My Make-up Story

It's been a long time since I got tagged, so I was happy to find out that Eva from Eva's Beautyblog tagged me! So let's start reading and learn a little more about me.

1. How old were you when you started wearing make-up?

Goh, not an easy one to begin with.
I guess I was about 14 years old. I remember getting ready for a schoolparty with my 2 best friends and putting on eyeliner and mascara.

2. How did you get into wearing make-up?
It started with my mom her make-up products. When I got a little older I always bought the cheapest make-up I could find, again together with my best friends.
But it's only been for 4 years that I'm very much into make-up, before it was more an exception for me to wear make-up.

3. What are some of your favorite brands?
M.A.C, Rituals and Nvey Eco

4. What does make-up mean to you?
So many different things. You can use make-up to look natural (but with just that little thing extra) or when you really don't feel good about yourself a touch of make-up makes that feeling go away.
It's fun to experiment with, ...

5. If you could only wear 4 products on your face what would they be?
Foundation, mattifying powder, mascara and lipgloss

6. What is your favorite thing about make-up?
That it makes you look better, even a little touch of mascara makes a difference.

7. What do you think about drugstore make-up vs high end make-up?
Well, for me the price doesn't really matter (of course there are limits). If I see something I like and it's a brand that follows my philosophy (check here for info) I buy it, if I have the money.

8. What is one tip of advise you can give to a beginner?
Keep experimenting and trying different things, so you can find out what you like the most and what suits you best. And if you need a little help, well, the internet is a great place to find inspiration and tips.

9. What is one make-up trend you never understood?
I can only pick one?!
I never understood people who like walking around with an orange face. Do they really think the wrong foundation color makes them look natural and healty? And it's even worse when you see where they stopped using the product.

10. What do you think about the beauty community on Youtube?
It's so easy when you have a question or don't really know how to do something in a good way. It's been a great help for me in many situations.

I'm tagging everybody who reads this post and feels like answering these questions. Let me know if you place this on your blog, I'm really curious to read your answers.
Love, Imelda

Picture source: BeautyHype

Got Tagged!

I'm finally back! I know it's been a while since I posted something, but the last time I posted I was really sick and it took me a while to get healty again. That and a lot of schoolwork just isn't a good time to blog. I'm glad to be back!

The lovely Sue from The Sueper Blog tagged me and I need to answer 35 quick questions.

1. Where is your phone? On the table.

2. Your hair? Black and growing

3. Mother? Sweet and the best mom ever!

4. Father? Sweet and the best dad ever!

5. Food? Italian food

6. Dream last night? Can't remember

7. Drink? Dr. Pepper

8. Goal? Trying to make my dreams come true

9. Room your in? Living room/Kitchen

10. hobby? Shopping

11. Fear? Death

12. Boyfriend? The best boyfriend ever!

13. Where were you last night? at home with the boyfriend

14. Something your not? easy

15. Muffins? I prefer croissants

16. Item of your wishlist? An apartment in Paris

17. Where did you grow up? Tessenderlo

18. Last thing you did? Eat some grapes

19. What are you wearing? My Pyjamas

20. Your TV? Is playing Harry Potter :)

21. Pets? Toulouse my sweet cat

22. Friends? A few very good friends

23. Your life? Great

24. Your mood? Sad that I have to work tomorrow

25. Missing someone? Yes

26. Vehicle? my green bike

27. Something your not wearing? Socks

28. Favourite store? That's just too difficult to answer :p

29. Favourite colour? black and gold

30. When did you laughed last? this afternoon

31. When did you last cried? yesterday, didn't have a good day.

32. Your best friend? Wim, my boyfriend

33. Your favourite place? Paris

34. Facebook? yes

35. Favourite place to eat? Every bakery in France

I'm supposed to tag 5 others, but I don't feel like it right now. Feel free to play this game, it's really nice to answer these questions :)

A Little More About Me!

The lovely Becky Lou tagged me and so you guys get to know a little more about me.

The rules:

1. Answer the questions on your blog, replace a question you don't like with one of your own invention and finally add a question of your own.

2. Tag 8 other un-tagged people.

1. What is your current obsession?

Maison Martin Margiela (like always), finding a new haircut that suits me, trying to make the perfect couscous, shoppingshoppingshopping, playing my wii-fit, …

2. If you could have one superpower, what would it be?

I would love to be able to fly!

3. What do you see outside your window?

Nothing really, because it’s dark outside.

4. What's your favourite colour?

Black, grey, dark blue, gold and soft pink.

5. Your weakness?

I postpone a lot, so I always have lots of last minute work.

6. Wich animal would you be? 

A cute kitten, like my cat Toulouse.

7. What's for dinner?

I had a delicious selfmade Indonesian Bami Goreng.

8. If you could learn another language, which one would you choose?

French. I speak French already, but I would love to improve myself.

9. What's on your bedside table?

A few candles, a lamp, a dish with some stuff in it, a Paris interior book and Fashion Now (both from Taschen), a canvas with an Art Deco print and a sculpture.

10. Say something to the person who tagged you:

I love your sense of style and your clothes are beautifull!

11. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere, where would it be?

Paris, right in the middle of the city!

12. What's your favourite children's book?

The beauty and the beast.

13. What's your favourite thing to do in the summer?

Travelling, next September we’re going to Budapest.

14. What would you like to have in your hands right now?

My dreamshoes from the Maison Martin Margiela S/S 2009 collection. (The first pair in black, not the red version).

15. What's your favourite tea flavour?

Green tea.

16. What's your favourite article of clothing?

I love everything I own, but right now my new Dries Van Noten blazer (will post about that soon).

17. What would you like to get rid of?

The haircut I have now.

18. If you could go anywhere in the world for an hour, where would you go?

I would love to be in Lisbon again.

19. What did you want to be as a child?

A fashion designer.

20. Do you prefer day or night?

Day.

21. What's your plan for tomorrow?

Going to some shops and the library for some schoolwork.

22. What jewelry do you wear?

None at the moment.

23. What's your favourite smell?

Roses, Lavender, Vanilla and freshly washed bed linen.

24. What’s your favourite flower?

Ranonkel (I’m sorry, don’t know the English word and google didn’t help me either).

I tag: Su, La Fille, Sue, The Seeker, Q, Nil, Eli and Loulou.

That's all for now. I know I've been a bad blogger lately, but things will change! I promise!

Photo Tag

The lovely Léonie from Madame Mode tagged me. I had to pic the 4th folder on my computer and I had to post the 4th picture in that folder. I think this is a nice tag and I'm showing you guys this photo. It's a picture taken in Paris somewhere in the 1920's, that I found on the Sugarpluminvitations blog. I'm a huge fan of photograhy and I really like old Paris pictures. I'm sorry this isn't a personal picture, but my computer crashed a while ago and I'm still restoring the damage. The only maps I have on my computer right now is the one with blog pictures and one with nice vintage photographs I find surfing the web.

I have to tag 4 other people and I choose: Sue, The Seeker, Sam and Becky Lou.

I own lots of books with old pictures. One of my favourites is 'Paris Mon Amour' from Taschen. I can spend hours watching those photos and I dream away every single time. In that book I found the perfect picture for my header, which was still white. The picture is called 'Le Baiser de l'Hôtel de Ville' and it's taken in 1950 by Robert Doisneau. I'm totally in love with this photograph!

What do you guys think?

Steeling Tags

I've stolen a tag from Sue from The Sueper Blog, because I'm so bored and I just want to share more about myself.

Clothes Shop: Vintage Shops, Zara and when I have the money sometimes a designershop

Furniture Shop: Fleamarkets and Secondhand shops, Ikea

Sweet: Sugary Things

City: Paris

Drink: Sprite and sparkling water

Music: Yelle, Gotan Project, Hotel Costes

TV Series: Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill

Film: Un Long Dimanche, Volver, Amélie, ... And so many more (but more about movies soon)

Workout: Swimming

Pastries: things with pudding

The Tagging Game

It's been already a while since the lovely Sue from The Sueper Blog tagged me, but I'm terrible at remembering these thing. But to get my mind of all the things I need to do for school, this is a nice way to relax :)

The rules:

1. Link the person who tagged you.
2. Mention the rules in your blog.
3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.’
4. Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them.
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged bloggers’ blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged.

6 unspectacular quirks about me:

- I'm addicted to buying beautyproducts, I have a closet filled with them. Sometimes I just love to take out everything and rearrange them. Oh and I also love smelling them :)

- Sometimes I get these cleaning attacks and then I go crazy when something isn't in the right place and I can't rest untill I cleaned up everything.

- I love to go to the supermarket and go trough every rayon and look at the food, oh and I really love schoolmaterial aswell.

- When I don't know what to do, I just go sit on my bed and look at all my clothes and shoes and think of all sorts of different outfits. And most of the time I try these outfits on.

- Everytime when I'm reading a magazine I make wantlists of all the beautifull things I want to buy, no matter how much they cost.

- I can't keep a single plant alive and the funny thing is that it is because I care for them too much and give them too much water.

I know the rules say I have to tag 6 other people, but I really don't know who I should tag, because I've seen this tag on a lot of blogs already. So if you haven't been tagged, please feel free to do this tagginggame, it's fun.

Tagged again

Okay I got tagged again. This time it was by Big Glasses Girl and I have to post 6 things that I carry in my purse right now.

The purse I'm using for the moment is the brown one by H&M I posted yesterday.

1. I never leave the house without my wallet. These are my 2 favourite wallets and I change between them almost daily. Red one I got at Zara and the brown one is by H&M.

2. My agenda, always easy when you have it with you. I had one I got at my school, but it was really ugly. This one was being sold with a Belgian fashion magazine. I bought it because I really like the Baroc-drawing.

3. My blogbook. I keep it to write down my ideas for this blog when I'm not at home or don't have time to post anything. I also use it to write down the adresses of my favourite shops in every city I've been. The big one I use when I have a big bag and the smaller one can come in handy when the bag is too small.

4. Lipbalms and handcream. I really have dry skin so I can't live without handcream, this one by Dove is really great. The lipbalms are cool aswell, because they color your lips and care aswell.
5. I got this pocket at H&M a few years ago. I use it to keep my keys, some pills for when I get sick when I'm not at home, some small perfume bottles, my lipbalms, ...

6. My Cellphone. I do tend to forget it at home from time to time, but I can't live without it. Just so easy when you need to contact someone. I'm not gonna post a new picture, you can see it here.

Now it's my turn to link 6 people:

- The seeker

- La Bruja del Cuento

- Hand it over

- Who's that fashionista

- Patent shoes & rants

- I spy, thrift eye