New "series": Monthly faves in my blog! + One dislike!

Hello my lovely readers! :)
So, I know that I'm such a slacker with my youtube videos... That's why I never do monthly faves: my videos would pretty much be only monthly faves xD I am really sorry of my inactivity in my youtube channel, but please understand, that I'm almost done with my school (I'll graduate in February) so I'm SUPER busy with the huge amount of schoolwork we have to do!
But today I had an idea: I could write blog post of my monthly faves instead of making a video, since I'm more active in my blog currently.

TOP 5 ITEMS I'M LOVING IN NOVEMBER

1. Essie's Topless & Barefoot nail polish. This super pretty nude is very nice quality. The only downside is that if you apply a very thin coat of polish, it can appear to be streaky: I recommend fisrt applying a thin coat and doing a slightly heavier second coat. but the polish is nicely pigmented when you consider it's a nude polish: two coats will do the job. I think it looks nice with my skintone too :)

2. COFFEE? What have I done to myself? Well, it all started out in September, I was sipping some Iced Caramel Frapuccinos in Starbucks every day for a week in Greece... I have never in my life liked coffee, and I still absolutely hate the taste of it, however, I have grown to love flavoured coffees, Christmas coffees to be exact. I love when there's a slight hint of coffee, but a stronger flavour is covering it, yet letting coffee's texture to be there. 

The downside is, that I know there's a ton of sugar in the flavoured coffees. But hey, drinking one once a week for a month won't get me diabetes.

3. The oh-so-famous Leaves candle is THE scent of the month! My sister got me this medium -sized (White Barn version) Leaves candle from USA when she went there in October. I have burned this candle only once, and I really liked it. I don't want to burn it anymore, because I want to save it xD 

4. Loreen has been the artist of the month for me! Her new almum "Heal" is super awesome! I like almost every song in the album. Some of the best: My heart is refusing me, Sober (well I actually prefer the old version of Sober...), Sidewalk, Crying out your name, & In my head. 

5. And last but not least I am loving Urban Decays's 24/7 Liquid Liner  in Perversion. I used to hate liquid eyeliners, since I never really got the hang of them. Also all the ones I purchased before were really bad quality, they flaked off in couple of hours. This one lasts well and applys easily and it's nice rich dark black. The liner comes off easily with a waterproof makeup remover.

+A DISLIKE OF THE MONTH

The weather!!! Arght! How can it be so rainy and dull outside? I absolutely hate it! The weather forecast promises snow on Thursday, I really do hope their prediction is correct, I'm dying to get something white on the grounds to make this season a tiny bit jollier ;)

Have a lovely day!

xoxo Pauliina

A Week without internet?

Hi my lovely readers!
On Wednesday the 13th of November  I found myself stalking completely random people on Facebook,  I realized that I spend 100% of my free time on computer.  I was falling behind on my school work, my room was super messy and everything in my life was kind of unorganized chaos. I decided to take the bull by the horns and try to live a week without my laptop/internet access. And guess what? I succeeded!!!!! I have to say that I wasn't really sure if I could pull off a week without a computer, but I did, and I am SO proud of myself.
The last time I was a week without a compute/internet in Finland was in 2007, so yeah... Talk about addiction.
Well, so I did it. Was it any good for me? Absolutely! I feel like I changed as a person from what I was week ago, because I actually got some important stuff done! I managed to write 1700 words on my degree work that I have to hand in in two weeks. So 2700/4000 words ain't too bad, because I will keep up the good work!

White chocolate cocoa with friends. *Phone camera quality*

I also baked three sheet of mince pie, cleaned off three huge pen boxes & sharpened the pencils, put up 20 sets of Christmas lights on our backyard with my sister, finished one 400-page book and began reading another book, went to see my grandparents, worked on Saturday in a mall after-renovation-opening-party (& was at school during the weekdays ofc), drilled off a cabinet in my room and replaced it with a nail polish rack full of my OPIs. AHH I feel like I have accomplished a lot in one week!

A crappy picture of the nail polish rack I put up :)

 I highly encourage you guys to try out a no-computer week if you feel miserable or inefficent, this really helped me, even though I struggled a bit at the beginning. If I can do it, you can do! At least try to go a day or two without computer, it's amazing what it can do to you!

Hurray for me!

Now I don't want to go back to my old habit, carrying my laptop around the house with me, of course I can be online daily, but I need to get a priority order: school work and real life challenges come first.
Hope this post inspires some of you :) Have a great day!

xoxo Pauliina

Nails nails nails!

Hi my lovely readers! Sorry about negletting this blog for some time. I've been painting my nails like a maniac, so I decided to share some of the NOTDs with you :) If you want to keep up with my nails, check my instagram (user: samettinen), I update it almost every day.

Two coats of OPI's I Brake For Manicures and one coat Zoya's Chloe.

Essie's Topless & Barefoot, two coats. Kinda streaky but love nude!

Essie's Aruba Blue (two coats) IN LOVE WITH THIS POLISH! So smooth formula& beautiful color!

Goofy polar bear nails. Tutorial coming soon :3

Me & my friends' nails :) Mine are the ones in the bottom: OPI Color So Hot It Burns.

Bohoo :(

As I've stated before, my favourite top coat is China Glaze's Fast Foward topcoat. Last time I bought three of them, this picture above is the first one I opened. As you can see, it is broken. I took the polish bottle to school with me and it completely broke in my purse! Thank god it didn't go all over the purse, but it leaked into my hat instead. The bottle is cracked in the middle of the opening of the bottle. I guess there must have been a factory flaw or something, because I definitely didn't throw my purse anywhere, I'm always very careful with it, since there is always something fragile in it :/ I'm kinda bummed about this since I hadn't used it that much, but whatcha gonna do... I just opened a new bottle, hopefully it won't break.

Have an amazing weekend!

xoxo Pauliina

100 Random facts about me part 2!

51. I have arachnofobia.

52. I have dreamt of a Mulberry bag for at least 5 years...

53... This year I purchased one but I had to return it because it had some factory defect going on in the bag. So yeah... Maybe in the future.

54. I hate driving.

55. I have a Pottermore account,, and I was sorted to Ravenclaw, my favourite house <3

56. I used to dance ballet. I quit when I was 11-year-old because we didn't have a good teacher anymore.

57. If I could eat anything for the rest of my life, I'd choose to eat chicken.

58. I want to own a cockatoo one day.

59. I used to love flying, but now I hate it because it hurts so much in my ears/maxillary sinus :(

60. My favourite tv-series is Sherlock.

61. I have never owned a pc in my life and I have absolutely no idea how to use them when I have to.

62. I love spicy/musky scents. My favourite perfume is Chanel Eau Tendre even though that's more floral than spicy xD

63. I am the worst at doing anything related to handicraft.

64. I'm sick at the moment :(

65. I love to buy presents to other people!

66. I've seen a premonition twice - both times the dreams were about the following day's religion exam; I knew the questions and scored 10 from both of the exams xD

67. I always loose caps of products such as hairspray.

68. Our family has a Greek turtle called Otto.

69. I love this song so much:

70. A huge shelf has fallen on top of my desktop computer but it didn't brake.

71. I loved Anastasia movie when I was little. I recently ordered the San Francisco Musix Box company's Alexandra & Nicholas box...

72... If I have children I'll lie to them that I was Anastasia and show them the music box. xD

73. I am not able to whistle.

74. This:

picture from 9gag.com

75. I've always been better in listening comprehensions than writing or speaking tests.

76. I love wearing red lipstick, I don't do it too often though because it's so high mainteance.

77. I love Agatha Christies Hercule Poirots and Miss Marple books.

78. I recently got a teeth jewelry :) It's just a clear little crystal.

79.  I love otters, they're so cute!

80. I love fog. It's kind of mysterious, and I love everything mysterious.

81. I prefer texting to calling.

82. I'm such a stalker in facebook.

83. I wish I had freckles.

84. I want to dye my hair light purple when I'm old. I want to be a crazy grandma xD

85. I'm not sure wether I want children or not.

86. Out of my family members, I'm the best at memory games.

87. I'm such a pessimist.

88. I have a Pandora bracelet, I got it for my 18th birthday.

89. I always doodle all over my (and my school mates who sit next to me)  school books and papers.

90.  I have a deviantart account but I don't use it much anymore.

91. I've been best friends with my BFF ever since we were four years old. She's very important to me!

92. I think Audrey Hepburn is one of the most beautiful women.

93. I've had my glass nail file for almost three years.

94. I love Just Dance -games, even though I look ridiculous while playing that game xD I don't care, I have fun!

95. I love baking; I actually just baked cupcakes!

96. I hate cleaning but love organizing my items.

97. I'd buy a book just because it has a bautiful cover, I've actually done that many many many times.

98. I don't like too long holidays - week or two is enough, otherwise I get too bored if I have to spend that time at home.

99. I love to make jewelry. I hav an etsy account, maybe one day I'll sell there something.

100. I want to  you to have an amazing week! :)


Thanks for reading!

xoxo Pauliina

100 Random facts about me pt. 1

1. I'm such a procrastinator. I used to finish school assingments early and maybe even turn them in before the deadline, but now I usually turn them in the last second.

2. I have tryroid hypofuction...

3...It took me four years to get tested for it because I have such a huge fear of needles I wouldn't book an appointment.

4. Winter is my favourite season.

5. I hate the taste of alcohol.

6. I love making youtube videos...

7... But it's hard for me to find time to film them!

8. I prefer youtube videos to blog posts.

9. My favourite youtuber is JulieG713. I also love Jenna Marbles.

10. I have always wanted to learn Greek.

11. I have been to 16 countries if I include the country I live in (Finland).

12. My favourite place in this planet is Dubai, I've been there four times.

When I see this view, I know I'm where I belong <3

13. I'd love to live in the UK or USA for some time in the future.

14. My favourite word in Finnish is "virvatuli" (will of wisp) and I also like "revontuli" (the northern lights) since they are so magical.

15. I'm already getting bored of writing these numbers from 1 to 50.

16. I love British accent

17. I have too much cosmetics...

18... I still want to buy more.

19. I'm afraid my friend Santtu is getting mad because I kind of copy her with that "three dot tactic" of answering these questions, even though I've seen people use that way before.

20. My fave Starbucks drink is iced Caramel Frappucino <3

21.  These are my favourite places to go: River Island, New Look, Forever 21, Sephora, Ulta & Starbucks...

23... We don't have any of those in Finland (except a SB in the airport) and I'm so mad about that!

24. I still live with my parents.

25. I'll move out next year when I get to know  where I get in to study more/get a job from different town.

26. I have abosultely no interest in anything related to politics.

27. My favourite subjects in school were art and history.

28. My favourite historical period is Ancient Egypt. I have visited the pyramids and the Egyptian museum, the valley of the kings etc.

29. I'm too lazy to check my misspellings in this text.

30.  I consider Finland a huge periferia. Still I could never completely move out of this country, I really love this place even though I quite often state the opposite.

31. I LOVE ICE HOCKEY!! (to watch it... I hate to play it)

32. I was celebrating Finland's 2011 world championship in Kauppatori (in Helsinki) with 50-80k other people. That was one of the best days of my life so far!

33. I try to be nice to everyone...

34...  but I'm a super sarcastic person, so some people might misunderstand some things I say.

35. I'm the master or stupid-not-even-funny jokes, I laugh at them myself because I know they are so stupid and nobody should laugh.

36. I learn the lyrics from songs fairly easily. I'm usually done with a song in three days to a week. Then the song begings to annoy me.

37. I just lighted up a candle with a match. Then I blew to put out the match and I accidentally put out the candle too. Hurray for me!

38. I'm quite lucky when it comes to drawings and giveaways, I win something around once a month.

39. ^ Not trying to brag. It's just a fact. Never won in a lottery though, I wish that'd happen so I could help out my family members.

40. I prefer dogs to cats.

41. I have a bunny called Luna. And he is a boy. YES I know Luna is a girls name, but I don't think Luna knows that ;)

42. I wish there was a beauty box system in Finland

43. My favourite makeup brand is Benefit.

44. It's annoying that I have added dots in the end of some sentences and not to some. I'm just too lazy to fix it now.

45. When I'm bored or stressed out I tend to pick my cuticles. That's such a bad habit and I'm trying to quit it.

46. I really want to see Adele live some day.

47. Ciate's Big Yellow Taxi is what I have on my nails at the moment.

48. I LOVE Disney movies! :) My favourite one is Hercules and favourite character is Megara.

picture from here

49. I also follow La Liga football when I have time, I cheer for Real Madrid!

50. My favourite actor is Benedict Cumberbatch.


TO BE CONTINUED!
Thanks for your time, hope it was entertaining!

xoxo Pauliina

Finnish beauty tradeshows; a big haul!

Hi my lovely readers! :)
So I went to two different beauty tradeshows these past two weeks, and I just have to say that I went overboard with the stuff I bought... I really should be saving money for my future but I couldn't resist buying 30 new nail polishes -__-'' So, let's begin! If you wanna know more about any of these items  bought just let me know and I can make a video/blog post!

From left to right: Won't Chip topcoat, Magnifique topcoat, Casmere Cardigan, Pink Whisper, Royal Navy.

Ciate 10€ caviar: 24€ Ciate rainbow caviar manicure kit, Jewel, Big Yellow Taxi

I decided to paint my nails with Jewel, which Adele rocked in the Grammys. Heres the NOTD picture  (2 coats, worn for 3 days sorry for it being kinda chipped):

Essie 8€: Topless & Barefoot, Aruba Blue

Finally I own these famous polishes! I have been wanting these for ages!

Zoya 7€: Fleck effect kit; Maisia, Opal, Chloe. Feifei, Zuza

Thes are my very first Zoya nail polishes! :) I hope they're worth the hype!

OPI 10€ or 2 for 10€ (the matte ones & touring America collection): Sparkle-icious, Simmer & Shimmer, Show it and glow it!, I brake for manicures, I eat mainely lobster.

What you think I'm going to do when I see the last polishes from the Burlesque collection? Buy them of course. I just had to buy a back-up for Sparkle-icious, my second fave polish of all time! Now I just  wish I had bought backups for all of these...

Alpine Snow matte x3, Fly, Gargantuan Green Grape (matte), Lucky Lucky Lavender.

Pssst...One of those Apline Snows (matte)  is for you guys ;)

Inglot shades: 59, 369, ? & ? I'm sorry but I can't get these off the pan xD

I'm missing one of the 5 shades I picked up on my freedon system palette. They were sold out of it so they took my address and they will send it to me later :)

I was super excited about Inglot and just had to buy these lovely and super pigmented shades!  I'm going to try them out tomorrow, can't wait!

Super cute mini Tweezermans with ladybugs!

I was in need of a new mositurizing mask, we use Phytoceane in our school so I went for this one.

FREE SAMPLES YAAAY! The reason I love tradeshows ;)

I also bought many other items, but they'll be for my family members, Christmas is coming you know! 

Some really crappy pics from my phone from the I love Me tradeshow:

Tired but happy after long day of shopping xD

Me & two of my friends :)

Some girls with amazing hair!

Thanks for reading and have a great week! 

xoxo Pauliina

Tiny Essie haul!

Hi my lovely readers!

Last week I was shopping in the local "mall" (= about 5 stores) and I saw some cosmetic sale going on in a store called Emotion. I picked up three nail polishes from Essie. I only owned three Essie polishes before (Lilacism, Mint Candy Apple, Borrowed & Blue), and  while those polishes are super pretty, I dislike the formula and brush, the application is super streaky and hard. 

So, I decided that  for 7,90€ I would give Essie the last chance to impress me. 

And guess what? I think they got me ;)

(natural lighting) From left to right: Lights, Bazooka, & Action. 

I have only tried out one of the polishes so far: the neon orange color called Bazooka. The formula was super smooth and applied nicely. I used two coats but I could have added one more coat since it was kind of sheer-ish. But absolutely loved this polish! It returned my faith into Essie nail polishes. Maybe they aren't that bad I thought. What are your opinions?

The polishes with flash 

Two coats, with flash.

Two coats, no flash. As you can see, the formula is kind of sheer.

Thanks for reading, have a lovely week :)

xoxo Pauliina