In between stages

It's officially summer 

and I'm officially free of any duties whatsoever!

I am happy to announce that I'm done with my finals (the last one was yesterday) and I can now focus on much more important things, such as sleeping, reading, swimming, running (which I've missed like crazy) and simply laying around. It is, after all, my last summer free of worries until I start college.

In another order of thought, these are the first pics with my new 50 mm lens ( I've been craving this little sucker for quite a while now) and my new hair color ( whiskey on the rocks, please!! ). I feel like I'm developing into a new person and it's quite a good vibe.

However, stay fabulous and love on, as I'm now leaving for a lovely evening to celebrate a friend's 21th birthday.

Cheers, mates!

Spring?

It seems like spring is just passing by these days, one hour at a time. Today, while looking for a present for a friend's birthday, I got the opportunity of snapping some pics with my newest T-shirt, that I got for Takko. It was a whole lot of a bargain, costing only about 5 euros and it's made entirely out of cotton. I'm also loving the simple text message: Why not?. Besides this, you can see my Chuck Taylor's, comic book edition.

What is more, I'm leaving for Craiova this Monday and will be spending around a week there. I'm not going to promise any posts, as I usually do, but if you want to stay up to date, check my instagram feed, over at @shoependant .

Winter Baroque

Oh, the joyful feeling winter brings! The snow falling like an assorted melody, children making angels in the snow, Christmas, New Year's Eve, white nights. Sadly enough, it seems like they've all passed and that we're stuck in a meadow of mud and dead flora. I'm confident that by my birthday we're going to be back in a winter wonderland, but by then, I'm fueling myself through mocking the reminiscent dirt with my sunny pictures. Not recently did I realize there were so many wonderfully painted places in my town, but I am only now treating them as they should be.

In addition to that, here's my typical outerwear for the winter. Living in a country that has very high temperatures in summer and very cold in winter, I can allow myself to adopt two different personalities. In summer, I am cheery/chirk/debonair, whilst in winter, I adopt a more bohemian look, with baroque prints (thank God for this year's trends), suede and dark colors.

I'll leave you to enjoy the ultimate winter accesory: the (suede)headband. Also, keep your fingers crossed as I just submitted this post for IFB's Project #78: Winter Accessory Essentials

To new beginnings!

Happy New Year, my lovelies! May 2013 be your year and may you get the chance to fulfill all of your deepest dreams and desires!
The reason I am writing today and haven't written with regard to last year is the fact that I adore starting fresh, getting a clean cut from everything in the past. I cannot say I haven't learned anything in the last 12 months nor that it has been anything but an amazing year, but I feel that these future 4 seasons will be more than extraordinaire!
I hope you celebrated the passage from yesterday to today properly ( meaning exactly as your heart desired) and that you'll remain fabulous!
See you tomorrow with the outfit I wore for New Year's Eve!

New Year's Eve hot pieces

We're almost out of 2012 and into 2013. It's been a year full of memories and a lot of new friendships, oportunties and so many more. But what's a great year without a great ending? I am talking, of course, about the New Year's Eve party! No matter where you choose to celebrate, be it at home with your boyfriend, with some friends at their place, in a restaurant or maybe in a casino, don't forget to shine and be fabulous! This is the time when you can go a little bit over the tap, use those feather fake eyelashes, take out your glitter eyeliner and 6 inch heels. This is the time when you are allowed to indulge yourself in dressing up like in your favorite magazine editorial.
Bearing this in mind, I compiled 5 sets of outfits for the red carpet Diva, for the true fashionista (although she needs no indication of what to wear), the delicate ingenuous female, the womanly rock muse, that individual that consists of a walking enigma and, of course, the perfect outfit for The Shoependant!


Enjoy.

Swimsuits for this summer

Christmas is around the corner!

Hello, dears! My post title sounds a little bit off right now, doesn't it? But you should know that you can get some pretty amazing deals if you start from now. And what I adore most about Christmas? The fact that it's the perfect time for feeling loved. 

This year I'm a planning this big dinner with many of my friends : pork, sarmale, traditional food, red wine and so on, listening to carols and just having a great time around the tree. And since I want to feel so special, I think I need a great outfit. So, where do we start from? Well the shoes, ofcourse!

I've made a selection of shoes that I think are suitable for your Christmas parties and that work along with current trends!

Buna, dragilor! Asa-i ca titlul postarii de azi suna destul de sarit de pe fix? Dar ar trebui sa stiti ca gasiti niste reduceri incredibile daca v-apucati de-acum de cumparaturi. 

Stiti ce ador eu la Craciun? Faptul ca e momentul perfect sa ma simt iubita. 

Anul acesta planuiesc o cina mare cu multi prieteni: fripturi de porc, sarmale, mancare traditionala, vin rosu si altele, noi ascultand colinde si distrandu-ne in jurul pomului de Craciun. Si de vreme ce vreau sa ma simt atat de speciala, cred ca am nevoie de un outfit potrivit. Deci, de unde incepem? De la pantofi, normal!

Am selectat niste perechi de pantofi care, cred eu, se potrivesc petrecerilor de Craciun si care merg mana-n mana cu trendurile actuale!

Uniforms

Though I miserably failed to post my back to school look , I realise now that almost everything I got for school this year is useless. Because yes, after 2 years of highschool,they try, once more , to implement a standard uniform. The regulations require grey ,office trousers, white(light pink/grey/light blue/black) shirt and navy blazers. This seems quite okay,right ? But hey , today , our principle got us all out in front of the school to tell us that our uniform has to look like these 3 items put together :

TopShop blouse (see more cotton blouses)

Salvatore ferragamo (clipped to polyvore.com)

Blazer (see more tailored blazers)
And yes, we are not allowed to use black trousers . And jeans (no matter what color are not accepted!!! ) . Also, they had to tell us that we are to avoid wearing too much make-up. And check this out : our heels should be of a minimum height , if non-existent !

Do you agree with these pieces ? Or even better : do you have any uniform suggestions ?

What's in my bag ?

I've been thinking of doing this post for a while now,but never lived up to taking the photos . Now,thanks to Ifb's Project number 8 I got round up to posting it.

Bag : comes from Topshop and it's the thing I treasure most among my fashion items.
I-pod: I won this I-pod at an English contest a couple of years ago and it's something I wear everywhere with me . It's been a true friend . Like they say : Earplugs in ,reality out!
Lipbalms and lipsticks : I have tons of lipbalms,but these 3 are my favourites ! The TopShop lipstick was my closest choice,because I usually have a bold lipstick on me . The Nivea one is a balm that makes my lips feel really light and the Carmex one has saved my chopped mouth so many times!
Mirror: Mirror,mirror on the wall, Who's the fairest of them all ? This is something my mother got for me on a trip and it's so precious ! I'd love to make it something that passes generations :)
Phone : I feel really useless without this ,even though it's got really used-up buttons from so much texting !
Keys : Now they're indispensable, but there used to be a time when I didn't even know how many keys I should have to open my own house !
Notebook : It's something I use all the time, just like an agenda,though I use it to draw designs,to write short stories or sometimes just like a diary, like my little confident.
Wallet : I don't use it that much,holding my money in my pockets, but it's really girly and has a retro vibe,so I adore having it in my bag <3

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Summer + blog posts ideas

I never feel like summer begins on the first of June. It starts when I first leave my home-town to go to on a holiday . And my first holiday of the year begins on Tuesday. I'm leaving to Varna,Bulgaria for 5 days and then to Constanta for another 5 days during the EYP Balkan's Forum . I can't wait to spend 10 days with some amazing people and do some sun-bathing,swimming,learning new stuff and everything nice that will happen. I hope I will be able to keep you up to date with the events in the EYP ,like I did last time. Plus,here are some things I picked up for the trip : my heart-shaped TopShop sunglasses and the other two I got last week from H&m. Plus a new lipstick from Avon,the shade : Instant Mocha.

Plus, I was thinking it would be nice to help you keep your posts flowing ,not reaching blogger's block , because it can became quite annoying !
1.My most important tip is to plan ahead. You wake up and have this amazing idea for a blog post. You go wash your face and the idea is gone. So,as soon as you get an idea,write it down. This is why keeping a list is really important,so the next time you want to post something,you can just choose one of the already existing ideas.
2.Daily outfit : this is probably the simplest thing . Just try fixing something cute that day and your post will be so much simpler to handle.
3.Post about a friend's or relative's style. Just take photos of your friends in which you like their outfits.
4.While looking through Glamour.com I found this really interesting article about tattoos and it imediatelly popped into my mind : I want a tattoo,why not share some inspiration with my friends? So I'm planning a really inspiring post on the tattoo I'm dreaming of . So write something about something you've been planning : like a dream vacation or ideal project.
5.What's in your bag ? It's easy : just take a photo of the content of your bag. You can really get to know a person based on what she/he is like.
6.Think of something that is really important for your blog . Write about that .
7.You have a special care routine ? Like make-up tips,curly/straight hair tips or hair-dos.
These are just a couple of ideas on my already existing list. And I have to say,I'm saving a lot of them because I'm quite full of ideas now and it's a very happy time.

Last week's events

Blogspot.com has some serious issues . It had this huge service gap during the past few days (as most of you already know) and it has messed with both my mind and my blogging. So here are the two cutest outfits I wore last week :

This one was from when I went with some friends to celebrate a birthday . The portrait is not the most flattering,but I have this great complexion in the photo with which I am in love !

Spring

It's really starting to look like spring and it feels so good ! But it's awful that during this exact period I have to study for all my finals and catch up to all school objects and stuff. But today I got a little time and decided to take some photos of my outfit (today I felt the need to dress up and be in harmony with the sun ) .
Sorry for the short post : I'm off to Chemistry and History !

I lost her in the cold

Here are the last photos from 2010 . A friend of mine took them : Andra . I thought I should post them later than never , because I sort of really like them.