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Colourful hair extensions

admin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:12:10 +0000

I’ve bought hot pink clip-in hair extensions to wear on Christmas with my pink dress. I bought white and baby pink extensions at the same time.

I needed somewhere to store the extensions so I taped a strip of paper to the inside of one of my closet doors and attached the extensions to it.

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My white winter wonderland Christmas tree

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:26:54 +0000

I’ve had my own Christmas tree every year since I was a kid but this year is the first time I have a full sized tree. It’s a white plastic one with black, pink, silver and white ornaments. It has a lot of pretty ornaments including balls, stars, snowflakes, hearts, mushrooms, prisms and my personal favourite; cupcakes! It has a silver star in the top and no less than 25(!) meters of pearl garlands.

Some shopping

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:47:25 +0000

I’m still sick and even feeling worse today. I’ve slept the entire day and woke up at 7PM with a fewer and a even worse cough than yesterday. Not on top of the world!

At least I’m happy over the Christmas presents I’ve bought myself. Since I can finally wear colourful clip-in hair extensions I bought five hot pink, two baby pink and two white 50 cm clip-in extensions. Since these extensions has to be clipped in underneath your hair so the little comb isn’t visible they don’t work well when all of your hair has the same length. Now when the shortest layers of my hair is only 10 cm long I can clip in the extensions under that hair et voila 40 cm of them are visible. They’re a bit too short but it’s hard finding anything affordable which is 65 cm long like my hair.

I also bought a new straightening iron. I have three but they’re all the old cheap kind which doesn’t work well. Now I bought a Ga.Ma Italy CP1 Electronic Ceramic-ion which was rather expensive but according to the reviews I’ve read about it one of the best straightening irons on the market.

I’ve also bought this. Or rather I bought it but my parents will pay for it. Every year I get a outfit for Christmas as one of my Christmas presents from my parents. The bow isn’t new but it goes perfectly with the dress so I will wear it with it. I’ll probably wear a black glitter cardigan over the dress plus black glitter stockings.

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Fluffy

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:41:27 +0000

Here’s another photo of my new haircut. I like fluffy hair. After all, I’m an old panda. For you non-swedes, that’s a subculture. Google “panda poppare”. That’s the way I looked when I was younger.

Other than looking fabulous I’m not doing much. I’m sick actually. The fewer comes and goes and I’m coughing. So why do I look so fabulous when I’m home with the flu? Well actually I’ve barely touched my hair today. The teased style simply lasts surprisingly well. All I had to do today was comb and spray it a bit. Took like one minute. I didn’t want to look like I got straight out of bed when I went to buy dinner.

Other than that short arrend I’ve spent the entire day working on a digital painting. It’s coming out… not like I visualized it. But my paintings never do. I’m not talented enough to make them come out as amazing as I see them in my head. I’m very new to digital painting though so I guess not much else is expected. I’m not going to show you what I’m working on because the only thing worse than a bad painting is a unfinished bad painting. There’s still hope you know. When I’m done with it maybe it’ll look good. I give you this. It’s a portrait and it’s gothic. It’ll probably just take forever to finish. I worked on my last digital painting for a month.

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ELF make-up

admin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:40:59 +0000

Yesterday my ELF make-up arrived. This is happy me with some of the make-up.

And here’s all of the stuff I bought.

Get the look dramatic eyes kit

10 piece brush set

Fair foundation

Lengthening and defining mascara

Sheer eyelid primer

Daily brush cleaner

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New haircut

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:03:36 +0000

New haircut. Same length, more layers and volume. At least it’s supposed to be more volume. On my way home from the hairdresser the snow made my hair flat and I still haven’t quite figured out how to style it myself. It’s been so long since I had a haircut that required styling. Now I’ll need to blow dry, straighten and tease it. Oh my. How long will it take for me to get ready in the mornings now?

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BTW 2: Wanna exchange Christmas cards? To those of you who’ve told me you want to exchange, I’ll get back to you with my address. I’m a bit slow.

Memories of a life gone by

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:34:57 +0000

Today while Christmas shopping downtown I got the strongest flashback outside of one of the malls. I thought about a day more than ten years ago when I walked the same way with a friend who I was very close to back then. Since I moved back to Västerås I get these kind of flashbacks often. It’s not things I have forgotten and suddenly remembers, it’s that when I am in a particular place and come to think of memories I have of that place the memories I have of it becomes extremely strong. It’s as though I remember a feeling, how it felt to be the person I was back then, how I felt for the people I knew back then. I almost expect to look down on my clothes and find myself dressed in the skirt I always wore in high school. To look over my shoulder and find my old best friends standing there.

I didn’t miss things in that way when I lived in Hultsfred because it was a completely different place where my teenage years in Västerås felt very distans. Now I’m all of a sudden back at the crime scene, so to speak, and being here I remember all the good times so much more vividly. It’s one thing to think of what you did in high school when you’re sitting in a town 400 Kilometres away and another thing completely when you walk by your old school.

Perhaps I wouldn’t be as melancholic as I am about the past if I had never left Västerås. Now the end of everything that was my life back then came abruptly. I didn’t lose my friends one by one, I lost them all at the same time when I moved. Life as I knew it didn’t slowly change into something else, suddenly I just lived in a small town in Småland where I had never even set foot before.

Now I make it sound like my life is 2011 is shit and my teenage life was the shit. That’s not the case. My life in 2011 is good and I certainly don’t want to be a teenager again. Except for maybe that feeling of having my whole life ahead of me that I had back then, I do miss that. Still, what I do wish is that I could merge my old life with this life. Take the best from both. At least I have reconnected with a few people from before and that’s wonderful. A small piece of my old life in Västerås is part of my new life here too.

November 2001.
It doesn’t feel like ten years ago.

Still open for Christmas card exchange btw.

The holiday season

admin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:21:04 +0000

I bought a new TV bench from Media Markt for 500:- (€54 $72). It’s originally from Stilexo and the original price was 1500:- (€163 $217). I got it cheap because Media Markt had used it for displaying their TVs on. Nothing wrong with it, just needs a bit cleaning.

It’s not even December yet and I’m almost done with my Christmas shopping. I’ve bought most of the presents, Christmas cards, wrapping paper and ribbons, a tree and ornaments for it. I want to wrap the presents right now but I’ll have to force myself to wait a while because I prefer to do it closer to Christmas. You see every year I have this cosy night of gift wrapping when I light gingerbread and cinnamon scented candles, listen to Christmas music, drink spiced mulled wine and eat chocolate. And I just feel that it’s too soon to indulge in the holiday spirit like that when it’s not even December yet.

Speaking of Christmas, who wants to trade Christmas cards with me?

And don’t forget to enter my contest where you can win a beautiful gothic necklace or a gift card to a alternative clothes/accessories/home decor web shop! More info here!

Last but not least, I’ve added two new categories to the blog. Beauty & Fashion and My Home. Beauty & Fashion is all the posts which previously were tagged Looks. My Home also used to be a tag but is now a category. Both tags had so many posts that I decided they deserved categories of their own since the tags are supposed to be subcategories. For example posts in the Beauty & Fashion category now have tags such as Clothes, Shoes and Make-up. If you’re looking for specific things this will make it easier to find them.

Home decor shopping

admin — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:31:11 +0000

Some stuff I’ve bought from Jotex recently.

Coat shelf.

Wall lantern

Electric candle stick.

Bathroom rug.

Bath towels and guest towels with lace.

Duvet cover. Already got this set but it’s getting worn so I bought a new one.

Lamp for the hallway.

Cupcake Christmas tree figurines

admin — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:51:50 +0000

This weekend I’ll begin with the Christmas shopping. I’m so excited! Especially about getting a white Christmas tree. I already have a black one but it’s only one meter tall so this year I’m getting a bigger tree. I first planned on getting another black one but then decided I’d try something new so white it is. I’ll only decorate it with black, white and a little silver since that’s the colour scheme of my living room. Except for some pink cupcake ornaments. Just look at the one to the left. It doesn’t fit the colour scheme I had in mind but how can I not buy it?! They’re all very pretty but I really want to keep the colours to a minimum in my tree so if I’m going to put something other than black, white and silver in it it will have to be just one colour and not too much of it. Too bad I can’t fit the tree into my kitchen because in there the walls have the prettiest baby pink colour and I would just love a Christmas tree full of pink ornaments. Or even a pink tree!

Speaking of something a lot more serious. A woman was assaulted in the small forest in my neighbourhood. I take the bike road though that forest at least once a week so I was pretty freaked to hear about it. Apparently the attacker tried to drag a woman from the bike road up into the woods but her dog attacked the man who then ran away. It happened around noon, in broad daylight! Guess how scared I was when I took the bike through that forest today at dusk. I’ll never do that again. From now on if I need to go that way after dark I’ll take the bus.