Breakfast of the growing thin fashionista

black tea with mint(no sugar), rural cottage cheese, fig(mmmm...my fave fruit ever!) and of course a fresh issue of Elle magazine!

It's time now to take care of my body(strange,right?the summer is over and only now I start to think about it) so when it comes to food I choose the best quality and taste against quantity.
This time I was pleasantly surprised by new issue of Elle because it was much more interesting then usually.A new team was working for it and I can see it clearly because it became very witty, glamorous and creative. Before it Russian Elle was something like Cosmopolitan Russia-a magazine for tired housewifes.

Busy blogger

Hi everyone! Some of you were asking why my posts became so rare.Believe me I really have a wish for blogging now and I have a lot of photos and ideas to show you but this week I was staying with my sister and brother because my mother was out of town and I was very very busy cooking meals for the whole family and looking after these frolicsome children.Tomorrow I go back to my sweet flat and next days you can expect colorful posts about my plans for fall that concern fashion and life style!
Stay tuned!
I really love my readers and appreciate your attention!
xoxo
Nataly

behind the scenes

So finally here is a post about the photo shoot for my mothers shop!
It took place at a new art galary/restaurant/boutique/don't even know how to call it in general!But anyway I can say that it's totaly unusual place for our city. It is called Loft project "Storeys" and it is situated in old building of bread-baking plant. I was working for this photo shoot as a make up artist/stylist so I had to make all the looks from head to toes. I'm working as a stylist only for half a year now and I have a good advice for all of you who wants to become a stylist-start collecting costume jewellery and other accessories right now because if you work at photo shoot yo need a HUGE amount of such things to complete the looks. All clothes on the model are from my mothers shop except the shoes and costume jewellery(they are from my own collection).
Some more words about the place...As I already told you that day I was feeling absolutely happy because that place was giving me such a great charge of inspiration that I believed that I can fulfil my dreams even in Saint-Petersburg. The best thing is that all the people that come there are extremely creative and that makes me believe that I'm not the only person here who wants to do not dull office work but create something special and that I can earn a living doing what I really like.Now I feel that my life is changing ,I'm getting mature and that day my inner voice whispered me that I do right things and that I'm on the right track.
All the photos that you see here are some kind of "behind the scenes" and made by me. Photos from the fall campaign are not ready yet so I'll show you them later.
Concentrated on work for 100%)))

OMG!What a beatiful face!!!I'm ready to make it up all the time!I've already arranged with Olga about some future make up projects.

The place where most of the photos were taken was very modern so I decided to do quite an edgy make up for eyes and make pale lips.

Big part of my collection of studded things was used for this look.

Posing when have some spare minutes.

Wearing my fave tee by Danny Robers again. Black and white is my fave color combination now.

Watching the intermediate results with our creative crew.

Relaxing.

The cafe.

Garden of rubber stones-installation by Petr Belyi.

Tea break.Every trifle there has it's own concept.

You have to be always ready to adjust make up and hair during the photo shoot.

Urban jungle.

One of my fave looks.

To be continued...Stay tuned!

new dress, new ring

Give me more!

Hi everyone!I'm sorry that I didn't make the post that I promised to make! My mother was a little bit sick and I had to help her with some household chores. Tomorrow I go back home and I'll post about the photo shoot.
These days I was reading all the blogs that I have in my list and I'm a bit bored because people don't update too often now because they are on vacation .I need some new fresh and really inspiring blogs to read and watch. It has to be something with strong personality(not only pictures from magazines and so on) and soul. Something like style diary or something about life style in general. I'm waiting from you some names and references of great blogs!I really NEED TO REFRESH MY BLOG LIST.Thank you!
xoxo

the fop

Hi everyone! I had a wonderful day today! I was working as a make up artist/stylist at a photo shoot for the fall campaign for my mothers shop. It took place at one really amazing and very inspiring place, so tomorrow you can expect a loooong post from me about the shooting with backstage photos(they turned out really great!) because today I'm too tired(but happy!) to post all the photos.
On this photo you can see my outfit that I was wearing for the trying on two days before the shooting. It was a case when the whole outfit was built around one piece-this vintage cat eye frames(may be you remember them) that I bought in Helsinki. When I try them on I immediately want to make some kind of retro look and of course wear red lipstick. When I was dressing up I didn't think of any character that could be similar to me but then my friend's husband(he is not interested in fashion at all though) told me that I looked like one character with very strange name Polza(translated as "benefit")from the film "The Fops" and he was right partly! Anyway I really like this outfit because I rarely look so feminine.

Wearing:
Dress-Formul@ Joven
Shoes-Carvela
Bag-LV
Sunglasses-vintage
Earrings-kookygems

must have

Every season I choose a new color of nail polish that I like the most-this summer it was definetely sky blue. I found this nail polish by Dance Legend №343 at one beauty show in the middle of the winter when I was just dreaming about summer and now I use it almost all the time.

Shirt-Fórmul@ Joven
Nail Polish-Dance Legend №343

flea market treasures

The frames already have dark-brown lenses and all these tiny cute things from Helsinki flea market are going to be necklaces.

Bad blogger is back!

Hi,guys!I'm finally back from Finland! I had a great time there as I already told you,but in fact there is no better place like home!I'm getting pleasure now staying at my own apartment, doing some small ordinary affairs and meeting with my friends.
I have some great news! I was featured at the new issue of Style Sample magazine(Thank you Tamia for including me!) and I'm very excited because it's a first time when my blog is featured in some magazine. You can read a small interview with me here. I was reading this online magazine from it's first issue because I think the concept itself is great(it's a magazine about and for fashion bloggers) and it feels that every issue is worked in workmanlike manner.
This outfit I was wearing when I was going to Finland.It is very simple but I think that you don't need too much when you have tanned skin after vacation on a sea side. As you see I'm wearing a tee by Danny Roberts. I can say that it is my fave tee now because the picture on it is great and it fits right.I was also getting a lot of attention from guys there in Helsinki(sometimes you don't need to wear heels and dresses to look attractive because such relaxed look can also be very nice).I have a new bag from spanish brand Purificacion Garcia.It looks like Hermes Birkin bag and Chanel 2.55 were making love and had a baby but anyway I like it because it has amazing tint of red(I'm crazy about red colour lately!) and it is made of very very soft leather and it looks cool with almost everything in my wardrobe.
I have a lot of photos from my vacation that I'll show you these days,so stay tuned!
Love
Nataly


Wearing:
Tee-B&F by Danny Roberts
Shorts-from Italy
Sandals-Spirit
Bag-Purificacion Garcia

treasures

Well...this day was really amazing! In the morning I went with my b-friend's mother to Hietalahti Market to do some thrift shopping where I got some treasures(photos later) like super-stylish eye wear just for 2 euros(just need to change lenses), super-cute moomy broch and some tiny stuff for dolls(I'm going to make some necklaces using it). The weather today was absolutely magical-very soft sun,not hot,not cold! Helsinki was looking very different today because it was surprisingly busy. All people are suntanned and happy like it's Riviera and not a northen city. After shopping day we went to Robert's coffee terrace to have some latte and I saw Vesa Perakyla passing by very close to me! I was glad to see him because it's quite curiously to see fashion bloggers in real life(he looked chic and relaxed as always) but my mouth was full of coffee so unfortunately I couldn't even say hello to him. Oops!
I'm going to stay some more days here so may be I'll meet someone interesting again.

Tervetuloa

I'm in Helsinki again! This month I feel like a true jet-setter because in fact I live on my lugguage almost last four weeks. I returened to Helsinki because my boy-friend works here and he asked me to stay with him.I didn't mind really because I get pleasure walking around Helsinki(it's a place of serenity) and eating Lakka hillo confiture.I don't intend to do shopping(except thrift shopping-everything is for 4 or 3 euros these days at UFF,but I'm afraid that for such price only rags are left there,so we'll see...) this time so I took my sport wear to do jogging and spend my time actively.After all the tasty meals and vine in Spain I need to pay attention to my body.
Unfortunately I can't download photos from my camera to this computer so I can't show you my latest outfits this week:(
P.S.:I have some spare time now so if you want me to make a post about anything special or have any questions-just ask.You can leave a comment or send me an email.

Graduation-one day, two outfits

Hi everyone!:)I'm back from Spain and Finland! It was really a nice journey with a lot of shopping and having fun with my friends! I'm here in Saint-Petersburg for few days because of my mothers birthday and then I go to Helsinki for a week again! It's like my second home now! I have lots of photos from Spain with bright sunny outfits, but they were taken by my friend who is a true perfectionist so he refuses to give me these photos before he work them up.Hope they will turn out great!Here are some photos from my graduation. That day I was wearing two of my fave dresses.
I was a bad blogger lately so I'm going to spoil you with regular posts of my outfits within the next few days.

I had no time in the morning for setting my hair. Thanks God I have this amazing headband from FeatherBrain(so it helps me when I have bad hair days) and i'm a make up artist myself so getting good make up early in the morning is not a problem for me.
With my dear friend Julia. Thank you for supporting me that day!


With my class-mate.

Wearing:
Headband-FeatherBrain
Dress-tailored
Shoes-Zara

This dress is vintage from 80's(I purchaed it in Paris). I realised that cut of the dresses from 80's fits me perfectly.

prom night

Hi everyone! Now I'm blogging from Helsinki. I've spent here two days doing some shopping(not so successful-damn!I've missed the collection by Matthew Williamson for H&M and I didn't manage to buy Lula magazine again!),walking in parks(i love bunnies!) and enjoing some traditional finnish meals(cloudberry confiture is to die for!).Unfortunately I didn't see any familiar faces of finnish bloggers during these days. Tomorrow I'm going to Spain for quite a long time to take sun baths and do shopping overdose.
I promised to show you my prom dress so I'm going to do it right now! I'm sure that it seems familiar to you though it was tailored. I must say that my prom was one of the happiest days in my life and others from my group also think so.First we had a dinner in one italian restaurant and it was so cool to talk with the owner only in italian all the evening,then we took a ride on limo and made some pro photos in beautiful places of our city and the last point was a beach club.
I'm very glad that I was studying with such interesting and funny people during these 4 years!Love them all!
I do my make up myself

It was first time when I asked my hair stylist to lift up my hair because with this dress shoulders should be uncovered.


Me and my class mates.Yes we had only one boy in our group and he is lucky mf because he was always among beautiful girls.


Having fun in limo




And the culmination of the night-Natasha gone wild!))))Believe me -it's not the craziest photo from this site!Others just shouldn't be seen by anybody)))

PS:I have so many photos to update but I'm not sure that I'll have access to the internet in Spain.When I come back to Russia I'll get some pro photos from my prom and I'll show them to you. In next post I'll show you some photos of my outfit from my graduation.Hope to see you soon.

Dress:tailored(with flowers handmade by me)
Clutch:Zara
Shoes:Carvela

graduating

I had the graduation ceremony today !yay!:)it was so happy and so sad day at the same time!More photos from that day and from my prom will be soon.

crapulent and absolutely happy

Well...I can say that my prom was a success. It was heavy shower all the evening but we were just laughing at the weather and having fun. Honestly I am very crapulent all day long today and I still feel like I'm drunk.I decided to come to my mothers place because I've spent all my money for my chic prom and dress(it was tailored) and I was very hungry this morning-home-made soup is a great treat when you are crapulent. Unfortunately one of the flowers from my dress suffered quite a tragic fate)))But it's a long story. Now I need to find some money for the dry-cleaning because after the stormy party my dress looks like a mess. I've made some photos with my camera and we also had a photographer. I'll show you the photos from my camera soon and the professional photos will be ready only in two weeks.
I feel absolutely happy!
xoxo