(aside from the fact that their products don’t give me allergic reactions)
Went out to buy this:
And thanks to their saving and gifts programs I came home with this:
A makeup box and an anti-polution mask.
25 ways to wear a scarf
I’m very fond of wearing scarfs and I basically have one for every outfit, but I almost always wear them in the same way (the European loop apparently).
This is going to change after watching this short video showing 25 ways to wear a scarf, most of them easy enough to try them at home 
Dressember 20: autumn colours
After being a hairdresser’s model for my sister I was colour analysis model for the lovely Fiona De Hondt.
A while back we were tweeting about colour types and she was in doubt about the label i got during previous analysis’. So, when she launched a request for models I challenged her to analyse me and she gladly accepted.
Turns out I’m a tricky type: with my cool blue-grey eyes, my cool dark brown hair and (at first sight) rosy cheeks most of the students labeled me a winter type (the label I got in the past), until the teacher pointed out they had fallen for the “first look” trap and urged them to look at the skin of my arms (full of freckles) and neck and pointed out that rosy cheeks can be the result of blood circulation.
The result: turns out I’m a true autumn type. Which of course means that:
a) the outfit worn yesterday (including a black button down dress) was all wrong for me
b) that my closet might need a bit of a make-over, since I did some of my shopping with the original winter analysis’ in mind.
This sudden change doesn’t mean I have to throw out all my clothes in colours that are more suitable for winter types, it’s just that autumn colours are more flattering and of course there’s nothing that a nice scarf In the right colours can’t fix.
Anyway, I made sure today’s outfit was exactly what the colour doctor prescribed.
Miyoshi Nailstudio
As so many others I got back in contact with one of my highschool friends through Facebook.
Turns out she’s a nail art artist with her own studio: Miyoshi Nailstudio And she’s a darn good one: she won several prices at the Nailympics in LA, won the first price in the French Championship nail art “Educator” division and now she has made the cover of the American Nail Magazine, the leading American trade journal.
Nail art: Ruth Deruddere
Model: Maty Liesenborgs
Make Up: Rachid Mounadi
Photographer: Bart Albrecht
Dressember 17: spots and stripes
Since the only spotted dress I own was already worn on the first of Dressember I decided to be brave and wear my spots and (tiny) stripes tunic.
Technically it’s not a dress, but it stays within the “should cover your bottom” dressember rules, so I’m not too worried about that.
Dressember 14: Waving Wednesday
This week’s two theme days are “Waving Wednesday” and “Spots or Stripes” (or both if you’re brave) on Saturday.
Out of a set of 5 pictures this one is the most decent, never thought it would be so hard to take a picture in which I’m actually waving without to much of a silly grin (you don’t want to know how silly I looked on the pictures that didn’t make the cut).
Was invited to a blogging and networking event, which is why I wore this wrap dress, which is one of my favourite wrap dresses, as you may have guessed by now.
Dressember 10: Sparkly Saturday = Shoesave #26
I only own 1 sparkly dress and 1 pair of sparkly shoes, so my Sparkly Saturday outfit wasn’t hard to pick.
The dress was my mom’s prom dress and I wore it to my prom too. The shoes used to belong to my great-aunt who was a big shoe lover herself and had the same shoe size as I have. Unfortunately this is the only pair that remains from her vast collection, since I was way to young to wear her shoes when she passed away and my mom didn’t have the same size. She kept one pair of shoes to remember her aunt by and she gave it to me a few years back. Needless to say I am very carefull with them.
Honesty compels me to admit that I only wore this dress for picture-taking purposes
Our house – Dressember 8
Today we visited OUR house for the first time since June when we bid on it.
Of course silly me was all of a sudden nervous and convinced I wouldn’t like the house anymore, which didn’t help towards a good night’s rest (hence the blurry eyed look).
My partner reassured me that if I didn’t like the house anymore we could always do some renovations.
My suggestion of painting every wall purple, which would make me love the house no matter what, wasn’t really appreciated. I wonder why?
Since one of the reasons for visiting the house was to measure up some stuff, I decided on wearing a more casual dress, which I combined with a newly bought cardigan to make it a little more appropriate for work.
Dressember 7: Whirling Wednesday
Just like last year there are some theme days announced for Dressember. The first of them being Whirling Wednesday for which you should choose a swirly dress and twirl while you get your picture taken.
At first my partner wasn’t too keen on taking this picture since he thought it wouldn’t be all to safe with my low blood pressure, but somehow I managed to convince him that it wouldn’t be that bad.
It wasn’t as big a succes as I hoped though (feeling dizzy even before the first picture was taken) resulting in pictures of me making all kinds of funny faces. Which made me decide to go for a headless picture of me. Which will shock my partner if he ever learns about it since as a trained photographer that’s a big no-no (so shhhhh, don’t tell him)
For a better look at the dress, you should go here, where I’m posing in this dress at my parent’s place after my birthday party.
The next theme day is Sparkling Saturday this Saturday.
Visit to the hairdressers
2 things you need to know:
- my sis is obsessed with playing with hair ever since she was a little girl and I used to be her preferred guinea pig, even though she wasn’t always as gentle as one would like
- I hate going to the hairdressers and having people fidget with my hair, which might be the result of the not so gentle treatments my sister gave me. That is why I always postpone visits.
About 3 years ago my sister decided she might as well earn some money on the side by following a course in evening school and doing people’s hair at home.
She’s in her third year now, and she’s actually quite good. So following the brave example of my mom, some of my friends and even one of my colleagues, I played model for her last Tuesday and let her cut my hair at school.
Her teachers had a field day, commenting on my super sensitive and hyperallergic skin (OMG, she even reacts allergic to the warm water we use to rinse her hair).
She did a great job giving me a layered coupe and brushing my hair till it was all straight and smooth. Quite a change from my usual unruly curls and something I neither have the time nor courage for to do myself.
