My Bedroom

I thought I would share some snaps I took of my bedroom yesterday as I'm really happy with how they came out. The lighting in my bedroom can be a bit of a pain, so good sharp snaps like these are rare. I love my room; it's cosy and really 'me'. The wallpaper is something I picked out when I was 14 and I used to love it at the time (emo phase), but now I'm not so sure about it anymore. It just seems to make my room look a little bit crowded and over the years I've started to prefer white rooms more. I'm in love with white furniture, and I think it doesn't look so good with my red walls. Eventually, I want to paint my room a really nice white colour. My closet and desk are built in, which I don't exactly love but I can live with it. I also want another bed and some really nice bedside tables, and then I'm set. I might just leave it like this though, because I'm not going to live with my parents forever and I prefer to save all that money for when I'm going to live on my own. 
As you can see, I've saved a lot of packaging which I've hung up against the walls and or placed on my shelf. The Starbucks cup is from when I went to Paris a couple of years ago- it was the first time I went to Starbucks! I also have a little cupcake and eiffeltower, and a buddha. In the first picture, you can also see a snippet of some pictures I printed out and hung up on my walls when I first discovered Tumblr 4 years ago- as you can imagine I was completely obsessed and used to be on my laptop every free moment reblogging pictures. I also have some prints my mom got for me when she got back from Paris, which I absolutely adore! I've hung up some of my favourite new clothes.
I love bedroom and decor posts, so I would love to see yours! Leave me a link in the comments if you've done a post like this :)

An Update #2

001.Seeing as my last update has been over a month ago, I thought I would write another one just because I felt like sharing some personal things with all of my lovely readers (I appreciate every single one of you!). As you might have noticed I haven’t been blogging much at all-in April, and my last blog post has been over a week ago, which is a little bit shocking. I haven’t been into blogging at all, because a lot has been going on this past month. I’ve been really busy, had a lot to deal with RE: my personal life and I just didn’t have much inspiration to blog. I also didn’t want to blog just for the sake of it, because I want my heart to be in it, and I want to share my passion for writing and beauty with all of you. I don’t know if I’m the only one who feels like this?! I hope the month of May will bring me more inspiration and give me my passion back.

002. A little bit on my personal life; me and my boyfriend of almost 2.5 years broke up in the beginning of April. I don’t want to share too much about the situation, but as much as it hurts, I am now starting to think that we’re both better of this way. I’m not really feeling my blog at the moment though; it’s like my tastes in beauty and style are constantly changing and I don’t even know who I am anymore. I’m constantly trying to be another person because I’m not comfortable with myself, the way I look, the way my personality is and the way I’m living my life at the moment and the chaos I’m in. I really need to start sorting my life out and I think since we’re getting into the beginning of May, it’s the perfect time for a new start, starting off with a nice spring clean. My social life has also been non-existent, so I’m also planning on changing that. Beware- a new Charlotte is coming your way!

003. Time for some positivity; I’ve also been really busy with driving lessons. My driving exam is on the 14th of May, and I’m already so nervous for it I feel sick. I’m going tos crew it up just because I’m nervous like that. My beautician course is also going really well and I feel like if I can get my beautician license this summer I have a legit reason tob e really proud of myself since it will be my first ‘real’ achievement (after getting my driving license, of course). I’m still doubting about what I’m going to study at uni this coming September. I used to be so certain about going to study Journalism sicne it was what I’ve always wanted, but my beautician course has made me feel unsure about what I want to do with my life, which is one of the many reasons I’ve been feeling really down lately. I love writing, but there are so many things I want to do in life. Ah well.

004. I’m currently readin A Casual Vacancy as I’m still struggling with reading Lolita, which requires a lot of concentration. I really like A Casual Vacancy though, it’s a really easy read. The only downside to it is that there are A LOT of characters and I sometimes struggle with remembering who is who, but it’s a really easy read and I’m happy I picked it up. It’s nice to read something else from J.K. Rowling, even though it’s a little bit weird to read something else than Harry Potter. I love the way she describes things though and she has a really authentic feel to all of her books.

005. I also had a haircut last week, which I'm still not sure about- they were supposed to dye it back to my natural colour since I'm planning on growing my hair out, but they dyed it way too dark. They then had to put some sort of lightening product on it, which worked but I now have some blonde bits  shining through. They also cut in a straight fringe, but they cut it way too short and not that straight. I also find that my hair gets greasy so much quicker than normal, which makes me feel gross and just urghh. This has also been contributing to my current bad mood.

I’m sorry for this enormous post about me (it feels a little bit narcistic, writing that much about yourself), but I’m really glad I wrote my feelings down; it feels kind of relieving. I feel like I’ve got much more control over my thoughts now, and it feels really really good to finally be able to see through the chaos that is my life. As I said, May is for new beginnings and a fresh start. I’m starting my spring clean tomorrow, starting with clothes, and I’ve already got qutie a few new blog posts lining up. Here’s to hoping I’ll finally find my own style in May, and I really hope I will finally find out what I want in life this month.

An Update #1

A little bit of a different post today. Lately, I’ve been reading lots and lots of lifestyle posts, and being a little bit inspired by all of the lovely girls I’ve been online stalking, I thought I should write a more personal blog post, just to share a little bit of my life on this small piece of the interwebz that I’m allowed to call mine.

001. Last Monday, we celebrated my stepdad’s birthday. My mom cooked us a wonderful roast dinner which we ate on the lovely round table in our living room- a place we only use on special occasions. The food was absolutely lovely- pork with rosemary and a mystery sauce (my mom doesn’t want to tell me what’s in it), cauliflower, salad and pommes duchesses, with pudding for dessert. Yesterday, we celebrated again in a restaurant. We ate steak with mushroom sauce and frites, accompanied by a glass of rose wine and again, pudding with strawberries on top for dessert. Safe to say that my inner foodie feels satisfied after a week filled with lovely eats. I get hungry even thinking about all of the delicious food I ate this week.

002. I’m starting a beautician crash course this Wednesday, and it’s safe to say that my social anxiety doesn’t approve. After quitting university this January (I was studying Psychology which, after long consideration, prove to be nothing for me), I am now 99.99% sure that Journalism is where’s my heart at, so I’m starting a Journalism course in September. For now, I need to find something to fill my time with (except for work) and since I’ve been obsessed with beauty for quite a few years, I thought this would be a good choice. I’m really nervous though; I’m not so good at meeting new people and the thought of having to go there and find my way around the building on my own terrifies me beyond belief. I guess I just have to suck it up and pretend to be confident etc., but I still get nauseous even thinking about it. Please tell me I’m not the only one?! (Feels good to be able to write about it on my blog though!).

003. After putting it off for a few weeks, I’ve finally managed to start reading Lolita again. I’m now 100 pages in, and I absolutely adore the way it’s written. It’s quite hard to read and you have to be concentrated all of the time to understand Nabokov’s puns, but that’s what I love about it and I think that Lolita is on it’s way to become my no. 1 book. As I said in this post, I absolutely adore reading and writing, but I always put it off for some reason (not enough time, too tired etc.) but if I do manage to read something, I always enjoy it so much. I’m promising myself to read at least 10 pages a day now.

004. Lastly, I would like to mention a few ladies whose blogs I’ve absolutely been adoring lately. First, there’s the lovely Emily. Her lifestyle blog is my absolute favourite. She has a very humoristic and no-nonsense outlook on blogging, which is why I love her so much. Her beautiful photos and way of writing always draw me in (along with the little sneak peek she gives into her life!). Another blog I’ve been absolutely loving lately is Charlotte’s. I adore her way of writing and you should just check her out, because her blog is absolutely amazing.

I hope you liked this enormous post. It’s a little bit different from what I normally talk about on this blog (which is mainly beauty-focused), but it’s also really nice to talk about what’s currently going on in my life. It’s always nice to write about what’s on your mind; it relieves me to a certain point and always puts things into perspective. I'm off for a nice reading session with a lovely cuppa and some Oreos now! Let me now if you liked this post. Would you like to see more lifestyle posts on here? 

What I Love The Most

As I said in this post, reading has always been the thing I love the most in life. I would demolish every book in sight; getting lost in the wonderful sound of crackling paper, the wonderful smell of freshly pressed papers; losing myself in the imagination of another world, which seemed so alive and vivid in my mind that it almost had to be real.

The first book I ever started reading (and which I remember) was Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. I was 7 years old when my dad gave it to me, and had only just learned how to read my first couple of words in primary school, and I already tried my best to get through it. It didn’t make much sense to me at the time, but it did, however, create a whole new world in my mind. The wonderful world of Hogwarts, where magic happens and owls deliver your mails; where everything seems to be possible and nothing seemed crazy or weird. Flash forward 11 years and the Harry Potter series is still one I thoroughly enjoy and have read over and over again, to the point where I could actually say some lines straight outta my head. I have, however, been emerging myself into the world of more grown up literature, and have been really enjoying it. I just love how words can make you feel; the description of things that make reading a book so real, to the point where you can almost touch the characters and even smell what they smell, touch what they touch and feel what they feel.

Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of blogs- lately as in the past two years-, and I’ve been missing reading something substantial like crazy. After all, the internet is still an inanimate object, and I’ve been missing the feeling of a hardcover book. So, I’ve promised myself to read more books. Not more blogs, not more magazines- just a good old book. And I’m starting with Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov.

I’ve started reading Lolita a couple of weeks ago, but have neglected it ever since. It’s not exactly ‘light’ reading; you need to be really focused and absorb every word Nabokov has written to get the whole thing. Yes, you can get the story- but it’s what’s underneath that is also important. I already really like this book, and I can see it getting one of my all time favourites.

I’ve also ordered a book by Philippe Claudel, and there are so many other books I’d like to read. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath being one of them. It’s getting to the point where I can’t even remember which books I’d like to read, so I really need to start making a list- my mind is such a mess sometimes.

As you can see, reading is a subject that I’m very passionate about and could write on and on about for a few hours; I could easily write a book about reading, yes. I would love to know if any of you has got some reading recommendations, as I would love to expand my literary knowledge! In the meanwhile, I’m going to snuggle up in front of the fire with a cup of tea and my book.

The Introduction

Beauty is my passion. It’s something I can get really intrigued by, in which I can emerge myself in for hours and hours; looking through the aisles of a fancy department store, swatching every lipstick in sight and spraying fancy perfumes on my wrist; watching YouTube videos to see what tricks certain people are using to make the best out of their facial features; reading blogs to see which products are currently most coveted in the beauty world, after I find myself lusting over several very expensive lipsticks, the newest skincare items and the best smelling products for having luscious locks. I’ll admit it; I’m a little bit obsessed.

Another –and also, an older- passion of mine is reading and writing. I don’t read as much as I used to anymore –books, that is. With my new found love for reading beauty blogs, I find those keep me more than saturated without having to read hundreds and hundreds of books. This is something that’ll have to change. I want to ignite that dormant spark for reading and loving books that I know is still burning inside of me, only not as heavy and passionate as it used to be. I also want to write more, since it is something I’ve been doing as soon as I learned to read in school. I love writing so much; the playing with words, the arranging of my thoughts on paper- or, in this case, on this blog.

So now you know a little bit more about my passions, you might already know why I have this blog and why it means so much to me; it’s a platform which I can use to combine my most burning passions; the things I love the most in life  (except for my loved ones, that is- priorities!). Beauty, writing and reading, all combined.

So who am I? My name is Charlotte and I’m an 18 year old girl currently residing in Belgium but desiring to live in London or Paris- not that I would be able to leave my loved ones behind. I’m currently taking a gap year after starting out a Psychology course at university just to find out it wasn’t for me. Now I’m working and saving my money to start a beautician course in March which finishes in July, and after that I’m going to uni again to start a journalism course. After all, that’s where my heart was leading me to all these years.

With this blog, I hope to ignite the little spark that I know is burning in those of you that are reading this post right now. I want to convince you all to follow your passions. I want to share my opinion on beauty products, I want to show you a little bit more about my life through beauty. Because it’s something magical. Because it’s something that makes me happy, and I want to make other people happy, too. I really hope you’ll enjoy this blog as much as I love writing it. Feel free to leave a comment, to e-mail me, to tweet me or whatever tickles your fancy; I love interacting with people (even though I’m probably the shyest and most insecure person you’ll ever meet) and I would love to meet some new people through this blog, but most importantly, through our passions and interests.