Happy Birthday Princess!

Yesterday we were celebrating my friend's birthday.Her name is Yaroslava and she is a very beautiful high society girl so as a joke I call her princess sometimes. Too bad she lives in Switzerland now so I can't see her frequently though she is a close friend for me and I really love her.
We had a dinner with her family and then we went to one bar to drink some coctails. The restaurant where we were celebrating her BD with her family was very pompous and I realized that a person doesn't need expensive meals, champagne and presents for her/his BD to be happy- she needed just a BD cake and twenty candles but they haven't prepared them in that high-flown restaurant and she got them only at that plain bar!





Quite drunk-already at home.

My outfit was very classy(white silk blose with a bow, black skirt, retro style tights and black pumps(my fave and quite old Moschino pumps)) and I looked very appropriate at the restaurant but when we moved to the bar I looked quite weird for such place but i did't care because it was really a great and lovely evening.


P.S. May be this format of my blog is not very handy, but I changed it specially for this post because I think that these photos are so beautiful that you should see them in details.

Tips: How not to be like everyone else

Now we can see globalization clearly-if you visit lookbook you can see that it does not matter from what countries people are they look almost the same. We can blame internet or mass media or fashion magazines for it but it’s a fact and now it’s very precious to be special and unlike. So here are some tips that I think can be useful.

Try to abstract your mind from fashion magazines and blogs. (Yes, they are really interesting but they make such profound effect on your subconsciousness that you starting to copy outfits from them and it becomes difficult to show your own personality through your outfits. Besides that you can see that almost all fashion magazines show almost the same at one season. )

After this think about yourself and try to understand what kind of person you really are and find your own style that clearly shows your character.

Find a good tailor. (I’m sure that all of us have some ideas and dream about a dress or other clothes that they can’t find in any store. In this case tailor is a great helper because usually you can’t realize your ideas just because you don’t know how to sew. Another advantage of tailored clothes is that they fit perfectly.)

Wear DIY things.( when you make things with your own hands using your own ideas it’s almost impossible to meet someone wearing the same)

Buy unique or handmade things.( If you aren’t clever with your hands, Etsy is a great place to buy really unique and special accessories and clothes)

Buy vintage things and adapt them to your body.( It’s not a fresh idea but not all do this. Though it’s also a great way to stay unique.)

Try to find new ways of wearing your clothes(wear your skirt like a top, wear your t-shirts with prints inside out, wear a scarf like a belt and so on)

Don’t be afraid of experiments and don’t be afraid of being absurd. Only those people who don’t think about other’s opinion stick to our memory and become fashion icons.For example : Isabella Blow, Anna Piaggi, Daphne Guinness, Lady Gaga. At first people can laugh at your style but then they start to copy it.)

Find peculiar feature in your appearance and accentuate them. (Your specific features make you different from others. For example: if you have very pale skin-take care of it and be proud of it, if you are curvy- emphasize your shapes and feel yourself very feminine, if you have curly hair-don’t try to straighten them because curls are really nice!)

I hope that these tips will be helpful for you. Be yourself, be beautiful and be happy!

UNIQUE accessories-Links à la Mode

One of my favourite occupations is making DIY projects! I had many ideas lately and I realized some of them. The results were quite nice and I was thinking - why shouldn't I make my own line of handmade accessories?! So I made some bold headbands (Blair Waldorf would die for them!)and decided to sell them on Etsy-great place for all things handmade! All headbands are made in one copy so they are absolutely unique! You can buy them HERE.

100% silk with paisley pattern, peacock feather, beads, Swarovski crystals

white real leather with crocodile pattern, studds

very soft real leather, studds

total black-Links à la Mode

This is how my outfit looked today. It was an ordinary day at university and I also visited my tailor because she asked me to make some accessories for her customers. My class-mate told me that I looked like a famous ukrainian politician Julia Timoshenko and he was begging me to make a hair style like she has. Well...it's a good idea because I really like her hair style and my hair are long enough for it and I'm sure that I can pull it off.Today I was wearing very thin black tights for the first time in the last two years I think. I realize now that they are much more sexy than thick tights and that I'm already sick of thick tights.






Coat-Andrew Mackenzie
Shirt-Zara
Skirt-Kenzo
Belt-Etro
Shoes-69
Bag-Uterique

PROM TAG

All my thoughts lately are about my PROM this summer-as I told you before I graduate from the university. PROM is a special event for all girls I think because it's a day when you want to look and feel like a princess and when you want to show all your class-mates and others how beautiful you are. I decided to show you my photos from my school PROM and when I was looking through them I was shocked because I realized that four years have past since that day. So here you can see some photos from the time whe I was young and light-hearted.(I'm 17 on these photos)
I like looking what dresses girls choose for their PROM because you always can see personality through the dress.So I decided to make a tag and ask five girls to show their PROM photos.

So the rules are:

1)choose your three fave photos from your school PROM
2)explain why you have chosen that dress and where did you get it
3)tag five other girls

I tag: Alice Point, Doe Deere Blogazine, Eyes of me, The cherry blossom girl, The Freelancer's Fashionblog


I've never been an adherent of minimalism so for my school PROM I was wearing Just Cavalli silk dress with some abstract pattern and I had some peacock
feathers in my hair(too bad you can't see it on the photos) and I was very very suntanned.


me and my class-mates


afterparty

Good mood and today's outfit

Today I was a little bit more cheerful and I wanted to wear something nice to my university.My dear friend made this hair style for me. I like it so much but unfortunately I can't do it myself because my hair are too long.So here is my today's outfit. The sun is shining almost every day and life is getting better!
And I have some news-may be I'll be working as a style adviser quite soon.

Shirt-Etro
Dress-Zara

Beriberi

A week ago I was working at one photo shoot with my friend and I was doing make up for her. We had only one hour at the photo studio but I think that the result is quite nice.Here are just two photos but I like them most of all.


I don't know why but I just have no energy lately and I don't want to do anythig at all. May be it's some kind of beriberi. Because of that I have no desire for dressing up or something like this.So now I have no photos of my outfits to show you. How sad...And by the way, I'm already sick of my empty header and I'm thinking about something really beautiful for it.Another problem for me now is that i'm thinking about my PROM dress because in June I graduate from my university. I have many ideas but i'm very nervous because I want to look absolutely perfect.

tips: flawless skin

If you look at some person and think that he/she is beautiful be sure that 50% of such impression depends on how smooth and fresh his/her skin looks. It may be obvious but not all of us remember such simple rules of skin care:

-sleep well(we all like watching blogs and so on till late hours but our skin restores while we sleep so you need at list 8-9 hours of healthy sleep if you don't want to look like a ghost in the morning)

-don't overdo with alcohol (we all like parties but try not to drink too much because alcohol harms your liver and your skin health depends a lot on you liver condition. If you can't have fun without alco it's better to drink red wine)

-don't smoke( I think I don't have to explain why)

-eat right food: vegetables, fruits and fish(it containes Omega3)

-drink a lot of water(it cleans all your organism)

-take vitamins: Omega 3, Vitamin A and E and other conbined vitamins.

-do sport and go for a walk to take some fresh air(it improves blood circulation and your skin becomes more fresh and glowing)

-don't stress too much and find some ways to relax( stress makes your skin old)

-clean your skin properly twice a day. You should use at least three things every day- purifying lotion( I use Kenzoki-Smooth bamboo water and I really can reccomend it to you), cleansing foam(I use Biotherm or Clinique) or gel and moisturizing cream(I use Biotherm- Biopur). And please don't try to save on these things! Hey!It's your face after all-the most visible part of your body! Twice a week you should also use some exfoliant to refresh your skin(I use Lancome-Smoothing Exfoliating cream for a long time already and I really like it).It would be great if you use some moisturizing and ceansing masks sometimes(Kenzoki also has a great Energisant face mask).

- take sun-baths(you take vitamin D from it. But don't overdo with it because few minutes per week in solarium makes your skin beautiful and more makes it old. I think you don't want to have wrinkles in your early age)

-If you have really serious skin problems then go to a cosmetologist and a doctor( you may have serious problems with your health and your skin shows it)

So that's all! I hope you take care of yourself and stay beautiful!
Do you have any beauty secrets?

My Birthday-girls just wanna have fun!

me and my sweety


21 candles

unique cake



hookah is my weakness


I think we are a nice couple :)


I thought such coincidences can be only in movies!My dress is tailoed and my friend's dress is bought via internet(we don't have Acne in Saint-Petersburg)

me and my dear friend Julia

Me and my girls.We are singing "diamonds are the best girl's friends"!

Happy Birthday to me!

Happy Birthday to me!I'm 21 now...damn..quite old I am...kidding!)))
Today I'm going to celebrate my birthday with my family and a great party with friends is planned for Saturday! Presents, champagne, birthday cake...mmmm....
And now I have to go and choose my outfit for university because I want to look really gorgeous today!

happy birthday sister!

Today we were celebrating my sister's birthday at my mother's restaurant and it was really funny: clouns, tricks, hens, rabbits, rats...etc. I was very glad to see my relatives all together.There was such a warm and cordial climate.

Me and my sister(she is 12 now)

The cutest one

"Happy birthday Maria!"

It was really a masterpiece!This cake was made according to my sister's sketch of cake of her dream.

Today I was wearig my new fave head band and I got lots of compliments.I'm crazy about blue lately as you can see.




Head band: Featherbrain
Blouse: Formul@
Skirt: H&M
Tights: Topshop
Shoes: 69

Blair

Today I had a nice evening with my dear friends. We watched "Bride wars" and had some drinks at our favourite cafe. Unfortunately I didn't take photos of my outfit because my camera really sucks! I was dressing up very fast but when I was ready I realized that I was looking like Blair Waldorf!OMG!I think I shouldn't watch Gossip girl so much.haha. I was wearing black skirt with tulip shape,silk white blouse with bow and cobalt blue tights. I wanted to add some colour to my outfit so I added cobalt blue(tights), orange(head band) and crimson(lips).

inspired by these children of spring

Today is the first day of spring!My congratulations!The nature is starting to change and our lives too. I couldn't resist and bought these adorable tulips for myself. I was so inspired by their amazing colour that I decided to repaint my nails.