Sunday*Brunch

|Watched| The Mentalist, Navy CIS, Shrek
|Listened to| Against The Current, GavinDeGraw, Max Schneider, Alex Goot, Simple Plan, Lucie Silvas
|Action| Celebrating with people I would not instantly think I could connect (did work out perfectly and I found myself enjoying the evening so much). Hiding from emotions (I am a runner!)
|Food| Cheese in all varities
|Drink| Coffee & Water & Tea a lot
|Thought| Why am I so scared?
|Made me smile| My fav barista - I got the special treatment with a little extra along the queue hoping & a large smiley in my cup! <3
|Made me go hmmm| Work - again & my own inner conflicts & habits I seem not to break anytime soon (and I am annoyed by my own behaviour here)
|Wished for| More discipline & strength.
|Best Buy| My coffee in the morning (cheerful beginning in my day - always)
|Online| douglas, various blogs, amazon...

Cheers,
StrangenessOfHeart

Sunday*Brunch

|Watched| A lot of happy faces buncing around me :)
|Listened to| Against The Current, GavinDeGraw, Max Schneider, Alex Goot, Simple Plan, Lucie Silvas
|Action| Meeting friends - old school friends - and instantly reconnect, celebrate a lot with beloved ones, travelling by train for hours and hours (and surprisingly enjoying it a lot), readin
|Food| Grilled salmon, tortilla chips (too much), peanut bars
|Drink| White wine & Caipi & my daily coffee dose
|Thought| I hink I get in a direction ... somehow, not?!
|Made me smile| A question of a close friend which left me trully honoured and moved by the shown trust!
|Made me go hmmm| Work!
|Wished for| This weekend to never end :)
|Best Buy|A book for a beloved one
|Online| douglas, various blogs, amazon...

Cheers,
StrangenessOfHeart

Life At It's Most Complicated

Aloha All,

today I want to share some thoughts with whoever is interested in. Guess this is an open-therapy-kind-of-thing now :)

Do you find it difficult to grow up sometimes? Because I do and quite frankly I really do not want to grow up. I simply refuse to play all adult and face the cold truth.
Don't get me wrong I am not a Peter-Pan-type with not getting anything done, living at home etc ... I have a job, my own little flat and I did some pretty grown up things already BUT my point is that growing up spoils a lot of fun and as you are getting older it is even less fun ... I also see my parents who are already behind the point of the most unfun period as they are relaxed and enjoying life a lot lately. So there is hope! But befor that lies this road of an awful lot of stinky things I don't want to encounter. Things I would love to close my eyes and run past as I did when I was a kid (or I would ask my dad to carry me for a bit because my princess me was to scared to walk past on her own - just would not open communicate it like this).

There are so many mad things going on lately and I have so many questions and I am missing the answers ... so why can't you as a guy ou for a coffee or beer wihout sending a wrong signal (hej, I really only want to have a fun night out and make friends like back in high school)?
Why can't I wear my summer dresses in autumn and winter without being asked if this is "necessary"? (Didn't even undertstand what is there to question ... if I feel like a floral-summery dress I will wear it! Have you ever questioned a princess or the Queen? Then why me?!).
Why should I work toward family life with house, husband, children and pet when I am absolutely NOT wanting this/ seeing this in my life? Are we really debating life models at this stage?
Why do I "lye" to myself when openly discussing why I love to be on my own and out and about at every single minute of my life?
Why do people ask me to defend my lifestyle? Why do people question my joy for life as I am living it? What is their reason and who gave them their right to judge about this?

Why should I know where I want to be in 10 years? Why should I know where I want to be even further as this? Why can't I just first know who I am and who I really want to be?
Why not letting be live the moment and enjoying life as I do now?
I love to embrace life. I love to dance in the rain, to play + jump around like a 7-year-old sometimes. I like to dress up and put on some make up and feel like a princess sometimes. I like to be a tomboy sometimes. I like that I can be strong and sometimes weak and don't have to be a constant boring plain robot but being human.

... so much for my thoughts right now :)

Cheers,
StrangenessOfHeart

Sunday*Brunch

|Watched| people watching on a beautiful perfect autumn afternoon while enjoying a nice glass of wine
|Listened to| GavinDeGraw, Max Schneider, Alex Goot, Simple Plan, Lucie Silvas
|Action| Meeting friends and reconnect with two beloved ones, baking a lot with peanutbutter andthinking about the sense for all the mess I am in
|Food| Peanut Choco Cookies, Sushi & Ratatouille
|Drink| Coconut Drink & my daily soy-milk caramell macchiato (Starbucks)
|Thought| What a mess, what a mess, what a mess ... but hej, bad decisions make good stories, right?
|Made me smile| Life with all its ironic changes & unstable circumstances.
|Made me go hmmm| Mess in every aspect of my life.
|Wished for| Stability & time to find my inner "masterplan" (haven't given up hope for something like this to come across my mind...)
|Best Buy| Some more sheer glam lipsticks (p2)- such awesome & inexpensive product LOVE
|Online| douglas,parfumdreams, various blogs

Cheers,
StrangenessOfHeart

Signature Look for Autumn 2012

Aloha All,

Here we go with my current autumn signature look - this routine works so well for me and I got so many complimens on my complexion lately (guess it is because I still have a bit of a tan from my holidays).
Oh, and of course I can recommend all products absolutely!

Prep:

- Cleansing Wipes - Soap&Glory & Yes to cucumbers ( liked them but aren't too fussed about those, cheaper ones do the job just as nicely)

- Cotton pads w/ Rival de Loop Cleanser with cucumber extract (cooling!)

- Kiehl'sUltra Facial Oil-free Lotion (at night the ultra facial cream to really moisturize my skin)
- Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment (with avocado)

Face:

- Rival de Loop Tanning Lotion mixed with with essence tinted moisturizer in light to medium

- Dallas blush by benefit

- Hoola bronzer by benefit for contouring
- P2 Argentinia Powder Trio for setting
- Brushes are all by Real Techniques (omg, how could I live without them?...awesomeness purely)

Eyes:

- MUA e/s base (so impressed!)

- Catrice "Oh, it's toffeeful" e/s all over lid OR Sleek MakeUp "Storm" & "Paraguaya" palettes (light shades all over lid, brown ones for defining and adding depth )
- Sleek MakeUp e/s "Stone" for a nice upper lashline colour)
- Optional Maybelline Black eyeliner (+ brush wich was in the kit - it is adorable)

- Max Factor 2000 Calorie Mascara in Blackbrown + Avon lentghening mascara (yellow packaging from a magazine)

- e.l.f. highlighter palette (beige-rosé shade in use) OR High beam by benefit (honestly I think the e.l.f. palette is a perfect dupe for the benefit highlighters but at a much more affordable budget + you get 4 colours at once!!!)

- Eye lash curler by e.l.f. cosmetics (best one in my opinion!)

Lips:

- For care: Kaufmann’s Haut-& Kindercreme & Burt's Bees chap stick in hibiscus

- For actually colouring: Sleek MakeUp Pout Polish in electric peach (washed out red look), Tana lipstick (changes colour & matching your skintone - stays in lips forever, seriously) or Coralista by Catrice

Brushes:

- Real techniques (Stippling, blush, doomed shadow, setting, multitask, powder, expert & essential foundation)

- Zoeva bamboo set or e.l.f. blending brush for –surprise- blending

Nails:
- I Eat Mainly Lobster by O.P.I + 67 make it golden by exxence on the ringfinger
- Barefoot in Barcelona by O.P.I + Pinky And The Brain by Catrice (on the pinkie one as it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!!!) 


You see it is a lot more than what I wore before but I quite like to use more products as it is always pure joy for me to put on everything in the morning. I celebrate my makeup session every morning listening to music and humming and dancing around while putting on the fun girl stuff :)
Are you the same?

Cheers,
StrangenessOfHeart

SundayBrunch

|Watched| Navy CIS, YT
|Listened to| GavinDeGraw, Max Schneider, Alex Goot, Simple Plan
|Action| Taking loooooong autumn walk, extreme baking action & a lot of online shopping
|Food| Peanut butter granola bars (selfmade) & peanut butter in general
|Drink| Coffee & soy-milk caramell macchiato (Starbucks) & plain water
|Thought| I can't beliebe men are such idiots (imagine rolling eyes) & wow, what is around this corner ... I wanna see :)
|Made me smile| Laughing so hard while on the phone with friends, connecting with two friends which I kind of had a "breakup", feels good to talk about disturbing things quite openly ... oh, and I showed some really ass-kicking courage this week - yay for that!
|Made me go hmmm| Men - in general!
|Wished for| even more courage (oho, I am getting to ass-kicking!) & a wake up call in certain situations
|Best Buy| Sheer glam lipsticks from P2 (love them as they are so wearable), O.P.I Big Apple Red
|Online| douglas, yt, fleurdeforce, sephora, lipsofaco

Cheers,
StrangenessOfHeart

Signature Look August/ September 2012

Aloha All,

My look for August/ September was pretty simple as I was travelling a lot and or I was too lazy to apply any more as it was quite hot:

Prep:

- Cleansing Wipes - Soap&Glory & Yes to cucumbers

- Cotton pads w/ Rival de Loop Cleanser with cucumber extract (cooling!)

- Kiehl'sUltra Facial Oil-Free Lotion + Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment

Face:

- Maybelline BB Cream in light/medium with SPF 30  mixed with essence tinted moisturizer in medium/ dark (as I tanned well)

- P2 summer love blush in summer flirt or non at all

- P2 Argentinia Powder Trio for setting, contouring & highlighting (love this mulifunctional products)

Eyes:

- Alverde brow pencil in 01 blonde to fill in my brows
- Alverde Concealer as e/s base and generally to even out the area

[- Rarely CoverGirl Trio Shimmering Sands or when I didn't use any e/s I went for Maybelline Black eyeliner (+ brush wich was in the kit - adorable)]

- Chanel testing mascara (I think it was inimitable intense - I liked it a lot but hink it is too expensive for the effect) + Avon lentghening mascara (yellow packaging, it was in a magazine I bought at London-Stansted airport while on business travels = LOVE it)

- Eye lash curler by e.l.f. cosmetics

Lips:

- Burt's Bees chap stick in hibiscus or Sleek MakeUp Pout Polish in electric peach (washed out red look with SPF15!!!)


That's it :) But now looking back it even seems to be a lot ... anyways - I enjoyed that simple look!
However with the autumn to arrive I will need a bit more colour in my face to look alive ... stay tuned for that!

Cheers,
StrangenessOfHeart

September 2012 ~ I liked

Lovers in September 2012:

Musik | Not Over You by Gavin DeGraw (+ Covers by Max & Kurt Hugo Schneider), You Suck At Love + Gone Too Soon + Jet Lag by Simple Plan
Movie | My Week With Marilyn
Blogs | howsweeteats.com
You Tube | Alex Goot, Against The Current, thestylediet, Tanya Burr, Fleur DeForce
Food | Peanut Butter Granola Bars & Snack Pies - oh so good!
Drink | Anythink with caramell syrup in it basically did the job (oh, and soy milk!)
Magical Moment | Driving through the desert, having RAIN in the desert (yep, 1st day), being swallowed by fog and being all alone + walking through the slowly colouring autumn landscape
Book | Unbearable Lightness by Portia DeRossi
Fashion | Mustard-coloured Steve Madden bag, floral dresses & bright scarves
Beauty |Black eyeliner + loads of mascara and a slightly coloured red lip (just a brush of it) + dallas blush by Benefit & enjoyed quite a lot of Kiehl's skincare
Random | Haven't been around for a while - reason for it? Unkown.



Cheers
& have an awesome start in this fall,
StrangenessOfHeart