✯Lara Lizard✯

Hi buds!

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Posting OOTD pics of yesterday.

Everything good here and nothing new (I wish there was something new?!) so I'll just talk about style.
Excuse the gloomy filter of the pics. It felt like it was about to rain for the whole day and the pics looked dull, but after taking the pics it was like "hahaa, you took the pics already so now the sun can start shining trolol".

I wore a white blouse and it was not that bad. I have loathed white blouses, and I bought this one recently (thrifted, this is also some 80's stuff). One reason why I hated them is that you need to iron them carefully (this one is iron-free yay!) and the other reason was that when I had blond, long hair, the combo of blond long hair and white blouse was somehow too much for me. It made me look like some sorta classic, neat, nice miss goody two shoes, no matter how I accessorized it and there's nothing really wrong with that type of people but I don't feel comfy looking like one coz I'm an awkward person who messes things up, curses and gets misunderstood. Even if I'm nice.

The shorts are from ebay, I spotted the same from one web shop and was about to buy from there, but luckily I happened to search from ebay and got them less than 1/2 prize and free shipping. (I found these shorts simply by searching "cross pattern shorts").

Shopping tip : if you are about to order stuff from online clothing stores, meaning those that do not sell their own brand but buy from wholesalers (=you see the same items in several shops), always search ebay 1st - chances are that the wholesalers are also selling on ebay - for cheaper.
(On ebay, always see the seller's feedback to make you are dealing with a reliable seller, tho.)

I bought these earrings from ebay just coz I found them cute, later on I found out that they are actually Betsey Johnson copycats (copyoctopuses) ><. But you cannot blame on me on buying copycats (copyocties) since I didn't know that at the 1st place, I thought they are just some pretty and cheap stuff. And yup, I'm gonna wear them.

^lol stupid face!

It's a fake bob again. A hidden ponytail plus a ton of hairspray. I loathe hairspray. long hair was easier.

OOTD _ Shorts:ebay _ blouse:vintage _ top:ListenHeartbeat,Japan _ Creepers:ebay _ earrings:ebay _ bag:ModCloth*

The sequin cross pattern on the shorts. The shorts are very cute yet there are some cons - they are one size meaning that they are super short for someone my height (wore them as hipsters ;)). Besides there were some paper left behind the crosses sewing, but that can be easily taken off. Also some string was peeking behind the sequins but easily removed as well. Apart from those fixable flaws, they are very much okay and wearable.

Not expecting superior quality for 7-8 USD.

A necklace that Hide has bought me from somewhere when we were still living in Japan:)

The octie earrings in a close up :).

What else.. I have been on one medication (the same that killed my hair) for 4 months now, 2 months still to go and I have noticed it has also killed my face. Okay, I know people at my age start looking older naturally, but I have aged few years in 4 months, my skin is really dry and some lines that weren't there before have appeared ><. My skin care has always been really basic (washing on evening & morning and using moisturizing cream, atm using something with hyaluronic acid) and normally using some peeling or rubbing once a week or so, but atm I'm not allowed to, because of the meds. I dunno if any of you guys who read this are anywhere near to my age, but if you know some really effective products or tricks to make face skin a bit more vivid, I will gladly take advice.
(I have finally been eating pretty much well, but I guess it takes time before you see the effects?!)

Oh btw. long time no news from DJ! He is good, since Hide is working a long day and he recently spent a week in the Netherlands, DJ has been chasing after him a lot and climbing on his shoulder. DJ really doesn't care about me a lot since I stay with him most of the day, he takes me for granted :D. He is also on skin renewal, getting rid of his old skin as he grows. His head tickles for that reason and therefore he loves rubs.
There are a couple of new videos (well you already know my iPhone video quality) up, here is one :)

xo,

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Hi buds!

Yesterday's OOTD pics.. :)

I feel stupid, since yesterday I did that stuff again! I fell asleep early without my willingness and woke up in the morning. It should be okay, but
1) I hadn't changed into my jammies, 2) I had a magazine and iPhone next to me on bed, 3) I hadn't taken my skin-killer hair-killer meds that suck, but to cure the minor disease I have I should take them daily, 4) In the morning my mouth tasted like Pringles pepper potato chips, so obviously I hadn't brushed my teeth. Eww. I must tell Hide to wake me up if I fall asleep like that. I felt stupid when I woke up and the stupid feeling has continued for the whole day.

Okay, perhaps I was just healthily tired coz of sunbathing, yesterday afternoon Hide called after work and suggested that we go to a park for some basking in the sun (and eating chips) and of course I was in.

I was dressed nothing but very relaxed, wasn't really sure if this outfit is worth posting but why not, this is my personal style blog and yesterday I dressed like that. No huge style tricks done. Actually nothing really matches, and the combo of a long to and shorts might be a bit weird - Hide was like "Haha, I can see your underpants".. Dafuq, they are shorts!

About this top, DJ the iguana seems to love the colors of it tho. He tries to bite the top everytime I wear it, he seems to like the green and the pink part which sorta makes sense since his fave foods are salads, kiwi fruit and some berries.

^The situation and expression are authentic, I didn't want those pics to be taken. I'm a hassle, I don't want to be pictured if I'm not well prepared. I'm posting them tho.

It's edited with those nice patterns because in the background there was something I just don't want to show.

OOTD: _ top:Iron Fist _ shorts:Diesel jeans that I did cut _ Sneakers:Vans _ bag:random old _ sunnies:Vogue _ braceletes:white one=from AAUG, black one=vintage

I had another topic on my mind to write about, but Blogger just decided for me that "no, you ain't gonna add pictures any more, get off the PC and go do the laundry" so I'll make another post later.

I have a giveaway running for followers and non-followers so feel free to check out that one.

Catch you later!

xo,

L

P.S. How come some peeps are so catty / judgemental some people are about other peep's looks / body!? First go on about "acceptance" but seems like for some people the "acceptance" means that only their type should be accepted and there's something wrong with everyone else, or at least the ones who don't happen to please *their* eye and not to be sorry about their looks?
Yes, this is a remark for specific person(s) who deffo know who they are.

I haven't done an Instagram post for ages (not that I would be super active on instagram) but here are some of my Instagram pics. If you like to follow, I'm @rocketraptor .

Today I'm having a horrible headache for an unknown reason, not sure if I'm staying home for the rest of the day or going out later. However the renovation that is being done just outside the widow doesn't help since I have to listen to banging and drilling *suffer* :/ . Also DJ is annoyed :I .

From yesterday there are no outfit pics since I left from home in a hurry and took no camera, no big loss tho since I was hanging out in sweatpants and a hoodie. Took care of some obligations and had sushi with Hide. We tried to discuss a couple of society/political topics but I have difficulties discussing those with Hide, since when I quote someone's opinion that's utterly stupid IMO, I start to talk in a retarded voice and can't stop (unless I am actually angry) and that discussion becomes a joke.
Nope, I don't do that stuff with others than with my close peeps.. I hope!

Yesterday I received a mail from "Billing Department" telling me that I should check my PayPal acct and make sure my address is correctly and I recognize all the transactions that have been done from there. Kindly there was also included a link that I should use to log in. It was marked with PayPal's copyrights and address in the ending and telling "Please do not reply this email but visit the help center bla bla" but I answered "Hahahahaaa screw you :D".
Oh btw, the sender of the mail was an addy called: xtrav.ol@gmail.com.
Lol.
I reported it to PayPal, I hope something can be done
before someone actually buys this trick.

Anyway, now the instagrams.

Perhaps I shouldn't even be posting this but we were watching this in a bar and Finland lost, thanks bye!

I'm demonstrating how does an angry iguana look like.

Snapped a pic of the fake bob.

Megu game. ChukNorz is a platypus now!

The chocobot.

An observation that I wrote down -.-

DJ basking in the sunlight in the balcony

In a train on the way to Helsinki with the most horrible hair color ever.

We got this from a taxi driver in exchange.. this is 20 pennies, of FIM, finnsh mark, and Finland has had Euro a a currency since more than 10 years.. :D Woot!

Hatsune Miku music box.. got this from an UFO catcher in Japan.. Looks cute but what it plays is dang annoying!

A result of some random Google search, as you see I DO NOT OWN THIS PICTURE, there is someone's watermark and it's not mine :D

Another thingy I have dragged along from Japan, this is from a cacha (capsule station).

A necklace from Tiger.DK, Hide bought it to me ;)

Me with the new haircut and a Spongebob bandage on my neck.

A balloon that I got when buying Angry Birds cosmetics ;)

A garbage can?

Lumene Angry Birds mascara :3 (this is nice btw, works as a treat)

Later, buds!

xo,

L

PS.
Not sure if you have watched Mad TV, but here is Stuart.. I sound like him when I talk in the stupid voice I mentioned earlier :D

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Hi fellows!

Sowwie for my few days absence! What kept me from blogging was a mysterious headache that lasted for a couple of days, I couldn't do anything. It was horrid, I wanted to rip my head off but luckily I didn't coz if I did I would have no head now and it might suck a lil bit.. or perhaps I would just carry my head around with me :D?

Today has been much better to, a fried of mine, Sirkku, I have mentioned about before, she is an artist and a photographer (she took these pics of me previously) and today we were hanging out in Tampere, staying at our place eating, drinking and discussing several topics. For example movies and tv series, we have some common faves when we were young, like X-Files.
And our childhood- as small kids we both had a tendency to dig out the books that had scary pics (scary animals, Roswell aliens, human corpses) and purposely see the most horrible pics and freak out- again and again! Wth.
And other stuff. Had fun :)

Also took some pics, including pics with DJ - hope I can show them off soon, DJ is a great model :). I will publish them as soon as I get them :).
DJ tried to bite me tho, or actually "trying" is a wrong word.. he trolls me by opening his mouth in a biting manner and closing to my hand, but he doesn't do anything. Just that usually I give up to him when he does that, this time he made clear that he didn't want to wear a collar and lead when we went to the staircase to take pics. And he didn't have to.

My camera wasn't much in use today, but posting outfit pics since I got this tee that actually do like :). When I ordered it, I didn't get that the Donald Duck is actually made of sequins, but it looks pretty cool even if I'm not usually a fan of sequins. A sequin Donald duck is awesome tho. Kitsch enough for me!

OOTD:
Tee:Romwe*
Skirt: H&M
Sneakers: Vintage
Bag: from some ancient rock festival

Sirkku and I and pink hair dyes.

DJ and Hide, Hide wasn't happy with his expression in this pic so we gave it a natural retouch.

This was just a small post to tell you I'm here and wish you a happy weekend :3

Catch you soon buds!

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Hi fellas

Hope you all had a good weekend :)

I'm posting yesterday's OOTD pics and some "news", as usual ;) Recently I'm too tired / lazy to post on evenings.

Bon Jovi had an open air gig in our "neighbor" yesterday, there is a stadium just a few minutes walk away from where we live. 1st we were about to buy the tickets since let's face it- I liked Bon Jovi as a kid. I still like a couple of songs. Anyway the tickets were darn expensive, Bon Jovi is okay but not THAT supa dupa awesome (only a little bit awesome) and lat but not least we could as well listen to the gig free by just sitting down in the other side of the little river. Okay we couldn't see the show, but we could hear everything well (and from a certain place see the pyro show lol xD).
So we were sitting there yesterday evening with some other peeps, before that we were just hanging out in the town. Chilling out day that was.

Style-wise I'm a cheat, I dressed in exactly the same clothes once last summer and posted it in my old blog (that had 2 or 3 readers by then). Only shoes were different. These are all old stuff. I bought these shoes over 10 years ago when these hyper platforms were trendy, these were expensive by then but obviously they were worth the money since they are still working as a treat. The pants are 80's vintage stuff and the top is from my gothic era aka circa 2005.. And the belt is from JC's kids department, over 10 years ago as well. Oh and the pink Yoshi that hangs on my bag is from Comic Con. I think pink Yoshi is super.

Btw I do.not.style.my.hair! Ever!

From the other side of the river the Bon Jovi Gig looked like this:

We were sitting on the grass around here and the cops were actually just chilling and listening to the gig.

On the harbour there were less space to sit down and less comfy but a better access to the view and to the sound. The stadion can be seen just opposite side of the river. Maybe you can spot Bon Jovi himself if you look carefully awwww!!!

I feel like I haven't written anything that makes sense for ages. I have topics on my head, I should just start working on them. Maybe I will, at some point :)

Happy beginning week to all of you, fellows :)

x,

Mateys Ahoy,

As I was talking a couple of days ago, my bud Sirkku (see her blog and more of her works behind the link) took pics of DJ and me. The pics ended up super, see DJ! He posed like a pro after the 1st shyness! Climbing on my head and chilling out there was his own idea, we didn't put him there or ask him to go there or anything.
Supermodel material, get your fan mails on making!

This is my post for now. Not being verbal these days but luckily I have nicely done pics ;)
(There are some more that we took, but will save them for later non-verbal days so I can produce nice post without much text ;))

Outfit:
Dress:H&M
Shoes:Irregular Choice (a gift from my dear Kizzy)
Wearing light brown Geo Xtra circle lenses from Uniqso

Catch you soon ^^

x,

All Photos are by Sirkku Tuomela.
Pics taken in the staircase of our house, no transporting or forcing the iguana.

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Hi buds!

As you might remember, I have been ranting about my 6 months medication drying out & killing my skin an giving me lines that haven't been there before, so I'm showing what I have used in order to minimize the damage. Someone did recommend serums (I used them randomly before when I was stressed out and my skin looked like that and the experience was positive, so I decided to go for it again).
I prefer natural cosmetics when it comes to skincare, so both are natural brands.

NOTE : I'm in my 30's and my skin is not in a normal condition at the moment. I'm on a heavy medication that lasts 6 months and dries skin very badly. So this review is based on my skin condition at the moment -very dry and sensitive with fine lines.
1st I bought Burt's Bees radiance serum (30 euros). (Can get cheaper online)

It said this:

"Get a more radiant complexion in just 4 weeks! This clinically tested serum combines royal jelly, licorice root extract and glycerin to bring out skin’s natural radiance. These ingredients increase moisturisation by 15% in only 2 weeks, while nourishing skin with 134 nutrients including vitamins A, C, D and K, minerals and 17 amino acids. In 4 weeks, you’ll notice your skin becoming more evenly toned. The result is more radiant beautiful looking skin, naturally."

Yup, the bottle lasted exactly one month and I _did_ notice the result. My skin felt smoother, glowier and somehow more nourished, the product itself feels comfy and feels like it absorbs the skin. Only a mild scent and it's pleasant.
Worse, it didn't do anything about the excess dryness and fine lines, I feel I need something more effective rite now.
When the medication is over and my skin is back to the normal condition, I will deffo be buying this again. My thoughts: Lovely product for a normal skin, I can imagine how great a normal skin would look after this treatment!

After I use the Bees stuff, I went for Nuxe Serum Merveillance (48 euros, might not have bought otherwise but I had a gift certificate to screw). (Can get cheaper online, tho!)

It said this:
"This anti-wrinkle serum can be used both on the face and eye contour area for clinically proven plant effectiveness on the reduction of all the parameters of visible expression lines - number, surface and length. On application, wrinkles and fine lines are smoothed out. This concentrated serum instantly smoothes and relaxes the skin and fills visible expression lines. In the blink of an eye, the features are relaxed and the skin is revived and radiant with youth. Ages 35-40"

Ages 35-40!? I'm not aged 35-40! It didn't say that on the package :D! The package didn't also tell if I shall apply it once or twice a day so I'm using it on the mornings.
Anyway, I must say this one _works_ on the lines on my face. This doesn't smell great and the first days of using this I felt there was something extra stuff left on my face after applying this, but I think I am used to it by now. It this doesn't give the nourished, glowy feeling like the Burt's Bees serum, but this one smooths the fine lines for a day. Even when I'm using this, I still need an effective moisturizing cream for a daytime and a _heavy_ moisturizer for nighttime.
This one was also including some very non-natural stuff (altho it's a natural product) which makes it a bit less credible for me (okay, perhaps the silicone is needed for masking the lines but I still prefer in 100% care ;)).
The bottle is reasonably big and will last for the rest of my medication time, after that my skin will (hopefully O_O) be back to normal and I will not (hopefully) need this stuff for few years at least!
My thoughts: This is an okay product, quite good for smoothing the lines.

Verdict: I prefer Burt's Bees. I just noticed they have also an anti-age serum, perhaps I am to try that one next if the Radiance serum is not enough (I hope it is enuff after my skin recovers of the medication, tho). The reasons are the comfy feeling on the skin, the better scent and the more natural ingredients.

Then I'm dumping yesterday's OOTD pics here, we were sunbathing in a park for whole evening.

OOTD:
Top: H&M
Shorts: James (vintage)
Creepers: Ebay
Necklace: Candy Geisha
Clutch: GSus
Bag: Vintage
Sunnies: sunglassesshop.com

Have a good day fellows :)

x,

Hi fellows :)

Hope you're all good!
Yesterday was really hot and I was feeling like I don't want to dress up at all.. I would have loved to go out in my nightie (well I almost did!). Didn't want to style my hair and didn't want to wear make up. The heat makes me really lazy.

Happens that my comfiest dress almost does look like a nightie, it's actually pretty much plain and worn and it doesn't really make me feel pretty or cute... but it's so cozy! It's the most comfy thing on the planet to wear on a super hot day. (And I don't believe all those style gurus who says that you should ditch all your worn, cozy comfy [but dull] rags and replace them with new stylish stuff that are moderately comfy but not supa dupa cozy! Nope! I need my cozy stuff!)

Let's face it, this dress is quite fugly. Perhaps it has been pretty 10 years ago, but it has been worn 1000 times and washed as many times, it sags and so.. My 1st thought was that I'd just wear this with no effort, you know some worn sandals and no jewellery and some random bag or so, since there was nothing huge to do yesterday and it was just a chilling out day.

Anyway, finally I didn't want to feel plain, so the trick to liven up this rag was that I chose my accessories carefully. Heavy statement stuff is not my choice for a super hot day, but I picked up some little cute stuff that do match color-wise the little stripes of the dress plus colorful bag and sneakers.

And boom! I don't even notice the ugliness of the dress any more!

..a purple-blue eyeball bracelet (thrifted) and a purple-spiked baby steggie (oborocharms) to liven up the faded purple and blue stripes...

..and purple earrings (round one H&M, plug Cybershop) to add some extra purple..

..A green bag (David Jones) since the baby steggie is green, and purple sneakers (Vans) coz purple seems to be the color of the day ;). The white sunnies just happen to be my fave sunnies.

..and *zädäm!* it looks humanly!

The lesson of a day : if you feel an urge to wear your comfiest, ugliest thing, you can still accessorize it nicely [yet relaxedly]. You can make it look nice!

x,

Hi fellows!

I decided to write a verbal post for a change ;)

I was browsing thru a women's magazine and this annoyance stroke me - once again.

"If your body shape is boyish, you should try to create curves by wearing ruffly bikini bottoms and padded tops"

"Celeb X looks like she hasn't updated her wardrobe after her weight gain"

"Celeb X gets 4 points out of 10 for her cocktail dress that looks like something her granny would wear in the bridge gathering"

"How on earth could she go out looking like THIS (picture included)"

"Celeb X's hips look gigantic in vertical stripes. Anyone with bigger hips should avoid vertical stripes on the bottom"

And the story goes ahead.
Media loves to tell us what we are allowed to wear and what not. The question is that should we buy it? In my opinion, we shouldn't. Instead we should ask who set all those rules how we should look like, why should we try to hide personal features of our bodies or try to make our bodies look as close as a certain "ideal" as we can, why we should take style seriously, why and who should we obey? What's wrong if we wear something that the most outrageous walmart-granny in a cheetah leotard and hair rollers would love (kudos to walmart-grannies, they are super!).
Btw, what about the lists of best- and the worst dressed people? It's funny how some peeps end up on the both of the lists.

I don't know what is the most usual response from the audience to those journalists who raid (bash) celebs' styles and use random people's picture's as an example in "DON'Ts", but my personal response is that
1) they annoy me the moment I see them and
2) I forget them and do not take the advice.
I am a big girl enuff to decide what to wear. If it bugs some style nihilist that calls herself / himself a guru, then so be it ;).

Actually, shouldn't we *all* be allowed to wear what we want without getting bashed for it?
Yup, we all get bashed (well all of us that do not obey all the style rules - that change all the time, btw), not only those that happen to be celebs or end up in the don't lists. We see it everywhere how bad it is if you don't dress your body type, how slutty you are if you wear heels, mini and show cleavage, how untidy and unprofessional you seem if you just go for your comfy sneakers and hoodies, how silly you are if you are over 30 and buy clothes that are for teens/20's (I raise my hand here..) and loads of other stuff that we do just wrong.

Oh nope, I'm not willing to stop reading fashion mags, surfing the web or watching tv. (In my country, even a couple of newspapers have the stylist's board where they are nitpicking on what celebs are wearing by the way.)

My point here is just that I'm not gonna be critical about how people dress- style is a personal thing for everyone. I am, and I'm gonna be critical towards these journalists.

I should tell here that please don't misunderstand- I'm not dismissing style tips and hints given with a kind heart and open mind. Telling that if you are bored with your old jeans, you can revive them by bleaching them, or that pastel colored accessories look specially nice on pale skin is totally a different thing than telling that "OMG, so last season jeans!" or "EWW look someone goes out pale at summer!".

To be honest - I'm not innocent, guilty as charged, I have thrown not-so flattering comments about celeb styles myself with my friends, but at least I'm trying to decrease doing so and I'm not bringing these opinions public in my blog, thinking I have the right to write crap about how others look. After all, my opinion about someone else's style is better kept to myself unless it's positive.

Seriously, tell me I'm not the only one who thinks of these DON'T boards as far more tasteless than the tackiest of the styles can ever be!?

(Glamour)

Aww and you don't want to be catty. How sweet.

I'm being a rant again, buds, I like ranting :)

But you have a happy day :)

And tell me your thoughts on this tricky topic :)

x,

Hi buds!

It's been a nice day. Hope you had a good day too!
Weekends are usually nice. We have been chilling out in the city, as usual. Hot weather and beer, no complaints.

Clothes-wise, I thought that I cannot be arsed, I barely combed my hair, (wore a nice tee, hat and sneakers anyway, since even if I wanted to wear something really easy, I wanted it to be nice :)) and thought we will not even take pics today but Hide took them anyway and woot, I like them! I really thought that I would look so sh*t that I'd get some pics that I could use in some random Facebook gallery at max, or crop out the tee, but we mistakenly took nice pics lol :D

The tee has appeared in my old blog a couple of times in my old blog already, cannot help but I like that tee. Got it few years ago from a fiend who has a clothes shop and it's one of my fave tees. The religious figures on clothes are pretty much "in" rite now, that wasn't the case when I got the tee, but I have always had a thing for Jesus. *Info for my new readers, sine the old ones know this already: I consider myself a person who doesn't believe in any specific religion yet I believe that a Higher Power does exist, but being raised up as a christian, I like what I read abut Jesus in the Bible.
Dood, that man was an anarcho-pacifist, a leftist and a true humanist! Think if we all were like him!
I also find these "updated" vers of Jesus images pretty awesome. Not really thinking of the deeper meaning (which you can find many if you start to think) - some of them just look cool.
Besides- I like making fun of my idols ;) !

I also found my ancient transparent bag and decided that it's time to use it again :3.

OOTD:
Tee: Minute Mirth
Shorts: Diesel Jeans DIY
Bag: Diesel
Sneakers: Randomness from ebay
Hat: H&M

Btw, are we already connected on facebook? If you want, please like my page, I will of course like yours too if you have one. I'm a bit picky if Blogger feedburner will be gone so looking for the best way to keep in touch (Blogger feedburner is my absofrikkinlute fave), I like FB as will but I have probs getting used to Bloglovin ><.

Have a hapy weekend buds ^^

x,

Hi fellas!

I'm have been a bit lazier with the blog than usually and there is a good reason for that : I'm spending most of time lazying in the park basking in the sun with my buds. It's summer, summer it's short in Finland and that's enough of an excuse ;). So that's what I have been up to :). Hope your weekend has been good and you're having a good start for the week!

Anyway, coming up with a review of Lumene CC cream. CC stands for color correcting, and to be honest, I didn't see a huge difference between CC creams and BB for a long time creams and then I got that CC creams even the skintone out more than BB creams (No sh*t, sherlock!?).

I loved the Lumene BB cream so I had high expectations for the CC cream. Let's see :)

What it said:

"Representing the latest technology, this unique 6-in-1foundation is light and yet it provides good coverage. It spreads evenly, following all contours of your skin and smoothing out uneven skin color and redness. One product has several features, a handy solution for consumers who like a product that is easy, quick and comfortable to use. The end result is a semi-matte, flawless and even-looking skin. Your skin will feel fresh and light, and you can trust that your makeup will stay on all day. Three shades: Light (for fair skin), Medium (for medium-fair skin) and Deep (for more tanned skin). 30 ml.

CC Cream's 6-in-1 properties:

Foundation – a fine but well covering formula. The shades are designed to neutralize the color of red areas.

Concealer

Primer

Illuminator

Long-lasting

SPF 20"
Price around 16-17 euros (20 USD)

What it did:
Pros:
The lightest shade matches my spring-skin tone awesomely, altho for winter I wonder will it be to dark. I'm very fair-skinned on winter. However, whilst I'm not at my palest, it looks very good.
The coverage is good, it even covered my eye circles from the Dark Side, and any BB cream has never done that. This product is actually pretty foundation-like and while I don't need a lot of coverage I only need a very thin layer. This time I covered a couple of minor pimples and this product was well enough.
Looks natural.
Lasts well, no caking on fine lines, no mess.
The sunblock is super important issue for me.

Cons:
-Too shiny if you don't apply powder, as you can see in the pics. The Shining (REDRUM!) fades off tho, I took the pics just after applying it. (No powder).
-It would be nice if there would be one more shade for super pale complexions.
-Not easily available. A finnish brand that has got pop in some other countries as well, but still there are peeps who would like to get it but it's extremely difficult for them :/.

My skin type is sensitive and pretty much dry - no irritation.
Pics with only Lumene CC cream, no other make up - they are small but you can click to see them bigger. I feel it would look disturbing to publish huge images of my pale make up free face >< !

Verdict : Will use the whole tube and prolly buy again if nothing superior comes on the way. This is a summer product for me tho.

Catch you soon!

Hi again >:)

Just posting these God-knows-how-old OOTD pics ;). Okay, they are from the weekend. I was lucky enuff to find this dress from a thrift store- it is brand new, it had tags (it is by a brand called ICHI), original prize tag and all left! Obviously someone had bought a wrong size or something!
Anyway I paid 7 euros for this treasure and was really proud of myself :).
Love the stonewashed denim and the eighties-y vibe :). Instant fave dress :)

Besides wore a bag of Marimekko which is prolly the most finnish brand there can ever be.. wait, it WAS the most finnish brand. One of their designs just few days ago got caught of being a plagiarism of a work of an Ukrainian artist. It was the designer's blooper, not the entire brand's, but it still caused a huge uproar and especially some foreign brand-faithful Marimekko fans obviously buried their Marimekko bags with grief, perhaps without even a candle or a flower on the traitor's grave..
Anyway. As a finn, I have always seen Marimekko everywhere around and never been a gigantic fan (even tho all of their clothes and accessories are pretty and great quality) -except that I'm a fan of very few prints. There are few certain prints that I do totally like (the copycat one was not one of them), the rest are just..neutral. This bag is a *love* print, but for some reason it's difficult to combine with most of my clothes. Well it mismatchingly matches with this dress :). Nice :).

My face just failed a lil bit in this pic.

Accessories are eighties too :)

OOTD:
Ichi dress
Marimekko bag
Random sneakers from ebay
Vintage cross necklace
AAUG studded bracelet
Forgot where from the snake bracelet is ;0

Posted 2 times today so time to go off :)

Catch yas :)

x.

Hi fellas!

Yesterday's OOTD pics :D.
Today it has been another sweatpants day. Lemme tell you that it's horrible in our house atm- they are making a major balcony renovation in the entire house. The whole house is covered in a thick net, and today our windows were covered in plastic and the air conditioning of the whole house was switched off (to prevent some sh*t of getting in to the apartment). And it is HOT outside, the apartment feels like sauna. I was out for the most of the day, DJ doesn't mind heat lol :D.
Luckily we have bought a middium size floor model fan, so I dragged it from the storage to the middle of the floor, a bit more tolerable. Then I have been cleaning and ordering, I need to move some stuff so we can make more space for the iguana as he is growing.

The renovation has been going on for quite a while but now it's at it's worst, this heck will last for few days now. DJ has been entertaining the construction workers (before the plastic was there), they have put their stands right behind our windows and even tho I close the curtains, the iguana goes onto the window board, behind the curtain and stares at the men at work. He stands at two feet, he even knocks at the window and he surely has got their attention already (we have heard the word "iguana" from behind the window..). Creepy.. I'm not wanting attention specifically to our window, but obviously DJ is. It sure would be nice for him to climb on those stands.

(DJ shows how to use his tail as a pillow)

Anyway, yesterday's OOTD pics. I wore a rag again, this dress is old but I like it. I bought it from a discount in kids / teens dept once. Too very much pretty and cutesy icky icky goo, but with proper accessories goes for my style.

OOTD:
Seppälä dress
H&M thrifted bag
Fragrant (Japan) shoes
Glitter sunnies
UFO Catched Jack Skellington
Trifted bracelets

Alligator necklace from ebay

Some fun that I found while cleaning.. :D Hello Kitty and Rilakkuma fan books that I bought when I lived in Japan (I still have those bags that they came with), Barbie comic mag from my childhood and 80's old japanese origami books.. they are from the 80's, they are from Hide's childhood :3 (Yes little boys in Japan like Hello Kitty too or at least in the early 80's they liked!!!)
And my pretty toesies.

And then something that I was obligated to get from ebay out of a whim. I used to watch My Pet Monster cartoon when I was a kid. And then I saw My Monster Buddy on ebay, And the rest is history.

He is huge and he talks.

Anyone who remembers My Pet Monster.. well, doesn't need to Google <3>:)

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Hi fellows :)

Hope you are all good. All okay here apart from that our home is still a sauna from hell beacause of the renovation, I will show you a pic in the end of this post so you will know why.

Yesterday it was a bit rainy and even thunder so it was easier, not super hot. The iguana got scared of the thunder noises, on the 1st rumble he pushed up all his spikes (a sign of annoyance) and on the next boom he climbed onto my head and stayed there, being very stiff, until Hide phoned me and weirdly enuff, hearing Hide's voice made him calm down and he went back to his lazying mattress.. That's one strange animal... or rather say a person.

On the evening the weather became nice (and the iguana went to sleep) so we decided to hit the town for a while. Actually I regret wearing this outfit yesterday, since I really like it and we got bad pics as it was already dim outside ><. Okay, I don't regret wearing it, I just wish I had better pics.
I got the eyeball skirt (click)* recently and I think it's super! The only con is that it's one size, and it fits something like S or XS in European or US sizes (in Asian sizes it might equal to M). I wore the white shorts under the skirt since it's pretty much short (but that has to do with my height (172cm). And I was about to wear it with the white tank only, I felt like something was lacking so after trying on 10 different belts I remembered that there are suspenders.

OOTD:
Top: random old
Sudpenders: H&M (old)
Skirt: Romwe*
Sneakers: Ebay
Accessories: thrifted apart from that Keroppi that is my phone strap, that one Hide brought from Japan last year
Bag: HBG x Hello Kitty (came with a fan book)

There's always time for one.
(This bar ship is very near to our home)

Besides, where you'd rather stay, in the previous place or here?
(I'm pointing out our window but you can't see it since it's covered with that stuff).

Catch you soon ^^

x,

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Hi buds!

It has been one heck of a hot day once again which I have spent mostly outside since the heat at home bugs me. Iguana is really happy tho, the hotter the better for his preferences it seems. He ate like crazy, as well. And now he is farting so much ><

..I was thinking about something but I forgot..!

Anyway, another OOTD from thrift stores :) The pants are actually vintage, 60's I would say and sadly they are too short for me, I don't want to ruin them by cutting them into shorts so I'm just rolling them up. That's what my mom used to do when she was young, too (she is taller than me, and the clothes from the 60's and 70's are generally much shorter than now). Anyway, I bought those pants last year and they were some crazy bargain. As well as the tee. Actually I bought the tee from a 2ndhand shop coz it looks pretty nice- I didn't have an idea about the meaning of the print. (It could even have been something horrible, a minor extreme right party or something.. but the monkey- and shark headed people in the pic actually gave me a gut feeling that it's something good.)
I should have known mayhaps, since I have been following the music scene at least sometimes, but I had missed this. It was a tee of a finnish punk rock band and actually I am happy that I found them, since I like their music. I didn't (weirdly!?) find any on Youtube, only found their MySpace so if you wanna hear, head over there.

Anyways that was about music. About style, I like something that is not supposed to match but it mismatches well, like this worn band tee and these very feminine 60's pretty girlie pants that are -weirdly- in prim and proper condition, sharp as new. I guess they just used to make great quality clothes by then. I love vintage stuff, but actually they become more interesting combined with new stuff or things from other decades.

..since I fail in pics anyway, I can as well fail properly and officially.

(src: IWTL )

..or sure these have been rad pants in the 1960's?!

OOTD:
Tee: thrifted

pants: thrifted vintage
shoes: Fragrant (Japan)
Bag: thrifted
Octopus: ebay
Sunnies: Glitter

As you see I also got rid of the pink hair. Straight dyes tend to go off easily without a bleach, so I just used a slightly lightening hair dye without the bleaching powder. Less damaging.
Make-up wise, I am trying to learn how to use liquid eyeliner. I used that stuff 1000 years ago but not for ages, and I guess I need some extra practice now. Yup I know someone thinks that eyeliner is too much on my face especially with blond hair, but I happen to like looks with heavy eyeliners. They look great on people so I want mine too.

Next time I gotta fix my eyebrows too ><

Lol now there has been my ootd and my hair and my make up, so end of the post already?

Noo:D!

My blog bud Chiho recommended a couple of photography apps for IOS. One is called Cameran, and it has a super nice amount of different filters. The other one is called Cameran too, but it is a collage version and I really like it, it's much snappier to use than most of the collage apps I have tried plus that is has cute backrounds, stamps etc.. The con is that the text in the Cameran collage is in Japanese - but you can pretty much figure out from the symbols what happens when you push this button and that button.
They are free, so if you have an i-gadget, I recommend. i-recommend :)

So I made a collage of my OOTD details.

..and a collage of my pink lenses that arrived a week ago but I opened the package now since I couldn't stand the thought of pink hair and pink lenses on me. The lens case is cute.. the lenses are a bit.. cartoony!
I will post a pic later :)

Okay, now end of post :)

Have a happy weekend, buds :)

x

Hi buds!

Been off for a lil while.. For 3 days mayhaps?
Been ~~not~~ busy doing stuff, like today I was cleaning the house for the whole day and was annoyed with everything. Okay not everything but with some unnecessary drama that has nothing to do with me but still some people just love to make outsiders a part of their own drama and expect for a comment while I cannot give any 1) Coz it's none of my business and 2) I'm not biased when it comes to my close peeps.
Anyways, to put it in short, someone's attempt to drag me into stuff that I'm not a part of and don't want to be pissed me off a huge time, actually it spoiled most of my day but at least I have that tendency that I start to clean the home when I'm angry. So at least something good was produced.

Then posting saturday's outfit pics. I wanted to wear a crop top and shorts since it was hot, but I had to pick an outfit that passes for a casual lecture and discussion event by one politician which I joined plus after that hanging out in a park with Hide and some friends (and finally ending up to a bar, altho I didn't know that by then).
(I'm not saying that jumpsuits are something that you should wear in discussion events with politicians, but that one was really casual and a part of an outdoors summer happening so I let it pass.]

I have considered this black jumpsuit pretty boring before, but it's comfy at summer and the accessories make it look nicer. Simple clothes & funky accessories are a combo that usually works when I'm feeling lazy & wanting to feel comfy.

This bags gets compliment all the time. Even from the politician. There's nothing that adorable about the All Terrain Armored Transport in the movies but this At-At is somehow cute. Mini At.

Baby At, grow up big and strong and serve the Army of the Galactic Empire.

(Guess I will not quit wearing these sneakers before they die)

Hee.

OOTD:
Jumpsuit : no idea where I got it from (old)
At-At bag : SuperheroStuff*
Eyes necklace: Seppälä (one frikkin euro?!)
Sneakers: Ebay
Sunnies: Glitter

What else? Nothing. I quit being annoyed and then we have been watching stuff on Youtube with Hide. I love listening to old stuff from when I was younger, I hardly keep on track about new music (unless I hear something on the radio that I fall in love with and then I will check out the artist).

I guess you all heard this already but this astronaut did sing this when he was in the space & the vid is from the real spaceship while it was on the way.

I used to like this over 10 years ago. Lol :D. Still like!

Later :)

x

Hi buds

I was originally wanting to photograph these lil charms that I found in a box while I was cleaning, I have dragged these from Japan, some are freebies that you get when you buy a bottle of soft drink, and some are from game houses or capsule stations. I have a lot of funny stuff hiding around.

But while I was taking pics, someone noticed it's his change to get attention..

..he made faces at the camera..

..and then jumped on the bed :)

..and that's all :) Just felt that DJ deserved his own post :)

Have a good day!

x,

OOTD: white blouse in a punky style

Flash sale @ Romwe!

OOTD : sharks are cute

Instagrams and random ramblings

Romwe memorial day sale - kitty dress and more :)

Friends and Donald Duck

OOTD and Bon Jovi gig without tickets

Portraits with Iguana

Romwe Leggings Flash Sale

Skin serums & ootd

Accessorizing a plain dress into a nice one !

Pet peeve : style polices

OOTD : Nobody knows the trouble I've seen..

Lumene CC cream review

OOTD : thrifted treasure - ICHI dress

OOTD: summer rag dress. And some retro love.

OOTD : I love flying eyeballs :)

OOTD : I walk the line

OOTD: At At and that

Iguana who wanted to get photographed