Pretty P2 Nailpolish!

A dear (and crazy for doing this) friend of mine has gifted me the above set of nail polish!! This is a brand I was not familiar with and honestly, I really like it! I meant to post this sooner, but as I was busy working towards my degree, I didn't have time. And I actually wanted to make better quality pictures, but I still don't have a better camera than my iphone... Patience is a virtue, 2014 will be a year of pretty pictures! Yes I promise! But anyway back on track now. The set includes a basecoat from P2, a topcoat from Lacura Beauty and 3 beautiful colours (as you can see): 020 Chestnut, 190 midnight vamp and 080 lovely, all from the brand P2. We had been talking about using good basecoats and topcoats so the polish would last longer, because as I've posted before, nailpolish does not seem to stay put very long on my nails.

The first look I've tried was with the 020 chestnut polish. I've started with the basecoat and added 2 layers of the 020 chestnut polish and finished it off with the Lacura Beauty topcoat.

Basecoat, P2 020 vibrant chestnut and Lacura beauty topcoat

Below you see the result. The polish has a gold shimmery undertone which I really like and I remembered I had a gold crackle polish Antiqued Gold from Sally Hansen which I figured could look nice as an accent finger.  The polish actually stayed put for about 4 days, which made me very very happy :)

Pretty autumn-style polish!

For the next look I decided to use the 190 midnight vamp one along with the 080 lovely polish.

P2 basecoat, 190 midnight vamp, 080 lovely, and lacura beauty topcoat.

I've done one hand with the sand style polish one as accent colour and the midnight vamp polish for the other 4 nails, for the other hand I've done the exact opposite, as you could see in the pictures below. I had a very stressful time so I was constantly scratching at the polish, so I've tried them another time (less stressful naturally) and they also stayed put for about 4 days :) I just need to quit scratching at my polish, I don't seem to learn though since today I've done the same thing for a different look :( Oh well, 1 step at a time right?! 

I did put about 3 layers of topcoat on the sand style polish (080 lovely), so it would feel smoother, the roughness makes me want to scratch over it more, while when smooth, I find it easier to let it be. Thankfully the visual effect was the same. 

Pretty pretty!!

So sparkly!

Love these colours and the quality! So a big thank you again for sending me these!! I've tried the base and topcoat on other polishes and it does improve how long the polish lasts, so these work better for me than the others I have. Maybe I should do a review on the base and topcoats I have and how well they work for me :)

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Humorous Christmas music

Yes I've started with Christmas posts! It's my absolute favorite holiday and time of the year, I look forward to Christmas more than my own birthday. So as soon as summer is gone, I start thinking 'Yey! Christmas is on its way!'

I love the music, of course the classics are always a must to listen to, but I do like to spice it up with some humorous music in between. And especially when they sound like the original, but the lyrics are off. So I always have some songs from Bob Rivers in my playlist. Call me silly, but I guess sometimes I'm still a bit stuck in my high-school humor zone.

Here is one of the songs from the album 'Twisted Christmas'.

 

He has many more songs and I can't get enough! I think I'm going to burn some of the (less offensive) songs on a CD and just add them to the mediaplayer when I'm at my parents' place for Christmas. Just to see if they'll realize that these are not the 'standard' Christmas songs. Muahahaa

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Jealousy and envy are our best enemies

We've all had people around us from whom we knew they did not have our best interest at heart. But what we all have to learn, and this is usually and sadly the hard way, is that almost no one has your best interest at heart, at least not sincerely. Let me explain this more clearly because there are various categories here. We all know the jealous kind who isn't even your friend. I'm not addressing these people, we all know to keep away from them. I'm talking about friends. People you trust, but feel like you need to be careful with what information you share with them, maybe because you feel they envy you. These friends could be very nice an fun to hang out with, but as long as you're not doing better than they are, all will be good. As soon as they sense that you are doing better than they are, will it be in a materialistic, career-wise or romantic aspect, they will change their attitude. I notice that their advice and suggestions changes in a way that they belittle you or make it sound ridiculous what you're asking or saying. Maybe you even read in their eyes that they secretly hope you'll fail. Maybe they are ashamed of wishing that.

Sadly there are many of these kind of people. Personally, I don't understand this behavior. I admit I have friends of which I would love to be able to live their lives, but I will never wish them to fail or wish that they wouldn't be happy. I can sincerely say that I wish everyone the best in life. If a friend will get a job I desperately wanted, I will be upset, not at my friend, but at myself that I didn't work harder or that I didn't do something in my past which would've made me get the job. With friends who are living a life I want to be able to live as well, I try to work hard to get there, I try to change my situation so I can get what I want. I ask advise on how they achieved that and then give it a try myself. 

Maybe I'm naive, but I just don't understand why the majority of human beings only feel good about themselves when they compare their own life with others' that haven't achieved as much. This is behavior of the unintelligent and low life in this world, and I am sad that there are so many of these kind. 

So, what do you do to make you feel better about your life? 

Picture from google

Desperate in some hotel

Yes! Another dream I've had! Here goes:

Taken from google, it was the one that looked the most like what I saw in my dream

I was in this hotel with a bunch of people I know, but aren't really friends with. You know the kind. Either way I saw my ex there and chatted up with him. I felt very lonely there since no one would talk to me and I really wanted someone to be at my side. I had the idea he was still into me so I decided to get back together. He was happy but he got right back in his selfish and jealous ways, not wanting me to do anything without him, even though he never wanted to join any activities with the group. The next day I chatted up with some people and it was great. I felt again that I made a big mistake taking him back again, so I went to the hotel, got to our room and started packing my stuff to move to a different room. He entered the room and brought with him his parents to tell them the news. Can you say awkward? There I was frozen with almost all my stuff packed. His parents disappeared (it's a dream, mine aren't always that realistic) and he started being very angry. I apologized and explained it was a bad mistake, that I didn't love him and I was lonely and at the time wanted to believe I had feelings for him. He threw me out. I didn't care and just took my stuff and walked in the sand (it was at some beach). There were some cute little apartments or condos and my new-made friends were there, so I joined them and asked if there was a free one there for me. There was and I started unpacking my stuff in the one that was left free. It was pretty big with my own kitchen, bathroom, etc. The only thing was that the air conditioner was on very high and the condo was very cold! I went outside and joined the group for some activities on the beach.

My alarm woke me up, and I felt so guilty that I didn't even felt bad in the dream that I used my ex that badly. Glad it was a dream and not reality! Although the beach was very nice!

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Back onboard!

Sometimes you notice that you seem to have more energy than normal. This time has sort of sneaked up on me the last couple of weeks. I feel alive again which turns out I didn't for a long time. Perhaps it had to do with health issues I thankfully got rid of. Either way everything now is going super fast and I feel on top of it all, much like sitting in the front seat of a train and seeing where you're headed along with everything that passes you. Nothing can hold you back, you are on track and that is the way it will be for quite awhile now. At least I really hope so, but part of me knows so. I love being in control and knowing what will happen next, although with the job hunt I don't know where I'll end up next. Could be anywhere in this world and I sort of like that idea of having the entire world opened up for me. Maybe because I'm slightly claustrophobic and hate the feeling of being stuck somewhere, anywhere. Who knows. Either way I love my life right now, even though it's super busy and I rarely have time off, I'm happy and at peace with myself. Yes I need to hit the gym and lose many pounds, but you can't have everything. I'll hit the gym when I'm done with everything happening right now. 

A heavy weight has been lifted. 

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I didn't know I was a vampire? ~Dreams

Aaaaand here's another freaky dream I've had. Again I decided to write it down much later, because it's still nagging at my head and I didn't feel like opening up my blog to write it all down when I woke up. Anyway here goes:

I was in some sort of camp with old buildings that were falling apart. We were in a hall with several dusty tables and a blackboard where a hairy teacher was explaining the facts about being a vampire. He pointed at me and said that I was the perfect example of someone who was a vampire but still didn't believe in them. I responded with that I don't drink blood, I age, and I can't run very fast. I am human. To which his response make me ponder my existence. His response was: 'You've told us you've been feeling very tired the last year, sometimes you've been feeling more energetic. These times were all when you've had raw meat. The blood in there made sure you got your energy. Next to that you're a night person. You have no problems working at night. You can feel the mood people are in and you notice many things going on around you before they actually are. Your dreams are also too vivid for a plain human being. We are not immortal like in the movies, we are just evolutionized in a certain way that we differ from humans. There are also werewolves out there. Those are the ones that have a lot of muscles and have very low IQs. They don't have to be hairy or change into wolves. The wolf comes from the fact that they have an affinity with dogs.' 

Yeah I didn't say much from there, and I was basically confused. What is going on? I don't know anyone here, how did I get here? There was a loud bang outside and we all ran out. 

I was fighting a werewolf now, like the ones from the movies and not at all like the teacher explained them to be. The fighting also went just like in the movies, very violent, only difference was that I was also discussing with that werewolf whether I was a vampire. The wolf thought I was but I still didn't buy it. It's all just bullshit. 

Then I was running inside one of the buildings trying to escape something. I had no idea what, but I ran fast (for a change, because usually in dreams I run painstakingly slow). I turned around and I was alone. 

Then I woke up.  Maybe I should do what Stephenie Meyer did with twilight and make a lot of money by making this small piece in 5 books. I mean, we apparently have vampires and werewolves in there anyway... But that does mean more writing for me to do huh? Maybe another time... 

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Painting from Luis Royo, who used to be one of my favorite artists about 8 years ago. I think it suited this post :)

Drew is back?! ~Rishloo

picture taken from google :)

I AM SO EXCITED!!!!! My favorite band ever, Rishloo, is back together! The singer, Drew, rejoined the band after he quit almost 2 years ago because of personal reasons. I remember being so upset because I was finally in the US for a year and thus my chances of seeing them live would be much better than my chances were living in Europe, and then they split up. I still ordered a shirt from their site, because, well, they are my favorite band ever, so why not?! And so just now I was looking on youtube to see how the project of the remaining band members, The Ghost Apparatus, was going and this was their latest clip:

They saved the part where Drew was singing for the last but I already read the comments and started squealing in my room. Yup I squealed. I'm not the person that yells or screams, I squeal. Deal with it. 

Problem is now I'm too excited to concentrate on my writing. Drew, I blame you... Nope, I'm not blaming the fact that I was roaming on youtube for no reason because I should've been focussing on my thesis.

I also came across this clip of the band announcing they're back together:

Anyway I just had to post this! Here's to hoping for a European tour so I could see them live - finally!!

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Pickwick Green Hammam tea

Today there was no electricity or water in my area, and for someone who only drinks tea or water, I became very thirsty! So I went ahead and took the stairs, just FYI, I live on the 12th floor, so it was a workout. It was also funny since the hallway was very dark and thus everyone jumped every time they came across someone, as did I. But at least we all laughed it off and around 3pm we had our water and electricity again, so all is good! 

Anyway when I went ahead to the supermarket and bought me a lot of bottles and cans to drink (the construction will continue for a while and I don't trust it anymore), I came across this tea box. I am ADDICTED to tea. I have an entire drawer filled with all different types of tea, and I'm always up for trying new kinds. So I figured let me just get this and try it out. Can't go too wrong since my favorite type is green tea. Granted there is mint in there and that is usually overwhelming. 

I tried it out, and I love this tea! The packaging is gorgeous! And the taste is very light and refreshing. You taste the mint the most, but it's absolutely not overwhelming as I thought it would be. The taste of eucalyptus and green tea are also there and I think the mix is great! Usually I like some honey in green tea, but I didn't feel the need to do this to this one. Maybe I'll try it out next. Either way I'm sure to buy this again! It just feels too luxurious and yummy! A real treat for yourself on a cold day :)

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