Hello there darlings and loved ones,

I have been working since morning until now, so I am pretty much tired, but I still have a quick post for you. This one is about a brand and a new love of mine, that I recently discovered.



That brand is called L'OCCITANE and I bet you have heard about it before. I certainly knew the brand before, since I was always walking around their shops when I was out and about thinking to myself: 'One day, I will be rich enough to buy this kind of stuff.' And the day come, that I am not rich enough but I was willing to pay a bit more for a good cosmetics and to lighten up my day.

So I went into the shop wanting a face mask, that kind of muddy one, that you apply on your face, look like a ghost for certain amount of time and then feel beautiful and awesome. That was the aim, so I came home with a Aromachologie Rebalancing face mask. As I found out that is a new range of theirs, so I am happy to try out something a little bit unknown and new.

It contains essential oils from cypress, juniper, lemon, thyme and eucalyptus and is supposed to clean the skin,  get rid of impurities and tighten the pores. I must say I adore this mask. I look like a ghost for certain amount of time, which is in my opinion the best part of every face mask, and afterwards my skin feels really nice, soft and glowing. The softness is absolutely amazing.

As for the pore tightening, this I must say works, and is the only downside of this mask for my skin type especially, since my skin does not handle the pore tightening products too well. Luckily, this does not result in any big inflamations or spots as far as I have tested it, the only thing is that I get those little stuck pores, that are a bit itchy and are not a spot at all they just sit there doing nothing, not really visible, but once I find them, they drive me crazy. But as I said, this is just a minor thing and I did not stop using this mask, because the upside is just way bigger in comparison to this little detail.


Since it was around the month of my birthday as I got to buy the mask, and I must say every store that does this gets a massive thumbs up from me, I got a Shea butter hand cream for free. I am satisfied with this hand cream, I am used to Neutrogena hand creams and those are awesome and this is just about in the same line as the Neutrogena ones. I should add that I am in love with the packaging of this hand cream, as well as the face mask, since it feels just completely different and a bit retro to me, don't really know why.


Lastly, since I am a complete shopaholic and I knew that once I get out of that store I will not get spare money or my darling's approval to get back any time soon, I bought a volumizing hair mask. This one smells like herbs and I am not really sure if I love it too much for that. I am using it for about a month now, once a week I rub it into my scalp after washing my hair, leave it and rinse. I thing that this mask is pretty much all right, even though I am not too sure that I will repurchase it. I honestly think, that for example Aussie conditioners - or shampoos - have about the same effect, and they are way more cheaper than this one. Also after getting it on my hair, the hair get that kind of weirdly glossy but not like silky but rough to touch. Is that understandable? I just am not too sure about this mask, even though it does it's job and my hair are more full - maybe my hair is not fine enough and that's why it does not really work.

That's it for this light review, if you tried anything from the brand or any of these product let me know what is your opinion, since I will be going back again some time, to try and test out some more goodness.

Don't think binary.
Whitelilit

Hello there,

today I will review a face wash, that I was using for last few months every day. If you saw this in store or on the internet and thinking about this, here is my point of view.




I am using this with my magnitone lucid, and it wakes me up every morning. The smell of this is so fresh and grapefruity I just really love it.




I am really happy with this face wash, The smell, but I guess you already know this, but as all the Netrogena face washes I got to try it is really nice to the skin and cleanses it. It is also great to use with Magnitone, since it does not leave the weird film after washing as some of the moisturizing face washes do. Still it does not leave my skin dry or feeling dry or tense. It is said to clean out pores, which I can say I got rid off really well.

As a conclusion: I am in love with this. If you are thinking about this one maybe give it a try, I loved the wash/mask combo as well, so with any of the Neutrogena face washes you can not step badly.

Don't think binary.
whitelilit

Hello there darlings and loved ones,

I was about to do a To school post of some way, and mostly in a way of creating your outfit, actually maybe even sewing your outfit for first day of school. Wouldn't that be a lovely start of new year, in a freshly made clothing piece, made by your own hands? So if you are thinking about it, just do it, make that t-shirt, skirt, jeans whatever you like, by yourself and rock it.



Sadly, a moving came into my way and now I don't have a place where I can sew. Again. And I kind of hate it, but can not do anything about it. Hopefully soon enough we will be moved somewhere permanent and I will have my place to create awesome things. Until then, here is this post.

It is my birthday, today as I write it, yesterday as you are maybe reading this. And I would like to look back to what I achieved in last year and give you my piece of wisdom. That is a wisdom about taking chances. Which is a good To school post if you think about it.

First things first, last year around my birthday, I was a girl, thinking about how am I going to finish school and go to the "real life". Since then, I got my courage together and looked and took every chance I could. That is a new job, which I love, blogging experiences, doing videos, finishing school and mostly driving. I got to drive. By myself and for real.

I could ramble for ever, but well, I will sum it up. If you are thinking about doing something and you really in your heart want to do this, unless it is harmful for you, do it. If it will not hurt you in any physical way, do it. Because that feeling of something new, something exciting, it is better than the best thing any adrenaline junkie could think of. If you fail, you do, but you will learn something new and awesome. And if you won't, than you will feel awesome. Because you have to try, and maybe even fail to get somewhere. Sitting on you butt will never get you anywhere.

What is your thing you are getting your courage to do?

Don't think binary.
Whitelilit

Hi there!

I know that summer is ending for most of you, for me too, but I just need to share this recipe for ice cream. It is all healthy and tasty in just one batch of awesome.



Sadly I do not have a photo, because the ice cream was eaten faster that I could do a photo. And I did this one multiple times, not once I was quick enough to give this one a shot. Sorry.

The recipe is:

1. Take one or two bananas, peel them, chop them and put them into the freezer for at least two hours, best over night. 
2. Get your flavouring, berries, cacao, honey, vanilla, anything you like, I would advise you on sticking with just one at least the first time and put it into your mixer or blender however you call it, whatever you have.
3. Add your frozen chopped bananas.
4. Optionally, But this makes way more in one go, you can add one coconut milk or yoghurt. Maybe even other kinds of milk would be good, but make sure to not put too much water into this, otherwise it will freeze solid. Normal cow milk is also a great option.
5. Mix until smooth. Pour into those moulds for ice cream or into a metallic container, and let that sit for at least an hour or until the ice cream hardens.

Hello,
wherever your are. Are you reading on your laptop on via the phone? Yes that is a creepy and not any good of a ripoff of Kesha's Crazy Kids, that I am now listening to on repeat. I should stop.

Today I will be talking about a really nice topic. About a gift that I got from my very best friend and a cousin in one person. It is the Daisy Eau So Fresh from Marc Jacobs.


I was on a hunt for a new scent, new perfume that would be used every day. And it took me a good year to come to a place in my mind, that I was able to choose. I thought I would end up with one of Chloe perfumes, but this one spoke to me.

If you don't know me, I am all about the fruity, fun and energetic scents. When I was younger I was hooked on the Puma Jamaica - I think it was called - perfume. It was all the fruits and fun I could imagine. But since I have gotten a bit older I enjoyed a bit more flowery scents more, even though I couldn't really bare to have something heavy and really sweet and flowery for every day.


This one is the perfect medium, of fresh and fruity, but with a flower part into it. I found the ingredients on the Marc Jacobs site:

Daisy Eau So Fresh is a charming twist on our classic Daisy fragrance. Eau So Fresh is more fruity, bubbly, and more fun than the original. 

Top Layer: Natural Raspberry, Grapefruit, Pear 
Mid Base: Violets, Wild Rose, Apple Blossom Dry Base: Musks, Cedarwood, Plum 



I actually don't know what else to say, except that I am loving it. I use it every day and it is so easy to wear, that I can not recognize the smell of it on myself anymore. I just spray it on my neck and into the hair and have an optimistic, energetic day, and from time to time I move my head and can feel it again like a fresh breeze.

If you are like me, more on the happy and fruity way of perfumes, but still looking for something to feel like a woman every day give this one a smell.

Don't think binary.
Whitelilit

Hello there.

I'm back and alive. I have been watching loads of vlogs and I found out that it interests me to find out what people eat in day and I get a lot of inspiration from other people. So I decided to document what I ate in a day, and this became a habit now. So I have what I at in a different days, I guess. Anyways, maybe you can get some inspiration.

..you've got to make a lemonade.

Today was a very surreal day in the goods and the bads. And yes this is another one of the rambling blogs, but it is getting to the point where I will be doing normal blogging again.



So I have my last exam this Wednesday, meaning in two days. And I stayed home and  decided to work from home and then just start learning because I am a bit scared about the exam.

I had some bad news today, but I don't know if I am allowed to tell you, because they are not my personal bad news. I do not know why, but I would tell you. I like to tell the bad bad news, it just lifts the weigh off of you, if you know what I mean. And just takes you to a whole new level of things and you look at it few weeks later and you are like meh.

I remember the time, when I was doing my drivers licence test. I was really scared, and we had the worst policeman in the city to take the final test with. And the writing test was all right, we all passed and then, when we went to drive, he was like really in not a good mood and the guy that went before me was really bad and I could see how the policeman is getting annoyed (we were two in the car for each ride) and the guy before me is driving like 20 km/h on a 50 and so on. But the policeman was like okay just go already.

And after him it was my turn. And he was really really annoyed and I was driving pretty great back then (getting back to it now), so he found the lamest excuse and  decided to kick me out because I went on a orange light (which I didn't and the instructor was like what the hell). And I got kicked out, and I was feeling as if my whole life has fallen apart. But then, two months later I retook the test and nailed it. So in the end, it was all great after all.

Moral of the story: If you don't get it the first time, don't worry, you will the next time. And crying is allright. I cried my heart out that day and was feeling pretty much allright after that,

The good news I want to share require a bit of a story too so hold on to your horses and keep reading.

The diploma thesis I handed in on 14th of May, this May. I was not really happy about it. I worked on it really hard but did not have enough time, I got stuck so many times on stupid things and almost did not finished it on time. I was done programming two days before the actual due date and had to write an entire documentation about it in those two days. Some parts I had done already, but there was still a lot of work. But finally, I finished it, completely devastated and sleep deprived, but it was done, I had three printed copies in my hand and just handed them in.

And today, I discovered that I have the final grade from my oponent. We have one grade from the person who is leading us and one from some random person from school - our oponent. With these two we go to the final presentation and get the final grade based on the two grades and the presentation and the dialogue after the presentation. So, my oponent, obviously, did not know about my situation around this paper and gave me an A. A freaking A.

So I am now so happy, even though it does not really mean too much, I still don't know the second grade, but it is a small victory and I am proud of it.

That would be all. So if you feel down for something just don't let it get over your head. In the long run none of the small stuff matters. What matters are final results, which if you are trying hard enough, they will come sooner or later. But do not forget to celebrate the small things, because those will make you some great memories.

Don't think binary.
Whitelilit

P.S. I am working on a what I eat in a day post for my next healthy Friday and I have a bunch of new ins, so the posts are coming to me, I just have to finish school first. But slowly I will get back on track. Also sewing videos will come, loads of them.

P.S.2 If you are feeling down, put on some uplifting song. And if you like, share your story down below, sometimes talking about it to a complete stranger helps a lot. There is something funny about the anonymity, it is as if we were scared of judgment because we are going through a tough time. But if you like to talk to your friends, talk to them, they will never judge you if they are true friends.

P.S.3 I really have to get to the learning now. My final exam (except for state exam) at this school is on Wednesday. Cross fingers. And comment if you have something we should cross fingers to. We will.