Red lips

Actually I'm a bad example of a girl wearing red lipstick, you should use a lipliner if you decide to have a very strong colour on your lips, but I'm too cheap to go buying one. I got this lipstick from Make Up Store in colour "China red" for free from my dear friend. Going to start wearing this everyday. In that way everyday becomes a party ^_^

Dior's response

Remember the Sharon Stone incidence? I wrote an email to Dior criticizing them for having Sharon Stone on their campaigns after the scandal.

And here's what they answered.

<----   screenshot from my computer

My new style

Today I went to the BEST place for Chinese young people, it's called Xing Xi Gong, and it is on Wuning/ Dongxin Road. You can bling your phone there, take cute pictures, buy clothes, do manicures, etc.

I bought grey contact lenses and extensions, and did french manicure! I'm so satisfied with my new contacts!!! Have a look! My eyes get a lot bigger! 

I have facial hair problem (as you can see) so next time I come to Shanghai for a longer period of time I'm going to use laser to make them all disappear! Who wants a hairy face?

I NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT

I don't dare to stand on the scale, because I just know I have gained weight, and not just a little...
I was about 56kg when I came to SH, then I lost probably 2 kg after benig in Shanghai 2 weeks...and now I'm probably 58,59 (I'm just assuming), but I see it in the mirror that my arms are wider, also my belly AND legs. I don't know if it's my imagination? Because when I'm at the gym working out I look in the mirror and think I actually look a bit fit in my gym clothes. Maybe the gym mirror lies? (probably) BUT how on earth can my body go from rather fit to SLOPPY in just 3 weeks???
Anyway, I haven't been to the gym in 8 days!!!!!!!! Going tonight! Bodycombat, spinning class + weights.
I don't even like dressing up anymore :(

But then again, It's not often I'm in Shanghai, I want to eat the street food and all the cool dishes, etc. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

moustache

I went for a haircut on Saturday and it ended up with me looking like a monkey, the guy cut it so my fringe is long in the middle of the head but shorter on the ends. It looks weird. I'm considering to sue them.

Why does it look like I have a moustache on pictures? I swear, I don't have one, because I use to pick on them so they don't appear.

WOW

Here's some inspiration pics, enjoy!

www.lookbook.nu

I'm still trying to get over my fiasco picture from Attica Pool Party photographed by SmartShanghai :(

Sassy Saturday, Sleepy Sunday

Yesterday I spent my day at the hair salon, had dinner at SUBWAY (yummy!!!), met up with a friend, our initial plan was to check out MAO, but there were hardly no people there, so we also checked out those bars around such as Abbey Road (Danish party last night? I bet), etc. Ended up eating pizza at Sasha's. After that we went to M2 in Plaza66, great music but too many people and extremely smokey, so we decided to check out Lounge18 (the BEST place on the Bund). There we tried our pick up lines (we live in 21th century, of course us girls can do pick up lines as well), and WOW, it does work!!! I won' tell you the line though ;)

Today with NO makeup at all (let the skin relax a bit) I went shopping and now im going to spend time with my cousin. I bought a pair of jeans, a pair of shoes, and some things from Watson. I love Watson, they have EVERYTHING for a girl and they are all packed in supercute packages!!! Just look at my new wet tissues :) They even got Hello Kitty sanitary towels for women!!! It doesn't get cuter than this! Will buy lots of things from Watson back to Sweden! There's a 5 years old girl licing inside me :)

What a Hairday

I'm going to DYE my hair!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My friend knows a friend who works at Schwarzkopf hair salon in Shanghai, and now they are searching for hair models, so I can dye my hair for free! Schwarzkopf sounds very professional and I would like to do a change with my hair. I have never dyed my hair before so it would be fun to do it once in my lifetime, right? I'm considering brown highlights. I'm supernervous, think I will do it today after work. Promise to post pics after haha :)

OK, tomorrow saturday I'm going to dye my hair at 4pm!!!!!!!! Last day with black hair, haha
Well, if it really looks bad I can just dye it back to black.

I'm in such a PARTY MOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tonight AND tomorrow will be friggin awesome!

What's in my makeup bag?

What makes me annoyed is to wait for my girlfriends when they are putting on their makeup, because they are spending way too much time on it!!! I put makeup on me everyday but in maximum 2 minutes. The reason is that I only use black eye-shadow, black eyeliner and some blush. That Lancôme Adaptive foundation I haven't used in over 9 months, it might be time to throw it away ?

- Clinique rich eye cream I use in the morning, it loosens up the skin so it won't feel tight and puffy, and your eyes look more energetic. The best money I've ever spent!!!

- Mac black eyeshadow, it's ok I guess? As long as it's black.

- Lancôme black eyeliner, it's good, I also use another one from Clinique and it's quite good as well.

- Nars blush in colour Mata Hari, it's quite good, although Nars has been overhyped and I

 think it's slightly overrated.

- Yves Saint Laurent beige shimmering lipgloss, I like the package and the colour, you click on the end of the pen, and the gloss appears from the brush.

- Dior Kiss lipgloss, this one I only use for parties because of the colour, it's good. To be honest I'm not very satisfied with Christian Dior's makeup.

- Make up Store concealer, as I never use foundation I do need concealer to cover up my red spots, this one is good, quite thick and does cover up your blemishes, but Mac has one that is better.

Simply amazing

I'm totally in love! Just saw the pictures from the ShanghaiTang's 07 Spring campaign (I know I'm late) , but just had to post the pictures because they are absolutely breathtaking. I wonder who the photographer is, it is simply amazing, how he matches the colours and light. He really grabs the today's Chinese culture in one photo. I think some of the photos are absolutely breathtaking
I think the photographer really captures the buzz and the peace of this fascinating city in one shot, and having this absolutely beautiful model in it just make the photos even more gorgeous!!! Now this is what I call real beauty. WOW! Two thumbs up!

I love Shu Qi

I bet that she is the most beautiful human being on Earth!!! I mean, look at her lips and her melodramatic eyes!!!

I went to a Chinese screening today of the film Blood Brothers organized by the Chinese Embassy. Shu Qi is in it and oh my god, she is sooo eye-catching. She has replaced Gong Li's place in my heart.

Speaking of goodlooking Chinese people, it is really true that people from Dalian (both men and women) are MUCH more goodlooking than the averiga Chinese.

It's weird, but it's true, how the environment can affect your appearance so much. Just look at the Overseas Chinese people, you can see the difference between a Chinese and an Overseas Chinese and I'm not just talking about the clothes.

I think this is really interesting, will have to study on it more.

I will try to go to Dalian next time I visit China! YAY!

I <3 photoshop

You see the difference?? From boring to glowing.

My friend installed it on my computer and since then I have become addicted.

You can make yourself look slimmer, hotter and cooler ;)

Boost your ego

Whenever I'm in Shanghai it is tradition to take those sticker pictures with yourself in it. The result is awesome, as the camera is just in front of you, you can make sure it's a good photo that you are taking. Also, the lightning is great so your skin end up looking white and like jade ;)

Taking 3 sets of photos cost me 15kuai in total. I like the place in Jingan Market, just behind Jiuguang Department store.

Being narcissistic and being psycho is different! As you see on those pics....

My Art Pictures

Remember the art pictures that I took?

Here is the result....for 300rmb it was still worth it! Although I'm not very happy about the pictures.

Sorry if the pics are a bit blurry but that is because I didn't use flash on my camera.

I'm most satisfied with the one of me in light blue and blowing a whistle. I have like 3 more that I didn't show you.

SPA night

Today I went to a SPA with a former work colleague, took us over 2 freaking hours to get the body scrubbed and face done. Now my face is soft and clean with no black dots on the nose! Very nice. Everything for only 128 kuai (for first time vistors only), the place is next to Koala Bar on Huaihai Xi road/Panyu Road.

Funny thing is that they know my body just through giving me a massage, it is AMAZING. They told me that during winters I get very cold feet and hands which is so true, also that I don't digest regularly (ROFL, you shouldn't know this).

Also, the girl who gave me a facial asked me if I have done plastic surgery on my nose, HAHAHAHA. And the other girl giving my friend a facial yelled at her for asking. That was a bit funny.

Get double eyelids NOW!

It was three days ago I came across those tools Chinese girls use so that we can get more beautiful and bigger eyes. I had no clue that these things existed, for an example there are gels and tapes that you can use to create an artificial double eyelid.

During lunch at my work, all of us girls sit together and discuss either Desperate housewives, losing weight, ladyboys or make up. So I told them about this wonderful invention how to make eyes bigger, and they were all so surprised that I didn't know about it. One of them even brought her makeup bag and showed me a type of gel that she used every morning to make my eyes bigger and more beautiful.

So she tried it on me, and what can I say? WOW, 35 kuai a pop!!! I could pay several hundred for that. It really makes my eyes bigger and create a nice double eyelid. I have in my whole life been hearing from Chinese people that I should do eyelid surgery (fcuk em), but now I don't need surgery and can enjoy having double eyelids. Isn't world grand?

Top 3

Top 3 hottest Chinese girls:

Fan Bingbing, Shu Qi, Maggie Q

No 1 Beauty in Shanghai

Shanghaiist had a very interesting blog entry today.

She has been voted as the No.1 Beauty in Shanghai.

Her English name is Angel (of course!!!). My cousin also call herself Angel, this June I will brainwash her to change name.

She is marrying a billionaire (how surprising). Note, there are no guys in her age that is a billionaire.

First of all? She's not beautiful, (she is cute and pretty)although I have seen much more prettier girls in Shanghai than her.

Maybe she has a special talent or something, but judging from her looks, ppffttt. She doesn't deserve the title.

<---- "Look at me! I'm soooo pretty!!!"

Before you comment, at least I don't do those kind of face expressions.

Chinese girls' makeup

A sneak peak of my makeup

Those girls in the department store who tries to sell makeup are really not giving other women any good inspiration. Their faces look like fake dolls where they have been playing with the makeup palette, first of all it doesn't look natural, second of all it looks quite scary, third it just looks extremely artificial. They give brands such as Lancome and Bobbi Brown bad names.

However they don't need to be as boring as me just using black eye shadow, but they don't have to wear 3 shadows lighter foundation so they look like they just woke up from dead, or wear green neon eyeshadow up to their brows. That's not flattering.

I hope VOGUE has enough power to influence Chinese girls that whitening creams sucks and probably doesn't work. I saw a big article in Chinese VOGUE about tanning lotions, so there are definitely improvements.

Some Tips for you...

http://www.free-beauty-tips.com/asianbeauty.html

Top 5 eau de parfum

I can't believe how Dolce and Gabbana's Light blue perfume can still be on the best seller list, it has already been there for over 3 years now!

The best female perfumes right now on the market are

1. Viktor and Rolf - Flower bomb (THE WINNER)

2. Prada - Prada

3. Calvin Klein - euphoria

4. Narciso Rodriquez - for her

5. DKNY- Red Delicious Women