Tuesday, 5 August 2014

Advice on finding your own style


It might be hard to stick to your own style sometimes, especially if you don't even know what your style is.
First of all some tips:
  1. You should get inspired but not imitate: This means that you can like e.g. a persons' style, but you shouldn't buy everything that person owns. You can buy similar things or a couple of things that person has, but don't walk thousands of miles just to get that T-shirt.
  2. Get to know your own personal style: The easiest way is to keep track by either having a style diary or some sort of photo album on your phone. Personally, I use the app We Heart It, which is basically an application you can download on to your phone, (they even have a website ) and "heart" pictures you like. Either way, you can keep track of what you like and love.
  3. Go shopping: ...and try out new things.This is probably the main part of finding your own style. You can decide if you prefer real-life shopping or internet shopping. It would definitely be internet shopping for me, because I can't deal with the masses of human beings in the shops when I try to find something, especially when it comes to end of season sales... Anyway, you should try things you normally wouldn't try because you might find something that suits you very well.
  4. Go shopping alone: Very simple. You go shopping alone. No one gets bored or tired of being in a shop they don't want to be. No one forces you to go into a shop. No one tells you something suits you, you buy it and then realize it doesn't look good on you, resulting in never wearing it. And best of all: You've got plenty of time.
  5. Look into your wardrobe: You might find something you hated 2 years ago, but love it now. Style changes over time. On the other hand you might find something you despised then and still do so now. Then just give it away for charity, sell it to someone else or ask your friends and family if they'd like to have it. That way you have more space for the things you really want to wear.
Some of this things might seem hard to do, but honestly, if you try and do them you will get a giant step closer to finding your own style.
Sometimes all you need might really be just a little bit of inspiration.

xxx
Janet








Sunday, 3 August 2014

Things I do when I'm out with my friends

Quite recently I went out with my friends. Not only shopping but also doing other somewhat girly
things.
We actually wanted to pick some strawberries at a local strawberry field. Unfortunately the lady selling the last fresh strawberries told us that strawberry picking season was over. So we decided to cycle to the other end of the city just to see another empty strawberry field. I wanted to have fresh nice strawberries really badly so we decided to cycle back to the other end of the city, where the first strawberry field was, and get some strawberry seeds ( just FYI: I really like strawbs ).
Anyways, we called our other friend, but couldn't reach her, so we just went to her place and picked her up to go to the train station. We went to Dunkin' Donuts for the first time and I had this awesome Donut:
We took the train back to the city centre and because one of my friends didn't have anything to eat that day and I was really scared she would faint, all 3 of us had a cream cheese Pretzel, which was just so delicious.
We headed to a really nice café which was very girly ( picture says everything) and had some cake.

Just look at it. The plate. The rabbit. The mason jar with sugar in it. The cake .
This little treat had a little apple hidden inside of it. Incredibly delicious. It's just the perfect atmosphere to eat a grandma style cake.
The café had little cream lace and pastel-coloured cushions. Literally everything about that shop was vintage-like and cute.
Ok, of course. We had a little shopping spree and I bought some awesome nail polish, but when you're out with your friends, you should definitely check out little cute café's and other amazing places you haven't been to.
xxx
Janet

Sunday, 6 July 2014

Bath and body products haul ( Lush, The Body Shop, I love...)

First of all. I'm now using a real camera, so the quality of my pictures might increase...
I was in the city a couple of times and found some bath-worthy things I wanted to share with you.
 The 2 I love... products I thought had the best scent.
 A strawberry body sorbet which I purchased with what was left over on my The Body Shop voucher card. The scent: As if you had put 2 freshly picked, sweet, juicy strawbs right into your nose.
The feel on your skin when applied: As if you had just jumped into an ice cold swimming pool in the middle of summer and landed in smooth sorbet.
 Yeah I bought a heart-shaped étagère for my bath bombs and soaps, just because I could. Various bath bombs which had been all over the place before the étagère.
Last but not least : dry wild rose petals and my favourite 2 Lush bath bombs, Space Girl and Think Pink. "Delicious" all time favourites.
xxx
Janet