Resolutions TAG 2015!

Hello my lovelies,
I hope you're enjoying the last day of 2014. Can't wait for the fireworks to start tonight and the champagne bottles to pop.
Last year I did the Resolutions TAG, so why not do it this year again?

1. Name 3 things you did this year you're proud of.

First of all I'm proud of finishing high school and earning my VWO-diploma. Because of my CFS this was something nearly impossible for me, but I managed to do it, so I'm very proud of myself for surprising everyone, including myself, and showing I could do this.
Another thing I'm proud of is deciding to finsih this year of my eduction to become a primary school teacher, even though I won't get enough points to continue next year. Because of my CFS I can't fulfill my internship, which means I have to stop and do a different education next year. I could have said to stop right now, but I decided to continue, because I simply can't do nothing for half a year. I'm thinking about studying speech-language pathology next year, but I'm not complety sure yet.
I find the third thing quite hard to think of. I'm happy I moved out and really enjoy my life in my appartment with my two flatmates, but it's not something I would say I'm proud of.
I think I'm proud for accepting the fact I need help from someone proffesional with my CFS, because I find it gets worse in stressfull periods. I would love to learn how to chill and relax and not be snappy and annoying in stressfull periods. Next year I'm hoping I can see someone to help me with this. Admitting I need help is a pretty difficult thing for me, since I'm quite an independent person and want to do everything myself, solve every problem myself and finish every project myself.

2. Name one thing you wish you had done differently.

I wish I had admitted my health was going downhill earlier, because I get really snappy and annoying and unhappy when I feel sick, which is difficult not only for me, but especially for the people who are close to me. I hate being like this and hurting the people whom I love with nasty comments, so if I had rested earlier, I would have prevented this from happening.

3. What was your biggest highlight this year?

Moving out. I've been wanting to move out for so long. I love my parents and sister a lot. But having my own place and living in the city is just something I've been dreaming of for such a long time. I am so happy to have a beautiful room and nice and sweet flatmates, the rent might be a bit much, but it's definately worth it.

4. What was your favourite beauty product this year?

My Catrice Liquid Eyeliner in Dating Joe Black, which is funny, because last year my beauty resolution was to wear more eyeliner in 2014.
But I'm also in love with my L'Oréal Privée Lipsticks.

5. What was your least favourite beauty product this year?

I had to think really hard about this one. I remember buying a nude lipstick this year, tried it on after having it in my drawer for a month, and threw it away immediately after. It was way too light for me. Most nudes just don't suit me. I can't really remember which lipstick it was. I believe it was from Rimmel, but I may be wrong.

6. Who do you want to thank for being amazing this year?

My family and my boyfriend for sticking with me, even when I'm snappy and not myself. They are such good people.

7. What are the make up/beauty resolutions you have for next year?

Moisturise. Last couple of months I haven't been using moisturiser like I should, every morning and every night, more like 3 times a week. You can imagine my skin feels and looks like a desert.

8. What are your fashion resolutions for next year?

Don't spend so much money on clothes..... Oops.

9. What are your personal resolutions for next year?

I just really want to enjoy this year and hope to learn how to deal with stress.

10. Name one thing you want to check of your bucket list next year.

I would love to book a last minute this autumn, preferebly to Rome, but most places will be fine for me.

That's it. Tag done. Just like 2014. Hope you have an amazing 2015. May everything good happen to you. Enjoy the fireworks and champagne (but not too much) and feel free to do this tag if you like, because you're tagged.

PS Do you like my way over edited fire works picture? I got bored and let myself go.

~Xx

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Christmas TAG

Merry Christmas my loves.
My family has gone to bed and I'm not very sleepy yet, so I thought I'd kill some time and do the Christmas TAG.
Before I start I'd just like to say that I don't celebrate Christmas with presents. In the Netherlands this is quite common since we celebrate Sinterklaas on the 5th of December, this is where we give eachother (or Sinterklaas gives us) loads of presents. Let's just say Sinterklaas is our Saint Nick.
Another reason is my family and I celebrate Christmas because of the birth of Jesus and my parents don't really like the idea of Santa or Father Christmas, because it has nothing to do with the orignal Christmas celebrations. I'm not saying anything with this, I just wanted to let you know how I celebrate Christmas, because it might influence the TAG a bit. We do have a Christmas tree and Christmas decorations and eat a delicious dinner with the family and play loads of boardgames. I don't mind people who give presents on Christmas day, and don't mind Saint Nick at all. It's just the way I've always celebrated Christmas. Personally I'm always interested in different cultures, so for those of you who share this interest, there you go (:
Let's start with the questions now.

1. What is your favourite Christmas movie?

This question is really funny, because two days ago I remembered a Christmas movie I loved as a kid. I didn't remember the name of it and we no longer have it because it was on a VCR. I searched the internet and found out it was called "Betoverende Kerstsprookjes". The english title is Christmas in Cartoontown. I just ordered it online and can't wait to watch it again after 10 years.

2. What are your favourite Christmas colours?

Deep dark red. Can't recist the classic.

3. Do you like to stay in your PJs or dress up for Christmas?

I start my day in PJs for brunch and after brunch I'd usually go and dress up. So both. But if I had to choose, I would pick dressing up for Christmas. Perfect excuse to make yourself look pretty and go all out with make up, hair and fashion.

4. If you could only buy one person a present this year, who would it be?

If I were to give presents for Christmas, but could only give them to one person it would probably be to my boyfriend, or my sister. And I would pick something small and personal.

5. Do you open your presents on Christmas eve or Christmas morning?

Not (:
But I would prefer to open presents in the evening, because you'll see the pile of Christmas presents under the tree the entire day and get all excited.

6. Have you ever built a gingerbread house?

Yes, and massively failed so just ate the entire thing before it was finished. Oops.

7. What do you like to do on your Christmas break?

Spend time with friends and family and have nice relaxing evenings in front of the fire in my PJs with a good hot chocolate. And go shopping, twice... Christmas outfit shopping and Christmas sale shopping. Can you tell I'm addicted to shopping?

8. Any Christmas wishes?

Snow! Or temperatures to drop so we can go ice skating on the canal in front of my parent's house.
Not both though, because it ruins the ice. So one at the time please (:

9. Favourite Chirstmas smell?

Burning wood in the fireplace and of course the Christmas tree. Better not combine the two, will probably smell amazing though.

10. Favourite Christmas meal or treat?

The desserts are the best part of Christmas dinner, so those. No matter how full I am from all the delicious foods, I can always add a dessert or two, three. Maybe five. Seven max.

And those were the questions and answers from the Christmas TAG.
Feel free to do this TAG as well. I'd love to see your answers.
For now, have a nice Christmas, eat loads of delicious foods and enjoy spending time with your loved ones.

~Xx

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Answering Some Questions

I just got tagged by the lovely Mathilda over at Mathilda's Beauty & Life to do the Liebster Award.
Thank you for nominating me dear!
I have already done this once, so I'm not going to do it again. But I thought it was a shame not to answer her questions.
For my Liebster Award, click this link and it will open in a new window.

What's your favourite make up brand?

I love to have a variety of make up brands to keep things interesting, but I'm really liking Zoeva, because they have great brushes and make up products and for a very nice price as well. I've been putting the rose gold brush set in and out of my online shopping basket so many times. I don't really need a new set of brushes, but they are so beautiful, so cheap, and such great quality.

What was your first make up product?
Apart from the kids make up, a mascara, I believe it was a clear one from HEMA.

Describe yourself in one word?
Just 'Anne'.

If you were the main character in a movie, which actress would you want to play your role?
Jennifer Lawrence, because I think our personalities are most similar (and she's just my favourite actress)
If I needed to choose on appearance I think Phoebe Tonkin and I look most alike. Which celebrity do you think I look most alike?

What is your favourite make up product?
My favourite make up product changes all the time, but currently it's the Nars Duo Eyeshadow in Isolde.
On which I did a full review which you can check out here.

What single quality do you appreciate most in people?
The ability to take other people out of their comfort zone, without needing to be pushy.

Are you a planner or are you spontaneous?
60% planner, 40% spontaneous

What makes you smile?
The little things in life, my cat and my boyfriend.

Best books you've read recently?
I haven't really read a book recently *slaps wrist*, but no book can beat the Harry Potter series.

What is your favourite store to shop in?
I'm currently really into online shopping, especially on Asos.

Favourite movie?
I recently watched The Great Gatsby with my boyfriend and it has immediately become my favourite movie. If you haven't watched it yet, I really advice you to do so soon. Even if you think you won't like it, because I did, turned out I couldn't be more wrong.

And those were all the questions!
Thank you again Mathilda for tagging me!
I'd love to do post like these more occasionally so feel free to leave me questions in the comments for future posts.
I always think it's nice to get to know the person behind the blog a bit better, don't you?

~Xx

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The Resolutions TAG

Happy New Year everyone!!

So it's the New Year which means new resolutions, which will probably fail within the first two weeks of 2014.

I thought just a list of my resolutions for this year would be a bit boring. But there was the beautiful Nikkie from Nikkietutorials who came up with The Resolutions TAG! Nikkie is amazing with make-up and extremely funny, so I definitely suggest to go and check her out. Here are the links to her YouTube and Blog.

Anyway, this tag is perfect. Thanks Nikkie for coming up with it. This tag consists out of 10 questions of which 6 are on looking back, where you reflect the previous year and 4 are on looking forward. Let's start!

1. Name 3 things you did this year that you're proud of:

First of all I'm really proud I finally started blogging. I wanted to create this blog for a while now, but kept postponing it. But it's here now. I finally did it. So I'm quite proud of that.

The second thing I'm proud of is that I started a job in 2013. For a long time I was scared that I wouldn't be able to work, because of my health. For those of you who want to know, I worked at Etos, which is a Dutch drugstore. I worked there for six months and then sadly had to quit, because of my health and the combination of school and working got too much for me. But I really liked my job and my colleagues were very sweet. But even though I had to quit, I'm still proud of having worked for half a year.

Lastly I'm proud of being in my final year of school, this May I will be taking my exams. My grades aren't extremely good, but they are good enough for me. I'm happy I am able to go to school now, because a few years back I couldn't go, because of my health. So I'm really proud that school is still going well, even though I have to miss a few days a month due to my CFS.

2. Name one thing you wish you had done differently:

I wasn't really good of a planner last year. Now, planning is really important for me, especially during busy periods like test weeks or when I have a big school project coming up. If I don't plan these things carefully, I will stress a lot, which makes my CFS worse and I will be ill a lot more often. After the Christmas break I had to hand in the first version of a big school project which is needed to earn a school diploma. However, instead of working on it really hard from the beginning of the holiday, I waited till the end and it turned out to be a lot more work than I expected. So I ran out of time, which caused a lot of stress. When I finished it I had been ill for 4 days, because of all the stress and using up all of my energy. So I wish I had planned better.

3. What was your biggest highlight this year?

Going to London with my boyfriend just before Christmas. It was the first time we travelled together, so that was quite exciting. London was so beautiful and made me feel really Christmassy. I loved it. I also wrote a blogpost about it with some pictures, which you can check out here.

4. What was your favourite beauty product this year?

My favourite beauty product of 2013 has to be my Zoeva neutral eyeshadow palette. This palette has 28 beautiful eyeshadows. You can create a simple every day look with it or go for a smokey eye for night time. The shadows are quite pigmented, but some are prone to fallout. However this is no problem if you do your eyes first and then go on to your skin.

5. What was your least favourite beauty product this year?

My least favourite product has to be, shock horror, the Maybelline falsies mascara. I know so many people love this mascara to death, but to be honest, I didn't really like it a lot. It made my eye lashes stick together so much I ended up looking like I had 5 eyelashes per eye. I don't know why, but it just didn't work for me. It looks great on other people though, so maybe my eyelashes are just weird. 

6. Who do you want to thank for being amazing this year?

So many people (: My boyfriend, my family, my friends and you, reading my blog. You all cheer me up so much. I can't thank you guys enough for it.

7. What are the makeup/beauty resolutions you have for next year?

Wear winged eyeliner more often. In December I started venturing into winged eyeliner and I quite like it. I used to think it was a bit too much for me, I still do, a little, but I'm trying to get over that and wear winged eyeliner more often.

Another resolution I have is to drink more water, because my skin is very dry and I noticed that it improved when I drank more water, but I got a bit lazy and didn't pay that much attention to it. So I'm trying to do that a lot more this year.

8. What are your fashion resolutions for next year?

Saving money to buy good quality staples. Like a good quality white t-shirt or black jeans or a good fitted blazer. Because they will stay good a lot longer and I won't have to end up buying those staples again after a year, because they lost their shape or the colour wasn't as white any more.

Another fashion resolution is making more clothes myself. I love to design and create my own clothes and have a long list of clothes I want to make, but the previous year I just didn't find the time. I really hope I will find the time for it this year though.

9. What are your personal resolutions for next year?

In 2014 I want to pass my exams, then go to uni and move out. I'm really looking forward to moving out and having my own place for a couple of years now and hopefully this year it will finally be happening. So yeah, I'm really excited for that, but first I'll have to pass my exams.

10. Name one thing you want to check off your bucket list next year?

Decorating my own place. I already have so many ideas, but I'll have to wait till summer before it will really happen. But travelling and seeing the world would be nice to.

And that were the questions.

I won't tag anyone in particular, but if you enjoyed this tag and want to do it yourself, I tag you.

I hope you have an amazing 2014 and good luck with your resolutions!

~Xx

 

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13 Personal Questions Tag

So since you don't know a lot about me I thought it would be a good idea to do the 13 Personal Questions Tag. This way you can get to know me a little bit.
Let's start right away.

1. What do you order at Starbucks?

To be honest, I don't go to Starbucks a lot. But the drink I order most is probably a vanilla latte. I'm not a big coffee lover, because I think it is bitter and I don't like that. But the vanilla latte isn't very bitter, but more sweet. I also really like to try out the seasonal drinks. I remember I once had a coffee which was apple crumble flavoured, which was really good. So to sum up, I order a seasonal drink when they appeal to me and otherwise a vanilla latte.

2. What is one thing in your closet that you cannot live without?

This one is very easy. My black jeans. The only time I will wear any different coloured pants/jeans is when all my black jeans are in the washer. They are so easy to pair with and always look good. And, when paired with high heeled booties, a great way to make your legs look longer.
My favourite pair? I still need to go and buy a good pair of black jeans, since mine are getting quite old. The ones I own are either from H&M or Primark. The Primark ones are really good, but after a while they start losing their shape and get a little bit too wide. Since I'm quite slim most jeans are too wide, but that's not the only problem, my legs are very long, so most of the times jeans are too wide and too short. But the Primark ones fitted perfectly. Note: They started losing shape after half a year which I think is quite normal for a pair of jeans I wear way too much.
The other pair I own are from H&M and are a tad bit too short for me, but the shape holds quite well. (I do have these less longer than my Primark ones) The only problem I have with them is that they attract fluff.
And that was a lot about black jeans. You can see I love them very much.

3. What is one thing that most people probably won't know about you?

I can be either really pliable or really stubborn, there isn't really an in between. Most of the times I am more pliable than stubborn. But once my mind is set on something it has to be that way and nothing else than that way.

4. Name one thing that you want to do before you die.

Okay, so these type of questions I don't like to answer, because I have to think about death and all the things I can't do anymore, which is something that actually quite scares me.
I seriously can't choose one thing. There are so many things I want to do! I can't choose just one.
I'm not going to say just one thing, I'm going to say nothing. Of course I want to do a lot of things, but most of all I just want to be happy doing them. I always think: "it will happen when it will happen". I'd love to travel, have my own family, a successful job. But those are things that aren't realistic right now. They won't happen tomorrow or even next year. What I want to do before I die is to be able to look back and say I have enjoyed my life to the fullest and won't think: "but I never had a successful job", or: "I never travelled as much as I wanted to". And I'm taking this question way more serious than I should.

5. What is one food that you cannot live without?

One? That's hard. I'm going to go for vanilla ice cream with strawberries and chocolate sauce, although I think that is cheating. But honestly, I can't decide between them, ice cream, strawberries and chocolate are just too good.
After thinking really hard I made the decision to go for strawberries, because they are not only delicious but also very healthy, while the other two, well.. not so much.

6. What quote or phrase do you live by?

Enjoy the little things.
I'm really one to enjoy the little things. I think they aren't appreciated enough. I always look around me and appreciate the beauty by which I am surrounded, the sky, the stars, the light the sun gives. Coming home after a long day or holiday and get that "Ahhhh, I'm home" feeling and get cosy on the couch. Cuddling with your cat, or reading books late at night in bed with fairy lights on. I always try to take some time each day to appreciate the little things, and they always cheer me up.

Another one I really like is:
Never give up, just take a rest and try again.

7. What do you like and dislike about the YouTube community?

When I was really ill for a long time (almost two years ago) I got a lot of comfort from YouTube. After a while TV series and films got boring, but YouTube never did. It was amazing to find people who had the same problems as I had and they made me feel less alone and less sad. Because I had so much support from them I created this blog with the same purpose. To be there for the people who need some support. Who need to know they are not alone. Who need something the cheer them up.
The downside is probably the haters. Sometimes I read comments and I feel really sorry for the person to whom that comment is directed. No matter how thick your skin is, hateful comments will always hurt. Mean comments are not the rewards YouTubers earn for their hard work.

8. What is your number one most listened to song on iTunes?

I listen to a lot of songs and the songs I listen to change all the time. But a song I keep loving is Wolf like me by TV on the radio. I really like and it is definitely one of the songs I sing out loud while cycling (question 13).

 

 

9. What kind of style would you define yourself as having?

 I don't really have one style. The one day I'm dressed really casual and the other day really girly and then the next day quite classic. I love to combine styles and most of the times go for a casual/chic combination. With a blazer, black jeans (of course) a nice top and then my black sneakers. My style really depends on my mood and if I feel like dressing up in the morning or not.

10.  Favourite number?

I don't really have a favourite number. It used to be 19 when I was young, because I was born on the 19th, but it never gave me luck. Then it was 13, because I thought if my lucky number doesn't give me luck, maybe the unlucky number will. But 13 didn't give me any luck either. So I don't really have a favourite number anymore. When I have to pick a number I just go with the number that feels right that moment. At this moment, I'm feeling 11.

11. Two hobbies

Making my own clothing items, from the start to the end, meaning looking for inspiration, drawing, buying fabric and sewing. I love all the things. I have so many things I want to make, and hopefully you will see some diy's soon on my blog.

My other hobby is photography. This hobby I have only recently developed. But I got very attached to photos and think they are just too important. I love to capture precious moments and make the photo look even more beautiful by editing it and collect all photos in an album, so I can look back at them, not from my laptop but from a real old fashioned album.
This also counts for filmography. Like my little video I made of my trip to London.

12. Two pet peeves?

When someone says something to you, but you don't catch it the first time, so you ask what he/she said and they respond with: "Oh, doesn't matter". For some reason I can't stand that. Maybe I'm too curious, but it really annoys me. I mean, why bother saying it the first time? I'm sorry I didn't catch it the first time, but it doesn't mean I'm not interested.

My second pet peeve is quite weird. I don't know if anyone else has this, but I really hate the indirect warmth of bodies. For example when you sit on a chair in a classroom and the chair is still warm from the person who sat there the hour before you. Or when someone has been using your phone and you get it back and your phone is all warm. I don't know why, but it just feels gross to me. However, I do like direct body warmth. Nothing better than a long hug.

13. Guilty pleasure?

I like to sing very loudly while cycling (but only when no one can hear me). This is why it is so great that the road to school lies between lots of fields where no one can hear me.
It is very satisfying for some reason. To be able to scream it all out in a place that is all yours.
No I'm not ashamed (only just a little bit).
Note: In the Netherlands it is very common to go to school by bike. Barely anyone of my age owns a car.

And those are the questions answered.
I hope you liked it and if you want to do this tag too, feel free! No one will stop you.
I would love to see your answers.

~Xx

 

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