Birthday Presents from Japan

Good evening everyone,

another week has passed and  I have so many things to blog about, but so little time.

What happened?

I got a package from Fing’rs Germany, which I will blog about separately.
I am still sick (long story) and the doctors don’t know what it is or where it comes from.
I have a few more Halloween Make-up looks coming up. I have a few Halloween nail designs coming up and I am already planning a lot winter and Christmas nail designs haha

But before that  I want to show you what I got from my dear friend Momoko, she is like a sister to me, for my Birthday.
Like I told her, sometimes words can not express how happy she makes me and how grateful I am to have her in my life.
She always shows me how loved I am and that we are always there for each other. Even though I can’t express myself properly in Japanese, she understands me. She understands and feels my soul, I don’t know how else to describe it.
I am so happy that years and years ago I found her in this huge world wide web and was able to meet her and her son also in person two years ago. That was about 8 years after we “met” on Myspace. 

The internet is a crazy place but I am very thankful that a few years ago, when this whole thing started, U was able to connect with people like Mom. I love her so much!

All these wonderful things she sent me totally blew me away! It was so much and I loved every little bit of it! I can not tell you how happy I still am.

Let’s see what I got:

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– japanese sweets and snacks, because she knows how much I love it and that I am always curious to try new things
– japanese Furikake, Ramen, Soba, Miso Soup, Ochyazuke, Udon Soup and Cinnamon Sugar
– a LOT of very cute and unique nail polishes! Oh god I almost died out of happiness haha

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(I will swatch and use these a lot the in the future)

 

– different hair shampoos and conditioners (her favorites, which she wanted me to try)

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I already tried the left one and I love it! My hair smelled SO GOOD afterwards!

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– bath powder, because I LOVE japanese bath stuff

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– A LOT of sticky notes and washi tapes for my crazy Filofaxing hobby! I am so excited to try all of those out, they are so cute!

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I love how much effort she always puts into picking things for me and packing them. I love her little notes and drawings and I always smile when I see new drawings from her son as well. He keeps on drawing me and it is just the cutest!

Again, I am so grateful!

I don’t want to say more. Have a great night

 

Mara

☆『マラ』☆

Sunday Mani – twelve – studded nails/dotticure

Hey everyone,

still a bit tired from yesterday I want to continue with a very cute and, if I might say, impressive Sunday Mani :)

As a base color I picked 010 vintage Lily from p2 current dress code HAPPY LE.

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Instead of dotting points with a dotting tool, I decided to use different colored nail pearls on each nail.

As you can see I used the neon yellow pearls also from p2 LE dress code HAPPY, models own neon green pearls and the colorful mix from Essence where I picked out the pink, dark blue and turquoise pearls.

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I don’t mean to brag or flatter myself, but  I am in love with this nail art!

I did not put a top coat on, because some of the pearls, for example Essence pearls, will loose the color if you put top coat on them.

How do you like this manicure?
Let me know in the comments below.

Mara

☆『マラ』☆

[Review] p2 LE Dress Code HAPPY

Hello everyone,

look what has been released recently.

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1 look of love blush 
8,2 g: 3,65 €

2 light you up! concealer duo
3,8 g: 3,95 €

3 color me sweet eye shadow pencil
5 g: 3,25 €

4 charming smile lipstick
3,8 g: 2,95 €

5 flirty skin glow highlighting fluid
30 ml: 3,95 €

cosy garden face cleansing towel
1: 4,75 €

6 glitter & pearl eyeliner
3 ml: 2,75 €

7 be the cutest! nail sticker
42: 1,95 €

just fancy! nail file
1: 2,25 €

be handy toe separator
2: 2,25 €

8 bright day nail polish
8 ml : 2,25 €

feel preppy nail pearls
17 g: 2,75 €

 

Since I am a nail polish addict you can guess what I bought from this LE^^
I did not like the colors too much so I only bought the lilac polish, the two bottles with nail pearls and the nail stickers.

010 vintage Lily

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Nail Pearls

020 garden party

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010 sunny day

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Nail stickers

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Let’s see how the polish looks on the nails :)

Isn’t it pretty? I was kind of surprised that this is a sand polish. I thought it was just a nice pastel lilac shimmery polish …. but oh well^^
Usually I am not a big fan of polishes with sand finish, but this dries to a very pretty finish.
Two coats were enough and the dry time was also pretty good.

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I am in love with this color.

How do you like it?

 

Mara

☆『マラ』☆