December favorites

Now it's time for my more or less monthly favorites! Since it's December, my favorites are somewhat related to holiday season.

My December favorites

1. New pajama pants
My grandma buys me new pair of pajama pants for every Christmas and this year they just happened to be amazing! They are so comfy that I started to wonder would anyone notice if I went to school wearing them.

2. Chocolate
In my opinion December should be called either ''The Chocolate Month'' or ''The Month When Everyone Gets Fat Because Of Eating Too Much Chocolate And Stuff'''. This year I literally got like 5 boxes of chocolate for Christmas and ironically also a gym card... I know that nobody is forcing me to eat all of them, but now, three days after Christmas I noticed that I've already ate two of them.

3. Holiday
This Autumn was definitely the toughest one I've ever went through so when the Christmas Holiday started all I wanted to do was just sleep Like seriously, why can't humans hibernate? I feel like this was the first time when I actually needed holiday.

4. Netflix
The cruel fact is that no matter how much I've needed this holiday, at some point I'm obviously going to get bored. Luckily our family has a Netflix. (I recommend people to watch Bones and How I Met Your Mother (;  )

5. Welcome Home, son by Radical Face



Do I have to say anything? Yes, this is the song from Nikon commercial.

10+2 most amazing beauty hacks that every (lazy) girl should know

1. You can use petroleum jelly as an eye-make-up remover

2. Some people also swear that petroleum jelly makes your lashes grow

3. Mascara works as an eyeliner too- just dip a thin brush into a mascara container and use it as you would use a liquid one!



4. Use a piece of pineapple as a loofah in a shower.

5. If you run out of the shaving cream the hair conditioner will work just as fine as well as coconut oil- it makes your legs so smooth!

6. Do your contouring in the shape of 3

 

7. Cover your eyelids with flash card when applying mascara to prevent this:



8. Rub petroleum jelly on your pulse points before spraying perfume to make it last longer

9. If you're a party girl or just too lazy to wash your makeup off at night, keep some face wipes by your bed.

10. Apply your concealer in the shape of triangle.



+1 Remember to drink lots of water

+2 If you look tired after all these hacks and tips, the final and the best hack is sleeping!

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Christmas with me: 5 easy DIY presents that everyone likes to receive

This is the first part of my Christmas series! You might be wondering why I start my Christmas series now, 'cause it's still November. My reason is simple: I love Christmas and everything that is slightly related to it!

Let's be honest. We all know that there's two kinds of DIY presents: the ones that look like they were made by your 5-year-old cousin and the awesome ones. I, personally, like making and giving DIY gifts for Christmas and every year I have this same struggle: Will my presents be the wanted or disliked ones. This year I've overcame this problem by thinking what kind of DIY gifts I would like to receive.

1. Candles in teacups




This is one of my personal DIY gift favourites, I mean, tea cups are cute and who doesn't love candles! I actually made them for last Christmas and they were top hit. From here you can find super good instructions.

2. Cookies in a jar








I don't know about you, but I ALWAYS got super bored the day or two after Christmas, when I've usually red all the books I got. A jar like this would be the perfect solution! To make similar jar that is in the picture, check out this link. (If you want to be kinda lazy ,a.k.a. me, just use some cookie recipe with ''mix dry ingredients, add water/milk/eggs/something and bake'', leave the liquid part out and layer all the dry ingredients in a jar.)

3. Hot chocolate spoons




This is one of the easiest DIY gifts: All you need to do is melt some chocolate. You can also make it special by adding something like marshmallows or sprinkles.

4. Chocolate pretzels

This is as easy as the hot chocolate spoons with almost same ingredients. The mix of salty and sweet never gets old! If you want to go extreme try making these S'mores pretzels.

5. Sharpie mugs






With Sharpies you can fabulize your old mugs and give them a new look. It's also easiest way to make personalized gifts.

What to do in the first weekend of Autumn

Now the September is here and it's officially Autumn. I'm usually super excited about the Autumn, but now, for some reason, I'm feeling a little bit sad and I really had to remind myself why to love the Autumn. To make it easier for myself I made a plan for this weekend: do all the Autumn stuff you love!

In my to do list for this weekend is...

• Listen to the new music
• Read a book you used to love when you were 10
• Start planning Christmas, it's only 110 days away
• Spice your morning coffee with cinnamon, ginger and cardamom
• Wear your favourite overknee socks
• Go and buy a new pair of overknee socks
• Call a friend you haven't talked to in ages
• Burn some candles
• Sing <3 
• Bake a carrot cake

What do you love in the Autumn?

My Back to school wishlist

 Back to school season is here and all the shops are full of school stuff and fall clothes. I've already done my school supplies shopping so now it's a perfect time to start looking for fall jackets, boots and other fall(ish) clothes!
After some online window shopping I  fell in love with these products:

This Peter Pan collar top from Forever 21

This _adorable_ knotted elephant T-shirt, also from forever 21. Some of you may have seen my instagram pic where I wear my favorite shorts, which have the elephant pattern <3

And what would be the fall without the new dress(es)? I'm a huge fan of skater dresses and paisley pattern so this one just caught my attention immediately when I was scrolling down the page. This cutie is  ASOS's Skater Dress in Paisley Burnout.

I think I really don't have to explain why I need these whale tights. I mean, look at them!

These buffalo boots are just perfect for fall, because at some point of fall I'm feeling a little depressed, sad and tired, but whenever I'm wearing shoes with even a little heel I feel hundred times better. And the best part is that because of the short shank these aren't going to cover the whale tights that I'm totally going to buy!

The last (but not least) product is this little oversized sweater with back buttoning. This would be perfect for running late mornings! Which happens to me too often...

I hope you all have a rainy (I love rain) fall! 

-Aino

My worst and weirdest habits/features

I know and you know that everyone does some stuff that's weird/they aren't very proud about but I think my own features and habits are the weirdest ones. So, to make you happy or something like that I made a list for you:

 A list of my worst and weirdest habits/features 

      1. I absolutely can't keep my room clean

OK, so first I let you know that I love organizing stuff, but that stuff just isn't my room. It's surprisingly hard to remember put books in bookcase or take the coffee cups in the dishwasher.

      2. I eat when I'm sad (OR happy OR tired OR bored OR...)

I blame my grandmother for teaching me because every time I'm sad (OR happy OR tired OR bored) she offers me food, so who's saying you can't do it all by yourself? 

      3. I bite my nails (yuck)

This is my grossest habit, but I have done it all my life. I use nail polish to prevent it but few moments later I forget...

      4. I don't let other people speak

I hate awkward silence so I do my everything to prevent it- and by doing my everything I mean speaking, a lot.

     5. I can't get stuff finished

I adore doing all different kinds of little projects but at some point I lose my inspiration and get bored. My room is like a cemetery of unfinished diy projects.

     6. I LOVE smelling stuff

I can't even explain this. I just love it and I do it all the time.

     7. When I'm angry I rip the paper

And I have an own jar for the pieces of paper I have ripped. 

     8. I'm addicted to coffee

This is a really cliché bad habit but I just can't wake up without a cup of coffee.

     9. I really hate milk

This is probably my weirdest feature. The milk doesn't bother me when i drink hot chocolate and I always drink my coffee with milk, but if somebody offers me a glass of milk, just milk without anything in it it just turns into the grossest thing I can imagine.

So these were my worst habits and features. I want to know if somebody shares a same habit/feature with me so if you do, leave a comment and let me know.