how one should go about making this design, since the aforementioned blog post didn't include any instructions.
I enjoyed a cup of this scrumptious tea over the weekend and thought I'd share. Are there any other tea lovers out there? :)
Especially in the winter months, it's so nice to cuddle up on the sofa and enjoy a warm cup of sweet tea with a kick of spice. And if it's (kind of) homemade, than even better!
I've been loving quite a few MAC Cosmetics eyeshadows lately so I thought I'd share them for anyone interested! I really like reading blog posts about random eyeshadows because I find it's much easier to decide on which ones you might like rather than going to the MAC counter and being overwhelmed with the choices.
I discovered this Christmas tag on Fee's blog Makeup Savvy and thought I'd join in on the fun since I also love the Christmas season! Georgina from Makeup Pixi3 came up with this tag so click on both these links to check out Fee's and Georgina's answers :)
Yay, December is finally here. Now the joy of the holidays and Christmas can finally set in and no one has to feel guilty that they're excited for Christmas at the beginning of November (me!).
And since it's December 1st, today is the day to....
My life as a Polish/Canadian 20-something-year-old in Switzerland filled with beauty products, photography and the little joys that come along the way.
