Goodbye 2011!

I'm getting ready for the New Year's Party at my friend's house later on tonight. My nails are done, I got roles on my hair, I'm now gonna take a shower and do my makeup and in the end... SUIT UP! 

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! See you next year... lol.

Do you like this nail pollish on my nails? :D

Musical Friday #31

Hello everyone! So this is the last Musical Friday of the year 2011 :P

How was you year? Mine in overall was good. Got the chance to travel A LOT! lived in Prague, did a roadtrip on the South of Europe with my boyfriend :3 met new people, including Bloggers and Youtubers, so much fun.

And now here comes 2012, DAMN, time flies to fast, and in more or less two weeks I will be going to London for 6 months uufffff, gosh, I can't believe I'm going back to the U.K., I'm so freaking EXCITED!

And of course I would like to thank all my followers new and old, for the love and support, for your visits and comments :) I really do apreciate it, I love you guys!

I wish you all a Happy New Year, hope that 2012 is better or even better than 2011 for you all, celebrate it with your loved ones and PARTY HARD! Where are you going to celebrate New Years? I'm going to my friends Marta's place, with Akuma Kanji and her boyfriend, plus a few other people will be there. Here's a picture with a sneak pick of my outfit for tomorrow, there's a lot of black, a pinch of colours, lace, and high heels :P I will try taking a picture of myself tomorrow to show you how it looks like all on me.

So for today I decided to do a put my favourite singles of 2011, kinda like mine "Greatest Hits" haha that I posted on my Musical Fridays during the year of 2011, enjoy as always :3.

The Black Eyed Peas - Don't Stop The Party 

Giveaway/Sorteio - Blush by Crpbm

Check out another giveaway :D This one from Blush by Crpbm. Till the 10th of January.

Image belongs to Blush by Crpbm.

SALES! SALDOS! SALES! SALDOS! #1

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Pai, perdoai-me porque pequei >.<. Hoje fui à Baixa de Lisboa com a minha mãe e como devem saber hoje começaram os SALDOS! Eu fui com a minha mãe basicamente para ajuda-la porque ela precisava de comprar alguns temperos e roupa para ela. Meti na cabeça, "não Karen... não vais comprar nada..." táááá beeemmm...

No total comprei 6 cosinhas para mim, e a minha mãe também comprou 6 peças de roupa :P. Ehpah a história da crise em Portugal, ppfffff, não sei se o pessoal esteve toda à espera dos Saldos, mas lá que a lojas estavam cheias, estavam... desdas 10 da manhã.

No meu post das minhas compras de Dezembro logo mostro tudo que comprei durante o mês como deve ser. Mais um detalhezinho sobre coisas de "marca" quueee oohh paaahh. Já é a segunda vez que vejo disto.

E então vão atacar os saldos?
P.S.: Para aqueles que vivem em Portugal, de acordo com uma funcionária da H&M os Saldos só vão durar DUAS SEMANAS! Por isso não esperem muito se ainda querem encontrar algo no vosso tamanho , e coisas giras.

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Forgive me Father but I have sinned >.< . Today I went to Downtown Lisbon with my mother and as you probably may know the SALES season has started today. I went with my mother so that I could basically help her, she needed to buy some spices and clothes for her. I put in my head "não Karen... you will not buy anything..." yeeeeaaahhhh right...

In total I bought 6 things for myself, and my mother also bought 6 things for her. :P. The story of the crises in Portugal, ppfffff, I don't know if the people have been waiting for the Sales season, but the stores were very full... since 10am this morning.

On my post of December's shopping i will show you in details what I bought during this month. Plus a little detail about things of cetain "brands" that ooohh mmaannnn. It is already the second time that I see this.

Soooo will you attack this Sales season?

Dexter, the end of Season 6 :(

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No dia 18 de Dezembro deu o último episodio da sexta temporada de Dexter :(.

Como dizia, acho eu que era no jogo do Hugo, “ooohhh logo agora que o jogo estava a aquecer…”.

Para quem não conhece Dexter, é uma série composta por cerca de 12 episódios por temporada, sobre um expert em sangue da Policia de Miami, queeeee mata gente MÁ :D, gente que obviamente devia ser presa pelos crimes que cometeram mas que de alguma forma conseguem escapar à prisão, entonces o Dexter trata deles. Eu AMO esta série!

Eu achei esta sexta temporada espectacular, teve ali uma reviravolta de surpresa, e depois um final BANG OMG! Claramente haverá uma sétima temporada maaaasss “rumour has it” que a próxima temporada só virá em 2014! SSAAYY WHHAAATTT?

Eu ainda não sei o porquê desta decisão, pode ser que alguns dos actores podem estar envolvidos em outros projectos; pode ser que o actor principal Michael C. Hall ainda esteja em recuperação, ele teve cancro recentemente ou então eles simplesmente decidiram voltar só em 2014…

Bem se isto for verdade, eu vou dar em maluca (ou não) por ter de esperar 2 anos pela próxima temporada.

EN

On the 18th of December it aired the last episode of the sixth season of Dexter :(.

For those that don’t know Dexter, it’s a series made of 12 episodes per season, about an expert in blood sparer from Miami Police, thaaattt kills BAD people :D, people that obviously should be arrested for the crimes that they committed but that somehow they managed not to go to prison, soooo Dexter takes care of them. I love this series!

I think that this sixth season was awesome, there was like a surprised spin and then a BANG finally OMG! Clearly there will be a seventh season bbbbuuuutttt “rumour has it” that the next season will only air in 2014! SSAAYY WHHAAATTT?

I still don’t know the reason of this decision, , it could be that some of the other actors are involved in other projects; it could be that the main actor, Michael C. Hall is still in recovery, he had cancer recently or they just simply decided to come back in 2014…

Well if this is true, I will go crazy bananas (or not) because I have to wait 2 years for the next season.

Food Obsession #1 - 7Days

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Olá a todos!

Hoje trago-vos um novo segmento do meu Blog intitulado de “Food Obsession”. Eu gosto de comer e adoro snacks. Quando estava em Praga, descobri estas tostinhas e croissants da marca 7 Days, ooohhh meeeuuuuuu DEUS que devinal! Quando comia em casa as tostas, eu juntava quase sempre um tipo de queijo, tipo Philadelphia mas mais grosso, aaaiiiiiii >.<. E os croissants, aquecia sempre uns 10 segundos no microondas para o recheio derreter hhuummmm e AH estes croissants continham dois sabores por dentro hhummmmm, aahhh que saudades!

EN

Hello everyone!

Today I bring you a new segment f my Blog entitled “Food Obsession”. I like to eat and I love snacks. While I was in Prague, I discovered these little toasts and croissants from a brand called 7 Days, ooooohhhhmmyyyy GOD devine! When I ate the toasts at home, I always added like a cream cheese, kinda like Philadelphia but thicker, aaaawwwww >.<. And Le croissants, I used to warm them up for like 10 seconds in the microwave so that the filling would melt and hhuuummmmm and OH these croissants had two flavoured fillings inside :P  hhuuummm, aaawww I miss them so much!

Merry Christmas/Feliz Natal 2011

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Olá a todos e Feliz Natal!

Como foi a vossa quadra natalícia? A minha foi passada só com os meus pais. Já há muitos anos que não passava só com eles. Normalmente nós vamos sempre para Queluz, para a casa de outros familiares nossos, mas eles este ano, foram para Inglaterra, ter com o resto da família. Já que a maior parte da família deles vive em Londres, sai mais barato serem só duas pessoas a irem para lá, do vir cerca de 8 para Portugal.

Anyways, jantamos, bacalhauzinho com natas e um outro bacalhau diferente para o meu pai, e para sobremesa, fatias douradas e bolo de fruta cristalizada.

E de presentes, para além de algum dinheiro que recebi de familiares, recebi o seguinte:

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Hello everyone and Merry Christmas!

How was your Christmas Eve? Mine was spent just with my parents. It’s been a few years since I spent just with them. Normally we go to Queluz, to the house of some family members of our, but this year, they went to England to meet with the rest of the family. Since the majority of their family lives in London, it’s cheaper for them to be just to people travelling there then coming 8 people to Portugal.

Anyways, we had diner, codfish with cream and a different codfish preparation for my father, and for desert, golden slices, and a cake with crystallized fruit inside.

As for the presents, in addition to some money that some family members gave I also received the following:

Musical Friday #30

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Olá a todos! Como foi a vossa semana? A minha… “babysitting”… é tudo. A maior parte da minha papelada para o meu estágio em Londres já está tratada e para a semana que vem com sorte já terei o meu portátil, e assim poderei pesquisar como deve ser um quarto para alugar. Pesquisar em certos website no meu PC fixo de casa é um martírio... ehpah não dá. Amanhã finalmente voltarei para casa, lar doce lar… só espero que as obras do meu vizinho tenham acabado >.<.

De qualquer das maneiras para aqueles que celebram o Natal, Feliz Natal!

EN

Hi everyone! How was your week? Mine… babysitting… that’s all. Most of my paper work for my internship in London is done and next week if I’m lucky I will have my laptop back, so that way I will be able to search for a bedroom to rent. Searching in certain websites on my home PC it’s crazy bananas.. I just can’t. Tomorrow I will finally go home, home sweet home… I just hope that the constructions at my neighbor’s house are finished >.<

Anyways for those that celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas!

Justin Bieber – Fa La La feat. Boyz II Men – OKEI….. wait… don’t judge me lol! No I’m not necersserly a Justin Bieiber fan, but since is Christmas season this songs is kinda appropriate, plus it has Boyz II Men, and their song used to be good stuff.

100 YEARS of East London Style in 1:41m

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Olá a todos :).

Ontem comecei o dia com uma boa noticia... o meu Portátil já foi arranjado :D agora só falta arrotar 135€ BUUURRRRPPP.... Só deverei ter o Portátil para a semana que vem. Isto porque como ficarei aqui na casa da minha tia até sábado, e a loja vai fechar no sábado e domingo, devido à época natalícia, então na segunda-feira irei levar o meu disco rígido do Portátil, para o técnico voltar a por lá dentro. Aiaiaiaiai

Deixo-vos com um videozinho sobre os 100 anos de moda da zona Este de Londres.

Eu não acredito que faltam cerca de 3 semanas para eu viajar para Londres, ainda não “caí nah réauuuu”.

EN

Hello everyone :).

Yesterday I started my day with some good news... my Laptop has been fixed :D now the only thing that is missing is me burping 135€ BUUURRRRPPP... I will probably only have my Laptop next week. Because since I'm staying at my aunt house till Saturday and the store will be closed on Saturday and Sunday, due to the Christmas season, so on Monday I will take the hard disk of my Laptop for the technician so that he can put it back inside.  Aiaiaiaiai.

I will leave you with a little video about the 100 years of style at East London.

I can’t believe I’m like 3 weeks away for my journey to London, this is all still a bit unreal.

 

YOUTUBE ● TWITTER ● BLOGLOVIN' 

FACEBOOK ● FASHIONLISTA ● G PLUS

Bloggers, Youtubers and viewers Lunch Gathering 17/12/11

Photo belongs to Ana Rita from Let's Talk About Beauty

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Olá todos (sim estou a escrever em português, sim é raro, sim é estranho para mim também haha), no sábado passado eu e a Akuma Kanji fomos a um almoço de Bloggers, Youtubers e leitores, no Centro Comercial do Colombo e depois do almoço houve uma troca de prendas, tipo amigo secreto, eu recebi um colar.

Eu esta semana estarei pela casa da minha tia, mas quando voltar para casa depois faço upload das fotos que eu tirei e do video que eu filmei :P.

Foi divertido rever algumas caras, que eu conheci no mês passado no Sleek MakeUp Focus Group, e conhecer alguma novas :)

EN

Hello everyone, last Saturday me and Akuma Kanji went to a Bloggers, Youtubers and viewers lunch, at the Colombo's Shopping Mall and after lunch there was a sap of gifts, kinda like a secrret friend as we call it, I recieved a necklace.

During this week I will be at my aunt's house, but when I return home I will upload the photos and videos that I have :P.

I was fun to see some faces that I met last month at the Sleek Makeup Focus Group and to meet ne ones :).

YOUTUBE ● TWITTER ● BLOGLOVIN' 

FACEBOOK ● FASHIONLISTA ● G PLUS

Musical Friday #29

Hiya everyone? Again sort of a quick post, 'cause I still have to pack my bag. I don't know how frequently I will be able to post next week. I will be staying at my aunt's house, helping her take care of her grandson, the boy is kinda sick.

But before that, tomorrow is Saturday and Akuma Kanji and I will be at a Bloggers, Youtubers and etc... lunch gathering, at the Colombo Shopping Mall. I'm very excited >.<

I will take pictures and probably film aswell, although I probably will only be able to post about after I return from my aunts house. She does have Internet, but is one of those Pens internet, and I think there is a limite on upload/downloads, so I will only use it to check my emails or maybe do a quick random post here.

So now I leave you with some music, have a nice weekend and I see you next time :)

Laidback Luke vs. Example - Natural Disaster – I looovveee this song so much >.< It just makes me dance dance dance untz untz untz :P

Quick post! #4

Hi everyone. Sorry for the lack of post, but this week has been kinda uufff.

I would like to share these pics with you. Last week it was my friend's Akuma Kanji's Bday, and she recieved a few Bday gifts, some of them nailpolish, so that night she painted my nails. She used one coat of a Black Illamasqua nailpolish named Boosh, and then one coat of a dark Glitter nailpolish from Hits no Olimpo in the colour Zeus, although on my pinky finger she used another Hits no Olimpo nailpolish called either Hefesto or Artemis. I can't really spot the difference between them on my nails lol, but my friends can see it.

I haven't painted my nails in black in ages, I quite miss it, when I was a teenager I used to paint them black all the time.

What do you think?

My archived journey to Mozambique - Week #1

OMG I can’t believe that it has been a year already >.<. At this hour last year I was in Mozambique, preparing myself for another day of family fun. Oh yeah, most of you probably don’t know, I have family in Mozambique, my parents are from Mozambique, but I was born in Portugal.

I’ve been to Moz. (aka Mozambique) twice now, first time was back in 2001, during Summer vacation from High School, my uncles from my mother’s side paid my ticket, so that way I could meet my family members that I never met before, specially my grandparents (from my mom’s and my father’s side) I was 15 years old, I stayed there for like 3 months and I returned to Portugal just a couple of days after the 9/11 attack in New York, OMG I was so scared flying back home.

In December 2010, I returned to Moz. for a month, my uncle from my father’s side, paid me and other family members that live in Portugal, tickets to go to Moz. so that we could go to his eldest son’s wedding. Unfortunately my parents could not go, because my father was still kinda sick and the Doctor advice him not to go due to his health, so my mother stayed with him :(. That situation sucked like crazy bananas, because since my parents left Moz, about 27 years ago, they have never returned, can you imagine not seeing your brothers and parents for more than 20 years?:/

Musical Friday #28

Hello everyone? How was your week?

Mine was pretty calm. On Wednesday I was at my friend’s Daniela, aka Akuma Kanji house, it was her birthday, and I died her hair :P, it isn’t the first time that I do that to her, but it was the first time that that I put rollers on her hair hehe. It was fun, I like her new hair colour, it’s on the plums shades. And then he decided to put rollers on her hair, I sometimes put on mine, it’s a lot of work but the final effect it’s nice. My sleeping hours are still out of control >.< I’m becoming almost a Vampire, just wanna sleep during the day and do stuff at night lol. This is not good… I gotta start changing this bad habit of mine.

Drake – Headlines – When this single came out and my boyfriend showed to me, I was like meh… but then it started growing on me, and now I love it :P. “True story” haha. I love his lyrics, the simple beats and the way he singing/raps, I like his tone of voice. Did you know that Drake is Canadian?

 

Christina Aguilera - Secret Potion Perfume Commercial

I don't know why, but it seems that my favourite perfumes belong to celebraties, singer and actors. I have one perfume from Christina Aguilera "By Night" and I looovvveeeeee it! And I also like the previous ones. Now I would like to smell this one. I tried going to her website to request a sample but I guess thye don't send it to Portugal -_- bah!

If you seen Miss Aguilera recently she gain a few pounds (attention, nothing against that), although I think she lost already a few pounds, but still her body doesn't look like it used to.... and on the picture above she is so clleaaarly photoshoped oh lord.....

June's Resume #7 @ Prague

For those that are new to my Blog I will quickly explain. This year for 9 months I lived in Prague, Czech Republic, and I wanted to document my experience here, but I failed to do regularly so I’m trying to catch up!  Soooo let’s go!

- On the 1^st of June, I went to Plami’s house, a small house gathering, with other girls, and then we went to a bar/club called K.U. – it’s funny ‘cause those are my name´s initials haha- on the 2^nd of June was Plami’s actual Bday, so we did an overnight celebration. I had to leave early, ‘cause I had an early shift on the next day :/. K.U. club is really good, Pepe the Dj of that night, who used to be a colleague of ours, was playing there, the music was great, although the bar didn’t seemed to have much of a dance floor :/ such a pity.

Photos from Plami's flat and K.U. Bar Lounge.

Musical Friday #27

Heelllooo Boys and Girls.

How was your week? Mine, I finally got some good new, I will be going to LONDON, and I will start doing my internship in January for 6 months #insert Austin Power's theme song here# “Ooohh behave, yeah Baby yeah!”. I am so excited! My original plan was to go back to Prague, but some things went wrong, so now I will be going to London. Which by the way is not bad, not bad at all. I’ve been in London like 6 times, in 2009/2010 I was doing Erasmus in Nottingham, so when I flew to and off the country I I went to London, plus I have family there, which let my mother more calmed. She says that when I was in Prague, she wasn’t calm, because I was there “alone” blab la… mothers…

Sooo yeah, soon I will start packing again, oh lord! I thought that by this time I would have Mastered the thing, but no…. I have to do lots of calculations, especially with the RENT and if with that is it worth it for me to take a lot of clothe. I lived in the  U.K. for 9 months … it will be extreeeemely hard for me to not go shopping over there, with shops like, River Island, Next, Topshop, New Look, loads of Primarks, and cosmetics stores like Boots or Superdrug >.< so if I take a lot of clothes and buy more clothes, what do we have? Excess luggage weight. When I go in January, I’m pretty sure there will be snow, but the cold won’t last as long as it did when I was in Prague. Like in Prague, this year in March I was still wearing winter coats, scarves and gloves… when I was in the U.K, in 2010 during March I was wearing a shirt and one jacket. Buuuttt I will keep you posted on that subject.

Have a nice weekend, Ciao ;)

Lady Gaga - Marry The Night – New Single – So the new video is out, I saw it last night (01-12-11) on Facebook. If you haven’t seen it I must warn you that the whole video has about 13 minutes, the music part only starts at 8m. What can I say about it… the video kinda looks like a story of her musical carrier, but you know… more theatrical XD. There are scenes that I like, and other that I don’t get like, when she is on car, upside down, what is that all about o_O? Oh yeah you can see Gaga naked again lol, and on the end of the video you can see her with that “satellite” hat/mask, like the one she whore at the MTV’s EMA 2011.

 

November's Shopping

Hello everyone! Wow I can't believe we are in December already, isn't that crazy? It's like I say, since the year 2000 came, time feels it flies. Last year by this time, I was preparing my bag for my journey to Mozambique - f.y.i. I will also do a resume of my vacation there - in the meantime I spent 9 months in Prague, now I'm back to Portugal.

Anyways, as we know we are going trough a crises moment in our country - Portugal - financially speaking, so I can't buy everything I want :/. But still I managed to buy a few things this month, things that I actually need it, and here they are.

Ear warmers from Claire's, I been wanting these for a while, and when I saw this one in Black at Claire's "I gotz to haz it!

 

Kate Moss - Lasting Finish Lipstick for Rimmel London

So you probably know a certain Super Model called Kate Moss right? Sure you do. And you probably may have noticed that she is one of the faces for the cosmetic brand Rimmel London for a while now.... like for the last 10 years XD. 

Well now she launched her own line of Lipsticks exclusively with Rimmel London. They come in 7/15 shades - I'm not sure, 'cause on the website they say 7, but on the Interview video they say 15 o_O - and I would Love to try one of them, the colours looks amazing and the packaging is lovely.

For more Info visit Rimmel London.com.UK.

D.I.Y #1 When Jeans become Shorts and get ripped

Hello everyone, today I bring you my first D.I.Y (Do It Yourself). This one is pretty easy though, from jeans to shorts, plus rip them.

But first just let me tell you that now I have a G Plus page and a Facebook page for my Blog, you can follow me there if you wish :).

Okay back to the D.I.Y.
What will you need:
-A pair of Jeans
-Scissors
-Needle
-Tweezers

So you start off with a pair of jeans, I pick these ones from Bershka, they are probably 5/6 years old, one of my favourite jeans, since in a way they have sentimental value for me (lol), but didn't look good on me anymore, I decided to cut them.

Musical Friday #26

It's Friday everyone, the end of another week. With all this time spent at home, all days seem the same for me.

So regarding me Laptop, I gave the green light in order to fix it, in the mean time I have the Hard Disk of my Laptop. I bought a case, the guy put the Hard Disk inside, and now I use it kinda like an external drive. The fixing of my laptop, will take about 2 weeks. He has to get some pieces for the Laptop, and then it has to stay in testing, to make sure, everything is working 100% and it doesn't puff as soon as it gets home lol. I'm so happy that my Hard Disk is intact, aaahhh crazy bananas!

In the mean time, regarding, where the hell will I go next year, so I guess Prague is off the plan and now is London Baby! Due to some misunderstanding between the Company and my University, only one girl from my University can do the internship, and in this case the other girl will go. The Company never called me to make an interview or whateva - even though they didn't need it because they already know me - ... I am both sad and happy. I'm sad that I won't be able to work again with my colleagues of the Company, and party with them, and be with my Shushu Plami all the time, but at the same time I'm existed to go to London off course. I'm just waiting to know if they will need me in January or only in March. It's exiting to hear a company say that they are interested in you. Now I just don't know if they are "just sayin'" 'cause in the way it will be free labour, they won't have to pay me, my University is the one that give us the scholarship, or they are actually excited for me to come on over. Either way is good to hear positive feedback, don't you think?

For now I'm working with my Windows XP Professional from the year 2003 desktop computer.. oh Dear Lord! It's soooo slow, I have no idea what the fudge it's the problem. I used to be able to play games -like The Sims - and listen to music and have other things one, now, if I have two internet pages open, rsrsrsrsrsrs. Even to write this post is a nightmare, it's like I will write 2 sentences, and the guy is still stuck on the first 3 words....

Anyways on to the music.

Lana Del Rey – Blue Jeans – AUGH! She is got to be this year’s best newcomer in the music business. Today I show you 2 of my favourite singles from her, love it, love it, love it! Her personal style and the music, looks like a miss from the 60’s, and something from the 90’s. There was this moment in the 90’s that people (I think mostly in America) were dressing like the 50’s and 60’s., some certain dress cuts, and the big puffy hair…

Series that I'm watching #1

Hi everyone, how's your week so far? Mine is going from bad to worse...

It started with a left foot on Monday, when my laptop... DIED! -_- What happened was, the electricity went and came back in like 2 seconds, my laptop was on, and at the time I was in the bathroom, when I came out to check on the laptop, I thought that it was just simply off, but no... it didn't even turned back on. At first I thought and I was hoping that the problem was just on the charger, but no again, it was the laptop. I got a call and now to fix it will cost about 135€ :/ , and now I'm waiting for the most important thing.... if the hard disk IS OK!!! Yes some of the stuff I have copies, but the most recent stuff I don't :(. BAH!!! Oh and a thing I learned is that travelling in the airplane with the laptop, is not good for it. Even though is a laptop, you can easily can take it here and there, you have to be careful with it, and the vibration on the airplne, can F*** up your electronic stuff. In total my laptop has flown 8 times, a total off like 24hours. Ufff so enough of that for now...

Since I haven't been doing much, I have been re-watching old series, watching some new episodes of certain series that are still on air and discovering new series do watch.

I've been watching Supernatural since day 1! These Winchester brothers always have some new Demon to take care of, in order to save the world from the darkness. I'm so surprised that this show is still going, is on the 7th season you guys! How much can they invent to keep this show on going? They both have died, and came back, fought vampires, demons, ghosts, Angels and Mr Lucifer itself! I mean C'MOOON!

Dream House #3

I have done one of these - Dream House segments - in a while.

Last week I woke up one day with the idea "That's it! I want my bedroom Black and White! MUAHAHAHAHA". Me bedroom has always been a mix - and not the good kind - of white furniture and "cherry" wood as they call it. It started when we moved in to this flat, we had already had a wardrobe, big and white, then my parents bought me a new bed also in white, and then we had let's call it a home made "bookcase" that was painted in white. A few years later my mom bought my first computer, so we bought a desk, we couldn't find a white one that had all the things that I need it, so we end up buying one in the colour cherry wood, then the "bookcase" became too small, so we bought a new one also in cherry wood. Then came the curtains.... a few years back I was having this Holland phase, I was into Kane - a Dutch rock band - and the Dutch football team , so those are the colours of my curtains, one orange in the middle and two dark blue ones on each side aaaaannd now I'M tired of them -_-.

In the mean time I had other changes in my bedroom and now most of the furniture is white, but I still have the cherry wood desk. So I shared the black and white idea with my mom, and first she was like "OI?", we talked, and then she suggested like a Japanese inspired room - still with the black and white - and I was like "RIGHT ON MOM!".

Below you will see some pictures that I collected from Google. The first set is Japanese inspired. Now the thing with Japanese bedroom - and attention I'm no expert - they seem to be very minimalistic and basic, like the main purpose of a bedroom is to? Sleep. And what do I need in order to sleep? A bed. And that´s it... well not necessarily, but you get the idea. I can't not transform completely my bedroom, but two things that will be changed hopefully in the future, will be my bed, change the couples bed, that takes so much space, in to one of those body and a half beds, with a drawer underneath with another bed in case someone comes over, aaaand my desk. And since I have STUFF (lol) I can not have my bedroom just with my bed in it. 

May's Resume #6 @ Prague

For those that are new to my Blog I will quickly explain. This year for 9 months I lived in Prague, Czech Republic, and I wanted to document my experience here, but I failed to do regularly so I’m trying to catch up!  Soooo let’s go!

For the month of May, for the first time on the 9^th of May Plami visited “my flat”. We ate some goody stuff and watched Britain’s Next Top Model.

On the 14^th or 15^th it was my turn to visit Plami’s place, again we ate haha, and sorta watched a movie. We weren’t paying much attention, we were gossiping instead :P.

On the 20^th at night me and Plami had a girls night out with some other 3 girls that join us. We went to La Casa Blu – a South American bar/restaurant - had a drink there, and then went to a club called 2^nd Floor, the music that night was a little better than the first time we went there in March, but still not my cup of tea, and then a “funny” thing started to happen, a guy that was there, that we ended up seeing him on the next 2 clubs. So since me and Plami weren’t  “feeling it”  2^nd Floor we left the other girls and went to Bombay, and danced a bit, and then we saw THAT GUY from 2^nd Floor, he was singing loudly next to our ears >.<. I like Bombay but the dance floor area is sooo freaking small. And then we ended up at Harley’s a Rock type of bar, but still you can dance :P AAAAANNNDDDD who was there? THAT GUUUUYYYY! We felt like we were being stalked, but I guess it was just a massive coincidence. This was the night that I also got burned on my arm with somebody’s cigarette, and also cut my thump finger, for cleaning a table that had a broken glass >.<

Me and Plami.

Musical Friday #25

Hello Everyone! I was your week? Mine nothing special… I have to start doing stuff at home other than just, wake up, shower, eat, organize the house, computer, eat again, computer, eat, computer, eat, computer, sleep… :/ . I’m still waiting for an update for my internship situation, and it’s driving me crazy bananas!

 I will try starting helping my mother in the kitchen. I am not much of a cook, I mostly like to eat not cook, also because the type of foods that we eat at home, are the type of meals that take about an hour of more to prepare…. I have no patience for that…

Maybe I will watch some episodes of Jamie Oliver “The Naked Chef”, and try to recreat some of it >.<. Ooorrr I will try to recreate something from my friend Plami’s Blog, "Plum's Book of Tales and yummies"

What are you guys up to this weekend?

Katy Perry - The One That Got Away – New Single – I think there is a new trend going on in the music/video business…. TRAILERS! Yeah you know like for movies, you have a trailer right? Katy Perry decided to do a trailer for this new video. Is that too much? Or do you think is a new way of getting people’s attention all at once?

Versace for H&M 2011

Last year H&M invited designer Lanvin to design some clothes for the brand, and it was a huge sucess.

This year as you probably seen our heard - if you haven't I don't know where have you been haha - H&M decided to do another collaboration but this time with the house of VERSACE! We have bold colours, palm trees patterns, and like interesting roman pattern in some items, you can see that pattern on the logo below, around H&M, I actually like that detail, and on the first video you can see it in a lot of places.
The waiting is finally OVER! Are you going to buy anything? From what I seen from other Bloggers that already have some of the clothes of the collection, some love it, others not that much, some compliment the material used on the clothes, other dislike the prices. Even though is "affordable" Versace clothes, the price is still a bit high, some say it's more expensive than Lanvin's clothes collection.
Did you know that apparently there is one red dress, that only TWO were made? IN THE WHOLE WORLD? One I don't know who has it, but the other one was featured in a Giveaway on Andy Torres Style Scrapbook blog.
Today the most common thing that I see on the Blogs that I follow is people that went to the preview yesterday at H&M.... I will see it next time I go to Lisbon lol.

Here you can see some of the clothes of the collection with the video commercials!

Focus Group for Sleek MakeUP 2011

(WARNING this post is going to be looooooooooooooooooong :P)

Hello everyone and welcome to my new followers.

Today I will tell you about my participation on a Focus Group for a makeup brand called Sleek MakeUP!

I already knew Sleek MakeUP, I saw in some stores (I think in Superdrug) when I was studying in the UK, but I never tried or bought anything. I also saw many reviews on Youtube about the brand, many makeup gurus have it, and in overall they say good things about it.

So, I saw on Inês’ Blog an online form that we could fill in, in order to participate on the Focus Group, IIIIII NEVER thought that I would be chosen, and when I received an email from Inês saying that I was selected – among with other 14 girls for her group – I was static, I really was.

There was initially 2 focus groups, but they decided to do 3. I was on the second group, Saturday the 12^th at 11AM, at the Hotel Plaza in Lisbon.

I arrived early, so I stayed a bit on the outside of the Hotel (lol), on my way there I spotted Inês, but I wasn’t 100% sure it was her, so I kept on walking. We met on the outside of the Hotel, Inês came with Ana Rita from “Let’s talk about Beauty” and Ana from “Ana naSuécia”, and then I also met Su from “Beleza q.b.”.

Lazy Sunday #2

Hi everyone, today I was suppose to post something about yesterday, but still I have a lot of editing to do and prepare a text.... and I'm feeling kinda tired today. Yesterday I participated on a Focus Group for Sleek MakeUp! I can tell you that it was wonderful, and it was a great experience, I would definitely love to do it again. Then I did some little shopping >.< and went out at night with my mates, and today I'm feeling kinda dead, and lazy, so I will tidy up my bedroom and reply to your comments :).

Much Love <3 Karen 

xoxo

Musical Friday #24

Hello everyone. How was your week?

For me it was like this, I managed to get my glasses back. The dinner with my Uni colleagues last week it went well, it ended up being at an Italian restaurant instead of a Mexican. This week I went to my University to talk about my internship situation, is still a work in progress… but then I took the advantage since I was already at my Uni, to take care of some papers, and one my way home I noticed a mistake – no surprise there if you studied at the same University as me – they basically forgot to put one Module of mine on the Certification -_- American Cinema, so I had to go back and tell them about it, and they have to do a new one.

Then I had some problems with my mobile, I had to ask for a new SIM card, for like the 3^rd or 4^th time :/ aaannddd tomorrow I will participate on a Focus Group :D I will tell you more about it, after it, stay tuned ;)

Duran Duran – Girl Panic! – New Single – This is what happens when you mix Duran Duran, Top Models – like Naomi, Cindy, Eva, Helena, and I'm not sure who is the 5th one – and Dolce & Gabbana :P

October's Shopping

Hi everyone,

These are a few things that I received and bought last month :).

This Sandals I actually received them in September. It was a gift from my mother, I only wore them twice before the cold weather kicked in. I think that are suppose to be from Seaside.

Rihanna on the cover of Vogue UK - November 2011

Yep that's Rihanna all glammed up 40/50's style showing her curves for the November issue of British Vogue.

Outfit #5

Outfir #5 by karenussene featuring red satchel handbags

SHY SHY black hosiery
$22 - yesstyle.com

H M zipper skirt
£20 - hm.com

Shoes
€58 - nelly.com

Red satchel handbag
£82 - liberty.co.uk

Yves Saint Laurent gold tone jewelry
£120 - net-a-porter.com

Oliver Peoples retro style sunglasses
$280 - oliverpeoples.com

Casio Classic Leisure Alarm Chronograph Watch (A168WG-9EF) - £30.00 -...
£30 - watchshop.com

A Gift from Sephora #3

Hello everyone, how's your Sunday going? Mine? With rolls on my head haha, I just finished putting rollers on my hair.
Ok so, my Birthday is in April, and I have a membership card with Sephora - those ones that, everytime you buy something you collect point - and this year during the month on April I was still in Prague, and what Sephora does to their customer that have the membership card is to give them a little Bday gift. So my mother took care of it for me. She told me the two options was either to accept like some point to my card, or some eyeshadows, I told her to get the eyershadows :P.
So as you can see from the pictures below, those are the eye shadows that Sephora gave me.
On the left we have Nº18 Coffee Brown, and on the right Nº8 Universal Beige. Huummm what can I say more about them - I'm not really big of a guru makeup artist lol -... I like them of course, I like the colours, I think they are a good set for a basic smokey eye, in terms of pigmentation I think it's also good. Now, in terms of duration I haven't use them that much, for long periods of time, but so far so good, they stay in place, I don't know if it because it's Fall now, or simply that they are good.
Have you ever tried eyeshadows from Sephora? I think this was my first time, and I'm pleased.
Thank you Sephora ;) xoxo

Musical Friday #23

Hello everyone, how was your week? Mine... nothing special. Last Sunday I was at a family lunch, from my aunt-grandmother's 83rd birthday. Other than that I'm still waiting for a response for my Prague situation... If I'm going or not... and still waiting for my God damn glasses. I was suppose to get a call on Sunday, but nothing... so yesterday I call them to check on the status and the Lady told me that they finished fixing them the evening before, and that they are ready to be collected. 

Today I'm going out, and have dinner somewhere in Lisbon at a Mexican restaurante with a few of my Faculty colleagues and before meeting them I will pass at the Optician and collect my glasses. I just hope that this time around they did a good service. In the mean time I'm trying to decide what to wear, Plan A was suppose to be a skirt, but with all this rain going on, and the last time I was in Lisbon and it was raining... it was also bloody windy :/, so now Plan B, pants/jeans.

As for the weekend, no plans so far. What are you guys up too?
Enjoy the music, this time around is a bit more Hip Hop/Club style.

FreeSol - Role Model ft. Justin Timberlake – New Single – Justin is BACK! …. Well sort of… you can see him rapping in this video, but there no info on when will he release a new album, I guess for the moment he is focusing more on acting.

Getting ready for Winter

Do you guys like it? I did this at the Polyvore website, it's so much fun!

Getting ready for Winter by karenussene featuring a mini skirt

Isabel Marant military sweater
$775 - barneys.com

Mini skirt
£6.40 - peacocks.co.uk

Shoes
nelly.com

Ring
$20 - topshop.com

Rag Bone fedora hat
$140 - stylebop.com

Cable knit scarve
topman.com

Celine handbags, Code: 16521 3HSC 38NO, Main color:black,...
$2,099 - styledrops.com