The Countess Is Purple

Okay, so this happend:

Yup, purple happend. It was kiiind of an accident but i really like it!

Have a great day!

The Countess

It's a Lush life

Today I went shopping because I needed some sandals. I didn't find any nice ones so naturally I bought something else. That's just how it works. I went to one of my favourite stores ever: Lush. I love everything about that brand: Their products are amazing, they smell gorgeous, 80% of them are vegan, the rest is vegetarian, none of them are tested on animals, the packaging is all recycled plastic and paper and many of the products come on solid form in order to avoid unnecessary packaging. 

This time I bought the Stepping Stone foot peeling. I first was not really sure if I really wanted to get it because 5,50€ is not exactly cheap for me. In the end I still got it and I am really happy I did! It smells like lemon grass, perfect for summer and not only does it remove unnecessary skin cells but it also pampers the feet with oils. All in all, it is great!

I have realized that I own quite  few things from Lush which is mainly because I just looooove what Lush does to your skin and hair and I just feel good knowing that my money goes to a brand that shares my ethnical values and helps spreading them. So I have decided to show you my little 'collection'.

So far I have:

Hair:

- Ultimate Shine Shampoo Bar

- Karma Komba Shampoo Bar

- Seanik Shampoo Bar

- Jungle Solid Conditioner

-Veganese Conditioner (2nd bottle)

- two samples of R&B Hair Cream

Body: 

- Stepping Stone Foot Peeling

- Lemony Flutter Cuticle Butter

- Fresh Farmacy Cleanser

- a sample of Karma Kream

- two bath wands that were limited edition. The are mot on the picture because I forgot to get them out of the bath room. I got both of them for my birthday.

It sounds like alot, at least to me but many of those products were given to me as a present and I also got a gift card for Christmas. I am not one of those people who just go and spend 30e in a Lush store, I can't and and do not want to spend that amount of money on cosmetics. I basically go to Lush when I want to get a special treat for myself, it is always special to get in the store and choose a product. 

What about you, do you Lush? What do you think about the products, the brand, the ethnics?

Have a great day,

The Countess

Pure randomness

This is an absolutely irrelevant update on my life. Nothing important, no cool outfits, no politics, just loads of pictures. So this is what happend during the last weeks and days:

I made some vegan Irish Soda Bread. Or at least I tried. The result is something that looks like the surface of the moon. Or a toad...

It did taste delicious though!

I got Young Avengers #1 Director's Cut via ebay for 3€ and a few weeks later I bought the Young Avengers Children's Crusade part 1 in a comic book store. They only had it in German but as I have already read the whole Young Avengers series in English I can now laugh about all the weird mistakes they made while translating. Billy calls Teddy "Boyfriend". In the German version. They didn't translate the word at all. No German person would refer to their boyfriend as "Boyfriend" in German. Never. Ever. Nevertheless Young Avengers is also cool in German. Not as great as in English but still...

Young Avengers #1 Director's Cut

YA Children's Crusade N°1

After a long time of being unbelievably unproductive I did not only start to write a paper about Clara Zetkin and her influence on women's rights, I also sewed a pencil case. I used to carry my pencils loosely in my bag end ended up never finding one because my bag is like Hermione's: Endless and full of misteries. 

I made it from some felt I got from my boyfriend's mum for Christmas. The wings have been lying in my sewing box for more than a year now so I thought now would be a good time to finally use them. They remind me of Wiccan's head thingy and of Thor of course. 

I had some felt left so I made another bag:

Detail shot: The little black things are parts of volcanic rock because stones are awesome.

I don't really know what to do with this second, smaller bag. Imke, any chance you want it?

I'm obsessed with a nail polish at the moment. It's Genius In the Bottle by Catrice and it is nothing but beautiful!

Because it looks fantastic with old gold jewellery I decided to wear my selfmade Oscar Wilde necklace with it for the first time. I love that pendant so much but I never got around wearing it.

Okaaay, what else? Oh right, I got my nose pierced but you won't see a photo until it is all nice and healed. Right now it is still red and half a red nose is not exactly the prettiest thing in the world... Speaking of red: I coloured part of my fringe pink but it came out more as a wine red which is perfectly fine with me.

It's the best quality I got. In all the other pictures the colour was kind of...wrong...

Excuse the bathroom picture. If Blogger was Myspace and this was 2005 I'd be cool.

Okay, enough randomness. 

Before I go to bed, hip hip hooray for 20 followers!
I'd like to get your opinion: What kind of blog posts would you like to see?

Daily random stuff? More life/politics? More outfits? I'm planning on doing more weird history facts, how would you like that? I could do the same with English...

Good night,

The Countess

Another ribbon hair style

Yesterday was friend's birthday and because she learns Swedish she decided to have a themed party. She decorated everything in blue and yellow, played Abba and made typical Swedish food. I love themed partys so much, as any other excuse to dress up as well because in reality I am just a little girl that likes to play with her mum's clothes.

I decided to make a necklace and some bracelets out of blue and yellow ribbon but the most important part of the outfit was of course my hair-do!

This one was really, really easy to do and to my delight it didn't fall apart. Those photos were taken after about seven hours but I think the hair-do still looks ok. I didn't lose any of the rose hair pins, yay! I have a whole bunch of those rose bobby pins, you can get ten silk roses for a Euro here and bobby pins are pretty cheap too so I have them in red, pink, blue and yellow but I think I have some magenta coloured ones too, I just don't know where they are.

Do you like unusual hair- dos? 

Have a great evening,

The Countess

The Avengers Hair Style

Yesterday I went to the cinema to watch The Avengers for the second time in a week. To honour this wonderful, wonderful movie I decided to create a hair style that would suit the occasion. I chose red, white and blue ribbon to match the colours of the flag of the United States. I am not a fan of America AT ALL but as Marvel comes from the States I thought the colours would fit. 

If I were a super hero from the Marvel universe this is how my hair would look like when I were costume but not fighting. During fights my hair would be my weapon, it would function as rope, lasso and whip. It would be really long so I thought a bun would be good to hold it in place when not fighting. How weird is it that I even think about this kind of stuff?

A spoonfull of sugar...

...helps the medicine go down in the most delightful way.

Sometimes little things can spice everything up. The sun coming out on a day full of revising which gives one the possibility to do the boring reading outside or maybe a phone call from a friend on a busy day. At some days this spoonfull of sugar can be a hair style. Yes, a hairstyle. 

Today I met with some girls to do some crafting for the traditional may trees. In the end of the post I will giove you some information on the may trees but for now, let me continue with the hair style story. As I knew that I had to painting and wood cutting I didn't wear any rings or long necklaces and I also had to wear a toned down outfit. Also, I thought it would be better to wear my hair up because paint in the hair...sucks. All in all, I was sure I had to look really really boring today. Gosh, I sound superficial right now, don't I?

Well, Never mind. I saw the opportunity to do a nice hair updo which is something I don't do often enough. I have really long hair and this updo is one of those that I won't be able to do nicely when the hair grows any longer. It isn't really anything special, just three english braids, one on top of the head, one in the middle and one pretty low in the neck that are put in a bun. I love that hair style because of the wonderful silhuette it creates, it reminds me of a very simple version of the updos one can see in the Elizabeth movies. Normally I'd put a whole lot of accessoires in the bun but as my outfit was pretty simply it would have looked odd.

Did I mention it is unbe-fucking-lievable hard to take a decent picture of your own back of your head? Well, it is!

About may trees:

In Germany may trees are traditionally given to girls/women by their boyfriends/ suitors/ Counts in the night of the first of May. They are put in front of the girl's house and decorated with ribbon and a wooden heart with her name on it. The ribbon colours have special meanings as well as the chosen tree. Here is the one I got last year from the Count, or at least a close up:

Harry potter writing, The Count is awesome!

What is your personal spoonfull of sugar?

The Countess