First if all let me appologize if this entry looks odd in any way. I'm trying out a blog app on my iphone and off course there's a bit of trial and error.
I've been thinking a lot about my blog recently. Probably mainly because I haven't had the inspiration to write. As you might have guessed I love to write. Once I get started I find it difficult to stop. My entries often get too lobg for something that' just a beauty-blog. Not that it's patronising in any way. But blogs should often be short and quickly get to the point. I'm not like that. I love to get deep into a subject and really do something with it. Writing shirt entries on a daily basis just doesn't suit me because they always end up being a bit impolsive and unstructured and I never feel pleased with what I've writtem. Because writing this blog is supposed to be some sort out creative outlet. Recently it hasn't been. What I'm thinking of now is have longer and maybe more insightful entries. It won't be on a daily basis because I just simply don't have enough time for that. It will be an NOTD now and the just because I love nailpolishes. The blog will still be on nailpolishes and maybe a pinch of beauty as well but it'll be more structured entries that takes some work. Not just something I scrabbled together in 30 minutes.
So what do you say- will you still join me in this new direction I'm taking?
In Swedish: Min bloggform har varit helt ur led sista tiden och kreativiteten har varit bortblåst. Faktum är att jag en längre tid har känt mig missnöjd med bloggen. De korta inläggen som skrivs passar mig inte eftersom jag tycker om att skriva, och skriva mycket. Så istället för korta och rätt poänglösa inlägg så ska jag nu skriva lite längre och något mer insiktsfulla inlägg. NOTDs kommer givetvis att fortsätta poppa in. Jag hoppas ni följer med mig.
fredag 24 december 2010
torsdag 23 december 2010
Wait, is it christmas?
I know, I've been a bad blogger these last couple of weeks. Lots of other things has stolen my energy but I promise I'll get back into normal routines after the holidays. I hope that you are enjoying your holiday, wherever you are in the world.
torsdag 2 december 2010
Beautiful blogger Award
Oh thank you, thank you. I can't believe this. Oh my God, it's unbelievable! I would like to thank my mum and dad off course for giving me such a good childhoo...... wait a minute. That was the speech I had prepared for the Oscars. Let me look into my papers again. Oh, there we are!
Off course it's always a great honour to recieve an award. It's a confirmation that you have been seen, or in this case read. Beacuse that's why we blog, right? If no one would ever read or the there wouldn't even be a chance that anyone read the things that we write about, we wouldn't do it. We would keep our texts in a word document, forever hidden for anyone but ourselves.
I got this award a couple of weeks back from sweet Malin (with the most gorgeous lips you'll ever see) and I've been thinking about what to write and which other 7 girls/boys I should send the award too. But it seems like all the bloggers I know (on my lists) have recieved this award at one point. So I can't pass it on even though I want to give each and every one of them an award beacuse their entries keeps me checking in on their blogs everyday.
Oh, the second bit of the award was actually a sort of challenge so let's get to that! I'm supposed to write 7 interesting things about myself. So here we go:
Off course it's always a great honour to recieve an award. It's a confirmation that you have been seen, or in this case read. Beacuse that's why we blog, right? If no one would ever read or the there wouldn't even be a chance that anyone read the things that we write about, we wouldn't do it. We would keep our texts in a word document, forever hidden for anyone but ourselves.
I got this award a couple of weeks back from sweet Malin (with the most gorgeous lips you'll ever see) and I've been thinking about what to write and which other 7 girls/boys I should send the award too. But it seems like all the bloggers I know (on my lists) have recieved this award at one point. So I can't pass it on even though I want to give each and every one of them an award beacuse their entries keeps me checking in on their blogs everyday.
Oh, the second bit of the award was actually a sort of challenge so let's get to that! I'm supposed to write 7 interesting things about myself. So here we go:
- I have difficulties getting angry which sometimes can annoy the heck out of me.
- I have a hard time concentrating when I find something uninteresting. I mean really hard- my minds wanders off and I suddenly realises that the lecturer have been talking for 15 minutes and I haven't heard a word.
- I saw Metallica in concert at Stockholm's stadium when I was 13. The biggest concert I've ever been too. The whole show was also 3 hours late.
- I love animals and I'm actually really good with them too. At least cats and dogs.
- I put way to high demands on myself. If I don't get every question right on an exam I think I've done a bad job even though that a part of me tells me that I've done ok.
- I've been suffering from social phobia but struggled my way out of it the last 5-7 years. That's my biggest accomplishment so far.
- I'm a sucker for candy and I eat far too much of it!
Day 08 – A moment
I wonder how many "moments" I've had in my life. I've lived 30 years on this earth so there must be a whole lot. Beacuse moments can really be anything. I wonder how many moments I've forgotten!
I could write about the moment I had about 15 minutes ago. I was going to buy some milk and I was feeling grumpy since my day hasn't been the best. I didn't get any sleep beacuse of bad stomach cramps which, well, let's not talk about what it resulted in. The thing is that I wasn't up to going out in the cold and walk to the store beacuse that would mean tensing up the whole body beacuse I didn't want to slip on any icy patches and you know how nice it is to strain your ab muscles (the tiny ones you've got) when you have a sore tummy. Anyway, I was walking along the side walk and I saw a young girl with two dogs. She was a few steps ahead of me but when her dogs saw me they got curious, especially the great dane puppy. He couldn't walk forward after that and jumped backwards just to see where I was. I caught up with them quickly so I let them sniff my hands since I could see they were too curious. The little moment cheered me up. Animals really have that good impact on me.
I could write about the moment I had about 15 minutes ago. I was going to buy some milk and I was feeling grumpy since my day hasn't been the best. I didn't get any sleep beacuse of bad stomach cramps which, well, let's not talk about what it resulted in. The thing is that I wasn't up to going out in the cold and walk to the store beacuse that would mean tensing up the whole body beacuse I didn't want to slip on any icy patches and you know how nice it is to strain your ab muscles (the tiny ones you've got) when you have a sore tummy. Anyway, I was walking along the side walk and I saw a young girl with two dogs. She was a few steps ahead of me but when her dogs saw me they got curious, especially the great dane puppy. He couldn't walk forward after that and jumped backwards just to see where I was. I caught up with them quickly so I let them sniff my hands since I could see they were too curious. The little moment cheered me up. Animals really have that good impact on me.
tisdag 30 november 2010
NOTD: Barielle "Decadence"
Every once and a while I seem to loose judgement when I buy a polish. I know that a lot of nailpolishlovers out there just craves green polishes. I'm not one of them. I love the colour green but just not on me. I love how it looks in the bottle but once it gets on my nails I get really uncomfortable. It's weird but I suppose I'll get used to it one day. I'll probably wake up one morning and realise that green is suddenly my colour. That's how my love for taupe colour started.
Anyway, this is Decadence from Barielle. So let's move on to the photos, shall we?
As you all can see, Decadence is a blueish green with a pretty pearl shimmer. I'm tempted to call it absinthe green beacuse of the name Decadence but that wouldn't be a fair description of the colour. Absinthe is a more pure, neutural green while this is, like I said, blueish green. It goes on smooth though and I'm sure that this is the standard 3 coats. I can't say if it stays on though beacuse I took it off after these photos were taken.But for any green-lover out there I'm sure that this is a must-have colour.
So what book do you recommend for a green polish that's called "Decadence"? Well, since my studies are now focused on Paris in the litterature, my mind is absorbed by the poetry of Baudelair. I'm not the person that usually likes poetry but there's something about Baudelaire I like. It can be the fact that he combines beauty with the macabre, just like Edgar Allen Poe did. And I've read the novels of Poe since I was about 9 I think. So, with this polish I recommend some dusty books written by either Baudelaire or Poe, curl up with a glass of absinthe (but don't drink it beacuse it tastes aweful!) and feel a bit "decadent".
måndag 29 november 2010
We are not for sale! Vi är inte till salu!
This is going to be a bilingual entry since it's of such great importance. This follwing text is written by Swedish journalist Kicki Norman.
Du kanske inte vet om det, men läser du bloggar är du troligen lurad. Allt fler bloggare tar nämligen betalt för att nämna produkter i sina bloggar och du kan därför inte längre lita på de personliga rekommendationer som en gång i tiden gjorde bloggarna så populära. ”Bloggare” har blivit synonymt med reklampelare, någon som gör vad som helst för fester med gratis vin, gåvor från stora företag eller reda pengar.
Bloggar är ett faktum. Upp emot 2,3 miljoner svenskar läser en eller flera bloggar varje dag, beroende på vilken undersökning du väljer att utgå från. De flesta är kvinnor, och bloggläsandet är störst i de yngre åldergrupperna. Idag har var tredje 20-årig kvinna en egen blogg. Den som försöker kalla bloggar för en fluga har legat under en sten de senaste fem åren. Idag är bloggarna en maktfaktor att räkna med.
Vi som bloggar känner till detta. Och vi väljer att hantera vår makt på två olika sätt. En skrämmande utbredd grupp, däribland de absolut största bloggarna i Sverige, säljer inte bara annonser på sina bloggar, de säljer också själva blogginläggen. Mot en mer eller mindre rundlig summa pengar, beroende på bloggens storlek och inriktning, kan företag få sina produkter omskrivna och också uppvisade på bild. Prislappen ligger på tusentals krnor. De största bloggarna kan tjäna mer än hundratusen kronor på en månad på att sälja annonser och blogginlägg i kombination. Det är enorma summor pengar i omlopp i en affärsverksamhet som går ut på att företag och bloggare går plus på läsarens bekostnad. Att detta strider mot marknadsföringslagen är inget som hindrar, mer än att det hindrar storbloggarna från att öppet tala om exakt hur pengarna tjänas.
Sedan finns det en mindre grupp vars ord och åsikter inte är till salu. Vi följer de pressetiska reglerna, eller marknadsföringslagen, eller både och. Det innebär bland annat att vi tydligt visar vad som är annons och vad som är vår egen text. Även om det går att köpa en annons, kan företag inte betala för att vi ska blogga om dem. Vi vill vara trovärdiga inför våra läsare och vi tycker integritet är viktigt. Vi tror att vårt sätt att förhålla oss till annonsörer, redaktionell reklam och gällande lagar är viktigare och mer långsiktigt hållbart än att sälja sin integritet och ytterst lura sina läsare.
Tyvärr arbetar vi i motvind. Ofta får vi försvara oss mot felaktiga anklagelser om att vi också är till salu, bara för att andra är det. Vi berättar så klart hur vår publiceringspolicy ser ut, men blir inte trodda. Bloggkollegor med mer förhandlingsbar moral än vår, skjuter både sig själva och oss i foten. Tack vare blogglögnarnas rikoschetter blir vi alla enbenta.
Därför kommer vi nu att tydligt skriva ut på våra bloggar att vi följer Pressens samarbetsnämnds Spelregler för press, radio och tv. Vi vill höja oss över alla pressetiska tvivel. Vi vill att våra läsare ska förstå var vi står. Eftersom lag och ordning inte räcker till för den här nya gruppen unga affärskvinnor, som säljer annonser förklädda till redaktionellt material, får vi försöka göra något för att skilja oss från våra mindre nogräknade bloggkollegor.
Varje resa börjar med ett första steg. Det här är förhoppningsvis ett första steg mot en upprensning av bloggträsket. För även om våra mindre nogräknade kollegor säljer sig till högstbjudande, är vissa av oss inte till salu.
daisybeauty.com (och ja, det gäller alla vi som bloggar här så klart!)
In English:
You probably don't know this, but if you're reading blogs you're most likely deluded. More and more bloggers recieves compensation to mention products in their blogs and therefor you can no longer trust the personal recommendations that once made the blogs so popular. "Bloggers" has become synonymous to walking advertisments, someone who does anything for an invite to parties with free wine, goodiebags stuffed with products from leading companies or just money.
Blogs are a fact. Close to 2,3 million Swedes reads one or several, blogs each day, depending on which survey you read. Most of them are women and blogreading is biggest in the younger age groups. Today one out of three women, in their 20's, has their own blog. Whoever tries to call blogs a fad has probably been hiding under a rock the last five years. Blogs today are a force to be reckon with.
The ones of us that blogs knows this. And we choose to handle our power in two different ways. One alarmingly big group, including the absolute biggest blogs in Sweden, does not only sell ads on their blogs, they sell the entries themselves. For a more or less handsome amount of money, depending on the size of the blog and it's direction, companies can get their products mentioned and pictures of it been shown. The prizetag can be thousands of Swedish krona. The biggest bloggers can make hundreds of thousands SEK within a month just by selling a combination of ads and blogentries. There are huge amount of money in circulation in a business that amounts to companies and the blogger gettting an advantage to the expense of their readers. The fact that this goes against marketinglaws doesn't stop it, no more than it stops the big bloggers in question to openly talk about how the money is being made.
Then there is a much smaller group, whose words and opinions are not for sale. We follow the press ethical rules, or marketing laws, or both. That means that we clearly make a distinct mark on what is an ad and our own written words. Even if an ad can be bought, the company doesn't have to give any kind of compensation for us to blog about it. We want to be credible to our readers and we think that integrity is important. We believe that our way to handle advertisers, editorial advertisment and existing laws is more important and a more long-termed lasting than selling your integrity and ultimatly fooling your readers.
Unfortunatly we are working against a great resistance. We often have to defend ourselves against incorrect accusations of being for sale ourselves, just beacuse other people are. Off course we show and talk about our publishing policy, but end up not being believed. Bloggcolleagues, with a more negotiable morale than ours, ends up shooting both themselves and us in the foot. Thanks to the blogliars ricochets we all end up one-legged.
So now we are all going to write clearly on our blogs that we follow the rules of professional conduct for Swedish journalists. We want to rise above all pressethical doubts. We want our readers to know where we stand. Since law and order isn't enough for this new group of young business women, who sells ads disguised as editorial material, we have to do something that distinguish us from our less particular blogcolleagues.
Every journy begins with one single step. This will hopefully be the first step to clean up this squalor of blogs. Beacuse even if some of our lesser particular blogcollagues sells themselves to the highest bidder, it doesn't mean that the rest of us are for sale.
daisybeauty.com (and yes, that means all of us that blogs here!)
lördag 27 november 2010
Day 07 – Your best friend
Now this was a hard entry to write. It's why it's taken so bloody long. I don't have many friends, I think if I said just how many friends I had, and how my social life worked, people would be horrified. Beacuse today, friends are a sort of statussymbol. You collect friends on Facebook and followers on Twitter- it beacomes a hunt for popularity. Don't get me wrong though, this is not criticism towards those who has twitter- or Facebookaccounts- beacuse I have both and I get happy each time I get a new follower or a friend request.
Ok, I might be a little picky- I just don't accept every friend request I get. But enough about that. The topic for today was "my best friend". However, I want to make a little twist to it since I don't like to write about other people on my blog.
Do you think that a pet can be your best friend? Well, in a sense I think so. Animals are sensitive, just like us and just like with other people there is chemistry between you. At least if you take the time to notice it. I know this beacuse I've experienced it over and over. I lost a close friend, you could call her a "best friend" earlier this year. I still miss her deeply. I've never experienced such affection from anyone earlier. Well, here's a parade of my best friend Sess. I still miss you my sweetheart.
Ok, I might be a little picky- I just don't accept every friend request I get. But enough about that. The topic for today was "my best friend". However, I want to make a little twist to it since I don't like to write about other people on my blog.
Do you think that a pet can be your best friend? Well, in a sense I think so. Animals are sensitive, just like us and just like with other people there is chemistry between you. At least if you take the time to notice it. I know this beacuse I've experienced it over and over. I lost a close friend, you could call her a "best friend" earlier this year. I still miss her deeply. I've never experienced such affection from anyone earlier. Well, here's a parade of my best friend Sess. I still miss you my sweetheart.
torsdag 25 november 2010
NOTD: H&M "Happy Grey"
Now here's the NOTD I promised you.
It's "Happy Grey" from the Swedish fashion chainstores H&M. This was unusually cheap- I think it was only 29 SEK which is about £2.5 and 4$ which isn't much at all. It's a creamy grey polish that actually doesn't get blue on my nails (which all the other greys I have do). I think there's a hint of green in it which dampens the blue tone. It's also has a descreet pearl shimmer in it which is impossible to capture with the camera. But it brings a depth to the colour which I love. The formula is perfection and it dries smoothly. I wore this polish for 5 days and the only thing the showed was a little tipwear. You can't get a better polish than that.
Normally I should have included a little tip on a good book but I'm too tired so I'm just going to give you a title: The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. It's a great classic and I think that everyone that loves litterature should read it at least once.
Normally I should have included a little tip on a good book but I'm too tired so I'm just going to give you a title: The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. It's a great classic and I think that everyone that loves litterature should read it at least once.
Oh My God! I'm naked- again
A looong time ago- well, about a year and half ago- I posted a picture of my nails in the nude. Since a few of my favourite nailbloggers have posted pictures of their nails "in the nude" I'm going to jump on that trend and do that too. But first let me show you how they looked in March of 2009:Look how long they were! OMG- I find that horrible now for some reason. It's strange how things can change in a year. But they are in good shape though. And now for the nails, as they are now. Well, before I painted them:
onsdag 24 november 2010
A bloody cold
Sorry people, but I've caught a cold so I won't be able to update the blog for at least a couple of days. I do have lots of NOTDs in store (one budgetpolish that stayed on my nails for 5 days without any obvious tear so stayed tuned for that!) and off course I'll continue the theme. I think the next one is "my best friend". If you miss me too much you can follow me on twitter since I can update from the sofa. It won't be anything intelligent though but it's something at least.
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