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FOTD (=Food of the Day) #2

2011-04-17T17:14:00.000+02:00

Hey everybody!

So I just made myself some lunch/dinner (it's 5pm now but I had breakfast at around noon so that's why..) and I think I did really good, it looks amazing and is probably going to taste amazing (going to start eating right after this blog post!).

So the salad is the same one I had in my last blog post (-> "A Yummy Dinner") apart from some minor changes (red bell peppers instead of yellow etc.) then we have a veggie burger (I was craving meat today so here's my substitute because I'm a pescetarian in case you didn't know!) with light ketchup on it and four fish sticks with some lemon juice drizzled over them and a bit of tartar mayo on top.
I really want to eat this right now so I won't ramble on about this meal but I hope you like it and maybe even try it out yourself! :)

xoxo -nat

A Yummy Dinner

2011-04-15T19:27:00.000+02:00

So I made asparagus for the first time ever today for lunch but I didn't take a picture on purpose since it just kind of looked like green sticks soaked in my holondaise sauce. It was delicious though :) But for dinner just now (I just finished eating) I made a little rice and a yummy salad on the side. It is a very simple dish but it was really delicious, so here's a picture:

I also had a glas of merlot with my dish (still drinking that lol) which kind of completed it. I added some Gruyère cheese to the rice which I did after I took this picture. The salad consists of two large leaves of lettuce, one large piece of celery, one small yellow bell pepper, onion&garlic, salt&pepper, balsamic vinegar, raspberry vinegar, olive oil and some chives. I totally recommend trying this recipe if the picture appeals to you :)

I wish you all a great weekend and I'll talk to you soon! :)

xoxo -nat

I got some stuff..

2011-04-10T19:01:00.002+02:00

Hello everybody!

Yes, it has been quite a while since my last blog post which doesn't only suck but it's also somewhat funny since in my last one I was planning on writing my next one that same day. I have no idea what ever happened to that one, lol.

Anyways.. to sum up what I've been up to since then: uni, work, I got sick twice and well, just life I guess..

Okay so I did get two things that actually would deserve a haul video but I just didn't want to talk about only two things in a video especially if I didn't have much to say about both of them yet (or at least at the point of the purchase which was about two weeks ago).

The first one was wildly raved about by MakeupByTiffanyD and after I got the little sample thingy I just had to get the full sized version of the Origins VitaZing. I will do a video where I'll review it thoroughly once I have my opinion "set" so I won't keep talking about it on here right now.

Then I got a new nail polish (I know I'm on project 10pan which I'll do an update on soon but I thought I'd need this for work). It's the much talked about "Sweetheart" by OPI which really is as gorgeous as you think it is. It's just the perfect nude nail polish. I got it for work technically but since I was working at a restaurant wearing nail polish overall wasn't really the best idea but I still really liked it. Here's a picture of it on my fingers: (that's before work lol)

I really like it but I think that you should really check it out in person because it really depends on your skin tone although I'd say that it will probably suit most lighter skin tones and look great if you have a tan but if you're a bit darker or if you have extremely light skin I don't really know how it would look so just go look at it in person if you're interested.

All right, that's all for now. I'll really do my best and try to do more blog posts because I do have a lot of ideas so bear with me...

Hope you're all doing well and I'll talk to you soon!

-Natalie

New Blog!!

2011-01-29T17:18:00.000+01:00

So I just posted on my now old blog that this right here will be my new blog site where I post my blog posts from now on. I finally managed to transfer my blog entries to this address so yay for that.

There'll be an update video on my youtube channel as soon as possible and I'll start posting on here probably tonight (it's 5pm now).

Hope you're all having a wonderful weekend and I'll talk to you soon :)

xoxo,
n.

FOTD (=Food of the Day) #1

2011-01-27T23:52:00.000+01:00

Hey guys!
So i started this thing on my youtube channel where I show what I eat kind of. So if I'm like eating something particularly healthy or something that might help some of you with incorporating healthy foods with "regular" food, I'll film it and kind of show you my "food of the day" or FOTD (not to be mixed up with "face of the day" lol).

Here is my first FOTD as a blog post:

This is risotto with veggies in it (obviously not that many since it was an already-mixed meal but I did cook it myself which took forever..) which is a great way to incorporate veggies in a not necessarily healthy food. I love risotto to death and the fact that is has veggies in it doesn't make me feel that bad about eating it. Next to it I just had some artichokes which are from like a jar of like oil and a marinade or whatever you want to call this. So I wouldn't go overboard on those but they're still healthy.
When I eat a meal as filling as this one, I don't have anything else that filling that day. So this is like my "main" meal and then let's say this was for lunch, so for dinner I'd have like a salad or some fruit or a yogurt, just something light.
So this is my little "cheat" meal except it's cheating in a good way (kind of).
Hope you liked this post and look out for more to come :)
xx -nat

I made Sushi!!

2011-01-27T19:51:00.000+01:00

My favorite food (or one of my top 5 foods) is sushi and so I was in some special food store the other day with a friend of mine and I saw like one of those little sushi things, like a little tray with a couple of rolls on it which is a bit expensive for how much you get. So my friend told me that she actually bought some ingredients to make sushi at home and that it's way cheaper that way. So I was like, well that sure sounds like the better option. I've made sushi before at home so I already had the little rolling mat thingy so long story short, we went to the regular grocery store and bought the rest of the ingredients and well, I made sushi!

All you need is:
-the little sushi rolling mat thingy *insert correct word here*
-nori which is just dried seaweed (I think)
-sushi rice (yes you do need a special one for best results)
-rice vinegar (to soak the rice with)
-soy sauce / wasabi / ginger (all depends on what you like for a topping)
-something to put in the roll: I used salmon and cucumber

There are usually instructions on the packages of the nori and the sushi rice so I'm not going to tell you how to do it since I'm not really an expert at it (yet). So I just cooked the rice first and then put everything on the nori, rolled it up and there was my sushi meal :) (I made two rolls btw and since I tend to put a lot of rice in them by accident, this was extremely filling)

As you can see there were some pieces of cucumber left so I just added these as decoration next to the sushi and the other stuff next to the cucumbers is ginger. The sauce is next to that plate in a little bowl which you can't see but it's just soy sauce mixed with a little bit of wasabi.
Really awesome meal and very healthy too (especially the nori and the salmon and cucumber filling) !! :)

Have you ever made sushi yourself?

xx -nat

Latest Food Obsession: Broccoli

2011-01-27T18:19:00.000+01:00

For the past couple of weeks I've been going crazy on broccoli.

Yes, I bought 3 last time we went to the grocery store! Broccoli is one of my favorite veggies and it's really healthy obviously. I pretty much like all vegetables but this is one that I've been eating every other day (or so) lately.
A couple of days ago, I made a "green meal" (I dailyboothed it).

So of course there's a plate full of broccoli (duh) and then there is a self-made cucumber salad and some grapes for dessert (didn't eat all of them though). The cucumber salad consists of a self-made dressing (with dill in it,very good with cucumbers!) and of course a cucumber (about half of it). This was not only a very healthy meal but also a very filling meal since veggies can be pretty heavy on your stomach if you eat a lot of them at once.

I'll be doing more food posts but I just thought I'd start with my latest obsession :)
Check out my youtube channel for some healthy lifestyle tips and some food of the day videos (which I'll also do a blog post on).
Hope this helped you!
xx -nat

Haul: Bag + Beauty Products

2011-01-15T16:59:00.000+01:00

All right, so I have a little haul for you guys but I didn't want to film a video for only these few things. Instead I took pictures of everything and I'll blog about it right now.
The first thing I got which I'm probably most excited about is this bag:

This bag was about 20 Euros from MissCoquines which is a French store. I got the last one in black, they also had a gray one which I kind of liked even more but it didn't work that well with my winter coat plus black is pretty much always my color of choice (yes I consider black to be a color).
This bag does not only look like the one by Chanel but it also has the same little divider thing with the two compartments inside of it.

As you can see, it also has a light gray color on the inside which is really practical for finding your things that normally get lost when the inside is black.
This is going to be my new bag for going to uni because my books and A4-sized things will fit in perfectly and having two compartments helps a lot with keeping the bag organized.
The other thing I was quite excited about was this Argan Oil.

It is by a brand called "Naturelle D'Orient" which again is just some French brand. I got this at a French drugstore for 15 Euros which is quite a bargain if you know how expensive Argan (or Moroccan) oil can get. I used it when I washed my hair the last time and I really liked it! still need to get used to it but the ends of my hair actually feel the same as the rest of my hair (aka not dry!) which is really nice! So I'll probably mention this in a video at some point but I am really happy about my purchase. Oh and with this purchase I got 4 (!!!) samples:

Not bad, right? The Clinique 3-step skincare system (type 3) I already have but having some samples of it are great for traveling or sleeping over at a friend's house! There's a Kenzo night repair cream, some anti-aging serum or something like that and the thing on the upper right corner is just a face cream (apparently good for under your makeup,will have to test that..).

The of course I went to Sephora and I got their makeup remover which I really like and have had like two bottles of before:

And I got the Yes to Carrots lip butter in "berry" which I was recommended by a friend of mine so that's why I got it and I actually like it so far.

I also had two juices but I'll probably include those in a healthy lifestyle blog that I'll do soon.

Hope you liked my little blog-haul!
xoxo -nat

Glögg Shower Gel - Christmas in a bottle!

2011-01-06T19:07:00.000+01:00

Here is another Lush christmas product that I just need to rave about for a bit.
First of all, picture credit goes to lush.com (I need to learn to take pictures myself). Then I think I also need to tell you that this is probably not available anymore since it is a christmas product. Maybe it'll come out again next christmas, let's hope for that.

To start off I just want to say how amazing this is. I got the tiny little bottle and I just put it in my little loofah thingy and that way you don't use it up too quickly although I have bought a second bottle of it already since I don't think it's being sold anymore by now.

This smells AMAZING!! it smells like cinnamon and mulled wine (which is called "glögg" in swedish - we drank a bottle from ikea on the 26th yum!).
It seriously is like christmas in a bottle, that's the best way to describe it.
Oh and your shower or bath room smells amazing afterwards!
The formula is also really nice. It's not too dry and not too creamy so it's basically the perfect shower gel consistency.
Other than the price I don't have anything bad to say about this.

Hope you're all having a nice week and I'll keep you posted on my lush experiences.

xx -nat

The Bögg Bath Bomb - Review

2011-01-06T18:56:00.000+01:00

I used this bath bomb like maybe a week ago and I'm just now getting to writing the blog post on it (bad me). I don't even have a picture of it (even worse me). But I still want to talk about it real quickly.
This thing smells INCREDIBLE! I'm not kidding. I absolutely adored that smell and can't wait to buy it again (I actually got it as a gift for my birthday) next christmas season. And also, blue and pink (I hope I'm not wrong) stuff like starts coming out of it like a little explosion which was really fun to watch. The only bad thing I have to say is that it disappeared pretty quickly unfortunately. But it was one of the cheaper ones so that's okay I guess.
To sum up, this will totally be repurchased next christmas season! :)

Happy 2011 everyone!
xx -nat

ps:if you don't know what it looks like, it's basically like a little snowman's head in a way.

Happy Holidays with Christmas Eve Bubble Bar

2011-01-06T18:32:00.000+01:00

First of all, I hope you all had wonderful holidays, merry belated christmas and a happy new year to everybody!
I just realized that it's kind of stupid to review this product since you can't really get it anymore, at least not online. But I still want to share my opinion.

Christmas Eve Bubble bar is in Lush's christmas collection. It came out this past christmas season but also the year before and maybe even before that, I don't know.

I actually used the first half of this on christmas eve so that was very nice :)
The second half I just used yesterday so that's why I thought I'd review it right now. When it's like dry and in its little yellow packaging it smells really good but not really what I normally go for. BUT when you put it in your bath... oh my gosh seriously, it smells so amazing! And it is very relaxing and it makes soo many bubbles.

I was originally going to use the whole thing on christmas eve since I thought that I didn't want to use a christmas eve bubble bar on any other day (silly me) but when I was sitting in my bath and like crumbling the little pieces under the running water it surprised me and made a lot more bubbles than I thought it would so I just used half of it then. You can of course use the whole thing at once or even use it three times, depends on what you like.

Bottom line, I will be repurchasing this next christmas (gosh..) and if you haven't tried it out yet maybe you should do that too next year (or actually this year) ;)

xx -nat

Twilight Bath Bomb Review (Lush)

2010-11-08T20:30:00.000+01:00

hey everyone! I know I rarely do blog posts but extensive reviews on the lush products that I try out will probably always be here on my blog (and not on youtube i.e.). Today I'm going to talk about the "Twilight" bath bomb which I showed in a haul on youtube a while back. I used it about a week ago and I was in the bath tub for about 20 minutes if you're wondering. First of all, I should say that the main reason I bought this is because of the name (duh!) but once I got home and smelled it outside of the lush-craziness I actually really liked the scent of it! You can read yourself what it's supposed to smell like and what it's supposed to do here.

Okay so this bath bomb is kind of huge just so you know! So you would kind of expect it to last quite long right?! Well, I thought it disappeared kind of quickly to be quite honest.. maybe in like about 5 minutes?! Apart from it being done so fast I really liked what it did. I kind of forgot that it said that there's blue coming out of it at some point so when there suddenly was all this blue stuff inside the pink ball I was like "yaay that's so cool" even though it's not really, but still.. anyways so I liked that little surprise but then as I said before it was over pretty quickly and I was like "aww maan.." so yeah.. BUT then came another surprise which was very twilight(the movie)-esque ;) I noticed this towards the end of my bath but was still totally amazed. Do you know what I'm talking about? :) Well.. there were a lot (!) of tiny glitter things in my water which was so awesome and beautiful looking so I really liked that too. It didn't leave any glitter on my body though but I shower right after my bath real quickly (just with water) to be like cleaner than clean, weird but oh well.. so that might have taken away the glitter a bit.Still liked the effect of it in the water though!

To sum up: I really enjoyed all the little perks of this bath bomb.
1) The name!
2) The blue on the inside
3) GLITTER!

BUT I thought it disappeared a bit too fast so I'm not gonna repurchase this any time soon and keep trying out new things but I might buy it again at some point because I did like what it did.
So, that's my little review on that.. hope you found it helpful and I cannot wait to try out lush's christmas stuff ;)

xoxo, -natalie

PS: I kind of gave my blog a bit of a makeover so I hope you like that :)

Tiny Haul: Benefit Eye Bright (YAY) and boots (YAY again)

2010-10-01T22:19:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone!
Today I went shopping for boots and found some amazing ones! yay for that ;) I'll either show them in a video some time or take a picture and show them. The other very exciting thing I got (because where we went shopping was my nearest Sephora which I obviously love) is the benefit eye bright which I've been wanting for a long time! I have really bad under eye circles and they're even puffy sometimes, depending on how long and in what position I sleep. However, puffiness can't really be "covered" or "brightened" so I do my best in doing so with my under eye circles. I'm not like OCD about my under eye circles but they make me look waay more tired than I am and so I'm always happy to try out new brightening products. Benefit eye bright was of course one of them partly because it's a very hyped product on youtube and other sites. I have just applied it over my makeup on one eye which made a huge difference compared to the other eye! Since I haven't used it properly and haven't really gotten to play with it much I'm not going to review it right now, but I will do so at some point maybe on youtube (@strawberrymargharita) and I'll probably tweet the picture of the boots (@SBerryMarg) and post it on dailybooth (@strawberrymargharita). Hope you liked this little blog-haul (making a video on one or two things didn't seem like a good idea)!
xx -nat

ps: gonna watch the new episode of grey's anatomy now yay ;) was more excited about the new episode of the vampire diaries though ;) love TVD!! :)

Project 10 Pan #1

2010-09-28T12:52:00.000+02:00

Hey blogging world!

I did a video on my project 10 pan on youtube which I don't know how to post this here so here is the link to it: Click Here!

I'm probably going to update this and I might be doing that here. If I do, I'll put it in an annotation in my video.

I'm sorry that there aren't many blog posts or videos for that matter but I'm back at college so I have classes every day and well am just busy. I am posting things on my Luuux page though. On Luuux you can share things, earn luuux money by doing so and then spend it in their shop (they have awesome stuff! e.g.: ipod, iphone, macbook pro, flowerbomb perfume, LV bags etc.) I'll put my link Here in case you wanna join and add me as a friend :)

Anyways, I'll try to do more blog posts but especially videos.
Take care guys!
xx -nat

The Vampire Diaries Obsession: Team Damon

2010-09-19T01:21:00.000+02:00

Hey guys!

I have wanted to go to bed half an hour ago, now guess what I've been doing since then.. - I have been looking for a good picture of Damon and Elena of the Vampire Diaries. yes, it's true. I admit, I'm slightly obsessed. I actually want the picture for my iPhone as a background (not in the home screen, in the other one, don't know what it's called) but now that I can't find a good one I think I actually just really want to have it like in general!!
I'm not only totally obsessed with the show but I'm also extremely team Damon right now! I've been trying to compare this little issue with Twilight (of course) but I don't really think that there's any comparison to be made. In Twilight it's Edward or Jacob where they're not the same species and if you've read the 4th book you know how it turns out and for what reason. (I'm not going to spoil this just in case you don't know what's going to happen) But in the Vampire Diaries (which I've been shortening as VD which is kind of well.. an abbreviation that stands for something quite different!) Damon and Stefan are both vampires and it's not like Elena is "meant to be" with Stefan (as it kinda is in Twilight) or at least I don't think she is. And I know that Damon is kind of "the bad guy" and doesn't always act nice and well there are a lot of points where he's the guy you just have to hate but I just think that in the end he does the right thing (not always!). Anyways I have my reasoning behind why I'm so team damon.
Also, one of the reasons is the scene in Season 1 (episode "miss mystic falls") where he fills in for Stefan at the dance and he dances with Elena which is just the most beautiful thing ever. Since I've started writing this post I have been listening to the song that was playing while they were dancing which is so beautiful and hopeful and just well Damon and Elena. The song is All I Need by Within Temptation (I don't like the band but the song's just so beautiful) so go check it out! It's not really my taste either but well, it reminds me of the dancing scene which was just so romantic. Okay so I'm going to stop rambling. Here are the pictures that I did find, one of them is Damon and Elena dancing and the other two are Damon, Elena and Stefan. Still hoping for a better picture of Damon and Elena alone though ;-) all righty, night guys! xx -nat

Review: Clinique Acne Solutions Foundation

2010-09-13T21:22:00.000+02:00

Hey Everybody!

I thought I would start blogging again, haven't posted anything in a while.

So here's a little review on the Clinique Acne Solutions Foundation :-)

On the Clinique website (www.clinique.com) it says: "Feels so fresh, looks so natural. Non-irritating, oil-free makeup helps blend away blemishes, neutralize redness. Medicated ingredients help treat existing breakouts and keep them from coming back."

First I should tell you that this review is based on two samples that I got so I got to use this foundation like a couple of times, maybe almost 5 times per sample which is quite good. I applied it with my fingers because the foundation is quite thin which I like. It has moderate coverage and goes on very smoothly. It blends quite nicely too! Yes it does feel fresh and natural because as I said it's not thick at all so it feels like your own skin. I don't really have sensitive skin so I can't tell you whether it's irritating or not. I also don't have major breakouts.

If I actually had acne and were to use this foundation I honestly don't think it would cover up anything so yes it's probably healthier for acne skin than something thick like Mac's Studio Fix Fluid for instance. It just doesn't really cover up that much.

The foundation is made for clinique's skin types 2,3,4 which means any skin type that is not completely dry. (I have combination skin) The foundation is priced at $24.50 which is not really cheap but it's still affordable since you don't need that much of it.

So bottom line is that I will most definitely purchase this foundation at some point but not just yet. I'm going to try another clinique foundation next (maybe "even better") and see how I like it. I personally do like a bit more coverage in a foundation than the acne solutions one has to offer and yes it might work for me but someone who has a lot of acne will have to use quite a bit of concealer I think.

This is just my opinion so if you are interested in this foundation, don't have major breakouts but still want to have a medium-coverage foundation that is healthy for your skin then go check it out at your clinique counter or online.

Thank you for reading my post, I'll do more asap :-)

-Natalie

My Name

2010-07-08T02:21:00.000+02:00

Hey guys!
It's been such a long time since I've made a blog post, partly because I've been lazy and enjoying the first couple of weeks of my summer break and partly because I finally thought that I would tell everyone my real name (especially on youtube). I will do a video about it as soon as possible but I will just address it now on my blog real quickly. My name actually is Natalie. I called myself Zoey because I love that name so much and honestly wish it was mine. When I first started doing youtube videos at the beginning of this year, I heard about a lot of privacy issues with youtube accounts, so I was just skeptical and thought I'd go with one of my favorite names. After having made a couple of friends on youtube, I started feeling kind of bad about pretty much lying about my name to them. So, from now on, all blog posts and youtube videos will be signed with my real name. Previous ones will stay the way they are though. So I hope you can understand and I wish you a nice rest of the week and hope to do some more blog posts when I have my new iPhone (YAY) all set up.

xoxo,
strawberrymargharita aka natalie

Loving the LUSHiousness

2010-04-04T15:30:00.000+02:00

Hey guys!
So I'm alone at home for another week and I've never been alone on Easter,plus I've never been on a health kick on Easter but I have like one giant chocolate Easter Bunny,a middle-sized one, a lot of mini-sized ones and some white chocolate-coated almonds (btw not that bad even though I don't like white chocolate!). Okay so thinking of when I was little and didn't care about my figure and stuff I couldn't have been happier about these things but now?.. well let's just hope that the chocolate stays yummy until it'll all get eaten (I'll probably will need to give away a part of it,can't possibly eat this much!).Anyways, I've been sitting at my desk since I got up and my butt is starting to get sore so I thought I'd finally take my lush bath and do a review afterwards... I'm taking a bath with the Creamy Candy Bubble Bar.All right so I'm going to check on my cat Joey because he hasn't eaten today which is very odd and after I'll take my bath and then come back and let you know what I think.

Okay so I'm back from my bath and also just had dinner. So about creamy candy bubble bar: I adore this one!! I still have some left which I'm excited to use again. It really does smell like rock star soap and it made very nice bubbles! So it will probably be one of my staple products from Lush.
Talking about Rock Star Soap, I'll do a quick review on that one as well.
I bought this soap a while ago and have been using it for maybe two weeks now therefore I can review it properly. I absolutely love the smell! Never smelled anything like it! But- yes there's a but- it does not moisturize well enough,or in fact at all. The way I use the soap is that I rub it in my pink loofah-thing from The Body Shop and then I sort of exfoliate my body with it. Now, when I used the soap for the first time I didn't have the loofah yet so I just used it on it's own and that time it did moisturize slightly but with the loofah it really doesn't. Since the smell is so nice this doesn't bother me too much but my next soap will have to be different in that way.

Bottom line, I will be repurchasing both of these items because I just LOVE the smell. But I am going to try out other soaps first to see if the moisturizing thing is a general factor. Creamy Candy was moisturizing though so this will be one of my next to-be-bought bubble bars.

Happy Easter everyone and go check out those two products at LUSH!

-Zoey

Long time no blog and Strawberrymargharita tutorial

2010-03-13T17:07:00.000+01:00

Hey guys!
So I haven't written in a while. I've been uploading a couple of youtube videos instead but also a new term at uni started so I'm getting busier and busier now. PLUS I've been reading a lot more than usual (aka not at all) so to let you bloggers know,I'm a huge Twilight fan as many are but I only got into it when New Moon came out.. First I heard about the books by a friend who read them all in about a week but this was right before finals and graduation and my Florida trip so therefore I sort of forgot about it and I didn't watch the movie in theaters either. BUT during my first term at uni I had a proseminar about vampires. lol. okay not really about vampires. One of my majors is media studies and this course was about media aesthetics on the example of vampires, or Dracula to be more specific. So it really got me interested and we had like a list of movies that would help us throughout the term and of course Twilight was on it so I borrowed it on DVD from a friend and watched it and really loved it but it didn't really make me jump up and go read the books but then after finals I got all excited about going to watch New Moon at the movies which I did and after this movie I was DAZZLED (little Twilight insider joke lol) and of course wanted to know how the story continued so I went out and bought Eclipse. After having finished that, of course I had to go get Breaking Dawn (by the way woah 700 pages! this was by far the longest book I've ever read!). I finished this one about two weeks ago I think,or one week,not sure.. anyways,I've never been this excited about something and addicted to something. What I'm excited about you can guess.. ECLIPSE THE MOVIE yay and the trailer is on youtube since Thursday and officially out since yesterday and I honestly cannot wait! What I'm addicted to is the story,so guess what I'm reading right now??.. that's right! after having read the third and fourth book I started reading the first one and the book is so much better than the movie plus several scenes have been totally changed or even left out (not the context,just like the setting of the scene and stuff) in the movie. So I'm almost half way through the book and uhm yeah so that's what I've been doing :) One more thing, I think I'm more excited about the Breaking Dawn movie (coming out next year) than Eclipse (coming out June 30th). If you've read it you'll probably be with me on that one I guess :)

Anyways,I did a strawberrymargharita look on YouTube so you're more than welcome to watch that!

Here's the Link! (I wasn't able to upload the video for some reason,sorry!)

And here is the picture I was mostly inspired by (apart from the image in my mind):All right so this is it for now. Have a great day and follow me on Twitter!
http://twitter.com/SBerryMarg

-Zoey

OMG: name analysis

2010-01-21T05:32:00.000+01:00

Hey guys!

I just had an encounter with my oxford english dictionary and good lord there is no "margharita" so I started thinking why in god's name I spelled the word with an "h". I actually was referring to one of my favorite drinks a strawberry margarita and one of my favorite OPI colors with the same name but where did the "h" come from? Thinking it over and over and not even finding anything about the origin of the word online while researching just now I don't have a very good explanation. According to some website with baby names it actually is a name which can be spelled differently so as it is a name,thank god,I didn't make it up. So what my dictionary told me was that there's a margHErita which is the pizza with barely anything on it. So now to my little conclusion: I love the drink,the nail polish and I love strawberries and pizza so there you have it: strawberrymargharita :) and the "8" I had to add since without it is was already taken and 8 is my favorite number and possibly also my lucky number :)

-Zoey

Youtube Update & Rainbow Nails

2010-01-20T21:23:00.000+01:00

Hey everybody!

So I haven't put up anything in a while because I wanted to last weekend but I got sick so I couldn't really. After spending days in bed I'm better now and starting with a quick update and showing you my rainbow nails.

I started putting up videos on youtube so if you're interested: www.youtube.com/user/strawberrymargharita

In one of my recent videos I said that I was going to do rainbow nails because my nails broke from putting up my new bed so I couldn't do my french nails. So here they are :)
I used a red from YSL,an orange from OPI (On The Same Paige),a yellow from Claire's (not worth buying,OPI has a pretty one:Need Sunglasses),a green from Essence and a blue from Essence. The bedding underneath is from Ikea. I really liked that look but it's just a bit too uhm well not for my age anymore so I don't know I just wore it at home and I wouldn't really go out like this especially not to class.But I still liked it even though I have to say the oh-so-great blue had sparkles in it which I didn't like because the rest of the colors were matte so next time I would start with a green and end with a purple on my thumb. A quick tip for the yellow: mine was extremely sheer so what I did was base coat,matte white coat (mine's by Nivea with Calcium Power) and then the yellow (probably like 3 coats of it,it's really not worth buying!OPI is though!) and then of coure a top coat. If you're wondering,my base coat is Sephora by OPI Base Coat and my top coat is just a random one from Essence.

Hope you liked it and please check out my youtube channel :)

-Zoey

Lush Review

2010-01-10T20:26:00.000+01:00

Hey guys!

So, I thought I would tell you what I think about two Lush products.

The first one is Flosty Gritter Bubble Bar (yes this is spelled correctly!). It is a pink glittery bubble bar which is why I chose it in the first place and it even smelled nice because I didn't expect for something to look that cool AND also have a nice scent. It smells like vanilla with a bit of lavender so it's sweet but also kind of fresh-smelling.You're supposed to crumble it under the running tap in the bathtub which is what I did but let me just say that all that pretty shimmery glitter didn't show at all in the water. The water did turn pink and the bubbles (or more like a foam actually) weren't that big and didn't last that long (about 40 minutes). They were like a bit shimmery but it was just a bit disappointing when you have this shimmery pink bubble bar in your hands and your skin is covered in sparkles but then crumbling it under the running tap just made it dissolve so quickly. no more glitter and the scent wasn't that strong (still good though!). I was mainly disappointed because I wanted to have sparkles on my skin when I went out on new year's eve but I didn't plus this thing cost me 8.90 CHF (swiss francs -- http://www.lush-shop.ch/) (-> it's only $5.65 in the states) so I would have expected a bit more. Bottom line: I would actually repurchase it if I had the money just because it's pink and before you put it in also glittery and I like that :-) Oh and I used the whole thing even though you could have cut it in half but I just wanted to know what the whole thing does since I'm kind of new to Lush products.

The second one is a bit confusing. In the states it's known as Gnome Name Bubble Bar but on my wrapper it said No Name Bubble Bar and on http://www.lush-shop.ch/ it's called Sexy Harry so that's cool in it's own way (since Santa has different names in various countries as well) but it is confusing.It is from the Christmas Collection so they might not have it any more but they seem to still have it online. Anyways, he retails for $6.25 and in Switzerland for 8.50 CHF and he's also meant to be crumbled under the running tap. He smells amazing! Seriously, he smells just like Christmas. On the Lush website it says that he is "warming,fruity,spicy,soda-scented". I would describe the scent as very cinnamony with a hint of orange maybe and a bit of vanilla,lemon and even a tiny bit of chocolate, but mostly cinnamony. It's hard to explain but he smells really really great and the red part on him even has a bit of glitter so I did have a similar experience with him like with the Flosty Gritter thingy but I must say that I wasn't that disappointed in him. I really liked that the bath just turned like red,blood-red! So I liked that..because,FYI,I love the Twilight series and in fact vampire legends in general. The bubbles,or again more of a foam really, were very solid if that's the way to decribe them. I could like take them in my hands and they didn't even slip away,it was a great experience. This was my first lush product ever and it was a good choice. Oh and this one made my skin a bit smoother than the Flosty Gritter one,just so you know,but they're both comfortable to relax in. Bottom line: I would repurchase it if it was available throughout the year because it just smelled very nice and the red water was unique.

All right,if you have questions or comments,feel free to leave them and I'll try to get back to you!Happy bathing :-)

-Zoey

Welcome to my Blog!

2010-01-10T19:10:00.000+01:00

Hey everybody!

So,I have been into the beauty guru videos on youtube for a while now and since I really like makeup and fashion I wanted to get into it myself but I'm not really that comfortable in front of a camera and so I decided to go with a blog. Basically, I will be doing the same thing as all the beauty gurus on youtube but it will be adapted to my lifestyle and environment because I live in Switzerland where products seem to be a lot more expensive than in the US. I do own some things from the US and I will try to coordinate as much as I can,so I'll say where you can get them in both countries. And my lifestyle is that I don't really have a lot of money to spend because I'm a student in college and I don't have a job as of right now so I have to be careful with spending money. These are just some facts you guys should know about me when reading my blog posts. So, there will be product reviews (makeup,lush,skin care,hair care and other stuff) and if I can write about them I will try to do tutorials with pictures and well just some other stuff,you'll see ;-) Okay so I will get to that as soon as I can. If you have requests or comments please feel free to leave them and I promise to read and reply if necessary.
All right, have a good one!

-Zoey