2010 and 2011: The really short recap

So, Mari-liis kinda tagged me week and a half ago, but I was too lazy to do this. Until I realised that it was almost too late x)

" Choose two photos, one taken in fall 2010 and the other now in 2011. Then throw this challenge to three other bloggers."

I know it says "fall", but I'm gonna be a rebel and post pictures from December 2010 AND 2011.
Since it's basically still Autumn if there is no snow.

Taken on 30th December 2011.

Sporting my natural hair colour. Also had time and energy to use fake lashes more often.
My style was pretty much the same as it is nowadays. My own with heavy gyaru influences :3
Oh, and I lived in halls and spent the Christmas and New Years all by myself for the first time :D

Taken on 31st December 2011

Dyed my hair blonde (in August) for some reason. My camera had gotten destroyed earlier this year, so I don't have that many good pictures of myself until now. I actually just bought myself a Canon EOS 1100D :3
Style is still the same... the thing that has changed is that I own more M.A.C and Gosh than I did last year xD

Got insanely into Supernatural and Hawaii Five-0, and went to my first Supernatural convention.
Found some awesome people online that are a great support to me everytime I feel bad ♥

Also managed to travel to Finland for Christmas and New Years (which is now and I kinda need to go now as well.)
I think I also lost some weight which is weirds since I eat crap all the time...

I tag thee:

Maria
Jenni
Mel

Happy and awesome New Year to all my readers, stalkers, and friends!
Stay human!

So it's my birthday today :3

I threw a party on Friday, because it seemed to be the best day.
Theme was, of course, Superheroes vs. Supervillains, and I dressed up as Mystique from X-Men (no, I wasn't naked thank you very much).

I shamelessly used this tutorial for the make-up, and threw my new black over-knee boots, blue tights, black shorts, and a black jumper on.

Like this. Ignore the sword and the leg x)

My face before the blue paint :D

I started the make-up a bit too late, and ended up rushing it. In the end I didn't even need to hurry, so I could've used more time on it x)

Monica (as Thor!) and I. Photo courtesy of Donston Powell.

Thor's helmet is, btw, mine x)
I got so many looks and compliments at Tramps :D I'm not blaming the looks at all to be honest. I mean I was blue.

My favourites were the people who I heard going "Oh look, Avatar." or "Is that Avatar?"
People, do civilise yourselves xD

I got some amazing presents, like:

• The Walking Dead vol. 1 Days Gone Bye (from flatties~)
  
• The Walking Dead vol. 2. Miles Behind Us (also from flatties~)
  
• Superheroes vs. Supervillains A-Z (from Whitty)
  
• Turkinpippureita aka Tyrkisk Peber (from Tom)
  
• The original The Girl- movies (from myself xD)

I also got some chocolate from Jesus and stuff like that but I ate it already x)
I almost bought myself the first season of Hawaii Five-0, but it was a bit too expensive so I left it at hmv :I

We made a cake to fit the theme~

What else... I think that's about it to be honest.

Stay human and see you!

Aloha!

First of all sorry, that I haven't updated in a while. I've just been sick for the last 5 days and haven't really been up to anything else but Hawaii Five-0.
Also, I have NO idea what to blog about.

But I decided to drop by today to show you my new boots I got. I've always wanted over-knee boots, and now I finally found ones that happened to be on a very nice discount.

Waiting for my birthday so I can use them then with my costume :3

Anyway, I really have no idea what to blog about, and I need to go to bed so I can try and pretend to be healthy on tomorrow's lecture, but please, if you want to know something about me or see me do something, shoot away and suggest!

A hui hou kakou malama pono! And stay human!

"And don't cross the road if you can't get out of the kitchen. "

Uni and a certain thing are taking all my time so I'll give you a quick update full of my face:

Told you I'd give you the "wild west" pictures as soon as I got them!

I sent these toys to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital for Christmas. Hopefully the kids will like them :3

I've also taken part in other "charities" lately. My Uni's dance society (which I'm in) recently raised a ridiculous amount of money by throwing a show, and we're giving £460 for Worcester Breast Unit.
I only gave like 50p, BUT I also bought two tickets to the show (those were £6 all together) so I did something at least :3

Last Friday I gave £1.50 to bet on which one of our Sabbs would stay in a box the longest.
It was £0.50 per sabb, and I put money on all of them :D

They stayed in those boxes for 11 hours just to raise money for children in need.

Pudsey and me just hangin' out.

I got to announce when the sabbs came out of the boxes while Eye of the Tiger was blasting out of the speakers :3
I didn't win anything in the raffle (I wanted that Pudsey!), but at least I was happy to have done something :D

Last but not least, a picture of my girls because I miss them so mu-hu-hu-hu-uch ;__;

Put a smile on your face... ten miles high!

Hey~

Quick boring update with pictures, since I am, once again, supposed to be doing Uni work.

Last week I got more hangers and hence decided to rearrange my wardrobe and drawer.
What I hadn't realised was the amount of clothes I have.
Like most of my readers know, I come from Finland but have been living in Worcester, England for a bit over a year now. Sometimes I go to Finland on holidays, meaning I have clothes back there as well. Quite a lot to be honest.

Now THIS is the sight that was seen on my floor after I had emptied my drawer and had already arranged my wardrobe:

These are all from my drawer. Only.

Okay. That just looks like a pile of random clothes. Let me clarify:

Click for a bigger (blurry) picture!

Those pictures are missing the clothes that I was either wearing or that were in the laundry bin.

Pyjamas - Pyjama trousers and 3 night shirts (I had 1 pair of pyjamas in the laundry bin)

Tops - 8 tops (I was wearing 1)
Gym tops - 4 gym tops
T-shirts - 1o t-shirts (although 3 of them I use as gym shirts)
Long sleeve shirts - 4 long sleeved shirts and one 1/2 sleeve shirt
Shorts - 6 shorts (plus 1 which was in the laundry bin)
Skirts - 2 pink skirts (I was wearing one (denim) so all together 3 skirts)
Jeans - 4 jeans out of which ones are short (I don't even usually wear jeans... WHAT)
Gym trousers - 2 pairs

And now to the wardrobe:

There are some hidden clothes in this picture.

Let us go from left to right:
- White jacket and an army style shirt beneath it (I'm gonna use / to separate the clothes that are under).
- dark grey jacket with embroidery / dark grey dress
- Wicked track jacket / denim dress
- reversible hoodie / violet dress
- green hoodie - Bohemian-ish flower shirt
- long, black, knit vest / black dress and a pink shirt
- pink check shirt / pink loose t-shirt
- blue check shirt / blue t-shirt with a hood
- black long sleeve shirt
- Uni hoodie!
- pink hoodie
- long grey hoodie
- pretty skirt
- white t-shirt that has been scribbled all over / black top I made for a social

I was wearing my yellow hoodie so it's not in the picture.

SINCE WHEN DID I NEED SO MANY CLOTHES!?

Honestly... I need to stop buying clothes. Like NOW. How will I ever get most of these back to Finland?!
I do want a new Uni hoodie because they are so cool... I just can't decide on the colour... pink, purple or blue???

Anyway, I really need to start concentrating on my Uni work again.
And before I forget, I probably won't update till next week's weekend or something, because my friends Inkku and Jenni are coming here to see me! :3 So excited~

Bye, stay human and take a look at my Cherry Pie nails:

Halloween, the late post.

So I spent my Halloween weekend in Birmingham, at Asylum 7 which is a Supernatural convention, and came back on Monday, pretty much straight to a party.
I'm still in a happy, blurry bubble of happines and I'd rather NOT write much right now so, once again, have some pictures.

A7 had two themed parties, the first one was "real ghostbusters" and the second one was "western.

For the ghostbusters party I dressed up as Jo Harvelle (from Supernatural since it WAS Supernatural convention) since she's a hunter (of ghosts and stuff).

Hilton's toilets had a veeery nice lighting. My arm looks enormous though.

Looks like I have snake eyes :D

My outfit was just basic jeans and a black top. Le like zis:

Simples! From Primark and cost me only £13.5!

For the western party I borrowed my friends cowboy hat and took out my pink check shirt and a white top. I also borrowed a toy gun from Jenni and we danced like two absolute idiots. It was glorious.
Shamefully, I don't have any pictures of my western outfit YET but when I get some, they'll be posted immediately

And as I mentioned earlier in the same post, if anyone remembers anymore, I came back on Monday which also happened to be THE Halloween day.
My flatmates and I threw a Halloween party for all our friends and since I hadn't had time to get a scary costume I decided to dress up as Anna Milton (again, from Supernatural).

Borrowed the shirt and jacket from my flatmate.

Now comes le spoiler, so anyone who wants to watch Supernatural and does NOT want to be spoiled, look away (after the picture it's safe to watch again):

Anna is a fallen angel so I thought it would be suitable for Halloween. Since she gets her grace back anyway and turns out to be not-as-nice-an-angel-as-we-thought.

One my favourite photos thought it's taken with a bad camera x)

It was a beeetch to do the make up since Julie McNiven's eyes are massive. My eyes are NOT like that, my eyes are very small compared to hers.
Just lot of brown and white eyeliner, and eyeshadow with different shades of brown, and my eyes looked somehow like Anna's.

And styling the wig, oh gosh... I only did the the front and it felt like it wasn't good enough. I fought with it for at least 10 minutes... In the end I was quite happy with it, of course.

Well, this was a very... Halloweenish and costume-ish post. Next time, hopefully, I'll have more interesting stories!

I don't need to flirt, I will seduce you with my awkwardess.

I am supposed to do my reading for tomorrow's lecture, but the text is just so boring..!
It's about feminist theatre which usually is really interesting, but this is just all names and years and terms.
I've now read 8 pages and there's still like 12 to go -__- *deep sigh*

Well, before I get back to that, let me amuse you with some funny keywords from my statistics:

From this week.

Okay, for all the non-Finnish readers 'parhaat tekoripset' means "best (fake) eyelashes". 'Haun avainsanat' is just the keywords.

Excuse me, but 'just sit on it'??? What? How? :D

This made me wonder about other keywords people have been founding my blog with:

This month.

'borrowed socks'

...

BORROWED SOCKS!? Really?

You don't even know how much this amuses me.

The only funny thing that was from the whole time I've been here was '"hot water bottle" train, but still my favourite one has to be 'borrowed socks' followed after 'just sit on it'.

But oh well, next week, when I finally have time, I'll try come up with something interesting :3
Now I gotta get back to my reading...

Dear Marina, help me get through this text.

I can't help myself from looking for you.

I feel like going on a rant about things, but I'm going to keep this entry nice and (hopefully) interesting instead.

Last week's Saturday I made a cake:

And because I'm nice enough I'm gonna tell you the ingredients :3

Ingredients
base:
3 eggs
2dl of sugar
2dl of flour
1 tsp of baking powder
filling:
rasberry jam
topping:
whipped cream
strawberries
chocolate and white chocolate sprinkles

I am NO baker or confectioner, but this is the easiest thing to make, and filling could be changed to another jam or pretty much anything, like mashed bananas with nutella :3
The important thing is to moisten the base enough (which I quite didn't with this one). I used diluted lemon juice with a pinch of sugar which gives a whole new level of delicious to the cake since then it's not ALL SWEET.

Here, have a piece :3

Btw! Remember the Barry M. nailpolishes I wrote about? I decided to try them together and was very happy with the result:

Ended up wearing these for almost a week till I changed the base to pink (does not look as good.)

Also, I can't be assed to change my nails so often 'cause it takes time...
And throughout the week I spent most of my time in Uni. Or dancing.
I have ridiculously long lectures on Mondays and Tuesdays (I'm talking about over 6 hour lectures), on top of that I have dance on Wednesdays (2 hours) and Fridays (1,5 hours) and another lecture on Thursday (only 4 hours this time) so that's how I spend most of my week.

Free time is spent by tumblin', which I'm kinda addicted to, learning lines, reading, dancing some more, writing and watching movies/TV shows. Sometimes I even play something :D

The gratuitous picture of myself.

My friends, Danni and Reece, and I went to see The Lion King 3D on Friday so I wanted to put some orange/yellow make-up on :3 After the movie, when I had cried most of my make-up off, I got an idea to do a proper Lion King inspired make-up. I might try out my idea one day (soon) so wait for it!

Yesterday we actually celebrated Danni's birthday, in neon-theme, so I went to get some stuff for it.
Ended up getting these very cute, sailor-ish flats:

Not exactly neon, but I've been in dire need of flats and these where just too asdsfdfdsf ♥
£10 - Office

Here they are, again, against my terrible carpet.

I also ended up getting two new lipsticks because it was love at first sight.

Sleek MakeUP True Colour Lipsticks

The best (?) thing about them: they are both matte *__*
And they contain Vitamin E which, I guess, is supposed to help protecting the tissue of the lips.

I actually have swatches of these!!!
I'm not wearing any make-up base or lip-primer in these pictures, so it is ALL lipstick or lipstick+gloss:

Amped 781 without gloss

With Wet N Wild glitter lip gloss (E81810)

The pictures are taken with DSLR camera, in my room with natural light the window and nature provided, so the colours appear a bit lighter than they are in real life, it's actually pretty fluorescent pink~ (/EDIT 18.1.2012)

Mystic 783 without gloss

With gloss

And both at the same time, without gloss. Mystic on left, Amped on right.

In pictures the difference between Amped and Mystic might not be that big, but when live, you can actually see it.

I'm just so in love with these two right now :3 I just wanna use them all the time, but I do not dare because it would get boring so soon.

I actually used Amped for the birthday, because it is bright and after all the theme was neon.
Shamefully enough, I forgot to take a picture of my make-up, but I know other people took photos during the night so IF I find a not-so-embarrassing picture I'll post it!

I do have a picture of my hair that my flatmate, Monica, made for me:

Bun!

There's a secret how we managed to make it look like I have a lot of hair, but that's a whole another story ;D

It was a good party although thinking about some things that happened last night makes me want to go on a rant again...

So I guess I should quit here x')

P.S. Ah, I am sooo in love with Adele's Set Fire to the Rain right now and I really, really want to make a contemporary-ish routine to it (I even have an idea/story for it), but I feel that I'm not good enough as a dancer to actually make a routine.

BRB, CRYING TEARS OF JOY.

Here! Have some nice pictures of my nail polishes this time!!!

Like the title says :D
I still haven't got a new digital camera (GRRRRRR), but I finally got a DSLR camera, so I'm relying on it. (/edit: 15.1.2012)

But yeah, every once in a while I get the free time and the energy (I'm STILL ill... o_O) to go to town to get some stuff I need.
Okay, fine, I live in town, but it's completely different to walk for 20-25 minutes to Uni than walk to the main shopping street in 5 minutes.
I can tell you that first of all the amount of people differs greatly.

Anyway, I was in dire need of a new powder (and some other important stuff for a social), so I got out of the house to go get it.
In the end this is what I left the store with:

Collection 2000 Pressed Powder - 18 Ivory, Barry M Purple Rain crackle polish and Barry M Silver Foil nail paint.

Ja siitä se ajatus sitten lähti...

I mean, that's when I came up with the idea of taking pictures of the nail varnish collection I have here and post them here with some "introduction".

Wheeeyy! 15 different nail polishes!

The "norms" as I call them.

From left to right: 17 Nail Xtras Ivory Manicure, Gosh F1 Base (french manicure but I use it as normal base), Wet n Wild Wild Shine E460D - Kaleidoscope (GLITTER :3), Wet n Wild Wild Shine E401A - Clear Nail Protector (I use it as a top coat) and Barry M np319 Silver Foil.

I think Ivory Manicure is starting to die so I probably should throw it away soon... or try the legendary 'add some nail polish remover'-tactic to see if it actually works :D

The "warms".

And yes, before any of you start moaning, I KNOW that purple is (usually) a cold colour.

From left to right: Maybelline Express Finish 21 Red Berries, Incolor Super Shine 016 Hot Stuff (Gonna have some hot stuff baby~), Anytime 9 Juicy Fruit, Gosh 581 Orange Drops and Barry M np322 Purple Rain.

I just wanted to divide all my nail polishes to fives and for reason I prefer the purple with the warm colours.

The "colds".

Aaaand before any of you go all "What is that yellowish thing doing there instead of warms?!" I have to say that it's actually more of a lime-ish green and I consider green/lime green a cold colour :D

From left to right: Rimmel 60 Seconds Vinyl Shine 888 Black Out (it is OLD and dying and I should probably get a new black polish since I've lost my WnW black nail polish ;__;), IsaDora 76 Arctic Blue (this is pretty old as well...), Collection 2000 Hot Looks 31 Spangles, 17 Fast Finish True Blue (I think...) and Wet n Wild Wild Shine E446C - Caribbean Frost (it reminds me of mermaid scales *__*)

And that's all I have here. I think I have some back in Finland but they are most probably destroyed by now :'D
Once again, I'm sorry for the very bad quality of the pictures. If and when I get a new camera, I will retake the photos and post better pictures :3

I painted my nails with the Silver Foil :3

Oh, I had been complaining that I don't have many colours when it comes to eyeshadows so I went and got my self this:


Now I have some colours~

Hmmm... Our landlady is supposed to come soon (well, she was supposed to come an HOUR ago) so I guess I should go and make sure everything's okay.

Blog to you later!

Long time no posting

I apologize, I've been busy with Freshers' Week and the start of Uni and on top of that I got ill...

And since I'm still a bit sick and it is ridiculously hot outside which drains all my energy, I will just give you some pictures, mostly my make-ups, from Freshers' Week (17th till 25th) and this week.

I had a VERY similar make-up for the first volunteering day (just replace green with yellow).

That day, Saturday 17th, I wore a blue long-sleeved shirt and a bright, yellow Freshers' Crew t-shirt :3
It was a very good day and a very good way to start Freshers' Week!

I still don't know what "NPARU" is :D

Picture taken while helping the other Crewsters sort out the NUS queue and registry gueue, for once my big voice was of help x)

Rave make!

Monday (19th) was all about me meeting my drama mentees (I'm a mentor this year! Yay!), and the mayhem UV rave.
I basically had to whip up the make-up with what I had and that's what came of it :D
I even added highlights to my hair with those colour hairsprays!

My hair's grown ridiculously in a very short time.

The day after.

Also known as the Tuesday I did ticket sales for the second time, finished early and walked home in the drizzle (hence the curly hair and wet jacket) :'D Also one of the few nights during Freshers' Week I DIDN'T go out (there might've been two or three nights out of the 7-9 parties).

FOAM PARTY!!! (Thursday 22nd, 'twas a good night)

Also, on the night of the foam party our kitchen towels and the bathroom mat commited a suicide. We were very sad.

Sporting my Saints T-shirt ♥

Soon enough it was Monday the 26th and I was supposed to ACTUALLY start Uni (= lectures)

Pictures above and below show my make-up for that nice day I managed to get sick as well... DAMN YOU FRESHERS' FLU!

(Terrible picture) Orange and yellow for a warm day :3

Inside joke that I just had to put up here x)

Nails I did yesterday~

And that's about it... haven't really been able to take a lot of pictures and haven't really been wanting to thanks to the crappy quality of phone cam...

Ah, well, I really want a shower now (it's 26 degrees outside!!! D:) and then read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
So I'll catch you all next time! Stay human!

New posters for which I paid about nothing :3