Update + newest Glossybox

Hi there! So yes I have not posted anything here in a veeeery long time. I have been busy with work, being away on vacation and then starting a new job aka internship this past week. it's a lot of fun but I just still need to get used to my new schedule. I decided to start posting some things from my iPhone app as I am doing now just because it's a lot easier, also because I already have my pictures on my phone so it's way easier to upload.

So here is what I got in my new glossybox:

- an OPI mini polish from the germany collection (don't know the name)
- a soothing moisturizer that maximizes your tan from lancaster which has a really really bad scent but is okay otherwise
- a figs and rouge balm
- a catrice glamour doll mascara which reminds me a lot of the lancome hypnose mascara (in many ways) except that it has a rubber brush which I don't think the lancome one has - it's pretty good though (considering that it's by catrice)
- a madly kenzo perfume sample which surprisingly is not that bad, I usually really do not like kenzo perfumes but this one I would actually wear (never purcahse though)

let me know what you think about these items and about the iphone blog posts and I hope you're all enjoying your weekends!

xoxo,
natalie

FOTD (=Food of the Day) #2

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

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..

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!!

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

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!!

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