Valentine 101: Lookbook

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Outfit 1
Top: Only
Jacket: Topshop
Pants: Zara
Shoes: Topshop

Outfit 2
Top: Inline
Jacket: COS
Pants: Topshop
Shoes: Topshop

Outfit 3
Jacket: Topshop
Dress: Topshop
Tights: Primark
Shoes: Topshop

Q&A! | Perfect Pizza, Shopping Mistakes and Lily Collins | Carré

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What I'm wearing:

Turtleneck: H&M
Circle Lenses: G&G GBT Green
http://www.pinkyparadise.com/GBT-Green-p/c15-gbtgrn.htm

Valentine 101: Makeup!

LOOK 1; THE CUTIE PATOOTIE

MAC Soft paintpot in Soft Ocre

Maybelline Eye Studio Duo in 80 Cosmic Black

Makeup Geek Eyeshadow in Frappé

MAC Coffee Eyepencil

BEYU Color Biggie in 280

Maybelline Great Lash Mascara

MAC Number 7 Lashes

MAC Blush in Pinch O Peach

MAC Soft and Gentle Highlighter

Revlon Lipstick in Coral Berry

LOOK 2; THE BOMBSHELL

MAC Paintpot in Soft Ocre

Urban Decay Eyeshadow in Buck

Makeup Geek Eyeshadow in Cocoa Bear

Maybelline Gelliner in Black

MAC Coffee Eyepencil

Makeup Geek Eyeshadow in Espresso

Maybelline Great Lash Mascara

MAC Number 7 Lashes

Benefit Hoola Bronzing Powder

MAC Blush in Peaches

MAC Soft and Gentle Highlighter

Rimmel Lipliner in Fire Red

Bourjois Rouge Edition Velvet in Olé Flamingo!

LOOK 3; NUDE DOES IT

MAC Paintpot in Soft Ocre

Urban Decay Eyeshadow in Naked

Urban Decay Eyeshadow in Buck

Makeup Geek Eyeshadow in Espresso

MAC Eyeshadow in Carbon

Maybelline Great Lash Mascara

Lancome Eyepencil in Black

MAC Vanilla Pigment

MAC Number 36 Lashes

NYX Jumbo Pencil in Sparkle Nude

Benefit Hoola Bronzing Powder

MAC Blush in Peaches

MAC Soft and Gentle Highlighter

MAC Lipstick in Myth

Carré x

THE TWO ULTIMATE FRAGRANCES | CHRISTINA AGUILERA & THE KILLER QEEN

MY BABIES

I feel like we're all on our own journey to find the perfect fragrance to match our personality.

You buy new bottles each time a magazine tester flares your nostrils, or you get a random one for Christmas, bought by your aunt who happened to come across it during sale and thought it might be nice.

Doesn't matter how you got it, no fragrance ever seems to be the one.

If you're anything like me, dropping by at the perfume counter to test every new celebrity scent and carrying the testers around in your pocket all day in order to find the perfect mix between vanilla and flowers, than you might find this interesting.

I was on the hunt for a subtle perfume. Something so sweet and alluring, men would turn their head to sniff out the irresistible whiff that just walked by. Something unique that would make people ask you what it is. Something you can wear to bed, something that is to you what Chanel No' 5 was to Marilyn Monroe. Something truly extraordinary and special.

Only, all fragrances out there seem to smell exactly the same. They smell fresh, and strong. Compare it to a toilet freshener. Cheap, and forever on sale.

You don't wanna smell cheap, like you're forever on sale.

I did my fair share of buying bottles and never finishing them, my fair share of testing my friends perfume, and those at the counter. After smelling everything there is, and sometimes cringing my nose in disgust, I eventually found my first truly perfect perfume.

Killer Queen. Own the throne.

''Announced as a playful, sophisticated, powerful, edgy and delicious fragrance.

Top notes include wild berries, dark plum, and bergamot accords.''

I am going to be honest with you. I have no fucking clue what that means. Dark plum? And what the hell is bergamot anyway? All I know is that it's most definitely playful, sophisticated and powerful. Three excellent qualities any woman should have. And should smell like.

I am wearing it now as I am writing this. One sniff at my wrist and I close my eyes in ecstasy. I could sniff myself all day. And that's not something I normally say. I find this fragrance the more evening suited one of the two, so I wear it mostly in the evening.

Killer Queen is available as 15, 30, 50 and 100 ML Eau de Parfum.
The next fragrance I want to talk to you darlings about is one that has been under my nose all this time. I am the kind of person who will not be satisfied with just one perfect perfume. I can't be wearing the same scent day to day, night to night. It would become dull and unnoticed by everyone, including myself because of the lack of change.

Dull and unnoticeable are two very unattractive traits.

I like to switch things up. Not only my style, makeup and hair. Scent as well. But I spend an considerable amount of time finding just the one I have now, and I've smelt everything out there. How could I possibly find anything new, unless anything new comes out?
Well, turns out, I didn't need anything new. It was anything but new. Actually, it came out in 2007. I was 12.
And I remember the day I got it, like yesterday.

Christina Aguilera Signature.

''A bouquet of peonies and jasmine flowers enriched with creamy vanilla is sometimes all you need to wear.''I couldn't agree more. It seems that Christina had exactly the same mind set as me while developing this perfume. Creating something so sexy, sweet, and alluring, that just like Chanel No' 5, it's sometimes all you need to wear.

I came across it during shopping last week, and for the heck of it I just spritched some onto my wrist. I closed my eyes in delight when memories from the past came flooding back, through my nostrils. I remember I had just started drawing and watching anime, and I had just started high school. This fragrance carries so many memories, it's special. Plus, this scent is so sexy yet subtle, every woman should own it.
This bottle of sophistication, is more suited for during the day.

Do I have a favourite? I think I do. Christina Aguilera's Signature takes the crown just by a little. You can smell the vanilla extract a bit clearer, a scent that I have come to adore. I look for hints of vanilla in everything. I even spray some The Body Shop Vanilla Bodymist onto my clothes. I can't help it.

Even the ice cream tastes better.
Don't fight me on this.

You'll lose.

Carré.

NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS; LOSING WEIGHT | BLOGILATES!

Forever and ever I've been going on and off diets, workout plans, and gym subscriptions. Results, yes. Goals achieved, no. When I was about 12 (you know, the age where you just started to attend high school and start to feel the social pressure of fitting in) I knew I had to lose the pounds. The pounds that I gained when I was a carefree kid I mean, eating chocolates and crisps as I went. When my worries were nothing more than trying not to miss Pokemon or Chin-chan on television (I had a crush on Ash and Cosmo). This was also the age when I started to get into Japanese and Korean pop. Trust me, you do not want to look at skinny beautiful Korean girls when you are having a bad diet day. That being said, they did inspire me to exercise more, and to drop the chocolates. Many diets have come and gone, including the banana diet (which was very populair in Asia. Many countries even had a shortage on banana's because of this diet!!) I lost about 5 kilo's, enough to fit in and not to be bullied by the populair girls, who were apparently fed kale by their parents. Time went by and around my 16th I decided I still wasn't happy with my body. I searched around the internet and found something so amazing, that it actually made me like exercising.
Blogilates.

This, my dear people, is were it gets interesting.

Blogilates is a youtube channel/blog run by the beautiful pilates instructor Cassey Ho. On the youtube channel she posts workouts for beginners to advanced, and trains you from calves to triceps.

On the blog she posts meal plans and workout plans, recipes, tips and tricks and her monthly workout calendars. I have been training with Cassey every since.

However. I did all her videos, but never truly ate CLEAN (The very thing that's even more important than exercising). I told myself I did, but lets be honest. I loved pizza too much.

This year one of my new years resolutions was that I wanted to lose the baby fat that's been sticking to me once and for all. I'm going to do that, by following Cassey's 90 day meal plan, and by following her monthly workout calendars. And I'll be posting updates every two weeks.

Let me explain to you what exactly that means.

This is the 90 days meal plan for Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday:

This is the 90 days meal plan for Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday:

THE RULES:

1. You must drink 3-4L of water throughout the day, everyday.

2. You must eat every 2-3 hours.

3. Blogilates-approved condiments: lite soy sauce, sriracha, tabasco, mustard, lemon, Mrs. Dash.

4. If you want to see results quickly, eat ONLY the above foods. Do not snack mindlessly on other things. It all counts.

5. If you find it is too much or too little food, just play with the portion sizes. But do not go under 1200 cals, as we will be working out 5-6x a week.

6. Unsweetened tea and black coffee ok.

7. No alcohol. But if you REALLY can't stand it, red wine once a week. Add it to your totals.

I will be pairing this intense (and frightning; no pizza?) diet with her monthly workout calendars that she releases on the 1st of every month. This months (January) is shown below:

I will be following everything on this calendar, plus a little extra cardio if I feel like I need it.
My measurement are:
Bust: 91 CM/36 INCH
Waist: 72 CM/28 INCH
Hips: 92 CM/36 INCH
Thighs: 60 CM/23 INCH
Arms: 31 CM/12 INCH

Just a little chubby. And let me clarify that there is nothing wrong with that. I love my body so much. I take good care of it (maybe not the right foods, but I pamper my skin and love every single bit of it), I just personally want to be more fit. Every two weeks I will measure myself in the morning and post an update about how I'm feeling, if it's working, and if the results are worth it.

With this new project I hope I can inspire you to do this with me. Not necessarily the meal and workout plans (It would be nice if you checked out Blogilates though), but to eat healthier and to exercise to get healthier and fitter.

I've been doing this for 2 days now, and it's going pretty well. Do I want pizza? Ofcourse. Do I give in? Nah, I'll stick to my salads for the coming three months.

Lets lose some motherfucking weight.

Carré.

New Years Resolutions!!

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Resolutions!
1: Eat healthier/exercise more.
2: Visit more countries!
3: Drive out the LAZINESS!!!
4: Be more of a lady.
5: Be less of a shopaholic!
6: BE MORE PRODUCTIVE!

Carré.

Goodbye London, I'm moving on.

I just arrived back from my short few days in London. Normally, I'd be depressed and I'd feel like I had just left my home behind. I'd feel like I had gone on a very, very long vacation back to Holland, and each time I'd go back to London for a few days, I'd feel like I'd come home.

I like to call it, Reverse-vacation-that-actually-feels-like-I-belong-there-syndrome.

However, this time around I didn't really feel like that. Well, not that much. There's always the feeling that you want to go back on vacation every time you close the door to your apartment behind you. The feeling that you had enough of everything around you, of everything in your comfort zone that you have experienced all your life. The same people, same habits, same routines and faces, things that are healthy to change, but often don't. Exactly the things that change when you go on vacation.